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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You will remember we had the sweetest old lady call
the show a couple months ago. Her name was Dolores,
and we loved her, and so many of you did
as well. And she wanted to go for an estate sale,
but she didn't have him body to take her anymore.
So our creative director Jim Mudd, who lost his own
mother who's also named Loretta, a couple of years back,
(00:23):
he said, I'll take her, so he did. They went
out to lunch at Federal American Grill and when they
were done, they sat down for a short conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And here's how it went. Earlier, when we were talking,
you were telling me that you met your husband in
a very unusual way. Can you tell me that story.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yes, I was visiting a friend and I had Mike.
I was driving and I'd come up to an intersection
that I was supposed to stop, and I kept going.
My brakes failed and I hit a young man in
his father's new car and had to call my station
(01:10):
that I always did my business.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
At the gas station.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
The gas station at that time, they filled your tank,
worked on your cars, did everything, and I called to
have my car towed and The young man who came
to get me told his boss, I want to go
get her. I've been trying to meet her.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This is your husband.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes, were you?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Were you aware of him?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Never paid any attention till yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
How did you get your attention that day?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, he drove to my car, hooked it up, and
he said, I'll take you home.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh that was it?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So you liked a man that could throw your car around?
Or was there a quality about him that day that
stood out?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
He was sure of himself. He was not going to
be working at a gas station the rest of his life.
He was going to industrial school to learn machine repair.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And that's what he did, and that's what he did.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
How old were you when you met him? And how
old is he?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Uh, he's four years older than me, and I was
twenty five. I think it was twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Six like that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And what year is this?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Nineteen fifty eight?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Okay, October of nineteen fifty eight. And when I had
to go to court because I hit the young man
who was home on leave, he was in the service,
Oh okay, and he felt terrible because it was his father's.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
New car, right right, and.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
My tow truck driver said, I'll go with you to
court to vouch for you that the car's brakes failed.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh I bet he did.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I bet he did, and the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, how did it work back then? Did you have
insurance back then?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yes? I did?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Okay, Yeah, I've always carried insurance.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I wasn't alive yet, so I didn't know when people
started having insurance, if it's always been a thing or
if it because I grew up in Illinois and it
wasn't what. You didn't have to have insurance until I
was already driving. We had insurance, but you didn't have
to have it. So I didn't know back then if
it was common.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It was always common for my family. I don't know
if it was the law. Yeah, like I think it is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Now right, it's a good law.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, well look at me. Yeah, took care of it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
For me, right, and that got you a husband and everything.
He's like, well, she's got insurance. So how long were
you guys dating after that before you got married?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Till March of fifty nine?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh, not long. That was a short engagement. Oh when
you know? You know? Did you know right away or
after about a month or so? You're like just.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
After a month or so, and he was already.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He was ready. He was because he was almost thirty. Yeah,
oh yeah, he was ready. Oh yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And he had a girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh and did you guys see her around after that?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, I know if you saw her around town?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Where was this at Michigan? Oh in Michigan, Detroit?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I lived by myself in an apartment and he lived
with his folks.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's when Detroit was really happened.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, not like now, that was That was.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Then, right, You weren't afraid to live there then?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah? Yeah. So what did you guys do on dates?
What do you do in fifty eight to twenty year
olds and fifty eight? What do you do? Where you going?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We went to Belle Isle.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's an island in Detroit between in the lake Great Lakes,
and they'd have music there. We'd go on the weekends.
What kind of music bands?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Like big bands?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, that was still pretty popular though, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Symphony okay, And we go to the theater a lot.
We loved going to the show.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
What did you guys? What do you remember any movies
that you saw when you're dating.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
One of them? I didn't like because it's called the
Stepford Wives.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, you didn't like that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No, I didn't like the way wives were treated.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Then did you let him know, You're like, Okay, if
we get married, it's not going to be like the
Stepford Wives.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Well it sort of was, was it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Well that's why I drove a school bus because I
started having children right away and I had to be
home with my children. He worked. Yeah, I was a
stay at home mom and uh, and that's when I
started selling Avon so I could earn some money, but
I still stayed at home.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
How long did you sell Avon?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
A couple of years?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Did you like it?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah? I did?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Did you keep any When I was a kid, my
mom would buy Avon. She'd buy like the Clone and
stuff for my dad. And remember, if you remember back then,
they had maybe I don't know if there's still they
had them when you were selling it, But when my
mom was buying it, the Clone bottles were like cars
and all that I.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Started me collecting elephants.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Is that how it started?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
How many elephants do you have?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Over a thousand?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So when they say the elephant in the room, they
mean it at your house? Yes, yeah, I see a
picture of an elephant over there.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Now, yeah, that's a little girl sitting next.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
To him holding yeah on that one.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, well you'll find them all.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Over yeah, elephant. Do you have any pink elephants?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I have everything, I promised. After the two front bedrooms
were full of elephants, I had elephant's shelf in there.
And that's why I was able to give those two
rooms to my daughter, because I took all the elephants out.
And I promised a couple of years ago I wouldn't
(07:21):
buy any more elephants.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You had to promise. Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And well because it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Was it's overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, but people still gave it to me.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I'd accept that, of course. Yeah, you don't be rude.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
But I said, except jewelry.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
No elephant jewelry.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Oh no, I could still you could buy that.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And those books are elephants.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh yeah, elephant elephants mm hmm. Oh and there's an
elephant on the table.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Uh huh oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Do any of your kids or grandkids collect elephants?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Nobody does what he does.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
How many how many kids do you have?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I have five?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do you do you have one more than the other four.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Do I love one more than yeah? Different times.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, that's going to answer.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
To be totally honest, Mike, my oldest son would tease
Kim because she was my accident, totally unexpected. There's eight
years difference. Oh yeah, and so he always baby sadder
and he would tell her, well, you know, mom picked
(08:33):
you up at the side of the road. You were
full of mud.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Looking at elephants.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You found her, and she was totally unexpected.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And she's what Bob Ross would call a happy accident.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, that's right, and I God planned that one, of course,
because it's meant to be. In fact, I always tease
her and call her my Singapore sling. That's a drink,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh, is that how the accident happened? You're drinking Singapore slings?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The uh huh.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Good for him, Good for him, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
The first step in destroying the black community is to
dismantle the black family.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The Michael Berry Show, why don't we ask missus Willie Brown?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
If Kamala Harris cares about black families?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(09:51):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(10:15):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance MacLean.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and super fan. Contributions are appreciated and often
incorporated into our production. Where possible, we give credit. Where not,
(10:38):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven p t
(11:02):
s D and a combat veteran will answer the phone
to provide free counseling.
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You will remember we had the sweetest old lady call
the show a couple months ago. Her name was Dolores,
and we loved her, and so many of you did
as well. And she wanted to go for an estate sale,
but she didn't have him body to take her anymore.
So our creative director Jim Mudd, who lost his own
mother who's also named Loretta, a couple of years back,
(00:23):
he said, I'll take her, so he did. They went
out to lunch at Federal American Grill and when they
were done, they sat down for a short conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And here's how it went. Earlier, when we were talking,
you were telling me that you met your husband in
a very unusual way. Can you tell me that story.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yes, I was visiting a friend and I had Mike.
I was driving and I'd come up to an intersection
that I was supposed to stop, and I kept going.
My brakes failed and I hit a young man in
his father's new car and had to call my station
(01:10):
that I always did my business.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
At the gas station.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
The gas station at that time, they filled your tank,
worked on your cars, did everything, and I called to
have my car towed and The young man who came
to get me told his boss, I want to go
get her. I've been trying to meet her.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This is your husband.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes, were you?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Were you aware of him?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Never paid any attention till yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
How did you get your attention that day?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, he drove to my car, hooked it up, and
he said, I'll take you home.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh that was it?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So you liked a man that could throw your car around?
Or was there a quality about him that day that
stood out?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
He was sure of himself. He was not going to
be working at a gas station the rest of his life.
He was going to industrial school to learn machine repair.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And that's what he did, and that's what he did.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
How old were you when you met him? And how
old is he?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Uh, he's four years older than me, and I was
twenty five. I think it was twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Six like that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And what year is this?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Nineteen fifty eight?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Okay, October of nineteen fifty eight. And when I had
to go to court because I hit the young man
who was home on leave, he was in the service,
Oh okay, and he felt terrible because it was his father's.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
New car, right right, and.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
My tow truck driver said, I'll go with you to
court to vouch for you that the car's brakes failed.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh I bet he did.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I bet he did, and the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, how did it work back then? Did you have
insurance back then?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yes? I did?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Okay, Yeah, I've always carried insurance.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I wasn't alive yet, so I didn't know when people
started having insurance, if it's always been a thing or
if it because I grew up in Illinois and it
wasn't what. You didn't have to have insurance until I
was already driving. We had insurance, but you didn't have
to have it. So I didn't know back then if
it was common.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It was always common for my family. I don't know
if it was the law. Yeah, like I think it is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Now right, it's a good law.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, well look at me. Yeah, took care of it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
For me, right, and that got you a husband and everything.
He's like, well, she's got insurance. So how long were
you guys dating after that before you got married?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Till March of fifty nine?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh, not long. That was a short engagement. Oh when
you know? You know? Did you know right away or
after about a month or so? You're like just.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
After a month or so, and he was already.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He was ready. He was because he was almost thirty. Yeah,
oh yeah, he was ready. Oh yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And he had a girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh and did you guys see her around after that?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, I know if you saw her around town?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Where was this at Michigan? Oh in Michigan, Detroit?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I lived by myself in an apartment and he lived
with his folks.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's when Detroit was really happened.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, not like now, that was That was.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Then, right, You weren't afraid to live there then?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah? Yeah. So what did you guys do on dates?
What do you do in fifty eight to twenty year
olds and fifty eight? What do you do? Where you going?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We went to Belle Isle.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's an island in Detroit between in the lake Great Lakes,
and they'd have music there. We'd go on the weekends.
What kind of music bands?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Like big bands?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, that was still pretty popular though, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Symphony okay, And we go to the theater a lot.
We loved going to the show.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
What did you guys? What do you remember any movies
that you saw when you're dating.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
One of them? I didn't like because it's called the
Stepford Wives.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, you didn't like that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No, I didn't like the way wives were treated.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Then did you let him know, You're like, Okay, if
we get married, it's not going to be like the
Stepford Wives.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Well it sort of was, was it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Well that's why I drove a school bus because I
started having children right away and I had to be
home with my children. He worked. Yeah, I was a
stay at home mom and uh, and that's when I
started selling Avon so I could earn some money, but
I still stayed at home.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
How long did you sell Avon?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
A couple of years?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Did you like it?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah? I did?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Did you keep any When I was a kid, my
mom would buy Avon. She'd buy like the Clone and
stuff for my dad. And remember, if you remember back then,
they had maybe I don't know if there's still they
had them when you were selling it, But when my
mom was buying it, the Clone bottles were like cars
and all that I.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Started me collecting elephants.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Is that how it started?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
How many elephants do you have?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Over a thousand?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So when they say the elephant in the room, they
mean it at your house? Yes, yeah, I see a
picture of an elephant over there.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Now, yeah, that's a little girl sitting next.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
To him holding yeah on that one.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, well you'll find them all.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Over yeah, elephant. Do you have any pink elephants?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I have everything, I promised. After the two front bedrooms
were full of elephants, I had elephant's shelf in there.
And that's why I was able to give those two
rooms to my daughter, because I took all the elephants out.
And I promised a couple of years ago I wouldn't
(07:21):
buy any more elephants.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You had to promise. Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And well because it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Was it's overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, but people still gave it to me.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I'd accept that, of course. Yeah, you don't be rude.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
But I said, except jewelry.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
No elephant jewelry.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Oh no, I could still you could buy that.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And those books are elephants.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh yeah, elephant elephants mm hmm. Oh and there's an
elephant on the table.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Uh huh oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Do any of your kids or grandkids collect elephants?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Nobody does what he does.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
How many how many kids do you have?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I have five?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do you do you have one more than the other four.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Do I love one more than yeah? Different times.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, that's going to answer.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
To be totally honest, Mike, my oldest son would tease
Kim because she was my accident, totally unexpected. There's eight
years difference. Oh yeah, and so he always baby sadder
and he would tell her, well, you know, mom picked
(08:33):
you up at the side of the road. You were
full of mud.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Looking at elephants.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You found her, and she was totally unexpected.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And she's what Bob Ross would call a happy accident.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, that's right, and I God planned that one, of course,
because it's meant to be. In fact, I always tease
her and call her my Singapore sling. That's a drink,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh, is that how the accident happened? You're drinking Singapore slings?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The uh huh.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Good for him, Good for him, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
The first step in destroying the black community is to
dismantle the black family.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The Michael Berry Show, why don't we ask missus Willie Brown?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
If Kamala Harris cares about black families?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(09:51):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(10:15):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance MacLean.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and super fan. Contributions are appreciated and often
incorporated into our production. Where possible, we give credit. Where not,
(10:38):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven p t
(11:02):
s D and a combat veteran will answer the phone
to provide free counseling.
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