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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load. So Michael Arry Show is on
the air, all right, before.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We get back to the calls, if somebody can assist
with this, just send an email and now forward it
Ian writes Zor, I have a predicament. A year ago,
we're gonna pay attention. You might be the one that
could help with this. You tend to be pretty good
with this kind of stuff. A year ago, we installed
turf in our backyard. It is beautiful. Kids love it.
(00:53):
I love it, very peaceful. Six months ago we started
seeing holes in the turf.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You see, we've established our characters, we've set the location,
we're all invested in what's going on. Now we have
presented the problem. Okay, this is where this is where
the novel takes off. Unfortunately I thought it was my dogs,
so they were wrongfully convicted. Okay, so now we have
(01:22):
the moral dilemma. We've made the mistake. All right, how
are we going to fix this? Okay? I like I like,
I like the storytelling technique. More recently, I've seen a
growth in the amount of holes we have. Okay, the
problems getting worse. So that's creating this this this uh
need to fix it. This artificial uh, you know, advancement
(01:46):
of the narrative, liking that you know, like when they
got to go that the ticking time bomb and you
see how many seconds are left. That creates this artificial
sense of urgency, like an abnormal growth. Subsequently, I noticed
squirrels digging and looking for acorns. I have apologized profusely
to my dogs. But now here's the problem. I am
(02:08):
staging an Alamo type of resistance to the squirrels that
I'm killing many per day. I honestly can't keep count.
I've called pest control companies, lawn companies. None of them
have any guidance. I know you're from Orange, which is
pretty near Louisiana. Can you point me in the right direction,
as I really don't want to kill squirrels anymore. Save
(02:29):
the squirrels, but also save the turf. What should I do? Well?
The short answer is go to wild Birds Unlimited, call over,
go to the location on the northwest side, ask for
rich edie E. He's the owner, he and his wife.
Tell him what you're coming for, and he's got some
things that you can use to keep the squirrels away.
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But he told me years ago. Rich is my Rich
is my wild bird guru for peacocks, squirrels. My wife
loves to look at the birds. But he told me
years ago that half, he said, when you look at
my cells of squirrel related items, ramon, half are to
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keep squirrels away and half are to attract them. It's
like speed bumps. People want them or they want them
out of there. It's kind of fifty to fifty. But
I don't want you to judge me for this. I
try not to pander. I don't alter what I say
(03:38):
to win your favor. I know that some things I
say upset people. I don't care. I have to do
the show that I do, and I think it's I
think it's more authentic to be honest, even when you
know you upset people. I realize this is not going
to win me any friends, and it may cause me
some discomfort. But I like squirrels. I really enjoy watching squirrels,
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and I already know what I'm gonna hear. Yeah, you
wait till one ambassads end up in your attic. You
won't one of them gets in your attic. You won't
wait till one of them gets in your feet. No,
I understand, right. I like dogs too well, you wait
till one of them bite you. But the squirrels are
not perfect. I get that part of it. I really
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I grasp that part of the concept. But I just
I like squirrels. I don't know what else to say.
I like squirrels. Burna would be a great option. I
I do not shoot the squirrels with my burner gum
that I'm willing to admit. But I do shoot squirrels.
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I do shoot possums and armadilla's And the reason is
I don't want to kill them because I don't want
them dead in my yard. And Georgia go try to
eat them, she just will. Nicole from BA Tom Rouge,
you're up, sweetheart, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Hey nervous, But how old are you?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Don't be nervous.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I'm I'm thirty, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Thirty. So you were born in ninety four. So there
is a point at which there were a bunch of
Nicoles coming out every day, and then all of a
sudden somebody issued an edict, don't name them Nicole. Girls, y'all,
don't name your children Nicole anymore. They don't name babies Nicole.
Have you ever met a Nicole under twenty.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I don't think so, but it's actually my middle name,
and a lot of people have Nicole as their middle name.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Really, Oh, like Anna Nicole. Yeah you know who Ana
Nicole Smith was?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Do you really?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I mean, I've heard of her.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's so weird for me, being fifty three, Nicole, that
I will have conversations with people like you, and in
my mind we're about the same age, but we're not.
I'm old enough to be your parents plus five years.
And it's so weird for me because I'll make a
cultural reference to something in the nineties, and it's like
when my kids, I expect that because they're seventeen and eighteen.
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But I'll make a cultural reference to somebody that's thirty.
Our assistant is thirty, and sometimes I'll say things and
she has no idea who someone like, how could you
not know who? And Nicoles math has But of course
you wouldn't because you're thirty. But anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It wasn't my time, right, So I heard you talking
about the Harvey floods. And I actually live in Houston
now while I live in Humble, but I was born
and raised in Baton Ridge and so we moved here
in twenty nineteen, so of course we weren't here for
the flood. They're Harvey floods, but we hear about it,
(06:53):
you know, it's the first thing you hear about when
you're looking at a house. Did it flood in Harvey
or not. But what a lot of people from here
don't realize is that a year earlier, almost to the date,
we had a thousand year flood in Baton Rouge and
that was really what started the Cajun Navy to where
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they were able to work through that and get their
whole process, you know, fine tuned to where whenever you
guys had the Harvey flood a year later, they were
ready to go, activated, ready to be here, and knew
what to do.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And there were a lot of people from Houston, because
there were listeners of mine sending me photos who went
to Baton Rouge to help. And then a lot of
those folks who were helped a year later came here
and and that was I remember Edimitt was a county
judge at the time, and he said, hey, Cajun Navy,
Redneck Navy, we need y'all to stay out. We're trying
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to fix this, y'all are getting in the way. And
within a day he said, hey, Michael, can you put
the word out? And I appreciated that he did that
he put his privacyte He said, those guys are saving lives.
And I was so delighted because people like the guy
that called in earlier, they just wanted to jump in
their job. My wife and kids were rescued. I couldn't
get back into town because the town was cut off
that we couldn't get cars in, and I was literally
(08:11):
I was driving back from Baton Rouge. I would m
see an event every year, uh there for the Louisiana
Pediatric uh cardiology practice and uh uncle Jerry and I
could not get back and it was traumatic because I
couldn't for several hours. I couldn't speak. I couldn't get
ahold of my wife, and I was scared. They waded
out in chest high water and my boys were so
(08:35):
brave and I was just so incredibly proud of them.
Did I hear a little baby in the background, Yeah,
what's that baby's name?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Leanne mi Row?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You say it?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Louder mir Row?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Pretty name?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Radio Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Nicole, Yes, is Mia Rose your first base.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I appreciate the song. No, she's actually my third.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay, what are the other names?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Have a nine year old and a four year old?
William and Mason.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh so now you have.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
A little girl.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, I finally got my girl, So I'm done.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know, I know so many people who there's either
four girls or four boys. Sometimes it'll be five, and
you know, their parents we're trying. They're like, do we
really need another kid? But they want to have the
other sex and they keep trying, and danged if they can't,
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they are they just cannot get there. Well, good for you.
Was that the goal?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well she's actually yeah, she's actually the first girl granddaughter
on both sides of the family.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
God, she's going to be so spoiled.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, she's already spoiled.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Nicole. We have had a just deluge of blessings by
baby in our family. So a little over two years ago,
we wouldn't have thought that we would have any because
we didn't have any, and then all of a sudden,
they started. My nephew Michael Berry, who lives in Who's
(10:30):
on the Humble Fire Department, He and his wife had
a baby. My niece Meghan, who works at insperity. She
had a baby and they are brother and Michael and
Meghan are brother and sister, and they are a couple
of years apart, and they had their babies within weeks.
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So my brother Steve went from no grandkids to two
grandkids just like that, just overnight. It just and he
couldn't be happier. He and his Laura could not be happy.
So we had those two born. And then just before that,
my niece Ruchie, who's more like our daughter. She came
here when she was eighteen, went to u age and
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went off to New York law school. And so we
feel like like I got to walk her down the
aisle along with her dad. That's how close we are
to her. And so she had a baby two years
ago orn. And then her sister Shilpy, she's the one
married to Kyle, and they're the ones that get up
and sing. I make them at our events. They're both
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at Occidental Petroleum. They're both engineers. He's a PhD. She's
a geologist. And they had their daughter. What's it been,
I guess may So each of the sisters there had
a child within a year and a half. And then
Rouchie gets pregnant while Sheilpy is giving birth. So we're
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not even paying attention because we got this other baby
coming in, which is shell Bey and Kyle's first bay.
And then the baby's born and we're all in the
new baby swaddling, and all of a sudden we look
up and last week or it has been last week,
and yeah, last week, last Monday, Ruchie goes in and
she has her baby. So three five, five babies in
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our immediate family within two years, and I'd have fifty.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I love everything about I'm not the new baby person
that women are. I like them when they get to
be about two, and especially when they get to be five.
But our culture has become such a culture of death
and reading the news and analyzing and commenting all day
it just feels so gloomy and dark, and then just
just this burst of new born babies and life and optimism.
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It is the greatest thing ever. I love it. So
I hope that helps your postpartum depression, not being able
to sleep being stuck home all day. Maybe I helped
you a little bit in that way.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh, I love the babies. And she's actually so she's
named after my grandmother. Like I said, and it's amazing
because my grandmother died about a year or less than
a year ago, and when we went through her house
to you know, get some stuff that we wanted to
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keep to remember her by, it was really hard because
her house flooded in that flood and she had about
seven feet of water, and so everything from the last
fifty sixty years was destroyed. But I have my daughter,
and so I always get to remember her when I
see my daughter.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know, I'm a deeply religious person, and I also
believe that some things that are seeming coincidences are God's hand.
And I see this cycle of life. I cannot tell you, Nicole,
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how many times I have seen this happen where a
grandparent dies and then a baby comes into the life
in very short order, and it just it balances life
because we're not meant to live forever. We're not supposed
to uh. And it's just it's just this completion of
the circle of life. It is a it is a
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beautiful thing and it really does. It helps, It helps
a lot, it does. What does your husband do?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
He is a data analyst at Chevron?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh well do you work?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
No outside though? Oh good for you. Yeah, Uh, you
are a great co host, Nicole. I got an email.
Maybe somebody out there can help me, email me if
you can. A lady emailed me and said, if anybody
out there has a has a Texas history book, let
(15:07):
me see if I can find it for a fourth
grader for someone who is homeschooling. I don't know. If
here we go yep, Kate said, are there any Texas
history books you could recommend for my homeschool fourth grader?
Or point me in the direction of someone who could
recommend some Oh, I think she just wants some books.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I can recommend Texas history books all day long, but
just thinking about resources for homeschoolers. Yeah, never mind, my
brain tends to make connections where it gets weird anyway.
Good for you. So you your homeschooling your four year
old and your nine year old? Now, yes, how's that going? Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
It's fun? I love it. We get to have, you know,
lots of fun conversations all day. You get to see
how their brain works. I don't I love the baby
phase and the kid phase. I don't love the toddler phase.
So once they're able to have a hold of conversation
with me, I love it. We just we go and
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learn about life all day. He makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's really cool. You know. I admire women who do
that because I think it's my impression that it's a
lot harder than we would imagine. This is just my impression.
It's a lot harder than we would imagine, but also
a lot more rewarding than we would imagine.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh yeah, definitely. If I could send them to public school,
it would be easier, but I wouldn't get to help
shape him into who he's going to be.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So please tell me that y'all go on field trips.
Oh yeah, because the mommies email me who are homeschoolers.
They'll talk about, you know, Michael, if you send a
kid to public school and they're at the school for
seven hours in a day, which is kind of standard.
When you take out the meals and the recesses and
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the grab ass and all the things that you know
are being done, the actual amount of education is about
an hour and a half a day if you're lucky.
So what they do is they knock that out and
then they go on a field trip. So they go
see Joel BArch at the Houston Museum of Natural Science,
or they go to the zoo, or they go to
the park, or they go for a walk, or they
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go you know, do whatever. I think that would be cool.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So what is the nine year old doing right now?
What is a nine year old doing at this moment?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
He is keeping his one year old sister happy because
we're in the car.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh okay, you are a great caller, Nicole. Thank you,
thanks for calling me.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You call it their Oh Nicole, hold on, Nicole, I
don't wait right there. I have Gringo's gift card for you.
Russell Lebara said, I sent you all those gift cards.
You never give them away. I'm going to send you one.
Hold on, So my trainer, my treasures came over last night.
We had our workout. And by the way, I'm not
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in any way bragging about my workout. I am the
weakest man of anybody in our audience. I'm not some
big the hell. I will whip you right now. I
will meet me halfway between our studios. I will kick
you in them. That is not a flex, literally and figuratively.
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That is not a flex. I ain't outlifting anybody noodle arms,
no strength, never have, never will just Hey, look, we
all have our pluses and minuses. I was not blessed
with great muscularity. Now I can starve myself better than
(19:05):
an anorexit woman. And that's a I'm gonna tell you something.
If you've listened to me for very long, I lost
fifteen pounds this summer. Just decided to be a summer.
You know what you're putting on a pound pound there,
it's time you drop fifteen boom, And I did. And
I'm gonna tell you something that is harder for me
than you, because I like to eat more than anybody anyway.
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Back to it. So when I say I'm working out,
I don't mean to in any way. Dudes, you don't. No, no, no,
I defer to you. There is no muscularity here and
there's no desire for it. I look better lean. My
working out is to strengthen my core. If you read
Peter Attia, who our research director Sandy Peterson got me
(19:51):
into Attia. I subscribe to his newsletter. I read and
think a lot about physical and mental health. And you
know what I eat and how much I sleep, and
how much water I drink, and what foods I eat
and what combinations and what time I eat, I find
that stuff to be very interesting. You may not, and
I try not to overshare, but that's interesting to me anyway.
(20:14):
So Petrick was over last night and we were talking
about family in these sorts of things, and I use
a highlighter. So if you were to take a transcript
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of today's show, which, by the way, if you listen
to our podcast and you go online, they now create
an AI transcript, they'll get a few of the words wrong.
They spell my last name b A r Ry on occasion.
But if you can get over that, if you're a
person who wants to read the show instead of listen,
you can do that on your screen. If you go
to our podcast, you go to Michael Berryshow dot com
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and I'll take you through there. Michael's talk about the
circle of life and Petru's daughter El got married earlier
this year in the spring, and two weeks before her wedding,
his only child, his daughter, she just graduated text A
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and m she's marrying her bow. Everything's going great, and
his mom gets ovarian cancer. Because that's how it works,
isn't it. Everything in your life is great. God says,
wait a second, don't get too prideful. I'm going to
put some challenges in front of you. I'm going to
test you. And so anyway, so that was lingering in
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their mind, and he was telling me about his mother
going in, and I am told ovarian and cervical cancer.
I don't really know the difference, to be honest with you,
it's all kind of down in that magic zone. And
I don't study that. I like to keep it wonderful.
It's why I don't want to know the ingredients in
a meal. I just like some things to be fairy dust.
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I don't want to be an expert on it, so
I don't. But I'm told cervical and ovarian cancer is
very painful, very you don't want any cancer. I'm told
you don't want that. So anyway, his mom goes in,
she has this procedure, and the doctor comes out and
tells his dad, I can honestly tell you that today,
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right now, at this moment, I can't make any promises
in the future. Your wife is cancer free. Man. She
comes out of her procedure. Ramon older people, she's eighty
years old. Older people don't do as well with anesthesia,
and it was it wasn't proba feels old fashioned anesthesia.
(22:44):
She comes out of the anesthesia. There's the pain, there's
a wooziness. First thing she says to her husband, I'm sorry.
Have you eaten.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Me?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Some music? In case I can't continue. Let me tell
you something. Woo fellas the love of a wife and
a mother. There is nothing. There is nothing. If you
are not in touch with the love of your wife
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and your mother, you are missing out on life. Anyway.
He tells me that story. I'm serious. Put some music
under me just in case I gotta go quiet. He
tells me that story, and he says, tomorrow is their
fiftieth wedding anniversary. I said, I'm sorry, fifty eighth. Fifty eighth.
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Wow man so Ed and Dorothy Petru, happy wedding anniversary.
And he said, oh, by the way, it's also my
thirtieth wedding anniversary same day. They didn't plan it that way.
He didn't even know what his parents wedding anniverse t
was when they planned his wedding, and they didn't tell him. Laffwards. So,
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Michael and Julie Petrue of Manville, Texas, Happy thirtieth wedding anniversary.
So I tell you all that to tell you this,
whatever it is that you're chasing cars, money, vacation homes,
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social prestige, country club membership, a new truck, whatever it
is that you are chasing, whatever it is out there
that is your false idol, retreat into the comfort of
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the love of those around you, because that's what matters.
Coming up, I'll tell you what a turn Ramon was
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to his wife yesterday and how awful he felt about
it afterwards. And I'm not letting it go. I'm not
even kidding awful. He was so ashamed and embarrassed of himself,
and I'm going to tell you the story. He is
optimized about how awful he was.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
To any old.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yes, I just put that on Michael Barris Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Sneaking alonga man, I apologize. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Glenn Beck used to I don't listen to Glenn Back anymore.
Nothing against Glenn, but he's on when we're on. And
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I used to spend a lot of time listening to
other talk shows for ideas inspiration, to see what I
liked and didn't like about what people did. And he
would start crying and I didn't like that. Because it
would affect my mood and I didn't need that. And
instead of doing what I tell everybody else to do,
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which is turn the dang down if you don't like it,
it would annoy me. And I look back now and think, well,
that's dumb. That's on me. Why am I bothered with what?
He Why don't I just turned it off? Only there's
sixty two stations in Houston alone. But because of that,
I tried not to cry. You might be saying, Michael,
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you cry all the time. Yeah, but I cry less
than I would. My wife never cries. My kids never cry.
I mean ever. I don't think I've seen my kids cry.
I'm not even kidding. They take after their mom. And
I've seen her cry one time in my life, and
that was the death of her mother figure. Her mom
died when she was young, the death of her mother figure,
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who was murdered, and she cried because she felt for
her dad because she was here and her dad was
there alone, and that was the reason she cried. So
you realize what I'm dealing with is a bunch of
non criers. But we are poor white people from East Texas.
We hug, we kiss on the cheek, we cry. We
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are very emotional. And you know one thing I will
say about the Bush family. Somebody made a statement to
George H. W. Bush, the dad, at one point, and
he said, hey, I'm a crier, just some people are.
Some people aren't. And Barbara was not. Barbara was stiff,
upper lip, stern, tough, ruddy. She didn't cry. So anyway,
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I apologize because it's not intended to be a croy fest.
I get very emotional about the things that matter most
in life, and that is our mothers and our wives,
and our children, and our brothers and our fathers, and
our close friends and our veterans and people who do
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for us. And so that is something that I probably
get too emotional over. I was telling you the story
about Ramon, and I wasn't kidding you. And I will
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end the show with this story because I don't want
to start bawling again. That's the last thing you need
to hear. So let me get one more quick call
on here. Rick, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Are.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
We still talking about Harvey?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah? Yeah? Seven years ago?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Oh, seven years ago. Actually tomorrow was the day that
those of us in Kingwood were affected by the water.
We had been preparing for a foot and a half,
put everything up on counters on the islands, and then
got a phone call late that afternoon that the water
was coming. It was going to be at least six
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foot probably, and uh so we just we just got out.
I flowed up an air mattress and put two dogs
on its suitcase and floated this side of the neighborhood
and left town for a couple of days and came back.
And let me tell you about the what the amazing
results of water. Where we had put dining room chairs
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on the on the counter, and when I came home,
those chairs had floated and were balanced on the back
legs against each other. I had cat food that spread
out through the house and had jig in to clumps
of cat food on the chair rails and anything that
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was flat.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
It was.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
It was incredible what water waters can do. But we
got everything put back together, rebuilt the house everything in
February that year, and then we ended up selling and
getting out of there for fear of it coming back
to us again. The funny, funny story, we after moving
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furniture and everything out of the house and everything stacked
up in the middle of the street. I'm walking down
the driveway and a van pulls up and a lady
gets out and she says that Mike Lindell was giving
away ten thousand my pillows and she gave us two.
And I was so excited about it. And I read
on the end of it that it was you had
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to put them in the dryer. As I looked over
in my front yard and saw my dryer laying on
the side, the disappointment set in. But I knew I
was going to wait at some point and I would
have a dryer, and that's when we were able to
use those pillows. I love it, absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Rick, Thank you for that story. I love those stories.
That we made it through all that. We're going to
make it through a lot more before it's over. So
I'm going to tell you this story about Ramon because
he authorized it, and let it be a learning lesson
to all of us to be kinder and more patient
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to the people around us. And I don't want you
to think less of Ramon because he could have said, no,
don't tell the story, or he could have edited the
email that he had sent me yesterday and said, don't
tell that. But he said, no, no, full disclosure. I
got to be transparent. That's authenticity is what we preach.
So here we go. He sends me an email yesterday
(31:51):
morning and by the way, he was a cranky butt
to me too, but the subject line was this morning,
I was a cranky butt, probably a little hungover, piled
up bad mood. Amy didn't clean up after dinner last night.
Food was left out, perfect conditions for me being a
jerk toward her this morning. I did still kiss her
(32:12):
when I left. I felt like I owed that to her.
Then she posted this this morning on the Facebook machine,
lesson always be nice to your wife. This is what
his wife posted, and he had completely forgotten.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Amy writes, today marks ten years since my mom passed away.
She was my best friend. I would call her immediately
when I had something to tell her, and I still
get that urge to pick up the phone. I always
wonder how much the boys would have her laughing. My
mom was hilarious. For example, she wanted Raymond and I
to have kids so badly. For our birthdays in June
(32:53):
and July, right before she passed, her and my dad
bought us a frame cocopelly, which is a fertility deity
and told us to put it under our bed. Yeah okay, Mom,
Well wouldn't you know it?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Jokes on us.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
July was born one year, one month, and one day
after my mom left us. Thanks Mom, you would love
these boys so much.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You just don't know right from raw and in your
eyes I see heartaches for me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Right from the start.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Who stole my heart?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Ruby?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's you, I hear, your boy, and I must come
to you.
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load. So Michael Arry Show is on
the air, all right, before.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We get back to the calls, if somebody can assist
with this, just send an email and now forward it
Ian writes Zor, I have a predicament. A year ago,
we're gonna pay attention. You might be the one that
could help with this. You tend to be pretty good
with this kind of stuff. A year ago, we installed
turf in our backyard. It is beautiful. Kids love it.
(00:53):
I love it, very peaceful. Six months ago we started
seeing holes in the turf.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You see, we've established our characters, we've set the location,
we're all invested in what's going on. Now we have
presented the problem. Okay, this is where this is where
the novel takes off. Unfortunately I thought it was my dogs,
so they were wrongfully convicted. Okay, so now we have
(01:22):
the moral dilemma. We've made the mistake. All right, how
are we going to fix this? Okay? I like I like,
I like the storytelling technique. More recently, I've seen a
growth in the amount of holes we have. Okay, the
problems getting worse. So that's creating this this this uh
need to fix it. This artificial uh, you know, advancement
(01:46):
of the narrative, liking that you know, like when they
got to go that the ticking time bomb and you
see how many seconds are left. That creates this artificial
sense of urgency, like an abnormal growth. Subsequently, I noticed
squirrels digging and looking for acorns. I have apologized profusely
to my dogs. But now here's the problem. I am
(02:08):
staging an Alamo type of resistance to the squirrels that
I'm killing many per day. I honestly can't keep count.
I've called pest control companies, lawn companies. None of them
have any guidance. I know you're from Orange, which is
pretty near Louisiana. Can you point me in the right direction,
as I really don't want to kill squirrels anymore. Save
(02:29):
the squirrels, but also save the turf. What should I do? Well?
The short answer is go to wild Birds Unlimited, call over,
go to the location on the northwest side, ask for
rich edie E. He's the owner, he and his wife.
Tell him what you're coming for, and he's got some
things that you can use to keep the squirrels away.
(02:53):
But he told me years ago. Rich is my Rich
is my wild bird guru for peacocks, squirrels. My wife
loves to look at the birds. But he told me
years ago that half, he said, when you look at
my cells of squirrel related items, ramon, half are to
(03:18):
keep squirrels away and half are to attract them. It's
like speed bumps. People want them or they want them
out of there. It's kind of fifty to fifty. But
I don't want you to judge me for this. I
try not to pander. I don't alter what I say
(03:38):
to win your favor. I know that some things I
say upset people. I don't care. I have to do
the show that I do, and I think it's I
think it's more authentic to be honest, even when you
know you upset people. I realize this is not going
to win me any friends, and it may cause me
some discomfort. But I like squirrels. I really enjoy watching squirrels,
(04:02):
and I already know what I'm gonna hear. Yeah, you
wait till one ambassads end up in your attic. You
won't one of them gets in your attic. You won't
wait till one of them gets in your feet. No,
I understand, right. I like dogs too well, you wait
till one of them bite you. But the squirrels are
not perfect. I get that part of it. I really
(04:24):
I grasp that part of the concept. But I just
I like squirrels. I don't know what else to say.
I like squirrels. Burna would be a great option. I
I do not shoot the squirrels with my burner gum
that I'm willing to admit. But I do shoot squirrels.
(04:46):
I do shoot possums and armadilla's And the reason is
I don't want to kill them because I don't want
them dead in my yard. And Georgia go try to
eat them, she just will. Nicole from BA Tom Rouge,
you're up, sweetheart, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Hey nervous, But how old are you?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Don't be nervous.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I'm I'm thirty, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Thirty. So you were born in ninety four. So there
is a point at which there were a bunch of
Nicoles coming out every day, and then all of a
sudden somebody issued an edict, don't name them Nicole. Girls, y'all,
don't name your children Nicole anymore. They don't name babies Nicole.
Have you ever met a Nicole under twenty.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I don't think so, but it's actually my middle name,
and a lot of people have Nicole as their middle name.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Really, Oh, like Anna Nicole. Yeah you know who Ana
Nicole Smith was?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Do you really?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I mean, I've heard of her.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's so weird for me, being fifty three, Nicole, that
I will have conversations with people like you, and in
my mind we're about the same age, but we're not.
I'm old enough to be your parents plus five years.
And it's so weird for me because I'll make a
cultural reference to something in the nineties, and it's like
when my kids, I expect that because they're seventeen and eighteen.
(06:17):
But I'll make a cultural reference to somebody that's thirty.
Our assistant is thirty, and sometimes I'll say things and
she has no idea who someone like, how could you
not know who? And Nicoles math has But of course
you wouldn't because you're thirty. But anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It wasn't my time, right, So I heard you talking
about the Harvey floods. And I actually live in Houston
now while I live in Humble, but I was born
and raised in Baton Ridge and so we moved here
in twenty nineteen, so of course we weren't here for
the flood. They're Harvey floods, but we hear about it,
(06:53):
you know, it's the first thing you hear about when
you're looking at a house. Did it flood in Harvey
or not. But what a lot of people from here
don't realize is that a year earlier, almost to the date,
we had a thousand year flood in Baton Rouge and
that was really what started the Cajun Navy to where
(07:14):
they were able to work through that and get their
whole process, you know, fine tuned to where whenever you
guys had the Harvey flood a year later, they were
ready to go, activated, ready to be here, and knew
what to do.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And there were a lot of people from Houston, because
there were listeners of mine sending me photos who went
to Baton Rouge to help. And then a lot of
those folks who were helped a year later came here
and and that was I remember Edimitt was a county
judge at the time, and he said, hey, Cajun Navy,
Redneck Navy, we need y'all to stay out. We're trying
(07:50):
to fix this, y'all are getting in the way. And
within a day he said, hey, Michael, can you put
the word out? And I appreciated that he did that
he put his privacyte He said, those guys are saving lives.
And I was so delighted because people like the guy
that called in earlier, they just wanted to jump in
their job. My wife and kids were rescued. I couldn't
get back into town because the town was cut off
that we couldn't get cars in, and I was literally
(08:11):
I was driving back from Baton Rouge. I would m
see an event every year, uh there for the Louisiana
Pediatric uh cardiology practice and uh uncle Jerry and I
could not get back and it was traumatic because I
couldn't for several hours. I couldn't speak. I couldn't get
ahold of my wife, and I was scared. They waded
out in chest high water and my boys were so
(08:35):
brave and I was just so incredibly proud of them.
Did I hear a little baby in the background, Yeah,
what's that baby's name?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Leanne mi Row?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You say it?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Louder mir Row?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Pretty name?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Radio Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Nicole, Yes, is Mia Rose your first base.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I appreciate the song. No, she's actually my third.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay, what are the other names?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Have a nine year old and a four year old?
William and Mason.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh so now you have.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
A little girl.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, I finally got my girl, So I'm done.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know, I know so many people who there's either
four girls or four boys. Sometimes it'll be five, and
you know, their parents we're trying. They're like, do we
really need another kid? But they want to have the
other sex and they keep trying, and danged if they can't,
(09:46):
they are they just cannot get there. Well, good for you.
Was that the goal?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well she's actually yeah, she's actually the first girl granddaughter
on both sides of the family.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
God, she's going to be so spoiled.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, she's already spoiled.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Nicole. We have had a just deluge of blessings by
baby in our family. So a little over two years ago,
we wouldn't have thought that we would have any because
we didn't have any, and then all of a sudden,
they started. My nephew Michael Berry, who lives in Who's
(10:30):
on the Humble Fire Department, He and his wife had
a baby. My niece Meghan, who works at insperity. She
had a baby and they are brother and Michael and
Meghan are brother and sister, and they are a couple
of years apart, and they had their babies within weeks.
(10:50):
So my brother Steve went from no grandkids to two
grandkids just like that, just overnight. It just and he
couldn't be happier. He and his Laura could not be happy.
So we had those two born. And then just before that,
my niece Ruchie, who's more like our daughter. She came
here when she was eighteen, went to u age and
(11:11):
went off to New York law school. And so we
feel like like I got to walk her down the
aisle along with her dad. That's how close we are
to her. And so she had a baby two years
ago orn. And then her sister Shilpy, she's the one
married to Kyle, and they're the ones that get up
and sing. I make them at our events. They're both
(11:33):
at Occidental Petroleum. They're both engineers. He's a PhD. She's
a geologist. And they had their daughter. What's it been,
I guess may So each of the sisters there had
a child within a year and a half. And then
Rouchie gets pregnant while Sheilpy is giving birth. So we're
(11:56):
not even paying attention because we got this other baby
coming in, which is shell Bey and Kyle's first bay.
And then the baby's born and we're all in the
new baby swaddling, and all of a sudden we look
up and last week or it has been last week,
and yeah, last week, last Monday, Ruchie goes in and
she has her baby. So three five, five babies in
(12:18):
our immediate family within two years, and I'd have fifty.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I love everything about I'm not the new baby person
that women are. I like them when they get to
be about two, and especially when they get to be five.
But our culture has become such a culture of death
and reading the news and analyzing and commenting all day
it just feels so gloomy and dark, and then just
just this burst of new born babies and life and optimism.
(12:50):
It is the greatest thing ever. I love it. So
I hope that helps your postpartum depression, not being able
to sleep being stuck home all day. Maybe I helped
you a little bit in that way.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh, I love the babies. And she's actually so she's
named after my grandmother. Like I said, and it's amazing
because my grandmother died about a year or less than
a year ago, and when we went through her house
to you know, get some stuff that we wanted to
(13:23):
keep to remember her by, it was really hard because
her house flooded in that flood and she had about
seven feet of water, and so everything from the last
fifty sixty years was destroyed. But I have my daughter,
and so I always get to remember her when I
see my daughter.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know, I'm a deeply religious person, and I also
believe that some things that are seeming coincidences are God's hand.
And I see this cycle of life. I cannot tell you, Nicole,
(14:06):
how many times I have seen this happen where a
grandparent dies and then a baby comes into the life
in very short order, and it just it balances life
because we're not meant to live forever. We're not supposed
to uh. And it's just it's just this completion of
the circle of life. It is a it is a
(14:27):
beautiful thing and it really does. It helps, It helps
a lot, it does. What does your husband do?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
He is a data analyst at Chevron?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh well do you work?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
No outside though? Oh good for you. Yeah, Uh, you
are a great co host, Nicole. I got an email.
Maybe somebody out there can help me, email me if
you can. A lady emailed me and said, if anybody
out there has a has a Texas history book, let
(15:07):
me see if I can find it for a fourth
grader for someone who is homeschooling. I don't know. If
here we go yep, Kate said, are there any Texas
history books you could recommend for my homeschool fourth grader?
Or point me in the direction of someone who could
recommend some Oh, I think she just wants some books.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I can recommend Texas history books all day long, but
just thinking about resources for homeschoolers. Yeah, never mind, my
brain tends to make connections where it gets weird anyway.
Good for you. So you your homeschooling your four year
old and your nine year old? Now, yes, how's that going? Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
It's fun? I love it. We get to have, you know,
lots of fun conversations all day. You get to see
how their brain works. I don't I love the baby
phase and the kid phase. I don't love the toddler phase.
So once they're able to have a hold of conversation
with me, I love it. We just we go and
(16:16):
learn about life all day. He makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's really cool. You know. I admire women who do
that because I think it's my impression that it's a
lot harder than we would imagine. This is just my impression.
It's a lot harder than we would imagine, but also
a lot more rewarding than we would imagine.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh yeah, definitely. If I could send them to public school,
it would be easier, but I wouldn't get to help
shape him into who he's going to be.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So please tell me that y'all go on field trips.
Oh yeah, because the mommies email me who are homeschoolers.
They'll talk about, you know, Michael, if you send a
kid to public school and they're at the school for
seven hours in a day, which is kind of standard.
When you take out the meals and the recesses and
(17:16):
the grab ass and all the things that you know
are being done, the actual amount of education is about
an hour and a half a day if you're lucky.
So what they do is they knock that out and
then they go on a field trip. So they go
see Joel BArch at the Houston Museum of Natural Science,
or they go to the zoo, or they go to
the park, or they go for a walk, or they
(17:37):
go you know, do whatever. I think that would be cool.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So what is the nine year old doing right now?
What is a nine year old doing at this moment?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
He is keeping his one year old sister happy because
we're in the car.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh okay, you are a great caller, Nicole. Thank you,
thanks for calling me.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You call it their Oh Nicole, hold on, Nicole, I
don't wait right there. I have Gringo's gift card for you.
Russell Lebara said, I sent you all those gift cards.
You never give them away. I'm going to send you one.
Hold on, So my trainer, my treasures came over last night.
We had our workout. And by the way, I'm not
(18:19):
in any way bragging about my workout. I am the
weakest man of anybody in our audience. I'm not some
big the hell. I will whip you right now. I
will meet me halfway between our studios. I will kick
you in them. That is not a flex, literally and figuratively.
(18:43):
That is not a flex. I ain't outlifting anybody noodle arms,
no strength, never have, never will just Hey, look, we
all have our pluses and minuses. I was not blessed
with great muscularity. Now I can starve myself better than
(19:05):
an anorexit woman. And that's a I'm gonna tell you something.
If you've listened to me for very long, I lost
fifteen pounds this summer. Just decided to be a summer.
You know what you're putting on a pound pound there,
it's time you drop fifteen boom, And I did. And
I'm gonna tell you something that is harder for me
than you, because I like to eat more than anybody anyway.
(19:29):
Back to it. So when I say I'm working out,
I don't mean to in any way. Dudes, you don't. No, no, no,
I defer to you. There is no muscularity here and
there's no desire for it. I look better lean. My
working out is to strengthen my core. If you read
Peter Attia, who our research director Sandy Peterson got me
(19:51):
into Attia. I subscribe to his newsletter. I read and
think a lot about physical and mental health. And you
know what I eat and how much I sleep, and
how much water I drink, and what foods I eat
and what combinations and what time I eat, I find
that stuff to be very interesting. You may not, and
I try not to overshare, but that's interesting to me anyway.
(20:14):
So Petrick was over last night and we were talking
about family in these sorts of things, and I use
a highlighter. So if you were to take a transcript
(20:35):
of today's show, which, by the way, if you listen
to our podcast and you go online, they now create
an AI transcript, they'll get a few of the words wrong.
They spell my last name b A r Ry on occasion.
But if you can get over that, if you're a
person who wants to read the show instead of listen,
you can do that on your screen. If you go
to our podcast, you go to Michael Berryshow dot com
(20:56):
and I'll take you through there. Michael's talk about the
circle of life and Petru's daughter El got married earlier
this year in the spring, and two weeks before her wedding,
his only child, his daughter, she just graduated text A
(21:16):
and m she's marrying her bow. Everything's going great, and
his mom gets ovarian cancer. Because that's how it works,
isn't it. Everything in your life is great. God says,
wait a second, don't get too prideful. I'm going to
put some challenges in front of you. I'm going to
test you. And so anyway, so that was lingering in
(21:40):
their mind, and he was telling me about his mother
going in, and I am told ovarian and cervical cancer.
I don't really know the difference, to be honest with you,
it's all kind of down in that magic zone. And
I don't study that. I like to keep it wonderful.
It's why I don't want to know the ingredients in
a meal. I just like some things to be fairy dust.
(22:01):
I don't want to be an expert on it, so
I don't. But I'm told cervical and ovarian cancer is
very painful, very you don't want any cancer. I'm told
you don't want that. So anyway, his mom goes in,
she has this procedure, and the doctor comes out and
tells his dad, I can honestly tell you that today,
(22:24):
right now, at this moment, I can't make any promises
in the future. Your wife is cancer free. Man. She
comes out of her procedure. Ramon older people, she's eighty
years old. Older people don't do as well with anesthesia,
and it was it wasn't proba feels old fashioned anesthesia.
(22:44):
She comes out of the anesthesia. There's the pain, there's
a wooziness. First thing she says to her husband, I'm sorry.
Have you eaten.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Me?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Some music? In case I can't continue. Let me tell
you something. Woo fellas the love of a wife and
a mother. There is nothing. There is nothing. If you
are not in touch with the love of your wife
(23:20):
and your mother, you are missing out on life. Anyway.
He tells me that story. I'm serious. Put some music
under me just in case I gotta go quiet. He
tells me that story, and he says, tomorrow is their
fiftieth wedding anniversary. I said, I'm sorry, fifty eighth. Fifty eighth.
(23:43):
Wow man so Ed and Dorothy Petru, happy wedding anniversary.
And he said, oh, by the way, it's also my
thirtieth wedding anniversary same day. They didn't plan it that way.
He didn't even know what his parents wedding anniverse t
was when they planned his wedding, and they didn't tell him. Laffwards. So,
(24:06):
Michael and Julie Petrue of Manville, Texas, Happy thirtieth wedding anniversary.
So I tell you all that to tell you this,
whatever it is that you're chasing cars, money, vacation homes,
(24:27):
social prestige, country club membership, a new truck, whatever it
is that you are chasing, whatever it is out there
that is your false idol, retreat into the comfort of
(24:51):
the love of those around you, because that's what matters.
Coming up, I'll tell you what a turn Ramon was
(25:13):
to his wife yesterday and how awful he felt about
it afterwards. And I'm not letting it go. I'm not
even kidding awful. He was so ashamed and embarrassed of himself,
and I'm going to tell you the story. He is
optimized about how awful he was.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
To any old.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yes, I just put that on Michael Barris Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Sneaking alonga man, I apologize. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Glenn Beck used to I don't listen to Glenn Back anymore.
Nothing against Glenn, but he's on when we're on. And
(26:06):
I used to spend a lot of time listening to
other talk shows for ideas inspiration, to see what I
liked and didn't like about what people did. And he
would start crying and I didn't like that. Because it
would affect my mood and I didn't need that. And
instead of doing what I tell everybody else to do,
(26:27):
which is turn the dang down if you don't like it,
it would annoy me. And I look back now and think, well,
that's dumb. That's on me. Why am I bothered with what?
He Why don't I just turned it off? Only there's
sixty two stations in Houston alone. But because of that,
I tried not to cry. You might be saying, Michael,
(26:51):
you cry all the time. Yeah, but I cry less
than I would. My wife never cries. My kids never cry.
I mean ever. I don't think I've seen my kids cry.
I'm not even kidding. They take after their mom. And
I've seen her cry one time in my life, and
that was the death of her mother figure. Her mom
died when she was young, the death of her mother figure,
(27:12):
who was murdered, and she cried because she felt for
her dad because she was here and her dad was
there alone, and that was the reason she cried. So
you realize what I'm dealing with is a bunch of
non criers. But we are poor white people from East Texas.
We hug, we kiss on the cheek, we cry. We
(27:38):
are very emotional. And you know one thing I will
say about the Bush family. Somebody made a statement to
George H. W. Bush, the dad, at one point, and
he said, hey, I'm a crier, just some people are.
Some people aren't. And Barbara was not. Barbara was stiff,
upper lip, stern, tough, ruddy. She didn't cry. So anyway,
(28:03):
I apologize because it's not intended to be a croy fest.
I get very emotional about the things that matter most
in life, and that is our mothers and our wives,
and our children, and our brothers and our fathers, and
our close friends and our veterans and people who do
(28:23):
for us. And so that is something that I probably
get too emotional over. I was telling you the story
about Ramon, and I wasn't kidding you. And I will
(28:43):
end the show with this story because I don't want
to start bawling again. That's the last thing you need
to hear. So let me get one more quick call
on here. Rick, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Are.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
We still talking about Harvey?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah? Yeah? Seven years ago?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Oh, seven years ago. Actually tomorrow was the day that
those of us in Kingwood were affected by the water.
We had been preparing for a foot and a half,
put everything up on counters on the islands, and then
got a phone call late that afternoon that the water
was coming. It was going to be at least six
(29:22):
foot probably, and uh so we just we just got out.
I flowed up an air mattress and put two dogs
on its suitcase and floated this side of the neighborhood
and left town for a couple of days and came back.
And let me tell you about the what the amazing
results of water. Where we had put dining room chairs
(29:43):
on the on the counter, and when I came home,
those chairs had floated and were balanced on the back
legs against each other. I had cat food that spread
out through the house and had jig in to clumps
of cat food on the chair rails and anything that
(30:05):
was flat.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
It was.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
It was incredible what water waters can do. But we
got everything put back together, rebuilt the house everything in
February that year, and then we ended up selling and
getting out of there for fear of it coming back
to us again. The funny, funny story, we after moving
(30:31):
furniture and everything out of the house and everything stacked
up in the middle of the street. I'm walking down
the driveway and a van pulls up and a lady
gets out and she says that Mike Lindell was giving
away ten thousand my pillows and she gave us two.
And I was so excited about it. And I read
on the end of it that it was you had
(30:51):
to put them in the dryer. As I looked over
in my front yard and saw my dryer laying on
the side, the disappointment set in. But I knew I
was going to wait at some point and I would
have a dryer, and that's when we were able to
use those pillows. I love it, absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Rick, Thank you for that story. I love those stories.
That we made it through all that. We're going to
make it through a lot more before it's over. So
I'm going to tell you this story about Ramon because
he authorized it, and let it be a learning lesson
to all of us to be kinder and more patient
(31:29):
to the people around us. And I don't want you
to think less of Ramon because he could have said, no,
don't tell the story, or he could have edited the
email that he had sent me yesterday and said, don't
tell that. But he said, no, no, full disclosure. I
got to be transparent. That's authenticity is what we preach.
So here we go. He sends me an email yesterday
(31:51):
morning and by the way, he was a cranky butt
to me too, but the subject line was this morning,
I was a cranky butt, probably a little hungover, piled
up bad mood. Amy didn't clean up after dinner last night.
Food was left out, perfect conditions for me being a
jerk toward her this morning. I did still kiss her
(32:12):
when I left. I felt like I owed that to her.
Then she posted this this morning on the Facebook machine,
lesson always be nice to your wife. This is what
his wife posted, and he had completely forgotten.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Amy writes, today marks ten years since my mom passed away.
She was my best friend. I would call her immediately
when I had something to tell her, and I still
get that urge to pick up the phone. I always
wonder how much the boys would have her laughing. My
mom was hilarious. For example, she wanted Raymond and I
to have kids so badly. For our birthdays in June
(32:53):
and July, right before she passed, her and my dad
bought us a frame cocopelly, which is a fertility deity
and told us to put it under our bed. Yeah okay, Mom,
Well wouldn't you know it?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Jokes on us.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
July was born one year, one month, and one day
after my mom left us. Thanks Mom, you would love
these boys so much.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You just don't know right from raw and in your
eyes I see heartaches for me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Right from the start.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Who stole my heart?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Ruby?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's you, I hear, your boy, and I must come
to you.
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