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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air. The following feature
has been rated R. It is intended for mature audiences.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I just wanted to say to everyone out there, I'm
no longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's official. Now you know the rest of the story.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Joyce.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You like movies about gladiators.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
What if your child get a moula fuffir shoes? Take
me on, Take me on.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Your mother was a hamster and your father's smakee of heliberry.
How much you want to make a bet?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I can proll football over the mountains.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
The Donga need food?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You kidding?
Speaker 7 (01:10):
We got some family here you not already.
Speaker 8 (01:22):
Well, so love you until tonight, then.
Speaker 9 (01:25):
One and more Bye, hell, long.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Language and.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Down with borrow and yellow don't ever have We are
loving in the city.
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And field.
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Under way, all name.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Having levers, we say in this member danger. We are
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going here and there with simple trusting in the lessons
saviors low converse, We navy strangers daving in this world
there we're always looking for the city.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yes we're listening, honestly.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
City under where.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
All say no the name, we will.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Say saying you say.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The glory and.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Love.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now we'd.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Stag come finger looking at the city where and say
still open name we will said stab.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Every seven one three nine one thousand, seven one three nine,
nine nine one thousand. It was sixteen years ago today.
And you either remember because you were in it, or
you don't and count your blessings. Hurricane Ike made landfall
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on the Texas Gulf Coast, causing heavy heavy damage to
Galveston Island, Houston, all the way to the Louisiana coast.
Speaker 10 (04:49):
At first light, it didn't look good for the people
of Galveston. Ike was relentlessly battering the city. The San
louis Resort had a four story hole in it and
streets still flooded.
Speaker 11 (05:00):
Yeah, it was one in our living room. It was
about cash light, about three feet deep in the living room.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
Jeffrey Jordan was one of the lucky ones, rescued by
police who brought him to a makeshift shelter.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
If the token that came through the driveway, they sounded
a dump tuck to get us. We see have been
there on the water to ride in something like a
foot every five minutes.
Speaker 10 (05:19):
The owner of this house wasn't so lucky, one of
several that burned to the ground during the height of
the storm. Sarah Miller lives next door and can't tell
if her house is okay.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Am I worried about it?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I am very much worried about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
If I could swim, I'd swim over there and see.
Speaker 10 (05:36):
While at first glance the damage looked devastating, upon further inspection,
it is safe to say that most of Galveston fared
pretty well, with several exceptions. Behind me is some of
the worst damage in Galveston. Just twenty four hours ago.
This pile of rubble was a bar, a restaurant, and
a gift shop. Now it's all just piled up on
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Sea Wall Boulevard. By late morning, the winds had dropped
significantly and so had the storm searge, allowing cleanup to begin.
Rich Matthews, the associate of Priss Galveston, Texas.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think it was during that Galveston's mayor. Was it
Light of May Remember the lesbian woman? I liked her?
Huh light of ant light Ann? What light Ann Thomas?
Something like that? I liked her. She was a spunky
little thing. She reminded me of one of those lesbian
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ladies that lives out in the country like Cleveland or Huffman, Splendora,
in a modest little house, a couple of cats and dogs,
maybe a horse shotgun there. Votes Trump, conservative as all
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get out, tough, not mean, not mean, mean to the
right people. But wants you to know, don't think just
because I'm a Lesbo that I don't listen to your
show and love everything you do. I like that that
kind of person. So I went to see my mom
yesterday in the middle of the afternoon when we finished
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the morning show.
Speaker 11 (07:23):
And.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I'm driving up on my parents and around the corner
from where we live is I'm not going to say
their name, but it's a family that I grew up with.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
And the.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Youngest in the family was a girl named Missy and
she was in my grade. And this poor girl. I
look back now, but when you say somebody is so fat,
how fat is She's as fat as Missy. And then
let's say the last name. And this girl was fat
from the time we were in kindergart well, I didn't
go there in kindergarten for the time we were in
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second grade on and I think back now, how awful
do that have to be? Growing up. But this family,
they were mechanics in Texas road construction workers, like they
were the guy to hold a flag or put out
the tart. And they had three old, raggedy trailers on
the property. And you know a lot of people when
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they think of a mobile home, they have the wrong idea.
I mean, these are raggedy trailers with just a little
block for you to step up on before you go
in there. Trash all over, just poor, poor, poor people.
And when I was growing up, our whole area was Democratic,
and now that whole area votes Trump. And I'm pulling
in to see my parents, and just before I get
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to my parents' house, I passed their house and there's
about ten Trump signs out front, and I almost stopped
and took a photo, and I said, that's how things
have changed.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
To see what's going on in my cousin Michael Verry show,
and this is my damn country.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I thought of this culture, this is mine.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Carlisle writes, I'm a former hippie, black American served two
years felony probation for flag desecration. I will vote for
Trump for a third time and Republicans down the ballot.
The economy foreign affairs and my country. I don't trust democrats.
I don't trust many Republicans. I appreciate Trump's fortitude and
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matter of factness. Thank you, Carlile to the phone lines,
we go. Is that Quinn that owns the boot and
workwear company?
Speaker 11 (09:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Huh, yes, good morning, Hi Quinn, you're up? Go ahead, sweetheart?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
How are you okay? Here what I have in carl
Everybody go out. I don't care you the Democrat, you independent,
whoever you need. The global will be public again because
Kamala hair she lie every time her lips moved. Because
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here one thing that I'm so afraid of. You know,
the well, uh, the well money to you. They started
taxes on it, started working on some Obama in the
White House and medical for all. That will scare everybody
not to be publican the American we better wake up
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danger if she took the White House another four year?
The border wall to believe defunct, the belief this disgusting me.
You have to live in a communist party, you will
like this is communist party been passing three and a
half years, and I have told everybody that I that
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I definitely uh. Communist party started and a half year.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'll live through it.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
I'll see through it. So we knit the wake up America.
And I am do all the paper at if I could.
And I'm gonna stary of hope, Tru. I'm gonna win,
not for Trump, for this country because I am love
this country. There is my land. There is my land.
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I am going to try to attack everything I can.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's all I got to say, Michael Quinn, can you
do me a favor?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
What city were you born in? Again?
Speaker 8 (11:40):
I am born in Chow Duck, which is Vietnam, South Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, I wasn't sure. I thought I remembered you telling
me you were born in North Vietnam and you had
to leave and go No. No, well you can't control born.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Quinn.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Could you do me a favor, as a special favor?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Would you say basically what you just said in Vietnamese?
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Oh my god, you know, Michael, I have not stick
vitness in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It'll come naturally. Just relaxed, Quinn, relax, take it to breath.
I'm not going to conjugate your verbes. I'm kind of
a mazing when it comes to my Vietnamese verb conjugation
and punctuation. But in this case, I'm going to let
all that go. I want you to relax and just
do your best and and say what you just said
in Vietnamese.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Here we go, Okay, doing that cho do Oh, Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Land is your land and this land is my land.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Dug duck, New York.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yeah, redood.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Water taking no name now?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
The I broke with drump cannot I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You were doing well. You were doing well, Quinn, keep.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Going, but by all the Vietnamese they do spit endless.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I have to, I know, but I want a little more.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Come on, knee kikne uh now Cole Vietnam big row
maybey Vietnam bra broke for jumps. Oh my goodness, knows
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all I can make?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
All right, Quin, I want you to do me a favor.
Bring that down, rem Will you say uh something really
nice about our show and then say the Michael Berry Show,
like just you know I love the show because or whatever,
just whatever you can say and Vietnamese, just don't cuss
and we'll use it as a stinker.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Here we go, Okay, three ton Michael Berry, good show
on fulklum, and I encour everybody listen to Michael Berry.
He's a wonderful They have a wonderful show, and I
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love his show.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Thank you listen.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
He showed ely morning.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Thank you, Joel, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Sixty six years old and I'm broking for Trump. I
was born in California. Moved to Texas as soon as
I could. I worked for the oil company in Houston,
and I'm a retired pilot. My father, Stilipino, was born
in this phil teams. He joined the US Navy in
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fifty five, went to Vietnams as a corman sixty six
seven to one seven. He loved this country. I joined
the Air, of course after high school. In seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
We lost his call. Unfortunately. I love hearing people's stories.
I love love love because each person is a unique journey.
It's an overused term, but it's true. It is true.
It is a journey. You know, if you read the
Odyssey and the great story of Odysseus going off to
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war and then coming back a changed man. In his nostos,
his nostalgia, his remembering of from where he came and
what it was going to be, and the temptations he
would face on his return journey. I love the thought of,
you know, as we think about our lives. And there's
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a wonderful movie called in English. It's called Run, Lola Run.
It's a German film and I watch it every few
years and it has such a powerful message. It's a
young lady who uh, well, I don't want to ruin
the story, but basically one turn to the right or
to the left, stopping instead of going going, instead of
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stopping those things. How that can alter your life in
unimaginable ways that you never could have foreseen. You know,
I think to myself people that I first met the
first time, and how I happened by chance to meet them.
You meet so many people that you never remember that
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you met, and there's nothing wrong with that. But you
meet a person who offers you a job, or you
meet a person who introduces you, or who invites you
for a drink, and you go to their house and
when you're there you meet their sister and you end
up marrying her. Or you have a colleague and y'all
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go for a drink and his brother shows up, and
twenty years later that's your best friend in the world.
And the colleague. You don't even know anymore. What if
you hadn't gone for that drink, how would things have changed? Well,
it means you wouldn't have gone on that fishing trip
to Alaska with your best friend who you met through
the guy that you went to for the dream, because
he was the one who went on the fishing trips
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to Alaska. Or you wouldn't have gone to the Texans game,
in which case you wouldn't have sat next to the
guy who would end up being your best employee in
building your business and ended up buying it from you.
Just those little bitty, those little steps along the journey.
Some of them are our brilliant decisions and hard work,
and some of them are seemingly just pure chance or
it's a god thing. And I just love hearing those
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stories the Michael Berry Show. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
It's a damn shame.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. Oh my god,
what is happening in there? I add my head down,
my eyes closed, jamming along, and I looked up across
the glass and Ramone had his shirt out looking out
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the window, and he's using his shirt like a like
a fan towel. What did the Steelers with a terrible towel?
And he's whipping it and have mercy? What is going
on in this place? I feel like the principal on
the last day of school where you got to come
over last me. Oh, guys, it's the last day before summer.
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Let's have a good time, but let's not make a
mistake when somebody has to come back to summer school.
Mister Coral so full of it. Ain't nobody coming to
summer school for cutting up on the last day? Good grief?
Is that all he's got in his quiver? He could
threaten to give me licks, but it didn't work the
other two hundred times since year he did. Oh, let's go,
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Roy Dan, Michael Martin, Scott, Roy, you're up.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Good morning, Mike, Yes, sir, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Roy.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are you Hispanic?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yes? Am?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I think forty percent of the roys uh today who
are under the age of seventy or Hispanic? All of
a suddenly, Moore, Well, I don't know what it is
over seventy. I'm just telling you under seventy what you got?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
My man? Yeah? Actually, I'm over here in Forestville, Texas.
I can't showed to kay yas in Corpus Christy on
TV anyway. Are you always talking about Helena what's her name? Judge?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh, Lena Hidalgo l and uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
And the mayor who's the mayor now.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
John Whitmyer. No, he's going to be the congressman.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Okay, my tuiit to this. Another name I always.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Here is Ronnie Lewis, Rodney Ellis, Ruddy Ellis.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Oh Elis who see in the way he's so powerful?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He he's like the boss. So he's he's like the
kind of like the mob boss, political boss Richard Daley
of Chicago. He runs everything. He's smarter than the rest
of them. He's very smart.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Okay, what's this? What's this title?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
His title?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
But see this that that's where in the mafia. You
gotta be careful because sometimes guys have a title that
doesn't reflect who they are. He he's a precinct commissioner.
There's four precinct commissioners there. The Harris County is split
into four regions. He's a precinct one commissioner, and then
there is the county judge, who's the fifth commissioner and
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is kind of the overseer. But he put his person
in and she can't handle the job, and she knows that,
and he put her in there, and then he runs
things through her. She's the puppet. It's sort of like
the people who run the White House and Biden gets
to sit in the seat.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
You my mind. I was just going to mention there
was somebody telling me what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No, this happens a lot. So so Rodney was he
came up through the Mickey through the Mickey Leland coaching tree,
and then he went to be a state senator and
he spent three decades as a state senator. And he's
a lawyer, and he got rich as a lawyer because
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what happens is anytime there was a public deal. So
if a stadium was built, we built a lot of stadiums.
If if a big project, if a big bond float
was being put out the city, the County Metro Houston
Community College hid when they do a thing like this,
they bring in there's a group of lawyers that come
in that are the legal team that puts this deal together.
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And they have to have a minority component. So what
happens is there are certain guys in Houston who are
famous for being black and being very likable and being
very smart. And these guys, there's a there's probably twenty
who qualify and they're not dumb per se, but their
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intellect is never challenged because they're brought in on deals
and they get a percentage of the deal for being black.
But it's a great thing because you get in on
a lot of deals because let's say Metro is going
to you know, a couple hundred million dollars or City
of Houston or the county or whatever it's going to be.
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If it's going to be a billion dollar deal, there's
millions of dollars of legal fees. So they get in
on this thing and they don't really have any costs,
they don't have associates, they're not actually doing any work.
They're just the professional black guy who collects on it.
And then you become known as the guy that gets
in on all these deals.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
On Michael Bay Good Show on both Lumps.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Until all Right, I got a wild hair. We're going
to do an event in October. I don't know when
it'll be, maybe October eighteenth. We probably need a month.
I think we will do a band, and I'll do
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a question and answer to start. We never do that
in Houston. What just happened? Oh big announcement? Well, I'm
just it's on a whim. I might back out of
it because I normally.
Speaker 11 (24:06):
Do that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Just thinking out loud. So these things tend to overtake.
I don't want I don't want it to have a
ticket cost. I don't want to raise money for it.
So here's what I'm gonna do. One person write a
check for twenty five thousand dollars. You'll be the signature sponsor,
as long as you're not already in a category of
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a show sponsor. I have because I can't do that.
It wouldn't be fair to a show sponsor. But if
you own an oil and gas company, or you own
whatever else, we're going to do it at twenty nine
to twenty Roadhouse. I'll call Kelly Burmeister. He's always great
about it, and it'll be free. Just pay for your
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own booze and that'll give me the money to hire
a band, hire Rico. Let Rico go, hire a team,
hire security and parking so we can get people in
and out. And don't email me yet. Please don't email
me yet that you want to come, because it just
it's just more emails and I can't keep up with it,
and then you won't know whether to send it again.
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So if I get one person who says I have
a twenty five thousand dollars check waiting for you right now,
have Emily come pick it up and we get that.
I'll get a band and I'll pay all the expenses,
and we'll have the food. We'll either have twenty nine
to twenty provide the food, or we'll do We'll have
a barbecue team or something like that, cook and provide it.
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I want it to be all free. I want a
fool with all the money aspect of it. I want
it to be a Trump rally. And that's not to
say Trump is coming. Their schedule is booked. We will
invite Ted Cruz, we will invite Mike Knox, we will
invite Dan Simons. I'm not going to have a bunch
of people get on stage and give a bunch of speeches.
They can be there, they can shake hands, they can
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put their signs out. We'll do all of that, and
then there will be a concert. And when I give speeches,
when I do events outside of Houston. I normally get
up and I'll speak for a little bit and then
I take questions from the audience, because that's what people
tend to enjoy more than a standard stock speech. I
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will do that if I'm asked, if it's a business
group or whatever else. But I will do that this
time because we rarely do it, and people often ask
for it, and I just always feel weird because there's
too many people in the audience I already know, so
it feels like that's the kind of thing you do
when you're in New York or Oregon or Florida. But
I will do it this time, and because we haven't
done it in a long time. And basically, it'll just
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be a come out and have a good time and
wear your Trump gear, and I will ask the campaign
to give us a bunch of yard signs and will
act foolish and it'll be a good time. So don't
send me an email if you are interested in attending.
That will be a time to do that, and I
won't be able to hold on to those right now.
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But if there's one person who'll write a check for
twenty five thousand, that will cover all the expenses that way.
I got Kelly covered at twenty nine to twenty for
the event venue, I've got my band covered, and I
got all the expenses covered. And the only thing you
will have to cover will be your drinks. And we
can't do free drinks because there's a liability issue if
you own the venue. Otherwise I'd get that donated too.
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So that's all I'm looking for at twenty five thousand
dollars check. I will announce on Monday what the date
will be. What would you rather a Friday or a Saturday?
You never come anyway? People love to meet you. It's
so weird Ramone coming? Who cares if Ramone's coming? I
don't care if he's coming, what's he gonna add? Dingn
Stiller's I'm ding. That's all he's gonna do. Anyway. He's
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gonna ding and take an out? And what does that
add to the event? Is Ramone here?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
I'm here in the f I'm here. You are in
front of the TSARP Tom I am a big deal.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Is Ramone here? I like meat Ramon. Ramone doesn't exist.
He's a figment of my imagination. Who is that? Why
is Emily here?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Early?
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Tell her dad, I got a gig for him, because
they're going to be They're either going to be the
opener or the main attraction. We'll just have to see.
Oh he's busy that weekend. He doesn't even know what
the weekend is yet. I love it. All right, let's
go through these calls. I will get you some details.
Two things. If you are a show sponsor, you will
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get tickets. Don't worry. Every one of our show sponsors
will get tickets. I'll make sure of that. If you're
somebody that knows me and you've been a supporter of
the fan of the show, you don't have to rise
to the Sandy and Rachel and Chance McLean level. But
if you are a contributor to the show, Bobby Crumpley
in one way or another, a frequenter of our show sponsors,
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you will. I'm going to try to get I don't
know what his capacity is, it's probably a thousand. We
have a bit of pent up interest because we haven't
done a gig in a long time, so I suspect
we're gonna and there's a lot of excitement over the election.
But I will announce that next week and then I'm
not going to talk about it much after that, because
I'm not trying to raise the money to cover the expenses.
That's too much pressure and everybody else gets bored to
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hearing me talk about that. But all that will be
next week. I just need my twenty five thousand dollars
donor and that will be. That'll cover the expenses when
we move on after that. I was going to tell
you one other thing, and I can't remember what it was.
I'll think of it later. All right, you got ten
seconds eats. We got to be fast, Dan, you're old,
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Michael Berry show go.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
How are you doing?
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Michael?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Good? Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm assure you hate disabled that.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
But I got something you need to go to Bach
for me for you ever heard anything about the boy
Scout sexual abuse lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
A little bit? Dan, send me an email. I'll read
it on the air next week. Michael, I will, I
promise you. I'm just short on time. Michael, you're up.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Go Hi. I'm a sixty five year mentally and spisically.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Just say, well, man, I'm voting for Trump because I
have to.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Being on music for many years.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I can see his voice here, his voice, his face, his.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
He loves our country yes he does, and the others don't.
Mark ten, you're up. Go well, Michael Martin Kelly here.
I'm sixty nine really from England, betid, I'm voting for
Donald Trump. I love it. Scott let you're the last one.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Go.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Scott from Bill voting for Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Fifty two year old veteran works at oil and gas
and that's why
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air. The following feature
has been rated R. It is intended for mature audiences.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I just wanted to say to everyone out there, I'm
no longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's official. Now you know the rest of the story.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Joyce.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You like movies about gladiators.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
What if your child get a moula fuffir shoes? Take
me on, Take me on.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Your mother was a hamster and your father's smakee of heliberry.
How much you want to make a bet?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I can proll football over the mountains.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
The Donga need food?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You kidding?
Speaker 7 (01:10):
We got some family here you not already.
Speaker 8 (01:22):
Well, so love you until tonight, then.
Speaker 9 (01:25):
One and more Bye, hell, long.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Language and.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Down with borrow and yellow don't ever have We are
loving in the city.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
And field.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Under way, all name.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Having levers, we say in this member danger. We are
(02:42):
going here and there with simple trusting in the lessons
saviors low converse, We navy strangers daving in this world
there we're always looking for the city.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yes we're listening, honestly.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
City under where.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
All say no the name, we will.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Say saying you say.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The glory and.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Love.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now we'd.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Stag come finger looking at the city where and say
still open name we will said stab.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Every seven one three nine one thousand, seven one three nine,
nine nine one thousand. It was sixteen years ago today.
And you either remember because you were in it, or
you don't and count your blessings. Hurricane Ike made landfall
(04:33):
on the Texas Gulf Coast, causing heavy heavy damage to
Galveston Island, Houston, all the way to the Louisiana coast.
Speaker 10 (04:49):
At first light, it didn't look good for the people
of Galveston. Ike was relentlessly battering the city. The San
louis Resort had a four story hole in it and
streets still flooded.
Speaker 11 (05:00):
Yeah, it was one in our living room. It was
about cash light, about three feet deep in the living room.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
Jeffrey Jordan was one of the lucky ones, rescued by
police who brought him to a makeshift shelter.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
If the token that came through the driveway, they sounded
a dump tuck to get us. We see have been
there on the water to ride in something like a
foot every five minutes.
Speaker 10 (05:19):
The owner of this house wasn't so lucky, one of
several that burned to the ground during the height of
the storm. Sarah Miller lives next door and can't tell
if her house is okay.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Am I worried about it?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I am very much worried about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
If I could swim, I'd swim over there and see.
Speaker 10 (05:36):
While at first glance the damage looked devastating, upon further inspection,
it is safe to say that most of Galveston fared
pretty well, with several exceptions. Behind me is some of
the worst damage in Galveston. Just twenty four hours ago.
This pile of rubble was a bar, a restaurant, and
a gift shop. Now it's all just piled up on
(05:58):
Sea Wall Boulevard. By late morning, the winds had dropped
significantly and so had the storm searge, allowing cleanup to begin.
Rich Matthews, the associate of Priss Galveston, Texas.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think it was during that Galveston's mayor. Was it
Light of May Remember the lesbian woman? I liked her?
Huh light of ant light Ann? What light Ann Thomas?
Something like that? I liked her. She was a spunky
little thing. She reminded me of one of those lesbian
(06:38):
ladies that lives out in the country like Cleveland or Huffman, Splendora,
in a modest little house, a couple of cats and dogs,
maybe a horse shotgun there. Votes Trump, conservative as all
(07:00):
get out, tough, not mean, not mean, mean to the
right people. But wants you to know, don't think just
because I'm a Lesbo that I don't listen to your
show and love everything you do. I like that that
kind of person. So I went to see my mom
yesterday in the middle of the afternoon when we finished
(07:21):
the morning show.
Speaker 11 (07:23):
And.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I'm driving up on my parents and around the corner
from where we live is I'm not going to say
their name, but it's a family that I grew up with.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
And the.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Youngest in the family was a girl named Missy and
she was in my grade. And this poor girl. I
look back now, but when you say somebody is so fat,
how fat is She's as fat as Missy. And then
let's say the last name. And this girl was fat
from the time we were in kindergart well, I didn't
go there in kindergarten for the time we were in
(08:02):
second grade on and I think back now, how awful
do that have to be? Growing up. But this family,
they were mechanics in Texas road construction workers, like they
were the guy to hold a flag or put out
the tart. And they had three old, raggedy trailers on
the property. And you know a lot of people when
(08:25):
they think of a mobile home, they have the wrong idea.
I mean, these are raggedy trailers with just a little
block for you to step up on before you go
in there. Trash all over, just poor, poor, poor people.
And when I was growing up, our whole area was Democratic,
and now that whole area votes Trump. And I'm pulling
in to see my parents, and just before I get
(08:47):
to my parents' house, I passed their house and there's
about ten Trump signs out front, and I almost stopped
and took a photo, and I said, that's how things
have changed.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
To see what's going on in my cousin Michael Verry show,
and this is my damn country.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I thought of this culture, this is mine.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Carlisle writes, I'm a former hippie, black American served two
years felony probation for flag desecration. I will vote for
Trump for a third time and Republicans down the ballot.
The economy foreign affairs and my country. I don't trust democrats.
I don't trust many Republicans. I appreciate Trump's fortitude and
(09:30):
matter of factness. Thank you, Carlile to the phone lines,
we go. Is that Quinn that owns the boot and
workwear company?
Speaker 11 (09:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Huh, yes, good morning, Hi Quinn, you're up? Go ahead, sweetheart?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
How are you okay? Here what I have in carl
Everybody go out. I don't care you the Democrat, you independent,
whoever you need. The global will be public again because
Kamala hair she lie every time her lips moved. Because
(10:07):
here one thing that I'm so afraid of. You know,
the well, uh, the well money to you. They started
taxes on it, started working on some Obama in the
White House and medical for all. That will scare everybody
not to be publican the American we better wake up
(10:31):
danger if she took the White House another four year?
The border wall to believe defunct, the belief this disgusting me.
You have to live in a communist party, you will
like this is communist party been passing three and a
half years, and I have told everybody that I that
(10:54):
I definitely uh. Communist party started and a half year.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'll live through it.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
I'll see through it. So we knit the wake up America.
And I am do all the paper at if I could.
And I'm gonna stary of hope, Tru. I'm gonna win,
not for Trump, for this country because I am love
this country. There is my land. There is my land.
(11:25):
I am going to try to attack everything I can.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's all I got to say, Michael Quinn, can you
do me a favor?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
What city were you born in? Again?
Speaker 8 (11:40):
I am born in Chow Duck, which is Vietnam, South Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, I wasn't sure. I thought I remembered you telling
me you were born in North Vietnam and you had
to leave and go No. No, well you can't control born.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Quinn.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Could you do me a favor, as a special favor?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Would you say basically what you just said in Vietnamese?
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Oh my god, you know, Michael, I have not stick
vitness in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It'll come naturally. Just relaxed, Quinn, relax, take it to breath.
I'm not going to conjugate your verbes. I'm kind of
a mazing when it comes to my Vietnamese verb conjugation
and punctuation. But in this case, I'm going to let
all that go. I want you to relax and just
do your best and and say what you just said
in Vietnamese.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Here we go, Okay, doing that cho do Oh, Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Land is your land and this land is my land.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Dug duck, New York.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yeah, redood.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Water taking no name now?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
The I broke with drump cannot I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You were doing well. You were doing well, Quinn, keep.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Going, but by all the Vietnamese they do spit endless.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I have to, I know, but I want a little more.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Come on, knee kikne uh now Cole Vietnam big row
maybey Vietnam bra broke for jumps. Oh my goodness, knows
(13:42):
all I can make?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
All right, Quin, I want you to do me a favor.
Bring that down, rem Will you say uh something really
nice about our show and then say the Michael Berry Show,
like just you know I love the show because or whatever,
just whatever you can say and Vietnamese, just don't cuss
and we'll use it as a stinker.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Here we go, Okay, three ton Michael Berry, good show
on fulklum, and I encour everybody listen to Michael Berry.
He's a wonderful They have a wonderful show, and I
(14:20):
love his show.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Thank you listen.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
He showed ely morning.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Thank you, Joel, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Sixty six years old and I'm broking for Trump. I
was born in California. Moved to Texas as soon as
I could. I worked for the oil company in Houston,
and I'm a retired pilot. My father, Stilipino, was born
in this phil teams. He joined the US Navy in
(14:56):
fifty five, went to Vietnams as a corman sixty six
seven to one seven. He loved this country. I joined
the Air, of course after high school. In seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
We lost his call. Unfortunately. I love hearing people's stories.
I love love love because each person is a unique journey.
It's an overused term, but it's true. It is true.
It is a journey. You know, if you read the
Odyssey and the great story of Odysseus going off to
(15:31):
war and then coming back a changed man. In his nostos,
his nostalgia, his remembering of from where he came and
what it was going to be, and the temptations he
would face on his return journey. I love the thought of,
you know, as we think about our lives. And there's
(15:56):
a wonderful movie called in English. It's called Run, Lola Run.
It's a German film and I watch it every few
years and it has such a powerful message. It's a
young lady who uh, well, I don't want to ruin
the story, but basically one turn to the right or
to the left, stopping instead of going going, instead of
(16:18):
stopping those things. How that can alter your life in
unimaginable ways that you never could have foreseen. You know,
I think to myself people that I first met the
first time, and how I happened by chance to meet them.
You meet so many people that you never remember that
(16:41):
you met, and there's nothing wrong with that. But you
meet a person who offers you a job, or you
meet a person who introduces you, or who invites you
for a drink, and you go to their house and
when you're there you meet their sister and you end
up marrying her. Or you have a colleague and y'all
(17:03):
go for a drink and his brother shows up, and
twenty years later that's your best friend in the world.
And the colleague. You don't even know anymore. What if
you hadn't gone for that drink, how would things have changed? Well,
it means you wouldn't have gone on that fishing trip
to Alaska with your best friend who you met through
the guy that you went to for the dream, because
he was the one who went on the fishing trips
(17:23):
to Alaska. Or you wouldn't have gone to the Texans game,
in which case you wouldn't have sat next to the
guy who would end up being your best employee in
building your business and ended up buying it from you.
Just those little bitty, those little steps along the journey.
Some of them are our brilliant decisions and hard work,
and some of them are seemingly just pure chance or
it's a god thing. And I just love hearing those
(17:47):
stories the Michael Berry Show. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
It's a damn shame.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. Oh my god,
what is happening in there? I add my head down,
my eyes closed, jamming along, and I looked up across
the glass and Ramone had his shirt out looking out
(18:16):
the window, and he's using his shirt like a like
a fan towel. What did the Steelers with a terrible towel?
And he's whipping it and have mercy? What is going
on in this place? I feel like the principal on
the last day of school where you got to come
over last me. Oh, guys, it's the last day before summer.
(18:39):
Let's have a good time, but let's not make a
mistake when somebody has to come back to summer school.
Mister Coral so full of it. Ain't nobody coming to
summer school for cutting up on the last day? Good grief?
Is that all he's got in his quiver? He could
threaten to give me licks, but it didn't work the
other two hundred times since year he did. Oh, let's go,
(19:04):
Roy Dan, Michael Martin, Scott, Roy, you're up.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Good morning, Mike, Yes, sir, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Roy.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are you Hispanic?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yes? Am?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I think forty percent of the roys uh today who
are under the age of seventy or Hispanic? All of
a suddenly, Moore, Well, I don't know what it is
over seventy. I'm just telling you under seventy what you got?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
My man? Yeah? Actually, I'm over here in Forestville, Texas.
I can't showed to kay yas in Corpus Christy on
TV anyway. Are you always talking about Helena what's her name? Judge?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh, Lena Hidalgo l and uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
And the mayor who's the mayor now.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
John Whitmyer. No, he's going to be the congressman.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Okay, my tuiit to this. Another name I always.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Here is Ronnie Lewis, Rodney Ellis, Ruddy Ellis.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Oh Elis who see in the way he's so powerful?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He he's like the boss. So he's he's like the
kind of like the mob boss, political boss Richard Daley
of Chicago. He runs everything. He's smarter than the rest
of them. He's very smart.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Okay, what's this? What's this title?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
His title?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
But see this that that's where in the mafia. You
gotta be careful because sometimes guys have a title that
doesn't reflect who they are. He he's a precinct commissioner.
There's four precinct commissioners there. The Harris County is split
into four regions. He's a precinct one commissioner, and then
there is the county judge, who's the fifth commissioner and
(21:02):
is kind of the overseer. But he put his person
in and she can't handle the job, and she knows that,
and he put her in there, and then he runs
things through her. She's the puppet. It's sort of like
the people who run the White House and Biden gets
to sit in the seat.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
You my mind. I was just going to mention there
was somebody telling me what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No, this happens a lot. So so Rodney was he
came up through the Mickey through the Mickey Leland coaching tree,
and then he went to be a state senator and
he spent three decades as a state senator. And he's
a lawyer, and he got rich as a lawyer because
(21:46):
what happens is anytime there was a public deal. So
if a stadium was built, we built a lot of stadiums.
If if a big project, if a big bond float
was being put out the city, the County Metro Houston
Community College hid when they do a thing like this,
they bring in there's a group of lawyers that come
in that are the legal team that puts this deal together.
(22:11):
And they have to have a minority component. So what
happens is there are certain guys in Houston who are
famous for being black and being very likable and being
very smart. And these guys, there's a there's probably twenty
who qualify and they're not dumb per se, but their
(22:36):
intellect is never challenged because they're brought in on deals
and they get a percentage of the deal for being black.
But it's a great thing because you get in on
a lot of deals because let's say Metro is going
to you know, a couple hundred million dollars or City
of Houston or the county or whatever it's going to be.
(22:58):
If it's going to be a billion dollar deal, there's
millions of dollars of legal fees. So they get in
on this thing and they don't really have any costs,
they don't have associates, they're not actually doing any work.
They're just the professional black guy who collects on it.
And then you become known as the guy that gets
in on all these deals.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
On Michael Bay Good Show on both Lumps.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Until all Right, I got a wild hair. We're going
to do an event in October. I don't know when
it'll be, maybe October eighteenth. We probably need a month.
I think we will do a band, and I'll do
(23:50):
a question and answer to start. We never do that
in Houston. What just happened? Oh big announcement? Well, I'm
just it's on a whim. I might back out of
it because I normally.
Speaker 11 (24:06):
Do that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Just thinking out loud. So these things tend to overtake.
I don't want I don't want it to have a
ticket cost. I don't want to raise money for it.
So here's what I'm gonna do. One person write a
check for twenty five thousand dollars. You'll be the signature sponsor,
as long as you're not already in a category of
(24:32):
a show sponsor. I have because I can't do that.
It wouldn't be fair to a show sponsor. But if
you own an oil and gas company, or you own
whatever else, we're going to do it at twenty nine
to twenty Roadhouse. I'll call Kelly Burmeister. He's always great
about it, and it'll be free. Just pay for your
(24:54):
own booze and that'll give me the money to hire
a band, hire Rico. Let Rico go, hire a team,
hire security and parking so we can get people in
and out. And don't email me yet. Please don't email
me yet that you want to come, because it just
it's just more emails and I can't keep up with it,
and then you won't know whether to send it again.
(25:16):
So if I get one person who says I have
a twenty five thousand dollars check waiting for you right now,
have Emily come pick it up and we get that.
I'll get a band and I'll pay all the expenses,
and we'll have the food. We'll either have twenty nine
to twenty provide the food, or we'll do We'll have
a barbecue team or something like that, cook and provide it.
(25:38):
I want it to be all free. I want a
fool with all the money aspect of it. I want
it to be a Trump rally. And that's not to
say Trump is coming. Their schedule is booked. We will
invite Ted Cruz, we will invite Mike Knox, we will
invite Dan Simons. I'm not going to have a bunch
of people get on stage and give a bunch of speeches.
They can be there, they can shake hands, they can
(26:00):
put their signs out. We'll do all of that, and
then there will be a concert. And when I give speeches,
when I do events outside of Houston. I normally get
up and I'll speak for a little bit and then
I take questions from the audience, because that's what people
tend to enjoy more than a standard stock speech. I
(26:20):
will do that if I'm asked, if it's a business
group or whatever else. But I will do that this
time because we rarely do it, and people often ask
for it, and I just always feel weird because there's
too many people in the audience I already know, so
it feels like that's the kind of thing you do
when you're in New York or Oregon or Florida. But
I will do it this time, and because we haven't
done it in a long time. And basically, it'll just
(26:43):
be a come out and have a good time and
wear your Trump gear, and I will ask the campaign
to give us a bunch of yard signs and will
act foolish and it'll be a good time. So don't
send me an email if you are interested in attending.
That will be a time to do that, and I
won't be able to hold on to those right now.
(27:04):
But if there's one person who'll write a check for
twenty five thousand, that will cover all the expenses that way.
I got Kelly covered at twenty nine to twenty for
the event venue, I've got my band covered, and I
got all the expenses covered. And the only thing you
will have to cover will be your drinks. And we
can't do free drinks because there's a liability issue if
you own the venue. Otherwise I'd get that donated too.
(27:26):
So that's all I'm looking for at twenty five thousand
dollars check. I will announce on Monday what the date
will be. What would you rather a Friday or a Saturday?
You never come anyway? People love to meet you. It's
so weird Ramone coming? Who cares if Ramone's coming? I
don't care if he's coming, what's he gonna add? Dingn
Stiller's I'm ding. That's all he's gonna do. Anyway. He's
(27:48):
gonna ding and take an out? And what does that
add to the event? Is Ramone here?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
I'm here in the f I'm here. You are in
front of the TSARP Tom I am a big deal.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Is Ramone here? I like meat Ramon. Ramone doesn't exist.
He's a figment of my imagination. Who is that? Why
is Emily here?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Early?
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Tell her dad, I got a gig for him, because
they're going to be They're either going to be the
opener or the main attraction. We'll just have to see.
Oh he's busy that weekend. He doesn't even know what
the weekend is yet. I love it. All right, let's
go through these calls. I will get you some details.
Two things. If you are a show sponsor, you will
(28:35):
get tickets. Don't worry. Every one of our show sponsors
will get tickets. I'll make sure of that. If you're
somebody that knows me and you've been a supporter of
the fan of the show, you don't have to rise
to the Sandy and Rachel and Chance McLean level. But
if you are a contributor to the show, Bobby Crumpley
in one way or another, a frequenter of our show sponsors,
(28:58):
you will. I'm going to try to get I don't
know what his capacity is, it's probably a thousand. We
have a bit of pent up interest because we haven't
done a gig in a long time, so I suspect
we're gonna and there's a lot of excitement over the election.
But I will announce that next week and then I'm
not going to talk about it much after that, because
I'm not trying to raise the money to cover the expenses.
That's too much pressure and everybody else gets bored to
(29:19):
hearing me talk about that. But all that will be
next week. I just need my twenty five thousand dollars
donor and that will be. That'll cover the expenses when
we move on after that. I was going to tell
you one other thing, and I can't remember what it was.
I'll think of it later. All right, you got ten
seconds eats. We got to be fast, Dan, you're old,
(29:39):
Michael Berry show go.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
How are you doing?
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Michael?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Good? Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm assure you hate disabled that.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
But I got something you need to go to Bach
for me for you ever heard anything about the boy
Scout sexual abuse lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
A little bit? Dan, send me an email. I'll read
it on the air next week. Michael, I will, I
promise you. I'm just short on time. Michael, you're up.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Go Hi. I'm a sixty five year mentally and spisically.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Just say, well, man, I'm voting for Trump because I
have to.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Being on music for many years.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I can see his voice here, his voice, his face, his.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
He loves our country yes he does, and the others don't.
Mark ten, you're up. Go well, Michael Martin Kelly here.
I'm sixty nine really from England, betid, I'm voting for
Donald Trump. I love it. Scott let you're the last one.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Go.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Scott from Bill voting for Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Fifty two year old veteran works at oil and gas
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!