September 30, 2024 • 32 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time, lucking load. So Michael
Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
If it sounds country man, that's what it is. It's
a country song.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, okay, we were one two three farm, one two
three farm. I took't my harpoon out of my dirty
red vandana and was blowing side while Byby sang the blues.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, I woke up Sunday morning with noid to hold.
My hands didn't hurt, and the beer I had.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
For breakfast wasn't bad, so I.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Had one more for dessert. I was a sailor.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I was born upon the time.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
With the sea.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
I did buy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I stilled a schooler around the horn of Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I went aloft to the world and means a little blue.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And when the arms broke off, this if that I
got killed, But I am living still. You ask me
if I'm happy now, that's good as any joke of her.
It seems since I seen you last, I've done forgot
(01:39):
the meaning of the words. If happiness is empty rooms
and drinking in the afternoon, well.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I suppose I'm happy as.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
A clown coming lay down by my side, kill me
and morning life.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All I'm taking is your time. Help me make it
through the night.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now you don't set outside out terry. I get my
way because.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's my time to fly all my forever.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Hell the party, come by, hell me.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Please don't tell me that was a story. Please don't
tell me the story.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Chris Christofferson has passed eighty eight years old. What a life?
What I life? You know, there are people who've written
more songs, sang more songs, one more Grammys, appeared in
more movies, done more in the military. But I don't
(03:18):
know that I can think of anyone who had a
broader skill set and sense of accomplishment than Chris Christopherson,
Audie Murphy, more celebrated military, more celebrated military career, movie career,
(03:42):
but to my knowledge, didn't pen or sing songs. Not
that it has to be a competition, just to put
into perspective when you use the term renaissance man or
renaissance man if you like, I can't think of anybody
who more embodies that than Chris Christofferson born in Brownsville, Texas,
(04:06):
June twenty second, nineteen thirty six. Studied writing at Pomona
College in California, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
That's a really, really big deal. Got his Masters from
Oxford in nineteen sixty, came home, joined the army. He
(04:28):
was assigned to teach literature, and he said that sounded
like hell. Nineteen sixty five, he visited Nashville. Now the
story goes, I don't know if this is true or not,
but it is an often told story, told so often
that it might as well be true. That Chris Christofferson
(04:49):
was a helicopter pilot in I believe it was Lafayette
for a company I think was called Phi, but I
could be wrong. Somebody out there will no and that
he took the company's helicopter and flew to Nashville and
landed at Johnny Cash's house, which is what's it called
(05:11):
Hickory Hickory something. It burned down at one point visited
Johnny Cash to pitch him on some songs. I don't
know if that's true, but I hope that is true.
Within two weeks of his visit to Nashville, he resigned
from the army, moved to Nashville, and started writing songs.
(05:37):
He would win three Grammys of them, two of them
as duets with Rita Coolidge, to whom he was married.
He was also quite sex symbol back in the day.
And the third was helped Me Make It Through the Night,
which there's a fascinating story behind he stopped loving her today.
(06:00):
It took George Jones two years to get that song recorded,
and Billy Cheryl told the story that he kept singing
it to the tune of help Me Make It Through
the Night, which was an established hit at the time,
and Billy Cheryl would say, you're just singing that, saying
we can't do that, And then of course they went
(06:23):
on to bet. Billy Cheryl said this is going to
be a number one hit he had had a hit
in seven years, and George Jones said, I'll bet you
it's not. Well George Jones was all too happy to
be wrong. It was a song of the Year two
years in a row, i think, and eighty one. But
Chris Christofferson would go on to be one of those
(06:44):
guys to having done all of this, would then go
into acting. He would play Pat Garrett, you would play
Billy the Kid. He'd play Lone Star the whole Bladeid franchise,
which was a big deal at the time. And if
you've seen A Star is Born with Brad Cooper and
(07:08):
what's her name? Lady Gaga. That's a remake of a
film he made with Barbara Streisand in nineteen seventy six
that was I think he won a Grammy for Original Score.
I'm not positive on that. And then later I think
same year or the next year, he would join up
(07:31):
with Johnny cash Waylon Jennings and the only now surviving
member of the Highwayman, Willie Nelson, to create the greatest
supergroup of all time. Well, why are you cocking your head?
You're going to say, the Traveling Willberries. So that's why
this is I'm glad you did that, because this gives
(07:52):
me a teachable moment. The Traveling Willberry's was the greatest
collection to record as a supergroup. Yes, that is true.
That is that is the greatest collection of talent to
record as a supergroup. The body of work they put out,
I wouldn't you wouldn't try to argue that there was
(08:12):
anything of note there that just happens to be a
collection of amazing guys. The Highwaymen actually recorded music that
stands the test of time on its own as the
music they recorded together and not separately. October ninth, twenty sixteen,
(08:36):
Chris Christofferson played the Redneck Country Club. It was a
it was a It was a big deal to get
him to play there. And I told told him back,
told his wife backstage my dream to have a beer
with him, and his wife went out to introduce him,
and I mean I went out to introduce him and
told that story, and his wife said, here, here's a beer.
And at the end I got drink of beer. For
those of you who were there to share that moment
(08:57):
with him, that was cool. Rest in peace, Chris Christofferson,
We were you. Robert Earl Keane tells a wonderful story
about the about going to a Willie concert and his
(09:20):
car got burned up, and so they bring him to
meet Willie to kind of make it all okay, and
WILLI says, I gotta go. I want to jam with
Leon and Russell. And Robert Earl tells the story self
deprecating to the end that his girl meets up with
some adonnis looking dude to hear him describe it, so
(09:44):
he loses his car and his girl and there he
is at the festival, no way home. But it all
turned out okay, because the Highwaymen recorded his song twenty
years later and that was The Road Goes On Forever,
which was which was It's a great story. It's all
(10:10):
in the storytelling, as it always is. Could you hear that?
I'm not staate? Par Let me see huh? Do you
hear it? Deadlines tomorrow is the vice presidential debate jd. Vance,
who has been a wonderful, wonderful addition to the Trump ticket.
He has really brought some intellectual rigor to the campaign,
(10:39):
which is why they keep which is why they won't
cover him. They tried to first make him weird and
that didn't work out, and now they won't cover him
because he's so good. Just as they don't cover Trump's
rallies anymore the way they used to because the energy
is too high. America is ready for them. You see
(11:01):
the Georgia Alabama game, the crowd was going wild for
Donald Trump. It was just amazing. He always has such
a good cast of characters. He had John Daily with him,
who wouldn't want to. I mean, he won a certain
number of votes that he didn't have already just by
(11:23):
having John Daily there. Because a lot of people think, man,
I love to hang out with John Daly. I mean,
that's the guy that for some people, that's the guy
in the group that people would most want to hang
out with, because you know, at the end of the night,
you're sitting on the back porch smoking cigars. He's barefoot,
(11:43):
and he walks out, takes the ball, a cigarette dangling
out of his mouth, and a beer, and takes the
ball out of his pocket because you know, John Dailey
always has a golf ball in his pocket, and he
takes a seven iron and he throws the ball up,
tosses it up and as it's coming down, just whax
it and hits it further than you can with your driver,
(12:07):
and then just walks back and sits down like nothing
ever happened. I mean, that's just probably what it's like
hanging out with John Daly that just just did it
and falls asleep in his chair. And that's John Daly.
Somewhere some little ladies going, well, you know what he's
gonna die from at Michael. He don't die from Matt.
Well he may, but he's having a good time and isn't.
And that's really why I want to hang out with him,
(12:29):
not because he's going to live to be one hundred.
We want to live out, hang out with him because
he's having a good time. Kid Rock was with him,
Mike Tyson was with him. I can't remember who else
was with him. So tomorrow night is the vice presidential debate.
The story goes that Richard Simmons is scared to death
(12:49):
over debating JD. Vance. They're saying, he's very, very anxious,
very anxious. He's going to come out and he's going
to wave to every We're so happy we're here. So hay,
I'm here. I'm timp on, tim, I'm so happy I'm here.
Good grief. We've got audio play you a little while.
(13:11):
Doug Mhoff, who's Kamala Harris's beard husband, apparently she apparently
this reporter said to him that he is redefining American masculinity. No, no,
that's not. He is a poster child for testosterone replacement.
(13:35):
He also, by the way, it's not that he doesn't
ever like women. He knocked up his daughter's nanny. That
was his first marriage. Can you imagine if Trump had
done that, how much would you be hearing about that?
So tomorrow night, eight o'clock Central, that's too late. Was
(13:56):
this right, eight o'clock Central should be seven o'clock Central.
It's the first and only debate they'll have CBS News,
So of course we're going to reward CBS for what
they did with Trump last time. We're all going to
be so upset later when they come on and pile
on to JD Vance and ask Tim Waltz how he
(14:16):
got to be so awesome, and we're all going to
be so shocked about it. Nora O'Donnell will be the moderator,
and Margaret Brennan. Okay, so it's exactly what happened before
is going to happen again, and we're going to run
around screaming like chickens with a this is horrible. They're terrible.
He had the information at yeah, he did. They gave
(14:38):
him the questions and they practice their answers and then
they trash JD vans. Why do our folks keep agreeing
to do this? No opening statements, ninety minutes, two breaks
of four minutes each, no live audience. I love that
because a live audience is just an opportunity to put
(15:00):
a boot track, a laugh track, a cheer track for
their side for each question. The candidate who was asked
the question will have two minutes to answer. The other
candidate will be allowed two minutes to respond. Following that,
each candidate will have one minute for additional rebuttals. The
moderators may, at their discretion give candidates an additional minute
(15:22):
each to continue a topic. Why do we agree to
this nonsense? The moderator may at their discretion and later
we're going to all the moderators. They weren't fair, They
were fair. You're a dumb ass. Why do we agree
to do this? The moderators may at their discretion and
(15:45):
what would be the basis upon which they would exercise
that discretion. At the end, candidates will have two minutes
each for closing statements. Coin toss was held on September
twenty sixth. JD. Vance won the toss. Like it to
go second, So he will have the final word to
the extent it matters, To the extent it matters, what JD.
(16:10):
E Vance has to say in his closing statement will
be strong. You can count on that he will have
written it himself, something that Richard Simmons and Kamala don't do.
He will have written it himself. We will have prepared
himself for the entire debate, and he will deliver it,
and it will be solid, and most people will have
gone to bed, and it will be a much smaller
(16:32):
audience than a presidential debate, So we're not talking about
a lot of people that night. So going last as
an advantage, sure, you'd always rather go last. But what
will matter is whether the next morning we do a
(16:54):
good job of taking what he says and distributing that.
We know the media is not going to do their job,
so we have to do their job for them. CBS
News reserves the right to mute the candidate's microphones, but
otherwise they will be hot. So they're going to mute JD.
(17:15):
Vancy's microphone if he responds to him Waltz. They're not
going to mute Richard Simmons, and our side agreed to it.
So there, just there, you.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Gods by IRS agency, you believe it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The Michael Berry Show, I'd rather not have that endorsement
in Chickens. You just tuned in. Chris Christofferson has passed
eighty eight. Our tribute him today somewhere that happening over
the weekend. Speaking of our gatherings, I'm going to use
(17:53):
the word gathering we are having a gathering on October twelfth.
Don't think of it as a concert. You'll start annoying
me with a bunch of questions about who's going to
play and when they're going to play, and what songs
are they going to play? And while they play this song?
And can you get this band to play in what
if he can get Saturday October twelfth at twenty nine
to twenty Roadhouse. You must have a ticket, but they
(18:15):
are free thanks to our sponsors, which is Nest Construction
out of Liberty County, Larry Ness and his lovely wife,
wonderful family, great people. I asked him for their logo
so that we could print it and put it up
and I could pay tribute to him and hopefully get
him some business out of the deal. And he's told Emily,
(18:39):
he said, Emily, we build banks.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
That's what we do.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's all we do. We have more work and we
can handle. Tell Michael, I really appreciate it. But we're
just supporting what he does and we're looking forward to
being there. But he doesn't have to promote anything, no website,
no nothing. That he said, if I took on more
business than I have right now, I'd have to hire
more people, and that's just more headaches. I love Larry
(19:04):
Ness think I first met him when he came on
our mar A Lago, our first mar A Lago trip.
One of the banks that he does construction for is
also a sponsor, and that is Texas Tradition's Bank. Actually,
you know what, I don't know if he does do
their work. That came through Kelly Burmaster at twenty nine.
(19:25):
But thank you to the folks at Texas Traditions Bank
for being a sponsor of the event. If you go
into one of their locations today or you bank there,
thank them for their support. Texas Traditions Bank. To get tickets,
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com or
(19:46):
directly Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com. Make sure you
use the number twenty nine to twenty in the subject
line and in the body of your email. Get to
it quickly, don't bury that eight paragraphs in, and Emily
will take care of getting tickets. I think we're about
three quarters through, so we are running short on space,
(20:08):
so do that sooner rather than later. Please put twenty
nine to twenty and then put your request. If I
know you, you were an RCC member, we worked together,
we were neighbors. Whatever put that in the opening sentence
doesn't mean you won't get tickets otherwise. Just if that
happens to be the case, please please do that. You know,
with the storms we've been through over the last few years,
(20:31):
and I say last few years, going back to two
thousand and one, although you can go back to Carla
and Alicia, an old timer around here can tell you
you know what year or more importantly, I can tell
you what year, but can tell you what happened and
where they were. With the storms we've had, this Hurricane
Helene is it's bad. The death toll from Hurricane Helene
(20:57):
stands at ninety homes being washed away. Joe Biden was
asked yesterday if there's any more help from the federal
government and he said no, no, we've given him everything. Well,
they just gave almost ten billion dollars to Ukraine a
couple days before that, So maybe if North Carolina would
claim that their Kiev, it might help it. Really, it
(21:21):
breaks your heart to see this the story. This is
North Carolina's Governor Roy.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Cooper, devastating catastrophe of historic proportions. People that I talked
to in western North Carolina say they.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Have never seen anything like this.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Our number one priority right now is getting people out
and getting supplies in. There are search and rescue teams
from nineteen states, from the federal government, from our National Guard,
from our state, and local teams who are out there
rescuing people as we speak. The biggest problem is getting
(22:01):
to them because more than two hundred and eighty roads
are clothes. Many counties and areas where people are our landlocked.
Cell phones and internet service is down, so we know
there are a lot of families and friends that are
worried about people, and they've been about one thousand requests
(22:22):
for that two one one to report if you are
looking for someone. But we've been pushing the cell phone
companies and they've been working very hard. We've been finding
ways to help them get in to get cell phone
service back up. That is beginning to make progress in
coming back. The more the cell phones come back, the
(22:44):
more we will know where people are in what the
situation is the same with power. In the meantime, food
and water is critical because people are cut off and
it's very difficult and if not impossible, to get trucks
in to some of these places, so we're having to
do it by air. There is a massive effort underway
(23:07):
to coordinate and make sure that we're getting supplies and
water to people because it's a life and death situation here.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's rough. It is rough. You learn a lot about
a community when you go through things like that. I
think of all the things I witnessed during a time
like that. You also learn a lot about what's important
and what isn't. You also start noticing what kind of
people help their neighbors, and you notice that some people
are people who get helped and some people are people
(23:45):
who help. Two types of people in this world and
an interesting it's a fascinating thing. It reviews a lot.
Oh Joyce the stage of Sunnyside from just to inform
me she's on. I'm sorry, I did not know that
we'll have some preaching coming up for ballads, but.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That actually might be one of the smartest.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Systems the Michael Berry Show, because.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
If you're a baseball than you probably already know this,
but you want to see some high stakes baseball today,
this early in the postseason that has not begun. There
is a potential doubleheader today between the Mets and the Braves,
(24:36):
and it is it's going to determine who makes playoffs
and who doesn't, which adds a great deal of intensity.
I love playoff baseball. I enjoy the slow, one hundred
and sixty two game season, but that's a different experience
playoff baseball. When it comes down to it's a deciding game.
(24:58):
That's when you get that intensity. That's good. That starts
at noon today. You can go check it out yourself.
Last we spoke to Joyce, and this is fresh on
my mind because Nandita and I went We stopped and
bred them on the way up, and then we went
to Austin and then came back from Austin down seventy
(25:21):
one and cut over from seventy one at Bass Drop
on twenty one over to two ninety. And that's a
nice drive. That's a nice little cutoff a little byway.
There's there's hardly anything on the road. You got some
nice undulation to the road. It's a good quality of pavement.
I kind of like stuff like that. But it's just trees,
(25:44):
just beautiful. It feels like you're up in the Tyler area.
That drive reminds me of driving through the area around Tyler,
which I think is one of the prettiest parts of
the state that never gets talked about. Then we made
it over to at Page and then start down southeast,
stopped in and brought him again and drove around that
(26:06):
area a little bit and then came came home. But
I tell you all that because we were driving in
her SUV and that AC went out. Yeah, yeah, so
there was that and poor thing. She has the thickest
black hair you can imagine, and so the side she
(26:30):
was on, the sun was coming in and the AC
goes out, and I keep going back and forth between
blowing the air and turning it off because the area
you're blowing is hot and you're just doing anything to
try to make your life better. And I reached something
touched the top of her head and it was just
like it was on fire because her hair is so
thick and that sun was coming through and she put oh,
(26:50):
it was just rough. So we had to drive with
the windows down like it was the thirteen hundreds, because
that's how they traveled back in the moment with the
windows down. They turned the windows down anyway. So last
week checked in with Joyce. Her AC was out and
we can't have that. Joyce is in her nineties. Joyce
is a treasure. So I put the word out. I
knew somebody would step up, and a number of you offered.
(27:13):
But Joyce is back. Hopefully she's cool. Joyce. Have you
cooled off? Sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Oh uh, I can't even I don't even have worst express.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
But I'm back in the saddle again. But I just
want to talk about the service that I received last week.
And you know I'm old, and I forget the name,
So I'm going to say, I'm going to talk about
number one, the lead technician.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And this was a young man and I have.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Never dealt with anymore professionalism than I dealt with last week.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
He was so nice.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
And then the others who were said very very nice.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
They just wanted to know that if you had any questions,
let me know.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And and it was just phenomenal. My littlecabulary won't give
me the words to express my appreciation. It was just phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
That's I don't have words to express.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well, you know, that's it. What's interesting is any time
I put out the call, which is why I can't
do it every day, people wish. You know, people want
to be the next choice. They want something free, you
want something done for free. They want something donated or
done for them, and I just I can't do them
all because if I would eventually wear out my welcome.
(28:45):
But when I put out the call, our people are
so responsive. The person who made that happen his name
is Jim Dutton and he's got several companies. He does
a weekend show on this station k t H in Houston,
and he's very involved with the Pasadena livestock showing Rodeo.
I think he's on the board out there, but that's
(29:07):
a passion of his. But mostly he's just a good guy.
So I had my buddy, Matt Biss, but Matt's a
small shop. It's just him and a couple of guys,
and he wanted to do it. And I said, Matt,
that is a that is too it's too hard for
you to donate if it needs a new union, it's
too hard for you to donate that at your size.
But I appreciate you. If it was a basic repair
(29:28):
of fine. There were several folks who reached out, but
Jim Dunton did, and I knew he would do a
good job for you, and I'm glad he did. That
means we can get you back to preaching, because when
you called in, I was hoping we'd get Could you
just for two minutes tell us what's going on with
Kamala Harris?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Oh my god, I really wanted to.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Talk to my black sisters, black women. Pol Harris, are
you all's crazy? This woman is worse than Bie and
look what happened to him. And remember blacks Biden what
(30:13):
became president because of black participation. And here you have
the breathness to tell me that I'm supposed.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
To uh be for her because this what these are?
Tish black woman.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Let me tell you this woman, when she was running
for something else, she was not black. I remember her
with an Indian lady and they were talking about Indian cooking.
She was an Indian then, but now says she won't
these stupid blacks both for her. All of a sudden
she like collar gey greens and fried chicken. How long
(30:55):
black people? Uh, we're going to allow this happened? You
know when I see old car Winders, Madam president, let
me tell you, black people, if this woman didn't have
these degrees in front of her name. They would be
picking her up in a.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
In a white coat. They would have a white coat
over to come get her. And we have the name
to walk around here talking about black willing Thort. I
cause her captain commer.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And she had this man that she's with.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You know, it seemed like a vaudeville act that it
looks like a mistrel show. To come on.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
She's brnning and he's.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Waving and we're going to Hell at a hand basket
and to the black community.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Look around, and I spent this many times, my look
around in our communities, bad nice communities, Black communities and
their ghatos today
It's that time time time time, lucking load. So Michael
Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
If it sounds country man, that's what it is. It's
a country song.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, okay, we were one two three farm, one two
three farm. I took't my harpoon out of my dirty
red vandana and was blowing side while Byby sang the blues.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, I woke up Sunday morning with noid to hold.
My hands didn't hurt, and the beer I had.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
For breakfast wasn't bad, so I.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Had one more for dessert. I was a sailor.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I was born upon the time.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
With the sea.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
I did buy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I stilled a schooler around the horn of Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I went aloft to the world and means a little blue.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And when the arms broke off, this if that I
got killed, But I am living still. You ask me
if I'm happy now, that's good as any joke of her.
It seems since I seen you last, I've done forgot
(01:39):
the meaning of the words. If happiness is empty rooms
and drinking in the afternoon, well.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I suppose I'm happy as.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
A clown coming lay down by my side, kill me
and morning life.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All I'm taking is your time. Help me make it
through the night.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now you don't set outside out terry. I get my
way because.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's my time to fly all my forever.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Hell the party, come by, hell me.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Please don't tell me that was a story. Please don't
tell me the story.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Chris Christofferson has passed eighty eight years old. What a life?
What I life? You know, there are people who've written
more songs, sang more songs, one more Grammys, appeared in
more movies, done more in the military. But I don't
(03:18):
know that I can think of anyone who had a
broader skill set and sense of accomplishment than Chris Christopherson,
Audie Murphy, more celebrated military, more celebrated military career, movie career,
(03:42):
but to my knowledge, didn't pen or sing songs. Not
that it has to be a competition, just to put
into perspective when you use the term renaissance man or
renaissance man if you like, I can't think of anybody
who more embodies that than Chris Christofferson born in Brownsville, Texas,
(04:06):
June twenty second, nineteen thirty six. Studied writing at Pomona
College in California, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
That's a really, really big deal. Got his Masters from
Oxford in nineteen sixty, came home, joined the army. He
(04:28):
was assigned to teach literature, and he said that sounded
like hell. Nineteen sixty five, he visited Nashville. Now the
story goes, I don't know if this is true or not,
but it is an often told story, told so often
that it might as well be true. That Chris Christofferson
(04:49):
was a helicopter pilot in I believe it was Lafayette
for a company I think was called Phi, but I
could be wrong. Somebody out there will no and that
he took the company's helicopter and flew to Nashville and
landed at Johnny Cash's house, which is what's it called
(05:11):
Hickory Hickory something. It burned down at one point visited
Johnny Cash to pitch him on some songs. I don't
know if that's true, but I hope that is true.
Within two weeks of his visit to Nashville, he resigned
from the army, moved to Nashville, and started writing songs.
(05:37):
He would win three Grammys of them, two of them
as duets with Rita Coolidge, to whom he was married.
He was also quite sex symbol back in the day.
And the third was helped Me Make It Through the Night,
which there's a fascinating story behind he stopped loving her today.
(06:00):
It took George Jones two years to get that song recorded,
and Billy Cheryl told the story that he kept singing
it to the tune of help Me Make It Through
the Night, which was an established hit at the time,
and Billy Cheryl would say, you're just singing that, saying
we can't do that, And then of course they went
(06:23):
on to bet. Billy Cheryl said this is going to
be a number one hit he had had a hit
in seven years, and George Jones said, I'll bet you
it's not. Well George Jones was all too happy to
be wrong. It was a song of the Year two
years in a row, i think, and eighty one. But
Chris Christofferson would go on to be one of those
(06:44):
guys to having done all of this, would then go
into acting. He would play Pat Garrett, you would play
Billy the Kid. He'd play Lone Star the whole Bladeid franchise,
which was a big deal at the time. And if
you've seen A Star is Born with Brad Cooper and
(07:08):
what's her name? Lady Gaga. That's a remake of a
film he made with Barbara Streisand in nineteen seventy six
that was I think he won a Grammy for Original Score.
I'm not positive on that. And then later I think
same year or the next year, he would join up
(07:31):
with Johnny cash Waylon Jennings and the only now surviving
member of the Highwayman, Willie Nelson, to create the greatest
supergroup of all time. Well, why are you cocking your head?
You're going to say, the Traveling Willberries. So that's why
this is I'm glad you did that, because this gives
(07:52):
me a teachable moment. The Traveling Willberry's was the greatest
collection to record as a supergroup. Yes, that is true.
That is that is the greatest collection of talent to
record as a supergroup. The body of work they put out,
I wouldn't you wouldn't try to argue that there was
(08:12):
anything of note there that just happens to be a
collection of amazing guys. The Highwaymen actually recorded music that
stands the test of time on its own as the
music they recorded together and not separately. October ninth, twenty sixteen,
(08:36):
Chris Christofferson played the Redneck Country Club. It was a
it was a It was a big deal to get
him to play there. And I told told him back,
told his wife backstage my dream to have a beer
with him, and his wife went out to introduce him,
and I mean I went out to introduce him and
told that story, and his wife said, here, here's a beer.
And at the end I got drink of beer. For
those of you who were there to share that moment
(08:57):
with him, that was cool. Rest in peace, Chris Christofferson,
We were you. Robert Earl Keane tells a wonderful story
about the about going to a Willie concert and his
(09:20):
car got burned up, and so they bring him to
meet Willie to kind of make it all okay, and
WILLI says, I gotta go. I want to jam with
Leon and Russell. And Robert Earl tells the story self
deprecating to the end that his girl meets up with
some adonnis looking dude to hear him describe it, so
(09:44):
he loses his car and his girl and there he
is at the festival, no way home. But it all
turned out okay, because the Highwaymen recorded his song twenty
years later and that was The Road Goes On Forever,
which was which was It's a great story. It's all
(10:10):
in the storytelling, as it always is. Could you hear that?
I'm not staate? Par Let me see huh? Do you
hear it? Deadlines tomorrow is the vice presidential debate jd. Vance,
who has been a wonderful, wonderful addition to the Trump ticket.
He has really brought some intellectual rigor to the campaign,
(10:39):
which is why they keep which is why they won't
cover him. They tried to first make him weird and
that didn't work out, and now they won't cover him
because he's so good. Just as they don't cover Trump's
rallies anymore the way they used to because the energy
is too high. America is ready for them. You see
(11:01):
the Georgia Alabama game, the crowd was going wild for
Donald Trump. It was just amazing. He always has such
a good cast of characters. He had John Daily with him,
who wouldn't want to. I mean, he won a certain
number of votes that he didn't have already just by
(11:23):
having John Daily there. Because a lot of people think, man,
I love to hang out with John Daly. I mean,
that's the guy that for some people, that's the guy
in the group that people would most want to hang
out with, because you know, at the end of the night,
you're sitting on the back porch smoking cigars. He's barefoot,
(11:43):
and he walks out, takes the ball, a cigarette dangling
out of his mouth, and a beer, and takes the
ball out of his pocket because you know, John Dailey
always has a golf ball in his pocket, and he
takes a seven iron and he throws the ball up,
tosses it up and as it's coming down, just whax
it and hits it further than you can with your driver,
(12:07):
and then just walks back and sits down like nothing
ever happened. I mean, that's just probably what it's like
hanging out with John Daly that just just did it
and falls asleep in his chair. And that's John Daly.
Somewhere some little ladies going, well, you know what he's
gonna die from at Michael. He don't die from Matt.
Well he may, but he's having a good time and isn't.
And that's really why I want to hang out with him,
(12:29):
not because he's going to live to be one hundred.
We want to live out, hang out with him because
he's having a good time. Kid Rock was with him,
Mike Tyson was with him. I can't remember who else
was with him. So tomorrow night is the vice presidential debate.
The story goes that Richard Simmons is scared to death
(12:49):
over debating JD. Vance. They're saying, he's very, very anxious,
very anxious. He's going to come out and he's going
to wave to every We're so happy we're here. So hay,
I'm here. I'm timp on, tim, I'm so happy I'm here.
Good grief. We've got audio play you a little while.
(13:11):
Doug Mhoff, who's Kamala Harris's beard husband, apparently she apparently
this reporter said to him that he is redefining American masculinity. No, no,
that's not. He is a poster child for testosterone replacement.
(13:35):
He also, by the way, it's not that he doesn't
ever like women. He knocked up his daughter's nanny. That
was his first marriage. Can you imagine if Trump had
done that, how much would you be hearing about that?
So tomorrow night, eight o'clock Central, that's too late. Was
(13:56):
this right, eight o'clock Central should be seven o'clock Central.
It's the first and only debate they'll have CBS News,
So of course we're going to reward CBS for what
they did with Trump last time. We're all going to
be so upset later when they come on and pile
on to JD Vance and ask Tim Waltz how he
(14:16):
got to be so awesome, and we're all going to
be so shocked about it. Nora O'Donnell will be the moderator,
and Margaret Brennan. Okay, so it's exactly what happened before
is going to happen again, and we're going to run
around screaming like chickens with a this is horrible. They're terrible.
He had the information at yeah, he did. They gave
(14:38):
him the questions and they practice their answers and then
they trash JD vans. Why do our folks keep agreeing
to do this? No opening statements, ninety minutes, two breaks
of four minutes each, no live audience. I love that
because a live audience is just an opportunity to put
(15:00):
a boot track, a laugh track, a cheer track for
their side for each question. The candidate who was asked
the question will have two minutes to answer. The other
candidate will be allowed two minutes to respond. Following that,
each candidate will have one minute for additional rebuttals. The
moderators may, at their discretion give candidates an additional minute
(15:22):
each to continue a topic. Why do we agree to
this nonsense? The moderator may at their discretion and later
we're going to all the moderators. They weren't fair, They
were fair. You're a dumb ass. Why do we agree
to do this? The moderators may at their discretion and
(15:45):
what would be the basis upon which they would exercise
that discretion. At the end, candidates will have two minutes
each for closing statements. Coin toss was held on September
twenty sixth. JD. Vance won the toss. Like it to
go second, So he will have the final word to
the extent it matters, To the extent it matters, what JD.
(16:10):
E Vance has to say in his closing statement will
be strong. You can count on that he will have
written it himself, something that Richard Simmons and Kamala don't do.
He will have written it himself. We will have prepared
himself for the entire debate, and he will deliver it,
and it will be solid, and most people will have
gone to bed, and it will be a much smaller
(16:32):
audience than a presidential debate, So we're not talking about
a lot of people that night. So going last as
an advantage, sure, you'd always rather go last. But what
will matter is whether the next morning we do a
(16:54):
good job of taking what he says and distributing that.
We know the media is not going to do their job,
so we have to do their job for them. CBS
News reserves the right to mute the candidate's microphones, but
otherwise they will be hot. So they're going to mute JD.
(17:15):
Vancy's microphone if he responds to him Waltz. They're not
going to mute Richard Simmons, and our side agreed to it.
So there, just there, you.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Gods by IRS agency, you believe it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The Michael Berry Show, I'd rather not have that endorsement
in Chickens. You just tuned in. Chris Christofferson has passed
eighty eight. Our tribute him today somewhere that happening over
the weekend. Speaking of our gatherings, I'm going to use
(17:53):
the word gathering we are having a gathering on October twelfth.
Don't think of it as a concert. You'll start annoying
me with a bunch of questions about who's going to
play and when they're going to play, and what songs
are they going to play? And while they play this song?
And can you get this band to play in what
if he can get Saturday October twelfth at twenty nine
to twenty Roadhouse. You must have a ticket, but they
(18:15):
are free thanks to our sponsors, which is Nest Construction
out of Liberty County, Larry Ness and his lovely wife,
wonderful family, great people. I asked him for their logo
so that we could print it and put it up
and I could pay tribute to him and hopefully get
him some business out of the deal. And he's told Emily,
(18:39):
he said, Emily, we build banks.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
That's what we do.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's all we do. We have more work and we
can handle. Tell Michael, I really appreciate it. But we're
just supporting what he does and we're looking forward to
being there. But he doesn't have to promote anything, no website,
no nothing. That he said, if I took on more
business than I have right now, I'd have to hire
more people, and that's just more headaches. I love Larry
(19:04):
Ness think I first met him when he came on
our mar A Lago, our first mar A Lago trip.
One of the banks that he does construction for is
also a sponsor, and that is Texas Tradition's Bank. Actually,
you know what, I don't know if he does do
their work. That came through Kelly Burmaster at twenty nine.
(19:25):
But thank you to the folks at Texas Traditions Bank
for being a sponsor of the event. If you go
into one of their locations today or you bank there,
thank them for their support. Texas Traditions Bank. To get tickets,
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com or
(19:46):
directly Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com. Make sure you
use the number twenty nine to twenty in the subject
line and in the body of your email. Get to
it quickly, don't bury that eight paragraphs in, and Emily
will take care of getting tickets. I think we're about
three quarters through, so we are running short on space,
(20:08):
so do that sooner rather than later. Please put twenty
nine to twenty and then put your request. If I
know you, you were an RCC member, we worked together,
we were neighbors. Whatever put that in the opening sentence
doesn't mean you won't get tickets otherwise. Just if that
happens to be the case, please please do that. You know,
with the storms we've been through over the last few years,
(20:31):
and I say last few years, going back to two
thousand and one, although you can go back to Carla
and Alicia, an old timer around here can tell you
you know what year or more importantly, I can tell
you what year, but can tell you what happened and
where they were. With the storms we've had, this Hurricane
Helene is it's bad. The death toll from Hurricane Helene
(20:57):
stands at ninety homes being washed away. Joe Biden was
asked yesterday if there's any more help from the federal
government and he said no, no, we've given him everything. Well,
they just gave almost ten billion dollars to Ukraine a
couple days before that, So maybe if North Carolina would
claim that their Kiev, it might help it. Really, it
(21:21):
breaks your heart to see this the story. This is
North Carolina's Governor Roy.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Cooper, devastating catastrophe of historic proportions. People that I talked
to in western North Carolina say they.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Have never seen anything like this.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Our number one priority right now is getting people out
and getting supplies in. There are search and rescue teams
from nineteen states, from the federal government, from our National Guard,
from our state, and local teams who are out there
rescuing people as we speak. The biggest problem is getting
(22:01):
to them because more than two hundred and eighty roads
are clothes. Many counties and areas where people are our landlocked.
Cell phones and internet service is down, so we know
there are a lot of families and friends that are
worried about people, and they've been about one thousand requests
(22:22):
for that two one one to report if you are
looking for someone. But we've been pushing the cell phone
companies and they've been working very hard. We've been finding
ways to help them get in to get cell phone
service back up. That is beginning to make progress in
coming back. The more the cell phones come back, the
(22:44):
more we will know where people are in what the
situation is the same with power. In the meantime, food
and water is critical because people are cut off and
it's very difficult and if not impossible, to get trucks
in to some of these places, so we're having to
do it by air. There is a massive effort underway
(23:07):
to coordinate and make sure that we're getting supplies and
water to people because it's a life and death situation here.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's rough. It is rough. You learn a lot about
a community when you go through things like that. I
think of all the things I witnessed during a time
like that. You also learn a lot about what's important
and what isn't. You also start noticing what kind of
people help their neighbors, and you notice that some people
are people who get helped and some people are people
(23:45):
who help. Two types of people in this world and
an interesting it's a fascinating thing. It reviews a lot.
Oh Joyce the stage of Sunnyside from just to inform
me she's on. I'm sorry, I did not know that
we'll have some preaching coming up for ballads, but.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That actually might be one of the smartest.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Systems the Michael Berry Show, because.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
If you're a baseball than you probably already know this,
but you want to see some high stakes baseball today,
this early in the postseason that has not begun. There
is a potential doubleheader today between the Mets and the Braves,
(24:36):
and it is it's going to determine who makes playoffs
and who doesn't, which adds a great deal of intensity.
I love playoff baseball. I enjoy the slow, one hundred
and sixty two game season, but that's a different experience
playoff baseball. When it comes down to it's a deciding game.
(24:58):
That's when you get that intensity. That's good. That starts
at noon today. You can go check it out yourself.
Last we spoke to Joyce, and this is fresh on
my mind because Nandita and I went We stopped and
bred them on the way up, and then we went
to Austin and then came back from Austin down seventy
(25:21):
one and cut over from seventy one at Bass Drop
on twenty one over to two ninety. And that's a
nice drive. That's a nice little cutoff a little byway.
There's there's hardly anything on the road. You got some
nice undulation to the road. It's a good quality of pavement.
I kind of like stuff like that. But it's just trees,
(25:44):
just beautiful. It feels like you're up in the Tyler area.
That drive reminds me of driving through the area around Tyler,
which I think is one of the prettiest parts of
the state that never gets talked about. Then we made
it over to at Page and then start down southeast,
stopped in and brought him again and drove around that
(26:06):
area a little bit and then came came home. But
I tell you all that because we were driving in
her SUV and that AC went out. Yeah, yeah, so
there was that and poor thing. She has the thickest
black hair you can imagine, and so the side she
(26:30):
was on, the sun was coming in and the AC
goes out, and I keep going back and forth between
blowing the air and turning it off because the area
you're blowing is hot and you're just doing anything to
try to make your life better. And I reached something
touched the top of her head and it was just
like it was on fire because her hair is so
thick and that sun was coming through and she put oh,
(26:50):
it was just rough. So we had to drive with
the windows down like it was the thirteen hundreds, because
that's how they traveled back in the moment with the
windows down. They turned the windows down anyway. So last
week checked in with Joyce. Her AC was out and
we can't have that. Joyce is in her nineties. Joyce
is a treasure. So I put the word out. I
knew somebody would step up, and a number of you offered.
(27:13):
But Joyce is back. Hopefully she's cool. Joyce. Have you
cooled off? Sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Oh uh, I can't even I don't even have worst express.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
But I'm back in the saddle again. But I just
want to talk about the service that I received last week.
And you know I'm old, and I forget the name,
So I'm going to say, I'm going to talk about
number one, the lead technician.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And this was a young man and I have.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Never dealt with anymore professionalism than I dealt with last week.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
He was so nice.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
And then the others who were said very very nice.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
They just wanted to know that if you had any questions,
let me know.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And and it was just phenomenal. My littlecabulary won't give
me the words to express my appreciation. It was just phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
That's I don't have words to express.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well, you know, that's it. What's interesting is any time
I put out the call, which is why I can't
do it every day, people wish. You know, people want
to be the next choice. They want something free, you
want something done for free. They want something donated or
done for them, and I just I can't do them
all because if I would eventually wear out my welcome.
(28:45):
But when I put out the call, our people are
so responsive. The person who made that happen his name
is Jim Dutton and he's got several companies. He does
a weekend show on this station k t H in Houston,
and he's very involved with the Pasadena livestock showing Rodeo.
I think he's on the board out there, but that's
(29:07):
a passion of his. But mostly he's just a good guy.
So I had my buddy, Matt Biss, but Matt's a
small shop. It's just him and a couple of guys,
and he wanted to do it. And I said, Matt,
that is a that is too it's too hard for
you to donate if it needs a new union, it's
too hard for you to donate that at your size.
But I appreciate you. If it was a basic repair
(29:28):
of fine. There were several folks who reached out, but
Jim Dunton did, and I knew he would do a
good job for you, and I'm glad he did. That
means we can get you back to preaching, because when
you called in, I was hoping we'd get Could you
just for two minutes tell us what's going on with
Kamala Harris?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Oh my god, I really wanted to.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Talk to my black sisters, black women. Pol Harris, are
you all's crazy? This woman is worse than Bie and
look what happened to him. And remember blacks Biden what
(30:13):
became president because of black participation. And here you have
the breathness to tell me that I'm supposed.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
To uh be for her because this what these are?
Tish black woman.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Let me tell you this woman, when she was running
for something else, she was not black. I remember her
with an Indian lady and they were talking about Indian cooking.
She was an Indian then, but now says she won't
these stupid blacks both for her. All of a sudden
she like collar gey greens and fried chicken. How long
(30:55):
black people? Uh, we're going to allow this happened? You
know when I see old car Winders, Madam president, let
me tell you, black people, if this woman didn't have
these degrees in front of her name. They would be
picking her up in a.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
In a white coat. They would have a white coat
over to come get her. And we have the name
to walk around here talking about black willing Thort. I
cause her captain commer.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And she had this man that she's with.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You know, it seemed like a vaudeville act that it
looks like a mistrel show. To come on.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
She's brnning and he's.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Waving and we're going to Hell at a hand basket
and to the black community.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Look around, and I spent this many times, my look
around in our communities, bad nice communities, Black communities and
their ghatos today
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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!