October 18, 2024 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Dairy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Show is on the air.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Holy forth, amendment away career.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
My passenger said, saying that day for a three hour two,
a three hour two one day when the lady met
this fellow, and they knew that it was much more
than a hunch that this room my summer former family.
That's the way they all became.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The Ray bunch.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Met the pleased and thrilled his proud little family rooms.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Then get on.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Some flood was built, and so it was Plmpty commands true.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Steve Austin astronaut a man Bury alive, gentlemen, we can
rebuild him.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We have the technology.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
In nineteen seventy two, a crack commando unit was sent
to prison by a military court for a crime they
didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security
stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by
the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you
have a problem, if no one else can help, and
if you can find them, maybe you can hire.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
The eighteens.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Living is the.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Life Leave It to Beaver, starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont,
Tony Dau and Jerry Matthers as the Weaver. What about contraception?
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Was that just not an option for you?
Speaker 8 (02:14):
I was young, ambitious, I was I was as young
and ambitious as.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I loved women.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hey, you came back.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
No man for loving women.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I cannot name a TV show that's on right now,
and I can't tell you a network television show I
have watched since two thousand. You know, when you talk
five hours a day on the radio, and so much of.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
What you do.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is about your own life and your own emotions and
your own fears and concerns and highs and lows. What's
incredible is you don't realize how much you forget and
people will remember.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So I will get an email and.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm happy to be funny, and somebody goes, well, that's
not true, because remember back in nine, you were really
really into this particular TV show.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I had forgotten that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. It's open
line Friday. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
I was talking to Ramon during the break because a
bunch of emails came in about the book of about
Ruth and her story and what it meant in the Bible,
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and so I pulled it out. Somebody had sent it
to me, but it was a new international version, and
that gives breaks, causes me to break out and hiph
we were a King James version guy.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And to this day that's.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You ever write a snowmobile. When you write a snowmobile,
you learn within five minutes stop trying to drive. If
this is not fresh snow, then the snowmobil is going
to track wherever the grooves are. It's almost like a
railroad track or whatever. Just let the snowmobile stay on
the track. And when I hear the King James, when
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I hear versus the King James version, it opens up
a synapse.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It fires.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I feel good, I feel I feel warm. It's solace
and comfort, and.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It's a hug.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's given yourself a hug, a pat on the back
of a happy place. So anyway, we're talking about Ruth
and the men die and Ruth says that she will
follow Naomi, and my mother often quoted that, and so
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I read the verse to him and she's talking to
Naomi and she said, entreat me not to leave thee
or to return from following after THEE. So don't tell
me not to come with you. For whither thou goest
I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge.
You've probably heard this at weddings. People will use this
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in weddings. For whither thou goest I will go, and
where thou lodgest I will lodge.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
And this is the way.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
Now you have to understand that I have heard that
my whole life. In my mother's very deep Southeast Texas
twain originally from Tyler, So it would go like this,
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she'd say, I say, oh, mom, Danik and Nance got married,
and she married Kent Higebotham and his family all lives
up in Rock Springs, so she's moving up there.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
She'll say, thy people shall be my people. You know,
that's what they do. Book of Ruth.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That was always kind of that was her throwdown line
for any time a woman kind of left her family
in the lurch and moved somewhere else or did something,
it was die people shall be my people or anything
that my father's family. You know, if we were talking
about we were going to go on Thanksgiving and this
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year we were going to go to Grandma Berry's, so
my dad's side.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
She said, well, that people shall be my people.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
She didn't want to go there because she liked her
mother's cooking better. Kevin, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I mean watching Gilligan's Island reruns as a kid over
and over. Why didn't house have their own yacht? I mean,
if they were so rich, why were they on this charter?
And how does the professor not know how to fix
a hole in a boat?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, I don't think that was the professor's area of expertise,
but it wasn't that nice little or.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
He's graduated cylinders and beakers on.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Vacation, right.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think he was more of a chemist, right he?
You know, the professor is this. This is the same
way it is with Democrats. The professor is what really
dumb people think. Really smart people act like the Democrats
convince really dumb people that this is what really smart
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people do. And it's the funniest thing. It also amuses
me when really poor people, when really poor people are
drawn to what they think really rich people do and
the people passing that off as this.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Is what really rich people do.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's ghost and classless and and crass.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
But that is the thought of man.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
If you got money, you got you know, you your
mc hammer, and you got a posse, and you got
my box and you and you're you know, you're doing
the the dollar what do you call it thing? A
dollar gun? You're making it rain you got Yeah, but
you know when they take the stack and they go
one at a time and then like.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
They're dealing cards. There's a term for that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And and unfortunately, in the hood, poor black kids think
that that's what you want to grow up to do.
And it's not because you're gonna get killed or you're
gonna end up in a cell with P. Diddy, or worse,
you're gonna end up underneath P Diddy. Honey, you lived
in his plate and that's not what you want.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You got Ford the beekeeper, remember the bee keeper.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
He's up and undocumented immigrants is not a criminals to
Michael Berry, you have to correct course in this conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There's certain ways that Lionel expresses things.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Just holds a note a little longer, puts a little
extra grease in the fire that you go. Man, he's
had his ass will by his wife coming home and
him with another woman a time or ten.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Right, He's he's been through some stuff. I mean, there's
certain people that just say things, and the way they
say it, you can tell there's so much more to
that that. It's in the music business, I believe they
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call it layering. That refer to a sound as being
very thick, where they'll they'll cord multiple vocals and they
will lay them on top of each other.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
To thicken the sound.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And you may not even notice it as you're listening,
but your mind, your ears hear it and you process
it differently. It's like there's something It's like there's multiple
voices being compressed into Lionel Richie's because the depth of
that experience is so bad that he can't even.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Tell you about it. It would make you think of
him differently.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But he he's it's it's like it's like it's he's
letting it out of him at that moment.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Today is not preaching that girl. I know he gonna
call me up here he's drunken.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That was last night we got him home.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
Somebody read it back then and there.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It was and that's where we're going.
Speaker 10 (10:52):
Yeah, that's right, y'all.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Not and now we have all a very special guests.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I have a lady who want to get up here and.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Tell our story.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Boy, wake up, y'all know how from the church.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Many yees?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
She men coming down here. Now hold all the second
Baptist Church sign. I'm guarding crying down here.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Wait, Charlotte, come on a baby Shirley.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
Okay, don't get her testimony and come.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
On, y'all want to get up here and preach, don't
y'all y'all need to shut up. Listen here this first
lady that's saying on this first pew up here, girl,
let's say activating in your weeds. That looks is good.
I won'ta get minees done like that, girl, I really do.
I'm sire with the late this morning. By hey, y'all there,
that car broke down on the way back from both
my last night thing put me down invite on four
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flats steaming, and I had to call a AA Alcoholic
Automobile Association and they sent her damn truck down there.
And he told us, with me and them kids in
that car, he would not even have the dignities to
put us up in the front with him.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
I had went to from my partment with my free
told clinic, which came free free for fertility fertility clinic.
I had went up in there to get a hystag
tom and a lady. To my ou, they're gonna artificially
in sennimate me. I said, no, you not, baby, I said,
I got nineteen. That's why I'm up in here in
the first place. See, I didn't come up in here
to get all that dead. I would have gone to
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a vet there and it was cheaper.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But they don't take that cave.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
You know, that's right. I preach all over town. I
preach these men's up here new parents, and chip Ron's
Bath and Company down here, and white men's you know,
they got them trucks, they drive real fast. They ribbon
flags and things, shotguns sitting upfire the wind on the hell. Allright,
y'all are wrong for talking while I'm partestifying the heir.
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I do believe in having animals. I have some dogs
and stuff. I got this one dog, this fruity ass poodle.
Some lady put some rhythms up onto his head and
looked and ignorant. I got some other dogs out here.
I just feed them, Pope fact as you know.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, we used to have.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
An aquarium too.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
We had it for a long time.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
I loved looking at the fishes swimming up and there.
But you know, one weekend and food coupons came in late,
and then fishes started looking mighty damn good. Y'all just
holler for anybody, won't y'all y'all tell Ignorance.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Ram on?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Can we get honey bee? Because I feel like Ford
the Beekeeper. I mean, look, he's not Joyce to save
your Sunnyside or Shirley Cue lickor but in the panoply
of characters we've had call in and and and transcend
simple caller and get to the level where they almost
become like a character on the show. You know, months later,
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I'm still getting emails asking about them.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That would be Ford the Beekeeper. This is this is
Ford's new intro music.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You girl lyming thinking about us, And you know I
ain't good at this stuff, but these feelings piling up
won't give me no rest. This might come out a
little crazy, a little sideways.
Speaker 12 (14:12):
I may.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I don't know how long it'll take me, but I'll
do my best.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
You being my salt and sweet, I'll ill strong insteady,
you be in my glass of line. I'll hell show
a skinned you being my son in day, I'll be
a shade tree.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
You be my heart is suckle, I'll.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Be a heart.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
It be.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Ford the Beekeeper.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I had no idea the first time I picked up
the call and it said Ford, and you started in
on being a beekeeper. And it got me thinking to
my brother and his crazy phase of he went into beekeeping,
and I thought, this is a goofy, this thing ever
and your passion for beekeeping. I must admit I like
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to tweak people and just see see how they respond.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And the more I.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Poked at you that you just were such a good
sport about it. And then I think by the second
time you called, or maybe we called you back, you
you just I we really kind of grew fond of you.
Would spend a lot of time on your website and
I can't tell you how many people emailed me and say, hey,
what was the beekeeper's name? And what was and uh
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and so anyway, welcome back to the program. I hope
you're doing well well.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
I appreciate it and out in the b yard right now.
Wonderful temperature. The reason I called it.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Hold on, you're somewhere near Fredericksburg right where are you.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Now?
Speaker 11 (15:45):
Over near back uh the Grange, Texas? Yeah, same thing,
just out just outside Ellinger.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
You're in a place barble from Houston. Go for the weekend.
How about that?
Speaker 11 (15:59):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What's the name of your website again?
Speaker 11 (16:04):
Ross Creek Organicfarm dot com Ford.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You're not gonna get You're not gonna get whatever you
want to talk about in for a while, so you
might as well, like my life, get Rock Creek Organic
what farms?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Ross r O s s Ross Creek Organic Farm? Ross
Creek runs right behind our our our farm.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Is it is?
Speaker 11 (16:25):
That's the way we named it.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Is it a year round creek?
Speaker 11 (16:29):
No, it's gravel Creek. Here we are and we're so
happy that we haven't got a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Ramote nukes are available there you go, are those nukes
or nuks.
Speaker 11 (16:42):
Nukes and you see nuke calling five frames bees and
a working.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Queen yep like Tim Waltz.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
I actually need to go in there and update it
for twenty twenty five because this week I started taking
deposits again for next year. Next year is gonna be
a good year. Probably sell six colonies. Uh bee keepers
that want bees?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
There's a picture of ford On on his website.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
He's got He's got a shirt. It's Texas bag. Ford's
one of those people. Has got bees. You has got
bumper stickers bees. Hold on Ford, You gotta love Ford
like guys like that. You got to love. You need
more of those things.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
With Michael Berry and I haven't been to you, wait
a look and tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
To bring up hey Ford.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
There.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I never stopped working. I spent the entire break trying
to find a domain name for you that's better than
Ross Creek Organicfarm dot com, which, with all due respect,
is awful. Nobody can never want what I can't remember it.
There's if somebody listens to you right now and they're
driving and later they go, hey, honey, did you hear
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the bee guy on Michael Berry show.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
No, let's go back, let's go look at his website. Okay,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I it was uh something something farm. I don't know,
Ross Creek organicfarm dot com. It doesn't really have the
you know, memorabilia, memorable, memorable nature to it, so I
called Chance McLain because he's then AI guy and he's
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trying to find something we've tried. He the best one
he found was Beehive Jive, but that I'm not sure
that's any better than Ross Creek Organic Farm.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Beyonced with you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I wanted Bee's Knees or b Man or something. But
we'll have you a domain name shortly and then we
can just that'll be a landing page. It'll bounce to this.
Speaker 11 (18:46):
Well. I appreciate that for do you like Lyle Love.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
It wrong answer?
Speaker 11 (18:54):
Musician?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
A buddy of mine or not a buddy. A listener
said he might be a buddy one day, said name
Chris Sits says, you were talking about the Book of
Ruth and your mom, and when you mentioned Ruth, my
mind immediately goes to the great Lyle Love It album
Joshua Judges Ruth, Very clever Joshua Judges Ruth. The album
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is named after three books in the Bible that appear sequentially.
The Book of Joshua Judges in the Book of Ruth,
Lyle Love It is so cool. So I sent lyle
Ah text and said I was talking about Boaz on
the air a few minutes ago, which of course led
me to Ruth. My mother loved Ruth and her story,
and that, of course led a listener to this text
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to this email to me about you, and he said, oh, thanks,
are you in town tonight? Can you come up to
the Woodlands. I'm happy to put.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You in our reserve section.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I said, I'm on my way to Austin as soon
as I get off the air. I didn't know you
had a show. Tell me about it. I'll promote it.
And he said, well, actually, even better. It's a free
show to the public as part of the Woodlands fiftieth
anniversary celebration. It's Jack Ingram, Hayes Carl, who both grew
up in the Woodlands, and the Large Band and I
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that means all the strings all like the full symphony.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That's that's called.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Lol love it and his large band, the large Band
and I who grew up across Spring Creek in Harris County.
So it's a hometown bill for a hometown celebration.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
How cool is that? How cool is that? A? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So anyway, there's a it sounds like there's a free
show in the Woodlands tonight and it's Jack Ingram Hayes,
Carl and Lyle love it. So that's that. There's that Ford.
All right, we'll worry about your website in a minute.
What'd you call about?
Speaker 11 (20:45):
I took my ninety one year old mother to Gallery
Furniture on Post So yesterday to pick out a bed
and buck rings. She was confused, she's got dementia. H
Mac sister and Alvert over there treated her like royalty,
made every everything they need to do. I think they
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even called Mac and got the transaction completed and got
the bid to her assisted living yesterday. But the biggie,
I want you to know, we wannt three minutes back
in the truck down West Timer and Mac calls and says, Celeste,
thank you for the sale. Is there anything else I
can do for you?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You didn't tell him, You didn't tell him you were
a legend of my show or anything else.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
I talked to Simon and Damien that delivered that evening,
and they said he calls everybody. He's been doing it
for two years. Every sale he calls him personally and
thanks them and asks if there's anything else he can
do it. I had to tell you that.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I had to show that I was talking to a business.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You can't imagine how many transactions occur in just the
one location. I forty five North between Tidwell and Parker location,
because he also has the gallery location and the West location.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
But I always go that forty five location.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You cannot imagine how many people come in there and
make a purchase and leave in the course of a day.
It would shock you, because I've sat there for hours
and I know all the staff there. I know Max
so well that I'll go in and once we get
the highs. And he's very, very curious. I think the
sign of successful people is curiosity. And he will pepper
me with questions, who's going to win the election, who's
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going to win the local elections? Why who's spending the
most money? Do you think that.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
He's very, very, very curious. He's a very inquisitive, curious person.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That to me is a sign of humility and strength
and personal improvement.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
You never stop learning, and he loves, loves, loves to learn.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But I will watch and all those people coming through there,
and you think that's happening all day every and then
he's gonna call those people. There is a video he
put up this morning. I sent him a text about it.
It's a young black man, forget his name, but he
lives in the neighborhood back behind the store and he
lives in those apartments back there, and he came over
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to the store for the first time with his grandfather,
and he's one of this little army of little men.
And if you ever go over to Gallery Furniture and
you actually watch the operations, it's like a it's like
a medieval city. There's all these things going on. There's
there's little fiefdoms within fiefdoms. There's the kitchen over here
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and the banking over there, and they're building furniture over here,
and then there's finance back here. And these people are
calling back and this person's calling delivery, and this person
is placing ads and he can't believe the hustle and bustle.
It feels like when they make a movie of medieval
times and they'll have the town square and things are
just you know, there's the coup and there's the brewer,
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and there's the blacksmith, and there's the baker and there,
and everything's going fast and someone rides in on a
horse and it's it's like that, but set within this business.
And there's these young black kids who live in the
area behind there, and they come over and as long
as they behave themselves and their parents authorize it, he'll
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put them to work. They might be a greeter, they
might be They might stand at a door and hold
it open when someone comes in and he puts money
in their pocket. It's a beautiful thing. And those kids
love Mac and it's a it's a video they enter.
This little kid said he wants to grow up on
a furniture stare at the store and he loves.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Being there with Mac.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And Mack was loading up eighteen wheelers to send a
North Carolina view and this.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Kid was hauling the studies like tears old. You're not
beautifling anywhere, even if Trump does, You're not Chad because
he's awesome. Went and found that audio from this work. Now,
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what gets lost in all of this.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Is that Mac was loading up eighteen wheelers to send
in North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You probably didn't even know that. It's just what he does.
He loves it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
He loves the chaos. He loves being out there like
the air traffic controller. People are pulling up and stuff's
coming in and he's got trucks over here. Hey Michael,
can you get me another truck? Hey Bobby, can you
see if you can get somebody to bring some waters? Hey, Sam,
can you get some arm guards? Our guys were pulled
over in Alabama? And I mean he just he lives
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for that chaos of doing things. And Trump is the
same way. Tell me Furtita is the same way. People
that it's John Galt, it's Iron RAN's John Gaut. People
that live that it's out all Josie Welles, you made
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me say it. Okay, thank you. You see you think
you're making fun of me, but it's true. It's true story.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Here is Mac with this little kid, and the little
kid's been working all day loading this truck. And there's
one moment in there where they said, why do you
like walking around the floor with Mac and and helping
customers noise and keep me off my phone?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I love this little kid. Get us listen, not.
Speaker 12 (26:28):
Just Mac here and my friend Bryson, one of the
youngest Gallery Furniture team members.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Hall ad you Bryson eleven? How long you been coming
to Gallery Furniture?
Speaker 8 (26:39):
I say maybe two years?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Two years?
Speaker 12 (26:41):
You started when you were nine, Yes, sir, How did
you first come up here?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I met?
Speaker 8 (26:46):
I walked in here one day with my grandfather and
he introduced me to Mac.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
And so after that you started help it out working
around here.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yes, sir, do you like it?
Speaker 12 (26:56):
I love it?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
You love it?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Why?
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Because it keeps me off my phone and it gives.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Me a chance to work out what do you want
to do in life? And you grow up own loan purchases.
Speaker 12 (27:06):
He wants to own his own furniture store. Oh my goodness,
are you gonna put.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Me out of business?
Speaker 8 (27:10):
I'm gonna try not to.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
He's gonna try not to. Ben tell him what all
the jobs you do here?
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I do mostly a little bit of everything, But lately
I have been helping load this big eighteen wheeler. We
sent how many olks?
Speaker 12 (27:22):
We sent two out yesterday to eighteen wheelers full of
supplies to help the people that are hurricane victims in
North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida. Right now, we're concentrating on North Carolina.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Right Yes, sir, and I bake cookies, I do popcorn.
I walk around the store with Mac, and I do
a little bit of everything else. If they need help
move moving furniture, help outside, I try to do it.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
What's the favorite thing to do at gallery Furniture.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Walk around the store and see how happy customers are
when they get new furniture. That's one of the reasons
that I want to own my own furchure store. I
love seeing the huge smile that they have.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
This is Bryce, and he's one of the great helpers.
He's a gallery Furniture. He's a gallery furnsure North three Way.
Quite often, we're proud to have him here. He's eleven
years old and he's a very very smart young man
and a very ambitious young man.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
He helped own the furniture store.
Speaker 12 (28:12):
When he becomes an adult, and he's probably gonna put
me out of business.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I'm gonna try not too. Man.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
If y'all weren't here right now, i'd have tears streaming
down my face. That little kid, by all rights, should
grow up and be in a gang and begunned down
and go to prison. But now he's got an opportunity
that he is going to be empowered himself with values
(28:44):
and morals and conviction and ambition and confidence, and he's
going to do something in his life.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
You just know it.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Because somebody took a moment He didn't need a free meal,
he didn't need a welfare program, he didn't need an
after school program, he didn't need all the crap that
democrats throw at these people. That's Kamala Harris's approach to
win back black men. Legalized weed.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
What's the other one, legalized weed and reparations.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
You got black men coming out saying, is that what
you think? We are a bunch of dope heads in
need of a welfare check. We're trying to take to
seize the opportunity America offers. And you're offering free dope
and a free check. How insulting you changed somebody's life.
Listen if you're mad about Kamala Harris billboards or the
(29:45):
fact that Colin Alread's buying spots on my show, I
don't sell them, I don't hear them. I don't know
about them or where the ads are going. Focus on
the positive things. Go get somebody to vote, Go help
a kid in need, men towards somebody.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Stop running.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So matter what are you doing. You're not helping us win,
you're not helping take back the country. Get a hold
of yourself. One thing you got us. You know Max's
gonna be dead one day. We all are Max's gonna
be dead one day, and there's gonna be a lot
of people who are gonna realize, you know, we didn't
give that guy his due.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That was special.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Today is eleven years since bum Phillips died. This city
never honored him. That's a great moment in this city.
What he brought this city, what he represented for this city,
and this city never honored him in his lifetime, not properly,
(30:45):
not the way it should have. We got streets named
for people. Hell, we got a Lee P. Brown Metro Center,
that dumb ass. We got a school now named for
Sheila Jackson.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Lee. Do I have to say it? And what do
we do for Mac? What do we do for Mac?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And he's gonna be gone. We should have done something
for him, We should have while he was alive, said,
you know what, but what do we get? We get
Lena Hidalgo calling him a furniture salesman. Well, there's dignity
in that. Michael Martin, Luther King was very clear, if
(31:27):
you're a street sweeper, sweep your street so that the
heavens above see what you're doing and sing out if
you're going to do a job do it with dignity,
be the best at whatever you do. Anyway, I love Mac,
(31:48):
I absolutely love him. I love him for his indomitable spirit.
Crockett took taekwondo for years with my friend Mark Lopez's wife,
dagmar So. Mark is a silver medalist taekwondo fighter in
the Olympics and his wife Dagmar He met her. She's
(32:08):
this smoking hot woman. She was on the Puerto Rican team,
and so they were at a meet and married and
wonderful people. But you had to learn the discipline of taekwondo,
and there were a lot of you know, Korean phrases
and all that stuff. But one of the things as
part of your training to get the next belt is
indomitable spirit. And I used to love that. My wife
(32:30):
and I used to use that all the time. So
when Crockett was would have a struggle in life, I'd
say indomitable spirit and it meant something to him.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
But that's Mac. He gets up every day.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
You might see Mac once a quarter in the news,
but what you don't realize is he's getting up, getting
out there and getting after it every day, not because
he has to check in, not because he's boss.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Will fireman. He is a self starter every day be
like that anyway. I love you, folks.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
If you're on the line, hold tight, I'll get to
you in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
We'll play you this evening.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Su
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Dairy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Show is on the air.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Holy forth, amendment away career.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
My passenger said, saying that day for a three hour two,
a three hour two one day when the lady met
this fellow, and they knew that it was much more
than a hunch that this room my summer former family.
That's the way they all became.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The Ray bunch.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Met the pleased and thrilled his proud little family rooms.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Then get on.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Some flood was built, and so it was Plmpty commands true.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Steve Austin astronaut a man Bury alive, gentlemen, we can
rebuild him.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We have the technology.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
In nineteen seventy two, a crack commando unit was sent
to prison by a military court for a crime they
didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security
stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by
the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you
have a problem, if no one else can help, and
if you can find them, maybe you can hire.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
The eighteens.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Living is the.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Life Leave It to Beaver, starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont,
Tony Dau and Jerry Matthers as the Weaver. What about contraception?
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Was that just not an option for you?
Speaker 8 (02:14):
I was young, ambitious, I was I was as young
and ambitious as.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I loved women.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hey, you came back.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
No man for loving women.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I cannot name a TV show that's on right now,
and I can't tell you a network television show I
have watched since two thousand. You know, when you talk
five hours a day on the radio, and so much of.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
What you do.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is about your own life and your own emotions and
your own fears and concerns and highs and lows. What's
incredible is you don't realize how much you forget and
people will remember.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So I will get an email and.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm happy to be funny, and somebody goes, well, that's
not true, because remember back in nine, you were really
really into this particular TV show.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I had forgotten that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. It's open
line Friday. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
I was talking to Ramon during the break because a
bunch of emails came in about the book of about
Ruth and her story and what it meant in the Bible,
(03:58):
and so I pulled it out. Somebody had sent it
to me, but it was a new international version, and
that gives breaks, causes me to break out and hiph
we were a King James version guy.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And to this day that's.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You ever write a snowmobile. When you write a snowmobile,
you learn within five minutes stop trying to drive. If
this is not fresh snow, then the snowmobil is going
to track wherever the grooves are. It's almost like a
railroad track or whatever. Just let the snowmobile stay on
the track. And when I hear the King James, when
(04:32):
I hear versus the King James version, it opens up
a synapse.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It fires.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I feel good, I feel I feel warm. It's solace
and comfort, and.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It's a hug.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's given yourself a hug, a pat on the back
of a happy place. So anyway, we're talking about Ruth
and the men die and Ruth says that she will
follow Naomi, and my mother often quoted that, and so
(05:06):
I read the verse to him and she's talking to
Naomi and she said, entreat me not to leave thee
or to return from following after THEE. So don't tell
me not to come with you. For whither thou goest
I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge.
You've probably heard this at weddings. People will use this
(05:30):
in weddings. For whither thou goest I will go, and
where thou lodgest I will lodge.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
And this is the way.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
Now you have to understand that I have heard that
my whole life. In my mother's very deep Southeast Texas
twain originally from Tyler, So it would go like this,
(05:57):
she'd say, I say, oh, mom, Danik and Nance got married,
and she married Kent Higebotham and his family all lives
up in Rock Springs, so she's moving up there.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
She'll say, thy people shall be my people. You know,
that's what they do. Book of Ruth.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That was always kind of that was her throwdown line
for any time a woman kind of left her family
in the lurch and moved somewhere else or did something,
it was die people shall be my people or anything
that my father's family. You know, if we were talking
about we were going to go on Thanksgiving and this
(06:40):
year we were going to go to Grandma Berry's, so
my dad's side.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
She said, well, that people shall be my people.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
She didn't want to go there because she liked her
mother's cooking better. Kevin, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I mean watching Gilligan's Island reruns as a kid over
and over. Why didn't house have their own yacht? I mean,
if they were so rich, why were they on this charter?
And how does the professor not know how to fix
a hole in a boat?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, I don't think that was the professor's area of expertise,
but it wasn't that nice little or.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
He's graduated cylinders and beakers on.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Vacation, right.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think he was more of a chemist, right he?
You know, the professor is this. This is the same
way it is with Democrats. The professor is what really
dumb people think. Really smart people act like the Democrats
convince really dumb people that this is what really smart
(07:47):
people do. And it's the funniest thing. It also amuses
me when really poor people, when really poor people are
drawn to what they think really rich people do and
the people passing that off as this.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Is what really rich people do.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's ghost and classless and and crass.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
But that is the thought of man.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
If you got money, you got you know, you your
mc hammer, and you got a posse, and you got
my box and you and you're you know, you're doing
the the dollar what do you call it thing? A
dollar gun? You're making it rain you got Yeah, but
you know when they take the stack and they go
one at a time and then like.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
They're dealing cards. There's a term for that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And and unfortunately, in the hood, poor black kids think
that that's what you want to grow up to do.
And it's not because you're gonna get killed or you're
gonna end up in a cell with P. Diddy, or worse,
you're gonna end up underneath P Diddy. Honey, you lived
in his plate and that's not what you want.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You got Ford the beekeeper, remember the bee keeper.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
He's up and undocumented immigrants is not a criminals to
Michael Berry, you have to correct course in this conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There's certain ways that Lionel expresses things.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Just holds a note a little longer, puts a little
extra grease in the fire that you go. Man, he's
had his ass will by his wife coming home and
him with another woman a time or ten.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Right, He's he's been through some stuff. I mean, there's
certain people that just say things, and the way they
say it, you can tell there's so much more to
that that. It's in the music business, I believe they
(09:54):
call it layering. That refer to a sound as being
very thick, where they'll they'll cord multiple vocals and they
will lay them on top of each other.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
To thicken the sound.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And you may not even notice it as you're listening,
but your mind, your ears hear it and you process
it differently. It's like there's something It's like there's multiple
voices being compressed into Lionel Richie's because the depth of
that experience is so bad that he can't even.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Tell you about it. It would make you think of
him differently.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But he he's it's it's like it's like it's he's
letting it out of him at that moment.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Today is not preaching that girl. I know he gonna
call me up here he's drunken.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That was last night we got him home.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
Somebody read it back then and there.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It was and that's where we're going.
Speaker 10 (10:52):
Yeah, that's right, y'all.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Not and now we have all a very special guests.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I have a lady who want to get up here and.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Tell our story.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Boy, wake up, y'all know how from the church.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Many yees?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
She men coming down here. Now hold all the second
Baptist Church sign. I'm guarding crying down here.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Wait, Charlotte, come on a baby Shirley.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
Okay, don't get her testimony and come.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
On, y'all want to get up here and preach, don't
y'all y'all need to shut up. Listen here this first
lady that's saying on this first pew up here, girl,
let's say activating in your weeds. That looks is good.
I won'ta get minees done like that, girl, I really do.
I'm sire with the late this morning. By hey, y'all there,
that car broke down on the way back from both
my last night thing put me down invite on four
(11:46):
flats steaming, and I had to call a AA Alcoholic
Automobile Association and they sent her damn truck down there.
And he told us, with me and them kids in
that car, he would not even have the dignities to
put us up in the front with him.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
I had went to from my partment with my free
told clinic, which came free free for fertility fertility clinic.
I had went up in there to get a hystag
tom and a lady. To my ou, they're gonna artificially
in sennimate me. I said, no, you not, baby, I said,
I got nineteen. That's why I'm up in here in
the first place. See, I didn't come up in here
to get all that dead. I would have gone to
(12:26):
a vet there and it was cheaper.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But they don't take that cave.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
You know, that's right. I preach all over town. I
preach these men's up here new parents, and chip Ron's
Bath and Company down here, and white men's you know,
they got them trucks, they drive real fast. They ribbon
flags and things, shotguns sitting upfire the wind on the hell. Allright,
y'all are wrong for talking while I'm partestifying the heir.
(12:50):
I do believe in having animals. I have some dogs
and stuff. I got this one dog, this fruity ass poodle.
Some lady put some rhythms up onto his head and
looked and ignorant. I got some other dogs out here.
I just feed them, Pope fact as you know.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, we used to have.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
An aquarium too.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
We had it for a long time.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
I loved looking at the fishes swimming up and there.
But you know, one weekend and food coupons came in late,
and then fishes started looking mighty damn good. Y'all just
holler for anybody, won't y'all y'all tell Ignorance.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Ram on?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Can we get honey bee? Because I feel like Ford
the Beekeeper. I mean, look, he's not Joyce to save
your Sunnyside or Shirley Cue lickor but in the panoply
of characters we've had call in and and and transcend
simple caller and get to the level where they almost
become like a character on the show. You know, months later,
(13:49):
I'm still getting emails asking about them.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That would be Ford the Beekeeper. This is this is
Ford's new intro music.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You girl lyming thinking about us, And you know I
ain't good at this stuff, but these feelings piling up
won't give me no rest. This might come out a
little crazy, a little sideways.
Speaker 12 (14:12):
I may.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I don't know how long it'll take me, but I'll
do my best.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
You being my salt and sweet, I'll ill strong insteady,
you be in my glass of line. I'll hell show
a skinned you being my son in day, I'll be
a shade tree.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
You be my heart is suckle, I'll.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Be a heart.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
It be.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Ford the Beekeeper.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I had no idea the first time I picked up
the call and it said Ford, and you started in
on being a beekeeper. And it got me thinking to
my brother and his crazy phase of he went into beekeeping,
and I thought, this is a goofy, this thing ever
and your passion for beekeeping. I must admit I like
(15:07):
to tweak people and just see see how they respond.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And the more I.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Poked at you that you just were such a good
sport about it. And then I think by the second
time you called, or maybe we called you back, you
you just I we really kind of grew fond of you.
Would spend a lot of time on your website and
I can't tell you how many people emailed me and say, hey,
what was the beekeeper's name? And what was and uh
(15:31):
and so anyway, welcome back to the program. I hope
you're doing well well.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
I appreciate it and out in the b yard right now.
Wonderful temperature. The reason I called it.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Hold on, you're somewhere near Fredericksburg right where are you.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Now?
Speaker 11 (15:45):
Over near back uh the Grange, Texas? Yeah, same thing,
just out just outside Ellinger.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
You're in a place barble from Houston. Go for the weekend.
How about that?
Speaker 11 (15:59):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What's the name of your website again?
Speaker 11 (16:04):
Ross Creek Organicfarm dot com Ford.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You're not gonna get You're not gonna get whatever you
want to talk about in for a while, so you
might as well, like my life, get Rock Creek Organic
what farms?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Ross r O s s Ross Creek Organic Farm? Ross
Creek runs right behind our our our farm.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Is it is?
Speaker 11 (16:25):
That's the way we named it.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Is it a year round creek?
Speaker 11 (16:29):
No, it's gravel Creek. Here we are and we're so
happy that we haven't got a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Ramote nukes are available there you go, are those nukes
or nuks.
Speaker 11 (16:42):
Nukes and you see nuke calling five frames bees and
a working.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Queen yep like Tim Waltz.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
I actually need to go in there and update it
for twenty twenty five because this week I started taking
deposits again for next year. Next year is gonna be
a good year. Probably sell six colonies. Uh bee keepers
that want bees?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
There's a picture of ford On on his website.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
He's got He's got a shirt. It's Texas bag. Ford's
one of those people. Has got bees. You has got
bumper stickers bees. Hold on Ford, You gotta love Ford
like guys like that. You got to love. You need
more of those things.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
With Michael Berry and I haven't been to you, wait
a look and tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
To bring up hey Ford.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
There.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I never stopped working. I spent the entire break trying
to find a domain name for you that's better than
Ross Creek Organicfarm dot com, which, with all due respect,
is awful. Nobody can never want what I can't remember it.
There's if somebody listens to you right now and they're
driving and later they go, hey, honey, did you hear
(17:57):
the bee guy on Michael Berry show.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
No, let's go back, let's go look at his website. Okay,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I it was uh something something farm. I don't know,
Ross Creek organicfarm dot com. It doesn't really have the
you know, memorabilia, memorable, memorable nature to it, so I
called Chance McLain because he's then AI guy and he's
(18:27):
trying to find something we've tried. He the best one
he found was Beehive Jive, but that I'm not sure
that's any better than Ross Creek Organic Farm.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Beyonced with you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I wanted Bee's Knees or b Man or something. But
we'll have you a domain name shortly and then we
can just that'll be a landing page. It'll bounce to this.
Speaker 11 (18:46):
Well. I appreciate that for do you like Lyle Love.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
It wrong answer?
Speaker 11 (18:54):
Musician?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
A buddy of mine or not a buddy. A listener
said he might be a buddy one day, said name
Chris Sits says, you were talking about the Book of
Ruth and your mom, and when you mentioned Ruth, my
mind immediately goes to the great Lyle Love It album
Joshua Judges Ruth, Very clever Joshua Judges Ruth. The album
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is named after three books in the Bible that appear sequentially.
The Book of Joshua Judges in the Book of Ruth,
Lyle Love It is so cool. So I sent lyle
Ah text and said I was talking about Boaz on
the air a few minutes ago, which of course led
me to Ruth. My mother loved Ruth and her story,
and that, of course led a listener to this text
(19:39):
to this email to me about you, and he said, oh, thanks,
are you in town tonight? Can you come up to
the Woodlands. I'm happy to put.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You in our reserve section.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I said, I'm on my way to Austin as soon
as I get off the air. I didn't know you
had a show. Tell me about it. I'll promote it.
And he said, well, actually, even better. It's a free
show to the public as part of the Woodlands fiftieth
anniversary celebration. It's Jack Ingram, Hayes Carl, who both grew
up in the Woodlands, and the Large Band and I
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that means all the strings all like the full symphony.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That's that's called.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Lol love it and his large band, the large Band
and I who grew up across Spring Creek in Harris County.
So it's a hometown bill for a hometown celebration.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
How cool is that? How cool is that? A? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So anyway, there's a it sounds like there's a free
show in the Woodlands tonight and it's Jack Ingram Hayes,
Carl and Lyle love it. So that's that. There's that Ford.
All right, we'll worry about your website in a minute.
What'd you call about?
Speaker 11 (20:45):
I took my ninety one year old mother to Gallery
Furniture on Post So yesterday to pick out a bed
and buck rings. She was confused, she's got dementia. H
Mac sister and Alvert over there treated her like royalty,
made every everything they need to do. I think they
(21:06):
even called Mac and got the transaction completed and got
the bid to her assisted living yesterday. But the biggie,
I want you to know, we wannt three minutes back
in the truck down West Timer and Mac calls and says, Celeste,
thank you for the sale. Is there anything else I
can do for you?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You didn't tell him, You didn't tell him you were
a legend of my show or anything else.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
I talked to Simon and Damien that delivered that evening,
and they said he calls everybody. He's been doing it
for two years. Every sale he calls him personally and
thanks them and asks if there's anything else he can
do it. I had to tell you that.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I had to show that I was talking to a business.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You can't imagine how many transactions occur in just the
one location. I forty five North between Tidwell and Parker location,
because he also has the gallery location and the West location.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
But I always go that forty five location.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You cannot imagine how many people come in there and
make a purchase and leave in the course of a day.
It would shock you, because I've sat there for hours
and I know all the staff there. I know Max
so well that I'll go in and once we get
the highs. And he's very, very curious. I think the
sign of successful people is curiosity. And he will pepper
me with questions, who's going to win the election, who's
(22:38):
going to win the local elections? Why who's spending the
most money? Do you think that.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
He's very, very, very curious. He's a very inquisitive, curious person.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That to me is a sign of humility and strength
and personal improvement.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
You never stop learning, and he loves, loves, loves to learn.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But I will watch and all those people coming through there,
and you think that's happening all day every and then
he's gonna call those people. There is a video he
put up this morning. I sent him a text about it.
It's a young black man, forget his name, but he
lives in the neighborhood back behind the store and he
lives in those apartments back there, and he came over
(23:18):
to the store for the first time with his grandfather,
and he's one of this little army of little men.
And if you ever go over to Gallery Furniture and
you actually watch the operations, it's like a it's like
a medieval city. There's all these things going on. There's
there's little fiefdoms within fiefdoms. There's the kitchen over here
(23:40):
and the banking over there, and they're building furniture over here,
and then there's finance back here. And these people are
calling back and this person's calling delivery, and this person
is placing ads and he can't believe the hustle and bustle.
It feels like when they make a movie of medieval
times and they'll have the town square and things are
just you know, there's the coup and there's the brewer,
(24:01):
and there's the blacksmith, and there's the baker and there,
and everything's going fast and someone rides in on a
horse and it's it's like that, but set within this business.
And there's these young black kids who live in the
area behind there, and they come over and as long
as they behave themselves and their parents authorize it, he'll
(24:23):
put them to work. They might be a greeter, they
might be They might stand at a door and hold
it open when someone comes in and he puts money
in their pocket. It's a beautiful thing. And those kids
love Mac and it's a it's a video they enter.
This little kid said he wants to grow up on
a furniture stare at the store and he loves.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Being there with Mac.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And Mack was loading up eighteen wheelers to send a
North Carolina view and this.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Kid was hauling the studies like tears old. You're not
beautifling anywhere, even if Trump does, You're not Chad because
he's awesome. Went and found that audio from this work. Now,
(25:09):
what gets lost in all of this.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Is that Mac was loading up eighteen wheelers to send
in North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You probably didn't even know that. It's just what he does.
He loves it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
He loves the chaos. He loves being out there like
the air traffic controller. People are pulling up and stuff's
coming in and he's got trucks over here. Hey Michael,
can you get me another truck? Hey Bobby, can you
see if you can get somebody to bring some waters? Hey, Sam,
can you get some arm guards? Our guys were pulled
over in Alabama? And I mean he just he lives
(25:42):
for that chaos of doing things. And Trump is the
same way. Tell me Furtita is the same way. People
that it's John Galt, it's Iron RAN's John Gaut. People
that live that it's out all Josie Welles, you made
(26:03):
me say it. Okay, thank you. You see you think
you're making fun of me, but it's true. It's true story.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Here is Mac with this little kid, and the little
kid's been working all day loading this truck. And there's
one moment in there where they said, why do you
like walking around the floor with Mac and and helping
customers noise and keep me off my phone?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I love this little kid. Get us listen, not.
Speaker 12 (26:28):
Just Mac here and my friend Bryson, one of the
youngest Gallery Furniture team members.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Hall ad you Bryson eleven? How long you been coming
to Gallery Furniture?
Speaker 8 (26:39):
I say maybe two years?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Two years?
Speaker 12 (26:41):
You started when you were nine, Yes, sir, How did
you first come up here?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I met?
Speaker 8 (26:46):
I walked in here one day with my grandfather and
he introduced me to Mac.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
And so after that you started help it out working
around here.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yes, sir, do you like it?
Speaker 12 (26:56):
I love it?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
You love it?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Why?
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Because it keeps me off my phone and it gives.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Me a chance to work out what do you want
to do in life? And you grow up own loan purchases.
Speaker 12 (27:06):
He wants to own his own furniture store. Oh my goodness,
are you gonna put.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Me out of business?
Speaker 8 (27:10):
I'm gonna try not to.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
He's gonna try not to. Ben tell him what all
the jobs you do here?
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I do mostly a little bit of everything, But lately
I have been helping load this big eighteen wheeler. We
sent how many olks?
Speaker 12 (27:22):
We sent two out yesterday to eighteen wheelers full of
supplies to help the people that are hurricane victims in
North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida. Right now, we're concentrating on North Carolina.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Right Yes, sir, and I bake cookies, I do popcorn.
I walk around the store with Mac, and I do
a little bit of everything else. If they need help
move moving furniture, help outside, I try to do it.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
What's the favorite thing to do at gallery Furniture.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Walk around the store and see how happy customers are
when they get new furniture. That's one of the reasons
that I want to own my own furchure store. I
love seeing the huge smile that they have.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
This is Bryce, and he's one of the great helpers.
He's a gallery Furniture. He's a gallery furnsure North three Way.
Quite often, we're proud to have him here. He's eleven
years old and he's a very very smart young man
and a very ambitious young man.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
He helped own the furniture store.
Speaker 12 (28:12):
When he becomes an adult, and he's probably gonna put
me out of business.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I'm gonna try not too. Man.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
If y'all weren't here right now, i'd have tears streaming
down my face. That little kid, by all rights, should
grow up and be in a gang and begunned down
and go to prison. But now he's got an opportunity
that he is going to be empowered himself with values
(28:44):
and morals and conviction and ambition and confidence, and he's
going to do something in his life.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
You just know it.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Because somebody took a moment He didn't need a free meal,
he didn't need a welfare program, he didn't need an
after school program, he didn't need all the crap that
democrats throw at these people. That's Kamala Harris's approach to
win back black men. Legalized weed.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
What's the other one, legalized weed and reparations.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
You got black men coming out saying, is that what
you think? We are a bunch of dope heads in
need of a welfare check. We're trying to take to
seize the opportunity America offers. And you're offering free dope
and a free check. How insulting you changed somebody's life.
Listen if you're mad about Kamala Harris billboards or the
(29:45):
fact that Colin Alread's buying spots on my show, I
don't sell them, I don't hear them. I don't know
about them or where the ads are going. Focus on
the positive things. Go get somebody to vote, Go help
a kid in need, men towards somebody.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Stop running.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So matter what are you doing. You're not helping us win,
you're not helping take back the country. Get a hold
of yourself. One thing you got us. You know Max's
gonna be dead one day. We all are Max's gonna
be dead one day, and there's gonna be a lot
of people who are gonna realize, you know, we didn't
give that guy his due.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That was special.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Today is eleven years since bum Phillips died. This city
never honored him. That's a great moment in this city.
What he brought this city, what he represented for this city,
and this city never honored him in his lifetime, not properly,
(30:45):
not the way it should have. We got streets named
for people. Hell, we got a Lee P. Brown Metro Center,
that dumb ass. We got a school now named for
Sheila Jackson.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Lee. Do I have to say it? And what do
we do for Mac? What do we do for Mac?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And he's gonna be gone. We should have done something
for him, We should have while he was alive, said,
you know what, but what do we get? We get
Lena Hidalgo calling him a furniture salesman. Well, there's dignity
in that. Michael Martin, Luther King was very clear, if
(31:27):
you're a street sweeper, sweep your street so that the
heavens above see what you're doing and sing out if
you're going to do a job do it with dignity,
be the best at whatever you do. Anyway, I love Mac,
(31:48):
I absolutely love him. I love him for his indomitable spirit.
Crockett took taekwondo for years with my friend Mark Lopez's wife,
dagmar So. Mark is a silver medalist taekwondo fighter in
the Olympics and his wife Dagmar He met her. She's
(32:08):
this smoking hot woman. She was on the Puerto Rican team,
and so they were at a meet and married and
wonderful people. But you had to learn the discipline of taekwondo,
and there were a lot of you know, Korean phrases
and all that stuff. But one of the things as
part of your training to get the next belt is
indomitable spirit. And I used to love that. My wife
(32:30):
and I used to use that all the time. So
when Crockett was would have a struggle in life, I'd
say indomitable spirit and it meant something to him.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
But that's Mac. He gets up every day.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
You might see Mac once a quarter in the news,
but what you don't realize is he's getting up, getting
out there and getting after it every day, not because
he has to check in, not because he's boss.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Will fireman. He is a self starter every day be
like that anyway. I love you, folks.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
If you're on the line, hold tight, I'll get to
you in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
We'll play you this evening.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
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