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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How you're doing and this is Shirlott Q Liquor. Well, honey,
you meet all kinds down here in the hood. I
was at the check gashing place yesterday, going in there,
and I was standing behind what I thought was a lady,
tall lady, and I was staying her down, and she
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had on heavy, heavy perfumes, and her hair looked good,
but it looked a little too good.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And I glanced at it down with her and caught
sight of her muscular.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Legs, and that gave it away.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She was a drag queen, and so I started looking
around trying to catch her eye, and she looked at
me and I said, who is your mama?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
She went off on me. She read me for fear.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She's talking about you don't just come up to a
lady and started asking them quote. Oh, she just went
crazy up and then I told her, I said slow down.
I said, cause my brother in law he fooited and
I said, you look just like him, and she said no,
she wasn't no king, except that was her baby dad.
And then I got confused. I didn't know what she's
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talking about them. See, I'm from a day in the
old days wherever a town had one drag queen, but
they didn't have children. But now they with the technologies
and the test tube and things. You just don't know
what you're dealing with till you look up under their dress.
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Oh well tell you, mama, if that is your mama?
Did I ask the how shit did behind it? It's
little gray queen wiggling and her lips in my face.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
CF Beasley writes, like play, Travis, you said some dumb
things on the air. I guess because it's hard to
avoid when you spend so much time talking. You obviously
don't cook much because you don't mention roasted red or
yellow bell peppers, which have an intense sweet flavor, especially
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when you're doing with onions and garlic. By the way,
Reano's are made with peblano peppers, not bell peppers. Bell
peppers come with fajitas. Then he insults the restaurants that
I speak for, But I'm not going to repeat that.
But he's a miserable person. Lisa writes, zar My first
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shop at thirteen was working in an ice cream shop
in Austin. I worked for a few months until the owner,
an older man, attempted to kiss me. He was a
pervert who was later arrested for child molestation. Later went
on to work at Churches, Fried Chicken, Sonic and Waterburger,
where we had a late night burglary and the burglar
made me leave the restaurant with him. He came in
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with a gun wearing a black ski mask, made us
three employees get on the floor while we had the
manager get all the cash. He then said, you, chicken
in the middle, come with me. I was a chick
in the middle. He took me out the back door
of the restaurant and then said you can come with me,
or turn around and don't look back at me, or
I'll shoot you. I said, I'm staying here. He ran
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off to the woods behind the restaurant. I quickly peeked
and went back and say, he just told you, you're
gonna turn to a pillar assault. But what did she do?
What did she do? It was the scariest experience. It
was reported the next day in the newspaper and they
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mentioned me by a name, which kind of traumatized me more.
That's my fast food restaurant worker story. Well, Lisa Federico,
that's a great story. I'm glad you. Isn't it a
good story. That's a good story. That's a solid story
right there. Michael, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Let's
hear your conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Oh well, no conspiracy theory. But I just want everybody
to know that they can vote. I just heard the
man that didn't know what to do. And everybody that
goes in and goes up. My wife's been working the
polls for the last three or four years now, and
they can vote. If they take their ballot in with
a that they've gotten to mail the wrong way or whatever,
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they can turn it in. They'll be disposed of. And
they can vote. If they have one and they don't
take it in or there's any other problem, they vote
a provisional ballot and they have to go downtown to
make sure everything's right before it's counted. But everybody that
shows up there is going to be allowed to vote.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Amen. Robert, you're on the Michael Barry shall go ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Like me?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah you are you?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Robert? Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yes, I actually don't know exactly what they tell you.
I mean, I've never actually called in and got you
to get me on the air. So thank you for
this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And I really feel your day. I thought this would
be a good opportunity for you. You were ready to
step out. You you you've prepared.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
To appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Yeah, I was actually just hearing you read that story
about the lady and her first jobs and everything, and
it just kind of prompted me that my first job
was at like fourteen, going, I'm fifteen years old. I'm
forty now, but it was McDonald's and I worked at
the McDonald's like it here on West Road and forty
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five and it was at the Walmart. And I don't know,
I just that was my first job. And I kind
of appreciate that President Trump went out there and did
his whole fries thing. I mean, we don't eat that,
My family doesn't eat that kind of food, but I
can appreciate him getting out there and you know, doing
that for us and everything. I thought that was pretty cool.
Seeing at this weekend and yesterday I was my first
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time ever doing first time voting the first day and
even opened, so I was really I was happy to
be off of work and get out there and vote
and everybody I talked to in the line was this
is the first time I ever did it too, And
they can't believe how long the line was. And it
took me an hour and.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
A half to vote.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
And when I got out of there, I felt so
encouraged just to wait in line, you know, And it
felt really good to get out there and vote for
the first time. And as far as like, you know,
the first day of election, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So was that your first time to ever vote at all,
or just the first time on the first.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Day, first time on the first day, But the first
time I ever voted was when President Trump ran in
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Interesting, what do you do for?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I actually voted for I'm a CSA SO customer service analyst.
I worked from home on a computer and just take
calls and troubleshoot dealership technology website platforms, so for JAT power.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So you had a rough go of it when they
crashed those car dealership that car dealership website system. Were
you was that? Did that hit on your lap?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I was more for like customer service and everything. So,
but I'm pretty sure the agent's out there that you know,
they utilize that for the dealerships and.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
They got hid and I will say that like I
used to work for Assurance and then I was there
for like fifteen almost fifteen years, and I moved to
JD Power. It was like a this was right after
twenty twenty, right just right after twenty twenty. We didn't
really see the inflation. And it's so ironic that I
was able to move up get a twenty five percent
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raise by moving from one company to another, and all
of a sudden, I'm back to equal it And it
sucks because you know, the inflation came up. I started
doing calculations. I was like, even with my twenty five
percent raise, I'm still back in the same both.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
A lot of people are going through what you're going through,
aren't I was in a mood to mess with you
because I was in a mood, but wonderful call. Thank
you for calling me.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Gone.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
And today everyone's thinking they could actually live the American Traoch,
the Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Barry Show, for the show Baby down across the Thames.
I see.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
That mule or Rivers and me.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
When you go back and study the influence of things
you didn't realize have affected your life, and you may
not have known it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That was.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Common every day to your grandparents. If you remember the
song by Alabama Mountain Music, they used the line one
of these days, I'm going to climb that mountain. And
their guitar technician, a guy named Bob Martin, does an
impersonation of Walter Brennan in that song. When he does that,
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that was their tribute to the song Old Rivers. Oh
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play me some mountain music. My grandma Grandpa used to play.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Then I'll flowed on down the river, took John hadeaway
away like Tom Sawyer, ride around with old Hugby Bacon
night black gripman winkle.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
The stream man again. Oh play me some mountain music.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
My grandma, Grandma Paul used to play.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And I'm blowed on down the.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
River took j had a lay swim across the river,
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just to proove that I'm a man. Spend the baby
being lazy, just be nature spriend.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
I'm a lot tall, he gray bending over skinning cats,
being baseball shirt rocks.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He's in some mislassle bads played him back home. Come
on music that comes from home says something lots fee there.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Because that's swimmsy cast to start.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
For baby.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Some mopping music.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
My grandma Grandpa used to play Then I'll Float on
down the River, two Kids, John hide Away.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Hey, Hey.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It was meant to be an impersonation of Walker Brennan.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
The voice.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He headed odd voice, but his voice actually changed, you will.
He served in France or World War One, and chemical
agents were used on his unit, and it actually altered
his voice, made it a higher pitch and raspy and reedy,
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and that was kind of his distinctive thing. If you
ever saw the real McCoy's, I think that's the last
thing he was in and that's the thing that first
exposed me to Walter Brennan. Just an American icon. Chris,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning Michael. Before I even start,
I just wanted to say, a couple of weeks ago,
maybe a month ago, you had somebody call in and
complain about your music and your music trivia. Let me
tell you it is absolutely my favorite part of the show.
It's like a bonus feature.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Thank you. Can I give you Naddie Martinez cell phone
numbers so you can.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Tell him that, absolutely you can.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'll tell you funny, Yeah, I'll tell you a funny
story Chris Win years ago. Once you're successful, then whatever
you do is the right thing to do. But before
you're successful, then a lot of people who don't know
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how to do what you're doing, whether that's swing a baseball,
batter through a football, or sing a song or do
a radio show. They all feel certain that they know
what you should and shouldn't do. This is not an
Eddie Martini shot, by the way, and but those people
have jobs, and their job is never, ever in the
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entrepreneurial way to step out and take a chance, never
to challenge the norms. They tell you this is what's done,
and this is what works, and anything else won't work.
Everything else is done until someone challenges that norm and
has great success, and then they immediately say that's what
you're supposed to do. That right over there. They're never
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on the front end of it. So when we first
started adding stations, the new stations loved us. But there
was a while there, a couple of years into it,
and we were beginning to build an audience, and we
were having success with each new station, and for the
first time I didn't have the time to talk to
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the new station a minute. We got them on and
really kind of you know, prepare them for what the
show was going to be about. They would just flip
the switch and our show would be on. And we
heard from programmers around the country too much music. And
I remember thinking, well, what's the problem with music? I
use music to tell stories the way a lot of
people do. I mean, it might shock you to know,
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but most people listen to music in one way or another,
on the back porch when they're not listening to talk
radio at a dance. Music is a powerful thing. It's
a wonderful It was as if they had been told
no music, will not have music. And now that's the
thing that people tell us they love more than anything else.
Hang right there, Chris, you're up first.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
This.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
You've got Tom Country, Michael Arry, we drink sweet tea.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We don't think so, Charlie Rish Silver Fox. That Walter
Brennan's own Old Rivers. He didn't write it. Several people
recorded it. Red Skeleton recorded.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
It.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Always gets me and I'm reminded that there was a
time where most people listen to the same music across
the spectrum, young people, old people. I grew up listening
to the same music my parents did, my parents had
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a little eight track and my mom would listen during
the day while she cleaned to Charlie Pride, so did I,
Charlie Rich, John Denver Conway, Mickey Gilly. I can remember
the color of the eight tracks as they would be
sitting there, and that that horrible kind of old milk
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carton cover, the sticker that they would put on it
to tell you what was on that set. It would
it would crinkle and peel off. But the thing about
the song Old Rivers is it's a song about a
young man remembering an old man in a mule when
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he was a kid. And I think garbage in, garbage out,
or healthy in healthy out. And you think about what
children consume today, what they're exposed to. That shapes so
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much of your thought pattern, shapes how you react to things,
how you form opinions, your view of the world. And
so few people are having any influence on their child's
development in that way. And then they're surprised when their
child comes home from college that they themselves are paying
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for their kid to go there, and their kid hates
them and has taken on some identity that they don't recognize. Well,
why wouldn't they are you a great influence on their life?
Because if you're not, somebody else will be. The void
will be filled. It always has been great cultures, and
historically every culture raised their children with their values. So
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we shouldn't be surprised that some of the children in
our society don't share our values because many parents have
never taken the time to instill them. They don't think
they should. They've been convinced by some PhD man hater,
woman hater, self hater that you shouldn't do this, that
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your childish king, that you should beg for their approval,
that they are the be all and end all. This
worship is fetishistic worship of children. I see parents in
public who don't discipline their children. They whine and beg
their child like their childish cecil roads. And there's some
lowly tribesmen. It's disgusting. But anyway, Chris, you're on the
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Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Okay, Well, I guess back to my first job. My
first job was in a place called Merv's ice Cream
and it sat right there. The building I think now
is a place called Dodo's Chicken or Doodo's Chicken. It's
on Westerland in Richmond, Westerland and Richmond, which would be
between Guestner and Fondering. It's down there. There's a strip
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center at.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
The time, yes, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, exact.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Way back when this would have been This would have
been nineteen eighty sixish. That strip center had an apple
Tree grocery store, had all kinds of stuff and right
there on the corner actually the original South welles Hamburgers
was right next door to that. But so this place
was called Mervs and it was owned by these two
guys that were in their mid to late twenties twenty
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six twenty seven years old, and then they had their
friend helping him run it. And the two of them
had left I guess entry level corporate careers. One of
them actually he was a relative of the Hawfine somehow.
He had been a stockbroker. The other guy, his name
was Doug. He had been an accountant, Arthur Anderson. And
then they had their friend Duncan, And Duncan was kind
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of like their friend that was just kind of a
you know, a goof off. He drove a big black
Dodge and he looked like John Belushi, and he was
the guy that ran the place. For him, so anyway,
neils to stay. The only thing they really hired there
were good looking college girls. I showed up the job.
I'm now, you know, surprised that they hired me. I
think I understand why. But I mean I was this,
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you know, messy, bleached blonde hair kid on a skateboard.
That was I just wanted a job. I was fourteen
years old. So they hired me, and you know, they
they trained me to do everything there. This was a time,
this was nineteen eighty six, and one of them had
been over to Italy at one point and they liked
cappuccino and espresso, so they had a manual espresso and
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cappuccino maker in there. I had to learn how to
make that. But I think really the best takeaways I
had from that job was, you know, number one, I
get some retrospect somebody like that investing in me. That
I thought was great because by all means, you know,
showing up is you know, a tussle haired kid on
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a skateboard. I don't think most places would have hired me.
I think in retrospect respect, they probably thought, you know what,
let's keep this kid out of trouble. Even though I
looked like I was probably in more and I was
actually in the Second thing was, uh, you know, at
that age, I would have to deal with customers. Most
of them were adults. A lot of them were adults
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that were bringing their children in there, that were whining
and complaining, and it's it's always neat when you are
a child yourself, but you have to deal with adults
and help them work through the adult problems they're having.
That served me well as a problem solving mechanism. And then,
of course, everybody else that worked there except for these guys,
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was female. Now granted they were all older than me.
They were all college age girls, and I don't think
you know one of them was less than a nine.
But it was great because it taught me a lot
about how to interact with women. And you know that
in and of itself was great.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's fantastic, call Chris, it was fantastic. They remained scared
to death of you, and they remained scared to death
to Michael Berry show. You're not going anywhere even if
Trump does. You're not by how you doing, big man?
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Still got your ears there in your head. I was
watching the documentary on smoking the Bandit last Night and
Burt Reynolds requested six transamps be sent for the movie.
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They only sent him three. So they did every stunt,
they did everything in that movie with three transamps. They
didn't have the horsepower to jump the bridge. I'm gonna
get the numbers wrong on this and I want Skip
Hardly to email me and tell me how wrong I am.
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They put a five twenty nine and they dropped a low.
I don't know engines. There's certain things you just don't
mention because a guy out there knows a lot more
about them than you, and they're gonna tell you, and
that's engines, guns, airplanes. So anyway, they had they just
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had the three and sorry, they had four trans ams
and they had two of the Bonneville's Pontiac sent them
to him. Well the movie was so good for sales,
as you might imagine that he had ten cent to
him and a personalized single addition given to Burt Reynolds
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as a present after the movie. Did you know that
originally the character played by Burt Reynolds was the person
cast for that was Jerry Reid. When Burt Reynolds agreed,
when how needam got Burt Reynolds to agree. Jerry Reid
became the Snowman and Jackie Gleason's character, the Sheriff, was
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originally going to be who was it? Bo Needham felt
that the sheriff should have a greater comedic presence, and
Jackie Gleeson turned out to be just what the doctor ordered.
Jackie Gleeson. He said that eighty percent of the words
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that came out of Jackie Gleeson's mouth were not in
the script. Remember when he comes out from getting a
die blow sandwich and the toilet paper is streaming behind him.
He did that whole thing on his own first time
on the fly. The love interest was not supposed to
be Sally Field. It was meant to be some beauty queen.
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I forget who it was. But Burt Reynolds called Sally
Field and wanted her to do it. And she had
been and Sybil, and she felt that she was being
typecast as this plain, homely woman. She wanted more of
a sexual role. She's not a naturally striking you know,
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Hollywood damsel.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
So it worked.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
They didn't have a budget for animals. You remember, the
Snowman had his dog. It was with him the whole time,
so they put the word out on the radio in
some town. I guess it was in Hollywood that that
Burt Reynolds was going to judge a contest for the
best trained dog, and that basset hound is what won.
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They spent no money on it. It was apparently Alfred
Hitchcock's favorite movie. When he died. Every Wednesday night he was,
you know, his favorite movie was changed. But every Wednesday
night he would screen movie in his house and have
people come over. And the last movie he screened was
one of his favorites, which was Smoking the Bandit, which
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he watched quite often. Jerry Reid was commissioned with writing
east Bound and Down, writing a song, the theme song
for the movie. And he was a hard partier and
kind of a Kenny Stabler kind of guy. Kind of
a Kenny Stabler story because he he heads home for
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the day and he's supposed to lock himself in and
figure out this song and have it ready in the morning,
and he goes out partying and while he's out there,
comes up with it, comes in the next morning and
sings it for how Needham and it do not change
a word. It is perfect. It was Jackie Gleeson's idea
to have his sidekick remember his son, because he said,
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I can't just say these lines to again mutter these lines,
so he needed a foil and his son ended up.
Ain't that and the sun Oh I can't remember his name.
That soun was was a sex symbol. He'd been Tarzan.
He was a college football player. He was a stud.
He played. You know, I think that kind of made
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that character work, that he was. You know, he's a
good looking guy. He's a big, strapping guy who's just
dumb as a box of rocks, a Hunter Biden kind
of guy. Speaking of which, you think people still buy
a Hunter Biden's art. Remember when they told us, yeah,
it's very natural people will pay a million dollars for
Hunter Biden's fingerpainting. He's really really talented. Remember they they
did that. We just pretend that didn't happen.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How you're doing and this is Shirlott Q Liquor. Well, honey,
you meet all kinds down here in the hood. I
was at the check gashing place yesterday, going in there,
and I was standing behind what I thought was a lady,
tall lady, and I was staying her down, and she
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had on heavy, heavy perfumes, and her hair looked good,
but it looked a little too good.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And I glanced at it down with her and caught
sight of her muscular.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Legs, and that gave it away.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She was a drag queen, and so I started looking
around trying to catch her eye, and she looked at
me and I said, who is your mama?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
She went off on me. She read me for fear.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She's talking about you don't just come up to a
lady and started asking them quote. Oh, she just went
crazy up and then I told her, I said slow down.
I said, cause my brother in law he fooited and
I said, you look just like him, and she said no,
she wasn't no king, except that was her baby dad.
And then I got confused. I didn't know what she's
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talking about them. See, I'm from a day in the
old days wherever a town had one drag queen, but
they didn't have children. But now they with the technologies
and the test tube and things. You just don't know
what you're dealing with till you look up under their dress.
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Oh well tell you, mama, if that is your mama?
Did I ask the how shit did behind it? It's
little gray queen wiggling and her lips in my face.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
CF Beasley writes, like play, Travis, you said some dumb
things on the air. I guess because it's hard to
avoid when you spend so much time talking. You obviously
don't cook much because you don't mention roasted red or
yellow bell peppers, which have an intense sweet flavor, especially
(02:54):
when you're doing with onions and garlic. By the way,
Reano's are made with peblano peppers, not bell peppers. Bell
peppers come with fajitas. Then he insults the restaurants that
I speak for, But I'm not going to repeat that.
But he's a miserable person. Lisa writes, zar My first
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shop at thirteen was working in an ice cream shop
in Austin. I worked for a few months until the owner,
an older man, attempted to kiss me. He was a
pervert who was later arrested for child molestation. Later went
on to work at Churches, Fried Chicken, Sonic and Waterburger,
where we had a late night burglary and the burglar
made me leave the restaurant with him. He came in
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with a gun wearing a black ski mask, made us
three employees get on the floor while we had the
manager get all the cash. He then said, you, chicken
in the middle, come with me. I was a chick
in the middle. He took me out the back door
of the restaurant and then said you can come with me,
or turn around and don't look back at me, or
I'll shoot you. I said, I'm staying here. He ran
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off to the woods behind the restaurant. I quickly peeked
and went back and say, he just told you, you're
gonna turn to a pillar assault. But what did she do?
What did she do? It was the scariest experience. It
was reported the next day in the newspaper and they
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mentioned me by a name, which kind of traumatized me more.
That's my fast food restaurant worker story. Well, Lisa Federico,
that's a great story. I'm glad you. Isn't it a
good story. That's a good story. That's a solid story
right there. Michael, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Let's
hear your conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Oh well, no conspiracy theory. But I just want everybody
to know that they can vote. I just heard the
man that didn't know what to do. And everybody that
goes in and goes up. My wife's been working the
polls for the last three or four years now, and
they can vote. If they take their ballot in with
a that they've gotten to mail the wrong way or whatever,
(05:02):
they can turn it in. They'll be disposed of. And
they can vote. If they have one and they don't
take it in or there's any other problem, they vote
a provisional ballot and they have to go downtown to
make sure everything's right before it's counted. But everybody that
shows up there is going to be allowed to vote.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Amen. Robert, you're on the Michael Barry shall go ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Like me?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah you are you?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Robert? Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yes, I actually don't know exactly what they tell you.
I mean, I've never actually called in and got you
to get me on the air. So thank you for
this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And I really feel your day. I thought this would
be a good opportunity for you. You were ready to
step out. You you you've prepared.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
To appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Yeah, I was actually just hearing you read that story
about the lady and her first jobs and everything, and
it just kind of prompted me that my first job
was at like fourteen, going, I'm fifteen years old. I'm
forty now, but it was McDonald's and I worked at
the McDonald's like it here on West Road and forty
(06:20):
five and it was at the Walmart. And I don't know,
I just that was my first job. And I kind
of appreciate that President Trump went out there and did
his whole fries thing. I mean, we don't eat that,
My family doesn't eat that kind of food, but I
can appreciate him getting out there and you know, doing
that for us and everything. I thought that was pretty cool.
Seeing at this weekend and yesterday I was my first
(06:44):
time ever doing first time voting the first day and
even opened, so I was really I was happy to
be off of work and get out there and vote
and everybody I talked to in the line was this
is the first time I ever did it too, And
they can't believe how long the line was. And it
took me an hour and.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
A half to vote.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
And when I got out of there, I felt so
encouraged just to wait in line, you know, And it
felt really good to get out there and vote for
the first time. And as far as like, you know,
the first day of election, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So was that your first time to ever vote at all,
or just the first time on the first.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Day, first time on the first day, But the first
time I ever voted was when President Trump ran in
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Interesting, what do you do for?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I actually voted for I'm a CSA SO customer service analyst.
I worked from home on a computer and just take
calls and troubleshoot dealership technology website platforms, so for JAT power.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So you had a rough go of it when they
crashed those car dealership that car dealership website system. Were
you was that? Did that hit on your lap?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I was more for like customer service and everything. So,
but I'm pretty sure the agent's out there that you know,
they utilize that for the dealerships and.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
They got hid and I will say that like I
used to work for Assurance and then I was there
for like fifteen almost fifteen years, and I moved to
JD Power. It was like a this was right after
twenty twenty, right just right after twenty twenty. We didn't
really see the inflation. And it's so ironic that I
was able to move up get a twenty five percent
(08:27):
raise by moving from one company to another, and all
of a sudden, I'm back to equal it And it
sucks because you know, the inflation came up. I started
doing calculations. I was like, even with my twenty five
percent raise, I'm still back in the same both.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
A lot of people are going through what you're going through,
aren't I was in a mood to mess with you
because I was in a mood, but wonderful call. Thank
you for calling me.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Gone.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
And today everyone's thinking they could actually live the American Traoch,
the Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Barry Show, for the show Baby down across the Thames.
I see.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
That mule or Rivers and me.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
When you go back and study the influence of things
you didn't realize have affected your life, and you may
not have known it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That was.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Common every day to your grandparents. If you remember the
song by Alabama Mountain Music, they used the line one
of these days, I'm going to climb that mountain. And
their guitar technician, a guy named Bob Martin, does an
impersonation of Walter Brennan in that song. When he does that,
(09:58):
that was their tribute to the song Old Rivers. Oh
(10:18):
play me some mountain music. My grandma Grandpa used to play.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Then I'll flowed on down the river, took John hadeaway
away like Tom Sawyer, ride around with old Hugby Bacon
night black gripman winkle.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
The stream man again. Oh play me some mountain music.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
My grandma, Grandma Paul used to play.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And I'm blowed on down the.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
River took j had a lay swim across the river,
(11:35):
just to proove that I'm a man. Spend the baby
being lazy, just be nature spriend.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
I'm a lot tall, he gray bending over skinning cats,
being baseball shirt rocks.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He's in some mislassle bads played him back home. Come
on music that comes from home says something lots fee there.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Because that's swimmsy cast to start.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
For baby.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Some mopping music.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
My grandma Grandpa used to play Then I'll Float on
down the River, two Kids, John hide Away.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Hey, Hey.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It was meant to be an impersonation of Walker Brennan.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
The voice.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He headed odd voice, but his voice actually changed, you will.
He served in France or World War One, and chemical
agents were used on his unit, and it actually altered
his voice, made it a higher pitch and raspy and reedy,
(13:16):
and that was kind of his distinctive thing. If you
ever saw the real McCoy's, I think that's the last
thing he was in and that's the thing that first
exposed me to Walter Brennan. Just an American icon. Chris,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning Michael. Before I even start,
I just wanted to say, a couple of weeks ago,
maybe a month ago, you had somebody call in and
complain about your music and your music trivia. Let me
tell you it is absolutely my favorite part of the show.
It's like a bonus feature.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Thank you. Can I give you Naddie Martinez cell phone
numbers so you can.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Tell him that, absolutely you can.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'll tell you funny, Yeah, I'll tell you a funny
story Chris Win years ago. Once you're successful, then whatever
you do is the right thing to do. But before
you're successful, then a lot of people who don't know
(14:20):
how to do what you're doing, whether that's swing a baseball,
batter through a football, or sing a song or do
a radio show. They all feel certain that they know
what you should and shouldn't do. This is not an
Eddie Martini shot, by the way, and but those people
have jobs, and their job is never, ever in the
(14:44):
entrepreneurial way to step out and take a chance, never
to challenge the norms. They tell you this is what's done,
and this is what works, and anything else won't work.
Everything else is done until someone challenges that norm and
has great success, and then they immediately say that's what
you're supposed to do. That right over there. They're never
(15:06):
on the front end of it. So when we first
started adding stations, the new stations loved us. But there
was a while there, a couple of years into it,
and we were beginning to build an audience, and we
were having success with each new station, and for the
first time I didn't have the time to talk to
(15:26):
the new station a minute. We got them on and
really kind of you know, prepare them for what the
show was going to be about. They would just flip
the switch and our show would be on. And we
heard from programmers around the country too much music. And
I remember thinking, well, what's the problem with music? I
use music to tell stories the way a lot of
people do. I mean, it might shock you to know,
(15:48):
but most people listen to music in one way or another,
on the back porch when they're not listening to talk
radio at a dance. Music is a powerful thing. It's
a wonderful It was as if they had been told
no music, will not have music. And now that's the
thing that people tell us they love more than anything else.
Hang right there, Chris, you're up first.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
This.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
You've got Tom Country, Michael Arry, we drink sweet tea.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We don't think so, Charlie Rish Silver Fox. That Walter
Brennan's own Old Rivers. He didn't write it. Several people
recorded it. Red Skeleton recorded.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
It.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Always gets me and I'm reminded that there was a
time where most people listen to the same music across
the spectrum, young people, old people. I grew up listening
to the same music my parents did, my parents had
(16:53):
a little eight track and my mom would listen during
the day while she cleaned to Charlie Pride, so did I,
Charlie Rich, John Denver Conway, Mickey Gilly. I can remember
the color of the eight tracks as they would be
sitting there, and that that horrible kind of old milk
(17:17):
carton cover, the sticker that they would put on it
to tell you what was on that set. It would
it would crinkle and peel off. But the thing about
the song Old Rivers is it's a song about a
young man remembering an old man in a mule when
(17:38):
he was a kid. And I think garbage in, garbage out,
or healthy in healthy out. And you think about what
children consume today, what they're exposed to. That shapes so
(17:58):
much of your thought pattern, shapes how you react to things,
how you form opinions, your view of the world. And
so few people are having any influence on their child's
development in that way. And then they're surprised when their
child comes home from college that they themselves are paying
(18:19):
for their kid to go there, and their kid hates
them and has taken on some identity that they don't recognize. Well,
why wouldn't they are you a great influence on their life?
Because if you're not, somebody else will be. The void
will be filled. It always has been great cultures, and
historically every culture raised their children with their values. So
(18:45):
we shouldn't be surprised that some of the children in
our society don't share our values because many parents have
never taken the time to instill them. They don't think
they should. They've been convinced by some PhD man hater,
woman hater, self hater that you shouldn't do this, that
(19:06):
your childish king, that you should beg for their approval,
that they are the be all and end all. This
worship is fetishistic worship of children. I see parents in
public who don't discipline their children. They whine and beg
their child like their childish cecil roads. And there's some
lowly tribesmen. It's disgusting. But anyway, Chris, you're on the
(19:29):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Okay, Well, I guess back to my first job. My
first job was in a place called Merv's ice Cream
and it sat right there. The building I think now
is a place called Dodo's Chicken or Doodo's Chicken. It's
on Westerland in Richmond, Westerland and Richmond, which would be
between Guestner and Fondering. It's down there. There's a strip
(19:57):
center at.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
The time, yes, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, exact.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Way back when this would have been This would have
been nineteen eighty sixish. That strip center had an apple
Tree grocery store, had all kinds of stuff and right
there on the corner actually the original South welles Hamburgers
was right next door to that. But so this place
was called Mervs and it was owned by these two
guys that were in their mid to late twenties twenty
(20:23):
six twenty seven years old, and then they had their
friend helping him run it. And the two of them
had left I guess entry level corporate careers. One of
them actually he was a relative of the Hawfine somehow.
He had been a stockbroker. The other guy, his name
was Doug. He had been an accountant, Arthur Anderson. And
then they had their friend Duncan, And Duncan was kind
(20:44):
of like their friend that was just kind of a
you know, a goof off. He drove a big black
Dodge and he looked like John Belushi, and he was
the guy that ran the place. For him, so anyway,
neils to stay. The only thing they really hired there
were good looking college girls. I showed up the job.
I'm now, you know, surprised that they hired me. I
think I understand why. But I mean I was this,
(21:05):
you know, messy, bleached blonde hair kid on a skateboard.
That was I just wanted a job. I was fourteen
years old. So they hired me, and you know, they
they trained me to do everything there. This was a time,
this was nineteen eighty six, and one of them had
been over to Italy at one point and they liked
cappuccino and espresso, so they had a manual espresso and
(21:27):
cappuccino maker in there. I had to learn how to
make that. But I think really the best takeaways I
had from that job was, you know, number one, I
get some retrospect somebody like that investing in me. That
I thought was great because by all means, you know,
showing up is you know, a tussle haired kid on
(21:50):
a skateboard. I don't think most places would have hired me.
I think in retrospect respect, they probably thought, you know what,
let's keep this kid out of trouble. Even though I
looked like I was probably in more and I was
actually in the Second thing was, uh, you know, at
that age, I would have to deal with customers. Most
of them were adults. A lot of them were adults
(22:10):
that were bringing their children in there, that were whining
and complaining, and it's it's always neat when you are
a child yourself, but you have to deal with adults
and help them work through the adult problems they're having.
That served me well as a problem solving mechanism. And then,
of course, everybody else that worked there except for these guys,
(22:32):
was female. Now granted they were all older than me.
They were all college age girls, and I don't think
you know one of them was less than a nine.
But it was great because it taught me a lot
about how to interact with women. And you know that
in and of itself was great.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's fantastic, call Chris, it was fantastic. They remained scared
to death of you, and they remained scared to death
to Michael Berry show. You're not going anywhere even if
Trump does. You're not by how you doing, big man?
(23:14):
Still got your ears there in your head. I was
watching the documentary on smoking the Bandit last Night and
Burt Reynolds requested six transamps be sent for the movie.
(23:36):
They only sent him three. So they did every stunt,
they did everything in that movie with three transamps. They
didn't have the horsepower to jump the bridge. I'm gonna
get the numbers wrong on this and I want Skip
Hardly to email me and tell me how wrong I am.
(23:57):
They put a five twenty nine and they dropped a low.
I don't know engines. There's certain things you just don't
mention because a guy out there knows a lot more
about them than you, and they're gonna tell you, and
that's engines, guns, airplanes. So anyway, they had they just
(24:22):
had the three and sorry, they had four trans ams
and they had two of the Bonneville's Pontiac sent them
to him. Well the movie was so good for sales,
as you might imagine that he had ten cent to
him and a personalized single addition given to Burt Reynolds
(24:46):
as a present after the movie. Did you know that
originally the character played by Burt Reynolds was the person
cast for that was Jerry Reid. When Burt Reynolds agreed,
when how needam got Burt Reynolds to agree. Jerry Reid
became the Snowman and Jackie Gleason's character, the Sheriff, was
(25:10):
originally going to be who was it? Bo Needham felt
that the sheriff should have a greater comedic presence, and
Jackie Gleeson turned out to be just what the doctor ordered.
Jackie Gleeson. He said that eighty percent of the words
(25:30):
that came out of Jackie Gleeson's mouth were not in
the script. Remember when he comes out from getting a
die blow sandwich and the toilet paper is streaming behind him.
He did that whole thing on his own first time
on the fly. The love interest was not supposed to
be Sally Field. It was meant to be some beauty queen.
(25:52):
I forget who it was. But Burt Reynolds called Sally
Field and wanted her to do it. And she had
been and Sybil, and she felt that she was being
typecast as this plain, homely woman. She wanted more of
a sexual role. She's not a naturally striking you know,
(26:12):
Hollywood damsel.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
So it worked.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
They didn't have a budget for animals. You remember, the
Snowman had his dog. It was with him the whole time,
so they put the word out on the radio in
some town. I guess it was in Hollywood that that
Burt Reynolds was going to judge a contest for the
best trained dog, and that basset hound is what won.
(26:44):
They spent no money on it. It was apparently Alfred
Hitchcock's favorite movie. When he died. Every Wednesday night he was,
you know, his favorite movie was changed. But every Wednesday
night he would screen movie in his house and have
people come over. And the last movie he screened was
one of his favorites, which was Smoking the Bandit, which
(27:07):
he watched quite often. Jerry Reid was commissioned with writing
east Bound and Down, writing a song, the theme song
for the movie. And he was a hard partier and
kind of a Kenny Stabler kind of guy. Kind of
a Kenny Stabler story because he he heads home for
(27:29):
the day and he's supposed to lock himself in and
figure out this song and have it ready in the morning,
and he goes out partying and while he's out there,
comes up with it, comes in the next morning and
sings it for how Needham and it do not change
a word. It is perfect. It was Jackie Gleeson's idea
to have his sidekick remember his son, because he said,
(27:52):
I can't just say these lines to again mutter these lines,
so he needed a foil and his son ended up.
Ain't that and the sun Oh I can't remember his name.
That soun was was a sex symbol. He'd been Tarzan.
He was a college football player. He was a stud.
He played. You know, I think that kind of made
(28:12):
that character work, that he was. You know, he's a
good looking guy. He's a big, strapping guy who's just
dumb as a box of rocks, a Hunter Biden kind
of guy. Speaking of which, you think people still buy
a Hunter Biden's art. Remember when they told us, yeah,
it's very natural people will pay a million dollars for
Hunter Biden's fingerpainting. He's really really talented. Remember they they
did that. We just pretend that didn't happen.
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