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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You know, they say you can never go home again.
At least that's what my parents say. At least that's
what the letter from their lawyer said. I'm adopted, and
I'm glad that my parents were honest enough with me
to tell me that I'm adopted.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But why every day that seems excessive?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That seems uh And I'll never forget when my parents
first told me I was adopted, because it was a
very emotional day for everyone in my whole family because
that was the same day my parents decided to tell
my brother he was gay.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's rough of five year olds.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Ramon said, I have not noted that it is sit
around and get fat and sassy weather. It was forty
three degrees this morning at seven point thirty before we
came on the air. But yes, it should be noted.
You know, I grew up in Oranges, you know, as
I talk about it incessantly, but I have lived in
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some crazy cold places, and in crazy cold places, people
hate the winter. They despise it, and they almost universally
use the adjective bitter to describe it. When I was
a kid, I desperately wanted snow and always disappointed. I
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dreamed of snow. So when I went to live in England,
people said, you're gonna hate the winter. Noah, you are,
trust me, you are came back. Do you hate the winter? Nope?
I loved it. What about the rain? All the time?
Loved it. It was dreary and cold, like a Dickens novel,
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which is exactly what I wanted it to be. That
being said, our winters in days like today, I could
do without it, going up into the high seventies. But
mornings like this morning, where you can put a little
he little space heater in my studio, Oh, right on
my naked feet. Oh, it's a wonderful thing. It's a
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glorious thing. I asked for only to come in here
and see my heater, and how close I have it
to my feet, and how that my parents would not
have allowed that this date. It must be dangerous. And
he refused to come in here because he didn't want
to see my naked feet. So I took a photo
of him and send it to him and made him
look at that. Let's go to did you play fat
and sassy? Cause it's cold. Well, this is sit around,
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get fat and sassy weather.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We'll probably sit around and cook some soups and.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Eat bread and desserts and just get on fat and sassy.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know that woman can cook, My God, she can cook. Marie.
You're on the Michael Berry Show Annual Adoption Special. Go ahead, sweetheart, Marie, Marie,
give me the first last name that comes to mind
for you when I say the name Marie should be Levo. Yeah,
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and Bobby Bear's version of Marie Levo. That's his kid
who's screeching, you know that in that song. All right,
let's go to Laura. Then Marie has missed. Do we
talk to Laurai. Let's go to Chris. Chris, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning brother, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, I'm gonna make this short and sweet if I can.
But I have a nineteen year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
When she came into my life, she was four years old,
and her.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Biological father would not sign off from the adoption papers. Uh,
long story short, she calls me Dad, and she called
him by his first name, and so I felt like
I won that one. So she might not have my
last name or my blood. But that's my girl, she
grew up.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He's my she's my hunting buddy and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
And and the coolest part about it is she was
four years old when her mama and I got married.
And when I asked my wife to marry me, I
gave her a ring, of course, but I had a
little one made so my daughter her name Drily and
uh so I asked her to marry me too, and
I was all, my need a whole nine yards. And
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when she put that ring on, she was so happy.
She said, can I can I'll call you dad? And
I said, I tell you what, you just I didn't
know how to answer that, honestly, he caught me off
bard but it was a beautiful moment.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I said, I tell you what. The minute were married,
you can call me dad and it's not a problem.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
So and always, uh we were taking pictures that she
was getting on my knee and she's like, can I
call you Dad now? And uh, well, I'll get a
little choked up thinking about it, but I said, baby, girls,
you can call me dad the rest of your life.
And so I didn't get to go through the adoption
part of it, but uh, I feel like I did anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
In spirit, it's nothing else, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I do know exactly what you mean, brother, and I
will tell you this I have. I'm a big believer
in the institution of marriage. I think it's important. But
I have known people who, for whatever reason, I know
a couple right now that comes to mind who are
not married. They're they're Ron Paul Libertarians. They don't they
don't participate in anything government related. They're almost entirely off
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the grid, and they do not get married because they
don't want documentation with the government. But they love each other.
They care for each other, and to me, that's what's important.
And you know, whether documents are filed with a governmental
entity does not affect what is important in life, which
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is love, sacrifice, care, kindness, generosity, the things that we
do for other people. And there's no government body that
can sanction that. So that's how I look at that.
I've got one minute for Gary. Gary, you're only Michael
Berry show. You are the minute man, Go.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
We'd adopted by daughter who's now thirty five. We had
doctor from Romania and she has been an absolute blessing
thing her whole life.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's a.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
People that don't you know why not great boys there,
you know, biological but my daughter. People find it hard
to believe that she's adopted because she is just one
of the.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Thank God, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That is what it is all about. The important things
in life cannot be manufactured, shipped in a container, put
on sale. They just can't good company. But Conki is
very Yes, I will agree it is. It is not
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a substitute, but it certainly doesn't attract We will admit to.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
That, Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
So you know, so be careful.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I apologize in advance for this next one. Absolutely uncalled
for to play that. It's a news report from w
zz M TV. This little boy is so excited about
his adoption that he invites his entire class to his adoption.
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Hearing this one gets me every time.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Family, a big family is support in love with an
even bigger heart. Michael Orlando Clark Junior. He is a
very active and silly, silly kindergartener invited his entire class
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to watch this moment.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
It is ordered Michael that your forever mom and dad
will be David Andrew Eaton and Andrea Louis.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Melvin and cheer him on.
Speaker 9 (09:58):
One, two, two three. Sometimes their journeys have been very long.
They've included miracle and change for the children and family,
and incredible community support, as you were able to see
today in Michael's adoption hearing with his whole kindergarten, glass
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and school being here to say we love you, we
support you, and we'll be here not only today but
in all the years in the future.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
It's safe to assume how Michael feels.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
We've been working with Catholic charities and the workers there
have just been amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I love my daddy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Wow, I love my daddy so much. This is just
too much.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
This is just too much.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, it's been amazing obviously, how supportive.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
They've all my daddy too much? Marie, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Where were you when we went to
you for Marie?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You mean this today?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, I was walking around my house and I have
very spotty internet.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well how comeed you were walking around your.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Ey I go into a certain room like over by
my garage and I just it drops calls. So I
have very spotty internet in my own freaking house.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But anyway, well, hold on, do you do you just
do you just walk around the house like when you're
on hold like that, you just walk around the house.
You pace.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
With that too, And I was doing things like empty
dishwashers and stuff because I have five hours to go
before I go back to work, so I have to
get stuff done before I have to go back to work.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So you have to in between shifts like you're off
and then you go back. Uh huh, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'm a crossing guard.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh well, have you called the show before?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, I called for the twin. I'm a twin also.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, so so you do the morning crossing, which finishes
up at what time?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Nine o'clock?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I am oddly fascinated by this. I just oddly fascinated
by this. Okay. So then you get off at nine,
and then you come home and you've got five hours
where you can do your things, and then you need
to be back at what two? Yeah, and then how
long do you does that shift?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
That's about two hours when I get home about four
point thirty. I'm really close to school anyway, so it's
not a big deal. But no, I could tell you
stories that would turn your hair gray.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Do you do you walk to the school or do
you drive to the school?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I drive.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You had the sign that wouldn't hold up, and we
got Sparks Engineering to redesign it so it would it
wouldn't get blown out of your hand. Are you.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
They gave us newer signs. When I first started, it
was a cardboard thing, but now they're heavier. They're still cardboard,
but now they have a heavier handle on them.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Oh it wasn't you, then, I don't. We had someone
I think she was Uh no, it might have been
a he and maybe it was a listener who was
a parent at the school, or a teacher or something.
But the wind would blow this stop sign when the
guy would hold a sign up, and it was an
older man and it would push him back, and it
was all this resistance. So I asked Sparks Engineering to
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get involved, and they wrote up a whole report, like
I was a paying client on the wind coefficient and
the resistance and all this stuff, and they designed a
sign that would you could still read it as stop,
but it had proper slits in it to allow, you know,
the wind to go through it, so you could hold
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it as if you weren't, you know, being blown over
like a sail in the wind, and it was amazing.
If you will email me, Marie, I will ask them
they had they had about one hundred made sparks did
at their own expense. It weren't cheap. They had about
one hundred made sparks SPA r Ex Engineering, Oh sparks.
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But if you email me when we get off Michael
Berryshow dot com and it says sin Michael's email, I'll
see that they had about one hundred maid and they
because to do one pressing of them cost a certain
amount of money, and so they they had them all
made and they donated them to the local school districts
and uh, I had I got emails from people who
were so happy at what Sparks Engineering had done. It
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was it was just incredible. It was incredible.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yes, it does get very windy. I've actually smacked myself
in the head with it when it's been so windy.
I'll have it up and I'll come back and hit
me in there.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
What is your school, Marie?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
It is conro ISD.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Conroe ISD. Okay, And how did you get involved doing that?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
I wanted something so I could take my kid back
and forth to school and you know, just have the
same hours and suck and I just and everybody thinks
it's a volunteer. No, no, no, you get paid for it.
You get paid about fourteen bucks an hour.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Fourteen But I work three hours a day.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Huh No, No, but I work about three hours a day.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So forty bucks a day. You know, you are kind
of tied to it. You can't go do something else.
You can't you know, move around. I think that's two
hundred and eight hondreds. So so eight yeah, eight a year.
Are you married?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, And he's okay with you doing this.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Yeah. In fact, I would think he got tired of
me because I'm always coming home whining because I don't
understand exactly why people think it's okay to talk on
your phone each put makeup on in the school zone
and not stop. No one stops at stop signs, are
you kidding?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah at all.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I have three stop signs I'm working with, and they
don't stop at any of them because you know, the
ones on the road which is supposed to stop that
the one I got my hand and so yeah, no,
no one stops at stop signs. The I didn't see you, Well,
maybe if you were on your phone.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
The lectures I've given my kids as preparation for driving.
One of the top, you know you don't you don't
consume alcohol and ever get behind the wheel. I will
never question if you say I can't drive, you can
take an uber or I'll come.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
And get you sure.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Number two is you don't speed because there's no excuse
for it, and then you're asking for a problem. And
number three, you're uber careful when you are around school
zones because not only is it a criminal offense, but
your conscience would eat you for the rest of your
life if you ever hit and hurt a kid. And
my kids take that very, very very seriously. But I
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see that when I've done kid pick up, I see
these moms and they have their own kids, and you know,
these kids are darting. They have no appreciation for the
danger of what's going on, and and the moms are
on the phone and distracted and driving their big tank
suburban through the through the school pickup zone. And sometimes
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there's only one lane available because the moms get there
and squat on the on the various lanes, so none
of the traffic can move. It's the craziest damn thing. Anyway,
hold on the ray. I'll come to you first.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I sport flop Michael Ferry seaching.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
People the general giant he.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Knows and does and doesn't care.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
And I'm man.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Flopping around those gimmicks who I am? But I believe
all my Nashville friends and classic country friends sending me
emails about it the Country Music Awards. Oh was I
watching it? You see that look on George Streets. No,
I'm not watching it. I don't need to walk into
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a viper pit to know there's vipers in there, and
I don't want to be bitten. Buddy of mine on Twitter,
pretty clever post under an alias, but he said, we
won the House, we won the Senate, and we won
the presidency, but we lost country music. And that's the
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damn truth when you look at who they were promoting
as being the presenters and the performers last night. I
didn't watch it, and I wouldn't watch it because we
lost country music with Luke Bryan. Anytime somebody tells me
like Luke Brian, I go, well, then you don't like
country music. People will often say to me, people's wives,
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usually that they like who's Keith Urban. They'll say, oh,
I hear that you love country music. I do too.
Mm okay, uh, Keith Urban and Luke Bran keep going
because we're not to country music yet, we're not anywhere
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near country music. If that person cannot off the cuff
sing three Merle Haggard songs without googling the words, that
is not country music, Drenda, you're on the Michael, Oh
did we get We didn't. We didn't let Marie finish Marie.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I have a quick story. When I was adopted, my
parents adopted to boys and then my dad, my adopted
dad was a twin, so his mother said, you can't
have one, you have to have two. So when we
were adopted, we were adopted at six months and so
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by my parents, and so they put us in separate homes,
and the people who had us said, oh, they're fussy,
fuss horrible fussy babies. And as soon as we got
back together, we weren't fussy. My mom's like, you're like
the best ever. So the reason we were fussiest because
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we were separated.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So it's meant to be. I got an email from Oh, oh,
this is unrelated, but I wanted to read this. It's
from Daniel eurebe Czar. I hear the military service men
and women saying hello for the holidays during your show commercials.
I missed those days of watching local TV and seeing
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them wish us well. Maybe a show idea when your
listener's kids are family members from the military, say hello
from your radio show, just like your adoption show that
I love, Eltessino. Thanks for reading, have a great day,
Keep sharing the family stories. The reason I bring that
up is because you're going to have family members in
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during the Thanksgiving break from the military, and I want
you to just take out your phone and hit record.
I'm not the one to do this because remember the
first time I met William Nelson, I couldn't get to
the voice memo function. If you have an iPhone, there's
a voice memo button. It looks like an EKG. It
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looks like a sound file, I guess technically. But if
you go find that, then you just push it and
you don't have to worry about editing and all that.
And then if you send me an email with it,
I'll respond, and then that'll give you my direct email address,
which is Michael at Michael Berry Show dot com. And
then you'll be able to send them to us, and Jim,
our creative director, can make magic out of those. I
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don't know how he does it, but he just does
it and have them do a You know. This is
John Smith from Kirbyville, Texas, serving in So and So Iraq,
and Merry Christmas to all or whatever whatever message you
want him to send. Debbie wrote me an email that says, zar,
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I intended to email you yesterday, but like most things today,
I forgot. My adoption story is like so many others
from the fifties. I've always known I was adopted and
I haven't adopted non biological sister who found her bio
family twenty five plus years ago. My adoption papers were
sent to my sister by mistake during her search, and
I knew my last name for the first time, Jackson.
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I'm sorry, missus Jackson. I joined ancestry and dabbled for
years looking for clues without many answers, but then close
matches to my DNA close like sister nephew close were added.
I continue to email those on match lists, and I
finally found a young girl who emailed me back. Apparently
she didn't know I was a secret and offered information
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on my biological dad and mother. I was told she'd
follow up after asking her mom. I knew then I'd
never hear back from her, but this gave me the
names of my biological mother and father. I located them
after sixty six years, both alive and well, living fifteen
minutes apart from each other. Both remarried. I reach out
to my biological mother via letter, and I was answered
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bioparents age ninety two and ninety three were still alive.
Then also, I am still secret after sixty eight years.
She goes to this whole thing. This is why I say,
and I mean, don't validate yourself based on what anyone
else thinks of you. Nobody else can make you illegitimate,
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Nobody else can make you a shamed A buddy of
mine emailed and said, adoption used to be shameful. But
when I get through listening to your show every year,
I wish I was adopted. Good. That's the point you
the only smell mister bid.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It's so Marie email me. She says she works for
the Conroe Police Department. I thought she worked for the
school district. I got I got a message from Brett
Legan yesterday. He said, hey, the uh, I guess Conroe
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does a h an annual parade in December, and they
asked me to be the grand Marshal. And if I
wouldn't do it, would I invite you? And he said,
I got a big old gord and you got a
much smaller, shapely, handsome gourd. So you and Trump would
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just get nicked on the ear. Would be my big
old gourd there I'd be just sitting duck as the
Grand Marshal of Conroe parade. And wouldn't that be a
wet blanket on the experience. So he gave me the date.
I think it was December fourteenth, and I said, well,
number one, I rarely go out in public, certainly not
if I tell where I'm going to be in advance,
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because people are just too weird. And number two, as
luck would have it, I'm out of town. So you're
going to drag your big gourd through Conra and be
the grand Marshal of the parade. And he said, man,
I've been however long, he's been district attorney for twenty years.
I've been locking up criminal I've been doing this I've
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been doing this. Nobody wants the district attorney as the
grand marshal of the parade. I said, well, Brett, you
are an elected official and you could use the publicity
at least this one time. You're doing something that people
don't hate, so enjoy and send me a picture. And
that's where we left it. John writes. If she motions
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to step into the roadway, it invokes a reaction from
the driver to pay attention and stop. I used to
train flaggers for a traffic control on highway and local roadways.
It has a ninety percent efficiency of getting them to
stop or at least to get their attention, because nobody
wants to hit somebody with their car. Old Contrari's some
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people i'd like to I will say this, mister Racindez,
I appreciate your commentary, but if you are the person
who's training the road crews that I've seen, I would
not be telling that because generally it is about a
fifty two year old meth head, skid row alcoholic. It's
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one of three things. It's a skid row alcoholic, white
dude whose nose has just all the bloodvelts just exploded,
and he's got a beard because he's too lazy, and
he's sunbeating and he's sitting there and he has no
interest in what's going on, and he's mad at everybody,
but at least he'll move around a little. Then there
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is the black guy. He's about twenty eight. He's done
some time, but he's not a horrible guy, and he
ain't trying to bother anybody, and he ain't trying to
do much, so he's leaning on the sign. And then
there is the Hispanic dude, his first generation may or
may not be legal, doesn't speak English at all. He's
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not thrilled to have this job, but he doesn't want
to lose it, so he'll put a little effort into it.
But he doesn't know what the hell's going on. He
has no clue who's coming, who's going, you know what,
so he just kind of stands there and waits. Well,
he is the worst person to put on the job.
When I'm coming up, because what I learned a long
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time ago is the confident animal tells the other animals
what to do. That's the alpha. So I pull up
with a lot of confidence and I go, yeah, I'm
going through it, and he go, oh yeah, okay, and
then he tries to tell him down at the other
end that you know, this one's coming. We got a squirter,
as they say in the military when they got the
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al Kada on the run, you got a squirter that
comes out of the crowd and we got to get him.
So they go, oh, we got a squirter. So he's
trying to yell that down to him, but the problem
is they got him on one end and they got
the old white guy down on the other end. They
don't speak the language, and the old white guy resents
the Hispanic dude, and so he's like, what what are
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you saying, Petro Way, You're not supposed to let him curt,
You're not supposed to let him through. And then I'm
coming up on that guy. Well, this bullying technique is
not working on the old white guy. He's aggravated, and
there's a very good chance he listens to the show,
but at that moment he doesn't know it's me, and
he wants me to know, you know, run. He's very
aggravated to be out there because it's hot out there.
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It's always hot out there. Now. The other option is
he yells down there to the black dude. The black
dude does not give a damn. So just for fun,
you pull up once you've squirted through and you got
down to the end, and you roll it down and go, Hey,
what's that guy back there saying? Because you're curious what
he took away from the experiences? Hell if I know
he does that all day. I don't know why they
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got he don't know what the laws or nothing. Well,
I appreciate your servicer. You got it all right, And
then you drive off and he kind of feels like, yeah,
I mean, he's kind of my service. I'm kind of
you know, this is the thing I'm doing. It's a thing. Ted,
You're on my mind, Barry Show. What's the use sir?
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Good morning, Michael, first time to call and talk to you.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Fantastic.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
I was adopted at birth. I'll be soon to be
fifty one years old in.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
A month and.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
About a year and a half ago, I decided to
get both the twenty three and me and ancestry DNA KITS.
I have always known I was adopted, and I always was.
It was never a secret to me that I was adopted,
nor was it ever a secret that after being diagnosed
with retinitis pigmentosa that I would eventually be blind, and
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I indeed was in my twenties. RP is a degenerative
hereditary I disorder, and I did a couple of term
papers in high school on RP and it made me
want to find my biological parents. But as a disabled
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individual growing up in Magnolia, Texas and then later moving
to Houston, and my disabilities besides my goodness ever getting
worse through the course of my life, it was not
easy financially or physically to do the research.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, hold on, I'm gonna talk to you off air.
Hold on, we'll record it and play it as a podcast.
We're almost out of time. Let me close by saying this,
Be proud of who you are. Be proud of how
you got here. A lot of you did build that.
I'm gonna say you didn't build that, But a lot
of people from before you can remember, have been wiping
your button, putting food down your gullet, providing for you,
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caring for you, sacrificing for you. Be proud of that
and thank those people for who they are. And you
might have been an imperfect mother or father at some
point in your life, all the way up till ten
minutes ago. But that doesn't mean you can't fix it
starting today. Life is not perfect, None of us is perfect.
If you knew my whole story, you'd say, oh, why
didn't you tell us that none of our lives are perfect,
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how we ended up here, our childhood and all of that.
Just do what you know is the right thing to do.
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You know, they say you can never go home again.
At least that's what my parents say. At least that's
what the letter from their lawyer said. I'm adopted, and
I'm glad that my parents were honest enough with me
to tell me that I'm adopted.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But why every day that seems excessive?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That seems uh And I'll never forget when my parents
first told me I was adopted, because it was a
very emotional day for everyone in my whole family because
that was the same day my parents decided to tell
my brother he was gay.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's rough of five year olds.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Ramon said, I have not noted that it is sit
around and get fat and sassy weather. It was forty
three degrees this morning at seven point thirty before we
came on the air. But yes, it should be noted.
You know, I grew up in Oranges, you know, as
I talk about it incessantly, but I have lived in
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some crazy cold places, and in crazy cold places, people
hate the winter. They despise it, and they almost universally
use the adjective bitter to describe it. When I was
a kid, I desperately wanted snow and always disappointed. I
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dreamed of snow. So when I went to live in England,
people said, you're gonna hate the winter. Noah, you are,
trust me, you are came back. Do you hate the winter? Nope?
I loved it. What about the rain? All the time?
Loved it. It was dreary and cold, like a Dickens novel,
(03:13):
which is exactly what I wanted it to be. That
being said, our winters in days like today, I could
do without it, going up into the high seventies. But
mornings like this morning, where you can put a little
he little space heater in my studio, Oh, right on
my naked feet. Oh, it's a wonderful thing. It's a
(03:36):
glorious thing. I asked for only to come in here
and see my heater, and how close I have it
to my feet, and how that my parents would not
have allowed that this date. It must be dangerous. And
he refused to come in here because he didn't want
to see my naked feet. So I took a photo
of him and send it to him and made him
look at that. Let's go to did you play fat
and sassy? Cause it's cold. Well, this is sit around,
(03:59):
get fat and sassy weather.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We'll probably sit around and cook some soups and.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Eat bread and desserts and just get on fat and sassy.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know that woman can cook, My God, she can cook. Marie.
You're on the Michael Berry Show Annual Adoption Special. Go ahead, sweetheart, Marie, Marie,
give me the first last name that comes to mind
for you when I say the name Marie should be Levo. Yeah,
(04:30):
and Bobby Bear's version of Marie Levo. That's his kid
who's screeching, you know that in that song. All right,
let's go to Laura. Then Marie has missed. Do we
talk to Laurai. Let's go to Chris. Chris, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning brother, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, I'm gonna make this short and sweet if I can.
But I have a nineteen year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
When she came into my life, she was four years old,
and her.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Biological father would not sign off from the adoption papers. Uh,
long story short, she calls me Dad, and she called
him by his first name, and so I felt like
I won that one. So she might not have my
last name or my blood. But that's my girl, she
grew up.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He's my she's my hunting buddy and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
And and the coolest part about it is she was
four years old when her mama and I got married.
And when I asked my wife to marry me, I
gave her a ring, of course, but I had a
little one made so my daughter her name Drily and
uh so I asked her to marry me too, and
I was all, my need a whole nine yards. And
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when she put that ring on, she was so happy.
She said, can I can I'll call you dad? And
I said, I tell you what, you just I didn't
know how to answer that, honestly, he caught me off
bard but it was a beautiful moment.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I said, I tell you what. The minute were married,
you can call me dad and it's not a problem.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
So and always, uh we were taking pictures that she
was getting on my knee and she's like, can I
call you Dad now? And uh, well, I'll get a
little choked up thinking about it, but I said, baby, girls,
you can call me dad the rest of your life.
And so I didn't get to go through the adoption
part of it, but uh, I feel like I did anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
In spirit, it's nothing else, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I do know exactly what you mean, brother, and I
will tell you this I have. I'm a big believer
in the institution of marriage. I think it's important. But
I have known people who, for whatever reason, I know
a couple right now that comes to mind who are
not married. They're they're Ron Paul Libertarians. They don't they
don't participate in anything government related. They're almost entirely off
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the grid, and they do not get married because they
don't want documentation with the government. But they love each other.
They care for each other, and to me, that's what's important.
And you know, whether documents are filed with a governmental
entity does not affect what is important in life, which
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is love, sacrifice, care, kindness, generosity, the things that we
do for other people. And there's no government body that
can sanction that. So that's how I look at that.
I've got one minute for Gary. Gary, you're only Michael
Berry show. You are the minute man, Go.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
We'd adopted by daughter who's now thirty five. We had
doctor from Romania and she has been an absolute blessing
thing her whole life.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's a.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
People that don't you know why not great boys there,
you know, biological but my daughter. People find it hard
to believe that she's adopted because she is just one
of the.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Thank God, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That is what it is all about. The important things
in life cannot be manufactured, shipped in a container, put
on sale. They just can't good company. But Conki is
very Yes, I will agree it is. It is not
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a substitute, but it certainly doesn't attract We will admit to.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
That, Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
So you know, so be careful.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I apologize in advance for this next one. Absolutely uncalled
for to play that. It's a news report from w
zz M TV. This little boy is so excited about
his adoption that he invites his entire class to his adoption.
(09:16):
Hearing this one gets me every time.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Family, a big family is support in love with an
even bigger heart. Michael Orlando Clark Junior. He is a
very active and silly, silly kindergartener invited his entire class
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to watch this moment.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
It is ordered Michael that your forever mom and dad
will be David Andrew Eaton and Andrea Louis.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Melvin and cheer him on.
Speaker 9 (09:58):
One, two, two three. Sometimes their journeys have been very long.
They've included miracle and change for the children and family,
and incredible community support, as you were able to see
today in Michael's adoption hearing with his whole kindergarten, glass
(10:20):
and school being here to say we love you, we
support you, and we'll be here not only today but
in all the years in the future.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
It's safe to assume how Michael feels.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
We've been working with Catholic charities and the workers there
have just been amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I love my daddy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Wow, I love my daddy so much. This is just
too much.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
This is just too much.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, it's been amazing obviously, how supportive.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
They've all my daddy too much? Marie, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Where were you when we went to
you for Marie?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You mean this today?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, I was walking around my house and I have
very spotty internet.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well how comeed you were walking around your.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Ey I go into a certain room like over by
my garage and I just it drops calls. So I
have very spotty internet in my own freaking house.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But anyway, well, hold on, do you do you just
do you just walk around the house like when you're
on hold like that, you just walk around the house.
You pace.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
With that too, And I was doing things like empty
dishwashers and stuff because I have five hours to go
before I go back to work, so I have to
get stuff done before I have to go back to work.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So you have to in between shifts like you're off
and then you go back. Uh huh, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'm a crossing guard.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh well, have you called the show before?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, I called for the twin. I'm a twin also.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, so so you do the morning crossing, which finishes
up at what time?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Nine o'clock?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I am oddly fascinated by this. I just oddly fascinated
by this. Okay. So then you get off at nine,
and then you come home and you've got five hours
where you can do your things, and then you need
to be back at what two? Yeah, and then how
long do you does that shift?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
That's about two hours when I get home about four
point thirty. I'm really close to school anyway, so it's
not a big deal. But no, I could tell you
stories that would turn your hair gray.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Do you do you walk to the school or do
you drive to the school?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I drive.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You had the sign that wouldn't hold up, and we
got Sparks Engineering to redesign it so it would it
wouldn't get blown out of your hand. Are you.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
They gave us newer signs. When I first started, it
was a cardboard thing, but now they're heavier. They're still cardboard,
but now they have a heavier handle on them.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Oh it wasn't you, then, I don't. We had someone
I think she was Uh no, it might have been
a he and maybe it was a listener who was
a parent at the school, or a teacher or something.
But the wind would blow this stop sign when the
guy would hold a sign up, and it was an
older man and it would push him back, and it
was all this resistance. So I asked Sparks Engineering to
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get involved, and they wrote up a whole report, like
I was a paying client on the wind coefficient and
the resistance and all this stuff, and they designed a
sign that would you could still read it as stop,
but it had proper slits in it to allow, you know,
the wind to go through it, so you could hold
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it as if you weren't, you know, being blown over
like a sail in the wind, and it was amazing.
If you will email me, Marie, I will ask them
they had they had about one hundred made sparks did
at their own expense. It weren't cheap. They had about
one hundred made sparks SPA r Ex Engineering, Oh sparks.
(14:15):
But if you email me when we get off Michael
Berryshow dot com and it says sin Michael's email, I'll
see that they had about one hundred maid and they
because to do one pressing of them cost a certain
amount of money, and so they they had them all
made and they donated them to the local school districts
and uh, I had I got emails from people who
were so happy at what Sparks Engineering had done. It
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was it was just incredible. It was incredible.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yes, it does get very windy. I've actually smacked myself
in the head with it when it's been so windy.
I'll have it up and I'll come back and hit
me in there.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
What is your school, Marie?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
It is conro ISD.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Conroe ISD. Okay, And how did you get involved doing that?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
I wanted something so I could take my kid back
and forth to school and you know, just have the
same hours and suck and I just and everybody thinks
it's a volunteer. No, no, no, you get paid for it.
You get paid about fourteen bucks an hour.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Fourteen But I work three hours a day.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Huh No, No, but I work about three hours a day.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So forty bucks a day. You know, you are kind
of tied to it. You can't go do something else.
You can't you know, move around. I think that's two
hundred and eight hondreds. So so eight yeah, eight a year.
Are you married?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, And he's okay with you doing this.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Yeah. In fact, I would think he got tired of
me because I'm always coming home whining because I don't
understand exactly why people think it's okay to talk on
your phone each put makeup on in the school zone
and not stop. No one stops at stop signs, are
you kidding?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah at all.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I have three stop signs I'm working with, and they
don't stop at any of them because you know, the
ones on the road which is supposed to stop that
the one I got my hand and so yeah, no,
no one stops at stop signs. The I didn't see you, Well,
maybe if you were on your phone.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
The lectures I've given my kids as preparation for driving.
One of the top, you know you don't you don't
consume alcohol and ever get behind the wheel. I will
never question if you say I can't drive, you can
take an uber or I'll come.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
And get you sure.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Number two is you don't speed because there's no excuse
for it, and then you're asking for a problem. And
number three, you're uber careful when you are around school
zones because not only is it a criminal offense, but
your conscience would eat you for the rest of your
life if you ever hit and hurt a kid. And
my kids take that very, very very seriously. But I
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see that when I've done kid pick up, I see
these moms and they have their own kids, and you know,
these kids are darting. They have no appreciation for the
danger of what's going on, and and the moms are
on the phone and distracted and driving their big tank
suburban through the through the school pickup zone. And sometimes
(17:31):
there's only one lane available because the moms get there
and squat on the on the various lanes, so none
of the traffic can move. It's the craziest damn thing. Anyway,
hold on the ray. I'll come to you first.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I sport flop Michael Ferry seaching.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
People the general giant he.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Knows and does and doesn't care.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
And I'm man.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Flopping around those gimmicks who I am? But I believe
all my Nashville friends and classic country friends sending me
emails about it the Country Music Awards. Oh was I
watching it? You see that look on George Streets. No,
I'm not watching it. I don't need to walk into
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a viper pit to know there's vipers in there, and
I don't want to be bitten. Buddy of mine on Twitter,
pretty clever post under an alias, but he said, we
won the House, we won the Senate, and we won
the presidency, but we lost country music. And that's the
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damn truth when you look at who they were promoting
as being the presenters and the performers last night. I
didn't watch it, and I wouldn't watch it because we
lost country music with Luke Bryan. Anytime somebody tells me
like Luke Brian, I go, well, then you don't like
country music. People will often say to me, people's wives,
(19:01):
usually that they like who's Keith Urban. They'll say, oh,
I hear that you love country music. I do too.
Mm okay, uh, Keith Urban and Luke Bran keep going
because we're not to country music yet, we're not anywhere
(19:22):
near country music. If that person cannot off the cuff
sing three Merle Haggard songs without googling the words, that
is not country music, Drenda, you're on the Michael, Oh
did we get We didn't. We didn't let Marie finish Marie.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I have a quick story. When I was adopted, my
parents adopted to boys and then my dad, my adopted
dad was a twin, so his mother said, you can't
have one, you have to have two. So when we
were adopted, we were adopted at six months and so
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by my parents, and so they put us in separate homes,
and the people who had us said, oh, they're fussy,
fuss horrible fussy babies. And as soon as we got
back together, we weren't fussy. My mom's like, you're like
the best ever. So the reason we were fussiest because
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we were separated.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So it's meant to be. I got an email from Oh, oh,
this is unrelated, but I wanted to read this. It's
from Daniel eurebe Czar. I hear the military service men
and women saying hello for the holidays during your show commercials.
I missed those days of watching local TV and seeing
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them wish us well. Maybe a show idea when your
listener's kids are family members from the military, say hello
from your radio show, just like your adoption show that
I love, Eltessino. Thanks for reading, have a great day,
Keep sharing the family stories. The reason I bring that
up is because you're going to have family members in
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during the Thanksgiving break from the military, and I want
you to just take out your phone and hit record.
I'm not the one to do this because remember the
first time I met William Nelson, I couldn't get to
the voice memo function. If you have an iPhone, there's
a voice memo button. It looks like an EKG. It
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looks like a sound file, I guess technically. But if
you go find that, then you just push it and
you don't have to worry about editing and all that.
And then if you send me an email with it,
I'll respond, and then that'll give you my direct email address,
which is Michael at Michael Berry Show dot com. And
then you'll be able to send them to us, and Jim,
our creative director, can make magic out of those. I
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don't know how he does it, but he just does
it and have them do a You know. This is
John Smith from Kirbyville, Texas, serving in So and So Iraq,
and Merry Christmas to all or whatever whatever message you
want him to send. Debbie wrote me an email that says, zar,
(22:32):
I intended to email you yesterday, but like most things today,
I forgot. My adoption story is like so many others
from the fifties. I've always known I was adopted and
I haven't adopted non biological sister who found her bio
family twenty five plus years ago. My adoption papers were
sent to my sister by mistake during her search, and
I knew my last name for the first time, Jackson.
(22:54):
I'm sorry, missus Jackson. I joined ancestry and dabbled for
years looking for clues without many answers, but then close
matches to my DNA close like sister nephew close were added.
I continue to email those on match lists, and I
finally found a young girl who emailed me back. Apparently
she didn't know I was a secret and offered information
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on my biological dad and mother. I was told she'd
follow up after asking her mom. I knew then I'd
never hear back from her, but this gave me the
names of my biological mother and father. I located them
after sixty six years, both alive and well, living fifteen
minutes apart from each other. Both remarried. I reach out
to my biological mother via letter, and I was answered
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bioparents age ninety two and ninety three were still alive.
Then also, I am still secret after sixty eight years.
She goes to this whole thing. This is why I say,
and I mean, don't validate yourself based on what anyone
else thinks of you. Nobody else can make you illegitimate,
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Nobody else can make you a shamed A buddy of
mine emailed and said, adoption used to be shameful. But
when I get through listening to your show every year,
I wish I was adopted. Good. That's the point you
the only smell mister bid.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It's so Marie email me. She says she works for
the Conroe Police Department. I thought she worked for the
school district. I got I got a message from Brett
Legan yesterday. He said, hey, the uh, I guess Conroe
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does a h an annual parade in December, and they
asked me to be the grand Marshal. And if I
wouldn't do it, would I invite you? And he said,
I got a big old gord and you got a
much smaller, shapely, handsome gourd. So you and Trump would
(25:17):
just get nicked on the ear. Would be my big
old gourd there I'd be just sitting duck as the
Grand Marshal of Conroe parade. And wouldn't that be a
wet blanket on the experience. So he gave me the date.
I think it was December fourteenth, and I said, well,
number one, I rarely go out in public, certainly not
if I tell where I'm going to be in advance,
(25:38):
because people are just too weird. And number two, as
luck would have it, I'm out of town. So you're
going to drag your big gourd through Conra and be
the grand Marshal of the parade. And he said, man,
I've been however long, he's been district attorney for twenty years.
I've been locking up criminal I've been doing this I've
(26:02):
been doing this. Nobody wants the district attorney as the
grand marshal of the parade. I said, well, Brett, you
are an elected official and you could use the publicity
at least this one time. You're doing something that people
don't hate, so enjoy and send me a picture. And
that's where we left it. John writes. If she motions
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to step into the roadway, it invokes a reaction from
the driver to pay attention and stop. I used to
train flaggers for a traffic control on highway and local roadways.
It has a ninety percent efficiency of getting them to
stop or at least to get their attention, because nobody
wants to hit somebody with their car. Old Contrari's some
(26:48):
people i'd like to I will say this, mister Racindez,
I appreciate your commentary, but if you are the person
who's training the road crews that I've seen, I would
not be telling that because generally it is about a
fifty two year old meth head, skid row alcoholic. It's
(27:15):
one of three things. It's a skid row alcoholic, white
dude whose nose has just all the bloodvelts just exploded,
and he's got a beard because he's too lazy, and
he's sunbeating and he's sitting there and he has no
interest in what's going on, and he's mad at everybody,
but at least he'll move around a little. Then there
(27:38):
is the black guy. He's about twenty eight. He's done
some time, but he's not a horrible guy, and he
ain't trying to bother anybody, and he ain't trying to
do much, so he's leaning on the sign. And then
there is the Hispanic dude, his first generation may or
may not be legal, doesn't speak English at all. He's
(28:01):
not thrilled to have this job, but he doesn't want
to lose it, so he'll put a little effort into it.
But he doesn't know what the hell's going on. He
has no clue who's coming, who's going, you know what,
so he just kind of stands there and waits. Well,
he is the worst person to put on the job.
When I'm coming up, because what I learned a long
(28:22):
time ago is the confident animal tells the other animals
what to do. That's the alpha. So I pull up
with a lot of confidence and I go, yeah, I'm
going through it, and he go, oh yeah, okay, and
then he tries to tell him down at the other
end that you know, this one's coming. We got a squirter,
as they say in the military when they got the
(28:43):
al Kada on the run, you got a squirter that
comes out of the crowd and we got to get him.
So they go, oh, we got a squirter. So he's
trying to yell that down to him, but the problem
is they got him on one end and they got
the old white guy down on the other end. They
don't speak the language, and the old white guy resents
the Hispanic dude, and so he's like, what what are
(29:05):
you saying, Petro Way, You're not supposed to let him curt,
You're not supposed to let him through. And then I'm
coming up on that guy. Well, this bullying technique is
not working on the old white guy. He's aggravated, and
there's a very good chance he listens to the show,
but at that moment he doesn't know it's me, and
he wants me to know, you know, run. He's very
aggravated to be out there because it's hot out there.
(29:26):
It's always hot out there. Now. The other option is
he yells down there to the black dude. The black
dude does not give a damn. So just for fun,
you pull up once you've squirted through and you got
down to the end, and you roll it down and go, Hey,
what's that guy back there saying? Because you're curious what
he took away from the experiences? Hell if I know
he does that all day. I don't know why they
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got he don't know what the laws or nothing. Well,
I appreciate your servicer. You got it all right, And
then you drive off and he kind of feels like, yeah,
I mean, he's kind of my service. I'm kind of
you know, this is the thing I'm doing. It's a thing. Ted,
You're on my mind, Barry Show. What's the use sir?
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Good morning, Michael, first time to call and talk to you.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Fantastic.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
I was adopted at birth. I'll be soon to be
fifty one years old in.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
A month and.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
About a year and a half ago, I decided to
get both the twenty three and me and ancestry DNA KITS.
I have always known I was adopted, and I always was.
It was never a secret to me that I was adopted,
nor was it ever a secret that after being diagnosed
with retinitis pigmentosa that I would eventually be blind, and
(30:41):
I indeed was in my twenties. RP is a degenerative
hereditary I disorder, and I did a couple of term
papers in high school on RP and it made me
want to find my biological parents. But as a disabled
(31:01):
individual growing up in Magnolia, Texas and then later moving
to Houston, and my disabilities besides my goodness ever getting
worse through the course of my life, it was not
easy financially or physically to do the research.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, hold on, I'm gonna talk to you off air.
Hold on, we'll record it and play it as a podcast.
We're almost out of time. Let me close by saying this,
Be proud of who you are. Be proud of how
you got here. A lot of you did build that.
I'm gonna say you didn't build that, But a lot
of people from before you can remember, have been wiping
your button, putting food down your gullet, providing for you,
(31:41):
caring for you, sacrificing for you. Be proud of that
and thank those people for who they are. And you
might have been an imperfect mother or father at some
point in your life, all the way up till ten
minutes ago. But that doesn't mean you can't fix it
starting today. Life is not perfect, None of us is perfect.
If you knew my whole story, you'd say, oh, why
didn't you tell us that none of our lives are perfect,
(32:04):
how we ended up here, our childhood and all of that.
Just do what you know is the right thing to do.
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