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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lock and load. So Michael darry Show is.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
On the air now, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, that's right, elbot redly.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
This is my bed level for the fight, A new
place to dwells downend of the lone street.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's hotby Couto.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Well that's all riding, mama, that's all right to you,
that's all ride and mama say anyway into.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's all right. You ain't loving bar the cry time.
But it's one full of money for the shower. But
get a ready and I gold cat over.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But don't you step on my blue sway shoe. Well
you can do anything with the deal over my blue swashoe.
If you can't call wrap that police, please tell my
p don't beat crud who hard?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's true? What the bliss of my hussle? What's wrong
with me? I met you? I command on the fuzzy tree.
My friend say, I'm back then? Why is a book?
I'm in love?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm all shook up?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
One through a party in the county jail, the prison
man's dada began wi.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The man's jumping down the jump again to swing You said,
I had his loft down jail part sing that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What is man say only fools?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But can.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Fall in love?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Where if I can't dream of the sun where hole
keeps shining.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
On eververone tell me, why, oh, why oh, why want
that sign?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I want to cold m Gray Chicago morning. A poor
little baby child is born in the gettle.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We can't go together, missus us, and we can't be
up ass picious.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And foggy rain keeps for him.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And never heard the town.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Walking ile's fool. I traveled and every time much more
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I didn't matter.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
All right, my office has left the building. I've told
you absolutely straight up to this point. You know that
he has left the building. He left the stage and
went out the back with the policeman, and he is
now gone from the building.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I can't help but think, because the most underappreciated artists
in American history is the songwriter you know who wrote
always on My Mind? Good guess Barry Gibb is actually
(04:27):
a very very good guess. It's a little early for
Barry Gibb. But considering, I mean, the best answer if
you don't know who wrote a song is Barry Gibb
of that era? Yeah, Wayne Carson, who most people aren't
going to know Johnny Chstopher, who most people an't gonna know.
But the third name you will, and that is Mark James,
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the Great Mark James appears again. When I was a
little kid, you know, there are certain things you pick
up from your parents. My mother was the most fanatic
Elvis fan. We were an Elvis fan, I mean fanatical
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Elvis fan, and I picked it up. Elvis was revered
in our home. I wasn't around when JFK passed. She
tells me that was a sad moment. But I assure
you not nearly as sad as a decade and a
half later when Elvis passed. I remember going into my
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grandmother's trailer, walking in, and you've ever been in the
trailer of that time? You had everybody had the same
front door on it, and that little a little hinge
or whatever you call it, that would that would pull
it back closed, and it had a certain it had
a certain refrigerator door closed sound to it. And I
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remember walking up the steps into her trailer toward her
and she just collapsed.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You have no idea, right, but as a wee willie kid,
I remember thinking that at some point in my life.
What I was meant to do was I was going
to be on stage, and I was going to enter
the stage to Elvis's intro music, which of course, as
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you know, is what we use two thousand and one,
and then into CC Rider, And I didn't know what
I was going to do on stage. I was going
to be on stage and I was going to enter
to Elvis as Elvis would do. And here we are
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on Elvis's ninetieth birthday. A restaurant is such a dream
come true. It's such a passion project. Nobody goes into
the restaurant business to make money. Nobody anybody goes into
the restaurant business to make money is a fool. There's
better ways to do it with a lot less worries.
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It's a passion project. And I am a sucker for
the locally owned passion project restaurant and I will always
do my best to support them. Now the Darden's restaurants,
or you get Johnny Carroba to tell you sometime about
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why he sold out to Darden and walked away from
the Carabas. He has the Kirby and Voss locations, which
are fantastic, but you get him to tell you sometime
about why he stepped down. He was part of the
when Darden when they bought him out, it was an
ongoing relationship. And when he's sat when he sat with
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their corporate types and they start asking him, does he
know how many pennies go into how much Caesar dressing
they put on the caesar salad And he says no,
and he and they say, well, it's a million and
a half if we cut that, and he says, no,
I'm not going to do it anyway. Some restaurant closings
can tell you about bummer coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of michael Berry, which has
a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Interestingly, I live on the Gulf of America. When you
look at the Gulf of America, it is the water body.
For those of you not in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida.
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First of all, I feel bad for you, because this
is God's chosen country. We are better for our suffering.
It is a war zone like existence because of the
hurricanes that come through here. But you know it is
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through that suffering. I believe that people learn to rely
on each other. People learn you can't afford not to.
It builds an incredible sense of community.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But living on.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
The Gulf of America as I do, the reality is
this should be named for our great nation. We should
be willing to plant our flag wherever we go, to
fly it high, to boast, to brag, to be proud.
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That's what people do who confident in who and what
they are. Don't let anyone steal that confidence from you.
Trump saying it is now the Gulf of America and
not the Gulf of a third world, broken, corrupt, cartel
ridden country is yet another sign of a man who
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is proud of this country and wants to promote it.
He's a promoter, and there's nothing wrong with that. Americans
are the best salesman in the world. And I don't
know why when I say that people are ashamed around
the world they want to hire Americans as salesman. We
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sell better than anyone. What's wrong with selling, persuading, convincing, arguing, winning,
Because in order to sell, you have to close. Don't
make me go Glengarry Glenn Ross. And you don't make
me do it, you'll be stuck with the steak knives.
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Don't make me do it. But you know, this whole
concept of the Gulf of America and not the aforementioned,
well you know what it was called. It got me
thinking because people keep telling me that we should take
in Mexico. You don't want Mexico. You haven't been there obviously.
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First of all, if you're going to take in Mexico,
you're going to have an actual war with the cartels.
Now Trump has said he would like to have that war,
and I'm comfortable with that, but you've got to it
can't be like Iraq. You can't go in there and
violate the Powell Drop doctrine because you break it, you
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own it. Just like at the store. When you go
into Mexico and you take on the cartel, if you
go for the king to take him out. I don't
think Americans understand how powerful the cartels are. The firepower
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they have, the number of men and women they have,
the equipment, they have, the sophistication of their drones, of
their communication systems. But they have something even more powerful.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They own.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The government. They own the government, which means that if
you go in and you get the local town mayor,
I'll call they behind you and you're going to reform
that community. The cartels just call up the governor and
they met. The mayor is dead. By tomorrow, you get
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the governor on your side, they call up the FEDS,
and by tomorrow the governor's dead. They don't just kill
people the way the mafia did. The mafia steered clear
of famous people. They made it a point not to.
The cartels make it a point to kill famous people,
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to kill powerful, prominent people, and to put their fingerprints
all over it. There was a mayor in Mexico last year.
He ran on a on a reform platform. He got elected,
and within the week his head was placed on top
of his car. It's uncanny. You see the picture. It
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looks like it's photoshopped. It was real. They hang the
heads of journalists who are writing stories about them, investigating them,
and judges. They hang them from the from the overpass.
You're driving along and they're dangling down is the head
of a prominent person. It's a powerful message. How you
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think about that, it's a very powerful message. Hey, you
want to mess with them, you want to mess with them,
this is what will happen to you. It's a scarecrow effect.
I don't want Mexico. You might go down to Cancun
and have a nice time at a wet hang, or
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you might go down to one of your favorite beaches
and have a hell of a good time. But you
want to come back home. You might go down to
Cabo for a period. You don't want the burden of
the corruption, because you don't want the Mexicans running their
own government. There's too much corruption within it. Of course,
Ron White had a Ron White had an interesting idea
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on what to do with Mexico. Since we're we're since
we're moving our chest pieces.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Here, and we take the money we make from selling
the rest of Florida to Israel, we buy Mexico, fix it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Up and flip it.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
We'll have to send down some painters and landscapers because
they're all up here, and when they're gone, you're gonna
wonder where they went, because you ain't gonna want to
do this shit yourself, not if you're anything like me.
We sell Mexico to a country that can put a
ton of cash down, but you know they can't make
the payments.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Like Peru.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Peru has trillions of US dollars in cash, and banks
all over Peru. That's your cocaine money they chocked you
out of. We get all that money back. We financed
the balance of Mexico to Peru. We let them get
behind on the payments. We repossess Mexico. Now we have
Mexico free and clear, new paint, new shrubs. Now with
all that cocaine money, we start buying countries south of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We buy them all. We buy Belize, hon.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Duris, Nika, Roguell, salvad Or Costa Rica. And every time
you buy one of those countries, that long ass wall
this country needs to build gets a little and shorter,
doesn't it, until eventually we buy back the Panama Canal,
which we built. Anyway, stand there and go swim this
and you know what, we'll call it North America.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
If you can't say something nice, you can always say
it on the Michael Berry Show. We will close the
show today, which will be in an hour. Listen carefully
where you call with your reminiscences of seeing Elvis in person.
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So that doesn't mean your mom saw Elvis. That doesn't
mean you almost saw Elvis. I mean you were gonna
go but had to work overtime. It's gonna be my
little old ladies, a little old lady brigade out there.
You may have to call mom if she's not already listening.
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Make sure she's tuned in. You might be at the
doctor's office. What times she'll be out. She's part in
the waiting room right now. And at ten point thirty
we will put out the call. At ten thirty will
put out the call. If you saw Elvis live in person,
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I want you to tell me where it was. And
I expect to only have little old ladies because we're
talking about fifty years ago, and unless you're there, maybe
some maybe some sixty eight year olds that were there
could be could be. I told you restaurant news. I
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got news that our friend John mclere and his bride
Jessica were closing the eighteen seventeen Steak and Seafair and
Little Buffalo Grill. He had opened that in a community
called Evia in Galveston. And it's a neat little community.
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It's just west of town in a little development looks
like I don't know Charleston, South Carolina, or it's it's
whoever conceived of it. I think it's Rocky Sullivan. And
in that group that that built that. I'm not positive
on that, but they they were created with their detention.
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They've got a they've got a water body and in
the middle of the community. It's kind of self contained community,
which is sort of a neat deal. You can you
can walk through it, and they put some retail there.
It's hard to make retail work in a little community
like that. It's perfect when it does, but the community
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has to support it, and they have to really support
it when in the community is relatively small, which that
one is, and and the economics you're just never going
to get rich on a deal like that. But McLear
had sold Buffalo Grill, a concept I think his father
had developed many many years ago, Buffalo Grill. When I
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ate breakfast, Buffalo Grill was was one of my hotspots
for many many years. In fact, during my political years,
I would eat at Buffalo Grill or avalon Diner nine
out of ten weekday mornings. And my scheduler, Monica Ipudua,
who turns forty nine on Saturday every monk. Can you
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believe that Monica's old? Who would have guessed Monica could
old could get old? She'd started working for me when
she was twenty six godmother to my kids. Anyway, Monica
scheduled all my meetings and I would do a breakfast
meeting before council, then city council, than a lunch meeting,
then meetings after that, usually city council committee meetings, and
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then and then I might repair to some meetings slash
socializing at Downing Street. Good times, good times. Probably better
for my health that I was term limited, because six
years was about long enough to do that. But Buffalo
Grill was my hotspot, and it was mostly the one
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over on Biscinette. They moved it during that time it
was on Bissonet and they moved it just down the
road further moved it a little west on Bisonette, But
that was a spot for me. Nobody wants to hear
my breakfast order or more. You just want to hear
my breakfast order, all right, three eggs over medium bacon,
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I think, and I don't. I don't want to say
something without thinking about this, and then I gotta eat crow.
But no, I'm gonna stick to it. I think they
had the best bacon in town. Now. The problem with
bacon is that people like their bacon differently. So if
you say something is the best right, who throws the
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tightest spiral, who is the most accurate pastor who throws
the football the furthest down the field. Those are verifiable facts.
But when you say who makes the best bacon depends
on what kind of bacon you like. I don't normally
like crispy bacon. My kids do. I don't, but the
Buffalo grill bacon was a perfect blend of crispy but
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still moist. Because a lot of crispy bacon loses its flavor,
it becomes, you know, beef jerky, and I don't want that.
They had the best bacon in town bar none. So anyway,
you asked for this three eggs over medium bacon, extra
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order of bacon sausage. They did a pan sausage. I'm
not a linked sausage guy. I'm a pan sausage guy.
They did a pan sausage with an apple no something apple,
and white toast grits, And because I've such a regular,
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they would put the butter in the grits for me,
so I didn't have to do it myself. I appreciate
that you had little things in life, little things, you know,
little things like that glass of grapefruit juice and a coffee.
That was my breakfast. Yes, there is something else which
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was the coup de gras of the whole breakfast. They're oatmeal.
And the guy that worked there, I forget his name.
He wore a uh what do you call that? Things
like a stitched cloth. No, no, no, not a yomaha
that black guys in New York would wear. They'd have
the big hair and they'd have the dreads coming out
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the back, and they have that stitch cloth kind of
a toboggan type thing that they'd put over it. You
remember he wore that, I thought what was his name? Anyway,
he would keep an eye on how far along into
my breakfast I was, and because I would be in
a meeting, it would be a conversation going, and at
just the right moment he'd come over without ever saying
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a word, and he bring me my piping hot oatmeal,
and he had already put inside it for me my
brown sugar, a lot of brown sugar, woo, and some
walnuts and peanuts cut up. Anyway, so they've closed that,
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But apparently Dennis Bird, who everybody that closes in Galveson
now goes to work for Dennis Burg. He's opening two
concepts there. I don't know which ones, but so that's
good for the employees. We're going to be changing the
name of the Gulf of Mexico to.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The Gulf of Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Which has a beautiful.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Get things straight here, or I'm walking too.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
I don't work on January the eighth because that's the
eldest's birthday. I was holding down, man, somebody.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Talking to a friend of mine the other day about
Elvis and I had. On the flight to Japan, I
watched True Romance for the thirty seventh time. Again. God,
that's a good movie. God, that's so good. And I said,
you know, I think that's Val Kilmer's most underappreciated role.
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And he said, Valcilmer is not in True Romance.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
No, I've seen it probably ten times.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I've seen it thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
If I tell you he's in it, he's in it.
I love Val Kilmer. He said, all right, let's go
through the scenes. Okay, here we go. You want the
sound track to each scene. You want the soundtrack that
Dennis Hopper is introduced to when he puts his his dog.
You want to know the name of his dog. I'm
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obsessed with the movie. Val Kilmer's in the movie, Tony.
He's not in the movie. That's not Val Kilmer. That
he goes in to get Alabama Worthy stuff back. That's
not who that is. I know who that is, and
I know that's not Valkilmer. Val Kilmer played Elvis. What. Yeah,
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remember before Clarence Worthy would make any decision, he would
go to the bathroom and his mentor, as he's described
in the credits, would appear over his shoulder. That was Elvis,
and Elways tells him, you got to go. You got
to put a bullet That guy cannot breathe the air
you're breathing. You've got to put a bullet in him, Drexel.
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And he said, Okay, that's what I gotta do. He says,
I like you, Clarence, always have, always will. That's Valcomer. Yeah. Yeah,
yesterday we discovered uh mailman stealing your mail? When what
did we spy on the black Line? But Mailman Vaughn
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who called to offer his expert opinion on the subject. Well,
later in the day, Jim was pulling audio from the
show and we often go back and listen to things
and talk him over and he said to me in Ramon,
did you notice that Mailman Vaughn was the black version
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of Shelby Foot? And I thought he must have the wrong.
He must not know who shelby Foot is. You mean
the Civil War history, the great Civil War historian, Shelby Foot.
I could listen to show shelby Foot talk for hours,
and I think everybody could. He'd sit there on those
ken Burns document. Thank God for ken Burns, or we
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wouldn't have all the footage we have of shelby Foot
because he was at the end of his life. Shelby
Foot would unapologetically, unerringly explain the Civil War from a
Southern perspective, which is the factual perspective, which nobody dares do.
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And today that managed to cancel the man. But at
the time, just font of wisdom, just rolling off his
lovely tongue, was this glorious Southern accent, dripping with confidence
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and unerring accuracy. I am homeo for shelby Foot, if
you must know, he's fantastic, the late great. But Jim said,
our creative director said, did you notice that Melman Vaughan
was the black version of Shelby Foot? And it had
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not crossed our minds, so we thought this would be
a good time to debut a new segment. And you
decide it's called Decision twenty twenty five. The Fox News
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Decision Desk can now officially project CBS News now project
Here's the Call of the Night. We can project now.
It is now official CNN projects.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The Michael Barry Show presents Decision twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You decide this is historic. All right, We're going to
play an example of both men in you shoot me
an email and you tell me he does or he doesn't.
So first we'll play Mailman Vaughn Fromyes, Can I say
this from one before you play it? That dude calls
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it on the black line, says he's a Did he
first say he was from Beaumont? Or he say it
was a mailman used to be a mailman. He didn't
even say Beaumont. No offense. But I'm much more interested
in the fact that you were a mailman in Beaumont
than Houston. I'm still a Golden Triangle boy. And then
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just out of nowhere, if I hadn't asked him seventeen questions,
because it was on number seventeen that he goes, yeah,
I started in Orange. I don't think there's but one
post office in Orange. So I asked him which post
office and he just glossed over it. And I went
back and I thought, I mean, because he knows I
don't maybe there's another post office. Which post because only
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one that I know of which post office, but there's
only one. That's what I thought. Do you do you
realize how small Orange is are? Like you delivered You
probably delivered mail to my grandmother. My grandfather probably delivered
mail to me. Huh, and he just like it was
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nothing anyway. Here is mailman Vaughn will start.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
With him with Cornelia's he should know better.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
You know, each particular mail is photographed and then automatically
trade so you know according to delivery sequence and about
more than ninety five percent of the mail you know,
is done that way. You know sequence and uh and everything,
and you know each trade go to a carrier so
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they know exactly, uh, you know, the order of that
mail and who's caring it all.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
Right, Now, here's Shelby Foote is one of the things
that person deals with in his life. It's one of
the things that's bound the interest or write or in
writing about the people who live with it most often.
I suppose Cerly, in my case, it's the failure to
measure up to the tradition that makes the tragedy. Sometimes
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that involves an examination of the tradition itself, which you
find out is false or inflated.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
With Cornelia's h, he should know better. You know, each
particular male is photographed and then automatically trade, so you
know according to delivery sequence.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Tradition is one of the things that person deals with
in his life. It's one of the things that's bound
the interest or writer or in writing about the people
who live with it most often, I suppose Cly, in
my case.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
With Cornelia, failure no measure up to the tradition that
makes the photograph was an example delivery inflated and about.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Well, you know, that's pretty good. Crockett had a soccer
game last night and they had an announcer for the
soccer soccer game that didn't normally happen.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It was the best announcer for soccer game I've ever heard.
Because he was a stoner. I recorded, h, I'm going
to play for a Jimmy Carter is laying in state
in Washington, d C, the first time he's been in
d C and not screwed things up.
It's that time time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lock and load. So Michael darry Show is.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
On the air now, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, that's right, elbot redly.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
This is my bed level for the fight, A new
place to dwells downend of the lone street.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's hotby Couto.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Well that's all riding, mama, that's all right to you,
that's all ride and mama say anyway into.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's all right. You ain't loving bar the cry time.
But it's one full of money for the shower. But
get a ready and I gold cat over.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But don't you step on my blue sway shoe. Well
you can do anything with the deal over my blue swashoe.
If you can't call wrap that police, please tell my
p don't beat crud who hard?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's true? What the bliss of my hussle? What's wrong
with me? I met you? I command on the fuzzy tree.
My friend say, I'm back then? Why is a book?
I'm in love?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm all shook up?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
One through a party in the county jail, the prison
man's dada began wi.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The man's jumping down the jump again to swing You said,
I had his loft down jail part sing that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What is man say only fools?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But can.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Fall in love?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Where if I can't dream of the sun where hole
keeps shining.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
On eververone tell me, why, oh, why oh, why want
that sign?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I want to cold m Gray Chicago morning. A poor
little baby child is born in the gettle.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We can't go together, missus us, and we can't be
up ass picious.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And foggy rain keeps for him.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And never heard the town.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Walking ile's fool. I traveled and every time much more
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I didn't matter.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
All right, my office has left the building. I've told
you absolutely straight up to this point. You know that
he has left the building. He left the stage and
went out the back with the policeman, and he is
now gone from the building.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I can't help but think, because the most underappreciated artists
in American history is the songwriter you know who wrote
always on My Mind? Good guess Barry Gibb is actually
(04:27):
a very very good guess. It's a little early for
Barry Gibb. But considering, I mean, the best answer if
you don't know who wrote a song is Barry Gibb
of that era? Yeah, Wayne Carson, who most people aren't
going to know Johnny Chstopher, who most people an't gonna know.
But the third name you will, and that is Mark James,
(04:51):
the Great Mark James appears again. When I was a
little kid, you know, there are certain things you pick
up from your parents. My mother was the most fanatic
Elvis fan. We were an Elvis fan, I mean fanatical
(05:16):
Elvis fan, and I picked it up. Elvis was revered
in our home. I wasn't around when JFK passed. She
tells me that was a sad moment. But I assure
you not nearly as sad as a decade and a
half later when Elvis passed. I remember going into my
(05:39):
grandmother's trailer, walking in, and you've ever been in the
trailer of that time? You had everybody had the same
front door on it, and that little a little hinge
or whatever you call it, that would that would pull
it back closed, and it had a certain it had
a certain refrigerator door closed sound to it. And I
(06:01):
remember walking up the steps into her trailer toward her
and she just collapsed.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You have no idea, right, but as a wee willie kid,
I remember thinking that at some point in my life.
What I was meant to do was I was going
to be on stage, and I was going to enter
the stage to Elvis's intro music, which of course, as
(06:32):
you know, is what we use two thousand and one,
and then into CC Rider, And I didn't know what
I was going to do on stage. I was going
to be on stage and I was going to enter
to Elvis as Elvis would do. And here we are
(06:55):
on Elvis's ninetieth birthday. A restaurant is such a dream
come true. It's such a passion project. Nobody goes into
the restaurant business to make money. Nobody anybody goes into
the restaurant business to make money is a fool. There's
better ways to do it with a lot less worries.
(07:18):
It's a passion project. And I am a sucker for
the locally owned passion project restaurant and I will always
do my best to support them. Now the Darden's restaurants,
or you get Johnny Carroba to tell you sometime about
(07:38):
why he sold out to Darden and walked away from
the Carabas. He has the Kirby and Voss locations, which
are fantastic, but you get him to tell you sometime
about why he stepped down. He was part of the
when Darden when they bought him out, it was an
ongoing relationship. And when he's sat when he sat with
(08:01):
their corporate types and they start asking him, does he
know how many pennies go into how much Caesar dressing
they put on the caesar salad And he says no,
and he and they say, well, it's a million and
a half if we cut that, and he says, no,
I'm not going to do it anyway. Some restaurant closings
can tell you about bummer coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of michael Berry, which has
a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Interestingly, I live on the Gulf of America. When you
look at the Gulf of America, it is the water body.
For those of you not in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida.
(08:58):
First of all, I feel bad for you, because this
is God's chosen country. We are better for our suffering.
It is a war zone like existence because of the
hurricanes that come through here. But you know it is
(09:18):
through that suffering. I believe that people learn to rely
on each other. People learn you can't afford not to.
It builds an incredible sense of community.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But living on.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
The Gulf of America as I do, the reality is
this should be named for our great nation. We should
be willing to plant our flag wherever we go, to
fly it high, to boast, to brag, to be proud.
(09:57):
That's what people do who confident in who and what
they are. Don't let anyone steal that confidence from you.
Trump saying it is now the Gulf of America and
not the Gulf of a third world, broken, corrupt, cartel
ridden country is yet another sign of a man who
(10:22):
is proud of this country and wants to promote it.
He's a promoter, and there's nothing wrong with that. Americans
are the best salesman in the world. And I don't
know why when I say that people are ashamed around
the world they want to hire Americans as salesman. We
(10:44):
sell better than anyone. What's wrong with selling, persuading, convincing, arguing, winning,
Because in order to sell, you have to close. Don't
make me go Glengarry Glenn Ross. And you don't make
me do it, you'll be stuck with the steak knives.
(11:06):
Don't make me do it. But you know, this whole
concept of the Gulf of America and not the aforementioned,
well you know what it was called. It got me
thinking because people keep telling me that we should take
in Mexico. You don't want Mexico. You haven't been there obviously.
(11:29):
First of all, if you're going to take in Mexico,
you're going to have an actual war with the cartels.
Now Trump has said he would like to have that war,
and I'm comfortable with that, but you've got to it
can't be like Iraq. You can't go in there and
violate the Powell Drop doctrine because you break it, you
(11:49):
own it. Just like at the store. When you go
into Mexico and you take on the cartel, if you
go for the king to take him out. I don't
think Americans understand how powerful the cartels are. The firepower
(12:11):
they have, the number of men and women they have,
the equipment, they have, the sophistication of their drones, of
their communication systems. But they have something even more powerful.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They own.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The government. They own the government, which means that if
you go in and you get the local town mayor,
I'll call they behind you and you're going to reform
that community. The cartels just call up the governor and
they met. The mayor is dead. By tomorrow, you get
(12:54):
the governor on your side, they call up the FEDS,
and by tomorrow the governor's dead. They don't just kill
people the way the mafia did. The mafia steered clear
of famous people. They made it a point not to.
The cartels make it a point to kill famous people,
(13:16):
to kill powerful, prominent people, and to put their fingerprints
all over it. There was a mayor in Mexico last year.
He ran on a on a reform platform. He got elected,
and within the week his head was placed on top
of his car. It's uncanny. You see the picture. It
(13:39):
looks like it's photoshopped. It was real. They hang the
heads of journalists who are writing stories about them, investigating them,
and judges. They hang them from the from the overpass.
You're driving along and they're dangling down is the head
of a prominent person. It's a powerful message. How you
(14:03):
think about that, it's a very powerful message. Hey, you
want to mess with them, you want to mess with them,
this is what will happen to you. It's a scarecrow effect.
I don't want Mexico. You might go down to Cancun
and have a nice time at a wet hang, or
(14:25):
you might go down to one of your favorite beaches
and have a hell of a good time. But you
want to come back home. You might go down to
Cabo for a period. You don't want the burden of
the corruption, because you don't want the Mexicans running their
own government. There's too much corruption within it. Of course,
Ron White had a Ron White had an interesting idea
(14:48):
on what to do with Mexico. Since we're we're since
we're moving our chest pieces.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Here, and we take the money we make from selling
the rest of Florida to Israel, we buy Mexico, fix it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Up and flip it.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
We'll have to send down some painters and landscapers because
they're all up here, and when they're gone, you're gonna
wonder where they went, because you ain't gonna want to
do this shit yourself, not if you're anything like me.
We sell Mexico to a country that can put a
ton of cash down, but you know they can't make
the payments.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Like Peru.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Peru has trillions of US dollars in cash, and banks
all over Peru. That's your cocaine money they chocked you
out of. We get all that money back. We financed
the balance of Mexico to Peru. We let them get
behind on the payments. We repossess Mexico. Now we have
Mexico free and clear, new paint, new shrubs. Now with
all that cocaine money, we start buying countries south of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We buy them all. We buy Belize, hon.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Duris, Nika, Roguell, salvad Or Costa Rica. And every time
you buy one of those countries, that long ass wall
this country needs to build gets a little and shorter,
doesn't it, until eventually we buy back the Panama Canal,
which we built. Anyway, stand there and go swim this
and you know what, we'll call it North America.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
If you can't say something nice, you can always say
it on the Michael Berry Show. We will close the
show today, which will be in an hour. Listen carefully
where you call with your reminiscences of seeing Elvis in person.
(16:25):
So that doesn't mean your mom saw Elvis. That doesn't
mean you almost saw Elvis. I mean you were gonna
go but had to work overtime. It's gonna be my
little old ladies, a little old lady brigade out there.
You may have to call mom if she's not already listening.
(16:46):
Make sure she's tuned in. You might be at the
doctor's office. What times she'll be out. She's part in
the waiting room right now. And at ten point thirty
we will put out the call. At ten thirty will
put out the call. If you saw Elvis live in person,
(17:10):
I want you to tell me where it was. And
I expect to only have little old ladies because we're
talking about fifty years ago, and unless you're there, maybe
some maybe some sixty eight year olds that were there
could be could be. I told you restaurant news. I
(17:31):
got news that our friend John mclere and his bride
Jessica were closing the eighteen seventeen Steak and Seafair and
Little Buffalo Grill. He had opened that in a community
called Evia in Galveston. And it's a neat little community.
(17:55):
It's just west of town in a little development looks
like I don't know Charleston, South Carolina, or it's it's
whoever conceived of it. I think it's Rocky Sullivan. And
in that group that that built that. I'm not positive
on that, but they they were created with their detention.
(18:16):
They've got a they've got a water body and in
the middle of the community. It's kind of self contained community,
which is sort of a neat deal. You can you
can walk through it, and they put some retail there.
It's hard to make retail work in a little community
like that. It's perfect when it does, but the community
(18:36):
has to support it, and they have to really support
it when in the community is relatively small, which that
one is, and and the economics you're just never going
to get rich on a deal like that. But McLear
had sold Buffalo Grill, a concept I think his father
had developed many many years ago, Buffalo Grill. When I
(18:58):
ate breakfast, Buffalo Grill was was one of my hotspots
for many many years. In fact, during my political years,
I would eat at Buffalo Grill or avalon Diner nine
out of ten weekday mornings. And my scheduler, Monica Ipudua,
who turns forty nine on Saturday every monk. Can you
(19:19):
believe that Monica's old? Who would have guessed Monica could
old could get old? She'd started working for me when
she was twenty six godmother to my kids. Anyway, Monica
scheduled all my meetings and I would do a breakfast
meeting before council, then city council, than a lunch meeting,
then meetings after that, usually city council committee meetings, and
(19:42):
then and then I might repair to some meetings slash
socializing at Downing Street. Good times, good times. Probably better
for my health that I was term limited, because six
years was about long enough to do that. But Buffalo
Grill was my hotspot, and it was mostly the one
(20:05):
over on Biscinette. They moved it during that time it
was on Bissonet and they moved it just down the
road further moved it a little west on Bisonette, But
that was a spot for me. Nobody wants to hear
my breakfast order or more. You just want to hear
my breakfast order, all right, three eggs over medium bacon,
(20:27):
I think, and I don't. I don't want to say
something without thinking about this, and then I gotta eat crow.
But no, I'm gonna stick to it. I think they
had the best bacon in town. Now. The problem with
bacon is that people like their bacon differently. So if
you say something is the best right, who throws the
(20:50):
tightest spiral, who is the most accurate pastor who throws
the football the furthest down the field. Those are verifiable facts.
But when you say who makes the best bacon depends
on what kind of bacon you like. I don't normally
like crispy bacon. My kids do. I don't, but the
Buffalo grill bacon was a perfect blend of crispy but
(21:14):
still moist. Because a lot of crispy bacon loses its flavor,
it becomes, you know, beef jerky, and I don't want that.
They had the best bacon in town bar none. So anyway,
you asked for this three eggs over medium bacon, extra
(21:36):
order of bacon sausage. They did a pan sausage. I'm
not a linked sausage guy. I'm a pan sausage guy.
They did a pan sausage with an apple no something apple,
and white toast grits, And because I've such a regular,
(22:01):
they would put the butter in the grits for me,
so I didn't have to do it myself. I appreciate
that you had little things in life, little things, you know,
little things like that glass of grapefruit juice and a coffee.
That was my breakfast. Yes, there is something else which
(22:25):
was the coup de gras of the whole breakfast. They're oatmeal.
And the guy that worked there, I forget his name.
He wore a uh what do you call that? Things
like a stitched cloth. No, no, no, not a yomaha
that black guys in New York would wear. They'd have
the big hair and they'd have the dreads coming out
(22:45):
the back, and they have that stitch cloth kind of
a toboggan type thing that they'd put over it. You
remember he wore that, I thought what was his name? Anyway,
he would keep an eye on how far along into
my breakfast I was, and because I would be in
a meeting, it would be a conversation going, and at
just the right moment he'd come over without ever saying
(23:07):
a word, and he bring me my piping hot oatmeal,
and he had already put inside it for me my
brown sugar, a lot of brown sugar, woo, and some
walnuts and peanuts cut up. Anyway, so they've closed that,
(23:27):
But apparently Dennis Bird, who everybody that closes in Galveson
now goes to work for Dennis Burg. He's opening two
concepts there. I don't know which ones, but so that's
good for the employees. We're going to be changing the
name of the Gulf of Mexico to.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The Gulf of Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Which has a beautiful.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Get things straight here, or I'm walking too.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
I don't work on January the eighth because that's the
eldest's birthday. I was holding down, man, somebody.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Talking to a friend of mine the other day about
Elvis and I had. On the flight to Japan, I
watched True Romance for the thirty seventh time. Again. God,
that's a good movie. God, that's so good. And I said,
you know, I think that's Val Kilmer's most underappreciated role.
(24:37):
And he said, Valcilmer is not in True Romance.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
No, I've seen it probably ten times.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I've seen it thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
If I tell you he's in it, he's in it.
I love Val Kilmer. He said, all right, let's go
through the scenes. Okay, here we go. You want the
sound track to each scene. You want the soundtrack that
Dennis Hopper is introduced to when he puts his his dog.
You want to know the name of his dog. I'm
(25:11):
obsessed with the movie. Val Kilmer's in the movie, Tony.
He's not in the movie. That's not Val Kilmer. That
he goes in to get Alabama Worthy stuff back. That's
not who that is. I know who that is, and
I know that's not Valkilmer. Val Kilmer played Elvis. What. Yeah,
(25:32):
remember before Clarence Worthy would make any decision, he would
go to the bathroom and his mentor, as he's described
in the credits, would appear over his shoulder. That was Elvis,
and Elways tells him, you got to go. You got
to put a bullet That guy cannot breathe the air
you're breathing. You've got to put a bullet in him, Drexel.
(25:57):
And he said, Okay, that's what I gotta do. He says,
I like you, Clarence, always have, always will. That's Valcomer. Yeah. Yeah,
yesterday we discovered uh mailman stealing your mail? When what
did we spy on the black Line? But Mailman Vaughn
(26:21):
who called to offer his expert opinion on the subject. Well,
later in the day, Jim was pulling audio from the
show and we often go back and listen to things
and talk him over and he said to me in Ramon,
did you notice that Mailman Vaughn was the black version
(26:46):
of Shelby Foot? And I thought he must have the wrong.
He must not know who shelby Foot is. You mean
the Civil War history, the great Civil War historian, Shelby Foot.
I could listen to show shelby Foot talk for hours,
and I think everybody could. He'd sit there on those
ken Burns document. Thank God for ken Burns, or we
(27:07):
wouldn't have all the footage we have of shelby Foot
because he was at the end of his life. Shelby
Foot would unapologetically, unerringly explain the Civil War from a
Southern perspective, which is the factual perspective, which nobody dares do.
(27:28):
And today that managed to cancel the man. But at
the time, just font of wisdom, just rolling off his
lovely tongue, was this glorious Southern accent, dripping with confidence
(27:50):
and unerring accuracy. I am homeo for shelby Foot, if
you must know, he's fantastic, the late great. But Jim said,
our creative director said, did you notice that Melman Vaughan
was the black version of Shelby Foot? And it had
(28:10):
not crossed our minds, so we thought this would be
a good time to debut a new segment. And you
decide it's called Decision twenty twenty five. The Fox News
(28:38):
Decision Desk can now officially project CBS News now project
Here's the Call of the Night. We can project now.
It is now official CNN projects.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The Michael Barry Show presents Decision twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You decide this is historic. All right, We're going to
play an example of both men in you shoot me
an email and you tell me he does or he doesn't.
So first we'll play Mailman Vaughn Fromyes, Can I say
this from one before you play it? That dude calls
(29:12):
it on the black line, says he's a Did he
first say he was from Beaumont? Or he say it
was a mailman used to be a mailman. He didn't
even say Beaumont. No offense. But I'm much more interested
in the fact that you were a mailman in Beaumont
than Houston. I'm still a Golden Triangle boy. And then
(29:33):
just out of nowhere, if I hadn't asked him seventeen questions,
because it was on number seventeen that he goes, yeah,
I started in Orange. I don't think there's but one
post office in Orange. So I asked him which post
office and he just glossed over it. And I went
back and I thought, I mean, because he knows I
don't maybe there's another post office. Which post because only
(29:57):
one that I know of which post office, but there's
only one. That's what I thought. Do you do you
realize how small Orange is are? Like you delivered You
probably delivered mail to my grandmother. My grandfather probably delivered
mail to me. Huh, and he just like it was
(30:18):
nothing anyway. Here is mailman Vaughn will start.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
With him with Cornelia's he should know better.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
You know, each particular mail is photographed and then automatically
trade so you know according to delivery sequence and about
more than ninety five percent of the mail you know,
is done that way. You know sequence and uh and everything,
and you know each trade go to a carrier so
(30:49):
they know exactly, uh, you know, the order of that
mail and who's caring it all.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
Right, Now, here's Shelby Foote is one of the things
that person deals with in his life. It's one of
the things that's bound the interest or write or in
writing about the people who live with it most often.
I suppose Cerly, in my case, it's the failure to
measure up to the tradition that makes the tragedy. Sometimes
(31:20):
that involves an examination of the tradition itself, which you
find out is false or inflated.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
With Cornelia's h, he should know better. You know, each
particular male is photographed and then automatically trade, so you
know according to delivery sequence.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Tradition is one of the things that person deals with
in his life. It's one of the things that's bound
the interest or writer or in writing about the people
who live with it most often, I suppose Cly, in
my case.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
With Cornelia, failure no measure up to the tradition that
makes the photograph was an example delivery inflated and about.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Well, you know, that's pretty good. Crockett had a soccer
game last night and they had an announcer for the
soccer soccer game that didn't normally happen.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It was the best announcer for soccer game I've ever heard.
Because he was a stoner. I recorded, h, I'm going
to play for a Jimmy Carter is laying in state
in Washington, d C, the first time he's been in
d C and not screwed things up.
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