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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Firemen.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Nobody knows why, firemen or firemen, not even they can
tell you why, but it is time somebody try. Firefighting
is the most risky of jobs. Fire and ice are
uncomfortable separately or together. Wives hate the hours, kids love
the noise. Fire and ice. Any day at the firehouse,
the bell puts the dispatcher on the horn with a
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tenement tinder box address. Into bunker pants, rubber, turnout coat,
grab the mask and go. Minutes later you're on site.
As others run out, you go in. You'll need all
you can carry, the four pound acts, a six foot hook,
the Halligan pry bar. The ceiling has to come down,
and it's one of those stubborn tin ones. In the
scary dark, you are gouging out and tearing loose and
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pulling apart, gulping hair and tasting black. Your windpipe is
closing and you've lost track of which way is out.
Is it really worth it? They've cut your ladder company
from six men to five, so now everything you do
is sixteen point sixty seven percent more difficult and more danger.
Your air is low inside your mask, you're throwing up.
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There's a searing ember down your neck, toring glub's exposed,
a smashed hand. So you emerge from the holocaust, hugging
with your elbows. Somebody's singed kitten. Back at the station house,
you can almost breathe again. Next come the tedious hours
as you would hang up on grimy tools. The clean
up crew at the firehouse as you when windows need
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washing and toilets need cleaning, and floors need mopping and
beds need making.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You do it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Is it worth it? Your b crew pumper swapped his
day shift so some family guy could be home for
his kid's birthday, and then out down toward a false alarm.
Your buddy gets blindsided by a hot rod driven by
a drunk fire and ice. The intercom marks again. This
time it's a warehouse, a big fat, multiple blaze on
site engine man draped with icicles, dragging a three quarter
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pre connect froze hose are waiting for your big line
ladderman can't make the building without you, search rescue ventily.
Eventually it's over and out. Your smoke's nudged and sleepless
and grung out, But this one you won, but the
raging blaze that wanted to consume adjacent buildings did not
because you were there. Back at the firehouse before clean up,
you and the guy sit as fell tired but be laughing,
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feeling good about one another. Nobody outside your world can
ever know this feeling. Any other uniform, you get streets
named after you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
In this one.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You risk your life to save people until one day
you run out of chances and in one final fire,
either you buy it or you don't. And yet there
is no third way that you'd ever leave this job.
And you're doubting even God knows why. When you hear
us from of your voice saying it is worth it,
and you're hearing this voice, and there's nobody there but you.
It's a quiet voice from nowhere saying it is worth it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Fireman Paul Harvey could read the phone book and it'd
be interesting. That's the truth. So my buddy, whose name
I'm not going to mention, it may or may not
be like Claypool, but I'm not saying it is like well,
could be him and his wife Lori. Baby's born. They've
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put on the stork out front. They've told everybody blake.
So everybody's showing up. Let me see baby Blake. Well,
we looked at the baby and he didn't look like
a Blake. He's Connor. And I'm thinking to myself, who
looks at a newborn baby and says, uh, he don't
look like a Blake. He's more of a Connor. Mind you,
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he's coliguies, he's puking, he's crying. Who's thinking at that moment,
that's not a Blake. He's clearly not a Black. You
can tell you not Blake. I mean, look at that kid,
am Blake, that's Connor? Who is thinking that? That was
the funniest damn story I've ever heard. I how do
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you know with a newborn baby an hour old? It
actually wasn't It was like a day later. So can
you imagine they're probably getting blankets in the mail with
Blake in b It's a whole industry now right. They're
probably getting personalized diapers, you know, all the bibs, the stuff.
People and they're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna send them
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this nice gift. I'm gonna go ahead and put the
baby's name on there, because you want your baby's name
on everything. And so they got all this stuff for
baby Blake, and all they're thinking is this kid, this
is worse than a gender transition. His name is Connor.
Stopped calling him Blake. He's a month old. You're gonna
mess him up. So I asked people to tell the story,
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because I know we're gonna have some good stories. Aaron,
you got one for us? Hey, yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And actually that's why I did not monogram anything for
my own kid or have anything monograms, because I was
nervous about that. But this is actually about my great grandfather.
They had a name picked out because they were certain
it was a girl, and so the name was Minerva
Francis and he came out and they didn't have any
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other names available. So on his birth certificate it is
M period F period and that's it. So he goes
by which, as.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We all know, Sam, Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And so what did you end up naming?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well, that's I mean, that's his name what I ended
up naming my daughter. Yeah, my daughter is Alison Jean
and we call her Ali from Karate Kids.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh, I like that Alison with two l's are one.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Two l's, and we did that so that if she well,
so I always wanted. My name is just Aaron. And
so whenever the teacher would call on people in class
and somebody would say Elizabeth and they would get to say, actually,
it's Lizzie and they would say hey, Aaron, and I
would say here.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
And so I always.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Wanted to have a kid whose name was something that
could be shortened. So whenever they say Alison, she can say,
actually it's Ali.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Why did you want that?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I think just because they always passed by me and
they just kind of went to the next person.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yes, yes, yeah, But but she loves it. She loves
because and we do call her Alison when she's in trouble,
but she goes by Allie, you know, by everybody else.
And and Ali is just my ultimate favorite name.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, I like Ali. What what is your last name?
What is your middle name?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
My middle name? Oh boy, Busby b.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
U s b Y.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You know it's a family name, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
My sisters is Burford b U R F.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
O R D.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Dear God, be glad you got Busby.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
That That is what everybody says.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm just going to be completely honest. I was a
ruthless child, probably not surprising. If I had a classmate,
a girl whose middle name was Burford, we would have
called her Buford and we would have relentlessly tormented that
she would have moved, she would have moved schools.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It was.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's pretty bad. Sometimes I tried to change my today, right, well,
and that's why I went with my maiden name. Now,
so the bugy's gone, and so now I've got my
maiden name, which is which everybody called me in Hichol deton.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
How you spell that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
D E A T O N.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I guess that's better. This is the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So my friend who may or may not be Oute
Playpool and his wife who may or may not be
his wife Lori have a baby and they've told everybody
the baby's name is Blake. They've put it on the store.
People are buying nappies and shirts, shoes, stuff that can't
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be taken back now that you've now that you've put
the the baby on there, at least if you kept
the same initial than anything that was monogram you could nope.
And they look at this little baby, drooling, pooping. That's
not a Blake. That's a Conner. And it's just was
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a hypothetical. It could be anybody. I'm just using that
person as an example who it could have been. So
they decide, which just amuses me to know end only
a mother could do that. He's not a blake. You
can see he's not a blake. How would you know that,
You got no body of work. You don't know what
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his grades are gonna be. You don't know his personality,
his height, weight, Is he gonna be bald in sixth grade?
Is he gonna be you know, built like a brick. Yeah,
you just don't know. But he's this kid, as clear
as baby. It's clearly not a blake. We got to
change it. But honey, we can't change it, everybody. We've
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already told the whole world. You know, in the old
days when I was born, you would have given that
to the newspaper because they didn't have a lot in
the Orange Leader. Birds and Deaths was a big deal.
Mm hm, ramone. I don't mean to brag, but I
made the newspaper for the first time after my birth
announcement at two years old. True story. We were living
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in the house on Crabtree. Anybody knows where that is
just across the tracks from the park behind wickersham Ford.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
And.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We were living. My mother was living with her parents,
my grandparents, in a rented house on Crabtree. And I
fell down the stairs boom boom, boom boom, probably what
it's probably half my problems, and I busted my head open,
and I was taking the hot hospital, and so at
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the hospital there was somebody on the take there that
for five dollars a lead or two dollars a lead
or whatever would call and go, we got a kid
in here, busted his head open from the second floor. Okay,
can you give me the details. Yep. What's his name?
Michael Christian Barry, Okay, yepop. And it was there. I
was in the news and my mother, because back in
the day you would you won't remember this. They used
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to print the newspaper and then these kids would ride
around on their bicycle and they would throw the newspaper
and it was a game, right you try to hit
something when you and so people would get the newspaper.
And if you were in the newspaper, in our fan,
it's a big deal. And she has all the little
clippings in there. I was my first time in the
newspaper for having my head busted open at two years
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old on Crabtree Fall Downstairs. True story, Kim, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Hello, but you got sweetheart? I
can hear you find So.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
My son his story is before he was born, we
decided we were going to try to pick out names.
And I asked, because the husband always sticks it out.
You know that you're going to have a son, you
find out the gender. So he decided he said, we're
gonna name him Leroy, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
please not Leroy. And I said how about Dwayne? And
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he's like no, then then he's gonna go to school
and all the kids are gonna be like, oh Wayne,
I know right. So I was like, oh, okay, that
could be true. So he was born and my doctor
had a habit of the names.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
He would do songs.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
So here I'm all drugged up and he asked my husband, so,
what did you name your son? And he said Leroy?
And I'm like, oh my god, please don't pick out
on the birds, justific it. And so the doctor starts
singing the song Leroy Brown, and I'm like, oh my god,
he's on board with this and so I'm like, please,
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please don't put that on the on the yes, yeah,
I mean yeah, but he was not white.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I know where you're going. He was not white, right right.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
So after it was all said and done, and I'm
in the recovery room and everything, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, please honey, tell me that you did not
name him Leroy. And he goes, no, I didn't. And
I'm like, oh my gosh, thank you so much, lord.
And he goes, I said, so, what do you what
did you name him something worse than that? And he
said no, I named him Lane. His name is Lane Bradley,
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Lane Bradley's shoelock and his initials are pounds l bs.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I like that. There is no doubting that Lane Bradley
is a white kid. You will never have that worry.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
But I know, I was like, oh my it, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The head of the rodeo in town was Leroy Schaeffer,
and he was the whitest white guy you'll ever meet.
I mean, he is a true good old boy cowboy
belt buckle. I mean he was Leroy Hermes, the architect.
He's you know, very educated, sophisticated, but redneck Leroy and
Barbara Hermes Man about town. H I know another white Leroy.
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I can't remember who it was. My wife had a
classmate in law school named Amy. I can't remember Amy's
last name, probably better than I don't. And she was
dating a guy I think they got married, and his
name was Jerome, and me being me, first time I
met him, she said Michael because we already knew her,
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and she was in Houston for law school and they
but they were from Dallas, and she said, Michael, meet
my fiance Jerome. And oh, I couldn't help it. I
startled me and he goes, I know it's a black
dude's name, and I said, no, not at all, No, No,
I know. No. Of course, I was saying, I've never
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met a white Jerome ever. If you meet somebody named Jerry, now,
I always wonder, I wonder if he's secretly a Jerome
and he goes by Jerry, because white people are not
named Jerome, Right, Terry, Jill, Steve, all of you on
the line, hold on for just a second. But yeah,
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if your name is Leroy today, if you're or Germaine
or Montravius, or you got an apostrophe, Yeah, that's a
rough ghost.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
You will sleep like a Michael Harry superior.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Im on. If you're gonna play songs that reference firefighters
or fire can you make sure that they mentioned that
within the first three minutes of the song or just
queue it up to that here worth three minutes. Let's saying,
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we don't have that kind of time. Is nationally syndicated
show over fifty or phil It's kind of a big deal.
We can't be just sitting around waiting on a fire
risk what I'm saying. Let's go to Jill. For those
of you who just tuned in, we are not covering
Jimmy Carter's funeral. We will in the next hour. Jimmy
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Carter called Donald Trump an illegitimate president. Please do not,
in my presence, find yourself saying, you know, Jimmy wasn't
a good president, but he was a good man. After
he left office, he did a lot of good things.
No he didn't. You don't know what he did. Stop
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saying stupid stuff. Are you aware that he said on
multiple occasions that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. Go
ask any Jew if they think Jimmy Carter was a
good president. Post presidency you've been told he was a
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bad president. You don't even know why he was a
bad president. You can't name why he was a bad
president because you don't bother to learn it. I'm fine
with that. You can repeat something if I agree with
what you're repeating, but you cannot repeat what you've been
told because the media told you. You know, he wasn't
a good president. Who wasn't you know? Reagan beat him? Now,
but he was a good man, was he? Do you
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know anything about what he said and did? He wasn't
a good man? Well, you know he was a peanut farmer,
was he was it a profitable peanut farm? You bought
that crap too? How about this? Just so you know,
forty years from now, they're gonna say, you know, Joe
Biden was a one term president. But unlike Trump, who
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if you wouldn't believe Trump was he was loud and crashing.
Oh everybody hated him. People would cringe when he would talk.
Oh it's terrible. And Joe Biden, boy, he was. He
was a good man. You know, he was a little older,
so you know, I remember people were like, oh, he's
se now because they'd pick on him because old. But
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he was a good man and they picked on it.
He had a son and just like Jimmy Carter with
his brother Billy, and you know they would you know,
they hounded Jimmy Carter just because his brother took bribes
from the Lebanese, from the Libyan government and they hounded them.
You know, he had Billy Bear. You know, he was
he was a good guy. And I felt bad for
Jimmy Carter. You know, they haunded him and then afterwards,
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you know he'd build houses for poor people. Yep. He
just go out there and just hammer them to He
just be out there. You just you just drive down
the street and you're like, oh, that looks like Jimmy Carter. Yeah,
because he's a peanut farmer. He was. He was a
you know, you could argue whether he was a good
president or not, but he was a good man. He
was a good good man and lived along lived Bee hundred. Yeah,
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he was a good man. And you know I can
respect that about him. I don't have to like his presidency,
but I can respect that. Is crap. That's like saying,
you know, the he's a good man defense is what
they use for Joe Biden. He's a jerk. He's a
bad guy. He's awful, and it's okay to say that. Well, Michael,
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don't speak ill of the dead. How about Hitler? Somehow
you managed to speak ill of Hitler? Nobody says, well,
you know, he did have that unique mustache and all,
and he loved his German shepherd. And you know he
made an honest he made an honest woman of Eva Braun.
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He insisted to marry her before they had to die.
They is gonna kill him, you know, No, he was
a monster. Jimmy Carter was horrible. He flew around the country.
He flew around the world acting as if he was
the leader of America, intervening in foreign affairs, contradictory to
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America's stated position at the time. Bill Clinton hated him.
Not that that's your state, that's your judgment. Bill Clinton
hated him because he put the Marillis boat lift. When
they found out that Castro said, oh, you want our refugees, okay,
one day, we'll send you our refugees one day, one
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day only. You got to take them all, Okay, we'll
take them. He unloaded the prisons. Well, Carter's dumb ass.
Does he send them back no, he sends them to Arkansas. Well,
if you've seen that sea in Scarface where the guy
gets gutted spoiler alert in the inside the Cuban refugee tent,
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that didn't happen in Miami, that happened in Arkansas. That's
a true story. Go look up the riots in Arkansas
that during Carter's presidency. And Bill Clinton was the governor
of Arkansas and he was furious at Jimmy Carter for
dumping all of these very very violent rapist murderers in
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the state of Arkansas. I would just dump them there. Well,
they got out and started wreaking havoc. It wasn't a
good guy. It wasn't a good He was a horrible president.
He was a horrible person after the fact. Don't keep
repeating something you don't know to be true. Well, Michael,
he built them homes for poor people. He went out
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there for ten minutes and hammered a nail, and they
told you what a good guy he was. If he
was a good guy, you wouldn't have known he did that,
because he wouldn't have insisted that the cameras be there
to tell you what a good guy he was. He
spent every waking hour after his presidency was over, his
failed presidency, every waking hour trying to convince the world
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that he was such a good man. He was a
horrible man, and I'm okay saying it, and you don't
have to say it was a horrible man, because again,
this is the nice neighbor syndrome. This is what gets
you in trouble. Is why a lot of you didn't
vote for Trump and twenty Well, I just want things
to get back to normal, you know. I mean, I
like him. I like him. I just wish be honest
with you. I wish he'd shut his mouth and stop
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saying mean things. I mean, why does he have to
be some mean? Why does he have to do that?
He doesn't need to be some mean? Okay, well, you
understand they shot him in the head, they dragged him
through the court system, they've lied about everything about him. Yeah,
you got to be means Well, I just the nice neighbor.
That's why you people, That's why the Democrats get away
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with it. We got all these Republicans out there. They think,
look at me, look at see. I'm not a bad person.
I'm not one of those crazy fire breathers. I heard
Michael Berry talk about about Jimmy Carter, and I thought,
leave that man alone.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Leave it.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
He made a statement. You know what he said. He said,
Jimmy Carter is lying in state in Washington, D c.
And that's not the first time all the last time
he lied. And you know what else he said, Jimmy
Carter has returned to Washington, D C. And at least
this time he's not screwing it up. Can you believe
he said that that's not nice? Nice is overrated, Jill,
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I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Well, thank you for the Carter introduction.
Because my daughter, three hundred and sixty one days after
my first suver was born, his second daughter is born.
My aunt mitched Christmas stocking to hang on the mantle,
and it starts at the top and it has Madison
on it. And she's born in which Kansas. There are
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three Madisons and three Ammas, and that was gonna be
her name, and I looked at my husband, I should
take another name, and so he picks Carter, And anyway,
that's her name, and she has two other sisters. They're
named after President. Her name is Carter is actually named
after her name is Carter.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Perfectly Hugh the Twilight theme song, how about Me, Trash
and Carter, and then her daughter's name is Carter. What
are the odds? Well? Actually last doing it big on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
The Batters all of town and if you go down there.
I get out of a university in nineteen sixty five,
totally prepared for life in the twelfth century, kind of
looked around here, looked around there, and then I got
this brown letter in the mail one day, signed by
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a general. Come play with us. So I went down
to a place called Fort Jackson in South Carolina, where
they took my extensive college experience and put me into
the infantry as a lineman. I climbed telephone poles. It
was communications, yes, stringing that wire from one place to another.
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And I met this guy down there who was in
the company. His name was Leroy Brown, and Leroy was
one of those guys that didn't know the meaning of no.
You tell Leroy to do one thing, and Leroy would
do another thing. He was just one of those kind
of characters. He come from Chicago, been out in the
street a long time and had to make his own way.
So he was about to keep on making it. He
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was down there a couple of weeks and he looked
at me one night we're sitting talking. He says, you know, Jim,
I don't like this place, and I'm gonna go home.
So he got himself packed up and he went home
without telling anybody except in the army. They called it
a wall absent without leave. But he did come back
at the end of the month to get his paycheck,
and that was it. Snap put him in the handcuffs
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and took him where, but didn't bother him. Take it
out a little later and still hung around. He was
always the kind of guy that would keep people laughing
unless he got in trouble. Widdle Southside, Oh, Chicago gets
the better Attle Town, And if you go down there,
you're better.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Just be well, man, moly Rod Brown.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Roll more than trouble. You see you can.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Stand about six four four Mottle, downtown Lead. It's called
the tree Top.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Over all.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
The man Fats.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Called him sir, and he's bad, bad he.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Rod Brown, Steve, what's your story? For those of you
who just tuned in, I will trash him and Carter
in the next hour, but for now, A friend of
mine yesterday in the middle of the afternoon, in between
the shows. Who may or may not Beite Claypool and
may or may not be married to Lori Claypool. Whoever
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this friend is, I'm not saying his name. They had
a baby and they had the name Blake. Chos him
for this baby, and somewhere along the way they the
baby is born, and they're looking down at this baby,
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and somehow mama says, if it was Ike Claypool, then
she said Ike. But if it's not Ike Claypool, she
said to her husband, whatever her husband's first name is,
but let's just assume for the sake of this argument,
we don't know who what the name is, but we'll
use Ike as a as a place as a marker, placekeeper.
She says, Ike, this child is not a blake. And
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he dutifully said, you've lived through the hell of giving birth,
so yes, you're right. He obviously he's not a blake.
I mean, look at the turn of his lip and
his nose and his eye. He can't be a blake.
But what is he, honey, Connor? You're right, he's clearly
a Connor. He's definitely a Conner. And I thought that
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was the funniest thing, because only a mother who has
carried this baby for that long is looking down at
this baby, which is just a collection of sales at
that point, just a blubbering, pooping, crying, suckling creature. They
barely look like a human being at this point, and says, oh, no,
he's not a blake. My mother loved babies. If we
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went somewhere and somebody had a baby, we went to
visit the family and they just brought a baby, hump,
she would not to be a nice person, but because
she genuinely enjoyed it, she would pick that baby up,
put it on her shoulder. It's spitting up and all
that gross crap coming out. Baby's a gross and that
crap's coming down her shoulder. And they'd go, oh, a
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red a whole lonch you no, no, no, don't you worry.
Don't you worry? What you need some time? And to
keep the mother from worrying about the baby, she'd go outside.
She walk, she'd go walking, she'ld come back in an
hour so the mother could be away from that baby.
But not for the mother did she do this. She
loved babies, genuinely loved babies, and I tell you that
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to tell you this, she had the most annoying habit ever.
And I told her till the day she died that
I hated this habit. She would look at Ramona Amy's
baby and go, I know everybody says it looks like you, Ramona,
but that baby looks just like Amy. How can you
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tell that this collection of cells that's puking everywhere as
his eyes closed looks like one or the other. She
that's the old people don't do that. I don't think
like my mother's generation, they loved, loved, loved to tell
you who the baby looked like, and it was an
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important thing. So if you went to a house and
you didn't like the wife, but you liked the husband
because he's part of our family. You know, Ruth, your
people will be my people, but we don't really like her.
You would say, that baby looks like you, Dwayne, that
baby looks just like you, and the mother would steam,
(30:24):
it looks just like you. And I'm sitting there looking
at that baby. It looks that How can you tell?
But that's what she would do. Drive people, drive me crazy,
and it would be this big thing. And two weeks
later we went and saw Ramona Amy's baby. Oh my god,
(30:47):
everybody says that baby looks like Ramon. Let me tell
you something. That baby looks just like Amy, I mean
just like her, and that would be that that would
be the only takeaway from visiting that baby was s
k u n k? Is that skank or skunk? Or what?
(31:10):
Did you? Did you intend? What? That's skunk? Okay, but
you didn't tell him to spell it s k a
u n k? Did you?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Sure, just regular snk s k u n K.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Y'all think I'm kidding. He's written s k a u
n k on the screen. I could have lived. That's
a pepe le pew.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I can't get it right.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But it just feels like it's awkward that I have
to begin every conversation with Tommy. You're on the show.
Oh this is Tommy, This is Toby. Oh well yeah,
all right, Well let's just go from there. Who would
have possibly not known that your name was Toby when
they wrote t O M M Y on the screen. Anyway,
go ahead, skunk man.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
That that ain't my government name, but that's the name
everybody knows me by.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Dare I ask why.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
My older brother named me that when I just need
how I took grasshopper man I was a couple of
months old.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Hmmm, all right, go ahead, and uh.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
People people know me my whole life, they don't then
they don't know that that ain't my real name. They
think that's my real name. What did you call about, Scott, Well,
you was talking about, you know, crazy names and stuff.
That's kind of odd when you know you'll run into
a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Let me get this straight. You called because you go
by a nickname that is not your actual name and
it's atypical.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Well, yeah, pretty much. But uh, most people think that
that is my real name. They don't know that it ain't.
People have been calling me that my whole life.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yes, h
Speaker 7 (33:33):
M hm
It's that time, time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Firemen.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Nobody knows why, firemen or firemen, not even they can
tell you why, but it is time somebody try. Firefighting
is the most risky of jobs. Fire and ice are
uncomfortable separately or together. Wives hate the hours, kids love
the noise. Fire and ice. Any day at the firehouse,
the bell puts the dispatcher on the horn with a
(01:02):
tenement tinder box address. Into bunker pants, rubber, turnout coat,
grab the mask and go. Minutes later you're on site.
As others run out, you go in. You'll need all
you can carry, the four pound acts, a six foot hook,
the Halligan pry bar. The ceiling has to come down,
and it's one of those stubborn tin ones. In the
scary dark, you are gouging out and tearing loose and
(01:23):
pulling apart, gulping hair and tasting black. Your windpipe is
closing and you've lost track of which way is out.
Is it really worth it? They've cut your ladder company
from six men to five, so now everything you do
is sixteen point sixty seven percent more difficult and more danger.
Your air is low inside your mask, you're throwing up.
(01:44):
There's a searing ember down your neck, toring glub's exposed,
a smashed hand. So you emerge from the holocaust, hugging
with your elbows. Somebody's singed kitten. Back at the station house,
you can almost breathe again. Next come the tedious hours
as you would hang up on grimy tools. The clean
up crew at the firehouse as you when windows need
(02:05):
washing and toilets need cleaning, and floors need mopping and
beds need making.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You do it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Is it worth it? Your b crew pumper swapped his
day shift so some family guy could be home for
his kid's birthday, and then out down toward a false alarm.
Your buddy gets blindsided by a hot rod driven by
a drunk fire and ice. The intercom marks again. This
time it's a warehouse, a big fat, multiple blaze on
site engine man draped with icicles, dragging a three quarter
(02:31):
pre connect froze hose are waiting for your big line
ladderman can't make the building without you, search rescue ventily.
Eventually it's over and out. Your smoke's nudged and sleepless
and grung out, But this one you won, but the
raging blaze that wanted to consume adjacent buildings did not
because you were there. Back at the firehouse before clean up,
you and the guy sit as fell tired but be laughing,
(02:53):
feeling good about one another. Nobody outside your world can
ever know this feeling. Any other uniform, you get streets
named after you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
In this one.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You risk your life to save people until one day
you run out of chances and in one final fire,
either you buy it or you don't. And yet there
is no third way that you'd ever leave this job.
And you're doubting even God knows why. When you hear
us from of your voice saying it is worth it,
and you're hearing this voice, and there's nobody there but you.
It's a quiet voice from nowhere saying it is worth it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Fireman Paul Harvey could read the phone book and it'd
be interesting. That's the truth. So my buddy, whose name
I'm not going to mention, it may or may not
be like Claypool, but I'm not saying it is like well,
could be him and his wife Lori. Baby's born. They've
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put on the stork out front. They've told everybody blake.
So everybody's showing up. Let me see baby Blake. Well,
we looked at the baby and he didn't look like
a Blake. He's Connor. And I'm thinking to myself, who
looks at a newborn baby and says, uh, he don't
look like a Blake. He's more of a Connor. Mind you,
(04:14):
he's coliguies, he's puking, he's crying. Who's thinking at that moment,
that's not a Blake. He's clearly not a Black. You
can tell you not Blake. I mean, look at that kid,
am Blake, that's Connor? Who is thinking that? That was
the funniest damn story I've ever heard. I how do
(04:34):
you know with a newborn baby an hour old? It
actually wasn't It was like a day later. So can
you imagine they're probably getting blankets in the mail with
Blake in b It's a whole industry now right. They're
probably getting personalized diapers, you know, all the bibs, the stuff.
People and they're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna send them
(04:57):
this nice gift. I'm gonna go ahead and put the
baby's name on there, because you want your baby's name
on everything. And so they got all this stuff for
baby Blake, and all they're thinking is this kid, this
is worse than a gender transition. His name is Connor.
Stopped calling him Blake. He's a month old. You're gonna
mess him up. So I asked people to tell the story,
(05:19):
because I know we're gonna have some good stories. Aaron,
you got one for us? Hey, yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And actually that's why I did not monogram anything for
my own kid or have anything monograms, because I was
nervous about that. But this is actually about my great grandfather.
They had a name picked out because they were certain
it was a girl, and so the name was Minerva
Francis and he came out and they didn't have any
(05:46):
other names available. So on his birth certificate it is
M period F period and that's it. So he goes
by which, as.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We all know, Sam, Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And so what did you end up naming?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well, that's I mean, that's his name what I ended
up naming my daughter. Yeah, my daughter is Alison Jean
and we call her Ali from Karate Kids.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh, I like that Alison with two l's are one.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Two l's, and we did that so that if she well,
so I always wanted. My name is just Aaron. And
so whenever the teacher would call on people in class
and somebody would say Elizabeth and they would get to say, actually,
it's Lizzie and they would say hey, Aaron, and I
would say here.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
And so I always.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Wanted to have a kid whose name was something that
could be shortened. So whenever they say Alison, she can say,
actually it's Ali.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Why did you want that?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I think just because they always passed by me and
they just kind of went to the next person.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yes, yes, yeah, But but she loves it. She loves
because and we do call her Alison when she's in trouble,
but she goes by Allie, you know, by everybody else.
And and Ali is just my ultimate favorite name.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, I like Ali. What what is your last name?
What is your middle name?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
My middle name? Oh boy, Busby b.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
U s b Y.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You know it's a family name, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
My sisters is Burford b U R F.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
O R D.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Dear God, be glad you got Busby.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
That That is what everybody says.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm just going to be completely honest. I was a
ruthless child, probably not surprising. If I had a classmate,
a girl whose middle name was Burford, we would have
called her Buford and we would have relentlessly tormented that
she would have moved, she would have moved schools.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It was.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's pretty bad. Sometimes I tried to change my today, right, well,
and that's why I went with my maiden name. Now,
so the bugy's gone, and so now I've got my
maiden name, which is which everybody called me in Hichol deton.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
How you spell that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
D E A T O N.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I guess that's better. This is the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So my friend who may or may not be Oute
Playpool and his wife who may or may not be
his wife Lori have a baby and they've told everybody
the baby's name is Blake. They've put it on the store.
People are buying nappies and shirts, shoes, stuff that can't
(09:00):
be taken back now that you've now that you've put
the the baby on there, at least if you kept
the same initial than anything that was monogram you could nope.
And they look at this little baby, drooling, pooping. That's
not a Blake. That's a Conner. And it's just was
(09:24):
a hypothetical. It could be anybody. I'm just using that
person as an example who it could have been. So
they decide, which just amuses me to know end only
a mother could do that. He's not a blake. You
can see he's not a blake. How would you know that,
You got no body of work. You don't know what
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his grades are gonna be. You don't know his personality,
his height, weight, Is he gonna be bald in sixth grade?
Is he gonna be you know, built like a brick. Yeah,
you just don't know. But he's this kid, as clear
as baby. It's clearly not a blake. We got to
change it. But honey, we can't change it, everybody. We've
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already told the whole world. You know, in the old
days when I was born, you would have given that
to the newspaper because they didn't have a lot in
the Orange Leader. Birds and Deaths was a big deal.
Mm hm, ramone. I don't mean to brag, but I
made the newspaper for the first time after my birth
announcement at two years old. True story. We were living
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in the house on Crabtree. Anybody knows where that is
just across the tracks from the park behind wickersham Ford.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
And.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We were living. My mother was living with her parents,
my grandparents, in a rented house on Crabtree. And I
fell down the stairs boom boom, boom boom, probably what
it's probably half my problems, and I busted my head open,
and I was taking the hot hospital, and so at
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the hospital there was somebody on the take there that
for five dollars a lead or two dollars a lead
or whatever would call and go, we got a kid
in here, busted his head open from the second floor. Okay,
can you give me the details. Yep. What's his name?
Michael Christian Barry, Okay, yepop. And it was there. I
was in the news and my mother, because back in
the day you would you won't remember this. They used
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to print the newspaper and then these kids would ride
around on their bicycle and they would throw the newspaper
and it was a game, right you try to hit
something when you and so people would get the newspaper.
And if you were in the newspaper, in our fan,
it's a big deal. And she has all the little
clippings in there. I was my first time in the
newspaper for having my head busted open at two years
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old on Crabtree Fall Downstairs. True story, Kim, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Hello, but you got sweetheart? I
can hear you find So.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
My son his story is before he was born, we
decided we were going to try to pick out names.
And I asked, because the husband always sticks it out.
You know that you're going to have a son, you
find out the gender. So he decided he said, we're
gonna name him Leroy, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
please not Leroy. And I said how about Dwayne? And
(12:20):
he's like no, then then he's gonna go to school
and all the kids are gonna be like, oh Wayne,
I know right. So I was like, oh, okay, that
could be true. So he was born and my doctor
had a habit of the names.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
He would do songs.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
So here I'm all drugged up and he asked my husband, so,
what did you name your son? And he said Leroy?
And I'm like, oh my god, please don't pick out
on the birds, justific it. And so the doctor starts
singing the song Leroy Brown, and I'm like, oh my god,
he's on board with this and so I'm like, please,
(13:03):
please don't put that on the on the yes, yeah,
I mean yeah, but he was not white.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I know where you're going. He was not white, right right.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
So after it was all said and done, and I'm
in the recovery room and everything, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, please honey, tell me that you did not
name him Leroy. And he goes, no, I didn't. And
I'm like, oh my gosh, thank you so much, lord.
And he goes, I said, so, what do you what
did you name him something worse than that? And he
said no, I named him Lane. His name is Lane Bradley,
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Lane Bradley's shoelock and his initials are pounds l bs.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I like that. There is no doubting that Lane Bradley
is a white kid. You will never have that worry.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
But I know, I was like, oh my it, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The head of the rodeo in town was Leroy Schaeffer,
and he was the whitest white guy you'll ever meet.
I mean, he is a true good old boy cowboy
belt buckle. I mean he was Leroy Hermes, the architect.
He's you know, very educated, sophisticated, but redneck Leroy and
Barbara Hermes Man about town. H I know another white Leroy.
(14:31):
I can't remember who it was. My wife had a
classmate in law school named Amy. I can't remember Amy's
last name, probably better than I don't. And she was
dating a guy I think they got married, and his
name was Jerome, and me being me, first time I
met him, she said Michael because we already knew her,
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and she was in Houston for law school and they
but they were from Dallas, and she said, Michael, meet
my fiance Jerome. And oh, I couldn't help it. I
startled me and he goes, I know it's a black
dude's name, and I said, no, not at all, No, No,
I know. No. Of course, I was saying, I've never
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met a white Jerome ever. If you meet somebody named Jerry, now,
I always wonder, I wonder if he's secretly a Jerome
and he goes by Jerry, because white people are not
named Jerome, Right, Terry, Jill, Steve, all of you on
the line, hold on for just a second. But yeah,
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if your name is Leroy today, if you're or Germaine
or Montravius, or you got an apostrophe, Yeah, that's a
rough ghost.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
You will sleep like a Michael Harry superior.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Im on. If you're gonna play songs that reference firefighters
or fire can you make sure that they mentioned that
within the first three minutes of the song or just
queue it up to that here worth three minutes. Let's saying,
(16:26):
we don't have that kind of time. Is nationally syndicated
show over fifty or phil It's kind of a big deal.
We can't be just sitting around waiting on a fire
risk what I'm saying. Let's go to Jill. For those
of you who just tuned in, we are not covering
Jimmy Carter's funeral. We will in the next hour. Jimmy
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Carter called Donald Trump an illegitimate president. Please do not,
in my presence, find yourself saying, you know, Jimmy wasn't
a good president, but he was a good man. After
he left office, he did a lot of good things.
No he didn't. You don't know what he did. Stop
(17:11):
saying stupid stuff. Are you aware that he said on
multiple occasions that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. Go
ask any Jew if they think Jimmy Carter was a
good president. Post presidency you've been told he was a
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bad president. You don't even know why he was a
bad president. You can't name why he was a bad
president because you don't bother to learn it. I'm fine
with that. You can repeat something if I agree with
what you're repeating, but you cannot repeat what you've been
told because the media told you. You know, he wasn't
a good president. Who wasn't you know? Reagan beat him? Now,
but he was a good man, was he? Do you
(17:54):
know anything about what he said and did? He wasn't
a good man? Well, you know he was a peanut farmer,
was he was it a profitable peanut farm? You bought
that crap too? How about this? Just so you know,
forty years from now, they're gonna say, you know, Joe
Biden was a one term president. But unlike Trump, who
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if you wouldn't believe Trump was he was loud and crashing.
Oh everybody hated him. People would cringe when he would talk.
Oh it's terrible. And Joe Biden, boy, he was. He
was a good man. You know, he was a little older,
so you know, I remember people were like, oh, he's
se now because they'd pick on him because old. But
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he was a good man and they picked on it.
He had a son and just like Jimmy Carter with
his brother Billy, and you know they would you know,
they hounded Jimmy Carter just because his brother took bribes
from the Lebanese, from the Libyan government and they hounded them.
You know, he had Billy Bear. You know, he was
he was a good guy. And I felt bad for
Jimmy Carter. You know, they haunded him and then afterwards,
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you know he'd build houses for poor people. Yep. He
just go out there and just hammer them to He
just be out there. You just you just drive down
the street and you're like, oh, that looks like Jimmy Carter. Yeah,
because he's a peanut farmer. He was. He was a
you know, you could argue whether he was a good
president or not, but he was a good man. He
was a good good man and lived along lived Bee hundred. Yeah,
(19:20):
he was a good man. And you know I can
respect that about him. I don't have to like his presidency,
but I can respect that. Is crap. That's like saying,
you know, the he's a good man defense is what
they use for Joe Biden. He's a jerk. He's a
bad guy. He's awful, and it's okay to say that. Well, Michael,
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don't speak ill of the dead. How about Hitler? Somehow
you managed to speak ill of Hitler? Nobody says, well,
you know, he did have that unique mustache and all,
and he loved his German shepherd. And you know he
made an honest he made an honest woman of Eva Braun.
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He insisted to marry her before they had to die.
They is gonna kill him, you know, No, he was
a monster. Jimmy Carter was horrible. He flew around the country.
He flew around the world acting as if he was
the leader of America, intervening in foreign affairs, contradictory to
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America's stated position at the time. Bill Clinton hated him.
Not that that's your state, that's your judgment. Bill Clinton
hated him because he put the Marillis boat lift. When
they found out that Castro said, oh, you want our refugees, okay,
one day, we'll send you our refugees one day, one
(20:46):
day only. You got to take them all, Okay, we'll
take them. He unloaded the prisons. Well, Carter's dumb ass.
Does he send them back no, he sends them to Arkansas. Well,
if you've seen that sea in Scarface where the guy
gets gutted spoiler alert in the inside the Cuban refugee tent,
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that didn't happen in Miami, that happened in Arkansas. That's
a true story. Go look up the riots in Arkansas
that during Carter's presidency. And Bill Clinton was the governor
of Arkansas and he was furious at Jimmy Carter for
dumping all of these very very violent rapist murderers in
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the state of Arkansas. I would just dump them there. Well,
they got out and started wreaking havoc. It wasn't a
good guy. It wasn't a good He was a horrible president.
He was a horrible person after the fact. Don't keep
repeating something you don't know to be true. Well, Michael,
he built them homes for poor people. He went out
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there for ten minutes and hammered a nail, and they
told you what a good guy he was. If he
was a good guy, you wouldn't have known he did that,
because he wouldn't have insisted that the cameras be there
to tell you what a good guy he was. He
spent every waking hour after his presidency was over, his
failed presidency, every waking hour trying to convince the world
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that he was such a good man. He was a
horrible man, and I'm okay saying it, and you don't
have to say it was a horrible man, because again,
this is the nice neighbor syndrome. This is what gets
you in trouble. Is why a lot of you didn't
vote for Trump and twenty Well, I just want things
to get back to normal, you know. I mean, I
like him. I like him. I just wish be honest
with you. I wish he'd shut his mouth and stop
(22:37):
saying mean things. I mean, why does he have to
be some mean? Why does he have to do that?
He doesn't need to be some mean? Okay, well, you
understand they shot him in the head, they dragged him
through the court system, they've lied about everything about him. Yeah,
you got to be means Well, I just the nice neighbor.
That's why you people, That's why the Democrats get away
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with it. We got all these Republicans out there. They think,
look at me, look at see. I'm not a bad person.
I'm not one of those crazy fire breathers. I heard
Michael Berry talk about about Jimmy Carter, and I thought,
leave that man alone.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Leave it.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
He made a statement. You know what he said. He said,
Jimmy Carter is lying in state in Washington, D c.
And that's not the first time all the last time
he lied. And you know what else he said, Jimmy
Carter has returned to Washington, D C. And at least
this time he's not screwing it up. Can you believe
he said that that's not nice? Nice is overrated, Jill,
(23:36):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Well, thank you for the Carter introduction.
Because my daughter, three hundred and sixty one days after
my first suver was born, his second daughter is born.
My aunt mitched Christmas stocking to hang on the mantle,
and it starts at the top and it has Madison
on it. And she's born in which Kansas. There are
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three Madisons and three Ammas, and that was gonna be
her name, and I looked at my husband, I should
take another name, and so he picks Carter, And anyway,
that's her name, and she has two other sisters. They're
named after President. Her name is Carter is actually named
after her name is Carter.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Perfectly Hugh the Twilight theme song, how about Me, Trash
and Carter, and then her daughter's name is Carter. What
are the odds? Well? Actually last doing it big on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
The Batters all of town and if you go down there.
I get out of a university in nineteen sixty five,
totally prepared for life in the twelfth century, kind of
looked around here, looked around there, and then I got
this brown letter in the mail one day, signed by
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a general. Come play with us. So I went down
to a place called Fort Jackson in South Carolina, where
they took my extensive college experience and put me into
the infantry as a lineman. I climbed telephone poles. It
was communications, yes, stringing that wire from one place to another.
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And I met this guy down there who was in
the company. His name was Leroy Brown, and Leroy was
one of those guys that didn't know the meaning of no.
You tell Leroy to do one thing, and Leroy would
do another thing. He was just one of those kind
of characters. He come from Chicago, been out in the
street a long time and had to make his own way.
So he was about to keep on making it. He
(25:40):
was down there a couple of weeks and he looked
at me one night we're sitting talking. He says, you know, Jim,
I don't like this place, and I'm gonna go home.
So he got himself packed up and he went home
without telling anybody except in the army. They called it
a wall absent without leave. But he did come back
at the end of the month to get his paycheck,
and that was it. Snap put him in the handcuffs
(26:03):
and took him where, but didn't bother him. Take it
out a little later and still hung around. He was
always the kind of guy that would keep people laughing
unless he got in trouble. Widdle Southside, Oh, Chicago gets
the better Attle Town, And if you go down there,
you're better.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Just be well, man, moly Rod Brown.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Roll more than trouble. You see you can.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Stand about six four four Mottle, downtown Lead. It's called
the tree Top.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Over all.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
The man Fats.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Called him sir, and he's bad, bad he.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Rod Brown, Steve, what's your story? For those of you
who just tuned in, I will trash him and Carter
in the next hour, but for now, A friend of
mine yesterday in the middle of the afternoon, in between
the shows. Who may or may not Beite Claypool and
may or may not be married to Lori Claypool. Whoever
(27:02):
this friend is, I'm not saying his name. They had
a baby and they had the name Blake. Chos him
for this baby, and somewhere along the way they the
baby is born, and they're looking down at this baby,
(27:22):
and somehow mama says, if it was Ike Claypool, then
she said Ike. But if it's not Ike Claypool, she
said to her husband, whatever her husband's first name is,
but let's just assume for the sake of this argument,
we don't know who what the name is, but we'll
use Ike as a as a place as a marker, placekeeper.
She says, Ike, this child is not a blake. And
(27:47):
he dutifully said, you've lived through the hell of giving birth,
so yes, you're right. He obviously he's not a blake.
I mean, look at the turn of his lip and
his nose and his eye. He can't be a blake.
But what is he, honey, Connor? You're right, he's clearly
a Connor. He's definitely a Conner. And I thought that
(28:10):
was the funniest thing, because only a mother who has
carried this baby for that long is looking down at
this baby, which is just a collection of sales at
that point, just a blubbering, pooping, crying, suckling creature. They
barely look like a human being at this point, and says, oh, no,
he's not a blake. My mother loved babies. If we
(28:35):
went somewhere and somebody had a baby, we went to
visit the family and they just brought a baby, hump,
she would not to be a nice person, but because
she genuinely enjoyed it, she would pick that baby up,
put it on her shoulder. It's spitting up and all
that gross crap coming out. Baby's a gross and that
crap's coming down her shoulder. And they'd go, oh, a
(28:57):
red a whole lonch you no, no, no, don't you worry.
Don't you worry? What you need some time? And to
keep the mother from worrying about the baby, she'd go outside.
She walk, she'd go walking, she'ld come back in an
hour so the mother could be away from that baby.
But not for the mother did she do this. She
loved babies, genuinely loved babies, and I tell you that
(29:17):
to tell you this, she had the most annoying habit ever.
And I told her till the day she died that
I hated this habit. She would look at Ramona Amy's
baby and go, I know everybody says it looks like you, Ramona,
but that baby looks just like Amy. How can you
(29:37):
tell that this collection of cells that's puking everywhere as
his eyes closed looks like one or the other. She
that's the old people don't do that. I don't think
like my mother's generation, they loved, loved, loved to tell
you who the baby looked like, and it was an
(30:01):
important thing. So if you went to a house and
you didn't like the wife, but you liked the husband
because he's part of our family. You know, Ruth, your
people will be my people, but we don't really like her.
You would say, that baby looks like you, Dwayne, that
baby looks just like you, and the mother would steam,
(30:24):
it looks just like you. And I'm sitting there looking
at that baby. It looks that How can you tell?
But that's what she would do. Drive people, drive me crazy,
and it would be this big thing. And two weeks
later we went and saw Ramona Amy's baby. Oh my god,
(30:47):
everybody says that baby looks like Ramon. Let me tell
you something. That baby looks just like Amy, I mean
just like her, and that would be that that would
be the only takeaway from visiting that baby was s
k u n k? Is that skank or skunk? Or what?
(31:10):
Did you? Did you intend? What? That's skunk? Okay, but
you didn't tell him to spell it s k a
u n k? Did you?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Sure, just regular snk s k u n K.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Y'all think I'm kidding. He's written s k a u
n k on the screen. I could have lived. That's
a pepe le pew.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I can't get it right.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But it just feels like it's awkward that I have
to begin every conversation with Tommy. You're on the show.
Oh this is Tommy, This is Toby. Oh well yeah,
all right, Well let's just go from there. Who would
have possibly not known that your name was Toby when
they wrote t O M M Y on the screen. Anyway,
go ahead, skunk man.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
That that ain't my government name, but that's the name
everybody knows me by.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Dare I ask why.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
My older brother named me that when I just need
how I took grasshopper man I was a couple of
months old.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Hmmm, all right, go ahead, and uh.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
People people know me my whole life, they don't then
they don't know that that ain't my real name. They
think that's my real name. What did you call about, Scott, Well,
you was talking about, you know, crazy names and stuff.
That's kind of odd when you know you'll run into
a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Let me get this straight. You called because you go
by a nickname that is not your actual name and
it's atypical.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Well, yeah, pretty much. But uh, most people think that
that is my real name. They don't know that it ain't.
People have been calling me that my whole life.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yes, h
Speaker 7 (33:33):
M hm
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