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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. I really like
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Missouria County sheriff, along with Brian Hawthorne and our new
sheriff in Galveston, Jimmy Fullan. I like these guys a
lot elected sheriffs that represent their community, that take care
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of their law enforcement officers, that hate bad guys, and
that are plain spoken about all of the above like
it's supposed to be. I just wish I was speaking
to both Stallman under more jocular circumstances than hours after
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he just lost one of his deputies. Sheriff Stalman, thank
you for making time with us. Can you tell us
what we know of what happened yesterday?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, good morning. But as you may know, the deputy
Bargains and his partner were attempting to serve the more
in Houston. There was a fay one in the mirror
of doing that. They approached the suspect. He was in
a vehicle. They approach the suspect us whenever he he
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would turn fired, striking Deputy Bargas and then he f
and then the incidents after that, Uh, he was found
and he was a he was shot too, So, Uh,
that's kind of just a.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I looked at, uh this turds record, and he had
a record a mile long. So I'm guessing they knew
when they approached this is a bad guy who probably
doesn't want to be taken into custody. But I guess
the flip side of that is that's the kind of
turds that you're serving a warrant on every day, right.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Were correct?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Tell me about Deputy Vargas.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So, Depputy Vargas, he and his partner were they're signed
the art Scunner Unit, which is our old warrant division,
and for years they've so you know, they've served multiple warrants.
It's taken a lot of people to jail, and they
they're really good at their job.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He was recently within the past year. Uh, we swim
into the glof Coast Final the Senter's Task Force, which
is part of the US Marshall's Office. So he's been
working with them. The seventeen year veteran of our department.
He is. Uh, he has three beautiful children and love
the wife, loved his family dearly. Uh, That's that's what
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he looked for. I always had a smile on around
the office with that guy that uh, you know, would
always pick you up, very very friendly. Those that were
close to him. I always tell you that he'd make
you laugh. He was. He was a joker, a good
time but I'll tell you he worked hard and he
was very passionate. He's a very public servant and he served,
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uh he served his community very honorably. And he's just
everything that you went out of a deputy.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Sureff Strowman. Did I read that he was a seventeen
year deputy deputy? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yes, he's seventeen years with Beau W. Canna Shriff's office.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wow, wow, do you have I know you've got a
lot of deputies and you can't know every detail, but
you happen to know how old the kids are?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, we have h he has three daughters. One that's
fifteen years old, one that's twelve years old, one that's
eleven years old.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The kid should not have to get the news that
their father has passed. That just should not. I just
I agree.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'll tell you it's a it's been the it's the
worst day of our career. You know around here at
the office that you could imagine this leaves a hole
in our entire department, and h it's one that will
be with us forever and we will band together as
a department and uh, you know, you know, to make
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a community a better place. And it's just tough times.
But you know the worst thing, the worst thing is,
you know, I should It's just been terrible and I've
had to tell the family and a man that I'm
responsible for that he's not going home, and it's just telling.
It's the devastating losses you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, I I wouldn't want to tell the wife,
but I don't think I could tell the kids. I
just I cannot. Daddy's not coming home is a phrase.
I could not keep it together. O my goodness. Wow. Yeah,
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obviously you don't probably don't have any details on the
surface yet.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
No, no, no, not yet. But we're working with the
family and coordinate with the family, and we can certainly
get to that information whenever that happens, but we do
not know when that will occur.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, and I mean this, if there's anything we can
do for your department or for that family, please, Sheriff
both Stallman, Brazoria County Sheriff, let us know. I will
do all right, brother, thank you already. Man Ramon, imagine
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you are the human being who has to go tell
an eleven year old child Daddy's not coming home. Right.
You intuitively understand that that would be difficult. You get that,
you got it'd be difficult, it'll be horrible. But I
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want you to imagine forming the words you've got to say,
the words you've got to say, some kind of words
you have to communicate verbal to a child in such
a manner that conveys that information. I just I admire.
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I'm a crier, you know, George the Elder, George Bush,
George H. W. Bush. He was asked by a reporter
one time, you know you often cry? Is that you
know we've not We're not used to seeing a president cry.
He said, I'm a crier. That's what I do. I cry,
But I've always done that, and I do believe that
some people have a more steely resolve in some My
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my wife doesn't cry, my father doesn't cry. I never
saw my father to cry in my entire life. His
brother took his own life, and my mother told me
that he cried on the way over after they got
the call that Uncle Jean had died, and he said why, why,
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why would he do this? Why, and that he broke
down and never saw him cry. At the graveside he
stood up to think we only had about fifteen people there,
and he stood up and think they were coming and
he could just as listen, my dad doesn't cry.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm a cry.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So he was crissing. Was we didn't get nothing the
hard times to Michael Barry Show, it's a damn shame.
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. That's his confession Toime. We'll open the phone
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lines if you. If you want to confess something that
anybody who's ever known you would be shocked to know,
because it's the opposite of what your opinion always was.
This is the time to do it, and then you
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will go to your grave with a clean conscience. And
it could be that you've developed. It could be that
you stated your opinion before because you were embarrassed about
how you really felt, or it could be that how
you really feel has changed. So I'll start, uh seven
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three nine, one thousand. I always hated cats. Now I
don't love cats now, but I have grown to develop
a grudging respect for cats. And I will tell you
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why that is. To start with, cats are useful. I
can't tell you how many times I've been out visiting
a friend at a at their farm or ranch and
you'll see a cat, and you know, I make some
(10:12):
statement about how much I hate cats, and they go, boy,
I tell you what, that cat man, that cat. You
wouldn't believe him. He snakes, that thing kills, you wouldn't believe.
If I didn't have that cat, i'd have this barn
would be full of rats and mice, and that cat
will not tolerate them. That cat has a zero tolerance
for cats and mice. That's the best cat. That's the
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best mice killing rat cat. I have ever seen that cat.
That cat can do no wrong. For that very I
don't even like them, never had them, don't like them.
But that cat will keep the mice out of your house.
That cat does some good. And you go, okay, all right.
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I'm a dog person. But the other thing about cats
that I have to learn in time is you don't
get a lot of the benefits of a pet the
way you do with a dog. Like you're not coming
home and there you know the thing about dogs and
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George is the absolute prototype of the archetype of this
is you can be gone for ten hours, ten days,
or ten minutes and you walk back here and talk, Oh,
you're home. I'm so happy you're a home. I just
walked outside, George, you cannot nobody's just excited to see me. Ever,
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I am you're back. I was so worried you're back.
Whereas your cat, people have a cat a pet as
a pet, it's like you're their pet. If they're in
the mood, they'll come over, let you know, and they'll
rub up on you and let you scratch on them.
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But pretty much otherwise, don't bother me. I don't just
don't even want to be bothered. And I can halfway
appreciate that nobody has to rush home to feed the cat. Right.
A cat is domesticated in the sense that they'll come
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inside in the air conditioning or the warmth when it's
cold outside. But if you're going to be gone for
the summer, don't worry. They'll take care of They'll find
stuff to eat and stuff to do. They're not going
to tear up your house. You're never going to refer
to the fact that your cat has anxiety the way
my dog I gota. We got to rush home or
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our dog will tear up the house. What do you mean,
tear up the house? What? What does tear up the
house look like? Oh? Literally, jump up on the table
and pull everything off and smash it. This is not good.
You never hear that about a cat. Now, cat lay crazy,
cat laiser? Still crazy, cat, ladies. And let's get that straight.
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The Houston Chronicle should be so ashamed of itself. We
just lost a deputy in the line of duty serving
a warrant on a turd who murdered him. And that's
not the top story in the Houston Chronicle. It's not
even close to the top story. In fact, it's over
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to the side and down below. I'll read the headline
the best vegetarian restaurants in Houston under that Brassouria County
deputy killed in Houston, suspected shoot her dead. Can you
imagine what kind of city would we be if the
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top news was not that a man who wears the
badge to protect us was just murdered doing just that.
That's everything you need to know about the Houston chron
Go to cron dot com right now and see it
for yourself. The best vegetarian restaurants in Houston. And oh,
by the way, a deputy was killed. Wow, just wow.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Rock.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
What is your confession, hey Michael.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, somebody grew up in Houston listening to one on
one Koel.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I would have never allowed anybody to know that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I now have an appreciation for Wham and the work
of George Michael and his talent in music rock.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I'm gonna tell you something. If you splar, you won't
tell anybody else. I promised me too.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, it's been a long time coming, but I, uh,
I appreciate it now.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So well, here's my problem. I don't watch network TV
per se, but I've got some YouTube things that I
subscribe to, and one of them is called The Professor
of Rock. It's got named Adam Reader, and he loves
George Michael, and he has a George Michael sensibility that
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I think has rubbed off on him. I had a
fear she should be featured here. Nobody puts Crystal in force.
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So David Malloy, who produced this, is a superstar producer.
I did not know of him, but he wrote uh,
Driving My Life Away, which Eddie Rabbit cut. Obviously, he
wrote suspicions that Eddie Rabbit had a big hit with
his father, Jim Malloy, was a Grammy aw Award winning
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recording engineer. His father worked in recording studios around Los Angeles,
but moved to Nashville when David was thirteen. He took
his first guitar lesson at fifteen and immediately knew he
wanted to write and produce music for a living. How
is men, since you talked to Matt Parish, So those
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of you who ever came to the RCC will remember
what was this man called market Junction? And Matt Parrish
is one of my favorite people in the world. He's
about I tell you think he is. He's not five four,
maybe five six. He's about five six, and I don't
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want to exaggerate. Maybe twenty seven pounds. Well I could
say twelve pounds and then people think I was exaggerating.
So he's about five to six and say twenty sep
maybe thirty pounds, maybe thirty pounds. He wears those big
old boots to try to add some girth, and he
wears oversized wrangler jeans that starts so much they would
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stand up on their own, and they are about eight
sizes too big to try to give him some size.
And then he puts a hat on the top to
add a couple of inches. And but then what he
doesn't realize is he's got this little bit of Ichabod
crane head underneath there. But anyway, out of that little
beady body comes some fantastic songwriting guitar, get fiddle picking
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and singing, and he's just a minch of a man, great,
great guy. And so I went on to Facebook because
Christine Weaver, our probate attorney, our Wills in the States lawyer,
sent me she said, I heard you talking about Wills
and estates. I heard you talking about sorry, I heard
you talking about consanguinity, which is the legal term for
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who you're related to and what that relationship is called
in a court of law. And that's what Wills and
estates is all about. Right, you know which air receipt
inherits this and when, and it's a fascinating body of law.
But because I went to England to get an International
Commercial Law degree, an LLLM, which is a degree after
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law school which you don't need, I wanted to teach
and I wanted to live in England in the school
was willing to pay for it. But so I didn't
take that class, and it's a class you should take.
So I come back. I come back a month after
law school finishes because I'm still finishing my coursework there
and I have to set for the Bar. And there's
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an amount of time I think it's about three months
two and a half months between when law school ends
your last semester and when you take the bar in
the summer. You can take it in the you can
take it again later in the year, but you don't
want to fail the bar. That's embarrassing. So in it's
past fail. There's no grade, its just pass fail. So
I arrived back a month into a bar exam prep.
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So I'm already behind getting ready for this exam, and
I haven't taken some of the core classes that are
important parts of the bar exam. One of them is bankruptcy,
and one of them is Wills and the States, and
one of them is evidence. And those are classes that
you take for the soul, you take typically your third year,
and so I haven't taken any of those, so I've
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got to just the Bar exam prep is where they go.
All right, you learned a lot during your course work
in law school on this subject. Here's the only part
you need to remember for your law exam. But for me,
it wasn't like revising my notes. I didn't have any notes.
I didn't know any of that. So I'm behind the
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eight ball here, right. So anyway, so she sent me
that a chart to tell you, you know which one
is your second cousin and which one is this, and
which one is your first classon So I go on
the Facebook machine to post what she has sent me
because I find this stuff interesting. And what the first
thing I see is a post by Matt Parrish. He's
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a little bit dude. I told you it's about I'll
say thirty pounds because twenty seven is being rude. He's
probably thirty pounds. And there's a picture of a fishing
boat center console boat. I ran out of boat knowledge.
I was gonna throw in some terms, but that's not
all I had. My votecab was a little limited. I
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was gonna throw a little jargon in there, but I
didn't have anything else to offer. What I was gonna say,
I was gonna say starbird or I was gonna try
to find something, but it would have been so obvious.
I was trying that I didn't even do it. And
there is a boat, and it went through my head
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that dude never posts anything on Facebook other than him fishing.
And every time I call him to see if he
can come play a gig at my house because I
do this house parties where I'll have an artist come
and we sit around and sing along with them. And
if you're a person who shows up at my house
and you talk one of the persons that you don't
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ever get invited back because I love the kind of
sing along campfire you know, South Texas TV they call
it the kind of campfire sing along type deal. Every
time I call him, he'll say I would love to,
but I'm out fishing every time. Like how much fishing
can you? There's nothing I enjoy doing that I want
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to do it that often. There's things I love, but
I don't want to do them that often. So I
picked up the phone to call him during the break
and I said, let me guess you're fishing, and he goes,
how'd you know? And I said, I was joking, because
I mean, what's today Thursday? Who's dot at work. You
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know one thing I realize, Ramon, we're the only people
who come to work every day.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
People can say, hey, yeah, but what's not work. You're right,
it's not. But we're here. We never miss, ever, ever, ever,
we never miss. When you talk to enough people, you
realize a lot of people, especially business owners and salesmen,
they're off playing golf, they're off fishing. They're here and
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there constantly, like they don't go to work five days
a week or more. They just don't do it. They're
always doing something else. So anyway, I said, I was joking.
I mean, how are you fishing it Thursday? Why are
you not at work? You go to work. I grew
up in a household of a plant worker who never
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he missed two days in forty years, and he's a
chronic diabetic. Two sick days. You get up and go
to work. You don't get up with a hangover and
not go to work. And you don't. It's like Scott Kudats,
you don't just plan it. Well, guess what he's doing now,
he's got his business. He's he's a guide. Did you
know that he's got it? He's teaching fly fishing down
in Galiston, he started a business. Who knows?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Remind the New York Times headline Anita Bryant, whose anti
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gay politics undid a singing career, is dead at eighty four.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
The reason you don't say nice things about Jimmy Carter
is because he was awful as a president and awful
as a human being, despite what you've heard, most notably recently,
because he did a lot of things. He declared that
Donald Trump was an illegitimate president and that the Russians
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had put him in the White House in twenty sixteen.
Oh but you know, I agree, Michael. He wasn't a
good president, but he was you know what, he was
a good man. You've been taught, well you met him. No,
he was a good man. He did a lot of
good for a lot of people. What did he do well?
He did that habitat for humanity. Interesting. So he hammered
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some nails, and that means he can be an election denier.
That means he can declare that the hard work of
millions of Americans to keep Hillary Clinton from being president
and put Donald Trump in the White House, that the
Russians did that that makes him a good man. Well,
I mean he wasn't perfect. Neither was Anita Bryant. But
isn't it interesting They want to act like Jimmy Carter
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was a saint and Anita Bryant was an awful human being.
Anti gay. That's such a smart way to frame things.
She was anti gay, No, she wasn't. She didn't want
laws to be changed for an agenda of the progressives.
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She was ahead of her time nineteen fifty eight. She
was also a smoke show, by the way, absolute smoke show.
She was a nineteen fifty eight Miss Oklahoma Beauty Pageant winner.
She was also hermonan You probably don't know this, a
brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission from nineteen sixty
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nine to nineteen eighty. That's not a bad gig in Yeah, Well,
she did a lot of things in her life. She
stood up for what she believed in. And I thought
we were a country that even if we don't agree
with what someone says, we can appreciate their advocacy if
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they come by it honestly, and she did. She was
from Barnesdale, Oklahoma. Ramone. I don't know, I'll just sounded
like an interesting thing. Her mother's name was Leonora and
her father's name was Warren Warren G. Bryant like Warren G. Harding.
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You know they don't. Oh, she was invited to audition
when Arthur Godfrey's Talent Show came to town. Do you
know who was discovered by Arthur Godfrey? Johnny Nash? Very good.
She had her television show, The Anita Bryant Show, which
aired on WKY now, w sorry KFO RTV. Ramone said
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that I became unnaturally excited when we added Tulsa as
an affiliate a couple of months ago. You want to
hear something funny. We've been in radio for nineteen years
now for a moment, it's over twenty five years, and
I'll tell you something about that in just a moment.
In all those years, it took us forever to add
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a second affiliate. Ninety nine point nine percent of shows
will never go beyond one market. It's very hard to do.
And Premiere is the big dog. That's what syndicated Russia's Show,
Sean's Show, Glenn's Show, now, Clay and Bug. Premiere is
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the big dog. If Premiere puts you on, then they
start adding stations. They've got all the relationships, so for
us to go in two thousand and seven from one
to two stations. It was originally going to be Portland,
and then they were going to put us on, and
they took us off to go with what was thought
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to be a more regionally friendly guy named Mike Siegel.
And the station was at a zero point zero and
Robert Dove, who ran the station, loved our show and
he wanted us on. And that was when a regional
director of our company who's along with the company, said,
what are you going to put Michael Berry on in Portland?
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For he's Southern friede. That's why we started embracing the
term Southern Fride. What's wrong with Southern Fride? The guy
they put on, well, I won't I better not he
Let's say he had a regional accent in Mike Siegel,
and it wasn't the region of the Pacific Northwest. But anyway,
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so Baton Rouge picked us up in the meantime, so
that was our first affiliates. Now we had two stations,
then Portland. We have self syndicated over those nineteen years
and as hard as hell because we had to compete
with Premiere and Premiere had, Hey, if you want Rush Limbaugh,
then you got to take this show. So we were
up against that and that's a tough, tough putt. And
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so when we got picked up by Premiere that started
October seventh. We went from thirty affiliates to sixty affiliates
from October seventh November Dember in three months. In three months,
we added as many affiliates as it took us nineteen
years to get on our own. That's crazy, That is crazy.
But it all started with you good folks supporting us
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on the subject of Ramone and how long he's been
in radio. So we restructured my contract and we restructured
everything we do as a business. And that meant that
our whole team now works for my company and not
for iHeart anymore. And Ramone got his feelings hurt because
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he didn't get a watch or any cognition when he
hit twenty years of working for iHeart. He started at
clear Channel. You just start a clear chown. You started
with AMFM, what'd you start at? It was clichown? So
Ramone hit twenty five years, it's now been twenty six years,
and now he's he doesn't work for that company anymore.
He works for my company independently, and he got his
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feelings hurt, and Chad and I laughed and laughed, and
Jim is in on all this. He genuinely got his
feelings hurt that they didn't buy him or watch when
he left, because it's always been the case that at
twenty years the company Eddie would do it himself. I
don't leave, the company would buy you a watch what
he thought him a watch. And so now it's a
running joke in our studio when we have our production
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meeting that we're gonna buy Ramone a watch and he doesn't.
What's funny is it wouldn't be funny if he was
in on the joke, but he genuinely got his feelings hurt.
And amongst guys, if guys find out there's something that
you actually really genuinely care about, that csing your weakness
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is the worst thing you can do. So that has
it has become a very funny joke for us. And
I'm gonna have to hear about the fact that I
just mentioned. As always, I enjoy hearing from you. You
can visit our website at Michael Berryshow dot com. We
got a new president in just a few days. I
can't wait. I cannot wait. I pray for the safety
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and security of our president, our incoming president, and I
never felt the need to do that before, but I
do now
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. I really like
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Missouria County sheriff, along with Brian Hawthorne and our new
sheriff in Galveston, Jimmy Fullan. I like these guys a
lot elected sheriffs that represent their community, that take care
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of their law enforcement officers, that hate bad guys, and
that are plain spoken about all of the above like
it's supposed to be. I just wish I was speaking
to both Stallman under more jocular circumstances than hours after
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he just lost one of his deputies. Sheriff Stalman, thank
you for making time with us. Can you tell us
what we know of what happened yesterday?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, good morning. But as you may know, the deputy
Bargains and his partner were attempting to serve the more
in Houston. There was a fay one in the mirror
of doing that. They approached the suspect. He was in
a vehicle. They approach the suspect us whenever he he
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would turn fired, striking Deputy Bargas and then he f
and then the incidents after that, Uh, he was found
and he was a he was shot too, So, Uh,
that's kind of just a.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I looked at, uh this turds record, and he had
a record a mile long. So I'm guessing they knew
when they approached this is a bad guy who probably
doesn't want to be taken into custody. But I guess
the flip side of that is that's the kind of
turds that you're serving a warrant on every day, right.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Were correct?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Tell me about Deputy Vargas.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So, Depputy Vargas, he and his partner were they're signed
the art Scunner Unit, which is our old warrant division,
and for years they've so you know, they've served multiple warrants.
It's taken a lot of people to jail, and they
they're really good at their job.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He was recently within the past year. Uh, we swim
into the glof Coast Final the Senter's Task Force, which
is part of the US Marshall's Office. So he's been
working with them. The seventeen year veteran of our department.
He is. Uh, he has three beautiful children and love
the wife, loved his family dearly. Uh, That's that's what
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he looked for. I always had a smile on around
the office with that guy that uh, you know, would
always pick you up, very very friendly. Those that were
close to him. I always tell you that he'd make
you laugh. He was. He was a joker, a good
time but I'll tell you he worked hard and he
was very passionate. He's a very public servant and he served,
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uh he served his community very honorably. And he's just
everything that you went out of a deputy.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Sureff Strowman. Did I read that he was a seventeen
year deputy deputy? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yes, he's seventeen years with Beau W. Canna Shriff's office.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wow, wow, do you have I know you've got a
lot of deputies and you can't know every detail, but
you happen to know how old the kids are?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, we have h he has three daughters. One that's
fifteen years old, one that's twelve years old, one that's
eleven years old.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The kid should not have to get the news that
their father has passed. That just should not. I just
I agree.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'll tell you it's a it's been the it's the
worst day of our career. You know around here at
the office that you could imagine this leaves a hole
in our entire department, and h it's one that will
be with us forever and we will band together as
a department and uh, you know, you know, to make
(05:01):
a community a better place. And it's just tough times.
But you know the worst thing, the worst thing is,
you know, I should It's just been terrible and I've
had to tell the family and a man that I'm
responsible for that he's not going home, and it's just telling.
It's the devastating losses you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, I I wouldn't want to tell the wife,
but I don't think I could tell the kids. I
just I cannot. Daddy's not coming home is a phrase.
I could not keep it together. O my goodness. Wow. Yeah,
(05:46):
obviously you don't probably don't have any details on the
surface yet.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
No, no, no, not yet. But we're working with the
family and coordinate with the family, and we can certainly
get to that information whenever that happens, but we do
not know when that will occur.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, and I mean this, if there's anything we can
do for your department or for that family, please, Sheriff
both Stallman, Brazoria County Sheriff, let us know. I will
do all right, brother, thank you already. Man Ramon, imagine
(06:29):
you are the human being who has to go tell
an eleven year old child Daddy's not coming home. Right.
You intuitively understand that that would be difficult. You get that,
you got it'd be difficult, it'll be horrible. But I
(06:51):
want you to imagine forming the words you've got to say,
the words you've got to say, some kind of words
you have to communicate verbal to a child in such
a manner that conveys that information. I just I admire.
(07:13):
I'm a crier, you know, George the Elder, George Bush,
George H. W. Bush. He was asked by a reporter
one time, you know you often cry? Is that you
know we've not We're not used to seeing a president cry.
He said, I'm a crier. That's what I do. I cry,
But I've always done that, and I do believe that
some people have a more steely resolve in some My
(07:37):
my wife doesn't cry, my father doesn't cry. I never
saw my father to cry in my entire life. His
brother took his own life, and my mother told me
that he cried on the way over after they got
the call that Uncle Jean had died, and he said why, why,
(08:00):
why would he do this? Why, and that he broke
down and never saw him cry. At the graveside he
stood up to think we only had about fifteen people there,
and he stood up and think they were coming and
he could just as listen, my dad doesn't cry.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm a cry.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So he was crissing. Was we didn't get nothing the
hard times to Michael Barry Show, it's a damn shame.
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. That's his confession Toime. We'll open the phone
(08:42):
lines if you. If you want to confess something that
anybody who's ever known you would be shocked to know,
because it's the opposite of what your opinion always was.
This is the time to do it, and then you
(09:04):
will go to your grave with a clean conscience. And
it could be that you've developed. It could be that
you stated your opinion before because you were embarrassed about
how you really felt, or it could be that how
you really feel has changed. So I'll start, uh seven
(09:25):
three nine, one thousand. I always hated cats. Now I
don't love cats now, but I have grown to develop
a grudging respect for cats. And I will tell you
(09:49):
why that is. To start with, cats are useful. I
can't tell you how many times I've been out visiting
a friend at a at their farm or ranch and
you'll see a cat, and you know, I make some
(10:12):
statement about how much I hate cats, and they go, boy,
I tell you what, that cat man, that cat. You
wouldn't believe him. He snakes, that thing kills, you wouldn't believe.
If I didn't have that cat, i'd have this barn
would be full of rats and mice, and that cat
will not tolerate them. That cat has a zero tolerance
for cats and mice. That's the best cat. That's the
(10:32):
best mice killing rat cat. I have ever seen that cat.
That cat can do no wrong. For that very I
don't even like them, never had them, don't like them.
But that cat will keep the mice out of your house.
That cat does some good. And you go, okay, all right.
(10:54):
I'm a dog person. But the other thing about cats
that I have to learn in time is you don't
get a lot of the benefits of a pet the
way you do with a dog. Like you're not coming
home and there you know the thing about dogs and
(11:15):
George is the absolute prototype of the archetype of this
is you can be gone for ten hours, ten days,
or ten minutes and you walk back here and talk, Oh,
you're home. I'm so happy you're a home. I just
walked outside, George, you cannot nobody's just excited to see me. Ever,
(11:39):
I am you're back. I was so worried you're back.
Whereas your cat, people have a cat a pet as
a pet, it's like you're their pet. If they're in
the mood, they'll come over, let you know, and they'll
rub up on you and let you scratch on them.
(12:00):
But pretty much otherwise, don't bother me. I don't just
don't even want to be bothered. And I can halfway
appreciate that nobody has to rush home to feed the cat. Right.
A cat is domesticated in the sense that they'll come
(12:20):
inside in the air conditioning or the warmth when it's
cold outside. But if you're going to be gone for
the summer, don't worry. They'll take care of They'll find
stuff to eat and stuff to do. They're not going
to tear up your house. You're never going to refer
to the fact that your cat has anxiety the way
my dog I gota. We got to rush home or
(12:41):
our dog will tear up the house. What do you mean,
tear up the house? What? What does tear up the
house look like? Oh? Literally, jump up on the table
and pull everything off and smash it. This is not good.
You never hear that about a cat. Now, cat lay crazy,
cat laiser? Still crazy, cat, ladies. And let's get that straight.
(13:03):
The Houston Chronicle should be so ashamed of itself. We
just lost a deputy in the line of duty serving
a warrant on a turd who murdered him. And that's
not the top story in the Houston Chronicle. It's not
even close to the top story. In fact, it's over
(13:26):
to the side and down below. I'll read the headline
the best vegetarian restaurants in Houston under that Brassouria County
deputy killed in Houston, suspected shoot her dead. Can you
imagine what kind of city would we be if the
(13:51):
top news was not that a man who wears the
badge to protect us was just murdered doing just that.
That's everything you need to know about the Houston chron
Go to cron dot com right now and see it
for yourself. The best vegetarian restaurants in Houston. And oh,
by the way, a deputy was killed. Wow, just wow.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Rock.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
What is your confession, hey Michael.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, somebody grew up in Houston listening to one on
one Koel.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I would have never allowed anybody to know that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I now have an appreciation for Wham and the work
of George Michael and his talent in music rock.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I'm gonna tell you something. If you splar, you won't
tell anybody else. I promised me too.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, it's been a long time coming, but I, uh,
I appreciate it now.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So well, here's my problem. I don't watch network TV
per se, but I've got some YouTube things that I
subscribe to, and one of them is called The Professor
of Rock. It's got named Adam Reader, and he loves
George Michael, and he has a George Michael sensibility that
(15:19):
I think has rubbed off on him. I had a
fear she should be featured here. Nobody puts Crystal in force.
(15:40):
So David Malloy, who produced this, is a superstar producer.
I did not know of him, but he wrote uh,
Driving My Life Away, which Eddie Rabbit cut. Obviously, he
wrote suspicions that Eddie Rabbit had a big hit with
his father, Jim Malloy, was a Grammy aw Award winning
(16:00):
recording engineer. His father worked in recording studios around Los Angeles,
but moved to Nashville when David was thirteen. He took
his first guitar lesson at fifteen and immediately knew he
wanted to write and produce music for a living. How
is men, since you talked to Matt Parish, So those
(16:24):
of you who ever came to the RCC will remember
what was this man called market Junction? And Matt Parrish
is one of my favorite people in the world. He's
about I tell you think he is. He's not five four,
maybe five six. He's about five six, and I don't
(16:46):
want to exaggerate. Maybe twenty seven pounds. Well I could
say twelve pounds and then people think I was exaggerating.
So he's about five to six and say twenty sep
maybe thirty pounds, maybe thirty pounds. He wears those big
old boots to try to add some girth, and he
wears oversized wrangler jeans that starts so much they would
(17:08):
stand up on their own, and they are about eight
sizes too big to try to give him some size.
And then he puts a hat on the top to
add a couple of inches. And but then what he
doesn't realize is he's got this little bit of Ichabod
crane head underneath there. But anyway, out of that little
beady body comes some fantastic songwriting guitar, get fiddle picking
(17:30):
and singing, and he's just a minch of a man, great,
great guy. And so I went on to Facebook because
Christine Weaver, our probate attorney, our Wills in the States lawyer,
sent me she said, I heard you talking about Wills
and estates. I heard you talking about sorry, I heard
you talking about consanguinity, which is the legal term for
(17:52):
who you're related to and what that relationship is called
in a court of law. And that's what Wills and
estates is all about. Right, you know which air receipt
inherits this and when, and it's a fascinating body of law.
But because I went to England to get an International
Commercial Law degree, an LLLM, which is a degree after
(18:13):
law school which you don't need, I wanted to teach
and I wanted to live in England in the school
was willing to pay for it. But so I didn't
take that class, and it's a class you should take.
So I come back. I come back a month after
law school finishes because I'm still finishing my coursework there
and I have to set for the Bar. And there's
(18:33):
an amount of time I think it's about three months
two and a half months between when law school ends
your last semester and when you take the bar in
the summer. You can take it in the you can
take it again later in the year, but you don't
want to fail the bar. That's embarrassing. So in it's
past fail. There's no grade, its just pass fail. So
I arrived back a month into a bar exam prep.
(18:58):
So I'm already behind getting ready for this exam, and
I haven't taken some of the core classes that are
important parts of the bar exam. One of them is bankruptcy,
and one of them is Wills and the States, and
one of them is evidence. And those are classes that
you take for the soul, you take typically your third year,
and so I haven't taken any of those, so I've
(19:22):
got to just the Bar exam prep is where they go.
All right, you learned a lot during your course work
in law school on this subject. Here's the only part
you need to remember for your law exam. But for me,
it wasn't like revising my notes. I didn't have any notes.
I didn't know any of that. So I'm behind the
(19:42):
eight ball here, right. So anyway, so she sent me
that a chart to tell you, you know which one
is your second cousin and which one is this, and
which one is your first classon So I go on
the Facebook machine to post what she has sent me
because I find this stuff interesting. And what the first
thing I see is a post by Matt Parrish. He's
(20:04):
a little bit dude. I told you it's about I'll
say thirty pounds because twenty seven is being rude. He's
probably thirty pounds. And there's a picture of a fishing
boat center console boat. I ran out of boat knowledge.
I was gonna throw in some terms, but that's not
all I had. My votecab was a little limited. I
(20:28):
was gonna throw a little jargon in there, but I
didn't have anything else to offer. What I was gonna say,
I was gonna say starbird or I was gonna try
to find something, but it would have been so obvious.
I was trying that I didn't even do it. And
there is a boat, and it went through my head
(20:48):
that dude never posts anything on Facebook other than him fishing.
And every time I call him to see if he
can come play a gig at my house because I
do this house parties where I'll have an artist come
and we sit around and sing along with them. And
if you're a person who shows up at my house
and you talk one of the persons that you don't
(21:11):
ever get invited back because I love the kind of
sing along campfire you know, South Texas TV they call
it the kind of campfire sing along type deal. Every
time I call him, he'll say I would love to,
but I'm out fishing every time. Like how much fishing
can you? There's nothing I enjoy doing that I want
(21:31):
to do it that often. There's things I love, but
I don't want to do them that often. So I
picked up the phone to call him during the break
and I said, let me guess you're fishing, and he goes,
how'd you know? And I said, I was joking, because
I mean, what's today Thursday? Who's dot at work. You
(21:54):
know one thing I realize, Ramon, we're the only people
who come to work every day.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
People can say, hey, yeah, but what's not work. You're right,
it's not. But we're here. We never miss, ever, ever, ever,
we never miss. When you talk to enough people, you
realize a lot of people, especially business owners and salesmen,
they're off playing golf, they're off fishing. They're here and
(22:23):
there constantly, like they don't go to work five days
a week or more. They just don't do it. They're
always doing something else. So anyway, I said, I was joking.
I mean, how are you fishing it Thursday? Why are
you not at work? You go to work. I grew
up in a household of a plant worker who never
(22:45):
he missed two days in forty years, and he's a
chronic diabetic. Two sick days. You get up and go
to work. You don't get up with a hangover and
not go to work. And you don't. It's like Scott Kudats,
you don't just plan it. Well, guess what he's doing now,
he's got his business. He's he's a guide. Did you
know that he's got it? He's teaching fly fishing down
in Galiston, he started a business. Who knows?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Remind the New York Times headline Anita Bryant, whose anti
(23:32):
gay politics undid a singing career, is dead at eighty four.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
The reason you don't say nice things about Jimmy Carter
is because he was awful as a president and awful
as a human being, despite what you've heard, most notably recently,
because he did a lot of things. He declared that
Donald Trump was an illegitimate president and that the Russians
(24:09):
had put him in the White House in twenty sixteen.
Oh but you know, I agree, Michael. He wasn't a
good president, but he was you know what, he was
a good man. You've been taught, well you met him. No,
he was a good man. He did a lot of
good for a lot of people. What did he do well?
He did that habitat for humanity. Interesting. So he hammered
(24:34):
some nails, and that means he can be an election denier.
That means he can declare that the hard work of
millions of Americans to keep Hillary Clinton from being president
and put Donald Trump in the White House, that the
Russians did that that makes him a good man. Well,
I mean he wasn't perfect. Neither was Anita Bryant. But
isn't it interesting They want to act like Jimmy Carter
(24:56):
was a saint and Anita Bryant was an awful human being.
Anti gay. That's such a smart way to frame things.
She was anti gay, No, she wasn't. She didn't want
laws to be changed for an agenda of the progressives.
(25:21):
She was ahead of her time nineteen fifty eight. She
was also a smoke show, by the way, absolute smoke show.
She was a nineteen fifty eight Miss Oklahoma Beauty Pageant winner.
She was also hermonan You probably don't know this, a
brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission from nineteen sixty
(25:42):
nine to nineteen eighty. That's not a bad gig in Yeah, Well,
she did a lot of things in her life. She
stood up for what she believed in. And I thought
we were a country that even if we don't agree
with what someone says, we can appreciate their advocacy if
(26:04):
they come by it honestly, and she did. She was
from Barnesdale, Oklahoma. Ramone. I don't know, I'll just sounded
like an interesting thing. Her mother's name was Leonora and
her father's name was Warren Warren G. Bryant like Warren G. Harding.
(26:25):
You know they don't. Oh, she was invited to audition
when Arthur Godfrey's Talent Show came to town. Do you
know who was discovered by Arthur Godfrey? Johnny Nash? Very good.
She had her television show, The Anita Bryant Show, which
aired on WKY now, w sorry KFO RTV. Ramone said
(26:50):
that I became unnaturally excited when we added Tulsa as
an affiliate a couple of months ago. You want to
hear something funny. We've been in radio for nineteen years
now for a moment, it's over twenty five years, and
I'll tell you something about that in just a moment.
In all those years, it took us forever to add
(27:14):
a second affiliate. Ninety nine point nine percent of shows
will never go beyond one market. It's very hard to do.
And Premiere is the big dog. That's what syndicated Russia's Show,
Sean's Show, Glenn's Show, now, Clay and Bug. Premiere is
(27:36):
the big dog. If Premiere puts you on, then they
start adding stations. They've got all the relationships, so for
us to go in two thousand and seven from one
to two stations. It was originally going to be Portland,
and then they were going to put us on, and
they took us off to go with what was thought
(27:58):
to be a more regionally friendly guy named Mike Siegel.
And the station was at a zero point zero and
Robert Dove, who ran the station, loved our show and
he wanted us on. And that was when a regional
director of our company who's along with the company, said,
what are you going to put Michael Berry on in Portland?
(28:20):
For he's Southern friede. That's why we started embracing the
term Southern Fride. What's wrong with Southern Fride? The guy
they put on, well, I won't I better not he
Let's say he had a regional accent in Mike Siegel,
and it wasn't the region of the Pacific Northwest. But anyway,
(28:43):
so Baton Rouge picked us up in the meantime, so
that was our first affiliates. Now we had two stations,
then Portland. We have self syndicated over those nineteen years
and as hard as hell because we had to compete
with Premiere and Premiere had, Hey, if you want Rush Limbaugh,
then you got to take this show. So we were
up against that and that's a tough, tough putt. And
(29:08):
so when we got picked up by Premiere that started
October seventh. We went from thirty affiliates to sixty affiliates
from October seventh November Dember in three months. In three months,
we added as many affiliates as it took us nineteen
years to get on our own. That's crazy, That is crazy.
But it all started with you good folks supporting us
(29:32):
on the subject of Ramone and how long he's been
in radio. So we restructured my contract and we restructured
everything we do as a business. And that meant that
our whole team now works for my company and not
for iHeart anymore. And Ramone got his feelings hurt because
(29:57):
he didn't get a watch or any cognition when he
hit twenty years of working for iHeart. He started at
clear Channel. You just start a clear chown. You started
with AMFM, what'd you start at? It was clichown? So
Ramone hit twenty five years, it's now been twenty six years,
and now he's he doesn't work for that company anymore.
He works for my company independently, and he got his
(30:18):
feelings hurt, and Chad and I laughed and laughed, and
Jim is in on all this. He genuinely got his
feelings hurt that they didn't buy him or watch when
he left, because it's always been the case that at
twenty years the company Eddie would do it himself. I
don't leave, the company would buy you a watch what
he thought him a watch. And so now it's a
running joke in our studio when we have our production
(30:41):
meeting that we're gonna buy Ramone a watch and he doesn't.
What's funny is it wouldn't be funny if he was
in on the joke, but he genuinely got his feelings hurt.
And amongst guys, if guys find out there's something that
you actually really genuinely care about, that csing your weakness
(31:01):
is the worst thing you can do. So that has
it has become a very funny joke for us. And
I'm gonna have to hear about the fact that I
just mentioned. As always, I enjoy hearing from you. You
can visit our website at Michael Berryshow dot com. We
got a new president in just a few days. I
can't wait. I cannot wait. I pray for the safety
(31:25):
and security of our president, our incoming president, and I
never felt the need to do that before, but I
do now
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