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She was the way he loves.
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Happy day or happy dad, happy.
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I wouldn't do those war She look the way he loved.
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What a happy day, a happy day or a happy day,
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happy winter?
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Those wars, oh waity war winter, those war three away
he at deep.
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Happy day, happy day, good.
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Happy good happy dy I happy day, Oh habitay.
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Speaker 1 (05:21):
And the phones are open seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. Of course you can always email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. Seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. And to get us started
as we always do, Curtis of courtesy of the greatest
executive producer in all the land, Chatticoni Nakanishi your weekend review,
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Joyce the Sage of Sunnyside. I believe you have a
birthday today. I think they remember my birthday. How old
are you today, Joyce ninety two? My goodness, A lie,
that's just amazing. And in the shape you're in, I mean,
that's This is.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
The way I raised my children.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I live simple, so I can simply live. It was
a life changing day for an Astro's rising star.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Number one prospect Cam Smith is special in so many ways.
Manager Joe has spotted giving Smith and his family a
gift they will treasure it forever. The moment that Smith
found out he will make his major league debut comes
with a big surprise. Had no ideas until his mom
walked into the Astros club.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I was a single mom for a while, you know,
when he was little, through those pivotal years of travel ball.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do you realize how many hours she has driven him
to practice, She has driven him to tryouts, she has
sat on metal bleachers. To every one of you parents,
whatever your kid does, sports or whatever else, that you've
been there for everything, God bless you. Houston Man is
behind bars tonight after performing unlicensed dentistry on a woman
who says he.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Tried to pull her tooth with a pair of pliers flyers.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
The La Plaza apartments is where you would normally go
for Dinnis appointment, but neighbors say it's where people would
visit Caesar Perez, he was accused of performing unlicensed inntal work.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You go to the dentist and it's in the middle
of a section eight apartment. Accomplished and you got five
stolen TVs on the wall. I'm gonna tell you that's
probably not a licensed trained experience. Then too.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
The Harris County Striff's office says thirty one steers escaped
a trailer drivers called nine one one is saying there
were loose bulls on forty five.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Law enforcement suggests letting them do the hard work. You
start honking your horn, you start chasing on, waking your hands.
All you do is put pressure on them and they
want to ride. And you know there was a couple
of good old boys. Hold on, I'm gonna get that.
I'm gonna help these guys. You know what did you
get back in here?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
They're gonna get you.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They're gonna run your credit card and see you got
a warrant on you. Oh man. The commentary.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Been flying solo solo.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Nobody singing the hons.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh there, just meeting my shadow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No mates, nobody talk to Tam. I haven't an.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He says the.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Tool, the Imperial, the Butterfly. With Michael Berry, they're all Duncans.
And you know duncan means your start a month, mondays,
since I had a break. Sometimes tell myself when I
had a whole, I take Friday's.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Come in, just slop bad. It's gonna come back to round.
Gotta keep on around him. I can't you let trouble
with the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Our pity to feel that. Then chans Bag, singing, there
Astros a good win last night. I was happy for
Kim Smith. His first at bat. He gets a single
and he didn't knock the cover off the ball. But
God was shining down on this kid. He punched the
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ball in between more pushed the ball in between first
and second and advance the runners and the crowd went wild.
Everybody wants this kid to succeed. Everybody wants this kid
to succeed. Brown Beart had another solid outing, you know
Ramon yesterday from Bear became the sixth pitcher to start
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four or more opening day games for the Astros. Obviously,
you only get one opening day game per year, so
six is a very very very exclusive group. Six times
for is twenty four some of them. You think we're
probably more than that. Think about how rare it is
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because you've you've sucked up this is This isn't the Yankees.
This franchise hasn't been here that long. There aren't very
many people who've thrown an opening day who started opening
Day for the Astros. Interesting seemed like an interesting fact. Well,
I tell you what, Yeah, I'll give you another one.
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Every time a ball goes up in the air toward
left field, the entire crowd is like the parent of
the kid who has never played baseball before, and it's
eight year old baseball and some kid rockets a fly
ball out there and they're going, oh no, oh, I
do you have to hit it out there? Oh no,
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because in little league it's not just is he going
to catch it or isn't it's you know, is it
going to go to the fen and he can't get there,
And when he does, he throws it toward home but
it goes over the back of the fence. I mean
it could just get you know, people are cringing, Oh,
that's Uh, that's that's how it's gonna be. That is
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going to be an interesting an interesting aspect of the
year for sure. But I think it's a good team.
It's gonna be it's it's gonna be. Uh, it's gonna
be fun to watch him. My dad is excited. We've
got we've got a baseball season now. I mean, that's
the beauty of baseball is It's it's every day you
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magic number, magic number to clinch. No, I'm what's that
one sixty one? Do you think that's what it'll take? Okay,
all right, to the phone lines, we go, Chris, you're up.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Yeah, Hi, Michael. I heard that story this week about
the fourteen year old boy who shot his girlfriend, and
now they're holding the parents responsible and liable, probably for
I guess not securing the gun properly, rather than looking
at the boy and prosecuting the one who actually pulled
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the trigger. It kind of reminds me of bartenders who
are held responsible for accidents or deaths because the customer
drank too much at the bar and the bartender was
that fault for that as well. So I don't understand, Michael,
why judges and Harris County are not also held to
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the same standard when they constantly open the doors to
these criminals and allow them to roam the streets over
and over again and commit these crimes. I want these
judges held responsible. You know something that you said, Michael
this year that meant a lot to me is you know,
you can tell I'm a little fired up, a little angry,
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and that comes and goes. But it's the people who
are steadfast in their cause rather than running on emotions,
that get the job done.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And so I try to keep my.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Emotions in check with subjects like this and and look
at the facts and try to keep a clear head.
It's just, you know, I have conspiracy theories as to
why these judges are doing it. Are they doing it
so that the innocent like us cry out for martial
law or cry out for for banning guns? You know,
are they going to start holding gun companies responsible now
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for death? So they're going to start holding you know,
alcohol companies responsible for death. I mean, I just I
don't I do so understand it. Michael, thanks for listening,
And uh, goa Kook's. On a happy note, Go Kook's.
I think they're gonna win it all. Take care of
a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Is it a nine oh nine start?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Is that what I saw?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think it's a nine oh nine start, And I
can't remember the site I went to pull that. I
don't think that's Eastern, so I guess that's a late
start here Houston time. Hopefully it won't matter. But that's
that's a tough team they're up against. It's it's a
tough deal to get through a tournament like this. It
is these coades. You think about the legendary coaches that
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have been in this field. The Calipari Patino matchup, I
realized it wasn't the two top teams in college basketball,
but boy, the memories, the legacy, the legend, the history
of those two guys, it's pretty impressive. I will only
say this, Chris, I agree with everything you said. I
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am not a fan of trying to blame an establishment
when a guy has a horrible accident and he blows
a number so high that you had to really work
to get that drunk. That being said, I have watched
guys that choose to make every penny they possibly can
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out of their bar with a reckless disregard to how
they're doing it. We've all been in a bar where
there is a guy who looks like he might pass
out before he gets to the door on his exit.
And I do think that there is, if not a
legal and there is a moral responsibility not to allow
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someone to play bumper cars on the road and kill somebody.
We used to take away their keys, and there were
people that would fight with us. Oh, they would be
so angry with us, and without fail, the next day
they would thank us because they realized they don't remember
leaving and you know, horrible things happened, and we'd put
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them in. There was a little hotel next door. But
I have seen people stagger out of bars. I've seen
bartenders continue to pour because they're continuing to get paid,
and everybody at the bar is saying, you've got to
stop this. And at some point you have to step
in because a multi thousand pounds piece of steel. But yeah,
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it's that idiot who won't stop drinking, and that's the
primary responsibility. I agree, go back for one of these
women are chief Michael Mary. I think that there might
be said I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Probably I got my.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
First day we moved my dad into the assistant living facility.
You're nervous, like taking your kid to kindergarten. You want
them to make friends, you want them to like it,
you want you want to feel like they're going to
make it, and you know you're you're really nervous. And so, uh,
my brother Steve and I go in and uh, at
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four o'clock they have I don't know what they call it.
I would call it cultural enrichment, which seems like kind
of corporate speak for this sort of thing. But from
four to five they have a cultural enriched daily activity
and then at five sharp dinner starts. Well, the four
to five is a happy hour, and I thought, these
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old people ain't gonna be drinking. Oh they drink. And
my dad, because you know, we're Southern Baptists, and as
you know, those women they drink. Michael, they drink. They
But I find out they're cut off after two because
last thing you want is some old woman falling over drunk.
And they apparently every day someone's got to get cut off,
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which is hilarious to me. And then well, I of
course don't have anything to drink. So this was on
a Saturday. We roll them in. So at five o'clock
at at about four fifty people start peeling away from
the activity and going toward the dining room. And as
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they're heading there, once one it's a cattle call. Right now,
they're shuffling. They're getting over there. They got to get
in there to eat. And at about four point fifty
eight they are lined up like this is the Rolling
Stones last concert. They are at the door, ready to
get in the door and get to their seat. It
was it was a thing to behold. So little ways in,
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my niece comes over as well, so we fill out
the table of all family members from my dad's his
first day. You know, we're getting him all subtled in.
And we had another There was another resident there who
I knew years ago, so he kind of welcomed me
and he joined us. We pulled up an extra chair,
which was a big thing because now the fore top
was now a five top, and you know, change just
frighten me. So my niece comes in. We didn't know
she was coming, Bailey.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
So here we are.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Somewhere along the way. I need to take the edge off.
So I like to have a little red wine with
my dinner. And I ordered the red wine and the
lady said, oh, sorry, sir, alcohol cut off five o'clock.
I said, pray, tell why. She said, well, seen me.
You you know the happy hours limit of two drinks
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we can't have. I said, oh, I see this more
like kindergarten than I thought. Okay, all right, but that's
not what I want to tell you. So that first
day they had a little concert. That fella come in,
he plays his his organ and he sings, and I forget,
oh it's Marty Graus. This must have been around Marty Gras.
So he played Marty grass songs and it would sing
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along and they clap, and you know, we all sang,
and it was quite enjoyable, to be completely honest, There's
no nobody's holding anything back at this point. You got
nothing to lose, right, So nobody's shy or nervous or insecure.
They know the song. There clapping their singing, and you
just quite I thought, that's kind of a nice environment
to be in. So at the end of it, I
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go up. I know the guy on the organ I've
met him before, used to be the Astros organist. Name
was Jim Conners. And he said, I didn't know you
were here, and so we get to talking and he
had done. And I'm gonna get this number wrong, but
he did five hundred twenty shows last calendar year. Five
hundred twenty shows, and I think he had done seventeen
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shows a week before, so you know, two point five
shows per day because it was a busy time. But
he did let's say, over five hundred I know it
was firing. I think it was five hundred and twenty shows.
That's a show and a half a day. He's got
to drive there. He's got an organ which which has wheeled.
He's customized it, and so he just flips the organ
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up on its side and he rolls it. I mean,
you know, he's an older man himself. He's hell, he's
got to be sixty five seventy himself, and so he
rolls his organ over and then it has to clasps
on it to bars, and he grabs the you know,
gingerly lays it down and he goes to town and
it's got an accompaniment to it, and he has a
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microphone and a speaker and the whole thing. So I'm
telling Ramone this, and I said, and I've come to
find out they have an event cultural Enrichmond or whatever
at four o'clock every day, somebody comes in and sings
to various degrees of melodic enjoyment, I must say, But
the people don't seem to mind. So I said, ramon,
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you know they got a budget for that. Lord knows
assistant living is expensive, I said, these people, I mean
if they got one hundred dollars a show to come
and do this, because you've got to come in, you
got to bring your equipment. If you do a show
or to a day, you could survive on doing this.
I said, this is a whole cottage industry. There was
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a lady that came in and gave a lecture. Wander
all these people are getting paid to come in and
provide entertainment for the old folks home. I said, you
won't believe this. There is a whole underground cottage industry
of providing entertainment to old folks homes. And he said,
do you know what my little sister Martha Elisia does. Um? Hm,
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she books gigs at a series of old folks home
that's her job company. What's it called Skylark or something?
He why would you know it's your sister? Why would
you know where she works? Weirdo anyway, So apparently they
own a bunch of o folks homes and she's the
one who books the who's coming in to play, and
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I guess how much they're going to pay. It's it's
like a whole booking agent. It's just amazing. There are
so many This is a whole world that I never
would have known about otherwise, Juan, You're only Michael Berry show.
Go ahead, sir, with sir.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Hey, good morning, how do everybody do it?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Go ahead?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
So I am a transplant from California and I've been
here for about five years and I'm ready to give
my inployer on how I can tell the difference between
the two.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay, go ahead, And it's not that big.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Of a difference, and I'm very glad to say that.
I mean, there's slightly a little bit more of a
conservative influence out here, but honest with you, coming from
you know, Tommy Fournia, Yeah, man, you guys are kind
of kind of going the same route, unfortunately, and that's
because of Unfortunately from what I'm hearing from following your.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Show is.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
You know, these judges that are in positions of power
where they shouldn't be, and you know, that's really a problem,
you know. And I can kind of foreshadow and see
how Houston is, you know, heading that way towards where
I tried to escape from, which was southern California.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, it's uh. I think what's happening here is it
might look the same and it will have the same
result with regarded Democrats versus Republicans. But what's happening here,
what's happening there is more of a white liberal move.
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What's happening here is much more racial. It is it
is the raw muscular power of racial voting. And and
you've got one boss. I mean, Rodney Ellis is a
boss on a different level. You'll never see a Republican
exert authority influence control the way he does. He has
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this this region, you know, this is this is this
is mayor daily level of because he's controlling now everything
but the city. And it's all the greatest wets your life.
It's with Michael's formal war. We have all your formal
wear needs, from morning suits to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Set up to get you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
With the fine tude calm. I was something inside, there
was something good to do something to me that.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
I can that.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You know, their comedy is very interesting because much like Willie,
she can't purely harmonize. Her voice is too different, delivered differently.
Notice it doesn't just blend in. It's like watching an
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EKG goes up and down. You hear it and then
don't hear it, and don't hear it and don't instead
of it. Kind of. I'm not saying she sounds like
a blood harmony, but I think I don't think her style.
But it's it works. I mean, it's good. Lord, it's
an amazing song. The greatest duet of all time, most
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successful duet of all time, that's not questionable. You know,
I forgot Paul Baker, our private investigator, does those shows,
and he does them at all folks homes, and he
does free shows or Camp Hope. He's always on standby.
He goes over and does shows it Camp Hope for
the veterans. By the way, it's one of those. They
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have a person who does programming at Camp Hope. It's
a big deal there too. But you think about it,
there are many similarities. You're sitting around the old folks home,
you're sitting around Camp Hope. And staying busy is a
good thing and you look forward to activities at camp
Hope they have you know, that's the weight room. I'll
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tell you what. Do not get into in between the
veterans and the chow hall when it is time, because
when it's time to eat, they make a bee line.
Same thing as the old folks home. They are they
are ready for it, fired up. They're not ambling to eat,
and a lot of them eat really fast. I thought
that was interesting, like they'll be in and out in
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five minutes or less. They could wait to get there,
but now they've eaten, then they're done. Interesting. Whereas the
old folks don't do that. They like to sit there
and dawdle for a while, have some conversation and talk.
And I wish I could record it without being rude,
because it is hilarious. You can hear conversations from four
tables away.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
What did you get?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Uh? Shoot, I don't know. It's uh what do they
call it? And then there'll be a caregiver who eventually
will want to put everybody out of me.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
What is this called?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What's what do they call it?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
What?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
What is this?
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Hey, what's this dish?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
This one called?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's uh that's support chop? Yeah, Uh, that's a a shoot,
I don't know, pork chop or something. They call it
something like that.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Uh, how is it? Huh?
Speaker 10 (27:43):
How is it?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Is it good?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
How?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
How does it taste?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He wants to know, is it any good?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
How does it taste? And it's hilarious because each conversation
is so loud, but when they pause, it's not a
fluid conversation. When they pause in the conversation. Did you
pick up a conversation three tables away that you couldn't
get It was being blurred out? So you might be
listening to one table on this side of you and
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then they go quiet and the one too beyond them.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Good.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So yeah, okay, all right, so yeah, and so we
were telling them so it is hilarious. Uh, it's it's
an eye opening experience, you know, the whole life cycle
sort of like, uh, you don't think about the birthing
process unless you're in it or around it. And then
you realize there's a whole industry here, there's a hole
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and now they got all the When a woman leaves
the house today, she has more gear than Marcus Latreull
going into Afghanistan. I mean she's got nappies and bags
and zips and this. And then when my nieces are
gearing up to go out, it's it's like war. It's
and they're pushing things. And then the thing they put
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this is also true of the old people. It's got
gear in it. Right. There's there's boxes and and there's this,
and this goes in here, and then we got my dad.
Thank you to Fasil Punawala, who on Spring Ranch Medical Supply.
I felt, I felt, you know how when your kid
goes to kindergarten. I felt that my dad's walker was
not up to speed. There was there was one woman
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that had mags on hers, and I said, no, we're
not gonna do that. We're gonna have wheels we can
be proud of. We're gonna we're gonna do the whole thing.
So Fasil and my wife meet up and and because
my wife is the chairperson, the chairman of this committee,
and so she says, I'm really excited about the walker
dad got, but more importantly, he's really excited. I said, okay,
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so I see it. Uh, he had to order it,
bringing in and all this, and I see it, and
I said, Dad, I like this new walker. What do
you think? He said, Oh, it's nice. And so when
you're when you're walking with it, you hold on each hand,
you're leaning onto it. And he said, it's got it's
got breaks on it, which we didn't have brakes before.
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And as we were walking, we got a good little
head of steam going. It's it's got brace. He'll stop
on a dime and he pinches it, and well, hey, hey,
how about we discussed it'll stop on a dime, but
we don't stop on a dime. That kind of scared
me a little bit, but it did. It's got It's
got everything you could want. But again, you don't know
that there's all these things out there until you're in
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the thick of it, and then it's the most natural
thing in the world. You know where you're gonna spring
branch medical supply. Okay, we're gonna do it. It's life
is about learning, and I'm sure learning. Uh. Oh, we
got Jeff hold on, Jeff, wait right there, Heather, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Yes, Michael, I'm calling because I was
wondering why Governor Abbott didn't just sort of do it
pull a Donald Trump on Jasmine and say.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Oh, I'm gonna put hot.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Wheels decals I'm a wheel and then just sort.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Of be like, honey, I know you think I'm hot,
but it will never.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Work, and instead of demanding an apology, to sort of
make fun of her and then drop it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I don't know how best to say this without coming
off as rude. Greg Abbott is you know, if Mitt
Romney had won in twenty twelve, which he was supposed
to because he's running against Obama, he would have been
president and people would have he looks like a president,
he dresses like a president.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
He knows which fork to use, and where to sit,
when to stand and when to kneel and where to walk,
and he can read the words they put on the
screen for him to talk about, you know, the goodness
of America and our.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Legacy and this is what it means. But you would
have just had the sense that you were just kind
of a mid tier run of the meal. Nothing that's
Greg Abbot if Trump doesn't come along. You know, Abbot
was preparing people think I'm joking. Abbot had an entire
team making calls around the country. They thought Abbot would
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be president by now, and people. People when when they
hear me say that, think that I'm this is not
something I surmise, it is not conjecture. I know some
of these people they thought Greg Abbot would be President
Abbot right now, and you'd be getting out of him
as president exactly what you get on as governor. Nothing.
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He'll occasionally take up an issue when something's in the news. He'll,
you know, if we make it to the World Series
against the Red Sox, he'll or whoever, he'll, you know,
I'll bet you a barbecue to the He's you know,
Nabi a headline the governor of Texas has bet the
governor of Massachusetts if his team win. And it's just
it's all silliness. It's all ridiculous. Aren't we in Boston's division?
Speaker 10 (32:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
No? You sure they realigned everything since the eighties and
I'm kind of still stuck in the eighties. I still
think the Oilers should should be in a division, should
be in a division with the Browns, the Bengals and
the Steelers. You know, I don't like that they put
us all at so I need to kind of catch
up
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Darry Show is on the air. Oh yes, you
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Yes, it could show the day can feel it.
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Heavy day or heavy day when those war when he war, when.
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She was the way he loves.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Happy day or happy dad, happy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Or happy day. Wouldn't do those wars. It was pretty warm.
I wouldn't do those war She look the way he loved.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
What a happy day, a happy day or a happy day,
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happy winter?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Those wars, oh waity war winter, those war three away
he at deep.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Happy day, happy day, good.
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Happy good happy dy I happy day, Oh habitay.
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When those walls where it was, when those war three
was the way he needed? Oh the habit oh good gun.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And the phones are open seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. Of course you can always email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. Seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. And to get us started
as we always do, Curtis of courtesy of the greatest
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Joyce the Sage of Sunnyside. I believe you have a
birthday today. I think they remember my birthday. How old
are you today, Joyce ninety two? My goodness, A lie,
that's just amazing. And in the shape you're in, I mean,
that's This is.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
The way I raised my children.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I live simple, so I can simply live. It was
a life changing day for an Astro's rising star.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Number one prospect Cam Smith is special in so many ways.
Manager Joe has spotted giving Smith and his family a
gift they will treasure it forever. The moment that Smith
found out he will make his major league debut comes
with a big surprise. Had no ideas until his mom
walked into the Astros club.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I was a single mom for a while, you know,
when he was little, through those pivotal years of travel ball.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do you realize how many hours she has driven him
to practice, She has driven him to tryouts, she has
sat on metal bleachers. To every one of you parents,
whatever your kid does, sports or whatever else, that you've
been there for everything, God bless you. Houston Man is
behind bars tonight after performing unlicensed dentistry on a woman
who says he.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Tried to pull her tooth with a pair of pliers flyers.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
The La Plaza apartments is where you would normally go
for Dinnis appointment, but neighbors say it's where people would
visit Caesar Perez, he was accused of performing unlicensed inntal work.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You go to the dentist and it's in the middle
of a section eight apartment. Accomplished and you got five
stolen TVs on the wall. I'm gonna tell you that's
probably not a licensed trained experience. Then too.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
The Harris County Striff's office says thirty one steers escaped
a trailer drivers called nine one one is saying there
were loose bulls on forty five.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Law enforcement suggests letting them do the hard work. You
start honking your horn, you start chasing on, waking your hands.
All you do is put pressure on them and they
want to ride. And you know there was a couple
of good old boys. Hold on, I'm gonna get that.
I'm gonna help these guys. You know what did you
get back in here?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
They're gonna get you.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They're gonna run your credit card and see you got
a warrant on you. Oh man. The commentary.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Been flying solo solo.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Nobody singing the hons.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh there, just meeting my shadow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No mates, nobody talk to Tam. I haven't an.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He says the.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Tool, the Imperial, the Butterfly. With Michael Berry, they're all Duncans.
And you know duncan means your start a month, mondays,
since I had a break. Sometimes tell myself when I
had a whole, I take Friday's.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Come in, just slop bad. It's gonna come back to round.
Gotta keep on around him. I can't you let trouble
with the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Our pity to feel that. Then chans Bag, singing, there
Astros a good win last night. I was happy for
Kim Smith. His first at bat. He gets a single
and he didn't knock the cover off the ball. But
God was shining down on this kid. He punched the
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ball in between more pushed the ball in between first
and second and advance the runners and the crowd went wild.
Everybody wants this kid to succeed. Everybody wants this kid
to succeed. Brown Beart had another solid outing, you know
Ramon yesterday from Bear became the sixth pitcher to start
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four or more opening day games for the Astros. Obviously,
you only get one opening day game per year, so
six is a very very very exclusive group. Six times
for is twenty four some of them. You think we're
probably more than that. Think about how rare it is
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because you've you've sucked up this is This isn't the Yankees.
This franchise hasn't been here that long. There aren't very
many people who've thrown an opening day who started opening
Day for the Astros. Interesting seemed like an interesting fact. Well,
I tell you what, Yeah, I'll give you another one.
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Every time a ball goes up in the air toward
left field, the entire crowd is like the parent of
the kid who has never played baseball before, and it's
eight year old baseball and some kid rockets a fly
ball out there and they're going, oh no, oh, I
do you have to hit it out there? Oh no,
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because in little league it's not just is he going
to catch it or isn't it's you know, is it
going to go to the fen and he can't get there,
And when he does, he throws it toward home but
it goes over the back of the fence. I mean
it could just get you know, people are cringing, Oh,
that's Uh, that's that's how it's gonna be. That is
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going to be an interesting an interesting aspect of the
year for sure. But I think it's a good team.
It's gonna be it's it's gonna be. Uh, it's gonna
be fun to watch him. My dad is excited. We've
got we've got a baseball season now. I mean, that's
the beauty of baseball is It's it's every day you
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magic number, magic number to clinch. No, I'm what's that
one sixty one? Do you think that's what it'll take? Okay,
all right, to the phone lines, we go, Chris, you're up.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Yeah, Hi, Michael. I heard that story this week about
the fourteen year old boy who shot his girlfriend, and
now they're holding the parents responsible and liable, probably for
I guess not securing the gun properly, rather than looking
at the boy and prosecuting the one who actually pulled
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the trigger. It kind of reminds me of bartenders who
are held responsible for accidents or deaths because the customer
drank too much at the bar and the bartender was
that fault for that as well. So I don't understand, Michael,
why judges and Harris County are not also held to
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the same standard when they constantly open the doors to
these criminals and allow them to roam the streets over
and over again and commit these crimes. I want these
judges held responsible. You know something that you said, Michael
this year that meant a lot to me is you know,
you can tell I'm a little fired up, a little angry,
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and that comes and goes. But it's the people who
are steadfast in their cause rather than running on emotions,
that get the job done.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And so I try to keep my.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Emotions in check with subjects like this and and look
at the facts and try to keep a clear head.
It's just, you know, I have conspiracy theories as to
why these judges are doing it. Are they doing it
so that the innocent like us cry out for martial
law or cry out for for banning guns? You know,
are they going to start holding gun companies responsible now
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for death? So they're going to start holding you know,
alcohol companies responsible for death. I mean, I just I
don't I do so understand it. Michael, thanks for listening,
And uh, goa Kook's. On a happy note, Go Kook's.
I think they're gonna win it all. Take care of
a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Is it a nine oh nine start?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Is that what I saw?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think it's a nine oh nine start, And I
can't remember the site I went to pull that. I
don't think that's Eastern, so I guess that's a late
start here Houston time. Hopefully it won't matter. But that's
that's a tough team they're up against. It's it's a
tough deal to get through a tournament like this. It
is these coades. You think about the legendary coaches that
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have been in this field. The Calipari Patino matchup, I
realized it wasn't the two top teams in college basketball,
but boy, the memories, the legacy, the legend, the history
of those two guys, it's pretty impressive. I will only
say this, Chris, I agree with everything you said. I
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am not a fan of trying to blame an establishment
when a guy has a horrible accident and he blows
a number so high that you had to really work
to get that drunk. That being said, I have watched
guys that choose to make every penny they possibly can
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out of their bar with a reckless disregard to how
they're doing it. We've all been in a bar where
there is a guy who looks like he might pass
out before he gets to the door on his exit.
And I do think that there is, if not a
legal and there is a moral responsibility not to allow
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someone to play bumper cars on the road and kill somebody.
We used to take away their keys, and there were
people that would fight with us. Oh, they would be
so angry with us, and without fail, the next day
they would thank us because they realized they don't remember
leaving and you know, horrible things happened, and we'd put
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them in. There was a little hotel next door. But
I have seen people stagger out of bars. I've seen
bartenders continue to pour because they're continuing to get paid,
and everybody at the bar is saying, you've got to
stop this. And at some point you have to step
in because a multi thousand pounds piece of steel. But yeah,
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it's that idiot who won't stop drinking, and that's the
primary responsibility. I agree, go back for one of these
women are chief Michael Mary. I think that there might
be said I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Probably I got my.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
First day we moved my dad into the assistant living facility.
You're nervous, like taking your kid to kindergarten. You want
them to make friends, you want them to like it,
you want you want to feel like they're going to
make it, and you know you're you're really nervous. And so, uh,
my brother Steve and I go in and uh, at
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four o'clock they have I don't know what they call it.
I would call it cultural enrichment, which seems like kind
of corporate speak for this sort of thing. But from
four to five they have a cultural enriched daily activity
and then at five sharp dinner starts. Well, the four
to five is a happy hour, and I thought, these
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old people ain't gonna be drinking. Oh they drink. And
my dad, because you know, we're Southern Baptists, and as
you know, those women they drink. Michael, they drink. They
But I find out they're cut off after two because
last thing you want is some old woman falling over drunk.
And they apparently every day someone's got to get cut off,
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which is hilarious to me. And then well, I of
course don't have anything to drink. So this was on
a Saturday. We roll them in. So at five o'clock
at at about four fifty people start peeling away from
the activity and going toward the dining room. And as
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they're heading there, once one it's a cattle call. Right now,
they're shuffling. They're getting over there. They got to get
in there to eat. And at about four point fifty
eight they are lined up like this is the Rolling
Stones last concert. They are at the door, ready to
get in the door and get to their seat. It
was it was a thing to behold. So little ways in,
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my niece comes over as well, so we fill out
the table of all family members from my dad's his
first day. You know, we're getting him all subtled in.
And we had another There was another resident there who
I knew years ago, so he kind of welcomed me
and he joined us. We pulled up an extra chair,
which was a big thing because now the fore top
was now a five top, and you know, change just
frighten me. So my niece comes in. We didn't know
she was coming, Bailey.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
So here we are.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Somewhere along the way. I need to take the edge off.
So I like to have a little red wine with
my dinner. And I ordered the red wine and the
lady said, oh, sorry, sir, alcohol cut off five o'clock.
I said, pray, tell why. She said, well, seen me.
You you know the happy hours limit of two drinks
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we can't have. I said, oh, I see this more
like kindergarten than I thought. Okay, all right, but that's
not what I want to tell you. So that first
day they had a little concert. That fella come in,
he plays his his organ and he sings, and I forget,
oh it's Marty Graus. This must have been around Marty Gras.
So he played Marty grass songs and it would sing
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along and they clap, and you know, we all sang,
and it was quite enjoyable, to be completely honest, There's
no nobody's holding anything back at this point. You got
nothing to lose, right, So nobody's shy or nervous or insecure.
They know the song. There clapping their singing, and you
just quite I thought, that's kind of a nice environment
to be in. So at the end of it, I
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go up. I know the guy on the organ I've
met him before, used to be the Astros organist. Name
was Jim Conners. And he said, I didn't know you
were here, and so we get to talking and he
had done. And I'm gonna get this number wrong, but
he did five hundred twenty shows last calendar year. Five
hundred twenty shows, and I think he had done seventeen
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shows a week before, so you know, two point five
shows per day because it was a busy time. But
he did let's say, over five hundred I know it
was firing. I think it was five hundred and twenty shows.
That's a show and a half a day. He's got
to drive there. He's got an organ which which has wheeled.
He's customized it, and so he just flips the organ
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up on its side and he rolls it. I mean,
you know, he's an older man himself. He's hell, he's
got to be sixty five seventy himself, and so he
rolls his organ over and then it has to clasps
on it to bars, and he grabs the you know,
gingerly lays it down and he goes to town and
it's got an accompaniment to it, and he has a
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microphone and a speaker and the whole thing. So I'm
telling Ramone this, and I said, and I've come to
find out they have an event cultural Enrichmond or whatever
at four o'clock every day, somebody comes in and sings
to various degrees of melodic enjoyment, I must say, But
the people don't seem to mind. So I said, ramon,
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you know they got a budget for that. Lord knows
assistant living is expensive, I said, these people, I mean
if they got one hundred dollars a show to come
and do this, because you've got to come in, you
got to bring your equipment. If you do a show
or to a day, you could survive on doing this.
I said, this is a whole cottage industry. There was
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a lady that came in and gave a lecture. Wander
all these people are getting paid to come in and
provide entertainment for the old folks home. I said, you
won't believe this. There is a whole underground cottage industry
of providing entertainment to old folks homes. And he said,
do you know what my little sister Martha Elisia does. Um? Hm,
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she books gigs at a series of old folks home
that's her job company. What's it called Skylark or something?
He why would you know it's your sister? Why would
you know where she works? Weirdo anyway, So apparently they
own a bunch of o folks homes and she's the
one who books the who's coming in to play, and
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I guess how much they're going to pay. It's it's
like a whole booking agent. It's just amazing. There are
so many This is a whole world that I never
would have known about otherwise, Juan, You're only Michael Berry show.
Go ahead, sir, with sir.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Hey, good morning, how do everybody do it?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Go ahead?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
So I am a transplant from California and I've been
here for about five years and I'm ready to give
my inployer on how I can tell the difference between
the two.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay, go ahead, And it's not that big.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Of a difference, and I'm very glad to say that.
I mean, there's slightly a little bit more of a
conservative influence out here, but honest with you, coming from
you know, Tommy Fournia, Yeah, man, you guys are kind
of kind of going the same route, unfortunately, and that's
because of Unfortunately from what I'm hearing from following your.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Show is.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
You know, these judges that are in positions of power
where they shouldn't be, and you know, that's really a problem,
you know. And I can kind of foreshadow and see
how Houston is, you know, heading that way towards where
I tried to escape from, which was southern California.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, it's uh. I think what's happening here is it
might look the same and it will have the same
result with regarded Democrats versus Republicans. But what's happening here,
what's happening there is more of a white liberal move.
(23:56):
What's happening here is much more racial. It is it
is the raw muscular power of racial voting. And and
you've got one boss. I mean, Rodney Ellis is a
boss on a different level. You'll never see a Republican
exert authority influence control the way he does. He has
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this this region, you know, this is this is this
is mayor daily level of because he's controlling now everything
but the city. And it's all the greatest wets your life.
It's with Michael's formal war. We have all your formal
wear needs, from morning suits to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Set up to get you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
With the fine tude calm. I was something inside, there
was something good to do something to me that.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
I can that.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You know, their comedy is very interesting because much like Willie,
she can't purely harmonize. Her voice is too different, delivered differently.
Notice it doesn't just blend in. It's like watching an
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EKG goes up and down. You hear it and then
don't hear it, and don't hear it and don't instead
of it. Kind of. I'm not saying she sounds like
a blood harmony, but I think I don't think her style.
But it's it works. I mean, it's good. Lord, it's
an amazing song. The greatest duet of all time, most
(25:48):
successful duet of all time, that's not questionable. You know,
I forgot Paul Baker, our private investigator, does those shows,
and he does them at all folks homes, and he
does free shows or Camp Hope. He's always on standby.
He goes over and does shows it Camp Hope for
the veterans. By the way, it's one of those. They
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have a person who does programming at Camp Hope. It's
a big deal there too. But you think about it,
there are many similarities. You're sitting around the old folks home,
you're sitting around Camp Hope. And staying busy is a
good thing and you look forward to activities at camp
Hope they have you know, that's the weight room. I'll
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tell you what. Do not get into in between the
veterans and the chow hall when it is time, because
when it's time to eat, they make a bee line.
Same thing as the old folks home. They are they
are ready for it, fired up. They're not ambling to eat,
and a lot of them eat really fast. I thought
that was interesting, like they'll be in and out in
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five minutes or less. They could wait to get there,
but now they've eaten, then they're done. Interesting. Whereas the
old folks don't do that. They like to sit there
and dawdle for a while, have some conversation and talk.
And I wish I could record it without being rude,
because it is hilarious. You can hear conversations from four
tables away.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
What did you get?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Uh? Shoot, I don't know. It's uh what do they
call it? And then there'll be a caregiver who eventually
will want to put everybody out of me.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
What is this called?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What's what do they call it?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
What?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
What is this?
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Hey, what's this dish?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
This one called?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's uh that's support chop? Yeah, Uh, that's a a shoot,
I don't know, pork chop or something. They call it
something like that.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Uh, how is it? Huh?
Speaker 10 (27:43):
How is it?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Is it good?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
How?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
How does it taste?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He wants to know, is it any good?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
How does it taste? And it's hilarious because each conversation
is so loud, but when they pause, it's not a
fluid conversation. When they pause in the conversation. Did you
pick up a conversation three tables away that you couldn't
get It was being blurred out? So you might be
listening to one table on this side of you and
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then they go quiet and the one too beyond them.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Good.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So yeah, okay, all right, so yeah, and so we
were telling them so it is hilarious. Uh, it's it's
an eye opening experience, you know, the whole life cycle
sort of like, uh, you don't think about the birthing
process unless you're in it or around it. And then
you realize there's a whole industry here, there's a hole
(28:38):
and now they got all the When a woman leaves
the house today, she has more gear than Marcus Latreull
going into Afghanistan. I mean she's got nappies and bags
and zips and this. And then when my nieces are
gearing up to go out, it's it's like war. It's
and they're pushing things. And then the thing they put
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this is also true of the old people. It's got
gear in it. Right. There's there's boxes and and there's this,
and this goes in here, and then we got my dad.
Thank you to Fasil Punawala, who on Spring Ranch Medical Supply.
I felt, I felt, you know how when your kid
goes to kindergarten. I felt that my dad's walker was
not up to speed. There was there was one woman
(29:22):
that had mags on hers, and I said, no, we're
not gonna do that. We're gonna have wheels we can
be proud of. We're gonna we're gonna do the whole thing.
So Fasil and my wife meet up and and because
my wife is the chairperson, the chairman of this committee,
and so she says, I'm really excited about the walker
dad got, but more importantly, he's really excited. I said, okay,
(29:46):
so I see it. Uh, he had to order it,
bringing in and all this, and I see it, and
I said, Dad, I like this new walker. What do
you think? He said, Oh, it's nice. And so when
you're when you're walking with it, you hold on each hand,
you're leaning onto it. And he said, it's got it's
got breaks on it, which we didn't have brakes before.
(30:08):
And as we were walking, we got a good little
head of steam going. It's it's got brace. He'll stop
on a dime and he pinches it, and well, hey, hey,
how about we discussed it'll stop on a dime, but
we don't stop on a dime. That kind of scared
me a little bit, but it did. It's got It's
got everything you could want. But again, you don't know
that there's all these things out there until you're in
(30:30):
the thick of it, and then it's the most natural
thing in the world. You know where you're gonna spring
branch medical supply. Okay, we're gonna do it. It's life
is about learning, and I'm sure learning. Uh. Oh, we
got Jeff hold on, Jeff, wait right there, Heather, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Yes, Michael, I'm calling because I was
wondering why Governor Abbott didn't just sort of do it
pull a Donald Trump on Jasmine and say.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Oh, I'm gonna put hot.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Wheels decals I'm a wheel and then just sort.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Of be like, honey, I know you think I'm hot,
but it will never.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Work, and instead of demanding an apology, to sort of
make fun of her and then drop it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I don't know how best to say this without coming
off as rude. Greg Abbott is you know, if Mitt
Romney had won in twenty twelve, which he was supposed
to because he's running against Obama, he would have been
president and people would have he looks like a president,
he dresses like a president.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
He knows which fork to use, and where to sit,
when to stand and when to kneel and where to walk,
and he can read the words they put on the
screen for him to talk about, you know, the goodness
of America and our.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Legacy and this is what it means. But you would
have just had the sense that you were just kind
of a mid tier run of the meal. Nothing that's
Greg Abbot if Trump doesn't come along. You know, Abbot
was preparing people think I'm joking. Abbot had an entire
team making calls around the country. They thought Abbot would
(32:13):
be president by now, and people. People when when they
hear me say that, think that I'm this is not
something I surmise, it is not conjecture. I know some
of these people they thought Greg Abbot would be President
Abbot right now, and you'd be getting out of him
as president exactly what you get on as governor. Nothing.
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He'll occasionally take up an issue when something's in the news. He'll,
you know, if we make it to the World Series
against the Red Sox, he'll or whoever, he'll, you know,
I'll bet you a barbecue to the He's you know,
Nabi a headline the governor of Texas has bet the
governor of Massachusetts if his team win. And it's just
it's all silliness. It's all ridiculous. Aren't we in Boston's division?
Speaker 10 (32:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
No? You sure they realigned everything since the eighties and
I'm kind of still stuck in the eighties. I still
think the Oilers should should be in a division, should
be in a division with the Browns, the Bengals and
the Steelers. You know, I don't like that they put
us all at so I need to kind of catch
up
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