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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time sign time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. When I started
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in radio, I was pulled by a longtime radio inside,
do not measure quality of your program based on the
number of calls and hold on water breaking, do not
measure the quality of radio based on the number of calls.
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And he said, you know, if you're wise, you will
study shows around the kind of tree and you will
hear people who have a lot of calls. It is
terrible radio. And Rush used to make fun of Alec
Baldwin about this. Alec Baldwin would say he could do
a radio show. He could do a radio show. So
they let him do a radio show and fifteen seconds
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into it he said, we have calls and it's a
running gag in our business that it was the biggest
flop ever. It was worse than Barack Obama's first pitch
at a baseball game that you know, ended up in
center field.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was, oh, you have it, Oh, here we go
when we come back. Oh we have some time. O great,
we're gonna Can we take some calls.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Whenever we want?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Do we have calls that are on?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
There nown no calls yet, No calls yet, what numberdy
of people called to get on the air, and do
we have that number? It's right there, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Do I have the call number in front of me?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, I'm so sorry. That's interesting. Twelve ten at PhD.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Of course, any other questions you have, any other comments
you have, call us to the uh what else?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Call us? Please add.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
If you don't call, we're going to keep reading from
the Scientology manual. You might not feel it. You might
not feel the energy. Right now, where have any calls
you get there? I him, no call, Let's read some
more about scientology. So I heard Rush say one time
he said he was reading. He read his emails as well,
because that was that's how you get feedback. And he said,
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people will ask me why I don't take calls until Friday,
and so we open the phone lines up on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So if you had a question, that's what we can't
get through. But otherwise I don't need to take casts.
I can't take calls. I have too much to talk about.
And that if people take callses because they don't have
anything to say. And that stuck with me, and I
realized as I studied listening to shows around the country
that if people don't have anything interesting to say, they
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will solicit phone calls. When I started in radio, the
person who was head of programming I had, in my opinion,
very cynical view of the listener. And I was coming
from elected office where you literally, you know, most radio
people never meet their listeners. I was coming from hand
to hand, uh, you know, face to face, slap on
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the back, interact, get insulted politics where you you meet
people and you you you hear what they have to say,
so you tend to have a lot more respect for
people when you do that. His view was, this is
right wing conservative radio. Angry old white guy. Just say
something that's controversial and open the phone lines and they'll
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call in. So Phil Hendry show. But you know they're
not in on the joke. And so he would tell
me what to say that day, and then you were
supposed to say, you know, whatever that that thing is,
and then the calls would call in, and you'd it
through the day, and it didn't matter if you were talented.
In fact, they didn't want talented, just want somebody to
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pass the time and fill the content, do the shift.
And I just felt like, well that's that's not anyway.
So all that being said, I learned a long time
ago not to measure whether a conversation is useful based
on the number of phone calls. We don't take as
many calls as we did when we started, because I
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realized that unless it's a topic that I'm kind of
curious to get interesting perspective on, it's probably not a
good idea. In fact, Ramo jams the phones for most
of the day because he has to hear it ringing
in the background while we have an entire show to
do well. That's also true of emails. I enjoy reading
the emails, but I also noticed that sometimes you hit
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a nerve. And I talked about finding the right wife
and finding the right husband the other day, and I
noticed an obvious uptick in the number of responses I
received to that that people who had bad experiences and
people who had good experiences more bad than good. Honestly,
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a destructive personal relationship, a bad marriage for both sides,
can end up being something that takes a wonderful life
off track. It can destroy a life. I mean, you
make your choices, but it can take you from wealth
to poverty. It can take you from good health to poor.
It can relocate you to a part of the world
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you had no business being in because you were being
the good wife, and now you're stuck and everyone else
back home has moved on. Me can have a Really
getting that right is important. So I say, I have
to say this because I am going to take calls,
and I did get a lot of emails. Brian wrote, Zar,
you spoke at length about a good wife. I enjoyed
that segment was two. Actually, I recall a former coworkers
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statement about his first date with his wife. He picked
her up than his girlfriend. She said, I need to
go to Walmart. Aren't for super glue. My sandal is broken.
He told me that at that exact moment, he said,
I'm marrying this girl. People who have successful marriages, I
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don't just mean longevity. I mean people who enjoy their
spouse will tell you that what makes their spouse special
is never the sex. That's great, and yes I will
address that, but no, not in detail. But I'm just saying, yes,
of course, that's nice, that's great. I see people ninety
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years old, couples ninety years old, still just happy, cannot
stand to be away from each other. They love each
other so much. They enjoy their own company so much.
And I don't know what's going on, knocking bones or not,
but I do know that they love each other. They
love what each provides to the other, the ying and
yang and the compliment to the angles. And it's a glorious,
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glorious thing. But I have come to learn, which is
what made me think of the I was talking about Olivia,
my buddy, Michael Robinson's wife, and he had driven back
to the studio, I mean to his shop, and I
had asked him what Olivia is up to, and he said,
she's out pressure washing at the shop in front of
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in front of she runs the office, but she's not
too good to put some rubber boots on and get
outside and pressure wash to make sure that the shop
is clean and the equipment's clean and all that stuff
at a plumbing shop. I thought, that's pretty again, another
reason why she makes a good wife. And I was
talking about those sorts of things, and I thought it'd
be fun to throw that out seven one three nine
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nine nine one thousand. The line was, he picked her up,
said we're going to Walmart for super glue. I need
you to go to Walmart. For super glue. My sandal
is broken, the fact that she wore a broken sandal
rather than rushing out to buy a new one. The
fact that she felt comfortable saying, look, if we're going
to be a couple, there's going to be times we
got to stop and get super glue. There's gonna be
times I need you to run me to the Walmart
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because little Bobby doesn't have the material for his project
for tomorrow and they're having a science fair and he
just told me today, you're gonna go. He just told
you today. Yeah, that's what you did to your mom too.
It's what kids do. They tell him the day before.
So what's that moment you knew he or she was
the one seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. He's on
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who will done? So this is the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Eous way, all right, So here's your question for mom.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Touch of those great quandaries, A million dollars or your
sole kind of thing? You can sing like Ed Sheeran,
but you got to look like Ed Sheeran. Ooh ooh, yeah, no,
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he is slang. And that does tell you that that
isn't nothing to do with his good looks. I'll tell
you what because it's not it's not my vocal style
or ideal genre. It's pop. But I cannot deny the
guy can sing. I mean he has a unique ability
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to sing. It's it's it's the male adele and I'm
gonna hear from opia. I am. He can't thank Kyle
telling you the dude can sing. You don't sell that
many albums without an amazing vocal ability. And there's not
a lot of arrangement to what he does. It's mostly
old schools, stripped down incredible songsmanship. All right. That moment
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that you knew he or she was the one. And
I don't mean they want a beauty contest. I mean
that moment you said, that's the one I want to
be with. Because of that, believe it or not, that's
the thing I would want in a spouse. Impress me, Susan,
you're up, go good morning.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
My husband said the l words first laundry, and he's
did in my laundry. I was going through some medical
stuff and he came into my apartment and to a laundry.
Got to marry him.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
How old am man?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
He would die if I told him.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I was thirty one or so, thirty two?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And how old was he?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Same?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Had you all been married and divorced before?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
No, we had kissed a lot of frogs before.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, no, because that's a that's a veteran move. That's
not something a high school or college early. That's kind
of you know, guys think women want want roses and
all they want, you know, they want the prince to
the princess. But I've noticed for for guys and gals,
when when they get divorced and they're single, they start
looking at things like they start wanting to show, look,
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I'll be a good partner in running a household, living
a life as opposed to the you know, the the
romance that you know, the Romeo and that stuff. David,
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
First of all, I'm from the South, you can probably tell.
And I was married two previous times, and both times
the first girl left me the second girl left me
for another guy. So I was very cynical or cautious,
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you might say. So I was to the point to
where I just you know, if it wasn't the right one,
I wasn't gonna wasn't gonna even consider it. And when
my wife now came along, and I never expected to
marry a black woman, and she's a black woman. And
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when I first met her, I thought, man, she's got
to be thinking. No one can be this perfect for me.
And every time that I would, I would go home
and I would pray, Lord, if she taken, just please
end it now, so I don't give my heart to her,
you know, And then I would learn something else about
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her that was just so that would blow me away.
That she never let me hold her hand, she never
let me put my arm around her until we had
dated four or six weeks. I mean, she was very cautious.
She had never been married before, but she had been
burned too, So this was kind of like, oh it dropped.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Did you just say? Even the phone that board? Wow?
Okay revolved? Wow, Darcy, you're only Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael. So, my husband and I were
Aggie hanglers together in an m and we were.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Dry aggie wrangler.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I couldn't get you cut out of me. Okay, yes, ma'am,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
I'm sorry. And we were driving from College Station to
San Antonio, Texas for a performance, and his truck broke down,
like the radiator host busted or something, and it was
may as hot as hades. We walked a mile and
a half together to the auto parts store and walked
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back and he right there on the side road he
fixed his truck and like that was thirty five years ago,
forty years ago, Michael, And he said he knew that
day he wanted to marry me because I did not complain,
not a once. While we were walking. We got to
the auto park store.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He bought me a drink, but it was right that.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
He knew, probably a Coca Cola back then, because I
used to drink.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I said, grape soda. My heart would have melted. Now
that's a love story. That's an affair to remember right there,
but it was.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
It was a nineteen seventy six pickup back in the nineties.
And like he fixes everything to this day, and he's
taught me how to fix everything.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You remember what Chevy for.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It was his.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
It was a Chevy. It was a Chevy. It was
blue and pray, and it was his grandfather's old truck
because his truck had gotten stolen out of his driveway
at home because his parents wouldn't let him take it
to his freshman year to college. And then unfortunately his
grandfather had passed away his senior year of high school,
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and his grandma hadn't been able to do anything, hadn't
done anything with the truck, and so she gifted it
to him when his constolen.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I love those stories of when Papaul dies and the
grandson inherits it, and that that's what they wanted. Act
they want to drive because Papaul died and that's their
memory of Papaul, even though it's a raggedy old truck
or whatever. Those that kind of guy that is a
distinctly redneck guy that loves Papaul or their Grandpapau and
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they've inherited that old truck and they drive that. They
don't care what anybody thinks of it because it makes
them complete. And the kind of recycling this beautiful thing
where in his you know, where in his truck. I
love those. I've known of a lot of those stories,
and it tells you a lot about that guy. That
is a guy that certain women can't be married to
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because they need the guy who drives the flashy car.
They need to have all the money. If you genuinely
love somebody and you don't need your husband to be
on the lifestyles and rich and famous, which a lot
of women do, and you don't want to be married
to those kind of women that it makes all the
difference in the world. That's that kind of guy. Good story, Darcy,
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Thank you for sharing that. Lucky you. The Michael Verry
Show continues your lucky day, don't, John Wrights. I knew
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my wife was who I wanted to marry when I
met her parents. We went over for brunch one morning
around Halloween and her mother had Halloween dishes with cute
little cats wearing witches hats. She served egg casserole. My
future wife was mortified by the dishes, but I absolutely
loved her mother, and I knew this was who I
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wanted to marry. I knew then she would be a
great wife and mother, and I was right. She's a
great mother to my kids, and she supports me through
thick and thin and put puts up with all my shortcomings.
She is perfect for me. You know, that's the kind
of thing that a daughter would be mortified her mother
has done brought out the cute little Halloween plates with
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the witch's hats. I think that shows a great deal
of confidence, and I think it's cool. James writes, all
the girlfriends I had before would make a sandwich for me,
and I'd be lucky if the bread was toasted and
there was even cheese. Sarah made a sandwich for me.
It had led us tomatoes, onions, pickled meat, cheese, toasted bread,
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I mean everything. So I tell everyone it was her
sandwich making abilities that got me. No one had ever
made me a sandwich that good. You remember that scene
in The Bronxtail Chas Pulmonary, who should be in every
movie of the era, and I think he was if
Copola did it. That was De Niro's director directorial debut.
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Chas Paulmonary is is that actor that I bet more
people would recognize his face and not know his name
than any other actor. Abe Vogodo would probably be number two.
Same era. In a Bronxtail, Sonny who's played by Chess Paulmonary,
Chad Knockingish reminded me of this story. He advises his
buddy Caligero's trying to find if this is the girl
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or not, and he says, you use the door test
to determine if if she is the one for you
or not. Here is the door test. Here's what you said.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Tomorrow. You borrow my car. You don't let anybody you're going,
it's all right, I'm gonna lend you in my car
once you to make a good impression. You borrow my car,
and then you give it a test.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Tomoro test marrio, Mary's.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
A fast cycle. What you listen to this kid for?
You give them my test? You give it a door test.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
What's the door test?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Listen to me. You'll pull up right where she is.
Right before you get out of the car. You lock
both doors.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Then you get out of the car, You walk over
to her. You bring her over to the car. You
take out the key, put it in the lock, open
the door for her. Then you let her get in.
Then you close the door. File.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Then you walk around the back of the car. You
look through the rear window.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
If she doesn't reach over, lift up that button for
you so you can get in. Bump, just like that.
Listen to me, kid, if she doesn't reach over, lift
up that button for you so you can get in.
That means she's your selfish broad and all you've seen
is the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You dump, and you dump a fast.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, what about all the beautiful things you just told me?
Though Dulamar tells me to do sort of matters, find
someone to point them myself.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I mean, this could be one of the great ones. Bullet,
that's what counts.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You're dump and you dump a fast dump double.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Caligero was played by Lillo Broncato Junior. I didn't know that.
I had to go look it up. I was trying
to remember what his real name was, and I would
have never remembered that. So what feminism managed to destroy
and in the process destroyed, I think a lot of
happy marriages, or what could have been happy marriages. Feminism
told women that doing something kind for a man is
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a sign of weakness. I will tell you the strongest
women I have ever known in my life are not
built on the Hillary Clinton model, or the Michelle Obama model,
or the Kamala Harris model. Those are self centered, narcissistic,
miserable people. Longest women I ever knew in my life
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and continue to note till this day, are women who
will do anything and everything for those around them. You
can go to the school drop offline see the elementary
school's kids, and you can see the kid that is
pushed out because mama's running to meet her friends for rose.
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And you can see the kid whose mother is so
concerned that that little girl has everything she needs and
is ready for the day to grow into the human
being they want to meet, They want to be. When
you go into a home, and my grandmother, or a
woman we call granny, my friend Craig McCabe's grandmother lived
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across the street from me, Ms mcabe, and you'd walk
into her little home, and her little home couldn't have
been more n eight hundred square feet. It was a
very very very simple, simple home. But when you walked
in and the smell would overwhelm you, Oh my goodness,
you gain ten pounds just walking in the door. And
you'd walk in and her husband, jac had died, and
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so she had these sons, Horton, who I called home Ade,
and Larry, and then a daughter, Yvonne, and they all
had sons, and so those sons were always coming in
and out of her house, and that's how she wanted it.
And when you would go in, there would be something.
There would be a pot of beans on the on
the on the cook top at all times, on the stove.
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What is the word I'm thinking of. What has the
burners on it, it's the stove. Right on top of
the stove, there'd be a pot of beans, if not
multiple pots of beans. There'd be cornbread that had been
fresh cooked at all times. There would be any there
were lots of dishes that have saran wrap over the
top of them. And then she would just start pulling
things out. She said, you want this, and she and
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I was like one of her grandkids. So she'd open
the refrigerator and she would just start pulling things out
because God forbid you leave. And didn't know she'd made
a key lime pie or an ice or an ice
cream pie, or that she'd made these potatoes that she
could just heat up real quick and you're going to
love them. You've got to try these potatoes. It's a
new meg. It's just this active, extreme and utter selfless love.
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And if you've never experienced that, then you can't imagine
what it is. And so many young women who couldn't
listen the roles are different. Feminism taught little girls from
the earliest age to wish you had a penis. It's
the ultimate penis envy, because if you had a penis.
Then you get to be strong and smart and life
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is easy, and Mama will spoil you too. Do you
know why mama spoils a boy for the same reason
that men spoil their daughters. It's electrocomplex oedipus complex without
the sexual element. We have a tendency to spoil the
opposite sex child of seeing it a million times in
a way that we don't. And that's part of how
we're wired for who we're going to grow up to.
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You're naturally going to be attracted to the opposite side. Well,
when we're a little key, our ultimate Every little girl's
ultimate man is going to be her daddy, unless her
daddy doesn't measure up, in which case he's going to
be the anti daddy. Every little boy's perfect woman in
life is his mother once he grows up. Now, people
will tell you that's.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Weird or what.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
No, no, no, it's it's pure psychology, pure psychology. And
if you didn't have a mother who gave you that
kind of love, and you didn't have that experience, then
you don't go seeking that out rather consciously or subconsciously,
hold tight collars. Real quick story. My mom passed September nineteenth.
I didn't talk about it so because I didn't want
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to have to talk about it, and I don't want
to talk about it now. But I will say that
my mother took us every six months to have our
teeth cleaned. Cost a lot of money for our family
at the time, and she made that very clear. Therefore,
flost your teeth and take care of your teeth because
I want you to have good teeth. That's something I
can give you for the rest of your life, and
the ability to swim. And when she passed, my teeth
were not as clean as they should have been, and
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it's bothered me ever since. So we added uh Texas
Center for Cosmetic Dentistry in the Woodlands, Guy Lewis, who
was already the astros Dennis in Ramon's dednnist, but I
couldn't say he was my dednnist because I hadn't gone
there yet. So I went yesterday. It was pure on sedation.
It was a beautiful thing. I woke up from a
nap and I have the cleanest teeth you could ever imagine.
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And their office is wonderful. The people are wonderful. So
I can not just tell you about them. I can
truly endorse them now that fans Texas Center for Cosmetic Dentistry,
Guy Lewis in the woodness fantastic. From Michael's brain to
your ears. This is a Michael Berry Shows, a show
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you know who's got a good girl? Who's Kenny Duncan
at US Coins. I haven't looked at what gold is today,
but I called him yesterday and I said, goals just
hit an all time high thirty one twenty five. What
in the hell, I don't know what it's done today,
but it is up callers whole time to be right
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with you, and I will just say this, if you
are looking to buy or sell gold, we have had
the same gold sponsor who's also been a dear friend
of mine that same amount of time. Kenny Duncan Junior
and his team at US Coins on it outside the
loop seven one three four six four sixty eight sixty
eight seven one three four six four sixty eight sixty
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eight or as always, you can email me and say, hey,
can you connect me with your in this case gold sponsor,
and I will forward you to him and he'll either
he himself or someone in his family will take care
of it. And that's how it always works the best.
People will say to me sometimes, Hey, I called so
and so I hadn't heard back from him. Okay, well
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there's slammed. It's AC season and you haven't heard back
from him in three hours. Yeah, I just I don't
know if they're gonna call him back. You know, I
don't give a damn because I've told you the way
the drill works. You email me and say, hey, Michael,
can you connect me with your AC sponsor, whereupon one
I forward you to my AC sponsor, the head of
the company, the guy that owns it, the guy can
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pull somebody off another project, says jump on this right now.
But you don't want to do that. You want to
go through the regular system because they got three hundred
people waiting to get a call back, and now you're
three oh one. I wish I could tell you're going
to get a call in two minutes. You're not. But
if you had emailed me, what would have happened romone
call in two minutes. Yeah, help me help you, or
actually don't help me, help you, But then don't complain
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because I've told you the system. I've got the hook up.
I'm not going to wait till number three oh one
for myself, and you shouldn't need to either, but if
you email me, because the person who's at number one,
two and three who called those might be liberals. So
I don't mind cutting you in front of the liberals.
I don't mind putting you because you share our values.
Seven one three, nine nine, nine, one thousand. Let's go
to Jeff the Builder. You're only Michael Berry show. How
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did you know that moment that you knew Loan was
the one?
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Well, first it was love at first sight, but then
I didn't get to meet her for about three or
four days. But what actually sealed it was I went
and brought her flowers at her office and watched her.
She was a branch manager, how she ran that office
like a little general and being an out of female
on it was incredible to me and opened my.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Eyes of what she was capable of. And then the
final arrow was when my dad and I went fishing
and she picked up a Roden reel for the first
time and just started smacking trout left and right. And
shortly after that where we got married and we're going
on almost twenty years now.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
What is she Vietnamese?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Yes, she is.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Oh see, they have a genetic predisposition to fishing. She
had an advantage that average girl wouldn't have.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
I think so myself still beat me.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know. One of my dreams Michael t in between
his in between semesters from in high school when he
was a senior, is he went on a three week
tour of five Asian nations and he got to take
the boat tour through the Vietnamese I've just obsessed over
Vietnam War and all the jungles and the rivers and
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all this. And he got to go in the boat
boating villages where there are no roads. It's all it's
all about boat. And he knew how much that would
mean to me. So he that was you know, you
can't always get him to take photos of everything, but
he knew that was important and he filmed all of it.
And I have wanted to go so badly. I just
think that would be incredible.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Well, you got a crystal tour Gude, if.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You'd like one. There you got it. There, you got it.
Thanks Jeff to build her, Chris, how did you know?
That was that moment that one?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:35):
I met her in high school and we've been married
ever since she was sitting at a table away for
me and me and my friend Chuck. We were just being,
you know, high school jerks, and we didn't find her
friend very attractive, so we were flicking paper at her
and get it stuck in her curly hair. At the
end of class, my wife walked over and basically just
(28:56):
kind of threw all the all the paper that we
had flicked at her friend and in my face, and
I thought, wow, that's some she got some moxie. So
the next day I sat at her table and got
to know her. And so after that class, she would
go to lunch and I would go to class. So
I skipped my class, went to her lunch, walked up
(29:17):
to her and her whole posse, and asked her out
on a date. And it was that first date when
when I just realized that I don't she's the one.
And it was in high school and we're still married
thirty five years later.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's interesting how a moment like that can tell you
so much about someone. It's also interesting that all our
calls are men, men can tell you that was the
moment I knew she was the one. I don't know.
I mean, we skew male. There's no doubt there's there's
a higher percentage of males and females, but not to
such an extent. Julian you're old on Michael Berry Show.
(29:51):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Oh, I guess that's me, Julia. How are you?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
God?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hold on, hold, no, hold on? Are you Julie?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yes, Julianne.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, it was spelled on the screen. You know what.
I'm going to tour Santa Fe High School and I
want to meet every one of your teachers from mom.
It was spelled on the screen. J u L I
A N, which is either Julian in English or Julian
in Spanish. I know how to spell Julianne. I'm not ramon.
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I'm making the point as to what he spelled.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I was looking for a girl.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I had to go with Julian because there weren't any
girls calling in. And Julian is now Julianne and now
you're making her phil androgynous. Did you really think that
was Juliane? I'm serious, that was not a joke. You
really in your mind that made all sense in world. Okay, Wait,
you can answer the calls, or you can watch your spell.
That's asking too much to spell Julianne. How about you
(30:50):
just in the future, Julie space and I don't care
if you put an E on the ant or not. Just
julian Anne. But anyway, all right, okay, just out of curiosity,
how do you think julian would be spelled j u
l I? Okay, Julianne, go ahead, sweetheart. Are you a
N N E or a n N?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's just one word, A n N y thank you
to my mum.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh you're j U l I A N N right?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Mkay?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Isn't it more common with an E on the end?
Or am I wrong on that? I don't know. I'm
just guessing.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I think it's much more common with an E on
the end.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Do you have a mid.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
No, I do not have a middle name. That's my name, okay, okay,
and now everybody will and a lot of people know,
well then who I am. But anyway, that I met
my husband in high school, he saw me actually singing
on top of the piano at our talent show, and
that we did not get married. And so what were
(31:52):
you singing?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Don't it make my brown eyes slup?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Oh? My?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, of course he fell for you. That's that's like
opening a Loubi's next to an old folks home. You
can't do that. Give us a little bit of that
and then hold for us. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Oh I don't. I can't speak anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, you can't. Just yeah, just a little bit, just
to I don't know about now.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
I'm totally bad to do when I can't. I really
can't think anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You're going to regret.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
You think he's listening, I'm he's not. He's at work.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
What does he do.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
He's in information technology. Now everyone knows it is
It's that time time sign time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. When I started
(00:34):
in radio, I was pulled by a longtime radio inside,
do not measure quality of your program based on the
number of calls and hold on water breaking, do not
measure the quality of radio based on the number of calls.
(00:54):
And he said, you know, if you're wise, you will
study shows around the kind of tree and you will
hear people who have a lot of calls. It is
terrible radio. And Rush used to make fun of Alec
Baldwin about this. Alec Baldwin would say he could do
a radio show. He could do a radio show. So
they let him do a radio show and fifteen seconds
(01:15):
into it he said, we have calls and it's a
running gag in our business that it was the biggest
flop ever. It was worse than Barack Obama's first pitch
at a baseball game that you know, ended up in
center field.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was, oh, you have it, Oh, here we go
when we come back. Oh we have some time. O great,
we're gonna Can we take some calls.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Whenever we want?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Do we have calls that are on?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
There nown no calls yet, No calls yet, what numberdy
of people called to get on the air, and do
we have that number? It's right there, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Do I have the call number in front of me?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, I'm so sorry. That's interesting. Twelve ten at PhD.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Of course, any other questions you have, any other comments
you have, call us to the uh what else?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Call us? Please add.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
If you don't call, we're going to keep reading from
the Scientology manual. You might not feel it. You might
not feel the energy. Right now, where have any calls
you get there? I him, no call, Let's read some
more about scientology. So I heard Rush say one time
he said he was reading. He read his emails as well,
because that was that's how you get feedback. And he said,
(02:32):
people will ask me why I don't take calls until Friday,
and so we open the phone lines up on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So if you had a question, that's what we can't
get through. But otherwise I don't need to take casts.
I can't take calls. I have too much to talk about.
And that if people take callses because they don't have
anything to say. And that stuck with me, and I
realized as I studied listening to shows around the country
that if people don't have anything interesting to say, they
(02:57):
will solicit phone calls. When I started in radio, the
person who was head of programming I had, in my opinion,
very cynical view of the listener. And I was coming
from elected office where you literally, you know, most radio
people never meet their listeners. I was coming from hand
to hand, uh, you know, face to face, slap on
(03:21):
the back, interact, get insulted politics where you you meet
people and you you you hear what they have to say,
so you tend to have a lot more respect for
people when you do that. His view was, this is
right wing conservative radio. Angry old white guy. Just say
something that's controversial and open the phone lines and they'll
(03:44):
call in. So Phil Hendry show. But you know they're
not in on the joke. And so he would tell
me what to say that day, and then you were
supposed to say, you know, whatever that that thing is,
and then the calls would call in, and you'd it
through the day, and it didn't matter if you were talented.
In fact, they didn't want talented, just want somebody to
(04:04):
pass the time and fill the content, do the shift.
And I just felt like, well that's that's not anyway.
So all that being said, I learned a long time
ago not to measure whether a conversation is useful based
on the number of phone calls. We don't take as
many calls as we did when we started, because I
(04:25):
realized that unless it's a topic that I'm kind of
curious to get interesting perspective on, it's probably not a
good idea. In fact, Ramo jams the phones for most
of the day because he has to hear it ringing
in the background while we have an entire show to
do well. That's also true of emails. I enjoy reading
the emails, but I also noticed that sometimes you hit
(04:46):
a nerve. And I talked about finding the right wife
and finding the right husband the other day, and I
noticed an obvious uptick in the number of responses I
received to that that people who had bad experiences and
people who had good experiences more bad than good. Honestly,
(05:06):
a destructive personal relationship, a bad marriage for both sides,
can end up being something that takes a wonderful life
off track. It can destroy a life. I mean, you
make your choices, but it can take you from wealth
to poverty. It can take you from good health to poor.
It can relocate you to a part of the world
(05:27):
you had no business being in because you were being
the good wife, and now you're stuck and everyone else
back home has moved on. Me can have a Really
getting that right is important. So I say, I have
to say this because I am going to take calls,
and I did get a lot of emails. Brian wrote, Zar,
you spoke at length about a good wife. I enjoyed
that segment was two. Actually, I recall a former coworkers
(05:51):
statement about his first date with his wife. He picked
her up than his girlfriend. She said, I need to
go to Walmart. Aren't for super glue. My sandal is broken.
He told me that at that exact moment, he said,
I'm marrying this girl. People who have successful marriages, I
(06:15):
don't just mean longevity. I mean people who enjoy their
spouse will tell you that what makes their spouse special
is never the sex. That's great, and yes I will
address that, but no, not in detail. But I'm just saying, yes,
of course, that's nice, that's great. I see people ninety
(06:35):
years old, couples ninety years old, still just happy, cannot
stand to be away from each other. They love each
other so much. They enjoy their own company so much.
And I don't know what's going on, knocking bones or not,
but I do know that they love each other. They
love what each provides to the other, the ying and
yang and the compliment to the angles. And it's a glorious,
(06:58):
glorious thing. But I have come to learn, which is
what made me think of the I was talking about Olivia,
my buddy, Michael Robinson's wife, and he had driven back
to the studio, I mean to his shop, and I
had asked him what Olivia is up to, and he said,
she's out pressure washing at the shop in front of
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in front of she runs the office, but she's not
too good to put some rubber boots on and get
outside and pressure wash to make sure that the shop
is clean and the equipment's clean and all that stuff
at a plumbing shop. I thought, that's pretty again, another
reason why she makes a good wife. And I was
talking about those sorts of things, and I thought it'd
be fun to throw that out seven one three nine
(07:39):
nine nine one thousand. The line was, he picked her up,
said we're going to Walmart for super glue. I need
you to go to Walmart. For super glue. My sandal
is broken, the fact that she wore a broken sandal
rather than rushing out to buy a new one. The
fact that she felt comfortable saying, look, if we're going
to be a couple, there's going to be times we
got to stop and get super glue. There's gonna be
times I need you to run me to the Walmart
(08:01):
because little Bobby doesn't have the material for his project
for tomorrow and they're having a science fair and he
just told me today, you're gonna go. He just told
you today. Yeah, that's what you did to your mom too.
It's what kids do. They tell him the day before.
So what's that moment you knew he or she was
the one seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. He's on
(08:22):
who will done? So this is the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Eous way, all right, So here's your question for mom.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Touch of those great quandaries, A million dollars or your
sole kind of thing? You can sing like Ed Sheeran,
but you got to look like Ed Sheeran. Ooh ooh, yeah, no,
(08:57):
he is slang. And that does tell you that that
isn't nothing to do with his good looks. I'll tell
you what because it's not it's not my vocal style
or ideal genre. It's pop. But I cannot deny the
guy can sing. I mean he has a unique ability
(09:18):
to sing. It's it's it's the male adele and I'm
gonna hear from opia. I am. He can't thank Kyle
telling you the dude can sing. You don't sell that
many albums without an amazing vocal ability. And there's not
a lot of arrangement to what he does. It's mostly
old schools, stripped down incredible songsmanship. All right. That moment
(09:40):
that you knew he or she was the one. And
I don't mean they want a beauty contest. I mean
that moment you said, that's the one I want to
be with. Because of that, believe it or not, that's
the thing I would want in a spouse. Impress me, Susan,
you're up, go good morning.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
My husband said the l words first laundry, and he's
did in my laundry. I was going through some medical
stuff and he came into my apartment and to a laundry.
Got to marry him.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
How old am man?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
He would die if I told him.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I was thirty one or so, thirty two?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And how old was he?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Same?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Had you all been married and divorced before?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
No, we had kissed a lot of frogs before.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, no, because that's a that's a veteran move. That's
not something a high school or college early. That's kind
of you know, guys think women want want roses and
all they want, you know, they want the prince to
the princess. But I've noticed for for guys and gals,
when when they get divorced and they're single, they start
looking at things like they start wanting to show, look,
(10:49):
I'll be a good partner in running a household, living
a life as opposed to the you know, the the
romance that you know, the Romeo and that stuff. David,
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
First of all, I'm from the South, you can probably tell.
And I was married two previous times, and both times
the first girl left me the second girl left me
for another guy. So I was very cynical or cautious,
(11:25):
you might say. So I was to the point to
where I just you know, if it wasn't the right one,
I wasn't gonna wasn't gonna even consider it. And when
my wife now came along, and I never expected to
marry a black woman, and she's a black woman. And
(11:47):
when I first met her, I thought, man, she's got
to be thinking. No one can be this perfect for me.
And every time that I would, I would go home
and I would pray, Lord, if she taken, just please
end it now, so I don't give my heart to her,
you know, And then I would learn something else about
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her that was just so that would blow me away.
That she never let me hold her hand, she never
let me put my arm around her until we had
dated four or six weeks. I mean, she was very cautious.
She had never been married before, but she had been
burned too, So this was kind of like, oh it dropped.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Did you just say? Even the phone that board? Wow?
Okay revolved? Wow, Darcy, you're only Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael. So, my husband and I were
Aggie hanglers together in an m and we were.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Dry aggie wrangler.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I couldn't get you cut out of me. Okay, yes, ma'am,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
I'm sorry. And we were driving from College Station to
San Antonio, Texas for a performance, and his truck broke down,
like the radiator host busted or something, and it was
may as hot as hades. We walked a mile and
a half together to the auto parts store and walked
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back and he right there on the side road he
fixed his truck and like that was thirty five years ago,
forty years ago, Michael, And he said he knew that
day he wanted to marry me because I did not complain,
not a once. While we were walking. We got to
the auto park store.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He bought me a drink, but it was right that.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
He knew, probably a Coca Cola back then, because I
used to drink.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I said, grape soda. My heart would have melted. Now
that's a love story. That's an affair to remember right there,
but it was.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
It was a nineteen seventy six pickup back in the nineties.
And like he fixes everything to this day, and he's
taught me how to fix everything.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You remember what Chevy for.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It was his.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
It was a Chevy. It was a Chevy. It was
blue and pray, and it was his grandfather's old truck
because his truck had gotten stolen out of his driveway
at home because his parents wouldn't let him take it
to his freshman year to college. And then unfortunately his
grandfather had passed away his senior year of high school,
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and his grandma hadn't been able to do anything, hadn't
done anything with the truck, and so she gifted it
to him when his constolen.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I love those stories of when Papaul dies and the
grandson inherits it, and that that's what they wanted. Act
they want to drive because Papaul died and that's their
memory of Papaul, even though it's a raggedy old truck
or whatever. Those that kind of guy that is a
distinctly redneck guy that loves Papaul or their Grandpapau and
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they've inherited that old truck and they drive that. They
don't care what anybody thinks of it because it makes
them complete. And the kind of recycling this beautiful thing
where in his you know, where in his truck. I
love those. I've known of a lot of those stories,
and it tells you a lot about that guy. That
is a guy that certain women can't be married to
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because they need the guy who drives the flashy car.
They need to have all the money. If you genuinely
love somebody and you don't need your husband to be
on the lifestyles and rich and famous, which a lot
of women do, and you don't want to be married
to those kind of women that it makes all the
difference in the world. That's that kind of guy. Good story, Darcy,
(15:39):
Thank you for sharing that. Lucky you. The Michael Verry
Show continues your lucky day, don't, John Wrights. I knew
(16:02):
my wife was who I wanted to marry when I
met her parents. We went over for brunch one morning
around Halloween and her mother had Halloween dishes with cute
little cats wearing witches hats. She served egg casserole. My
future wife was mortified by the dishes, but I absolutely
loved her mother, and I knew this was who I
(16:23):
wanted to marry. I knew then she would be a
great wife and mother, and I was right. She's a
great mother to my kids, and she supports me through
thick and thin and put puts up with all my shortcomings.
She is perfect for me. You know, that's the kind
of thing that a daughter would be mortified her mother
has done brought out the cute little Halloween plates with
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the witch's hats. I think that shows a great deal
of confidence, and I think it's cool. James writes, all
the girlfriends I had before would make a sandwich for me,
and I'd be lucky if the bread was toasted and
there was even cheese. Sarah made a sandwich for me.
It had led us tomatoes, onions, pickled meat, cheese, toasted bread,
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I mean everything. So I tell everyone it was her
sandwich making abilities that got me. No one had ever
made me a sandwich that good. You remember that scene
in The Bronxtail Chas Pulmonary, who should be in every
movie of the era, and I think he was if
Copola did it. That was De Niro's director directorial debut.
(17:32):
Chas Paulmonary is is that actor that I bet more
people would recognize his face and not know his name
than any other actor. Abe Vogodo would probably be number two.
Same era. In a Bronxtail, Sonny who's played by Chess Paulmonary,
Chad Knockingish reminded me of this story. He advises his
buddy Caligero's trying to find if this is the girl
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or not, and he says, you use the door test
to determine if if she is the one for you
or not. Here is the door test. Here's what you said.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Tomorrow. You borrow my car. You don't let anybody you're going,
it's all right, I'm gonna lend you in my car
once you to make a good impression. You borrow my car,
and then you give it a test.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Tomoro test marrio, Mary's.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
A fast cycle. What you listen to this kid for?
You give them my test? You give it a door test.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
What's the door test?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Listen to me. You'll pull up right where she is.
Right before you get out of the car. You lock
both doors.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Then you get out of the car, You walk over
to her. You bring her over to the car. You
take out the key, put it in the lock, open
the door for her. Then you let her get in.
Then you close the door. File.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Then you walk around the back of the car. You
look through the rear window.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
If she doesn't reach over, lift up that button for
you so you can get in. Bump, just like that.
Listen to me, kid, if she doesn't reach over, lift
up that button for you so you can get in.
That means she's your selfish broad and all you've seen
is the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You dump, and you dump a fast.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, what about all the beautiful things you just told me?
Though Dulamar tells me to do sort of matters, find
someone to point them myself.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I mean, this could be one of the great ones. Bullet,
that's what counts.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You're dump and you dump a fast dump double.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Caligero was played by Lillo Broncato Junior. I didn't know that.
I had to go look it up. I was trying
to remember what his real name was, and I would
have never remembered that. So what feminism managed to destroy
and in the process destroyed, I think a lot of
happy marriages, or what could have been happy marriages. Feminism
told women that doing something kind for a man is
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a sign of weakness. I will tell you the strongest
women I have ever known in my life are not
built on the Hillary Clinton model, or the Michelle Obama model,
or the Kamala Harris model. Those are self centered, narcissistic,
miserable people. Longest women I ever knew in my life
(20:03):
and continue to note till this day, are women who
will do anything and everything for those around them. You
can go to the school drop offline see the elementary
school's kids, and you can see the kid that is
pushed out because mama's running to meet her friends for rose.
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And you can see the kid whose mother is so
concerned that that little girl has everything she needs and
is ready for the day to grow into the human
being they want to meet, They want to be. When
you go into a home, and my grandmother, or a
woman we call granny, my friend Craig McCabe's grandmother lived
(20:47):
across the street from me, Ms mcabe, and you'd walk
into her little home, and her little home couldn't have
been more n eight hundred square feet. It was a
very very very simple, simple home. But when you walked
in and the smell would overwhelm you, Oh my goodness,
you gain ten pounds just walking in the door. And
you'd walk in and her husband, jac had died, and
(21:09):
so she had these sons, Horton, who I called home Ade,
and Larry, and then a daughter, Yvonne, and they all
had sons, and so those sons were always coming in
and out of her house, and that's how she wanted it.
And when you would go in, there would be something.
There would be a pot of beans on the on
the on the cook top at all times, on the stove.
(21:32):
What is the word I'm thinking of. What has the
burners on it, it's the stove. Right on top of
the stove, there'd be a pot of beans, if not
multiple pots of beans. There'd be cornbread that had been
fresh cooked at all times. There would be any there
were lots of dishes that have saran wrap over the
top of them. And then she would just start pulling
things out. She said, you want this, and she and
(21:52):
I was like one of her grandkids. So she'd open
the refrigerator and she would just start pulling things out
because God forbid you leave. And didn't know she'd made
a key lime pie or an ice or an ice
cream pie, or that she'd made these potatoes that she
could just heat up real quick and you're going to
love them. You've got to try these potatoes. It's a
new meg. It's just this active, extreme and utter selfless love.
(22:15):
And if you've never experienced that, then you can't imagine
what it is. And so many young women who couldn't
listen the roles are different. Feminism taught little girls from
the earliest age to wish you had a penis. It's
the ultimate penis envy, because if you had a penis.
Then you get to be strong and smart and life
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is easy, and Mama will spoil you too. Do you
know why mama spoils a boy for the same reason
that men spoil their daughters. It's electrocomplex oedipus complex without
the sexual element. We have a tendency to spoil the
opposite sex child of seeing it a million times in
a way that we don't. And that's part of how
we're wired for who we're going to grow up to.
(22:56):
You're naturally going to be attracted to the opposite side. Well,
when we're a little key, our ultimate Every little girl's
ultimate man is going to be her daddy, unless her
daddy doesn't measure up, in which case he's going to
be the anti daddy. Every little boy's perfect woman in
life is his mother once he grows up. Now, people
will tell you that's.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Weird or what.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
No, no, no, it's it's pure psychology, pure psychology. And
if you didn't have a mother who gave you that
kind of love, and you didn't have that experience, then
you don't go seeking that out rather consciously or subconsciously,
hold tight collars. Real quick story. My mom passed September nineteenth.
I didn't talk about it so because I didn't want
(23:37):
to have to talk about it, and I don't want
to talk about it now. But I will say that
my mother took us every six months to have our
teeth cleaned. Cost a lot of money for our family
at the time, and she made that very clear. Therefore,
flost your teeth and take care of your teeth because
I want you to have good teeth. That's something I
can give you for the rest of your life, and
the ability to swim. And when she passed, my teeth
were not as clean as they should have been, and
(23:58):
it's bothered me ever since. So we added uh Texas
Center for Cosmetic Dentistry in the Woodlands, Guy Lewis, who
was already the astros Dennis in Ramon's dednnist, but I
couldn't say he was my dednnist because I hadn't gone
there yet. So I went yesterday. It was pure on sedation.
It was a beautiful thing. I woke up from a
nap and I have the cleanest teeth you could ever imagine.
(24:19):
And their office is wonderful. The people are wonderful. So
I can not just tell you about them. I can
truly endorse them now that fans Texas Center for Cosmetic Dentistry,
Guy Lewis in the woodness fantastic. From Michael's brain to
your ears. This is a Michael Berry Shows, a show
(24:43):
you know who's got a good girl? Who's Kenny Duncan
at US Coins. I haven't looked at what gold is today,
but I called him yesterday and I said, goals just
hit an all time high thirty one twenty five. What
in the hell, I don't know what it's done today,
but it is up callers whole time to be right
(25:03):
with you, and I will just say this, if you
are looking to buy or sell gold, we have had
the same gold sponsor who's also been a dear friend
of mine that same amount of time. Kenny Duncan Junior
and his team at US Coins on it outside the
loop seven one three four six four sixty eight sixty
eight seven one three four six four sixty eight sixty
(25:24):
eight or as always, you can email me and say, hey,
can you connect me with your in this case gold sponsor,
and I will forward you to him and he'll either
he himself or someone in his family will take care
of it. And that's how it always works the best.
People will say to me sometimes, Hey, I called so
and so I hadn't heard back from him. Okay, well
(25:44):
there's slammed. It's AC season and you haven't heard back
from him in three hours. Yeah, I just I don't
know if they're gonna call him back. You know, I
don't give a damn because I've told you the way
the drill works. You email me and say, hey, Michael,
can you connect me with your AC sponsor, whereupon one
I forward you to my AC sponsor, the head of
the company, the guy that owns it, the guy can
(26:05):
pull somebody off another project, says jump on this right now.
But you don't want to do that. You want to
go through the regular system because they got three hundred
people waiting to get a call back, and now you're
three oh one. I wish I could tell you're going
to get a call in two minutes. You're not. But
if you had emailed me, what would have happened romone
call in two minutes. Yeah, help me help you, or
actually don't help me, help you, But then don't complain
(26:27):
because I've told you the system. I've got the hook up.
I'm not going to wait till number three oh one
for myself, and you shouldn't need to either, but if
you email me, because the person who's at number one,
two and three who called those might be liberals. So
I don't mind cutting you in front of the liberals.
I don't mind putting you because you share our values.
Seven one three, nine nine, nine, one thousand. Let's go
to Jeff the Builder. You're only Michael Berry show. How
(26:49):
did you know that moment that you knew Loan was
the one?
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Well, first it was love at first sight, but then
I didn't get to meet her for about three or
four days. But what actually sealed it was I went
and brought her flowers at her office and watched her.
She was a branch manager, how she ran that office
like a little general and being an out of female
on it was incredible to me and opened my.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Eyes of what she was capable of. And then the
final arrow was when my dad and I went fishing
and she picked up a Roden reel for the first
time and just started smacking trout left and right. And
shortly after that where we got married and we're going
on almost twenty years now.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
What is she Vietnamese?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Yes, she is.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Oh see, they have a genetic predisposition to fishing. She
had an advantage that average girl wouldn't have.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
I think so myself still beat me.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know. One of my dreams Michael t in between
his in between semesters from in high school when he
was a senior, is he went on a three week
tour of five Asian nations and he got to take
the boat tour through the Vietnamese I've just obsessed over
Vietnam War and all the jungles and the rivers and
(28:05):
all this. And he got to go in the boat
boating villages where there are no roads. It's all it's
all about boat. And he knew how much that would
mean to me. So he that was you know, you
can't always get him to take photos of everything, but
he knew that was important and he filmed all of it.
And I have wanted to go so badly. I just
think that would be incredible.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Well, you got a crystal tour Gude, if.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You'd like one. There you got it. There, you got it.
Thanks Jeff to build her, Chris, how did you know?
That was that moment that one?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:35):
I met her in high school and we've been married
ever since she was sitting at a table away for
me and me and my friend Chuck. We were just being,
you know, high school jerks, and we didn't find her
friend very attractive, so we were flicking paper at her
and get it stuck in her curly hair. At the
end of class, my wife walked over and basically just
(28:56):
kind of threw all the all the paper that we
had flicked at her friend and in my face, and
I thought, wow, that's some she got some moxie. So
the next day I sat at her table and got
to know her. And so after that class, she would
go to lunch and I would go to class. So
I skipped my class, went to her lunch, walked up
(29:17):
to her and her whole posse, and asked her out
on a date. And it was that first date when
when I just realized that I don't she's the one.
And it was in high school and we're still married
thirty five years later.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's interesting how a moment like that can tell you
so much about someone. It's also interesting that all our
calls are men, men can tell you that was the
moment I knew she was the one. I don't know.
I mean, we skew male. There's no doubt there's there's
a higher percentage of males and females, but not to
such an extent. Julian you're old on Michael Berry Show.
(29:51):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Oh, I guess that's me, Julia. How are you?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
God?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hold on, hold, no, hold on? Are you Julie?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yes, Julianne.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, it was spelled on the screen. You know what.
I'm going to tour Santa Fe High School and I
want to meet every one of your teachers from mom.
It was spelled on the screen. J u L I
A N, which is either Julian in English or Julian
in Spanish. I know how to spell Julianne. I'm not ramon.
(30:25):
I'm making the point as to what he spelled.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I was looking for a girl.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I had to go with Julian because there weren't any
girls calling in. And Julian is now Julianne and now
you're making her phil androgynous. Did you really think that
was Juliane? I'm serious, that was not a joke. You
really in your mind that made all sense in world. Okay, Wait,
you can answer the calls, or you can watch your spell.
That's asking too much to spell Julianne. How about you
(30:50):
just in the future, Julie space and I don't care
if you put an E on the ant or not. Just
julian Anne. But anyway, all right, okay, just out of curiosity,
how do you think julian would be spelled j u
l I? Okay, Julianne, go ahead, sweetheart. Are you a
N N E or a n N?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's just one word, A n N y thank you
to my mum.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh you're j U l I A N N right?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Mkay?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Isn't it more common with an E on the end?
Or am I wrong on that? I don't know. I'm
just guessing.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I think it's much more common with an E on
the end.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Do you have a mid.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
No, I do not have a middle name. That's my name, okay, okay,
and now everybody will and a lot of people know,
well then who I am. But anyway, that I met
my husband in high school, he saw me actually singing
on top of the piano at our talent show, and
that we did not get married. And so what were
(31:52):
you singing?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Don't it make my brown eyes slup?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Oh? My?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, of course he fell for you. That's that's like
opening a Loubi's next to an old folks home. You
can't do that. Give us a little bit of that
and then hold for us. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Oh I don't. I can't speak anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, you can't. Just yeah, just a little bit, just
to I don't know about now.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
I'm totally bad to do when I can't. I really
can't think anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You're going to regret.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
You think he's listening, I'm he's not. He's at work.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
What does he do.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
He's in information technology. Now everyone knows it is
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