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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm a screens don't do here good.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I hear perfectly.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The fact that you are a sheriff is not germane
to the situation. Damn, German's got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Why my gosh, are you telling me that you built
a time machine?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Kind of a deloreate the way I see it.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
If you're gonna build a time machine into a car,
why not doing some style.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
He's an Alma highway in a new cattle like I
had a fine bots and gunna and three in the
bad What.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A piece of jug She may not look like much.
She's gotta work, counts, kids, I've made a lot of
special modifications. Myself will be bad.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You knee, get me back, you knee.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So why, dear mother, I was speeding. I was driving
like a maniac.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You can all be grateful to this man for stopping us.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Sir, I'm going back to get the rest of the
carcass off the road, seek officer.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm not even kidding. My head is splitting, splitting my
own dear mother, blessing blood. I swear that woman is
my own dear mother, my goods, let's see if we
got a new show sponsor coming on from Houston Motors words. Uh,
(02:05):
they do, probably ATV four Wheelers and all that. What
matters most is apparently they're huge fans of the show.
And that's really that's what it means. What do you need?
What you need to I don't know. Well, let me see.
So here's what I wrote. I'll read you what I
wrote because I was able when you reduce something to
(02:27):
write and you give more structure to your thoughts, I wrote,
dear goodness, surely is my mother reincarnated? Holy wow, my
head is splitting after that call. I'm not kidding about that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
By the way, she.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Starts with you said you'd come see me, and you didn't,
and I prepared for you in leaving you feeling bad
that you disappointed her, which.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Makes you want to help. She knows what she's doing.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Then the request for unspecific help. It's important the what
you can do to help is not specified. That would
end the conversation too fast and solve the problem, which
you find out is not really the point.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Then the woe is me begins.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I can't bear it, so I interject, what can I do.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
This is me and my mother.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What is the I hear you, I hear you, I
hear you. I've heard you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What is the action I can take right now? I
will solve your problem. There is one hundred percent no
doubt in my mind. I will solve your problem. If
I got to get Donald Trump involved. What is your problem? Well,
you know it's the I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, tell me what the problem is. See this
is why I don't ask you for anything, because then
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you get upset.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You're making me upset.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Nobody else makes me up sat.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I will do it now to make it stop. No answer, First,
you got to hear about one hundred other things. I'm
a problem solver, not a therapist. Just tell me how
to fix your dad dumb problem right now, and I
will do it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh no, not a chance.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Interjecting, speaking over me, ratcheting up my VP, jabbing and
bobbing from aggressive to sympathetic old lady in alternating moves.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Who I guess what I'm saying is I love this
woman to death. She's in the champions area.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Stop buy and buy some of her treats and tell
her she got over on me and that you loved
hearing it. I think that would delight her and thank
her for sending a thousand cupcakes to Camp Hope every month.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
How sweet is that?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh, you gotta admit that's pretty darn A thousand cupcakes
ain't nothing. She's got to make a thousand cupcakes? Is
she gonna spread the sugar on them? Is she gonna
drive them over there? My goodness, it's hard enough for
me to just go visit. I don't make a thousand
cupcakes ahead of time. I don't know how you'd get
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the ratio right, Ramon, don't.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I really don't.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I don't know how you'd I don't know if you
make them twenty to a batch or what.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I was watching Christy know him.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
In a congressional hearing, and I'm going to tell you something,
and I'm not trying to criticize the woman, because I'm
no spring chicken and I ain't the prettiest person in
the world. I wish they hadn't done HD because now
I was going on and on one day about how
hot Toolsy Gabbard is, and some guy said, you need.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
To stop saying how hot she is.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
She's got bad skin, and I thought, huh, I think
the point at which I figured out she had bad skin, I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Be so far along it probably wouldn't matter. She's hot
and she's got that little.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Skunk thing through there.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I was told that was she had some that's a
war injury. It's something something happened to her while serving,
and that that called the a trauma to her head
casts that I'm not knowing, did serious dead serious? I
was told that, and I'm the sort I think it
was Rachel that told me that. And Rachel's never wrong,
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never wrong, She's never been wrong anyway. That sweet lady Shirley.
Her name, her place is called treat Dashcupcakes dot com tree.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The cupcakes are fine, and I guess because crave does
so well.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
She named it, you know, because that. But I'm gonna
tell you something.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
She's got cupcakes, cookies, cheesecakes, and baked pies.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You really need to focus on the baked pies. She's
given them short shrip. There's an apple baked pie.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, can I tell you something you won't repeat because
people will question my patriot, isn't I'm not a big
Apple pie fan. If there's two pies offered, and they go,
I got apple pie, and whatever comes next, you can
give me that, even Apricot, Even Apricot, I hadn't had
a fried pie in a minute. I'm gonna go by there.
I'm gonna ask her when they're coming out. I'm gonna
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go by there. I'm gonna get one piping hot. It's
gonna burn the roof of my mouth, like I'm eight
years old again, and I'm gonna love it. Run all right,
Joseph here on the Michael Berry Show, caught me in
a bad place.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
That was an interesting call.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
You had it, but Paul, I love your show, Thank you, sir.
And I wanted to wish my mother a happy birthday.
She passed away her happy Mother's day. She passed away
two years ago.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Growing up here in love with my mother running. She
had a name, Mary's Hair Fashions right next to my
high school, and she would she did everyone's hair, all
my friend's hair. And if she ever asked me what
I was doing last night, I knew better than a
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lie to her because she already knew what I was doing.
She knew what I did before I got through doing it.
She was a wonderful woman she ended up later in life.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Hold on just a moment, Joseph, and I do want
to hear you start. Hold on just a moment, a
little kids.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You all admired, the champion marble shoot at, the fastest
running big league ballplayers, the.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Tucky boxer with the Michael Berry's Americans love a winner.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right, let's go back to Joseph. He waited so
patient and we had to cut him off.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I'll go ahead and finish up now I'm still here, yes, sir,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Well, I after high school, I moved away and worked
my career, and uh, I retired after fifty years working.
And I moved back here and my mother was still
working and I'm told us, so, you're embarrassing me, mom.
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And anyway, I moved back here and was able to
spend three years with the before she passed away. It
was probably the best thing I ever did. But the
reason why I was able to retire and I did
was because that's probably the only thing I ever listened
to her when she told me, always saved something. So
all my all my working career I lived, I've always
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failed you. You live on what you make, what you
bring home. So I always put something back all my life,
and I never thought that I would live to reap
my retirement. I figured somebody to steal it from me.
But I'm able to was able to retire because my
mom and her advice, and she was good glue that
helped our family together.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
God bless you, Joseph. You call back anytime. That's a
beautiful Mother's Day tribute. So last year, on Wednesday, before
the Friday show might have been Thursday, I just sent
some messages to different friends and said, Hey, could you
(10:00):
just on the voice app on your phone, could you
just make a real quick Mother's Day message for me?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And I'd like to play some of those.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Now, let's start with Sparky the Great Knuckleballer the after Astros.
I hope the Astros win a World Series just because
I love Sometimes I can't get to the game on
my radio in time because I got something going on,
but I will not miss I will not miss the
post game Sparky celebration. And if Jim Crane ever ends that,
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it'll be the saddest thing ever because it is the
best party on radio.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I love it so much.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Hi, this is Steve Sparks, Astros radio broadcaster, One of
my favorite memories I'll always have about my mom, who
lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the text I get every
single night, whether we're on the West Coast or at
minute May Park, She'll text me something about the Astros
win or lose every single game one hundred and sixty
two and then in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So it's been a great ride. I love you, Mom,
and thanks for everything you've giving me. How about mister
Astro Larry Derker.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
My mother was working at Lockheed Graveyard Shift to pay
her tuition at USC when she met my dad. My
dad put the full Court Russia on. About a year
later or so. I was born about three years after that.
My brother Rick was born about three years after that.
My sister, Laura Lynn was born about six years after that.
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Laura went to school. And when Laura went to school, well,
my mom went to She went back and finished her education,
became a teacher, a counselor, and a coach, and she
wasn't too bad at it. She managed to win a
city championship in Los Angeles in both gymnastics and in swimming.
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I came off the launch bad pretty well because my
wonderful mother, I.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Think you did very well, Dirk, and I love you.
One of my top five interviewees of all the people
we've ever interviewed. On my top five. It's an understated interview,
but if you go back, especially the time he brought
the possum in, it was it was just delightful.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, this is Lance Berkman.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
I just like to say that I appreciate my mother
so much for the way that she raised me.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
She actually didn't overmother me.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
She allowed me to face life's challenges and overcome those challenges.
She loved and supported me, but was also instrumental in
just allowing me to become a man and not hampering
or hindering that.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Process in any way.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
So she struck such a good balance between love and support,
but also knowing that I needed to stand on my
own two feet and that she wouldn't always be there
to rescue me. So Mama, love you, and I appreciate
the way you raised me.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know, I knew lanz Bergman's dad before I knew him.
I practiced at the firm that his father joined. While
I was there, his father was at a small firm,
and our firm kind of merge really acquired their firm
and we were on a deal together.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Uh yeah, I remember the bank deal. I think it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think our client was a bank behind another bank.
If I remember correctly, I wasn't leading the deal. Let's
be clear, let's talk. Get carried away here. How about
Michael T's tribute to his sweet mama.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Last year.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Been Mother's Day, Mom. I won't as I'll let you
know that I'm grateful for been Mother's Day, Mom. I
wanted to let you know that you're the most important
things to me. I'm grateful for everything you've done for me,
and I love you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's Michael T straight to the point. No, you know
we're not getting all hyped up. We're just gonna say
what was he to say? We're gonna get it in
Theresa be right to it. How about Crockett.
Speaker 12 (13:58):
Happy Mothers and Mom? I wanna take a moment to
express how grateful I am for everything you are and
everything you do. Through the highs and lows, you have
always been there for me, and thank you for being
my biggest cheerleader. From the comdless sacrifices you made to
the endless support you cride, I'm truly blessed to have
you as my mom. Your wisdom, kindness, and unwavering love
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have shaped me into the person I am today. As
I see here saying all this, I can't help but
think of all the great memories we share, my favorite
being our lunches at Papa's Burgher your unconditional love has
been a constant source of comfort and joy in my life,
and I am forever, forever thankful for the bond we share. Mom,
(14:44):
You are truly one of a kind, and I feel
so lucky to call you my mother. Today and every day,
I celebrate you and all that you are. Thank you
for being my rock. Happy Mother's Day, I Love you.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
On three, four, five, six, seven, egg nine, eleven, twelve,
thirteen forty five, Indy, I will valenteen.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
So much.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Rockets a bit more loquacious, Shall we say.
Speaker 14 (15:19):
That his brother flop Michael Ferry Show.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
How's your Dear listen, Miss Shirley cue Licor. I was
once told by one of Michael Berry's associates that the
Friday afternoon show is the laziest one of the week
because ninety nine percent of it is pre recorded, same
old things. It's uh, start with old Happy Day and
go on to uh six pack of shiners and all
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this other ignorance. Oh Lord, it's hard to even listen
to it. But now he got so damn modeling and
more ROAs talking about people.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Mom.
Speaker 15 (16:00):
Yes, of course, everybody love they mama, They love they ma'amo.
And unfortunately for a lot of us, our mothers and
mamos has already been killed.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
We're not all twenty one years old. A lot of
us have lost over mama's and mamos. And then when
we in the grief behind it, Michael Bear better count
hisself blessed. He fifty three years old. And his mama,
Loretta Bear, she's still living. She's still acting ignorant. She's
still out there telling her opinions about every damn thing.
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She called into his show sometimes and curse him out.
God lover, I appreciate her, do her and that. And
of course Michael Bear wife Anita, she got two sons,
and she need to be celebratory because she did such
a wonderful job raising them. Cheering. Lord, they're gonna be
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so non stereotypical. It's gonna blow y'all mind. It already
has minds. I asked them one time, do your children
speak your bonnex, He say no, but they can speak
Spanish and French.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
What Okay.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
On a personal note, I don't know whether or not
Mamam or Mama whoever has been killed or not yet.
She's been up in that attic now since nineteen ninety
seven and she have never came down, and nobody have
ever went to check on her. We scared to go
there and see what.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
We could find.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
All I know is she do ask for delivery from
Doe Dash and one of my children bring it up
to the attics. So I figured she probably still alive.
But she liked to be, you know, by herself. She
very Unitarian, So that's her world. How you during, tell
your mama and them if they're still living. I had
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asked her how she's during and if your mama and
them had passed, tell her heavenly happy birthday. Mothers never
really passed away. They just go upstairs for a while
till you seize them again.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Honey.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Okay, I know that's right now. Michael Berry going by
preaching about mamas, tell him how wonderful they is. Oh,
here would go, y'all, maudling mauling Friday, God a mighty.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Just so you know Shirley cue Licker does not refer
to someone having died. She always says someone has been killed.
First time I ever noticed that or heard it, I thought, oh,
I thought they had cancer or whatever. It becomes a
very very funny in a dark way. Not everybody's my
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mother would not find such a literal. People will not
find that funny. But a certain segment of our audience
will get how funny that could.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Be if you do that going forward?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Which is which is how I communicate, You know, so
and so has been killed from Orange?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Did you know?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And and uh? When I got the note, I'm sorry
your brother's been killed by, immediate reaction was, oh, you can't.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We've got to be consistent. We've got to be consistent
with what we do. So I had to laugh. Jim Connors,
I see is on the line. I first met Jim
at Mattress Max. I don't know what the occasion was,
but Mattress Mack had hired Jim to play the organ
Jim used to be the Astros, the Inn stadium organist,
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and I think the first the first day my dad
was at the old Folks Home. We won't say where, Jim,
but the first day, my dad was at the old
folks home.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I go in and.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
At four o'clock they got cultural and Richmond or whatever
they call it, entertainment time with happy hours what they
call it. They get two drinks, but my dad doesn't drink,
so he just judges all the women and how much
they drink. And then five o'clock sharp is dinner. And boy,
let me tell you something you have not seen kids.
I mean, it's like fellows on a shall we say
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a female train. I mean it's like the GI's chasing
the girls. They get in there, and I mean they
are at five men at five pm and ten seconds
they've already ordered. I mean they are ready anyway. So
I go in and Jim's playing. I didn't know if
he'd remember me or not, but he did. And I
had to see how he did this because I didn't
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know where was the organ? How'd you get out in
the middle of the room. He has jerry rigged this
thing remote, jerry rigged this thing. He's got an organ
like on the Dolly type deal with a handle. You
don't even notice it when he's playing. And then when
he's done. How old are you? Jim sixty Okay, so
he's one hundred and fifty years old and he's not
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a young man.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And when he's done, he takes the.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Handle on one.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Side of it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
He takes a handle on one side of it, flips
this thing up and it's on its side. And while
we're talking, he escorts his organ out of the building.
You think about how we're not talking about a keyboard. Okay,
we're talking about the old style organ, the wood Curtis
mathis frame and a whole new but he plays the standards.
Everybody loves him. He makes it a fun time. Jim,
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how many times did you tell me you play? How
many UH appearances you made or showed.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
At seven shows?
Speaker 14 (21:21):
Seven last year? And that's that's about average. The last
I just bought this new organ, uh put it into
service at November. And the one I had before uh
seven years, I had had over three thousand shows with it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I don't know if I told you, but uh Ramone's
sister Martha Alicia.
Speaker 14 (21:44):
Yeah, I heard books, She books.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Guests, She books entertainers for the old folks homes for
several of them.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
Does she does she work for a particular retirement community.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
She asked me how much you were and I said,
I don't know, and she said, you always ask people
what they make, what they charge. I said, it's the
one time I didn't in the one time I really
needed to. What is a one hour show?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Right?
Speaker 14 (22:08):
Typically they're they're about two hundred and uh as far
as if it's a if it's a senior retirement community.
Other than that, it's usually three fifty an hour, like
for private birthday parties, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And is it is it standard? An hour?
Speaker 14 (22:29):
Most places are an hour summer, an hour and a
half summer, two hours. Like I'm doing four shows today
the first time. On my way to the first one
is I'm out in Kingwood or what's called Gathering Place,
which is a ministry about sixty churches and synagogues around
Houston area that of all different all different faiths. Uh
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And once a month say on the what is this
a second Friday every month? I'm going to Kingwood Methods
this morning, and they'll have a whole slew army of
volunteers and folks that are most from a homebound as
far as but taking care of a loved one that's
got Alzheimer's or dementia issues, and they can drop them
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off like at nine or ten in the morning, and
they'll have games and crafts, exercise, and a lot of
them will have entertainment. They'll hire me to come in
and or hire somebody and have a show. I'll do
a one hour show here from eleven to twelve. So
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I made when I was when I called in, I
missed my turn. I was coming off Grant Parkway. I
live in Magnolia, so it's coming off Grant Parkway to
get on fifty nine and I missed the exits. Be
a little bit late, but hopefully they're listening.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Hey, when I saw.
Speaker 14 (23:56):
You at your dad's place that day, I out of
a corner of my eye. At the end of the show,
I was taking pictures with you know, some of the residents.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The Michael Barry Show, the folks who sent in Mother's
Day messages. When I asked, let's want to get through,
Cory Morrow with a nice message for his sweet mama.
Speaker 16 (24:20):
Okay, Michael Berry, this is Corey Morrow and it is
your Mother's Day tribute. I would like to say I
love you to my mother. She has been an incredible
support in my life. As I'm sure most people can say,
hopefully most people can say that she wasn't necessarily the
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biggest supporter of what I.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Wanted to do when I wanted to play.
Speaker 16 (24:45):
Music for a living, But she quickly quickly came around
and has become my biggest fan. And there was just
never a question in my mind that she loved me
my whole life.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I always knew that she loved me.
Speaker 16 (24:59):
She fought for me, she stood up for me, and
she protected me, and she went out of her way
to make sure that we were taken care of. And
that's just I love her and I'm so grateful for
my life. So, Mama, if you're listening, I love you.
Thank you for everything, and I love you. Michael Berry,
Corey Morrow, it's the funniest dude. He and his mother
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are very close. Let me start with that. Mama Morrow
is beloved by Corey. But Corey will tell you he
was a mess when he was younger.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He and Pat at Texas Tech, and Pat's still a
mess in a wonderful way. Corey is sober, very strong, faith,
very focused on his family. He's writing more, he's performing more.
He takes incredible care of his health. He looks if
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you haven't seen Corey in a while. He's probably the
size he was in high school. He is so fit,
it's amazing. Anyway, when he performs, if his mom is there,
she'll come over to me and we'll watch the show together.
There's always an awkward moment because in the song Light
(26:12):
on the Stage, which is maybe my favorite song, he does,
I'll just read you the lyrics, he says, they said
we don't take your kind, and it's just very autobiographical.
This was all very much stories that happened to him.
They said, we don't take your kind. No, we don't
want no guys like you. I lied my way till December,
hoping Christmas would pull me through. Then I hung around,
(26:35):
thinking religion would take its toll. The Lord threw no
signs that day. It seemed that no one would take
me at all. Then I saw the light on the stage,
and I said, sing with me, Oh, sing with me,
Sing all night long, then hold me close till the
morning sun come. Searching for the dawn, here's the line.
I hitched my way back to Houston, where I knew
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that i'd find a home my mother, no vacancy in
this new house that I had never known. I found
myself astray, all alone, caught up in the midst of
my pain, in the howling winds of the night, I
swore someone was calling my name. I turned only to
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see the light on the stage. And the song goes on,
and he finally realizes that you are the light on
the stage, that it is performing that that keeps him alive,
that drives him, that is his passion. But I asked
him twenty years ago. So it's about the story about
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the coming home and mom saying there's no vacancy. He said, no, no,
that's definitely true. My parents divorced and she you know,
I'm out touring and I was out of money, and
I said, Mom, can I come home and say She said, no,
that's a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And it's a tough decision, but it's the right decision.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It's a bad idea, and you need to make it
on your own, make it or go get a job.
He'll get a real job, because you know, moms aren't
excited when you're gonna tour as a musician because almost
nobody makes it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But he did.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But at that point it wasn't clear that he would.
And her point was his son it's time you grow up.
You're twenty years old and uh, and.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
He wrote a song about it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And when he sings that line, I have to do
everything I can not to look at her reaction. But
you know, there she is, she's super mom. But he
wrote a song about that. You don't want that to
be the line in you? You know what about all
the times I Yeah, my mother used to say to
my brother when he would start causing problems, she'd say,
you know, you were a dry birth. And when I
was younger, I never understood what that meant. So my brother,
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when we would get to you have to understand. We jab,
so we'd get together. My brother would say to me,
you know, you know I was rough on your mother.
I was a dry birth. And she'll say, Christopher, Wayne,
what do you have to say that we have guests?
That's that was our family. When I tell you Shirley
was my mother, I'm not kidding. How about Emily Bull
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with a message for her sweet mother, Laurie.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
This is Emily Bull, and I want to wish a
happy Mother's.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Day to my mom. Laurie Bull.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, and why you're happy had her?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
She's my mom? I love her?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
How am I going to use that.
Speaker 14 (29:20):
I think it's great.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
She's gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You're an idiot, Okay, yeah, I'm sure she'll be.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Real proud of you.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
She is proud of me.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 16 (29:28):
Happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Mom Oh, that's real classy, real classy.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I once asked. It was a friend of mine's wife.
It was her birthday.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
We were gathered together, there were eight of us.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I love a dinner party, I'll admit it.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I love a dinner party when you have good people
that you like at a dinner party. I find it
to be for couples. I find it to be very
good for your marriage. It's the thing you do together
because we tend to do so many things by ourselves,
especially as men. To do things as a couple, it's
one of the fun things to do, especially and you
start parrying, you know, the women against the men, and
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you tell little stories that you don't want told, and
you can have a lot of fun with that. But
Emily Bull's parents are two of my favorite people in
the whole world. And I forgot what I was going
to why I was going to tell you that anyway,
Our next United States Senator to replace John Wayne mccorn
and Ken Paxton.
Speaker 17 (30:25):
How this is Ken Paxston, Texas Trade General, and I
want to say Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers
out there.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
My mother's no longer with us.
Speaker 17 (30:32):
But I can tell you that she made such an
amazing difference in my life, and her love and her
involvement in my life definitely made the difference for me.
And there's nothing like a good mother to take care
of children and to love their children into the future.
God bless all the mothers out there today.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Happy Mother's Day. My dear friend Reid Ryan.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Hey, this is Read Ryan.
Speaker 18 (30:55):
And one of my favorite memories about my mother, Ruth
was when she coached my little league team in Alvin, Texas.
You know, my dad, Nolan, was playing for the Astros
and wasn't able to coach and really be around little
league during the summers, and so my mom stepped up,
and man, what an awesome summer it was. We had
so much fun as a team. We ended up beating
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all the other dads in the league, and all the
kids on the team had an awesome time.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I love you, Mom.
Speaker 18 (31:23):
It was a great memory. It's so much fun being
around you every day. And I hope you have an
awesome one today.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Love you.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Love Reid Ryan, love his wife.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Remember his daughter that interned for us, she ended up.
I think she's at Mackenzie now she's a superstar. I
think she had a four to zero.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
At A and M.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, so, our creative director Jim Mudd celebrated his wedding
anniversary this week and his daughter graduated yesterday. Now how
awesome is that his daughter graduated at Texas A and
M yesterday. My friend Ray Sinkowitch's son parkerraduated yesterday. It's
an interesting and fun time.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
My lung doctor.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Who was my parents' lung doctor, But he's my lung doctor.
He's my friend Tim Conley, a very very very well
renowned doctor in this town for lungs. His child graduated
war Eagle, Auburn I think on Wednesday, So it's a
fun time. Send me an email. If one of your
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kiddos are grand kiddos is graduating, congratulations. That's a big,
big big deal. Sunday is Mother's Day. Make it special
for her. The mother child relationship I believe to be
the most important relationship in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
And I think a child who is loved and disciplined
by his mother, and hopefully his father, is more likely
to grow up into a functional, contributing, successful adult than
anyone else. All you mothers out there, we love you.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Zero
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm a screens don't do here good.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I hear perfectly.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The fact that you are a sheriff is not germane
to the situation. Damn, German's got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Why my gosh, are you telling me that you built
a time machine?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Kind of a deloreate the way I see it.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
If you're gonna build a time machine into a car,
why not doing some style.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
He's an Alma highway in a new cattle like I
had a fine bots and gunna and three in the
bad What.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A piece of jug She may not look like much.
She's gotta work, counts, kids, I've made a lot of
special modifications. Myself will be bad.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You knee, get me back, you knee.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So why, dear mother, I was speeding. I was driving
like a maniac.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You can all be grateful to this man for stopping us.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Sir, I'm going back to get the rest of the
carcass off the road, seek officer.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm not even kidding. My head is splitting, splitting my
own dear mother, blessing blood. I swear that woman is
my own dear mother, my goods, let's see if we
got a new show sponsor coming on from Houston Motors words. Uh,
(02:05):
they do, probably ATV four Wheelers and all that. What
matters most is apparently they're huge fans of the show.
And that's really that's what it means. What do you need?
What you need to I don't know. Well, let me see.
So here's what I wrote. I'll read you what I
wrote because I was able when you reduce something to
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write and you give more structure to your thoughts, I wrote,
dear goodness, surely is my mother reincarnated? Holy wow, my
head is splitting after that call. I'm not kidding about that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
By the way, she.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Starts with you said you'd come see me, and you didn't,
and I prepared for you in leaving you feeling bad
that you disappointed her, which.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Makes you want to help. She knows what she's doing.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Then the request for unspecific help. It's important the what
you can do to help is not specified. That would
end the conversation too fast and solve the problem, which
you find out is not really the point.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Then the woe is me begins.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I can't bear it, so I interject, what can I do.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
This is me and my mother.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What is the I hear you, I hear you, I
hear you. I've heard you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What is the action I can take right now? I
will solve your problem. There is one hundred percent no
doubt in my mind. I will solve your problem. If
I got to get Donald Trump involved. What is your problem? Well,
you know it's the I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, tell me what the problem is. See this
is why I don't ask you for anything, because then
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you get upset.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You're making me upset.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Nobody else makes me up sat.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I will do it now to make it stop. No answer, First,
you got to hear about one hundred other things. I'm
a problem solver, not a therapist. Just tell me how
to fix your dad dumb problem right now, and I
will do it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh no, not a chance.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Interjecting, speaking over me, ratcheting up my VP, jabbing and
bobbing from aggressive to sympathetic old lady in alternating moves.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Who I guess what I'm saying is I love this
woman to death. She's in the champions area.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Stop buy and buy some of her treats and tell
her she got over on me and that you loved
hearing it. I think that would delight her and thank
her for sending a thousand cupcakes to Camp Hope every month.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
How sweet is that?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh, you gotta admit that's pretty darn A thousand cupcakes
ain't nothing. She's got to make a thousand cupcakes? Is
she gonna spread the sugar on them? Is she gonna
drive them over there? My goodness, it's hard enough for
me to just go visit. I don't make a thousand
cupcakes ahead of time. I don't know how you'd get
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the ratio right, Ramon, don't.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I really don't.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I don't know how you'd I don't know if you
make them twenty to a batch or what.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I was watching Christy know him.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
In a congressional hearing, and I'm going to tell you something,
and I'm not trying to criticize the woman, because I'm
no spring chicken and I ain't the prettiest person in
the world. I wish they hadn't done HD because now
I was going on and on one day about how
hot Toolsy Gabbard is, and some guy said, you need.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
To stop saying how hot she is.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
She's got bad skin, and I thought, huh, I think
the point at which I figured out she had bad skin, I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Be so far along it probably wouldn't matter. She's hot
and she's got that little.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Skunk thing through there.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I was told that was she had some that's a
war injury. It's something something happened to her while serving,
and that that called the a trauma to her head
casts that I'm not knowing, did serious dead serious? I
was told that, and I'm the sort I think it
was Rachel that told me that. And Rachel's never wrong,
(06:10):
never wrong, She's never been wrong anyway. That sweet lady Shirley.
Her name, her place is called treat Dashcupcakes dot com tree.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The cupcakes are fine, and I guess because crave does
so well.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
She named it, you know, because that. But I'm gonna
tell you something.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
She's got cupcakes, cookies, cheesecakes, and baked pies.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You really need to focus on the baked pies. She's
given them short shrip. There's an apple baked pie.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, can I tell you something you won't repeat because
people will question my patriot, isn't I'm not a big
Apple pie fan. If there's two pies offered, and they go,
I got apple pie, and whatever comes next, you can
give me that, even Apricot, Even Apricot, I hadn't had
a fried pie in a minute. I'm gonna go by there.
I'm gonna ask her when they're coming out. I'm gonna
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go by there. I'm gonna get one piping hot. It's
gonna burn the roof of my mouth, like I'm eight
years old again, and I'm gonna love it. Run all right,
Joseph here on the Michael Berry Show, caught me in
a bad place.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
That was an interesting call.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
You had it, but Paul, I love your show, Thank you, sir.
And I wanted to wish my mother a happy birthday.
She passed away her happy Mother's day. She passed away
two years ago.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Growing up here in love with my mother running. She
had a name, Mary's Hair Fashions right next to my
high school, and she would she did everyone's hair, all
my friend's hair. And if she ever asked me what
I was doing last night, I knew better than a
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lie to her because she already knew what I was doing.
She knew what I did before I got through doing it.
She was a wonderful woman she ended up later in life.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Hold on just a moment, Joseph, and I do want
to hear you start. Hold on just a moment, a
little kids.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You all admired, the champion marble shoot at, the fastest
running big league ballplayers, the.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Tucky boxer with the Michael Berry's Americans love a winner.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right, let's go back to Joseph. He waited so
patient and we had to cut him off.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I'll go ahead and finish up now I'm still here, yes, sir,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Well, I after high school, I moved away and worked
my career, and uh, I retired after fifty years working.
And I moved back here and my mother was still
working and I'm told us, so, you're embarrassing me, mom.
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And anyway, I moved back here and was able to
spend three years with the before she passed away. It
was probably the best thing I ever did. But the
reason why I was able to retire and I did
was because that's probably the only thing I ever listened
to her when she told me, always saved something. So
all my all my working career I lived, I've always
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failed you. You live on what you make, what you
bring home. So I always put something back all my life,
and I never thought that I would live to reap
my retirement. I figured somebody to steal it from me.
But I'm able to was able to retire because my
mom and her advice, and she was good glue that
helped our family together.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
God bless you, Joseph. You call back anytime. That's a
beautiful Mother's Day tribute. So last year, on Wednesday, before
the Friday show might have been Thursday, I just sent
some messages to different friends and said, Hey, could you
(10:00):
just on the voice app on your phone, could you
just make a real quick Mother's Day message for me?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And I'd like to play some of those.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Now, let's start with Sparky the Great Knuckleballer the after Astros.
I hope the Astros win a World Series just because
I love Sometimes I can't get to the game on
my radio in time because I got something going on,
but I will not miss I will not miss the
post game Sparky celebration. And if Jim Crane ever ends that,
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it'll be the saddest thing ever because it is the
best party on radio.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I love it so much.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Hi, this is Steve Sparks, Astros radio broadcaster, One of
my favorite memories I'll always have about my mom, who
lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the text I get every
single night, whether we're on the West Coast or at
minute May Park, She'll text me something about the Astros
win or lose every single game one hundred and sixty
two and then in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So it's been a great ride. I love you, Mom,
and thanks for everything you've giving me. How about mister
Astro Larry Derker.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
My mother was working at Lockheed Graveyard Shift to pay
her tuition at USC when she met my dad. My
dad put the full Court Russia on. About a year
later or so. I was born about three years after that.
My brother Rick was born about three years after that.
My sister, Laura Lynn was born about six years after that.
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Laura went to school. And when Laura went to school, well,
my mom went to She went back and finished her education,
became a teacher, a counselor, and a coach, and she
wasn't too bad at it. She managed to win a
city championship in Los Angeles in both gymnastics and in swimming.
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I came off the launch bad pretty well because my
wonderful mother, I.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Think you did very well, Dirk, and I love you.
One of my top five interviewees of all the people
we've ever interviewed. On my top five. It's an understated interview,
but if you go back, especially the time he brought
the possum in, it was it was just delightful.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, this is Lance Berkman.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
I just like to say that I appreciate my mother
so much for the way that she raised me.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
She actually didn't overmother me.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
She allowed me to face life's challenges and overcome those challenges.
She loved and supported me, but was also instrumental in
just allowing me to become a man and not hampering
or hindering that.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Process in any way.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
So she struck such a good balance between love and support,
but also knowing that I needed to stand on my
own two feet and that she wouldn't always be there
to rescue me. So Mama, love you, and I appreciate
the way you raised me.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know, I knew lanz Bergman's dad before I knew him.
I practiced at the firm that his father joined. While
I was there, his father was at a small firm,
and our firm kind of merge really acquired their firm
and we were on a deal together.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Uh yeah, I remember the bank deal. I think it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think our client was a bank behind another bank.
If I remember correctly, I wasn't leading the deal. Let's
be clear, let's talk. Get carried away here. How about
Michael T's tribute to his sweet mama.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Last year.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Been Mother's Day, Mom. I won't as I'll let you
know that I'm grateful for been Mother's Day, Mom. I
wanted to let you know that you're the most important
things to me. I'm grateful for everything you've done for me,
and I love you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's Michael T straight to the point. No, you know
we're not getting all hyped up. We're just gonna say
what was he to say? We're gonna get it in
Theresa be right to it. How about Crockett.
Speaker 12 (13:58):
Happy Mothers and Mom? I wanna take a moment to
express how grateful I am for everything you are and
everything you do. Through the highs and lows, you have
always been there for me, and thank you for being
my biggest cheerleader. From the comdless sacrifices you made to
the endless support you cride, I'm truly blessed to have
you as my mom. Your wisdom, kindness, and unwavering love
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have shaped me into the person I am today. As
I see here saying all this, I can't help but
think of all the great memories we share, my favorite
being our lunches at Papa's Burgher your unconditional love has
been a constant source of comfort and joy in my life,
and I am forever, forever thankful for the bond we share. Mom,
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You are truly one of a kind, and I feel
so lucky to call you my mother. Today and every day,
I celebrate you and all that you are. Thank you
for being my rock. Happy Mother's Day, I Love you.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
On three, four, five, six, seven, egg nine, eleven, twelve,
thirteen forty five, Indy, I will valenteen.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
So much.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Rockets a bit more loquacious, Shall we say.
Speaker 14 (15:19):
That his brother flop Michael Ferry Show.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
How's your Dear listen, Miss Shirley cue Licor. I was
once told by one of Michael Berry's associates that the
Friday afternoon show is the laziest one of the week
because ninety nine percent of it is pre recorded, same
old things. It's uh, start with old Happy Day and
go on to uh six pack of shiners and all
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this other ignorance. Oh Lord, it's hard to even listen
to it. But now he got so damn modeling and
more ROAs talking about people.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Mom.
Speaker 15 (16:00):
Yes, of course, everybody love they mama, They love they ma'amo.
And unfortunately for a lot of us, our mothers and
mamos has already been killed.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
We're not all twenty one years old. A lot of
us have lost over mama's and mamos. And then when
we in the grief behind it, Michael Bear better count
hisself blessed. He fifty three years old. And his mama,
Loretta Bear, she's still living. She's still acting ignorant. She's
still out there telling her opinions about every damn thing.
(16:35):
She called into his show sometimes and curse him out.
God lover, I appreciate her, do her and that. And
of course Michael Bear wife Anita, she got two sons,
and she need to be celebratory because she did such
a wonderful job raising them. Cheering. Lord, they're gonna be
(16:55):
so non stereotypical. It's gonna blow y'all mind. It already
has minds. I asked them one time, do your children
speak your bonnex, He say no, but they can speak
Spanish and French.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
What Okay.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
On a personal note, I don't know whether or not
Mamam or Mama whoever has been killed or not yet.
She's been up in that attic now since nineteen ninety
seven and she have never came down, and nobody have
ever went to check on her. We scared to go
there and see what.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
We could find.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
All I know is she do ask for delivery from
Doe Dash and one of my children bring it up
to the attics. So I figured she probably still alive.
But she liked to be, you know, by herself. She
very Unitarian, So that's her world. How you during, tell
your mama and them if they're still living. I had
(17:47):
asked her how she's during and if your mama and
them had passed, tell her heavenly happy birthday. Mothers never
really passed away. They just go upstairs for a while
till you seize them again.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Honey.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Okay, I know that's right now. Michael Berry going by
preaching about mamas, tell him how wonderful they is. Oh,
here would go, y'all, maudling mauling Friday, God a mighty.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Just so you know Shirley cue Licker does not refer
to someone having died. She always says someone has been killed.
First time I ever noticed that or heard it, I thought, oh,
I thought they had cancer or whatever. It becomes a
very very funny in a dark way. Not everybody's my
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mother would not find such a literal. People will not
find that funny. But a certain segment of our audience
will get how funny that could.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Be if you do that going forward?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Which is which is how I communicate, You know, so
and so has been killed from Orange?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Did you know?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And and uh? When I got the note, I'm sorry
your brother's been killed by, immediate reaction was, oh, you can't.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We've got to be consistent. We've got to be consistent
with what we do. So I had to laugh. Jim Connors,
I see is on the line. I first met Jim
at Mattress Max. I don't know what the occasion was,
but Mattress Mack had hired Jim to play the organ
Jim used to be the Astros, the Inn stadium organist,
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and I think the first the first day my dad
was at the old Folks Home. We won't say where, Jim,
but the first day, my dad was at the old
folks home.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I go in and.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
At four o'clock they got cultural and Richmond or whatever
they call it, entertainment time with happy hours what they
call it. They get two drinks, but my dad doesn't drink,
so he just judges all the women and how much
they drink. And then five o'clock sharp is dinner. And boy,
let me tell you something you have not seen kids.
I mean, it's like fellows on a shall we say
(20:02):
a female train. I mean it's like the GI's chasing
the girls. They get in there, and I mean they
are at five men at five pm and ten seconds
they've already ordered. I mean they are ready anyway. So
I go in and Jim's playing. I didn't know if
he'd remember me or not, but he did. And I
had to see how he did this because I didn't
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know where was the organ? How'd you get out in
the middle of the room. He has jerry rigged this
thing remote, jerry rigged this thing. He's got an organ
like on the Dolly type deal with a handle. You
don't even notice it when he's playing. And then when
he's done. How old are you? Jim sixty Okay, so
he's one hundred and fifty years old and he's not
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a young man.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And when he's done, he takes the.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Handle on one.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Side of it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
He takes a handle on one side of it, flips
this thing up and it's on its side. And while
we're talking, he escorts his organ out of the building.
You think about how we're not talking about a keyboard. Okay,
we're talking about the old style organ, the wood Curtis
mathis frame and a whole new but he plays the standards.
Everybody loves him. He makes it a fun time. Jim,
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how many times did you tell me you play? How
many UH appearances you made or showed.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
At seven shows?
Speaker 14 (21:21):
Seven last year? And that's that's about average. The last
I just bought this new organ, uh put it into
service at November. And the one I had before uh
seven years, I had had over three thousand shows with it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I don't know if I told you, but uh Ramone's
sister Martha Alicia.
Speaker 14 (21:44):
Yeah, I heard books, She books.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Guests, She books entertainers for the old folks homes for
several of them.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
Does she does she work for a particular retirement community.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
She asked me how much you were and I said,
I don't know, and she said, you always ask people
what they make, what they charge. I said, it's the
one time I didn't in the one time I really
needed to. What is a one hour show?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Right?
Speaker 14 (22:08):
Typically they're they're about two hundred and uh as far
as if it's a if it's a senior retirement community.
Other than that, it's usually three fifty an hour, like
for private birthday parties, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And is it is it standard? An hour?
Speaker 14 (22:29):
Most places are an hour summer, an hour and a
half summer, two hours. Like I'm doing four shows today
the first time. On my way to the first one
is I'm out in Kingwood or what's called Gathering Place,
which is a ministry about sixty churches and synagogues around
Houston area that of all different all different faiths. Uh
(22:53):
And once a month say on the what is this
a second Friday every month? I'm going to Kingwood Methods
this morning, and they'll have a whole slew army of
volunteers and folks that are most from a homebound as
far as but taking care of a loved one that's
got Alzheimer's or dementia issues, and they can drop them
(23:18):
off like at nine or ten in the morning, and
they'll have games and crafts, exercise, and a lot of
them will have entertainment. They'll hire me to come in
and or hire somebody and have a show. I'll do
a one hour show here from eleven to twelve. So
(23:38):
I made when I was when I called in, I
missed my turn. I was coming off Grant Parkway. I
live in Magnolia, so it's coming off Grant Parkway to
get on fifty nine and I missed the exits. Be
a little bit late, but hopefully they're listening.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Hey, when I saw.
Speaker 14 (23:56):
You at your dad's place that day, I out of
a corner of my eye. At the end of the show,
I was taking pictures with you know, some of the residents.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The Michael Barry Show, the folks who sent in Mother's
Day messages. When I asked, let's want to get through,
Cory Morrow with a nice message for his sweet mama.
Speaker 16 (24:20):
Okay, Michael Berry, this is Corey Morrow and it is
your Mother's Day tribute. I would like to say I
love you to my mother. She has been an incredible
support in my life. As I'm sure most people can say,
hopefully most people can say that she wasn't necessarily the
(24:42):
biggest supporter of what I.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Wanted to do when I wanted to play.
Speaker 16 (24:45):
Music for a living, But she quickly quickly came around
and has become my biggest fan. And there was just
never a question in my mind that she loved me
my whole life.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I always knew that she loved me.
Speaker 16 (24:59):
She fought for me, she stood up for me, and
she protected me, and she went out of her way
to make sure that we were taken care of. And
that's just I love her and I'm so grateful for
my life. So, Mama, if you're listening, I love you.
Thank you for everything, and I love you. Michael Berry,
Corey Morrow, it's the funniest dude. He and his mother
(25:22):
are very close. Let me start with that. Mama Morrow
is beloved by Corey. But Corey will tell you he
was a mess when he was younger.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He and Pat at Texas Tech, and Pat's still a
mess in a wonderful way. Corey is sober, very strong, faith,
very focused on his family. He's writing more, he's performing more.
He takes incredible care of his health. He looks if
(25:51):
you haven't seen Corey in a while. He's probably the
size he was in high school. He is so fit,
it's amazing. Anyway, when he performs, if his mom is there,
she'll come over to me and we'll watch the show together.
There's always an awkward moment because in the song Light
(26:12):
on the Stage, which is maybe my favorite song, he does,
I'll just read you the lyrics, he says, they said
we don't take your kind, and it's just very autobiographical.
This was all very much stories that happened to him.
They said, we don't take your kind. No, we don't
want no guys like you. I lied my way till December,
hoping Christmas would pull me through. Then I hung around,
(26:35):
thinking religion would take its toll. The Lord threw no
signs that day. It seemed that no one would take
me at all. Then I saw the light on the stage,
and I said, sing with me, Oh, sing with me,
Sing all night long, then hold me close till the
morning sun come. Searching for the dawn, here's the line.
I hitched my way back to Houston, where I knew
(26:57):
that i'd find a home my mother, no vacancy in
this new house that I had never known. I found
myself astray, all alone, caught up in the midst of
my pain, in the howling winds of the night, I
swore someone was calling my name. I turned only to
(27:17):
see the light on the stage. And the song goes on,
and he finally realizes that you are the light on
the stage, that it is performing that that keeps him alive,
that drives him, that is his passion. But I asked
him twenty years ago. So it's about the story about
(27:37):
the coming home and mom saying there's no vacancy. He said, no, no,
that's definitely true. My parents divorced and she you know,
I'm out touring and I was out of money, and
I said, Mom, can I come home and say She said, no,
that's a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And it's a tough decision, but it's the right decision.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It's a bad idea, and you need to make it
on your own, make it or go get a job.
He'll get a real job, because you know, moms aren't
excited when you're gonna tour as a musician because almost
nobody makes it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But he did.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But at that point it wasn't clear that he would.
And her point was his son it's time you grow up.
You're twenty years old and uh, and.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
He wrote a song about it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And when he sings that line, I have to do
everything I can not to look at her reaction. But
you know, there she is, she's super mom. But he
wrote a song about that. You don't want that to
be the line in you? You know what about all
the times I Yeah, my mother used to say to
my brother when he would start causing problems, she'd say,
you know, you were a dry birth. And when I
was younger, I never understood what that meant. So my brother,
(28:39):
when we would get to you have to understand. We jab,
so we'd get together. My brother would say to me,
you know, you know I was rough on your mother.
I was a dry birth. And she'll say, Christopher, Wayne,
what do you have to say that we have guests?
That's that was our family. When I tell you Shirley
was my mother, I'm not kidding. How about Emily Bull
(29:01):
with a message for her sweet mother, Laurie.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
This is Emily Bull, and I want to wish a
happy Mother's.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Day to my mom. Laurie Bull.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, and why you're happy had her?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
She's my mom? I love her?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
How am I going to use that.
Speaker 14 (29:20):
I think it's great.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
She's gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You're an idiot, Okay, yeah, I'm sure she'll be.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Real proud of you.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
She is proud of me.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 16 (29:28):
Happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Mom Oh, that's real classy, real classy.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I once asked. It was a friend of mine's wife.
It was her birthday.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
We were gathered together, there were eight of us.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I love a dinner party, I'll admit it.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I love a dinner party when you have good people
that you like at a dinner party. I find it
to be for couples. I find it to be very
good for your marriage. It's the thing you do together
because we tend to do so many things by ourselves,
especially as men. To do things as a couple, it's
one of the fun things to do, especially and you
start parrying, you know, the women against the men, and
(30:04):
you tell little stories that you don't want told, and
you can have a lot of fun with that. But
Emily Bull's parents are two of my favorite people in
the whole world. And I forgot what I was going
to why I was going to tell you that anyway,
Our next United States Senator to replace John Wayne mccorn
and Ken Paxton.
Speaker 17 (30:25):
How this is Ken Paxston, Texas Trade General, and I
want to say Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers
out there.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
My mother's no longer with us.
Speaker 17 (30:32):
But I can tell you that she made such an
amazing difference in my life, and her love and her
involvement in my life definitely made the difference for me.
And there's nothing like a good mother to take care
of children and to love their children into the future.
God bless all the mothers out there today.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Happy Mother's Day. My dear friend Reid Ryan.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Hey, this is Read Ryan.
Speaker 18 (30:55):
And one of my favorite memories about my mother, Ruth
was when she coached my little league team in Alvin, Texas.
You know, my dad, Nolan, was playing for the Astros
and wasn't able to coach and really be around little
league during the summers, and so my mom stepped up,
and man, what an awesome summer it was. We had
so much fun as a team. We ended up beating
(31:17):
all the other dads in the league, and all the
kids on the team had an awesome time.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I love you, Mom.
Speaker 18 (31:23):
It was a great memory. It's so much fun being
around you every day. And I hope you have an
awesome one today.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Love you.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Love Reid Ryan, love his wife.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Remember his daughter that interned for us, she ended up.
I think she's at Mackenzie now she's a superstar. I
think she had a four to zero.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
At A and M.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, so, our creative director Jim Mudd celebrated his wedding
anniversary this week and his daughter graduated yesterday. Now how
awesome is that his daughter graduated at Texas A and
M yesterday. My friend Ray Sinkowitch's son parkerraduated yesterday. It's
an interesting and fun time.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
My lung doctor.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Who was my parents' lung doctor, But he's my lung doctor.
He's my friend Tim Conley, a very very very well
renowned doctor in this town for lungs. His child graduated
war Eagle, Auburn I think on Wednesday, So it's a
fun time. Send me an email. If one of your
(32:28):
kiddos are grand kiddos is graduating, congratulations. That's a big,
big big deal. Sunday is Mother's Day. Make it special
for her. The mother child relationship I believe to be
the most important relationship in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
And I think a child who is loved and disciplined
by his mother, and hopefully his father, is more likely
to grow up into a functional, contributing, successful adult than
anyone else. All you mothers out there, we love you.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
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