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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're talking to folks who work out in the heap
all day, don't have the opportunity to get cool like
the rest of us, and how they cope, what they do,
what their tricks are it is. I don't know about you,
because I don't do a lot of physical labor, but
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when I do do things that require exertion, I'll tell
you that in the evening there is a righteousness to that.
You're exhausted, you don't have to worry about going to sleep.
You feel like the sleep is true rest. I admire
people who figure out how to deal with our just
(01:26):
awful oppressive heat and manage to do it day in
and day out and over the course of a career,
because it's not easy to do. It is not easy
to do. There's no doubt about that. We're asking for
your tricks. If you're out in it all day and
you can't come in, Jacob, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
(01:47):
Go ahead, sir, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I am a proud, tharned generation HVAC technician, and I
like starting the day off with a banana bottle of water,
a cup of coffee, and then my wife packs me
up these little hydration packets that you pour into water,
and that.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Seems to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, no, no, I was I was thinking to myself,
do you know what goes into that hydration packet?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think it's an electric light. Some of them have sugar,
but I've kind of gone to the sugar free. I
like Gatorade. I drink the sugar free Gatorade. Interesting, so
it's like electrol, like little caffeine, and I think some
of them have the sugar in it, but I take
I don't do the sugar. I do the sugar free.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah. Are you diabetic or you just don't want the sugar?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't so my early checkup this year they said
I was pre diabetic, so I laid off the sugar
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What was your number? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Five point nine thick something like that now and down
to like.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Five interesting, very interesting. Thanks for calling, Jacob. Let's go
to Timmy. Timmy, you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Hello, it is Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's me. Go ahead, my man.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Hey, this is Jimmy, not Timmy.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh, Jimmy. Well, it's good enough for government work.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Yes, sir, well, I got a little difference.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I'm not as all my rituals.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
I kind of wanted to share with you about what
the actual heat and the sun can do to you.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
I grew up in the.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Great County of Port Lanvoca on the coast, and I
started on some sail boats when I was eleven, taking
care of a thirty eight foot Trycat, and then a
couple of years later I moved over to a forty
one foot Morgan. So that'll kind of gives you an idea.
You're in bathing suuit most of the day and nothing else,
no hat, no shoes or anything else. Then later I
started on the back of a shrimp boat shrimping an oyster,
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and then moved into the rice field and crop dustin.
Then at nineteen, I had my face cut open. I
had just scheduled for to remove my nose and because
of basal self and ended up not losing my nose,
but getting a nice big scar. And one thing led
to another and staying in the sun, started landscaping, started
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mowing grass, doing one thing and another, and then working
in the rice fields and over the years. Now now
I'm in Waller, Texas and I'm helping my godchild and
her husband. They borrowed beautiful ranch and turned it into
a wedding venue and then they just took over two
k venue out here in Waller. Now it's vintage Bridge,
(04:43):
the brand new place. It's gorgeous on seventy five acres,
many room land, helicopters, anything you want. I also oversee
and take care of that. So we're in the sun
all day and we ride equipment, tractors, skid steers, dozers,
we got trailers. I just came from a five thousand
miles crisscrossing the United States calling stuff.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Because we also have a.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Company, he and I built metallizing technical services.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
We'll go anywhere in the world.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
We're specialists in it and we also do underwater jackets
and bridge repair. We just finished a two year project
in New Hampshire on steel girders on metallizing. It's going
to be a bridge very erected, I think in the
next year and a half two years, and we did
two big projects for them up there. But back to
the part of the sun. I've been cut open with
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stitches over eighty something times. I've been burned on over
two hundred and fifty times. I've had my head putting
a machine after they lootionened it up so it was like
a hornet sitting on the top of your head three times.
And I've had my inter removed and put back on.
I've had several different little in and down. I'm the
only one in the families that had any of the cancers.
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Then I ended up never smoked, never drank, always liked
to lift weight, used to be a diver, and ended
up with renal carcinoma in twenty fourteen, lost my right kidney.
Then I had thyroid cancer at the same time. Then
I had fourteen months of chemo, ended up coming down
with chronic lymphoma leukema and my blood, my bones and
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my lift notes and I'm sixty seven point five percent
deaf in both ears from the chemo, and I still
work in the sun every day.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Love it.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Wouldn't trade it. I was a banker, I've done a
lot of other things. I'm the founder of the Point
Comfort tugboat service harbor docking down there at Promosa, and
wouldn't trade anything that's happened. But it's been in the experience,
and a very costly one too. It's not cheap going
through all that. Andy Anderson gave me a year, year
and a half to live in twenty fourteen, and I
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thank god I beat it. But it's always fun when
I go back and stuff to see them because they never.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Used the word remission.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I always had one. I'm in remission. Oh no, I mean,
you know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Your numbers looking really good.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
But now we don't use that word with you. You
go to many cancers.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
We don't.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
We don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I think I think scant. I think cancer scared
of you. I saw the movie about you with Lee
Majors in.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
It, knocking n here, knocking. Ever, we have that bring.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
Steve Austin astrot a man.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Barely alive, gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
We have the technology, We have the capability to make
the world's first by on a man.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Steve Austin will be that matter, better than he washed.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Before, the Stronger, Faster, The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This is the final day of the first half of
twenty twenty five. Final day of the first half of
twenty twenty five. Let's check in with the markets. This
is year to date, not daily update. Markets. Year to
date Nasdaq is up four point nine to nine percent.
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S and P up four point nine six percent, the
Dow up three percent, the ten year Treasury down. Bitcoin
up fifteen point six percent. At one hundred and seven thousand,
five hundred and two point nine to eight, Bitcoin is
way up. Dollar General up fifty three point eleven percent, Ramona,
(09:23):
how long do you think it? How long do you
think it's been since you've been to a Dollar General?
Not too long? Okay? Is Dollar General the one with
the yellow sign with the black lettering. They have a
knack they have. They have a very clear vision of
where they want to be. You notice that they where
they locate. Everywhere I ever look for a weekend ranch
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again or weekend farm again is a place that always
like that they're there. They want to be in a
place where you got to drive, you know, forty five
minutes to get to a Walmart, so you'll buy your
stuff there. Dollar General is the S and p's best
performing stock since the February high, rising fifty percent the
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entire S and P. They are the highest performing stock
during that that that is something is going on with
that's very interesting. Let's start with gay Dave. Gay Dave,
you're on the Michael Berry Show, Gay Dave. Oh you'll
have to pot it up from more. Here we go, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Oh, hey, how's it going, Michael? As you know, I'm
currently a vegetable farmer. Before that, I was obviously in
law enforcement, and I started my career in with US
Capitol Police in DC, where most of that time I
was a mountain bike officer. So I was wearing a
vest and a uniform and driving around a mountain bike
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every day. It was in shorts, so that wasn't too bad.
But you know, they call Capitol Hill for a reason,
So I was just driving my mountain bike up and
down a hill all day long basically.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I probably sweated more than your average person doing that.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And uh, do you think just as you were gay
really helped?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
I think I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think gay people sweat less. You know.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
It was.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So so how did you end up in Texas if
you were working in DC as a as a capital coup?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
So after nine to eleven happened, I was working about
eighteen hour days and there was this girl that would
go outside and smoke a lot, and she was kind
of cute, and uh, I guess I wasn't totally gay
back then, but I started talking to her. We got
to starting dated, and then we got married and had
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a couple of kids. And she was from Kingwood. Originally
she was just a staff around the hill. And then
we got married and you know, eventually we got divorced
because I'm gay, and uh. She wanted to move back
to Texas with the kids, and I said, you know,
that'd be that'd be fine, but I want to go too,
So I tried to get a transfer with I was
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an Air marshal at the time, and I tried to
get a transfer in They were like, nope, you're not
getting transferred. So I got my congressman, a guy named
Frank Wolf, to get involved. And then when the congressman
started asking questions why they want to transfer me, they.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Go, oh, oh wait, we didn't deny him.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It was just you know, we just uh, it was
just on hold. And then eventually gave my transfer after
throwing a few greenades at them, and I got I
moved down here because I wanted to be near my kids,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And what did you do then?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Now, what did I do when I moved down did?
Speaker 8 (12:50):
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, I was still an air marshal. I just transferred
to the Houston office down here and did that for
nineteen years. Then they tried to make me take a
COVID shot and I retired, and I said no. So
I decided to retire a little earlier that I was
going to at forty seven. Yeah, I had twenty five
years in federal law enforcement at that point, so I
could retire. So I did that, and I just decided
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to do. One of the things I love doing is
growing vegetables. I've always had a garden, so I'm just
doing on a much bigger scale now. And you know,
every day lately with all the rain of the damn
weeds have popped up everywhere. So I've been crawling around
my hands and knees pulling the giant weeds.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And I've made get any money at that.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
High right now? No, not at all. Like I think
I make about seventy five cents an hour. Do you
sell this out the four hours? Yeah, we saw that
the farmer's markets. There's making some farmers market up here. Yeah,
that's where we're that's where we selling at interesting right now.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
And so how much i'd like to move down to that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Go ahead, No, you go ahead, you'd like to move
down to where?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh oh, the urban harvest farmer's market downtown is just
like a great farmers market. And I love I love
the people running my farmer's market, but it's kind of small.
If it ever grows big enough where I can actually
make some money, I might stay.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But how much do you make if you spend a
saturday at that farmer's market. If you spend a Saturday
at that farmer's market, how much would you walk away with?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
About three hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Okay, so I mean four hour for four hours, three
hundred bucks sounds like a lot. But then you're adding
all the hours you spent on the farm that week,
and it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yell and everything you have to do to raise that
that is uh yeah, that's that's uh. That's a lot
of work.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
That is.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is a whole lot of work.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
My grandfather used to used to go down to South
Texas and buy all the cheap produce and bring it
back and he would set up his truck with the
camper and we would sell out of that. And it's
one of my favorite childhood memories was working at his
little wasn't a farmers market. It's just a roadside stand,
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and it was one of my favorite memories was standing
out there with him and selling the stuff. And in
time he figured out that me leading the charge of
this little kid, we'd make more money because people would
tip because they were happy to see this little kid
out there working. And I just enjoyed it because I
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spent time with my grandfather and at the end of it,
he would give me a dollar, which was four games
on Galagha at the girlands in town. And that's all
I mean. I enjoyed the interaction with the people, but
I also did Ramonda, we have a caller? Was that
Were you trying to tell me something? Okay? Then he
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would give me four quarters to go into girlands because
at the end of this long day he would pick
up groceries to bring home to my grandmother. And with
four quarters, I would run, you know, we'd get out
of the truck, I'd rush in. I could play for
a while till finally he'd come home and all right,
let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Good time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's not you know, It's amazing to me. In the
course of a day, I passed people cross paths, drive past,
see him working, and you think there is someone living
a very different life than you are, and they're right
next to you. And if we had to change places,
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how difficult it would be to do what that person
is doing. And yet we're crossing paths and you don't
you don't even think about it. I got an email
from someone named Darylyn Butler. Uh you think Darryln is
a girl? Probably huh d A R O L y N.
Why do you say it was so much confidence? It's
not a black woman? I mean it could be. My
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name is Darylyn Butler, owner of Cypress Trails Ranch in Humble.
I love to hear Greg's testimony on barefoot horses in
the Houston Mounted Patrol. I trained Greg at my ranch
on barefoot horses. I'm seventy five and still work outside
daily and race and endurance races regularly on barefoot horses.
But the main reason for emailing you is a topic
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of dehydration. Here at Cypress Trail's ranch, up to two
hundred guests passed through our gates daily. Once the Texas
heat kicks in, we see tons of cases of heat exhaustion.
Some are even all the way up to heatstroke in
staff and customers. I've been using a wonderful product called
universe Let's see, oh, Univera Univera Km mineral supplement. Univera
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Km mineral supplement to keep myself, staff and customers going
for forty plus years. It is shipped in from Germany.
We encourage people to start it early and keep using
it throughout the day. Wonderful liquid can help turn around
people suffering from heat exhaustion in a matter of minutes.
They have pills too, but they don't work as quickly.
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I'm constantly surprised at how many people don't know how
important it is to have the proper vitamins and minerals potassium, calcium,
and magnesium in their system before venturing out into the
Texas heat. As mentioned on your show, you need to
start early and continue on even up to a couple
of days after your heat episode to fully recover. You
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can purchase km through Amazon. And that was Univera Km
mineral supplement.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I think Darryln's probably a girl. I think that's probably
that's probably right. Yeah, all right, let's go to the
phone line, shall we. Let's go to James. James, you're
on the Michael Berry show. Go ahead, Hey, good.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Morning, Michael.
Speaker 12 (18:59):
Couple things here. We just did a mission project up
in New Waverley with our youth group.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
We replaced the.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
Handicap ramp and we stressed hydration. And like I've been
on over the years in construction, it's water, gatorade, water gatorade.
You know, you keep a balance. Like everybody's saying, you
can start early. But I'm sixty seven and I was
out there in the heat, and the heat got to
me about four o'clock. Doesn't happen often, probably about twice
in my life, but it got to me. I'd lay
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down to the church, but I came back out, but
one of the guys went over to the store and
he got me these slice pickles. I ate a bag
of these slice pickles, and man, I was, I was
ready to go. It was amazing.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
I guess that replenished whatever electric lights I needed, you know.
And usually once I.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
Work out in the sun at night time, I get
cramped about two o'clock in the morning. Their killer and
so I go in the fridge and drink tickle juice.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
But I'd tase you. One time I went in there
and I grabbed the Holopino slices and I drank some
of that. That was a mistake. Yeah, I couldn't need
enough tortilla chips to get that.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Out of me.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
And then my belly hurt all night. Yeah, but U
but hey, one last thing. I know you, I know
you love your sponsors. But I got all the lumber
for this from McCaulay Lumber. I sent you email about it,
and I talked to John McCauley over there. He took
care of us and and uh, he actually gave us
a little discount on the freight to send it up there. Man,
what a blessing it was for him to do that.
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I didn't even ask him. So just a great shout out.
And I tell you we're going to we're wanting to
do more of these, and we will be calling McCauley Lumber.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
They've got great prices in great service.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh, it's it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
That's it roll.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
When you walk in the door, there's a horseshoe there,
and all but one. I think of the people working
behind that court horseshoe are the family. It's old fashion.
They don't they don't. You don't see that anymore. And
I know people I get emails from people who say,
we've been using McCauley's lumber for I think they've been
around for fifty years now. You know, this is the
second and third generation that are running it.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That's something that's like the Farmer's Mercantile and Orange. I
mean people that have worked there. I have a class
make Jojo Harris, she works there, her parents work there.
I mean, is it's one of those multi generational, really
really cool deals. Pickle juice comes up as being something
you should use a lot of times. I mean that
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is that is a very very frequent topic that people
talk about, is pickle juice and how good it is
for you during the summer. There's real wisdom amongst people
who have to survive out in the heat, or for
that matter of that, people who have to survive out
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in the cold, and they learn it and they pass
it down. It's one of those things, the little tricks
that can make all the difference in the world, and
the average person doesn't know that. I wonder how many
people know that you cannot just replenish water in your
system in the summer and keep your system going because
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if you push too much water through your body. You're
going to pee out all the things that you desperately
desperately need and that your body needs. And as I said,
my buddy was hospitalized. He was drinking more water than
everybody else, thinking he was taking the right steps to
ward off the horrible heat. But what he was managing
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to do was actually flush his system of the magnesium
and potassium and things that you so desperately need. There's
a lot of wisdom to guys that work out in
the summer, in the heat and outside and they've got
to figure out a way to survive. Oh oh, we've
got a call from Trump and Tom go ahead.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Cool, stop again. And you're asking about what to do
when it gets so hot outside, I'll tell you what
I do.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Every time.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
I just think about how strong President dol J. Trump is,
and the fact that he wears a three piece suit
everywhere he ever goes, and sometimes he has that super
sweat duster on where he looks like he could be
in Tombstone or some other really cool movie. But he
doesn't really wear that in the summer, mostly because it's
really really hot as hades out there. But listen, what
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I like to do is think about man. At least
they don't have a three piece suit on like Tom J.
Trump does all the time looking awesome looking. He's the
only president in the history of all presidents that have
ever been presidents that like Benjamin blutting their way through presidency.
He started off looking one way, and then he presidented
(23:31):
for four years, and then Biden cheated in one and
stupid Hillary and all all and then well you know,
he won again because they couldn't steal it. But now
he's president again. He basically looks like fifteen years younger. Yeah,
you know why, because he's the best president ever. I
don't remember why I called, Michael, but would you please
call me back. I want to talk to you about
(23:52):
I got a business idea and okay, that's all I got.
That's all I got for now.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Hello, Michael Barry.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Show Cookie Rights Zar.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
The Little League team Fromdville that went to the World
Series in twenty twenty three, remember it, Well, those kids
are now fourteen playing in the Little League Junior Division.
Those boys just won the sectional championship last night. Their
first opponent in the state tournament is Orange. Game is
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July fifth in Rosenberg. My son, Andy McCrae is the manager. Again,
that's a good group of kids. That is that is
a that is a solid group of kids. If they
are if they continue to play at that level, good
on them. Now, I got a root for orange. You
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got to understand that. But I'm sure, I'm sure that's
it shouldn't shouldn't be a problem. Uh, let's go to Timmy. Timmy,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead on you
got Timmy potted up. There we go, Timmy, go ahead,
my ma'am.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Hey, Michael, Michael, Jimmy again.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
The cancer got Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Hi, Jimmy, the cancer got. Remind me.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
I was telling you about all the different chances that
I had. What the son can do to you? Arlt
you you played the six million dollar man thing yeah
earlier and you all tried to call me back, but
I was, I'm out here on the ranch.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh no, we were done. We we we needed you
were the perfect uh Lee Major's case. No, we were done.
Oh I got yeah, No worries, no worries. Good call Aaron.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
You're up.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Hello, yep, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Yes, Hello, yep, you're up.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
Hi, my son, my son h lives on the streets
in the heat along with a lot of other mentally
ill people. And when you spoke earlier about the woman
sitting out on the center of I forty five in
the heat, I was impressed by your kindness toward her.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know, Aaron, mental health is something that we joke about,
like many things, because it causes us discomfort. My heart
goes out to anybody that's in that situation. Very literal
(27:21):
people don't understand that we laugh at things so that
we can own them. We laugh as a coping technique.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Well, you you played the funny song, but then you
did you really were kind about it, said, I'm telling
you very few people are, and in your case you were.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And But but I don't I don't think they.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Mean you redress the fact that how could she be
out that heat?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, I don't think they mean to be mean. I
think we don't know what to do. It's it's like
gay stuff or or or death or we don't really
we struggle to cope with it, and and it is.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
It is tough.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But let me ask you this, as a mother, how
do you cope with that? That's I can't imagine. I
love my kids so much. I know you love your kid.
How do you struggle knowing your kid is out on
the st I mean, how do you cope knowing your
kid is out.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
On the street.
Speaker 9 (28:10):
That's got to be tough right now, right now. And
since January twenty sixth, he's been safe because he's been
at twelve hundred Baker Street in Harris County Jail. So
I know he's safer there than he was on the street.
And I visited him on Wednesday, So in it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I don't want to put words in your mouth, I
want to understand this. So in an odd way, you'd
rather him be in jail because at least he's, as
you said, safer there.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
I feel that way. Yeah, he's in I'm able to
visit him, and he seems okay. He's a very surprisingly
innocent thirty four year old. Yeah, And he was waving
a pocket knife and a McDonald's and the little girl
behind the counter one one as she should, she was frightened,
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but he was waving it at his hallucinations, not in
any body. And he's been in there since two days
before his birthday and will be until they can free
up a bed in a state hospital. Back in twenty eleven,
he was in an Austin State hospital. But now you
can't get into a state hospital unless you've committed a crime.
(29:23):
And so thankfully he's charged with attempted or aggravated assault
with the deadly weapon, and so he'll get a bed
in a state hospital.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
That's what it takes.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Wow, So.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
How hard is it for you when he's out under
a bridge or wherever it is that he is, When
he's out, as you put your.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Head on the pillow, very very hard, he gets SI
and fortunately it doesn't go to him, it comes to me,
And so I pay for a room for him in
a home in Houston. A wonderful woman named Miss Cynthia
(30:14):
is a retired New York City police person has this
home for generally about seventeen fifteen to seventeen men live there,
and most of them have schizophrenia, and most of them
are there released from jail, and then they stay because
(30:35):
she's good to them. But you can't make people take
their medicine. And so he walks the streets and comes
back every now and then for a meal. And I
have no idea how he lives with that, because he's
very bright. His brother and sister wants an attorney who
wants a cybersecurity expert for the Federal Reserve. And he
(30:57):
is that smart and he knows that it shouldn't be
this way, but sadly he's come to accept it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's art. My prayers for you. I can't even imagine
what that's like. I can't even imagine that is Uh.
I gotta change the subject. I gotta change. We told
you earlier about the Alligator Alcatraz story where they're holding
the illegals in Florida. Some of those alligators used to
(31:27):
surround the immigrant detention center are being transported from the
Louisiana Swamps. Alix Netflix documentary is in the early stages
of filming. Today's a big day and they sent us
a clip for the upcoming show. And this I believe
I will watch.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
As crawfish season has come to an end. Boys of
the Louisiana Swamps aimed their crossbows in the direction of gators.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Mission directed straight.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
From the top.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
You know when I get that call out on my
flip phone from President Trump, will find all these gators
and we transport over to Florida and Alligator Alcatrash, I
got pretty excited.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
I call my main man, Boodro and were going to work.
Get it right.
Speaker 11 (32:08):
He called me and I said, hey, man, I come
down there with President trumb Heye, man, we gover do
them get it people? Wamu translation, Boodreau is happier than
Pau Paul in front of a plate of grits. Gator
after gator. The boys round them up and prepare these
beasts for Florida vacation. You know, we chewed a lot
of gators here over the years, but we chewed them dead.
This time we hit them with that tranquilizer we reserve
(32:30):
for Boodro's cousin. When he gets armry, he gets the
job done, putting these gays to sleep for a bit, right, Boudreau.
Damn man, Man, we get them and let's get them
at gate again. Man, I said, poore pew, and I
get a go call.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:43):
As excited as these boys are to get these gators
to Florida's alcatrazs, they're even more excited that they have
a chance to meet the press. Yeah, we could have
believed it.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
You know.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
The President said, hey, come on down with these gators,
and I love to shake your hand. I said, mister President,
that'd be a great honor for me and Boudro. We
could barely keep him in his own pants.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
We had to go buy him a.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
New soup and man, President Trump, who I mean?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I love that man?
Speaker 11 (33:07):
W W you do?
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Great president?
Speaker 11 (33:08):
Women?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Thing he do.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Take him at a minute.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I've been him.
Speaker 11 (33:11):
So there you have it. Simple men of the swamp
turned into true American trip. Next stop Noringa.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I could transfer.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Oh yeah, I can't be going down there, going down
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're talking to folks who work out in the heap
all day, don't have the opportunity to get cool like
the rest of us, and how they cope, what they do,
what their tricks are it is. I don't know about you,
because I don't do a lot of physical labor, but
(01:00):
when I do do things that require exertion, I'll tell
you that in the evening there is a righteousness to that.
You're exhausted, you don't have to worry about going to sleep.
You feel like the sleep is true rest. I admire
people who figure out how to deal with our just
(01:26):
awful oppressive heat and manage to do it day in
and day out and over the course of a career,
because it's not easy to do. It is not easy
to do. There's no doubt about that. We're asking for
your tricks. If you're out in it all day and
you can't come in, Jacob, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
(01:47):
Go ahead, sir, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I am a proud, tharned generation HVAC technician, and I
like starting the day off with a banana bottle of water,
a cup of coffee, and then my wife packs me
up these little hydration packets that you pour into water,
and that.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Seems to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, no, no, I was I was thinking to myself,
do you know what goes into that hydration packet?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think it's an electric light. Some of them have sugar,
but I've kind of gone to the sugar free. I
like Gatorade. I drink the sugar free Gatorade. Interesting, so
it's like electrol, like little caffeine, and I think some
of them have the sugar in it, but I take
I don't do the sugar. I do the sugar free.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah. Are you diabetic or you just don't want the sugar?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't so my early checkup this year they said
I was pre diabetic, so I laid off the sugar
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What was your number? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Five point nine thick something like that now and down
to like.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Five interesting, very interesting. Thanks for calling, Jacob. Let's go
to Timmy. Timmy, you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Hello, it is Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's me. Go ahead, my man.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Hey, this is Jimmy, not Timmy.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh, Jimmy. Well, it's good enough for government work.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Yes, sir, well, I got a little difference.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I'm not as all my rituals.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
I kind of wanted to share with you about what
the actual heat and the sun can do to you.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
I grew up in the.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Great County of Port Lanvoca on the coast, and I
started on some sail boats when I was eleven, taking
care of a thirty eight foot Trycat, and then a
couple of years later I moved over to a forty
one foot Morgan. So that'll kind of gives you an idea.
You're in bathing suuit most of the day and nothing else,
no hat, no shoes or anything else. Then later I
started on the back of a shrimp boat shrimping an oyster,
(03:58):
and then moved into the rice field and crop dustin.
Then at nineteen, I had my face cut open. I
had just scheduled for to remove my nose and because
of basal self and ended up not losing my nose,
but getting a nice big scar. And one thing led
to another and staying in the sun, started landscaping, started
(04:22):
mowing grass, doing one thing and another, and then working
in the rice fields and over the years. Now now
I'm in Waller, Texas and I'm helping my godchild and
her husband. They borrowed beautiful ranch and turned it into
a wedding venue and then they just took over two
k venue out here in Waller. Now it's vintage Bridge,
(04:43):
the brand new place. It's gorgeous on seventy five acres,
many room land, helicopters, anything you want. I also oversee
and take care of that. So we're in the sun
all day and we ride equipment, tractors, skid steers, dozers,
we got trailers. I just came from a five thousand
miles crisscrossing the United States calling stuff.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Because we also have a.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Company, he and I built metallizing technical services.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
We'll go anywhere in the world.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
We're specialists in it and we also do underwater jackets
and bridge repair. We just finished a two year project
in New Hampshire on steel girders on metallizing. It's going
to be a bridge very erected, I think in the
next year and a half two years, and we did
two big projects for them up there. But back to
the part of the sun. I've been cut open with
(05:31):
stitches over eighty something times. I've been burned on over
two hundred and fifty times. I've had my head putting
a machine after they lootionened it up so it was like
a hornet sitting on the top of your head three times.
And I've had my inter removed and put back on.
I've had several different little in and down. I'm the
only one in the families that had any of the cancers.
(05:52):
Then I ended up never smoked, never drank, always liked
to lift weight, used to be a diver, and ended
up with renal carcinoma in twenty fourteen, lost my right kidney.
Then I had thyroid cancer at the same time. Then
I had fourteen months of chemo, ended up coming down
with chronic lymphoma leukema and my blood, my bones and
(06:13):
my lift notes and I'm sixty seven point five percent
deaf in both ears from the chemo, and I still
work in the sun every day.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Love it.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Wouldn't trade it. I was a banker, I've done a
lot of other things. I'm the founder of the Point
Comfort tugboat service harbor docking down there at Promosa, and
wouldn't trade anything that's happened. But it's been in the experience,
and a very costly one too. It's not cheap going
through all that. Andy Anderson gave me a year, year
and a half to live in twenty fourteen, and I
(06:47):
thank god I beat it. But it's always fun when
I go back and stuff to see them because they never.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Used the word remission.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I always had one. I'm in remission. Oh no, I mean,
you know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Your numbers looking really good.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
But now we don't use that word with you. You
go to many cancers.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
We don't.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
We don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I think I think scant. I think cancer scared
of you. I saw the movie about you with Lee
Majors in.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
It, knocking n here, knocking. Ever, we have that bring.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
Steve Austin astrot a man.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Barely alive, gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
We have the technology, We have the capability to make
the world's first by on a man.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Steve Austin will be that matter, better than he washed.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Before, the Stronger, Faster, The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This is the final day of the first half of
twenty twenty five. Final day of the first half of
twenty twenty five. Let's check in with the markets. This
is year to date, not daily update. Markets. Year to
date Nasdaq is up four point nine to nine percent.
(08:58):
S and P up four point nine six percent, the
Dow up three percent, the ten year Treasury down. Bitcoin
up fifteen point six percent. At one hundred and seven thousand,
five hundred and two point nine to eight, Bitcoin is
way up. Dollar General up fifty three point eleven percent, Ramona,
(09:23):
how long do you think it? How long do you
think it's been since you've been to a Dollar General?
Not too long? Okay? Is Dollar General the one with
the yellow sign with the black lettering. They have a
knack they have. They have a very clear vision of
where they want to be. You notice that they where
they locate. Everywhere I ever look for a weekend ranch
(09:45):
again or weekend farm again is a place that always
like that they're there. They want to be in a
place where you got to drive, you know, forty five
minutes to get to a Walmart, so you'll buy your
stuff there. Dollar General is the S and p's best
performing stock since the February high, rising fifty percent the
(10:07):
entire S and P. They are the highest performing stock
during that that that is something is going on with
that's very interesting. Let's start with gay Dave. Gay Dave,
you're on the Michael Berry Show, Gay Dave. Oh you'll
have to pot it up from more. Here we go, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Oh, hey, how's it going, Michael? As you know, I'm
currently a vegetable farmer. Before that, I was obviously in
law enforcement, and I started my career in with US
Capitol Police in DC, where most of that time I
was a mountain bike officer. So I was wearing a
vest and a uniform and driving around a mountain bike
(10:51):
every day. It was in shorts, so that wasn't too bad.
But you know, they call Capitol Hill for a reason,
So I was just driving my mountain bike up and
down a hill all day long basically.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I probably sweated more than your average person doing that.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And uh, do you think just as you were gay
really helped?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
I think I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think gay people sweat less. You know.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
It was.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So so how did you end up in Texas if
you were working in DC as a as a capital coup?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
So after nine to eleven happened, I was working about
eighteen hour days and there was this girl that would
go outside and smoke a lot, and she was kind
of cute, and uh, I guess I wasn't totally gay
back then, but I started talking to her. We got
to starting dated, and then we got married and had
(11:50):
a couple of kids. And she was from Kingwood. Originally
she was just a staff around the hill. And then
we got married and you know, eventually we got divorced
because I'm gay, and uh. She wanted to move back
to Texas with the kids, and I said, you know,
that'd be that'd be fine, but I want to go too,
So I tried to get a transfer with I was
(12:12):
an Air marshal at the time, and I tried to
get a transfer in They were like, nope, you're not
getting transferred. So I got my congressman, a guy named
Frank Wolf, to get involved. And then when the congressman
started asking questions why they want to transfer me, they.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Go, oh, oh wait, we didn't deny him.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It was just you know, we just uh, it was
just on hold. And then eventually gave my transfer after
throwing a few greenades at them, and I got I
moved down here because I wanted to be near my kids,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And what did you do then?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Now, what did I do when I moved down did?
Speaker 8 (12:50):
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, I was still an air marshal. I just transferred
to the Houston office down here and did that for
nineteen years. Then they tried to make me take a
COVID shot and I retired, and I said no. So
I decided to retire a little earlier that I was
going to at forty seven. Yeah, I had twenty five
years in federal law enforcement at that point, so I
could retire. So I did that, and I just decided
(13:15):
to do. One of the things I love doing is
growing vegetables. I've always had a garden, so I'm just
doing on a much bigger scale now. And you know,
every day lately with all the rain of the damn
weeds have popped up everywhere. So I've been crawling around
my hands and knees pulling the giant weeds.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And I've made get any money at that.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
High right now? No, not at all. Like I think
I make about seventy five cents an hour. Do you
sell this out the four hours? Yeah, we saw that
the farmer's markets. There's making some farmers market up here. Yeah,
that's where we're that's where we selling at interesting right now.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
And so how much i'd like to move down to that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Go ahead, No, you go ahead, you'd like to move
down to where?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh oh, the urban harvest farmer's market downtown is just
like a great farmers market. And I love I love
the people running my farmer's market, but it's kind of small.
If it ever grows big enough where I can actually
make some money, I might stay.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But how much do you make if you spend a
saturday at that farmer's market. If you spend a Saturday
at that farmer's market, how much would you walk away with?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
About three hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Okay, so I mean four hour for four hours, three
hundred bucks sounds like a lot. But then you're adding
all the hours you spent on the farm that week,
and it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yell and everything you have to do to raise that
that is uh yeah, that's that's uh. That's a lot
of work.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
That is.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is a whole lot of work.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
My grandfather used to used to go down to South
Texas and buy all the cheap produce and bring it
back and he would set up his truck with the
camper and we would sell out of that. And it's
one of my favorite childhood memories was working at his
little wasn't a farmers market. It's just a roadside stand,
(15:10):
and it was one of my favorite memories was standing
out there with him and selling the stuff. And in
time he figured out that me leading the charge of
this little kid, we'd make more money because people would
tip because they were happy to see this little kid
out there working. And I just enjoyed it because I
(15:30):
spent time with my grandfather and at the end of it,
he would give me a dollar, which was four games
on Galagha at the girlands in town. And that's all
I mean. I enjoyed the interaction with the people, but
I also did Ramonda, we have a caller? Was that
Were you trying to tell me something? Okay? Then he
(15:51):
would give me four quarters to go into girlands because
at the end of this long day he would pick
up groceries to bring home to my grandmother. And with
four quarters, I would run, you know, we'd get out
of the truck, I'd rush in. I could play for
a while till finally he'd come home and all right,
let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Good time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's not you know, It's amazing to me. In the
course of a day, I passed people cross paths, drive past,
see him working, and you think there is someone living
a very different life than you are, and they're right
next to you. And if we had to change places,
(16:38):
how difficult it would be to do what that person
is doing. And yet we're crossing paths and you don't
you don't even think about it. I got an email
from someone named Darylyn Butler. Uh you think Darryln is
a girl? Probably huh d A R O L y N.
Why do you say it was so much confidence? It's
not a black woman? I mean it could be. My
(17:00):
name is Darylyn Butler, owner of Cypress Trails Ranch in Humble.
I love to hear Greg's testimony on barefoot horses in
the Houston Mounted Patrol. I trained Greg at my ranch
on barefoot horses. I'm seventy five and still work outside
daily and race and endurance races regularly on barefoot horses.
But the main reason for emailing you is a topic
(17:21):
of dehydration. Here at Cypress Trail's ranch, up to two
hundred guests passed through our gates daily. Once the Texas
heat kicks in, we see tons of cases of heat exhaustion.
Some are even all the way up to heatstroke in
staff and customers. I've been using a wonderful product called
universe Let's see, oh, Univera Univera Km mineral supplement. Univera
(17:45):
Km mineral supplement to keep myself, staff and customers going
for forty plus years. It is shipped in from Germany.
We encourage people to start it early and keep using
it throughout the day. Wonderful liquid can help turn around
people suffering from heat exhaustion in a matter of minutes.
They have pills too, but they don't work as quickly.
(18:08):
I'm constantly surprised at how many people don't know how
important it is to have the proper vitamins and minerals potassium, calcium,
and magnesium in their system before venturing out into the
Texas heat. As mentioned on your show, you need to
start early and continue on even up to a couple
of days after your heat episode to fully recover. You
(18:30):
can purchase km through Amazon. And that was Univera Km
mineral supplement.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I think Darryln's probably a girl. I think that's probably
that's probably right. Yeah, all right, let's go to the
phone line, shall we. Let's go to James. James, you're
on the Michael Berry show. Go ahead, Hey, good.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Morning, Michael.
Speaker 12 (18:59):
Couple things here. We just did a mission project up
in New Waverley with our youth group.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
We replaced the.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
Handicap ramp and we stressed hydration. And like I've been
on over the years in construction, it's water, gatorade, water gatorade.
You know, you keep a balance. Like everybody's saying, you
can start early. But I'm sixty seven and I was
out there in the heat, and the heat got to
me about four o'clock. Doesn't happen often, probably about twice
in my life, but it got to me. I'd lay
(19:25):
down to the church, but I came back out, but
one of the guys went over to the store and
he got me these slice pickles. I ate a bag
of these slice pickles, and man, I was, I was
ready to go. It was amazing.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
I guess that replenished whatever electric lights I needed, you know.
And usually once I.
Speaker 12 (19:42):
Work out in the sun at night time, I get
cramped about two o'clock in the morning. Their killer and
so I go in the fridge and drink tickle juice.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
But I'd tase you. One time I went in there
and I grabbed the Holopino slices and I drank some
of that. That was a mistake. Yeah, I couldn't need
enough tortilla chips to get that.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Out of me.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
And then my belly hurt all night. Yeah, but U
but hey, one last thing. I know you, I know
you love your sponsors. But I got all the lumber
for this from McCaulay Lumber. I sent you email about it,
and I talked to John McCauley over there. He took
care of us and and uh, he actually gave us
a little discount on the freight to send it up there. Man,
what a blessing it was for him to do that.
(20:19):
I didn't even ask him. So just a great shout out.
And I tell you we're going to we're wanting to
do more of these, and we will be calling McCauley Lumber.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
They've got great prices in great service.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh, it's it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
That's it roll.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
When you walk in the door, there's a horseshoe there,
and all but one. I think of the people working
behind that court horseshoe are the family. It's old fashion.
They don't they don't. You don't see that anymore. And
I know people I get emails from people who say,
we've been using McCauley's lumber for I think they've been
around for fifty years now. You know, this is the
second and third generation that are running it.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That's something that's like the Farmer's Mercantile and Orange. I
mean people that have worked there. I have a class
make Jojo Harris, she works there, her parents work there.
I mean, is it's one of those multi generational, really
really cool deals. Pickle juice comes up as being something
you should use a lot of times. I mean that
(21:17):
is that is a very very frequent topic that people
talk about, is pickle juice and how good it is
for you during the summer. There's real wisdom amongst people
who have to survive out in the heat, or for
that matter of that, people who have to survive out
(21:38):
in the cold, and they learn it and they pass
it down. It's one of those things, the little tricks
that can make all the difference in the world, and
the average person doesn't know that. I wonder how many
people know that you cannot just replenish water in your
system in the summer and keep your system going because
(21:59):
if you push too much water through your body. You're
going to pee out all the things that you desperately
desperately need and that your body needs. And as I said,
my buddy was hospitalized. He was drinking more water than
everybody else, thinking he was taking the right steps to
ward off the horrible heat. But what he was managing
(22:20):
to do was actually flush his system of the magnesium
and potassium and things that you so desperately need. There's
a lot of wisdom to guys that work out in
the summer, in the heat and outside and they've got
to figure out a way to survive. Oh oh, we've
got a call from Trump and Tom go ahead.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Cool, stop again. And you're asking about what to do
when it gets so hot outside, I'll tell you what
I do.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Every time.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
I just think about how strong President dol J. Trump is,
and the fact that he wears a three piece suit
everywhere he ever goes, and sometimes he has that super
sweat duster on where he looks like he could be
in Tombstone or some other really cool movie. But he
doesn't really wear that in the summer, mostly because it's
really really hot as hades out there. But listen, what
(23:10):
I like to do is think about man. At least
they don't have a three piece suit on like Tom J.
Trump does all the time looking awesome looking. He's the
only president in the history of all presidents that have
ever been presidents that like Benjamin blutting their way through presidency.
He started off looking one way, and then he presidented
(23:31):
for four years, and then Biden cheated in one and
stupid Hillary and all all and then well you know,
he won again because they couldn't steal it. But now
he's president again. He basically looks like fifteen years younger. Yeah,
you know why, because he's the best president ever. I
don't remember why I called, Michael, but would you please
call me back. I want to talk to you about
(23:52):
I got a business idea and okay, that's all I got.
That's all I got for now.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Hello, Michael Barry.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Show Cookie Rights Zar.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
The Little League team Fromdville that went to the World
Series in twenty twenty three, remember it, Well, those kids
are now fourteen playing in the Little League Junior Division.
Those boys just won the sectional championship last night. Their
first opponent in the state tournament is Orange. Game is
(25:21):
July fifth in Rosenberg. My son, Andy McCrae is the manager. Again,
that's a good group of kids. That is that is
a that is a solid group of kids. If they
are if they continue to play at that level, good
on them. Now, I got a root for orange. You
(25:42):
got to understand that. But I'm sure, I'm sure that's
it shouldn't shouldn't be a problem. Uh, let's go to Timmy. Timmy,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead on you
got Timmy potted up. There we go, Timmy, go ahead,
my ma'am.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Hey, Michael, Michael, Jimmy again.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
The cancer got Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Hi, Jimmy, the cancer got. Remind me.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
I was telling you about all the different chances that
I had. What the son can do to you? Arlt
you you played the six million dollar man thing yeah
earlier and you all tried to call me back, but
I was, I'm out here on the ranch.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh no, we were done. We we we needed you
were the perfect uh Lee Major's case. No, we were done.
Oh I got yeah, No worries, no worries. Good call Aaron.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
You're up.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Hello, yep, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Yes, Hello, yep, you're up.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
Hi, my son, my son h lives on the streets
in the heat along with a lot of other mentally
ill people. And when you spoke earlier about the woman
sitting out on the center of I forty five in
the heat, I was impressed by your kindness toward her.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know, Aaron, mental health is something that we joke about,
like many things, because it causes us discomfort. My heart
goes out to anybody that's in that situation. Very literal
(27:21):
people don't understand that we laugh at things so that
we can own them. We laugh as a coping technique.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Well, you you played the funny song, but then you
did you really were kind about it, said, I'm telling
you very few people are, and in your case you were.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And But but I don't I don't think they.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Mean you redress the fact that how could she be
out that heat?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, I don't think they mean to be mean. I
think we don't know what to do. It's it's like
gay stuff or or or death or we don't really
we struggle to cope with it, and and it is.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
It is tough.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But let me ask you this, as a mother, how
do you cope with that? That's I can't imagine. I
love my kids so much. I know you love your kid.
How do you struggle knowing your kid is out on
the st I mean, how do you cope knowing your
kid is out.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
On the street.
Speaker 9 (28:10):
That's got to be tough right now, right now. And
since January twenty sixth, he's been safe because he's been
at twelve hundred Baker Street in Harris County Jail. So
I know he's safer there than he was on the street.
And I visited him on Wednesday, So in it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I don't want to put words in your mouth, I
want to understand this. So in an odd way, you'd
rather him be in jail because at least he's, as
you said, safer there.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
I feel that way. Yeah, he's in I'm able to
visit him, and he seems okay. He's a very surprisingly
innocent thirty four year old. Yeah, And he was waving
a pocket knife and a McDonald's and the little girl
behind the counter one one as she should, she was frightened,
(29:02):
but he was waving it at his hallucinations, not in
any body. And he's been in there since two days
before his birthday and will be until they can free
up a bed in a state hospital. Back in twenty eleven,
he was in an Austin State hospital. But now you
can't get into a state hospital unless you've committed a crime.
(29:23):
And so thankfully he's charged with attempted or aggravated assault
with the deadly weapon, and so he'll get a bed
in a state hospital.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
That's what it takes.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Wow, So.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
How hard is it for you when he's out under
a bridge or wherever it is that he is, When
he's out, as you put your.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Head on the pillow, very very hard, he gets SI
and fortunately it doesn't go to him, it comes to me,
And so I pay for a room for him in
a home in Houston. A wonderful woman named Miss Cynthia
(30:14):
is a retired New York City police person has this
home for generally about seventeen fifteen to seventeen men live there,
and most of them have schizophrenia, and most of them
are there released from jail, and then they stay because
(30:35):
she's good to them. But you can't make people take
their medicine. And so he walks the streets and comes
back every now and then for a meal. And I
have no idea how he lives with that, because he's
very bright. His brother and sister wants an attorney who
wants a cybersecurity expert for the Federal Reserve. And he
(30:57):
is that smart and he knows that it shouldn't be
this way, but sadly he's come to accept it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's art. My prayers for you. I can't even imagine
what that's like. I can't even imagine that is Uh.
I gotta change the subject. I gotta change. We told
you earlier about the Alligator Alcatraz story where they're holding
the illegals in Florida. Some of those alligators used to
(31:27):
surround the immigrant detention center are being transported from the
Louisiana Swamps. Alix Netflix documentary is in the early stages
of filming. Today's a big day and they sent us
a clip for the upcoming show. And this I believe
I will watch.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
As crawfish season has come to an end. Boys of
the Louisiana Swamps aimed their crossbows in the direction of gators.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Mission directed straight.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
From the top.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
You know when I get that call out on my
flip phone from President Trump, will find all these gators
and we transport over to Florida and Alligator Alcatrash, I
got pretty excited.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
I call my main man, Boodro and were going to work.
Get it right.
Speaker 11 (32:08):
He called me and I said, hey, man, I come
down there with President trumb Heye, man, we gover do
them get it people? Wamu translation, Boodreau is happier than
Pau Paul in front of a plate of grits. Gator
after gator. The boys round them up and prepare these
beasts for Florida vacation. You know, we chewed a lot
of gators here over the years, but we chewed them dead.
This time we hit them with that tranquilizer we reserve
(32:30):
for Boodro's cousin. When he gets armry, he gets the
job done, putting these gays to sleep for a bit, right, Boudreau.
Damn man, Man, we get them and let's get them
at gate again. Man, I said, poore pew, and I
get a go call.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:43):
As excited as these boys are to get these gators
to Florida's alcatrazs, they're even more excited that they have
a chance to meet the press. Yeah, we could have
believed it.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
You know.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
The President said, hey, come on down with these gators,
and I love to shake your hand. I said, mister President,
that'd be a great honor for me and Boudro. We
could barely keep him in his own pants.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
We had to go buy him a.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
New soup and man, President Trump, who I mean?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I love that man?
Speaker 11 (33:07):
W W you do?
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Great president?
Speaker 11 (33:08):
Women?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Thing he do.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Take him at a minute.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I've been him.
Speaker 11 (33:11):
So there you have it. Simple men of the swamp
turned into true American trip. Next stop Noringa.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I could transfer.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Oh yeah, I can't be going down there, going down
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