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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
President Biden has spent days locked in intense preparation, surrounded
by his closest advisors at Camp David, and our sources
are telling us tonight that full mock debates are underway
at the podium under the lights. He's even watching tape
to know exactly what he's going to see when he
steps up to that lecture. His team shot a video
during a walk through the CNN studio and has that
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reported while covering him at the White House. When Biden prepares,
he does so incredibly intensively.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh, we have one thousand tillionaires in America, not even
billionaires in America, and what's happening. They're in a situation
where they in fact paid at eight point two percent
in Texas. If they just paid twenty four, twenty five
percent either one of those numbers, they raised five hundred
million dollars, billion dollars. I should say in your period,
we'd be able to write wipe out his debt. We'd
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be able to help make sure that all those things
we need to do, childcare, eldercare making sure that we
continue to support stands in our healthcare system making sure
that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible
for what I've been able to do with the with
the COVID, I was gonna be with dealing with everything
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we have to do with what if we finally beat medicare.
What's happened. I've changed it in the way that now
you're in a situation where the fewer people coming across
the border illegally.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
It's better when he left office, and.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'm going to continue to move until we get the
total bang, the total initiative relative to what we're going
to do with more border patrol and more Astomosstrup.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows when he
said myself, I.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Got my handicap, which when I was Vice president down
to a sixth. Oh and by the way, I told you,
S'm happy to play golf. If you carry on bag,
I think you can do it.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That's the biggest lie.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
He's a six handicap of all.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was an eight handicap. Yeah, eight, But I see
you swing.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I know you swing. President Trump.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
So just how worried where Biden aids before the former
president's disastrous debate last summer. According to Ron klain Is,
chief of staff, his concerns could not be overstated, and
his first meeting with Biden for debate prep quote claim,
was startled. He'd never seen Biden so exhausted and so
out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening
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in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the President
excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Part about the pool.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
He went off.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
This is in the middle of debate.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Prep went off to the pool and he took a nap.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Legs said we'll go dancing and.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Walking.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The mass.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
Plans we go. Just imagine how hot it was when
you walked out to your car this morning, or when
you came home last night, and that some people wake
up every day to go out into that heat.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
All day long. You learned some coping techniques out of
the process. You have to.
Speaker 9 (04:05):
Let's just go down the list from on Ken Marlon
Bryant all the way down.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
We'll start with Ken. Ken, you're up.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
What do you do?
Speaker 10 (04:13):
Uh do facility maintenance? Uh? My bill is I don't
make any sudden moves. I'm necessary sudden moves. I just
keep everything food and you know sudden moves might playing
up to heart right, they kind of message. So yeah,
no sudden moves.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Do you have a hydration approach.
Speaker 10 (04:38):
I've got as much water as I can tolerate at
one time, which you know different, that's different. You know changes.
I guess we'll changes Howard body needs it?
Speaker 11 (04:50):
Six you on?
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Okay, Well it's it's not elderly, but that's that's not
a young man out in the heat. Good on you, Marlaw.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your trick?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Marlow?
Speaker 12 (05:02):
Good morning? Well, my husband we own a family business.
We sell produce for a living. My husband works out
and then it's all day long, seven days a week
and he drinks water, kaye and pickle juice.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Where is your produce business?
Speaker 12 (05:27):
Well, I think you've been in there one time. We're
on I ten at the Anialite exit.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
H what's it called.
Speaker 10 (05:38):
Triple Offord Express?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Are you in witness protection? Why are you lowering your voice?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (05:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
I just signed to be normal.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
Okay, So I'm sure I have been there because that's
where i'd go, That's where i'd meet up with my
brother in Beaumont. But so if I'm headed eastbound on it,
are you on the right or the left south of
the north well on.
Speaker 12 (06:03):
The eastbound side exit eight one zero?
Speaker 9 (06:08):
Is there a chevron station right there as well? Is
there a gas station right there?
Speaker 12 (06:11):
Yes, sir, I yes, sir?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Okay, all right, and y'all are there or he's there?
Speaker 12 (06:17):
I think you talking to me by the way, Okay, No, sir,
I don't work anymore. I had I've got cancer and
went through treatments and I don't work anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And he's out there every day.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Yes, sir, he's sixty years old.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
What is the what is the exit for listeners that
are headed eastbound right now?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Eight one zero, eight one zero? What does it say
to say an a whack?
Speaker 12 (06:46):
Yes, sir, it's the Liberty ANIWAC exit.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Okay, yeah, off your radio. I know exactly where it is.
And what does he do to stay cool?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
We own it.
Speaker 12 (06:59):
He drinks water, gatorade and pickle juice.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh you said that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Yeah, And we have.
Speaker 12 (07:04):
Fans pickle juice, and we have a stand up air
conditioner one of them things you have with the host
ex south of window. And we have one standing in
there body cash register and you go there and get
cooled down, you.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Know, Marlon.
Speaker 9 (07:23):
My grandfather, Monroe Preston Seeber, for years had he would
drive down to South Texas and he would load up
his truck with produce and he would drive back, and
during the summer or during the school year, on the weekends,
I would go sit with him all day and help him.
And he figured out that we'd get tips and things
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if he had his little grandson with him, So he'd
put a little tent over the side of the of
the truck and I'd sit out there, and I was
so eager. And at the end of it, he'd give
me a dollar of four quarters and we'd go to
the Gerlands for him to pick up grocery on the
way home that evening, and I would make those four
quarters last longer than it would take him to buy
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all the groceries.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Playing gallaga, which was which was my thing, as long.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
As I didn't double up, because you know, when you
double up your guns, you expose yourself to risk. You
can't move into the corner when they're coming down on
the bonus round, I mean after the bonus round, but
on the bonus round, you get a bigger bonus. If
you got to you pretty much got to capt those
double ten thousand bonus. So then you got to make
a decision. Do you want to have that? You want
to have both guns?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Hey, everybody, and you're listening to the Michael Berry Show
and Reminiscy Friday.
Speaker 14 (08:41):
Hello to all my Michael Barrow friends. I did Lucy
Allen Ergon to see Texas all the probendaries and stays
in between high elder. I'm sitting over him, burning up.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Honey.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I have worked so hard.
Speaker 14 (08:57):
I've been over twice and spotted down three times.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm just had.
Speaker 14 (09:01):
I'd be so hot at my legs sleep rubbing together.
You know, I'm of a certain body mass Indexes and
I be chafing brod. I went to see I Ain't
Tricks the other night. She'd the closest thing in our
family to a doctor or ir n anything. She said, baby,
just take you a handful of corn starts and if
you'll dress up, throw it up in there.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Oh.
Speaker 14 (09:24):
I said, really, she did not work it, really do
And I said, well, he let me put some flour
up in there, but a little bacon soda, A little
bacon powder looked, you know, salt and pepper and one
little tea school and garlic season. And I said, now,
I'm sure I'll be cured at Lord. The next morning
I went walking down the street and guess what I
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was doing dropping biscuit toney. I looked at like a
damn pigeon with some diarrhea. Ooh, I felt it like
the Pillsbury dough lady. Oh, how ignorant. I just need
to be sprayed. I need to be a shame. Michael
Berry preach roll a subject of shame. People really do
need to be shame.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I know I was.
Speaker 14 (10:07):
Y'all tell you Mom and them how she Darren? God,
do you have a spray holes or something.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
We're talking to folks who work out in the heat
and don't get the credit for it. You know, it's
one thing to look out and see somebody sweating or
taking their lunch under the shade tree, or comes to
your house to do some work out in your yard,
and you you kind of hide inside while the cable
is fixing it. Oh, it's hot, and if you're if
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you're a decent sort, when he's done, you maybe offer
him a glass of water or some sweet teeth.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But imagine being that guy got.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
All that equipment, crawling up in the trees, on the poles,
digging down underneath stuff, getting up in the attic.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Ooh, the attic. My goodness, A lie the attic.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
That's uh. I don't make a man out of that.
Grow some chest hairs on you. Seven three nine one thousand, Brian.
What do you do outside all day?
Speaker 15 (11:06):
Good morning, Michael. My second job I do irrigation sprinkler repair.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
What's your first job?
Speaker 15 (11:14):
I'm a firefighter?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh, right on?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
And so you do you have your own company doing
the irrigation and sprinkler repair.
Speaker 15 (11:24):
No, don't. I actually work for one of the firefighter
is a yes, sir. He used to be my lieutenant,
but he retired. But me and it's just me and him.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
I've known a lot of firefighters over the years. And
if you do it right, and maybe that's what you
and this guy are doing, if you do it right,
and you get your retirement from the fire department and
your benefits from the fire department, and you work hard
on the days you're not on it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Let's be honest. You know, sell a shift here and there.
You can end up you can end up by the
end of it.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
It's hard work, but you can end up by the
end of it doing pretty darn well yourself. Let me
ask you, will you go out when you go out
for the when you go out to do a repair
on the line, what's what's the number one problem?
Speaker 15 (12:12):
Uh, digging in roots in a backyard where there's no
breeze because everybody has wooden senses nowadays for privacy, so
there's no wind blowing back there. So it's just a
hot box.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
And I guess it's I'm gonna sound like a painty waste,
but I guess it's out of the question to get
like a battery powered or a rechargeable fan to put
on you.
Speaker 15 (12:38):
Well, no flinging dirt around mud, water, yeah, anywhere, but
you got to carry it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (12:45):
They always forget to charge the battery.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Of course, Ramon didn't charge the battery on his headsets
this morning, and so we had all sorts of problems
with him figuring out because he's gone to the to
the wireless headset, because he's got a lot of equipment
he needs to move here and there. We're still getting
our studio figured out because we built out our own
studio and our studio went down on Friday. That's why
we lost, y'all. I mean it's only been five years. Now,
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we're getting there. I swear there's no show in America
that has more technological issues than we do.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I swear that has to be the case. Carl, you're up.
Tell me what's going on out there.
Speaker 11 (13:24):
I start my day off with a handful of electrolytes
and vitamins and a big old glass of water, and.
Speaker 15 (13:33):
That really helps.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
If a mountain sun, there ain't no breeze, saw cranes,
big overhead trainsalled and sometimes we're luxury, yes, sir, okay,
so I used to do appliances, but I got out
of that.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
And the sun.
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Sometimes you'll be in a spot covered by by a
pavilion or an all I mean, or sometimes inside in
the nice factor. It's like the big oil refinerises and
what my fill have air conditioning in their shops. But
sometimes you're outside in the pope yard and it is
as as I all get out. But lots of electrolytes,
lots of igh cool water, and UH try to eat
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clean and just stay out in it. Just keep on going.
You go inside in the ac and makes it worse.
Can you come back out?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Everybody says that.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Everybody says that you'd rather not go in the ac
because it makes it.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Harder to go back outside.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Do you have an electrolyte you purchase specifically or do
you create your own cocktail?
Speaker 11 (14:34):
I build my own cocktail, like I gets a potassium
and uh, magnesium and zinc and.
Speaker 15 (14:43):
Keep keep bottles of it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Kick up the costco or on Amazon.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Good for you, Good for you, Thanks for the call, Robert.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What are you doing
out in the heat?
Speaker 15 (14:56):
Hey, Michael, I'm an electrician.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
I'm seventy three years old and still putting in that
forty every single week for you. Only have not retired only.
Speaker 16 (15:05):
Because I love it.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
But but how can how many times can you say
that you do something that you love that pays your money.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
You know it's it's true, and you know that that's
a special thing because my dad did not love what
he did, and I watched that, and he continued to
work for forty years to take care of us kids,
and I always thought nothing else. I Am going to
pursue what I love because he didn't have that option.
And that's my tribute to him is to find something
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I love to do, because you know, it's not true
that you never work a day in your life, but
it makes the work and a whole lot more fun,
a whole lot more bearable if it's if it's a
tough job. Are you independent or do you work with
a firm, with a company.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
I'm independent and I do most of my work is
with papist restaurants. Well, really great great people. They are
great people, not good people, great people. I mean they're
just Christian Harris are just they're lovely people.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You know, Robert.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
When I was in college, I was a waiter at
the Papas restaurants, and I say, there's no there's no
restaurant in the country at that level that gives you
the training program that they do. It's hold of a
sa Pat Jaula Jacob carl Oli, you hold on random
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writs a note on working in the heat. The single
most important thing will always be hydration. But plenty of
folks don't realize hydration begins days before the actual work,
not after a two day bender and half a pot
of black coffee in the morning.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Remember y'all keep a three to.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
One ratio of water to electrolyte drinks with sodium, potassium,
magnesium especially, and watch the sugar levels.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
If you're doing only water, know that little flush.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Necessary electrolytes in your body much faster, And don't be
no hero. If you're hot, take a break. I like
to use chiller rags on the back of my neck too.
They're soaked in cold water and they keep a colder
temp than regular cotton. Ergodine makes great ones working in
the golf ten years now and it still baffles me
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how much people need to be reminded of this kind
of thing. Pay attention to your sweat output, urine color,
and you should be good and stop with the energy drinks.
Brandon I had a friend who was not working outdoors
but was playing tennis outdoors in Mexico on a group trip.
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Some friends of ours had gone down and good tennis player,
good athlete, in very good shape for a guy at
the time, was fifty years old, played sports a lot,
worked out a lot as a lawyer. But he was
he was no pansy. He was hydrating. It was a
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tournament they were playing down in Mexico, and he was hydrating,
so drinking a lot of water and he was on
everybody to make sure they drank a lot of water.
But what he didn't seem to realize, which that fellow
made the point of, is if you're pushing that much
water through your body, you're pushing your electrolytes out. So
if you're not replacing them, you can do yourself a
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lot of harm. Ended up in the hospital. He almost
lost his life over the deal. It it got precarious
there out of the deal. And yeah, so anyway, replace
those electrolytes. Ramiro, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
how you, sir?
Speaker 16 (18:45):
Do you any way to take like you said, drink
enough water and enough hierate. I'm working over here in
Snyder Taker. You should know where he Snyder teke to
today between Colorado City and Snyder Takes in the pipeline.
We do bipline infection.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Sir, doing pipeline, We're doing talkline inspection.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (19:02):
I'm originally from Brownsie, Texas, but I live in outside
of Texas City, I mean in Texas City for the
last eighteen years, and I travel all these states.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
All right, is that pay well?
Speaker 16 (19:12):
Yeah, Ramona's from there. Uh well, yeah, he does play
very good. I can't complain. I live comfortably. I pay
two girls college and uh and my wife works too,
but it pays very good. I can't complain about her.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Where does your wife work?
Speaker 16 (19:26):
First time talking to you? She works at what's called
a daycare down in Texas City work. Actually, h and.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The girls where they are working?
Speaker 16 (19:35):
This says, my youngest is in sam Houston State. And
what's called my youngest, I mean oldest is in what's
called uh uh, what's called us care Lake.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Okay, all right, well, good on you.
Speaker 16 (19:47):
It a mirror, Yes, sir, the first time talking to you, I.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Mean, well, I hope it won't be the first time
talking to you.
Speaker 16 (19:54):
I hope not, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, we'd love to have you back. Thank you, my man.
Stay cool out there. Let's go to Pat. Pat. You
were on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the program,
Sir Ramone. You got to put up Pat, there's no
can't you hear me? There we go, yep, Ramon was napping?
Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yes, sir? I can now.
Speaker 17 (20:15):
Yeah, I'm out in I'm out in the country. It's
a pleasure to be on your show. I've been listening
to you for a long time, and uh, it helps
to come from a pro football player dad that was
very famous back in the sixties. He was very athletic,
and I guess I'm kind of athletic too, because I've
been painting out in the heat.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Here for thirty six years. And uh, I drink.
Speaker 17 (20:38):
Roast s hearing well water and I've never really heard
of electrolytes. But I do take a Gatorade every now
and then. But it's mind over body, that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
To make it, to make it, gera does have a
lot of things in it that regular water does not.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I am a believer in Gatorade. Who is your dad?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
My dad was Pat stud Still.
Speaker 17 (20:59):
He was a punter and a receiver for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
He left you, of h and.
Speaker 17 (21:03):
Walked on the team up there in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
From sixty one.
Speaker 17 (21:10):
I grew up in Missouri City, out in Quilt Valley.
I went to Dulles High School. Okay, but I did
every kind of I did every kind of job there was,
and didn't never like anything too much till I got
into painting. And I love painting people's houses and their businesses,
and it's very rewarding.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
What do you love this heat deal?
Speaker 17 (21:30):
Well, I like being outside. I can't be in an office.
I can't be inside in a factory at slumber Jay
like I did for two years, or working for a
car dealership.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
I've done a lot of.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
Things over the years, but Peyton was something I just
really loved and no one can understand it. I just
I love what I do and I'm blessed by God.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
You do it by yourself, just a one man show.
Speaker 17 (21:53):
Well, I used to have a crew twenty years ago, Michael,
but you know, insurance got too high, worked in his
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
So yeah, now I work by myself.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Well, I saw you seem like a guy that's kind
of figured out your happy zone and you stay there.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You seem like a.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Guy that would be better off not having a fool
with people who show up late and want to knock
off early and they're having their child support issues, and
can I go to here you sell like you guys
just content doing what he's doing, showing up doing his
painting and going home. That not having to manage people
would probably be a blessing.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
That's that's very true.
Speaker 17 (22:32):
And I'll tell you all through the years I've worked
for some incredibly nice, good people here in Texas. And
one of my one of my greatest clients was Greg Bingham,
who used to be the middle linebacker.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
He's been a great.
Speaker 17 (22:48):
Friend of mine over the years, and you know, just
just a good employer. I mean, I've worked for him
on and off for forty years.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Yeah, he's a good He's a listener to the show.
Is what's that He's a listener to the show?
Speaker 17 (23:03):
Yeah, yes he is. He might be listening right now.
But I just you know, I've met so many good
people through the years. It's just been a it's been
a real blessing. I can't say any more than that.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
You know, I will bet you Pat that Greg Bingham
has made more money than any of them I'm trying
to run, I'm trying to wrap my brain, than any
of the seventies oilers before the big contracts, right but
before before an including Stabler, so after Pastorini.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Let's take it up to nineteen eighty.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
I'll bet you Bingham has made more money off the
field than any of the oilers. Elvin, but the they
did pretty well with the distributors. But I'll bet you
Bingham made more money with his car.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Washes his precious metals.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
His business is very savvy investor, very very sharp guy, intense.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Well, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what helped him
do that.
Speaker 17 (24:11):
As three economic degrees from Purdue, he's a genius. He
is one of the smartest economic people. I've ever talked
to him. When he's talking to me about economics, I
don't even know what he's talking about.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
And it's hard to believe that a guy could hit
that hard and still have a brain inside that head.
That he's using a whole whip me for just a second,
Pat Ken, Jacob, Timmy Richard, all of you be right back.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Hang types.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
I just put that on the Michael Barris.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
So Michael Vari Show. So retired HPD, I trim horses.
Learned how to trim horses while I was in the
Mountain unit at HPD. I was selected as one of
the first twelve officers in nineteen eighty four when Chief
Brown started a full time unit. I never had any
horse experience, and I stayed until I retired in twenty seventeen.
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I did a deep dive or doge in the late nineties,
using our paper filing system to track the sickness and
lameness issues with our police horses. What I found was
a flawed, very expensive system in the care of our horses.
We decided to start working our horses barefoot. Metal shoes
are very unhealthy, especially for working police horses. The city
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decided to send me to learn how to trim horses hoofs.
We started with one horse and now all forty are barefoot.
Much more to the story with a system fighting us
all the time, but the receipts we had and now
having the best unit in the world made it worthwhile.
I still trim horse hoofs every day. How about that, Ramon,
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that's a good story.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Right there.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
We had.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
A person pull over at that woman's I forget her name,
at her produce stand just a minute ago and take
a photo right there at what was it exit eight eighteen?
Do you remember what the exit was from? Moll Okay,
let's start with Richard. Richard, you're on the Michael Berry
Show out working in the heat.
Speaker 18 (26:10):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I'm always at an outside job,
but I think the hottest one I've ever done at
the baseball umpire.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Oh man, and talk about.
Speaker 18 (26:22):
Oh yes, and you know, especially during the plate you
have all the protective gear on, and most of the
fields in Houston now came that artificial turf. Oh man,
But Michael, those cooling towels are a lifesaver. I take
a cooling, a little small igluo out there on the field,
and I keep about four room in there in ice water.
And every half inning when I'm doing the plates, I'm
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calling the plate every half being go to the backstop
or drop.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
One over my head, right one around my.
Speaker 18 (26:47):
Neck, and then you know, I got about sixty to
ninety seconds there to get a little shot of coolness there,
and then back out of the field again, you know,
put the max back, gone, go back at it again.
I keep the one around my neck, but you know,
the one over my head, I just do whenever go
back to the back stuff. It's like a little shot
of air conditioning every half inning. You know, those cooling
jobs are a life saver.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Let me ask you a question, Richard, unrelated to the heat.
Nobody ever likes the ump. So for you to do that,
you have to find joy or contentment or some sense
of meaning when you know that everybody out there is hating.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
You, but we need an ump mentally, how do you
do that?
Speaker 18 (27:30):
Honest with you, Michael. I've always loved being on a
baseball field since I was five years old. If I'm
on a baseball field, I love being there.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
That's just all of us. Two.
Speaker 18 (27:39):
I love baseball, I love different thing to do with it,
and I just love being on a field in any capacity.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
I had a teammate our twelve year old season. We
went to state. It was called westco Little League, and
Orange had some superstar baseball players that year.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Several of them went pro and.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
I played with those kids from We didn't start back
then until we were eight seven and eight was our
first season. Now, they started much early. We didn't do
all that T ball and all that. But our twelve
year old season we went to state and it was
a phenomenal, phenomenal team, and there were several of those
kids who went on to play pro ball and stayed involved.
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One of them, Bruce Avan, now coaches in Florida, but
he played with the Marlins and for a.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Little bitty team like this. I mean, it was an
amazing thing.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
But there was a kid on our team named Chad Shelton,
and who would have guessed he became an opera star
and he married a woman who was an international opera star.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Well, Chad Shelton was our shortstop and great kid.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
And his parents were divorced and his dad, who was
this single dad who who would He didn't live with
his dad, It was his mom. But his dad would
show up on a motorcycle, a chopper, and he would
pull up and he was real cocky, and he had
this big belly and he was ballheaded, and he was
the head of umpires and he was you wanted him
to call your game because if you're I was a catcher,
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but if you if your pitcher got a strikeout, he
would I mean he would really he would rack. He would, man,
he would what's the term? He would when you call
him out with a lot of flair, he would ring
him up. Oh, he would ring him up. And it
was a show hit and everybody in the fan ah.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
But boy, if you.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Ever felt that he wasn't giving you a fair call
and you said something to him, he would give it
back to you.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
But but he It was always felt bad for Chad
because his dad was the ump and he was calling
the games. And you know, people, if if the call
went for Chad's team, then then people will say always
helping him if it went for the other team to
go in as he hated his kid, but he was
so good and so much fun to watch, and as
a catcher, he'd be right behind me. So when when
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the pitcher would ring him.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Up, I would love it.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
Like if if I would set up on the outside
corner and he'd call a ball, I'd be like, dang Shelton.
And then that next one he'd hit the line or
he'd hit hit the corner of the plate, and it
was so loud in your ear, and it was so
much thrill. It was like, man, you felt like a
professional baseball player because because Bobby Shelton had called the out.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
But good for you, Richard, thanks for the call. My man,
I guess we lost. Richard. Let's go to Mike in
San Anton. Mike, you're up.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
I kind of lost the point, Ramona, what I was
talking about because I got caught up in my childhood memory.
Speaker 13 (30:32):
Let's talk about childhood memory in Orange, Texas. Do you
remember having a swamp cooler?
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Of course, well we didn't have one, but I knew
people who did, and that was a.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
Fancy huh July afternoon or the look and it's come
the full circle the line. Lady people, you need to
figure out. It doesn't make sense. I can't wrap my
head around it. But when you add moisture to a
high hue amidity, which is what Houston and San Antonio
is all about. And I've been practicing for three years
(31:06):
to head to the Philippines and go check that. Originally
it was a one way ticket and I can't. We're
not winning quite yet enough, so I'm going to go
back and forth. But a swamp cooler. We've had two
four day weekends. These people live in their conditioning, work
in their conditioning and driving. Then they want to go
camping at Garner State Park over the weekend, I said
(31:29):
August the divorce lawyers. But now do you understand the
kids have to have an air conditioner to put to
their fucked in so Mama will be comfortable, or they're
not going camping.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
That's how it is.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
So I've been out in elements in Texas. I'm from Texas.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Now.
Speaker 13 (31:44):
On the rants, you break it down into city and rants.
In the rants, you get up at the crack of
dawn if not before, and you work till eleven o'clock.
You go get inside and stay hydrated hip. Number one,
We sweat. That's what God intended us to do, and
people do not. You should be from my gathering. You're
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supposed to have one half your body weight announces in fluids.
And we can go down the road of coffee and tea.
It's like I'm telling you there's water in there. So
humidity is the key. And if you see the restaurants
and Russell La will be paying attention because if you
go to Albuquerque and Tucson, the restauronse will have an
outdoor patio in July and August, well, not around here.
(32:32):
And we've got a breeze this year. We seem to
have a five to ten mile an hour south to
southeast breeze and a swamp cooler is where it all started.
When we wanted to suck all the humidity.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
So we went with air conditioning and
Speaker 13 (32:49):
Just trying to tell you hydration and add a misber
system to your environment.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
President Biden has spent days locked in intense preparation, surrounded
by his closest advisors at Camp David, and our sources
are telling us tonight that full mock debates are underway
at the podium under the lights. He's even watching tape
to know exactly what he's going to see when he
steps up to that lecture. His team shot a video
during a walk through the CNN studio and has that
(00:36):
reported while covering him at the White House. When Biden prepares,
he does so incredibly intensively.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh, we have one thousand tillionaires in America, not even
billionaires in America, and what's happening. They're in a situation
where they in fact paid at eight point two percent
in Texas. If they just paid twenty four, twenty five
percent either one of those numbers, they raised five hundred
million dollars, billion dollars. I should say in your period,
we'd be able to write wipe out his debt. We'd
(01:02):
be able to help make sure that all those things
we need to do, childcare, eldercare making sure that we
continue to support stands in our healthcare system making sure
that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible
for what I've been able to do with the with
the COVID, I was gonna be with dealing with everything
(01:22):
we have to do with what if we finally beat medicare.
What's happened. I've changed it in the way that now
you're in a situation where the fewer people coming across
the border illegally.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
It's better when he left office, and.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'm going to continue to move until we get the
total bang, the total initiative relative to what we're going
to do with more border patrol and more Astomosstrup.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows when he
said myself, I.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Got my handicap, which when I was Vice president down
to a sixth. Oh and by the way, I told you,
S'm happy to play golf. If you carry on bag,
I think you can do it.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That's the biggest lie.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
He's a six handicap of all.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was an eight handicap. Yeah, eight, But I see
you swing.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I know you swing. President Trump.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
So just how worried where Biden aids before the former
president's disastrous debate last summer. According to Ron klain Is,
chief of staff, his concerns could not be overstated, and
his first meeting with Biden for debate prep quote claim,
was startled. He'd never seen Biden so exhausted and so
out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening
(03:06):
in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the President
excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Part about the pool.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
He went off.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
This is in the middle of debate.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Prep went off to the pool and he took a nap.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Legs said we'll go dancing and.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Walking.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The mass.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
Plans we go. Just imagine how hot it was when
you walked out to your car this morning, or when
you came home last night, and that some people wake
up every day to go out into that heat.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
All day long. You learned some coping techniques out of
the process. You have to.
Speaker 9 (04:05):
Let's just go down the list from on Ken Marlon
Bryant all the way down.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
We'll start with Ken. Ken, you're up.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
What do you do?
Speaker 10 (04:13):
Uh do facility maintenance? Uh? My bill is I don't
make any sudden moves. I'm necessary sudden moves. I just
keep everything food and you know sudden moves might playing
up to heart right, they kind of message. So yeah,
no sudden moves.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Do you have a hydration approach.
Speaker 10 (04:38):
I've got as much water as I can tolerate at
one time, which you know different, that's different. You know changes.
I guess we'll changes Howard body needs it?
Speaker 11 (04:50):
Six you on?
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Okay, Well it's it's not elderly, but that's that's not
a young man out in the heat. Good on you, Marlaw.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your trick?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Marlow?
Speaker 12 (05:02):
Good morning? Well, my husband we own a family business.
We sell produce for a living. My husband works out
and then it's all day long, seven days a week
and he drinks water, kaye and pickle juice.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Where is your produce business?
Speaker 12 (05:27):
Well, I think you've been in there one time. We're
on I ten at the Anialite exit.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
H what's it called.
Speaker 10 (05:38):
Triple Offord Express?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Are you in witness protection? Why are you lowering your voice?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (05:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
I just signed to be normal.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
Okay, So I'm sure I have been there because that's
where i'd go, That's where i'd meet up with my
brother in Beaumont. But so if I'm headed eastbound on it,
are you on the right or the left south of
the north well on.
Speaker 12 (06:03):
The eastbound side exit eight one zero?
Speaker 9 (06:08):
Is there a chevron station right there as well? Is
there a gas station right there?
Speaker 12 (06:11):
Yes, sir, I yes, sir?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Okay, all right, and y'all are there or he's there?
Speaker 12 (06:17):
I think you talking to me by the way, Okay, No, sir,
I don't work anymore. I had I've got cancer and
went through treatments and I don't work anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And he's out there every day.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Yes, sir, he's sixty years old.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
What is the what is the exit for listeners that
are headed eastbound right now?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Eight one zero, eight one zero? What does it say
to say an a whack?
Speaker 12 (06:46):
Yes, sir, it's the Liberty ANIWAC exit.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Okay, yeah, off your radio. I know exactly where it is.
And what does he do to stay cool?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
We own it.
Speaker 12 (06:59):
He drinks water, gatorade and pickle juice.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh you said that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Yeah, And we have.
Speaker 12 (07:04):
Fans pickle juice, and we have a stand up air
conditioner one of them things you have with the host
ex south of window. And we have one standing in
there body cash register and you go there and get
cooled down, you.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Know, Marlon.
Speaker 9 (07:23):
My grandfather, Monroe Preston Seeber, for years had he would
drive down to South Texas and he would load up
his truck with produce and he would drive back, and
during the summer or during the school year, on the weekends,
I would go sit with him all day and help him.
And he figured out that we'd get tips and things
(07:45):
if he had his little grandson with him, So he'd
put a little tent over the side of the of
the truck and I'd sit out there, and I was
so eager. And at the end of it, he'd give
me a dollar of four quarters and we'd go to
the Gerlands for him to pick up grocery on the
way home that evening, and I would make those four
quarters last longer than it would take him to buy
(08:06):
all the groceries.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Playing gallaga, which was which was my thing, as long.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
As I didn't double up, because you know, when you
double up your guns, you expose yourself to risk. You
can't move into the corner when they're coming down on
the bonus round, I mean after the bonus round, but
on the bonus round, you get a bigger bonus. If
you got to you pretty much got to capt those
double ten thousand bonus. So then you got to make
a decision. Do you want to have that? You want
to have both guns?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Hey, everybody, and you're listening to the Michael Berry Show
and Reminiscy Friday.
Speaker 14 (08:41):
Hello to all my Michael Barrow friends. I did Lucy
Allen Ergon to see Texas all the probendaries and stays
in between high elder. I'm sitting over him, burning up.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Honey.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I have worked so hard.
Speaker 14 (08:57):
I've been over twice and spotted down three times.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm just had.
Speaker 14 (09:01):
I'd be so hot at my legs sleep rubbing together.
You know, I'm of a certain body mass Indexes and
I be chafing brod. I went to see I Ain't
Tricks the other night. She'd the closest thing in our
family to a doctor or ir n anything. She said, baby,
just take you a handful of corn starts and if
you'll dress up, throw it up in there.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Oh.
Speaker 14 (09:24):
I said, really, she did not work it, really do
And I said, well, he let me put some flour
up in there, but a little bacon soda, A little
bacon powder looked, you know, salt and pepper and one
little tea school and garlic season. And I said, now,
I'm sure I'll be cured at Lord. The next morning
I went walking down the street and guess what I
(09:45):
was doing dropping biscuit toney. I looked at like a
damn pigeon with some diarrhea. Ooh, I felt it like
the Pillsbury dough lady. Oh, how ignorant. I just need
to be sprayed. I need to be a shame. Michael
Berry preach roll a subject of shame. People really do
need to be shame.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I know I was.
Speaker 14 (10:07):
Y'all tell you Mom and them how she Darren? God,
do you have a spray holes or something.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
We're talking to folks who work out in the heat
and don't get the credit for it. You know, it's
one thing to look out and see somebody sweating or
taking their lunch under the shade tree, or comes to
your house to do some work out in your yard,
and you you kind of hide inside while the cable
is fixing it. Oh, it's hot, and if you're if
(10:35):
you're a decent sort, when he's done, you maybe offer
him a glass of water or some sweet teeth.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But imagine being that guy got.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
All that equipment, crawling up in the trees, on the poles,
digging down underneath stuff, getting up in the attic.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Ooh, the attic. My goodness, A lie the attic.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
That's uh. I don't make a man out of that.
Grow some chest hairs on you. Seven three nine one thousand, Brian.
What do you do outside all day?
Speaker 15 (11:06):
Good morning, Michael. My second job I do irrigation sprinkler repair.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
What's your first job?
Speaker 15 (11:14):
I'm a firefighter?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh, right on?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
And so you do you have your own company doing
the irrigation and sprinkler repair.
Speaker 15 (11:24):
No, don't. I actually work for one of the firefighter
is a yes, sir. He used to be my lieutenant,
but he retired. But me and it's just me and him.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
I've known a lot of firefighters over the years. And
if you do it right, and maybe that's what you
and this guy are doing, if you do it right,
and you get your retirement from the fire department and
your benefits from the fire department, and you work hard
on the days you're not on it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Let's be honest. You know, sell a shift here and there.
You can end up you can end up by the
end of it.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
It's hard work, but you can end up by the
end of it doing pretty darn well yourself. Let me
ask you, will you go out when you go out
for the when you go out to do a repair
on the line, what's what's the number one problem?
Speaker 15 (12:12):
Uh, digging in roots in a backyard where there's no
breeze because everybody has wooden senses nowadays for privacy, so
there's no wind blowing back there. So it's just a
hot box.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
And I guess it's I'm gonna sound like a painty waste,
but I guess it's out of the question to get
like a battery powered or a rechargeable fan to put
on you.
Speaker 15 (12:38):
Well, no flinging dirt around mud, water, yeah, anywhere, but
you got to carry it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (12:45):
They always forget to charge the battery.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Of course, Ramon didn't charge the battery on his headsets
this morning, and so we had all sorts of problems
with him figuring out because he's gone to the to
the wireless headset, because he's got a lot of equipment
he needs to move here and there. We're still getting
our studio figured out because we built out our own
studio and our studio went down on Friday. That's why
we lost, y'all. I mean it's only been five years. Now,
(13:12):
we're getting there. I swear there's no show in America
that has more technological issues than we do.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I swear that has to be the case. Carl, you're up.
Tell me what's going on out there.
Speaker 11 (13:24):
I start my day off with a handful of electrolytes
and vitamins and a big old glass of water, and.
Speaker 15 (13:33):
That really helps.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
If a mountain sun, there ain't no breeze, saw cranes,
big overhead trainsalled and sometimes we're luxury, yes, sir, okay,
so I used to do appliances, but I got out
of that.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
And the sun.
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Sometimes you'll be in a spot covered by by a
pavilion or an all I mean, or sometimes inside in
the nice factor. It's like the big oil refinerises and
what my fill have air conditioning in their shops. But
sometimes you're outside in the pope yard and it is
as as I all get out. But lots of electrolytes,
lots of igh cool water, and UH try to eat
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clean and just stay out in it. Just keep on going.
You go inside in the ac and makes it worse.
Can you come back out?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Everybody says that.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Everybody says that you'd rather not go in the ac
because it makes it.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Harder to go back outside.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Do you have an electrolyte you purchase specifically or do
you create your own cocktail?
Speaker 11 (14:34):
I build my own cocktail, like I gets a potassium
and uh, magnesium and zinc and.
Speaker 15 (14:43):
Keep keep bottles of it.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Kick up the costco or on Amazon.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Good for you, Good for you, Thanks for the call, Robert.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What are you doing
out in the heat?
Speaker 15 (14:56):
Hey, Michael, I'm an electrician.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
I'm seventy three years old and still putting in that
forty every single week for you. Only have not retired only.
Speaker 16 (15:05):
Because I love it.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
But but how can how many times can you say
that you do something that you love that pays your money.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
You know it's it's true, and you know that that's
a special thing because my dad did not love what
he did, and I watched that, and he continued to
work for forty years to take care of us kids,
and I always thought nothing else. I Am going to
pursue what I love because he didn't have that option.
And that's my tribute to him is to find something
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I love to do, because you know, it's not true
that you never work a day in your life, but
it makes the work and a whole lot more fun,
a whole lot more bearable if it's if it's a
tough job. Are you independent or do you work with
a firm, with a company.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
I'm independent and I do most of my work is
with papist restaurants. Well, really great great people. They are
great people, not good people, great people. I mean they're
just Christian Harris are just they're lovely people.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You know, Robert.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
When I was in college, I was a waiter at
the Papas restaurants, and I say, there's no there's no
restaurant in the country at that level that gives you
the training program that they do. It's hold of a
sa Pat Jaula Jacob carl Oli, you hold on random
(16:32):
writs a note on working in the heat. The single
most important thing will always be hydration. But plenty of
folks don't realize hydration begins days before the actual work,
not after a two day bender and half a pot
of black coffee in the morning.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Remember y'all keep a three to.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
One ratio of water to electrolyte drinks with sodium, potassium,
magnesium especially, and watch the sugar levels.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
If you're doing only water, know that little flush.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Necessary electrolytes in your body much faster, And don't be
no hero. If you're hot, take a break. I like
to use chiller rags on the back of my neck too.
They're soaked in cold water and they keep a colder
temp than regular cotton. Ergodine makes great ones working in
the golf ten years now and it still baffles me
(17:21):
how much people need to be reminded of this kind
of thing. Pay attention to your sweat output, urine color,
and you should be good and stop with the energy drinks.
Brandon I had a friend who was not working outdoors
but was playing tennis outdoors in Mexico on a group trip.
(17:45):
Some friends of ours had gone down and good tennis player,
good athlete, in very good shape for a guy at
the time, was fifty years old, played sports a lot,
worked out a lot as a lawyer. But he was
he was no pansy. He was hydrating. It was a
(18:05):
tournament they were playing down in Mexico, and he was hydrating,
so drinking a lot of water and he was on
everybody to make sure they drank a lot of water.
But what he didn't seem to realize, which that fellow
made the point of, is if you're pushing that much
water through your body, you're pushing your electrolytes out. So
if you're not replacing them, you can do yourself a
(18:28):
lot of harm. Ended up in the hospital. He almost
lost his life over the deal. It it got precarious
there out of the deal. And yeah, so anyway, replace
those electrolytes. Ramiro, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
how you, sir?
Speaker 16 (18:45):
Do you any way to take like you said, drink
enough water and enough hierate. I'm working over here in
Snyder Taker. You should know where he Snyder teke to
today between Colorado City and Snyder Takes in the pipeline.
We do bipline infection.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Sir, doing pipeline, We're doing talkline inspection.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (19:02):
I'm originally from Brownsie, Texas, but I live in outside
of Texas City, I mean in Texas City for the
last eighteen years, and I travel all these states.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
All right, is that pay well?
Speaker 16 (19:12):
Yeah, Ramona's from there. Uh well, yeah, he does play
very good. I can't complain. I live comfortably. I pay
two girls college and uh and my wife works too,
but it pays very good. I can't complain about her.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Where does your wife work?
Speaker 16 (19:26):
First time talking to you? She works at what's called
a daycare down in Texas City work. Actually, h and.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The girls where they are working?
Speaker 16 (19:35):
This says, my youngest is in sam Houston State. And
what's called my youngest, I mean oldest is in what's
called uh uh, what's called us care Lake.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Okay, all right, well, good on you.
Speaker 16 (19:47):
It a mirror, Yes, sir, the first time talking to you, I.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Mean, well, I hope it won't be the first time
talking to you.
Speaker 16 (19:54):
I hope not, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, we'd love to have you back. Thank you, my man.
Stay cool out there. Let's go to Pat. Pat. You
were on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the program,
Sir Ramone. You got to put up Pat, there's no
can't you hear me? There we go, yep, Ramon was napping?
Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yes, sir? I can now.
Speaker 17 (20:15):
Yeah, I'm out in I'm out in the country. It's
a pleasure to be on your show. I've been listening
to you for a long time, and uh, it helps
to come from a pro football player dad that was
very famous back in the sixties. He was very athletic,
and I guess I'm kind of athletic too, because I've
been painting out in the heat.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Here for thirty six years. And uh, I drink.
Speaker 17 (20:38):
Roast s hearing well water and I've never really heard
of electrolytes. But I do take a Gatorade every now
and then. But it's mind over body, that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
To make it, to make it, gera does have a
lot of things in it that regular water does not.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I am a believer in Gatorade. Who is your dad?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
My dad was Pat stud Still.
Speaker 17 (20:59):
He was a punter and a receiver for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
He left you, of h and.
Speaker 17 (21:03):
Walked on the team up there in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
From sixty one.
Speaker 17 (21:10):
I grew up in Missouri City, out in Quilt Valley.
I went to Dulles High School. Okay, but I did
every kind of I did every kind of job there was,
and didn't never like anything too much till I got
into painting. And I love painting people's houses and their businesses,
and it's very rewarding.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
What do you love this heat deal?
Speaker 17 (21:30):
Well, I like being outside. I can't be in an office.
I can't be inside in a factory at slumber Jay
like I did for two years, or working for a
car dealership.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
I've done a lot of.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
Things over the years, but Peyton was something I just
really loved and no one can understand it. I just
I love what I do and I'm blessed by God.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
You do it by yourself, just a one man show.
Speaker 17 (21:53):
Well, I used to have a crew twenty years ago, Michael,
but you know, insurance got too high, worked in his
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
So yeah, now I work by myself.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Well, I saw you seem like a guy that's kind
of figured out your happy zone and you stay there.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You seem like a.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Guy that would be better off not having a fool
with people who show up late and want to knock
off early and they're having their child support issues, and
can I go to here you sell like you guys
just content doing what he's doing, showing up doing his
painting and going home. That not having to manage people
would probably be a blessing.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
That's that's very true.
Speaker 17 (22:32):
And I'll tell you all through the years I've worked
for some incredibly nice, good people here in Texas. And
one of my one of my greatest clients was Greg Bingham,
who used to be the middle linebacker.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
He's been a great.
Speaker 17 (22:48):
Friend of mine over the years, and you know, just
just a good employer. I mean, I've worked for him
on and off for forty years.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Yeah, he's a good He's a listener to the show.
Is what's that He's a listener to the show?
Speaker 17 (23:03):
Yeah, yes he is. He might be listening right now.
But I just you know, I've met so many good
people through the years. It's just been a it's been
a real blessing. I can't say any more than that.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
You know, I will bet you Pat that Greg Bingham
has made more money than any of them I'm trying
to run, I'm trying to wrap my brain, than any
of the seventies oilers before the big contracts, right but
before before an including Stabler, so after Pastorini.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Let's take it up to nineteen eighty.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
I'll bet you Bingham has made more money off the
field than any of the oilers. Elvin, but the they
did pretty well with the distributors. But I'll bet you
Bingham made more money with his car.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Washes his precious metals.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
His business is very savvy investor, very very sharp guy, intense.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Well, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what helped him
do that.
Speaker 17 (24:11):
As three economic degrees from Purdue, he's a genius. He
is one of the smartest economic people. I've ever talked
to him. When he's talking to me about economics, I
don't even know what he's talking about.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
And it's hard to believe that a guy could hit
that hard and still have a brain inside that head.
That he's using a whole whip me for just a second,
Pat Ken, Jacob, Timmy Richard, all of you be right back.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Hang types.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
I just put that on the Michael Barris.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
So Michael Vari Show. So retired HPD, I trim horses.
Learned how to trim horses while I was in the
Mountain unit at HPD. I was selected as one of
the first twelve officers in nineteen eighty four when Chief
Brown started a full time unit. I never had any
horse experience, and I stayed until I retired in twenty seventeen.
(25:02):
I did a deep dive or doge in the late nineties,
using our paper filing system to track the sickness and
lameness issues with our police horses. What I found was
a flawed, very expensive system in the care of our horses.
We decided to start working our horses barefoot. Metal shoes
are very unhealthy, especially for working police horses. The city
(25:23):
decided to send me to learn how to trim horses hoofs.
We started with one horse and now all forty are barefoot.
Much more to the story with a system fighting us
all the time, but the receipts we had and now
having the best unit in the world made it worthwhile.
I still trim horse hoofs every day. How about that, Ramon,
(25:44):
that's a good story.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Right there.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
We had.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
A person pull over at that woman's I forget her name,
at her produce stand just a minute ago and take
a photo right there at what was it exit eight eighteen?
Do you remember what the exit was from? Moll Okay,
let's start with Richard. Richard, you're on the Michael Berry
Show out working in the heat.
Speaker 18 (26:10):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I'm always at an outside job,
but I think the hottest one I've ever done at
the baseball umpire.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Oh man, and talk about.
Speaker 18 (26:22):
Oh yes, and you know, especially during the plate you
have all the protective gear on, and most of the
fields in Houston now came that artificial turf. Oh man,
But Michael, those cooling towels are a lifesaver. I take
a cooling, a little small igluo out there on the field,
and I keep about four room in there in ice water.
And every half inning when I'm doing the plates, I'm
(26:43):
calling the plate every half being go to the backstop
or drop.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
One over my head, right one around my.
Speaker 18 (26:47):
Neck, and then you know, I got about sixty to
ninety seconds there to get a little shot of coolness there,
and then back out of the field again, you know,
put the max back, gone, go back at it again.
I keep the one around my neck, but you know,
the one over my head, I just do whenever go
back to the back stuff. It's like a little shot
of air conditioning every half inning. You know, those cooling
jobs are a life saver.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Let me ask you a question, Richard, unrelated to the heat.
Nobody ever likes the ump. So for you to do that,
you have to find joy or contentment or some sense
of meaning when you know that everybody out there is hating.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
You, but we need an ump mentally, how do you
do that?
Speaker 18 (27:30):
Honest with you, Michael. I've always loved being on a
baseball field since I was five years old. If I'm
on a baseball field, I love being there.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
That's just all of us. Two.
Speaker 18 (27:39):
I love baseball, I love different thing to do with it,
and I just love being on a field in any capacity.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
I had a teammate our twelve year old season. We
went to state. It was called westco Little League, and
Orange had some superstar baseball players that year.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Several of them went pro and.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
I played with those kids from We didn't start back
then until we were eight seven and eight was our
first season. Now, they started much early. We didn't do
all that T ball and all that. But our twelve
year old season we went to state and it was
a phenomenal, phenomenal team, and there were several of those
kids who went on to play pro ball and stayed involved.
(28:21):
One of them, Bruce Avan, now coaches in Florida, but
he played with the Marlins and for a.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Little bitty team like this. I mean, it was an
amazing thing.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
But there was a kid on our team named Chad Shelton,
and who would have guessed he became an opera star
and he married a woman who was an international opera star.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Well, Chad Shelton was our shortstop and great kid.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
And his parents were divorced and his dad, who was
this single dad who who would He didn't live with
his dad, It was his mom. But his dad would
show up on a motorcycle, a chopper, and he would
pull up and he was real cocky, and he had
this big belly and he was ballheaded, and he was
the head of umpires and he was you wanted him
to call your game because if you're I was a catcher,
(29:06):
but if you if your pitcher got a strikeout, he
would I mean he would really he would rack. He would, man,
he would what's the term? He would when you call
him out with a lot of flair, he would ring
him up. Oh, he would ring him up. And it
was a show hit and everybody in the fan ah.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
But boy, if you.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Ever felt that he wasn't giving you a fair call
and you said something to him, he would give it
back to you.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
But but he It was always felt bad for Chad
because his dad was the ump and he was calling
the games. And you know, people, if if the call
went for Chad's team, then then people will say always
helping him if it went for the other team to
go in as he hated his kid, but he was
so good and so much fun to watch, and as
a catcher, he'd be right behind me. So when when
(29:52):
the pitcher would ring him.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Up, I would love it.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
Like if if I would set up on the outside
corner and he'd call a ball, I'd be like, dang Shelton.
And then that next one he'd hit the line or
he'd hit hit the corner of the plate, and it
was so loud in your ear, and it was so
much thrill. It was like, man, you felt like a
professional baseball player because because Bobby Shelton had called the out.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
But good for you, Richard, thanks for the call. My man,
I guess we lost. Richard. Let's go to Mike in
San Anton. Mike, you're up.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
I kind of lost the point, Ramona, what I was
talking about because I got caught up in my childhood memory.
Speaker 13 (30:32):
Let's talk about childhood memory in Orange, Texas. Do you
remember having a swamp cooler?
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Of course, well we didn't have one, but I knew
people who did, and that was a.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
Fancy huh July afternoon or the look and it's come
the full circle the line. Lady people, you need to
figure out. It doesn't make sense. I can't wrap my
head around it. But when you add moisture to a
high hue amidity, which is what Houston and San Antonio
is all about. And I've been practicing for three years
(31:06):
to head to the Philippines and go check that. Originally
it was a one way ticket and I can't. We're
not winning quite yet enough, so I'm going to go
back and forth. But a swamp cooler. We've had two
four day weekends. These people live in their conditioning, work
in their conditioning and driving. Then they want to go
camping at Garner State Park over the weekend, I said
(31:29):
August the divorce lawyers. But now do you understand the
kids have to have an air conditioner to put to
their fucked in so Mama will be comfortable, or they're
not going camping.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
That's how it is.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
So I've been out in elements in Texas. I'm from Texas.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Now.
Speaker 13 (31:44):
On the rants, you break it down into city and rants.
In the rants, you get up at the crack of
dawn if not before, and you work till eleven o'clock.
You go get inside and stay hydrated hip. Number one,
We sweat. That's what God intended us to do, and
people do not. You should be from my gathering. You're
(32:07):
supposed to have one half your body weight announces in fluids.
And we can go down the road of coffee and tea.
It's like I'm telling you there's water in there. So
humidity is the key. And if you see the restaurants
and Russell La will be paying attention because if you
go to Albuquerque and Tucson, the restauronse will have an
outdoor patio in July and August, well, not around here.
(32:32):
And we've got a breeze this year. We seem to
have a five to ten mile an hour south to
southeast breeze and a swamp cooler is where it all started.
When we wanted to suck all the humidity.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
So we went with air conditioning and
Speaker 13 (32:49):
Just trying to tell you hydration and add a misber
system to your environment.
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