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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yes, and the phone lines are open seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousands.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Of course you could email me through the website Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Berryshow dot com and to get us started as we
always do courtesy the greatest executive producer, Chatakoni Nakanishi all
the way from.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hawaii your week in review.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This guy said, well, I'm Catholic, what are you? I said,
I'm Christian? And he didn't think that was funny. Find
it hilarious. How many people do not want any affiliation
they have to have a joke attached to it. And
I've come to understand that is because people don't understand
what a joke is. A joke is not an insult
(00:49):
if you can't laugh at yourself and you don't understand
the point of humor.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It was one year ago today when I got an
open fire at a Trumpet campaign rally in butler, A, Pennsylvolia.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
If you want to really see something that said, take
a look at what happened.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
The US sheep at Service, who has one clear put
mission right, that is the protection of the president, failed
in that mission, yet won't go and hold people accountable
by firing people.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The widow of Corey Combotour, the man killed in the shooting,
She wants to know why the roof were crooks set up,
wasn't covered by agents.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is
all over their head.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Is often overlooked in all of this, is that a firefighter, father, husband,
patriot was killed.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Corey Comparatoris it's.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Tod Raleigh's Derby eighteen home runs in the final You
did it with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Your father throwing to you. You know I could hit
your home runs and I would have had just as
much fun. Todd Raleigh, how much does this mean to you?
And why is this so great for the Raleigh family?
As a dad, you kind of dream about it. To
see it come true for your son does unbelievab free
John Alsin's to think of the memory. Imagine mom watching
to the side. Imagine the team's tears streaming down.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
This is what you dreamed of, but it never happens
for anybody ever. Nord Freeway Blueta, there's a stalled truck
and we had a guy trying to jumpstart it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
With a lawnmower. You can't make Houston Freeways up, you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Know, it does raising questions redneckro Mixian, but I don't
know why it couldn't be a black guy. It's one
hundred percent not an Asian dud. It's Houston Business Journal
has a headline Houston Spack DeLay's merger. I thought, oh,
a spack. I'm when I heard that word in a while.
(02:40):
You remember the Spack, the special purpose acquisition company that
never existed, and then all of a sudden, well in
that form, and then all of a sudden everything everybody
was doing us back everywhere billions of dawn, and then
(03:01):
all of a sudden, you never heard of this back again.
It's the first time I've heard of a back in
probably two years in a headline, maybe three years since
I've seen that in a headline. A maze see thousand hurt.
You are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I have to thank you and your show for your
wonderful presentation of keeping us so well informed.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Uh No.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I called because there was an article in the Reader's Digest.
I think maybe it was even last year's digest, but
at any rate, it said that daylight savings time is
very harmful to human beings. You know, God created our
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world wondrously.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He gave us daylight and darkness, and we sleep and
rest at any rate. I wish they would leave it alone,
just let us go back to normal suntime and meantime too.
But anyway, it just isn't good for us.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I was reading a couple of days ago. I guess
it was Arizona that went off the changing of the time,
And from what I've read, I don't know what you think,
but from what I've read, the more destructive thing is
to change the time than what the time is. Apparently
(04:51):
our biorhythms adjust to whatever we call the time consistently.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It is the losing.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Of the time by the hour that causes all the problems,
And apparently there's data to back that up, and there's
pretty consistent data over a large data set, over a
long period of time that suggests you have more heart
attacks and strokes and these sorts of episodes as a
result of it. I never cared about it when I
(05:27):
was younger. The older I get, and the more that
people complain about it, I realize that this is something
that seemingly nobody wants, and yet we can't get rid
of it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And our governor put us on daylight saving time from
now on, and I don't know how we go about
do we save any letters, or what do we do
to make a protest about that?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, anything that a governor does can be changed, I
will be honest.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I haven't followed I haven't followed it closely, but I
did travel quite a bit over.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
The last month, and I do find it fascinating. This
is kind of unrelated to what you're saying, but I
do find it fascinating that it can be three o'clock
in La four o'clock in Denver, or four o'clock in Denver,
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five o'clock in Houston, and six o'clock in California, all
at the same time. Now, I realized that's not the
most advanced thought I do. But I'm still amazed at
a number of very simple things that were invented that make.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Our lives so much better w D forty DUC tape.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, very simple things that make our lives so
dramatically better. Little things and so inventions and things like that.
I'm a I'm not a creative sort in that way.
I enjoy the world around me. I am a student
of history. I am not the predictor of things, and
(07:26):
I am not an inventor of things. I'm not a
person who would have who would have ever done that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I just wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Have you seen this Coldplay concert story. It's kind of
a pop culture news story, and I'm not usually up
on those, And to put it into perspective, I found
out about it this morning because Chance McCain mcclan.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Kept talking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But he has made a parody on the subject that
I'll make sure I get to at some point on
the show today.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I just watched the video during the last break. I
hadn't seen it yet. Oh my, oh my.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We might have a subject that we need to discuss there,
and that is people who are caught and how it
happened you caught your spouse or you got caught by
your spouse, and how it went down. Elisa, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Hey, I just wanted to catch up with you and
ramon about Texas legalizing marijuana and regulating it. I been
wanting to call and tell you that my husband and
I used to drink almost every night we enjoyed a drink.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
We met.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I was a bartender and I haven't drank for a
year now, and he hasn't drunk for two years now.
We switched to using gummies and marijuana and we quit
drinking because of it.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Did you set out intending to quit drinking.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, we both like to drink and eat, so we
had gained a lot of weight, and so in that
process we also started fasting, and he lost one hundred
pounds in a year and I lost forty.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Good for you? Are you doing one meal a day fasting?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
We were. We were fasting from eight pm till four
pm the next day, so it was a pretty big fast.
Now that I'm down to my goal weight, I'm about
only about a sixteen to eighteen hour fast now.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then you eat during that window or do you
eat at the beginning of it and then again at
the end?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Hold on just a second, at least.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The information that I get from the show that I
don't seem to get from other places the Michael Barry Show.
All right, Alisa, let me ask you. Did you start
taking gummies as a strategy to get off of alcohol?
And interesting things? You're getting off alcohol not for uh,
(10:04):
liver damage or bad decisions, but weight gain.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, so no, not Originally we just started eating them
while drinking, and then finally we were like, okay, we
need to make a change for our weight and our health.
And then it was like, okay, well if I eat
one of these, I don't feel like I need a drink.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And most people I know, alcohol to gummies or any
marijuana product put on weight because they find themselves a
bit lethargic and they get the munchies.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I know, I know, and that was maybe part of
our problem with drinking too, But I don't know. I
feel like more and more people are switching to marijuana products,
and let's I agree with you talked about how it's
how it's a big push. But yeah, for us, it
wasn't like that. I don't know, we have we're pretty
(11:06):
uh we have a lot of self control. I guess
for us, what do you do for So it was
like one day we were like, uh, well, I stay home,
my homeschool, the kids. We live on the farm.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I've called you before, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah,
all right. Uh and how do you get marijuana? It
being legal in Texas and you're not getting a medical exemption?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, I live in Iowa now and Illinois just across the.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
River, Okay, all right, yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I hate give the tax dollars to the state of Illinois,
so I wish every state would regulate it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But yeah, I'm I'm just of the opinion that in
a free society, free men make decisions for themselves and
their families, and we don't leave that to Shila Jackson
Lee or Sylvester Turner Jasmine kroc It. And I don't
need an overlord telling me what to do. And I
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recognize that freedom means that some people will use that
freedom to make bad decisions. And I don't worry what
someone does in their bedroom or a living room that
may or may not be.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Good for their health.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And I can't understand how people can profess to love
freedom and yet want to restrict everything that other people
do that they themselves do not do, or make it
illegal because it's naughty when they do it, and that
makes it extra fun.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I just I don't grasp that. But what can I
just me?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Jay, thanks for the call of Lisa. Jay, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Go ahead, Yes, sir, this.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Might have been talked about and I just missed it,
But I've just got a question about our FM radio
stations and why they suck so bad. We took a trip,
which we ours. Being Houston, we drive once twice a
year throughout taking vacations, and just little towns like Tyler
or Beaumont have really good radio stations in Houston.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What what does really good station mean in really bad stations?
But helped me understand that.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Okay, Well, so our station seemed to play the station
over and over again. Where we're driving, we seem to
hear a much broader a view of music, whether it
be classic rock, ninetiese rock, country, old fashioned, and I
just maybe maybe, uh maybe it's just me and my wife,
(13:35):
Well we think that, but it just seems like we
have we we don't have we. If you'll recall, we
had a rock stage I'm sorry, not a rock station.
We had an old country station and it was it
played classic country and it went away. Now I guess
that's that's possibly picked up by another uh by other
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people wanting I think that was picked up by a
Chris Christian station.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
My wife's spot. Is it that it all went downhill
after we had a We had a rock station here
a few decades back one O one KO L L
something like that KL, and they kind of got they
got in trouble with U with the federal uh, with
with with federal problems and now that that could be
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the problem.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, no, let me speak to that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I'm not the expert on it, but I used to
program radio stations and I know a little bit about it,
so let me say this.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'll start with K LOL.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
There was a documentary made about Kalel a few years ago.
Mike McGuff made it, and he asked me for a
period of five years to be interviewed for that, and
I never was able to find time to get there
and get the interview done.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And I hate that because I think they did a
pretty good job with it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Kaloel had a cult following for a period of five
to ten years. It was strong. Kalel was not about
the music. Kalel was about the personalities. And you had Stevenson.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Pruet, you had the radio guards, you had then Walton
and Johnson.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You had these very strong personalities at a time of
when classic rock was not classic rock.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Classic rock was rock.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It didn't need to be classic because we hadn't moved
past it, and the station was the dominant rock station
in Houston. So when Journey comes in plays the Summit,
when you have these major concerts coming through the personalities,
the artists had the good sense to attach to the
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personalities and vice versa, and you had personality. And to
this day, almost every one of those people still involved
in k LOEL is in some way doing an Internet state.
I mean, Jim Brut was doing it till he died,
and Mark Stevens probably would have been as well. Out
Law Dave is still around. I mean, it's still my
buddy that there are still those personalities had such a connection.
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But the documentary makes clear that for all the talk
about the station being flipped to what it was flipped to,
which was Mega one oh one, which was a kind
of a tropical Latino Daddy playing Daddy Yankee and those
sorts of stuff, those sorts of things, the reality is
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the business had changed and it didn't have the cult following,
and people had moved on. You know, I went back
and watched Beavis and butt Heead recently and I couldn't wait.
I sat down, and you know, I'm not a stoner.
I never was a stoner, So I didn't watch Beavis
and Butt heead under the influence of marijuana, like I
understand a lot of people did. I just thought it
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was funny. I sat down to watch it. It wasn't funny.
So I think I grew. I think we changed, and
I think our likes and dislikes changed. The radio business,
like everything else, is a business in big cities. The
reason you get the songs on repeat, especially on a
top forty station or a lot of the rock stations,
is those are tested, and just like everything else, you
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get that's tested. That's what the mass of people want.
And what you find is increasingly you don't want what
the masses want, but the numbers the business are in
the sweet spot of the masses. It's why you may
not eat at the fast food chain or Chili's or
whatever else. I'll talk about this later again in the
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show that there is. It's along and interesting discussion. Do you,
immu a classic car guy, what one classic car would
you want to own?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Corvette? What year? Mid sixties? Good? Call?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Mid sixties a more muscle The mid fifties are I
think the most refined and elegant Corvette. And I know
those words should not go together. But they do for me.
And I love those fifty six Corvettes with that swow shut.
There's there's a term for that. I had a friend,
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Craig Hobbs. I talked about him earlier in the week.
His dad, Kirk Hobbs, owned a company called Mesa Construction,
and he had an eighty three Stingray and he pulled
up to pick up Crag in middle school, so eighty
three we were thirteen, so we would have been actually yeah,
we would have been in sixth or seventh grade. And
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it had the metallic color, which you know, we weren't
used to at that point. It was a it's like
a grape color, but it was a metallic so it's
like the starry Skies. Would never see anything like that
in Orangefield. And when he pulled up and I remember
that front we will cover feeling like it was just
like the old Dusenbergs.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Just felt like it just went on forever. It was
a big mountain. It was incredible. I think it's the
first time i'd seen that car. Anyway, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
A crazy for Corkvet guys. I like them, but that's
not I don't do it. I was a Mustang guy.
Growing up the mid sixties Mustangs, like I guess a
lot of people were, but I think I got that
from my parents. Today, I guess I've become an old
man because I like those suicide door Lincoln Continentals. I
think those are just fantastic. I think they're incredible, especially
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when they open up. I was talking of any Tortorella
at Muscle Cars of Texas during the during the break
about the Galveston Classic Car Auction and Music Festival, which
is at the end of August Friday through Sunday. That's
Labor Day weekend and Moody Gardens, and I was looking
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up to see who the music was because there's a
concert every night in a car show every day. If
you've never been, it's a cool deal. But I didn't
get that far, so I will check that out. We
were talking about some some renovations he's doing.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He will send me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Pictures of cars before and after they do a renovation.
Do you know what a resto mod is, Jim, that's
a big deal. Now I am not.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm not a resto mod guy, but a lot of
friends of mine are.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh. They're also doing antique gun collections engraved Colt revolvers,
Henry rifles, Deluxe Winchesters and more. Porcelain gas oil signs,
gas pumps, huge Neon signs, Texas beer signs, and more.
Oh that's pretty good. Galveston Classic Car Auction and Music Festival.
There you go, all right, to the phone lines, we go.
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Let's go to Melanie. Melanie, you were on the Michael
Berry Show seven one three nine one thousand, seven one
three nine, one thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I just want to call. As a parent, I have
five children. You always wonder if if you've you've done
a good job with your kids.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
And and today I just kind of realized that I
didn't a good job with my kids and that the
next generation is an a complete failure. My oldest just
resented her her new rank in the Navy. She's stationed
on the USS Link and she's she's now first class
petty officer.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
My number two daughters and nurse. She works for the government.
She works in Kunda's Manhattan, Kansas, and she was recognized
by the Army. She refined their vaccination programs, saving the
government two hundred and fifty thousand dollars by nincdance easier
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UH for the nurses to do vaccines without having she
goes through all this red tape with the doctors and
stuff like that. And then I've got a son who
is starting this fall going to a princess school to
get to become an electrician. And then my daughter, she's
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a second year culinary student and she's going to start
her own business this year. And then my youngest is
a senior in high school and she will have her
associates to 'reing criminal justice when she graduates high school.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Good for you. Let me go back one by one.
The daughter in culinary school that wants to start her
own business. I guess at the end of this year,
what does she want to do?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
She her her business model is alcohol infused cakes.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh well, okay, so what I'm assuming, m is ala.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Well, m We've developed a flavor with apricot brandy, espresso liqueur,
cherry liqueur, so all kinds of different flavors.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, let me go by apricot brandy. What what do
you put that in.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
A white vanilla cake with the marscapone frosty.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And then that just gives it, obviously, that more of
the brandy flavoring instead of kind of the more literally
playing vanilla? What about the second one was a was
it a coffee drink?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes, espresso espresso?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
What? Espresso? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
A Bailey's and cream espresso?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And what do you on?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
A chocolate on a chocolate cake and a chocolate cake
with vanilla icing with espresso coffee grounds on top, sprinkled
on top.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Now are you burning off the alcohol? Are you applying
it later?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
No, we're applying it later and then you can taste
the alcohol in the cake.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, So how does that work? Do you literally pour
it or do you mix it in with the icing?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
How do you do that?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
We sprints it on top of the cake.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Okay, so the cake absorbs.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It literally like a spray, like you're like a flower.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah. That's interesting. Okay, and I guess other people are
doing that, right.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Is that a sustainable business model?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I think it can be because we'll have non alcoholics.
She'll have non alcoholic cakes as well.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah. No, no, no, it's not whether the cake is
good or isn't. I'm not saying that. How do you
distribute it? How is it marketed? How is it distributed?
That's what that's where business is like this fail.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Oh, we've already gotten orders for cakes for parties and
stuff like that, so that's kind of how she's starting it. Oh,
private parties.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Listen, people sometimes mistake my questions for cynicism or desire
for someone to fail.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It's not a shodden flud. I want you to succeed.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I just I've watched a lot of people fail because
they focus solely on the quality of the product, which
God bless you for it. That's what I want if
I'm eating a product. You just have to think through
this stainability, you know of how do people.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Know about it? How much do you make per cake?
How do you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Deliver the cake, and how do you keep that going?
You know, people don't want to have a brick and mortar,
that want to cut that cost. But the reason for
a brick and mortars You walk past it every day,
you go to it every day, out of.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Sight, out of mind. But you know what, you should
be very proud that each.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Of your kids has found their calling, and you obviously
gave them a direction that you need to have a calling.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Good on you,
Oh yes, and the phone lines are open seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousands.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Of course you could email me through the website Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Berryshow dot com and to get us started as we
always do courtesy the greatest executive producer, Chatakoni Nakanishi all
the way from.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hawaii your week in review.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This guy said, well, I'm Catholic, what are you? I said,
I'm Christian? And he didn't think that was funny. Find
it hilarious. How many people do not want any affiliation
they have to have a joke attached to it. And
I've come to understand that is because people don't understand
what a joke is. A joke is not an insult
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if you can't laugh at yourself and you don't understand
the point of humor.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It was one year ago today when I got an
open fire at a Trumpet campaign rally in butler, A, Pennsylvolia.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
If you want to really see something that said, take
a look at what happened.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
The US sheep at Service, who has one clear put
mission right, that is the protection of the president, failed
in that mission, yet won't go and hold people accountable
by firing people.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The widow of Corey Combotour, the man killed in the shooting,
She wants to know why the roof were crooks set up,
wasn't covered by agents.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is
all over their head.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Is often overlooked in all of this, is that a firefighter, father, husband,
patriot was killed.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Corey Comparatoris it's.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Tod Raleigh's Derby eighteen home runs in the final You
did it with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Your father throwing to you. You know I could hit
your home runs and I would have had just as
much fun. Todd Raleigh, how much does this mean to you?
And why is this so great for the Raleigh family?
As a dad, you kind of dream about it. To
see it come true for your son does unbelievab free
John Alsin's to think of the memory. Imagine mom watching
to the side. Imagine the team's tears streaming down.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
This is what you dreamed of, but it never happens
for anybody ever. Nord Freeway Blueta, there's a stalled truck
and we had a guy trying to jumpstart it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
With a lawnmower. You can't make Houston Freeways up, you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Know, it does raising questions redneckro Mixian, but I don't
know why it couldn't be a black guy. It's one
hundred percent not an Asian dud. It's Houston Business Journal
has a headline Houston Spack DeLay's merger. I thought, oh,
a spack. I'm when I heard that word in a while.
(02:40):
You remember the Spack, the special purpose acquisition company that
never existed, and then all of a sudden, well in
that form, and then all of a sudden everything everybody
was doing us back everywhere billions of dawn, and then
(03:01):
all of a sudden, you never heard of this back again.
It's the first time I've heard of a back in
probably two years in a headline, maybe three years since
I've seen that in a headline. A maze see thousand hurt.
You are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I have to thank you and your show for your
wonderful presentation of keeping us so well informed.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Uh No.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I called because there was an article in the Reader's Digest.
I think maybe it was even last year's digest, but
at any rate, it said that daylight savings time is
very harmful to human beings. You know, God created our
(03:55):
world wondrously.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He gave us daylight and darkness, and we sleep and
rest at any rate. I wish they would leave it alone,
just let us go back to normal suntime and meantime too.
But anyway, it just isn't good for us.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I was reading a couple of days ago. I guess
it was Arizona that went off the changing of the time,
And from what I've read, I don't know what you think,
but from what I've read, the more destructive thing is
to change the time than what the time is. Apparently
(04:51):
our biorhythms adjust to whatever we call the time consistently.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It is the losing.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Of the time by the hour that causes all the problems,
And apparently there's data to back that up, and there's
pretty consistent data over a large data set, over a
long period of time that suggests you have more heart
attacks and strokes and these sorts of episodes as a
result of it. I never cared about it when I
(05:27):
was younger. The older I get, and the more that
people complain about it, I realize that this is something
that seemingly nobody wants, and yet we can't get rid
of it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And our governor put us on daylight saving time from
now on, and I don't know how we go about
do we save any letters, or what do we do
to make a protest about that?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, anything that a governor does can be changed, I
will be honest.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I haven't followed I haven't followed it closely, but I
did travel quite a bit over.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
The last month, and I do find it fascinating. This
is kind of unrelated to what you're saying, but I
do find it fascinating that it can be three o'clock
in La four o'clock in Denver, or four o'clock in Denver,
(06:37):
five o'clock in Houston, and six o'clock in California, all
at the same time. Now, I realized that's not the
most advanced thought I do. But I'm still amazed at
a number of very simple things that were invented that make.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Our lives so much better w D forty DUC tape.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, very simple things that make our lives so
dramatically better. Little things and so inventions and things like that.
I'm a I'm not a creative sort in that way.
I enjoy the world around me. I am a student
of history. I am not the predictor of things, and
(07:26):
I am not an inventor of things. I'm not a
person who would have who would have ever done that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I just wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Have you seen this Coldplay concert story. It's kind of
a pop culture news story, and I'm not usually up
on those, And to put it into perspective, I found
out about it this morning because Chance McCain mcclan.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Kept talking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But he has made a parody on the subject that
I'll make sure I get to at some point on
the show today.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I just watched the video during the last break. I
hadn't seen it yet. Oh my, oh my.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We might have a subject that we need to discuss there,
and that is people who are caught and how it
happened you caught your spouse or you got caught by
your spouse, and how it went down. Elisa, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Hey, I just wanted to catch up with you and
ramon about Texas legalizing marijuana and regulating it. I been
wanting to call and tell you that my husband and
I used to drink almost every night we enjoyed a drink.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
We met.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I was a bartender and I haven't drank for a
year now, and he hasn't drunk for two years now.
We switched to using gummies and marijuana and we quit
drinking because of it.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Did you set out intending to quit drinking.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, we both like to drink and eat, so we
had gained a lot of weight, and so in that
process we also started fasting, and he lost one hundred
pounds in a year and I lost forty.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Good for you? Are you doing one meal a day fasting?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
We were. We were fasting from eight pm till four
pm the next day, so it was a pretty big fast.
Now that I'm down to my goal weight, I'm about
only about a sixteen to eighteen hour fast now.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then you eat during that window or do you
eat at the beginning of it and then again at
the end?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Hold on just a second, at least.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The information that I get from the show that I
don't seem to get from other places the Michael Barry Show.
All right, Alisa, let me ask you. Did you start
taking gummies as a strategy to get off of alcohol?
And interesting things? You're getting off alcohol not for uh,
(10:04):
liver damage or bad decisions, but weight gain.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, so no, not Originally we just started eating them
while drinking, and then finally we were like, okay, we
need to make a change for our weight and our health.
And then it was like, okay, well if I eat
one of these, I don't feel like I need a drink.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And most people I know, alcohol to gummies or any
marijuana product put on weight because they find themselves a
bit lethargic and they get the munchies.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I know, I know, and that was maybe part of
our problem with drinking too, But I don't know. I
feel like more and more people are switching to marijuana products,
and let's I agree with you talked about how it's
how it's a big push. But yeah, for us, it
wasn't like that. I don't know, we have we're pretty
(11:06):
uh we have a lot of self control. I guess
for us, what do you do for So it was
like one day we were like, uh, well, I stay home,
my homeschool, the kids. We live on the farm.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I've called you before, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah,
all right. Uh and how do you get marijuana? It
being legal in Texas and you're not getting a medical exemption?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, I live in Iowa now and Illinois just across the.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
River, Okay, all right, yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I hate give the tax dollars to the state of Illinois,
so I wish every state would regulate it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But yeah, I'm I'm just of the opinion that in
a free society, free men make decisions for themselves and
their families, and we don't leave that to Shila Jackson
Lee or Sylvester Turner Jasmine kroc It. And I don't
need an overlord telling me what to do. And I
(12:05):
recognize that freedom means that some people will use that
freedom to make bad decisions. And I don't worry what
someone does in their bedroom or a living room that
may or may not be.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Good for their health.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And I can't understand how people can profess to love
freedom and yet want to restrict everything that other people
do that they themselves do not do, or make it
illegal because it's naughty when they do it, and that
makes it extra fun.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I just I don't grasp that. But what can I
just me?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Jay, thanks for the call of Lisa. Jay, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Go ahead, Yes, sir, this.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Might have been talked about and I just missed it,
But I've just got a question about our FM radio
stations and why they suck so bad. We took a trip,
which we ours. Being Houston, we drive once twice a
year throughout taking vacations, and just little towns like Tyler
or Beaumont have really good radio stations in Houston.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What what does really good station mean in really bad stations?
But helped me understand that.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Okay, Well, so our station seemed to play the station
over and over again. Where we're driving, we seem to
hear a much broader a view of music, whether it
be classic rock, ninetiese rock, country, old fashioned, and I
just maybe maybe, uh maybe it's just me and my wife,
(13:35):
Well we think that, but it just seems like we
have we we don't have we. If you'll recall, we
had a rock stage I'm sorry, not a rock station.
We had an old country station and it was it
played classic country and it went away. Now I guess
that's that's possibly picked up by another uh by other
(14:00):
people wanting I think that was picked up by a
Chris Christian station.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
My wife's spot. Is it that it all went downhill
after we had a We had a rock station here
a few decades back one O one KO L L
something like that KL, and they kind of got they
got in trouble with U with the federal uh, with
with with federal problems and now that that could be
(14:36):
the problem.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, no, let me speak to that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I'm not the expert on it, but I used to
program radio stations and I know a little bit about it,
so let me say this.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'll start with K LOL.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
There was a documentary made about Kalel a few years ago.
Mike McGuff made it, and he asked me for a
period of five years to be interviewed for that, and
I never was able to find time to get there
and get the interview done.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And I hate that because I think they did a
pretty good job with it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Kaloel had a cult following for a period of five
to ten years. It was strong. Kalel was not about
the music. Kalel was about the personalities. And you had Stevenson.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Pruet, you had the radio guards, you had then Walton
and Johnson.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You had these very strong personalities at a time of
when classic rock was not classic rock.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Classic rock was rock.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It didn't need to be classic because we hadn't moved
past it, and the station was the dominant rock station
in Houston. So when Journey comes in plays the Summit,
when you have these major concerts coming through the personalities,
the artists had the good sense to attach to the
(16:10):
personalities and vice versa, and you had personality. And to
this day, almost every one of those people still involved
in k LOEL is in some way doing an Internet state.
I mean, Jim Brut was doing it till he died,
and Mark Stevens probably would have been as well. Out
Law Dave is still around. I mean, it's still my
buddy that there are still those personalities had such a connection.
(16:36):
But the documentary makes clear that for all the talk
about the station being flipped to what it was flipped to,
which was Mega one oh one, which was a kind
of a tropical Latino Daddy playing Daddy Yankee and those
sorts of stuff, those sorts of things, the reality is
(16:58):
the business had changed and it didn't have the cult following,
and people had moved on. You know, I went back
and watched Beavis and butt Heead recently and I couldn't wait.
I sat down, and you know, I'm not a stoner.
I never was a stoner, So I didn't watch Beavis
and Butt heead under the influence of marijuana, like I
understand a lot of people did. I just thought it
(17:20):
was funny. I sat down to watch it. It wasn't funny.
So I think I grew. I think we changed, and
I think our likes and dislikes changed. The radio business,
like everything else, is a business in big cities. The
reason you get the songs on repeat, especially on a
top forty station or a lot of the rock stations,
is those are tested, and just like everything else, you
(17:42):
get that's tested. That's what the mass of people want.
And what you find is increasingly you don't want what
the masses want, but the numbers the business are in
the sweet spot of the masses. It's why you may
not eat at the fast food chain or Chili's or
whatever else. I'll talk about this later again in the
(18:02):
show that there is. It's along and interesting discussion. Do you,
immu a classic car guy, what one classic car would
you want to own?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Corvette? What year? Mid sixties? Good? Call?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Mid sixties a more muscle The mid fifties are I
think the most refined and elegant Corvette. And I know
those words should not go together. But they do for me.
And I love those fifty six Corvettes with that swow shut.
There's there's a term for that. I had a friend,
(18:48):
Craig Hobbs. I talked about him earlier in the week.
His dad, Kirk Hobbs, owned a company called Mesa Construction,
and he had an eighty three Stingray and he pulled
up to pick up Crag in middle school, so eighty
three we were thirteen, so we would have been actually yeah,
we would have been in sixth or seventh grade. And
(19:08):
it had the metallic color, which you know, we weren't
used to at that point. It was a it's like
a grape color, but it was a metallic so it's
like the starry Skies. Would never see anything like that
in Orangefield. And when he pulled up and I remember
that front we will cover feeling like it was just
like the old Dusenbergs.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Just felt like it just went on forever. It was
a big mountain. It was incredible. I think it's the
first time i'd seen that car. Anyway, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
A crazy for Corkvet guys. I like them, but that's
not I don't do it. I was a Mustang guy.
Growing up the mid sixties Mustangs, like I guess a
lot of people were, but I think I got that
from my parents. Today, I guess I've become an old
man because I like those suicide door Lincoln Continentals. I
think those are just fantastic. I think they're incredible, especially
(19:59):
when they open up. I was talking of any Tortorella
at Muscle Cars of Texas during the during the break
about the Galveston Classic Car Auction and Music Festival, which
is at the end of August Friday through Sunday. That's
Labor Day weekend and Moody Gardens, and I was looking
(20:20):
up to see who the music was because there's a
concert every night in a car show every day. If
you've never been, it's a cool deal. But I didn't
get that far, so I will check that out. We
were talking about some some renovations he's doing.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He will send me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Pictures of cars before and after they do a renovation.
Do you know what a resto mod is, Jim, that's
a big deal. Now I am not.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm not a resto mod guy, but a lot of
friends of mine are.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh. They're also doing antique gun collections engraved Colt revolvers,
Henry rifles, Deluxe Winchesters and more. Porcelain gas oil signs,
gas pumps, huge Neon signs, Texas beer signs, and more.
Oh that's pretty good. Galveston Classic Car Auction and Music Festival.
There you go, all right, to the phone lines, we go.
(21:15):
Let's go to Melanie. Melanie, you were on the Michael
Berry Show seven one three nine one thousand, seven one
three nine, one thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I just want to call. As a parent, I have
five children. You always wonder if if you've you've done
a good job with your kids.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
And and today I just kind of realized that I
didn't a good job with my kids and that the
next generation is an a complete failure. My oldest just
resented her her new rank in the Navy. She's stationed
on the USS Link and she's she's now first class
petty officer.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
My number two daughters and nurse. She works for the government.
She works in Kunda's Manhattan, Kansas, and she was recognized
by the Army. She refined their vaccination programs, saving the
government two hundred and fifty thousand dollars by nincdance easier
(22:26):
UH for the nurses to do vaccines without having she
goes through all this red tape with the doctors and
stuff like that. And then I've got a son who
is starting this fall going to a princess school to
get to become an electrician. And then my daughter, she's
(22:49):
a second year culinary student and she's going to start
her own business this year. And then my youngest is
a senior in high school and she will have her
associates to 'reing criminal justice when she graduates high school.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Good for you. Let me go back one by one.
The daughter in culinary school that wants to start her
own business. I guess at the end of this year,
what does she want to do?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
She her her business model is alcohol infused cakes.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh well, okay, so what I'm assuming, m is ala.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Well, m We've developed a flavor with apricot brandy, espresso liqueur,
cherry liqueur, so all kinds of different flavors.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, let me go by apricot brandy. What what do
you put that in.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
A white vanilla cake with the marscapone frosty.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And then that just gives it, obviously, that more of
the brandy flavoring instead of kind of the more literally
playing vanilla? What about the second one was a was
it a coffee drink?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes, espresso espresso?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
What? Espresso? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
A Bailey's and cream espresso?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And what do you on?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
A chocolate on a chocolate cake and a chocolate cake
with vanilla icing with espresso coffee grounds on top, sprinkled
on top.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Now are you burning off the alcohol? Are you applying
it later?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
No, we're applying it later and then you can taste
the alcohol in the cake.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, So how does that work? Do you literally pour
it or do you mix it in with the icing?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
How do you do that?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
We sprints it on top of the cake.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Okay, so the cake absorbs.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It literally like a spray, like you're like a flower.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah. That's interesting. Okay, and I guess other people are
doing that, right.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Is that a sustainable business model?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I think it can be because we'll have non alcoholics.
She'll have non alcoholic cakes as well.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah. No, no, no, it's not whether the cake is
good or isn't. I'm not saying that. How do you
distribute it? How is it marketed? How is it distributed?
That's what that's where business is like this fail.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Oh, we've already gotten orders for cakes for parties and
stuff like that, so that's kind of how she's starting it. Oh,
private parties.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Listen, people sometimes mistake my questions for cynicism or desire
for someone to fail.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It's not a shodden flud. I want you to succeed.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I just I've watched a lot of people fail because
they focus solely on the quality of the product, which
God bless you for it. That's what I want if
I'm eating a product. You just have to think through
this stainability, you know of how do people.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Know about it? How much do you make per cake?
How do you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Deliver the cake, and how do you keep that going?
You know, people don't want to have a brick and mortar,
that want to cut that cost. But the reason for
a brick and mortars You walk past it every day,
you go to it every day, out of.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Sight, out of mind. But you know what, you should
be very proud that each.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Of your kids has found their calling, and you obviously
gave them a direction that you need to have a calling.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Good on you,
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