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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 (00:15):
Caucasian.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Caucasian.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah, you know, a white guy with a mustache, about
six foot three, not very big mustache. Ahlulia Clark, this
is a serious matter.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
I'll do it myself, Honey, I'm not an ordained minister.
I'm doing my best. Okay, we lost our corkscrew.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
We want food.
Speaker 7 (00:42):
War will you play?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You're short on ears and long on mouth.
Speaker 8 (00:48):
Sixty percent of the time. It works every time.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
In fact, drunk and stupid. There's no way to go
through lifestock. I'm danging now we are in trouble.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, hold on.
Speaker 9 (01:34):
I was checking out a video from Daniel Dean. He
just got this new piece of equipment that he so
he does land dirt work and land clearing, always has,
and he started getting over the years more and more
people who wanted him to do pond dredging, because over
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a period of time, the silt raises your pond and
reduce is the amount of actual water you've got or
the distance in there on your pond. It's just a
natural thing that happens. So he needed a piece of
equipment for that. But the big thing was in the
Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They call it kelp I don't know what you call
it in a pond ask Holmes or one of these
people that would know. But ponds get overtaken with I
don't know if it's called fauna or growth or whatever.
I don't have the vocabulary to tell the story. But
you get the point. Green stuff, vegetation grows in the pond,
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and so whether you want to swim in it or
just look at it, you don't want all that vegetation.
So he bought this piece of equipment that looks like
a pontoon boat. So it looks like a pontoon. It
sits up, except it has but it looks like a
pontoon tank on the edge of it, I guess in
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that way like some of the tractors. But it's a
water tractor. So it has a platform with ramo what
do you call that stuff they put on the back
of You can use it for steps. People use it
for their tools and equipment. It's called kickplate or something.
You know I'm talking about. It's got little diamonds in it.
You know what I'm talking about? All right, Well, it
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has that. It's real silver and it's got a platform
and he's sitting on the top of it like he's
sitting on a tractor. And then it's got on the edge,
it's got like tank wheels, except those tank wheels are shredders.
And then on the front of it, it's got a
cherry picker. And then it's also got a deal that's
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like a lawnmower, and so it's the video is him
going out over the pond, over the vegetation and just
shredding it up. And I said, thank you for sending that.
I'm glad you explained it, but I must run this
piece of equipment. It is I never even seen anything
like that. You're out on the water just shreddings to
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just tearing stuff up. Look, we're gonna I just sent
it to you so you can see it for yourself.
I also so apparently ponds and lakes on people's ranches
that Rick Doak sells is the hot new thing. Who
knew who knew we're in the wrong business? From them?
I got an email from Jeff Keene at Trailer Will
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and Frame. He said, you need to come out and
see our operations. Now we've got six bays for our
truck shop that are doing flatbeds, work trucks, trailer hitches,
ladder racks, toolboxes, auxiliary fuel tanks, bedliners, custom lighting. Those
are the ones we do most often. We do all
sorts of other stuff. We've got trailer parts, truck lists,
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ten thousand square feet of retail space trailer parts. We
are the largest distributor of dextra parts. The reason I
want you to come and see it is because ninety
percent of these people in here are Michael Berry Show fans,
and they tell us, well, how nice is that ramon diamond?
I said, dimond plate. I said diamond plate?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You did?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You weren't listening? Alan called and said that different?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Alan?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Okay, Well, I said diamond plate because they have diamonds.
All right, let's see Alan might Alan might drive me
to drink if he's on Bluetooth or pacing around or
down in the well again Alan, yep, Okay, that's a
good start. Okay, Yeah, all right, Alan, did you call
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about something? Because I have a lot of questions?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yes, yes, Well, before you get.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
To that, hold on, what don't you eat for breakfast?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I had eight breakfast ship, I had drink one couple
of coffee, and I'll got me some eggs, you know, scramblation. Oh,
let me see potatoes, and all went down to Brooks.
Your brothers in town got knowledge.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And you'll make it yourself or mama'll make it for you.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, no, no, it's only made. It's colored egg bake.
So I'll just go down there and ride down there
in the town and get it to go. Now, I
used to cook when I have my kids over here,
but I don't cook.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, I was saying, they fix it for you or
or oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, well it's like a buffire or something. I mean,
you know, they got these different trays of food and
you terrible what you want? How much of it or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, and you bring it home and eat it rather
than eat it there.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, I mean you can eat it there if you
want to. I see, I don't eat breakfast hues each
other or eat till later on in today. So I
still got it. I even don't put it up yet.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay, so you brought it home, but you haven't.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Eat it yet, that's correct. Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So it got cold.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No, I'll eat it cold, golle.
Speaker 10 (07:01):
Oh what.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Kind of coffee do you drink? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Coffee? A little bit of cremi sugar or maybe a coffee,
black go On being coffee preferred.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Okay, so you go down to Tira to the Brookshire Brothers.
How much does a buffet cost?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh, it ain't a buffet. It's just you're just telling
them what you want, a play lunch or something like that.
And that's when I got casts about three dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah? I mean it's up too much or not enough.
I don't know. I'll just buy it.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I want, you know what. That's why people moved to Dayton.
That's why old boy moved to Dayton. What was the
black fellow's name, Ramon that we like so much, Larry Terry, Yeah, Terry,
that's bet. That's why he moved out there. Uh my good.
You can't get a gallon of gas in Houston for
three and fifty cents. They won't give you a biscuits.
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I'm won't play the biscuits right. You can't get a
biscuit for three point fifty.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
I had a.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Producer worth his salt, E would have had the biscuits
on it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Did True Texas original true national treasure.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
Don't mess around with.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This is the Michael berry show.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
In the.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Chase the biscuit. Taste the goodness of the biscuit. Chase
the Honeys sauce. Taste the goodness of the biscuit with
the honey sauce. To get that Honeys sauce on me.
I don't like the way it tastes with my chicken.
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Where chase the biscuits. Chase the goodness of the biscuits.
Chase the butterspread. Taste the goodness of the biscuit with
the butter spread, to get your butterspread all on me.
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I don't like the way it mixes with my mac
of cheese, because when you're at KFC, you got that
special sauce to serve my curiosity. Just give me a
find these meal Oh what a deal.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
A big old box. It's all for me.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
You know, I'll take asla on the side. I could
tell you wanted to try the potato wedges.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So Alan, what time will you eat this breakfast you
picked up?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh, whenever I get hungry, you're gonna drive me to
drink and buy about five o'clock this after you.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
So what did you get? What kind of eggs did
you get?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Scrambled scrambled eggs and potatoes and cheese gravy.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
But but I have something more important to No, No,
we're going to get to that. What kind of potatoes?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't know, Blombo boy, Colorado, Russians?
Speaker 12 (10:37):
Okay, Russian potatoes.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Interesting. You didn't put any sauce on it, any any
sauce or anything.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh no, it's just gravy, gravy.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
And you don't drink like some grapefruit juice.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
No, I do drink some juice, but I got water.
I'll probably just drink water. Right now.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You got all that from the outfie.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm still welcome on maccarnee. Yeah. Yeah, there ain't as
straight forty three. I'm surely yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh even better. I can't. I can't imagine that. Okay,
all right, what'd you call about?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I want to call this here. I truly believe the
first thing. I want to go and piggyback on echo
what Phillips said, Azeko thirty thirty nine. He is spot
on that I tell people sometimes many more timing. They
think I'm talking about the typing to Michael Barry Show.
Now I'm talking about the return of Christ. So he's
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a wealth of information inclusive. That guy is, he's what,
He's farther than I am. But I want to say
that Proverbs seventeenth forty twenty two. A cheerful heart is
good in medicine, but the crushed spirit dries up the bones.
And what other people think about me is their business.
What I think about myself is my business. What God
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thinks about me it's worth cancer. That's my final answer.
I don't like to be happy. You know, I've lived
in good life. I'll see a lot of comfort and stachers,
but all right, I'm happy. I'm happy, and I got
a lot to be scientful for him, I was like,
I'm half happy talking on the day. And also I
got a couple of trucker friend of my Shell Trucking,
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and they've heard my voice on your program. I got
one on Hillbilly out there in Canard, out east of Crockett,
and he's heard my voice on your radio before too.
So people love you out here, Michael. Two. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (12:37):
I like I like to laugh, like good humor and
everything I can tell that I can tell that you know,
you strike me as a guy who is comfortable in
his own skin.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Alan and that many, many people have been professionally successful,
and one would think they have all the trappings that
would make a man happy. But you are comfortable in
your own skin, and most folks never actually obtained that, and.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
That is a spiritual happiness. Actually, I want you to.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Me that I want you to do me a favor
real quick, go ahead. I want you to take me.
I don't want you to start at your house because
I don't want you to tell exactly where you are,
but I want you to start me at at the
Brookshire Brothers where you got the breakfast this.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Morning, okay, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I want you to take me up to Lancing, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
All right, Lansing, Michigan. There's just east or just west
of dh Lansing is the capital. That's right, that's up
on Isle sixty nine, and I'm gonna see you. Will
go out three twenty one over here to fifty nine
mars Is sixty eye now and run up to U
Shreeport forty nine, over to I thirty and thirty over
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to Little Muck forty over to Memphis I fifty five,
up to uh me Sheep up to UH fifty nine
over to uh Effingham Illinois seventy east. Yeah, you could
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go as seventy east over there to UH.
Speaker 12 (14:24):
Sixty through Columbus.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, that will be too far.
As seventy one go up through Columbus. Yeah, you could
even there. You could go on up there to a
Chicago and then you go west, I mean east.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
On Idavid Allen, you go. I went on the man
to throw you off, and I saw seventy and seventy
one coming into Columbus, and I thought, well, he's wrong.
But I had landing east of there, which is stupid,
and I realized I was too far east. And you
are absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
God, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Seventy one. I mean, if you're running up to seventy
one out of UH Cincinnati and go up to Columbus
all the way to Young Channel High through the Earn, Pennsylvania.
At Claire Cross, the dog Tiger Falls runs up there
to tiagera Falls area saw several times and oxy Chemical
got a place a bress, the real headquarters the Tiger Falls.
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I've had my kid up there. Hell, my daughter's rolling on.
Took him all over the country.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, Alan, do me a favor real quick. Yeah, we've
got to run for you from from Lancing down to
Demon you get me there real quick. I'm sorry, sorry,
it's from Lancing to Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Okay, all right, all right, Well then from Lansing here, yeah,
you probably just come right back uh east, I to
uh sixty nine and then go sixty nine south over
to our seventy and our seventy you'd run west. Oh god,
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you're on over two of them Afrigham, Illinois. No, you're
going over shank Ruis. Saint Louis would go sixty four
over to Earth.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Oh yeah, I got one, you know, my God.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Think qucy super chepherd mitter Michael Berry too.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
I was dragging my bags along a lonely, ignorant highway
when I came upon this lady in a lime and
yellow Cadillac Seville.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
She said, if you just going to the Promised Land
with me, you go right. So I had climbed it
up into that fansy car and set it down insad.
She asks me, girl, where are you being with your
wig all dusty and ignorantized, saying, look here, woman, I've
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traveled every road in this here lane. I've been everywhere, girl,
I've been everywhere, girl, I crossing desert bear girl, breathe
that mountain air. Girl, that traveling is my life.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Girl.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
I've been a away. I've been Reno, Skygo, far Go, Minnesota, Buffalo, Torondo, Winslow, Saisota,
Witch Tatusa While, Oklahoma, tampap Anima, Matawhi Lepelo, think about Tomorrow,
Savage over Amerillator wikilabaronil amerill I mkill. I've been everywhere, girl,
I've been everywhere. I crossed him old desert girl and
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breathed that mountain air. That traveling is my life, Honey.
I've been Everwhey. I've been to Boston and Charleston, Dayton
and Louisianna, Washington, Houston, Texan, Taxan to Monta Ray Fair
in the Santa Fe Telepicture, Glenn Rocks, Flat Rock, the
Lily Rock Hospital, Los Tennessee, Hennessey. You can be Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devil l A Cray Lake, pe Sek. I've
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been everwhere, girls, I've done been ever where. I breathed
both kumid and nasty ass. Had traveling been my life, honey,
I've been ever. Oh Lord, I've been to it, been
to Louisville, Nashley and Knoxville on Back, Shervilla, Jacksonville, Waterfield Coast,
Threek of Richvid Springfield, Beagle c Street, Boat, Hacksack, Cadillac
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Fund like that for Delagoya's your Etterstein down t the
Gatlina Canady and see what I mean good. I've been everwhere.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I've been.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
There, I where a girl. I crossed the old desert
Tony and breathed that nasty ass. Just traveling, been my
life good. I've been aver wh been to Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Randsburg, Colorado, Hillsburgh, Ricksburg, Vicksburg, Hilbrody,
lam Are, halving stars, nasking Nebraskam to ask and asking
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why do Luke Canabazouke can't see the sue city CC.
See this's the ignorant. I've been everywhere. I ain't know
why I hadn't been good. I've beef that nasty as
tabling is just in my blood. I've been every way,
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and now I'm ready to sit down.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Vowel rights. I listen every day, all three hours, some
of them evening. Allen is a great guy. I live
in Kennefick. He loaned me his chainsaw tree trimmer. One
time I gave him one of your Michael Berry Show stickers.
He went nuts. So we have now sent actually Belinda Folks,
who handles our bumper sticker program that Russell le Barrow
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was kind enough to pay for. UH you get a
gringo's gift certificate into Michael Berry Show but stickers. She
has mailed that to UH, or is mailing that to
Alan as we speak, and Leboucherie Jason Oyer and family
are sending him a gift card to go to Laboucherie
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and get some good food for him and his mama.
Christian Wrights. I just want to respond to your comments today.
This was a few days ago about kids being more
conservative than their parents, especially after attending a liberal school.
When my son graduated high school and was accepted to
you Penn, we were worried he'd turn liberal with the
indoctrination that occurs on these campuses. He not only graduated
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a strong conservative, but he's a but he is stronger
in his Christian faith now than when he started, and
that was not easy to do as there were very
few Christian organizations on that campus. What he experienced on
campus and extreme left behavior he saw was not at
all tempting for him to change his viewpoints. He is
now a Republican voting Wharton grad working here in Houston
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in investment banking. Right on Sweetheart, right on.
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Ramona is in time out with the executive producer boss
of the show, Chad Nokanishi, because he referred to the
playing of the h Did you say it that way?
Because I didn't realize it until later he referred to
the playing of the weekend Review as a stall tactic.
Oh my goodness, that is time out with Chad NOCKANESHI
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time if ever there was one, but I didn't get
to finish it, and I would like to do that
now with your indulgence. Dusty Slay, who's one of my
favorite comedians, will say we're having a good time. He'll
say that in the middle of his routine all the time.
I feel like we're having a good time. So now,
without further adieu, I E you adieu, courtesy of the
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greatest executive producer in all the land, Chatticoni Nakanishi. Your
WEE commed you. I was Jimmy Swager, Michael Madsen, Sam Haskell,
Connie Francis, THEO from the Cosby Show, Ozzy Osbourne, Chuck Manzioni.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And Ault Hogan all just in a row there.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So we add to our sense of loss those taken
from us too early. Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
University of Colorado head football coach and Dion Sanders describing
his battle against an aggressive form of bladder cancer.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I depend on depend you know if you know what
I mean.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I truly depend on depend like I cannot control my bladder.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He's going to make incontinence and everything for men and
women something that you feel comfortable talking about because Dion opened.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
The door to it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
WNBA player on Sunday losing her wig in the middle
of a game, and then a fan got kicked out
from making.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Fun of the lost wig. It went through the rest.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Oh no, oh, no, oh no, she gonna go hat
to the back.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
The announcers tried to avoid It's like when somebody streaking
it again. They tried to avoid talking about it, but
there was a stoppage of play because lord knows, we
can't mention that a player lost her wig. That'd be racist.
The top ten shortstops in MLB history, I will off
the cuff make you a list of my ten favorite
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shortstops a long, long I must start with Craig Rentols,
because number one, I loved his little.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Side arm throw that he did.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And number two, he's the last white guy to ever
play shortstop in Major League Baseball. You know, one day
the way we study Rush, now, one day they will
go back in the archives and they will study the
show and they'll say, so, you're telling me that what
you consider good radio is the host trying to come
up with a list from when he last paid attention
to baseball in the seventies of his favorite shortstops. And
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he gives extra credit for dudes being white.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Just broke in down, Calboy, only his luck in through
the past of his friend.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
All the long long some highway in an old pickup trail,
he crossed Texas like a hard dustill wind. He was
all around cowboy back to May and nine from the top.
It's been a long wave down since the whiskey and
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the women started.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
And in his time.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
He rode in the high in the hall, in the ground,
he was memt plus the bell of be in when
in the days of inst udio, Look that's something by Whenny, how.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Come we're not friends with Charlie Crockett. That just feels
like a natural fifth, isn't it. Somebody should introduce us
to Charlie Crockett. That just feels like that needs to happen.
The production The Love budd Stean Joe has been race
driver Michael Barry funny Hacker.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's Ramond the King of Dean suggested for general audiences.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Linda is an eighty five year old nurse, so we've
moved her to the front of the line.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Linda really, yes, yes, of course, I'm glad you put
me in front.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Of the line.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Respect Thank you. I wanted to. I'll tell you that
this in Why Call, But I'll tell you that my
husband and I met Charlie Pride when he was first
arting in Conroe. There was a dead dance place I
don't even remember what it was, and we went over
there to dance and he sang so well, and we
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asked for a certain songs. He sang it, and then
he came over and sat down with us and talked,
and he was just like an everyday person and told
us that he didn't want to get really famous famous,
and we remember where he was from and all that
kind of thing. And after that, I just loved him
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and I love him to this day. And I got
his records and everything, and I heard you say you
loved him like him? So what I talked for?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I remember where he was?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
What ever happened? I want to say Chicago, No Sledge, Mississippi,
sop my head, but I believe it.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Was Sledge, Mississippi. I always remember that because of Percy Sledge.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
If it wasn't Sledge, it was in the Sledge area, right, Okay,
I really I don't know. I don't remember that well,
but I do remember talking to him, and he was
just like an everyday person and it's.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You know, he wanted to be a professional baseball player.
He played in the Negro leagues. He was very, very good,
and he left his career doing that to pursue the music.
But his real focus was baseball and he believes that's that.
He believed that's what he would do with his life.
But it didn't come to pass. I think it probably
could have. But in any case, he's a he's a
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fascinating character, just an absolutely fascinating man. But what do
you call about, sweetheart?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I called to ask you the woman that owned that majestic?
Speaker 10 (27:48):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Whatever?
Speaker 10 (27:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I know her husband drowned. What happened to her? Nobody
ever said anything about her after work? What happened to
the guy the pillow fellow? You don't hear anything about
him anymore either.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Okay, Dick Eastland was the was the husband you're asking
about with camp Mystic and he drowned. I don't know
what happened with his wife. To tell the truth, I
don't know. It was not reported that she passed. I
know that was it Nancy Ragsdale? I forget the woman's
first name, Ragsdale that had Heart of the Hills. I
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know she passed, and I know Dick Eastland did. I
don't I'm assuming that Dick Eastland's wife survived. I don't
know the answer to uh yeah. I have to think
she survived, because otherwise you would have you would have
heard that reported. As I have mentioned, I was asked
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to be a producer of a film called River of Angels.
That is a tribute to the folks who rescued and
recovered because everyone everyone did not survive. But it's equally
heroic for those people. In fact, perhaps more so, because
you don't get the immediate reward of handing over a
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child who's alive to their parents when you hand over
a recovered body. But it means a lot to the
families and for folks willing to do that, that's tough.
You imagine how emotionally draining that is, but anyway, it
is a tribute to those folks. Lee Majors is involved.
It's Sean Wellings film and he has been filming since
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the first day you could get into film, and he
has talked to people that haven't talked. They literally haven't
talked to any film crew or any media, and he
has sat down with them, firefighters, volunteer rescuers, recovery folks, volunteers,
people who did not want any conversation with outside elements.
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He was able to get them to sit down. His
wife is from Kerrville and has deep, deep ties to
the community and that's why a lot of people talked
to them. But there are a lot of stories that
are going to come out of that documentary that I
think you will find to be extremely, extremely inspiring stories.
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As the grief, I don't know if it subsides per se,
but as the grief becomes more manageable and we focus
on what we can learn from things I think it's
going to be a wonderful experience to get to celebrate
some of those people who stepped up and never expected
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their names or stories to be remembered. And I do
think it will be appropriate in time. That's not what
our film does. I think it will be appropriate in
time to ask questions about things that could have been
done differently. Doesn't mean they were done wrong, but things
that could have been done differently. I know Dan Patrick
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earlier in the week was pointing the finger at Kerrville,
sorry at Kerr County officials, and he got some criticism
for that. I don't think he deserves criticism for that.
I think it should be our responsibility. It's certainly his
responsibility is Lieutenant governor to ask questions and to demand accountability.
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That's how you honor those who were lost, is you,
and that's how you prevent it happening in the future.
But I think tough questions should be asked in the future.
I think tough questions should be asked and answered. You
simply cannot sweep things under the rug. It's not the
case that everything has to be blamed on someone. I
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don't believe that. I don't think that we have to say, well,
because people died, someone has to be shamed and named,
and that's not necessarily true. But I also don't think
that you should avoid accountability, as tough as that may be,
because just because we have a job and we're a
nice guy doesn't mean we did our job well. So
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again that that is not the scope of our film
at all. But I do think in time that will
be something that that should have a very thorough review.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
And that's what it's what.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Good organizations and governments and households do. You ask questions
as to what went wrong and figure out how going
forward you can improve upon it. It's a real, real
dark day in Texas, July fourth, twenty twenty five. The
loss of life, it, I mean, far worse than than
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I think. When you actually see the damage that was done,
and not just in loss of life, and how fast
it happened and how dramatic it was, it's a wonder
anybody survived. It really is. When you see some of
the footage I've seen and what happened that has not
been made public, it really is a wonder that anybody survived.
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The number of people who were pushed through Niagara Falls
level PSI and survived slammed into trees, washer dryers going past.
It's a miracle. It really is a miracle. Dusty Sleigh
(33:36):
is a very funny comedian and I like a lot,
and he has two comedy specials on Netflix. If you're
a Netflix subscriber, I would encourage you this weekend to
go give those a watch there. I think if you
like our show, you'll get a lot of his humor
and you'll find it to be entertaining.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Caucasian.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Caucasian.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah, you know, a white guy with a mustache, about
six foot three, not very big mustache. Ahlulia Clark, this
is a serious matter.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
I'll do it myself, Honey, I'm not an ordained minister.
I'm doing my best. Okay, we lost our corkscrew.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
We want food.
Speaker 7 (00:42):
War will you play?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You're short on ears and long on mouth.
Speaker 8 (00:48):
Sixty percent of the time. It works every time.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
In fact, drunk and stupid. There's no way to go
through lifestock. I'm danging now we are in trouble.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, hold on.
Speaker 9 (01:34):
I was checking out a video from Daniel Dean. He
just got this new piece of equipment that he so
he does land dirt work and land clearing, always has,
and he started getting over the years more and more
people who wanted him to do pond dredging, because over
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a period of time, the silt raises your pond and
reduce is the amount of actual water you've got or
the distance in there on your pond. It's just a
natural thing that happens. So he needed a piece of
equipment for that. But the big thing was in the
Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They call it kelp I don't know what you call
it in a pond ask Holmes or one of these
people that would know. But ponds get overtaken with I
don't know if it's called fauna or growth or whatever.
I don't have the vocabulary to tell the story. But
you get the point. Green stuff, vegetation grows in the pond,
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and so whether you want to swim in it or
just look at it, you don't want all that vegetation.
So he bought this piece of equipment that looks like
a pontoon boat. So it looks like a pontoon. It
sits up, except it has but it looks like a
pontoon tank on the edge of it, I guess in
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that way like some of the tractors. But it's a
water tractor. So it has a platform with ramo what
do you call that stuff they put on the back
of You can use it for steps. People use it
for their tools and equipment. It's called kickplate or something.
You know I'm talking about. It's got little diamonds in it.
You know what I'm talking about? All right, Well, it
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has that. It's real silver and it's got a platform
and he's sitting on the top of it like he's
sitting on a tractor. And then it's got on the edge,
it's got like tank wheels, except those tank wheels are shredders.
And then on the front of it, it's got a
cherry picker. And then it's also got a deal that's
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like a lawnmower, and so it's the video is him
going out over the pond, over the vegetation and just
shredding it up. And I said, thank you for sending that.
I'm glad you explained it, but I must run this
piece of equipment. It is I never even seen anything
like that. You're out on the water just shreddings to
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just tearing stuff up. Look, we're gonna I just sent
it to you so you can see it for yourself.
I also so apparently ponds and lakes on people's ranches
that Rick Doak sells is the hot new thing. Who
knew who knew we're in the wrong business? From them?
I got an email from Jeff Keene at Trailer Will
(04:24):
and Frame. He said, you need to come out and
see our operations. Now we've got six bays for our
truck shop that are doing flatbeds, work trucks, trailer hitches,
ladder racks, toolboxes, auxiliary fuel tanks, bedliners, custom lighting. Those
are the ones we do most often. We do all
sorts of other stuff. We've got trailer parts, truck lists,
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ten thousand square feet of retail space trailer parts. We
are the largest distributor of dextra parts. The reason I
want you to come and see it is because ninety
percent of these people in here are Michael Berry Show fans,
and they tell us, well, how nice is that ramon diamond?
I said, dimond plate. I said diamond plate?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You did?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You weren't listening? Alan called and said that different?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Alan?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Okay, Well, I said diamond plate because they have diamonds.
All right, let's see Alan might Alan might drive me
to drink if he's on Bluetooth or pacing around or
down in the well again Alan, yep, Okay, that's a
good start. Okay, Yeah, all right, Alan, did you call
(05:37):
about something? Because I have a lot of questions?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yes, yes, Well, before you get.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
To that, hold on, what don't you eat for breakfast?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I had eight breakfast ship, I had drink one couple
of coffee, and I'll got me some eggs, you know, scramblation. Oh,
let me see potatoes, and all went down to Brooks.
Your brothers in town got knowledge.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And you'll make it yourself or mama'll make it for you.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, no, no, it's only made. It's colored egg bake.
So I'll just go down there and ride down there
in the town and get it to go. Now, I
used to cook when I have my kids over here,
but I don't cook.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, I was saying, they fix it for you or
or oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, well it's like a buffire or something. I mean,
you know, they got these different trays of food and
you terrible what you want? How much of it or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, and you bring it home and eat it rather
than eat it there.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, I mean you can eat it there if you
want to. I see, I don't eat breakfast hues each
other or eat till later on in today. So I
still got it. I even don't put it up yet.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay, so you brought it home, but you haven't.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Eat it yet, that's correct. Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So it got cold.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No, I'll eat it cold, golle.
Speaker 10 (07:01):
Oh what.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Kind of coffee do you drink? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Coffee? A little bit of cremi sugar or maybe a coffee,
black go On being coffee preferred.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Okay, so you go down to Tira to the Brookshire Brothers.
How much does a buffet cost?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh, it ain't a buffet. It's just you're just telling
them what you want, a play lunch or something like that.
And that's when I got casts about three dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah? I mean it's up too much or not enough.
I don't know. I'll just buy it.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I want, you know what. That's why people moved to Dayton.
That's why old boy moved to Dayton. What was the
black fellow's name, Ramon that we like so much, Larry Terry, Yeah, Terry,
that's bet. That's why he moved out there. Uh my good.
You can't get a gallon of gas in Houston for
three and fifty cents. They won't give you a biscuits.
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I'm won't play the biscuits right. You can't get a
biscuit for three point fifty.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
I had a.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Producer worth his salt, E would have had the biscuits
on it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Did True Texas original true national treasure.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
Don't mess around with.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This is the Michael berry show.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
In the.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Chase the biscuit. Taste the goodness of the biscuit. Chase
the Honeys sauce. Taste the goodness of the biscuit with
the honey sauce. To get that Honeys sauce on me.
I don't like the way it tastes with my chicken.
(08:59):
Where chase the biscuits. Chase the goodness of the biscuits.
Chase the butterspread. Taste the goodness of the biscuit with
the butter spread, to get your butterspread all on me.
(09:22):
I don't like the way it mixes with my mac
of cheese, because when you're at KFC, you got that
special sauce to serve my curiosity. Just give me a
find these meal Oh what a deal.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
A big old box. It's all for me.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
You know, I'll take asla on the side. I could
tell you wanted to try the potato wedges.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So Alan, what time will you eat this breakfast you
picked up?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh, whenever I get hungry, you're gonna drive me to
drink and buy about five o'clock this after you.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
So what did you get? What kind of eggs did
you get?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Scrambled scrambled eggs and potatoes and cheese gravy.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
But but I have something more important to No, No,
we're going to get to that. What kind of potatoes?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't know, Blombo boy, Colorado, Russians?
Speaker 12 (10:37):
Okay, Russian potatoes.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Interesting. You didn't put any sauce on it, any any
sauce or anything.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh no, it's just gravy, gravy.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
And you don't drink like some grapefruit juice.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
No, I do drink some juice, but I got water.
I'll probably just drink water. Right now.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You got all that from the outfie.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm still welcome on maccarnee. Yeah. Yeah, there ain't as
straight forty three. I'm surely yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh even better. I can't. I can't imagine that. Okay,
all right, what'd you call about?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I want to call this here. I truly believe the
first thing. I want to go and piggyback on echo
what Phillips said, Azeko thirty thirty nine. He is spot
on that I tell people sometimes many more timing. They
think I'm talking about the typing to Michael Barry Show.
Now I'm talking about the return of Christ. So he's
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a wealth of information inclusive. That guy is, he's what,
He's farther than I am. But I want to say
that Proverbs seventeenth forty twenty two. A cheerful heart is
good in medicine, but the crushed spirit dries up the bones.
And what other people think about me is their business.
What I think about myself is my business. What God
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thinks about me it's worth cancer. That's my final answer.
I don't like to be happy. You know, I've lived
in good life. I'll see a lot of comfort and stachers,
but all right, I'm happy. I'm happy, and I got
a lot to be scientful for him, I was like,
I'm half happy talking on the day. And also I
got a couple of trucker friend of my Shell Trucking,
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and they've heard my voice on your program. I got
one on Hillbilly out there in Canard, out east of Crockett,
and he's heard my voice on your radio before too.
So people love you out here, Michael. Two. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (12:37):
I like I like to laugh, like good humor and
everything I can tell that I can tell that you know,
you strike me as a guy who is comfortable in
his own skin.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Alan and that many, many people have been professionally successful,
and one would think they have all the trappings that
would make a man happy. But you are comfortable in
your own skin, and most folks never actually obtained that, and.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
That is a spiritual happiness. Actually, I want you to.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Me that I want you to do me a favor
real quick, go ahead. I want you to take me.
I don't want you to start at your house because
I don't want you to tell exactly where you are,
but I want you to start me at at the
Brookshire Brothers where you got the breakfast this.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Morning, okay, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I want you to take me up to Lancing, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
All right, Lansing, Michigan. There's just east or just west
of dh Lansing is the capital. That's right, that's up
on Isle sixty nine, and I'm gonna see you. Will
go out three twenty one over here to fifty nine
mars Is sixty eye now and run up to U
Shreeport forty nine, over to I thirty and thirty over
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to Little Muck forty over to Memphis I fifty five,
up to uh me Sheep up to UH fifty nine
over to uh Effingham Illinois seventy east. Yeah, you could
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go as seventy east over there to UH.
Speaker 12 (14:24):
Sixty through Columbus.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, that will be too far.
As seventy one go up through Columbus. Yeah, you could
even there. You could go on up there to a
Chicago and then you go west, I mean east.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
On Idavid Allen, you go. I went on the man
to throw you off, and I saw seventy and seventy
one coming into Columbus, and I thought, well, he's wrong.
But I had landing east of there, which is stupid,
and I realized I was too far east. And you
are absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
God, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Seventy one. I mean, if you're running up to seventy
one out of UH Cincinnati and go up to Columbus
all the way to Young Channel High through the Earn, Pennsylvania.
At Claire Cross, the dog Tiger Falls runs up there
to tiagera Falls area saw several times and oxy Chemical
got a place a bress, the real headquarters the Tiger Falls.
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I've had my kid up there. Hell, my daughter's rolling on.
Took him all over the country.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, Alan, do me a favor real quick. Yeah, we've
got to run for you from from Lancing down to
Demon you get me there real quick. I'm sorry, sorry,
it's from Lancing to Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Okay, all right, all right, Well then from Lansing here, yeah,
you probably just come right back uh east, I to
uh sixty nine and then go sixty nine south over
to our seventy and our seventy you'd run west. Oh god,
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you're on over two of them Afrigham, Illinois. No, you're
going over shank Ruis. Saint Louis would go sixty four
over to Earth.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Oh yeah, I got one, you know, my God.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Think qucy super chepherd mitter Michael Berry too.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
I was dragging my bags along a lonely, ignorant highway
when I came upon this lady in a lime and
yellow Cadillac Seville.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
She said, if you just going to the Promised Land
with me, you go right. So I had climbed it
up into that fansy car and set it down insad.
She asks me, girl, where are you being with your
wig all dusty and ignorantized, saying, look here, woman, I've
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traveled every road in this here lane. I've been everywhere, girl,
I've been everywhere, girl, I crossing desert bear girl, breathe
that mountain air. Girl, that traveling is my life.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Girl.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
I've been a away. I've been Reno, Skygo, far Go, Minnesota, Buffalo, Torondo, Winslow, Saisota,
Witch Tatusa While, Oklahoma, tampap Anima, Matawhi Lepelo, think about Tomorrow,
Savage over Amerillator wikilabaronil amerill I mkill. I've been everywhere, girl,
I've been everywhere. I crossed him old desert girl and
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breathed that mountain air. That traveling is my life, Honey.
I've been Everwhey. I've been to Boston and Charleston, Dayton
and Louisianna, Washington, Houston, Texan, Taxan to Monta Ray Fair
in the Santa Fe Telepicture, Glenn Rocks, Flat Rock, the
Lily Rock Hospital, Los Tennessee, Hennessey. You can be Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devil l A Cray Lake, pe Sek. I've
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been everwhere, girls, I've done been ever where. I breathed
both kumid and nasty ass. Had traveling been my life, honey,
I've been ever. Oh Lord, I've been to it, been
to Louisville, Nashley and Knoxville on Back, Shervilla, Jacksonville, Waterfield Coast,
Threek of Richvid Springfield, Beagle c Street, Boat, Hacksack, Cadillac
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Fund like that for Delagoya's your Etterstein down t the
Gatlina Canady and see what I mean good. I've been everwhere.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I've been.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
There, I where a girl. I crossed the old desert
Tony and breathed that nasty ass. Just traveling, been my
life good. I've been aver wh been to Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Randsburg, Colorado, Hillsburgh, Ricksburg, Vicksburg, Hilbrody,
lam Are, halving stars, nasking Nebraskam to ask and asking
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why do Luke Canabazouke can't see the sue city CC.
See this's the ignorant. I've been everywhere. I ain't know
why I hadn't been good. I've beef that nasty as
tabling is just in my blood. I've been every way,
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and now I'm ready to sit down.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Vowel rights. I listen every day, all three hours, some
of them evening. Allen is a great guy. I live
in Kennefick. He loaned me his chainsaw tree trimmer. One
time I gave him one of your Michael Berry Show stickers.
He went nuts. So we have now sent actually Belinda Folks,
who handles our bumper sticker program that Russell le Barrow
(19:54):
was kind enough to pay for. UH you get a
gringo's gift certificate into Michael Berry Show but stickers. She
has mailed that to UH, or is mailing that to
Alan as we speak, and Leboucherie Jason Oyer and family
are sending him a gift card to go to Laboucherie
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and get some good food for him and his mama.
Christian Wrights. I just want to respond to your comments today.
This was a few days ago about kids being more
conservative than their parents, especially after attending a liberal school.
When my son graduated high school and was accepted to
you Penn, we were worried he'd turn liberal with the
indoctrination that occurs on these campuses. He not only graduated
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a strong conservative, but he's a but he is stronger
in his Christian faith now than when he started, and
that was not easy to do as there were very
few Christian organizations on that campus. What he experienced on
campus and extreme left behavior he saw was not at
all tempting for him to change his viewpoints. He is
now a Republican voting Wharton grad working here in Houston
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in investment banking. Right on Sweetheart, right on.
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Ramona is in time out with the executive producer boss
of the show, Chad Nokanishi, because he referred to the
playing of the h Did you say it that way?
Because I didn't realize it until later he referred to
the playing of the weekend Review as a stall tactic.
Oh my goodness, that is time out with Chad NOCKANESHI
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time if ever there was one, but I didn't get
to finish it, and I would like to do that
now with your indulgence. Dusty Slay, who's one of my
favorite comedians, will say we're having a good time. He'll
say that in the middle of his routine all the time.
I feel like we're having a good time. So now,
without further adieu, I E you adieu, courtesy of the
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greatest executive producer in all the land, Chatticoni Nakanishi. Your
WEE commed you. I was Jimmy Swager, Michael Madsen, Sam Haskell,
Connie Francis, THEO from the Cosby Show, Ozzy Osbourne, Chuck Manzioni.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And Ault Hogan all just in a row there.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So we add to our sense of loss those taken
from us too early. Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
University of Colorado head football coach and Dion Sanders describing
his battle against an aggressive form of bladder cancer.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I depend on depend you know if you know what
I mean.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I truly depend on depend like I cannot control my bladder.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He's going to make incontinence and everything for men and
women something that you feel comfortable talking about because Dion opened.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
The door to it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
WNBA player on Sunday losing her wig in the middle
of a game, and then a fan got kicked out
from making.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Fun of the lost wig. It went through the rest.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Oh no, oh, no, oh no, she gonna go hat
to the back.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
The announcers tried to avoid It's like when somebody streaking
it again. They tried to avoid talking about it, but
there was a stoppage of play because lord knows, we
can't mention that a player lost her wig. That'd be racist.
The top ten shortstops in MLB history, I will off
the cuff make you a list of my ten favorite
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shortstops a long, long I must start with Craig Rentols,
because number one, I loved his little.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Side arm throw that he did.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And number two, he's the last white guy to ever
play shortstop in Major League Baseball. You know, one day
the way we study Rush, now, one day they will
go back in the archives and they will study the
show and they'll say, so, you're telling me that what
you consider good radio is the host trying to come
up with a list from when he last paid attention
to baseball in the seventies of his favorite shortstops. And
(23:52):
he gives extra credit for dudes being white.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Just broke in down, Calboy, only his luck in through
the past of his friend.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
All the long long some highway in an old pickup trail,
he crossed Texas like a hard dustill wind. He was
all around cowboy back to May and nine from the top.
It's been a long wave down since the whiskey and
(24:41):
the women started.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
And in his time.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
He rode in the high in the hall, in the ground,
he was memt plus the bell of be in when
in the days of inst udio, Look that's something by Whenny, how.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Come we're not friends with Charlie Crockett. That just feels
like a natural fifth, isn't it. Somebody should introduce us
to Charlie Crockett. That just feels like that needs to happen.
The production The Love budd Stean Joe has been race
driver Michael Barry funny Hacker.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's Ramond the King of Dean suggested for general audiences.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Linda is an eighty five year old nurse, so we've
moved her to the front of the line.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Linda really, yes, yes, of course, I'm glad you put
me in front.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Of the line.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Respect Thank you. I wanted to. I'll tell you that
this in Why Call, But I'll tell you that my
husband and I met Charlie Pride when he was first
arting in Conroe. There was a dead dance place I
don't even remember what it was, and we went over
there to dance and he sang so well, and we
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asked for a certain songs. He sang it, and then
he came over and sat down with us and talked,
and he was just like an everyday person and told
us that he didn't want to get really famous famous,
and we remember where he was from and all that
kind of thing. And after that, I just loved him
(26:30):
and I love him to this day. And I got
his records and everything, and I heard you say you
loved him like him? So what I talked for?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I remember where he was?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
What ever happened? I want to say Chicago, No Sledge, Mississippi,
sop my head, but I believe it.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Was Sledge, Mississippi. I always remember that because of Percy Sledge.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
If it wasn't Sledge, it was in the Sledge area, right, Okay,
I really I don't know. I don't remember that well,
but I do remember talking to him, and he was
just like an everyday person and it's.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You know, he wanted to be a professional baseball player.
He played in the Negro leagues. He was very, very good,
and he left his career doing that to pursue the music.
But his real focus was baseball and he believes that's that.
He believed that's what he would do with his life.
But it didn't come to pass. I think it probably
could have. But in any case, he's a he's a
(27:34):
fascinating character, just an absolutely fascinating man. But what do
you call about, sweetheart?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I called to ask you the woman that owned that majestic?
Speaker 10 (27:48):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Whatever?
Speaker 10 (27:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I know her husband drowned. What happened to her? Nobody
ever said anything about her after work? What happened to
the guy the pillow fellow? You don't hear anything about
him anymore either.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Okay, Dick Eastland was the was the husband you're asking
about with camp Mystic and he drowned. I don't know
what happened with his wife. To tell the truth, I
don't know. It was not reported that she passed. I
know that was it Nancy Ragsdale? I forget the woman's
first name, Ragsdale that had Heart of the Hills. I
(28:29):
know she passed, and I know Dick Eastland did. I
don't I'm assuming that Dick Eastland's wife survived. I don't
know the answer to uh yeah. I have to think
she survived, because otherwise you would have you would have
heard that reported. As I have mentioned, I was asked
(28:51):
to be a producer of a film called River of Angels.
That is a tribute to the folks who rescued and
recovered because everyone everyone did not survive. But it's equally
heroic for those people. In fact, perhaps more so, because
you don't get the immediate reward of handing over a
(29:14):
child who's alive to their parents when you hand over
a recovered body. But it means a lot to the
families and for folks willing to do that, that's tough.
You imagine how emotionally draining that is, but anyway, it
is a tribute to those folks. Lee Majors is involved.
It's Sean Wellings film and he has been filming since
(29:35):
the first day you could get into film, and he
has talked to people that haven't talked. They literally haven't
talked to any film crew or any media, and he
has sat down with them, firefighters, volunteer rescuers, recovery folks, volunteers,
people who did not want any conversation with outside elements.
(30:00):
He was able to get them to sit down. His
wife is from Kerrville and has deep, deep ties to
the community and that's why a lot of people talked
to them. But there are a lot of stories that
are going to come out of that documentary that I
think you will find to be extremely, extremely inspiring stories.
(30:25):
As the grief, I don't know if it subsides per se,
but as the grief becomes more manageable and we focus
on what we can learn from things I think it's
going to be a wonderful experience to get to celebrate
some of those people who stepped up and never expected
(30:46):
their names or stories to be remembered. And I do
think it will be appropriate in time. That's not what
our film does. I think it will be appropriate in
time to ask questions about things that could have been
done differently. Doesn't mean they were done wrong, but things
that could have been done differently. I know Dan Patrick
(31:07):
earlier in the week was pointing the finger at Kerrville,
sorry at Kerr County officials, and he got some criticism
for that. I don't think he deserves criticism for that.
I think it should be our responsibility. It's certainly his
responsibility is Lieutenant governor to ask questions and to demand accountability.
(31:32):
That's how you honor those who were lost, is you,
and that's how you prevent it happening in the future.
But I think tough questions should be asked in the future.
I think tough questions should be asked and answered. You
simply cannot sweep things under the rug. It's not the
case that everything has to be blamed on someone. I
(31:52):
don't believe that. I don't think that we have to say, well,
because people died, someone has to be shamed and named,
and that's not necessarily true. But I also don't think
that you should avoid accountability, as tough as that may be,
because just because we have a job and we're a
nice guy doesn't mean we did our job well. So
(32:13):
again that that is not the scope of our film
at all. But I do think in time that will
be something that that should have a very thorough review.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
And that's what it's what.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Good organizations and governments and households do. You ask questions
as to what went wrong and figure out how going
forward you can improve upon it. It's a real, real
dark day in Texas, July fourth, twenty twenty five. The
loss of life, it, I mean, far worse than than
(32:54):
I think. When you actually see the damage that was done,
and not just in loss of life, and how fast
it happened and how dramatic it was, it's a wonder
anybody survived. It really is. When you see some of
the footage I've seen and what happened that has not
been made public, it really is a wonder that anybody survived.
(33:15):
The number of people who were pushed through Niagara Falls
level PSI and survived slammed into trees, washer dryers going past.
It's a miracle. It really is a miracle. Dusty Sleigh
(33:36):
is a very funny comedian and I like a lot,
and he has two comedy specials on Netflix. If you're
a Netflix subscriber, I would encourage you this weekend to
go give those a watch there. I think if you
like our show, you'll get a lot of his humor
and you'll find it to be entertaining.
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