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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael darry Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, Clinton, you called down the thunder, Well.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Now you've got it.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You see that it says the United States. Marshall, don't
kill me.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Take a good look at him, Mike, because that's how
you're gonna hand up.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
The cowboys are finished.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
You understand me.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I see a.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Red sash, I kill one.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Man wearing it, So run.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Bright, come all the other turns alive. Coming, You tell
them I'm coming.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
And Hell's coming with me.

Speaker 6 (00:53):
You are, Hell's coming with me.

Speaker 7 (00:58):
And we're here for a very serious purpose, very serious.
Something's out of control, but we're going to put it
in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our

(01:21):
capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested
in me as the President of the United States. I'm
officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and placing
the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and
you'll be meeting the people that will.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Be directly involved with that.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Very good people, but they're tough.

Speaker 8 (01:49):
And they know what's happening, and they've done it before.

Speaker 7 (02:04):
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re
establish law order of public safety in Washington, d C.
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that
of Bogatah, Columbia, Mexico City, some of the places that
you hear about as being the worst places.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
On earth much higher. This is much higher.

Speaker 7 (02:29):
The number of car thefs has doubled over the past
five years, and the number of car jackins has more
than triple. Murders in twenty twenty three reached the highest
rate probably ever. They say twenty five years, but they
don't know what that means because it just goes back
twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Can't be worse.

Speaker 7 (02:47):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people, and we're not going to let it happen.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Anymore.

Speaker 8 (02:59):
We're not going to take it.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
Don't gonna take you round.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
We have other cities also that are bad, very bad.
You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look
at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other
cities that are very bad.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
New York has a problem.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
And then you have, of course Baltimore and Oakland.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
We don't even.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
Mention that anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
They're so they're so far gone. We're not gonna let
it happen.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
We're not gonna lose our cities over this, and this
will go further.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
We're starting very strongly.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
With DC, and we're gonna clean it up real quick,
very quickly.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
As they say.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Reading yesterday about the crime problem in DC and how
bad it really is all of our major cities, the
crime rates through the roof. It's embarrassing. You don't want
somebody to come to this country and visit our big
cities and see all those white people shooting each other,

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gang banging, carjacking, jugging, doing drugs on the street corner,
just white people everywhere running a muck. It's awful. The
white nationalism. It's in every major city, Oakland, as the
President noted, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Baltimore,

(05:06):
Los Angeles. Just white people everywhere acting crazy, just crazy,
fatherless homes, gang banging, the convenience store videos alone, just
white people going in and accosting the Indians and Asians
that own them, guns to their faces, stealing everything they have,

(05:30):
the flash mobs going in and stealing everything they have.
Just white people gone crazy in this country. Just white
people everywhere. You can't get away from it. The white
people fatigue, white people going into stores and beating up
the clerks, white people on cruises, just tons and tons
and tons of them, just wailing on each other. The

(05:54):
women getting in fights where their clothes are coming off.
Just white people everywhere, so many white people. I'm just
inundated and embarrassed and ashamed of all the white people
everywhere doing crazy things. In the rest of the country
going along, plugging along, being great. Americas are just a

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bunch of cluster of white people. It's not good. It's
just really terrible.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
And now once again here is grocery lists of white people.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh lord, I know you put white people buy.

Speaker 9 (06:33):
Gas, light, rent, phone, groceries, cable TV, insurance all and
a freeze stick them up, the older bars, fair replace
in your house, roach killed, rent for groceries, utilities, laundry,
tied poorocks, bounce gas and all for his car, Alca

(07:00):
Selsa mouthwash, cleaners, eggs, flax s, the older space, ray stars, hair, spray.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Shoe polish, troyt tissue, clean eggs, paper, towels, lots of belongs,
cokes and pop tarts, kneeling threads, lots of value dish washing, liquid,
garbage bags, peanut butter, stationary, cheap wine, blank cassette, tapes,
and carpet fresh.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
And it's just a list for one person. Just white
people run them up in this country. You got great.
The nation would be without these white people, wouldn't it
be wonderful. You can't ride the subways in New York
but for white people. Can't walk the streets of South
side of Chicago, Detroit. Just white people shooting at each other,

(07:51):
just everywhere. Just white people shooting at each other everywhere,
stray bullets, killing people, white people abusing welfare, abusing government monies, protesting,
tearing things up. You can't have a community pool in

(08:13):
your neighborhood without a whole bunch of white people coming
in and taking the damn thing over and run them up.
How do we do it?

Speaker 9 (08:21):
It's the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Web.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Because I've been in the market for a few years,
I get folks will send me new listings of interesting places.
It might be a second RCC. I got something called
Singleman Hall in Schulenburg or sale for one point eight.
What a beautiful, beautiful building it. It looks like it's

(08:58):
quite a few years old and eight architecture in a
great community. I love those old halls, just so much
history to them. And a lot of you moms and
maybe some of you dads are rather happy to send
the kids back to school today. Springs starting back today,
Fort Ben starting back today, hisd starting back today. How

(09:22):
was your school drop off today, Ramon or school send off? Huh?
It was hot? Okay, yeah, well it's as it should be.
Parents are crazy and the parking's crazy. Oh my goodness,
getting in and out of there. You know what part
of it is. Mothers especially believe that because I'm dropping

(09:42):
off my child, the rules don't apply to me. They
you see them in the grocery store. I have my child,
I have my child. I'm just gonna take up everything
all the time, and then you know if they do
crash into other people, they'll do this, Oh I'm sorry
child and everything. Yeah, I don't think my mom did that.

(10:04):
And you know she had a child as well. With
the new school districts or with the school districts back
to school, some new laws going into effect now. They'll
go into effect September first, but not very long from now.
New cell phone policies to adhere to the House Bill

(10:26):
fourteen eighty two, which bans students from using personal communication
devices during instructional time Box twenty six.

Speaker 10 (10:34):
With a story this school year, you won't be getting
texts like this one from your kids. Once they walk
through the doors of any Texas public school, they can't
use this or any other communication device. House Bill fourteen
eighty one banned cell phones in schools. Districts like Houston ISD, KADID,
and Snipeer ISD are among the first to roll out

(10:56):
written policies. All of these districts say cell phones can
be to school, but needs to be powered off and
stored for the entire school day. The ban includes all
communication devices, and some exclusions could apply for students who
need their phone for documented medical reasons. Most districts say
that phones can be stored in a backpack, but Friendswood

(11:16):
isd is requiring phones to be stored in a locking pouch,
while Klein and cifare are also banning earbuds.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I understand how much of a distraction phones can be,
but prohibiting them from being at school at all and
not being able to be accessible at all is just
a problem. My child is still an elementary school. He
doesn't have a phone, but he has a smart watch,
and I want him to still be able to get
in touch with me if he needs to.

Speaker 10 (11:46):
Each district has to a side on disciplinary actions for
breaking this rule, and at this point it seems like
HID is the only one who has established discipline.

Speaker 11 (11:56):
If the device is seen, heard, or used during this
school day, it will be removed and stored securely for
parent pickup. On first offense, parents may pick up the
device after school. Second offense, the device will be held
until the end of the next school day. Third offense,
the device will be held for the end of two
school days. Further instances could lead to formal disciplinary action

(12:20):
under the HIC Student Code of Conduct.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
So I'm very well aware that some of you do
not understand the concept of principle. Don't understand the idea
of having an overarching set of theories that guide your decisions.
You just look at well, cell phones are bad and
the school are bad, and so yeah, I mean yeah, yeah,

(12:47):
Do that make some other state laws? Yeah, some kids
are too tall and too short. Do the law for that?

Speaker 6 (12:58):
No?

Speaker 11 (13:00):
No, no.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
You do not want the state legislature to be making
laws for the school district related to policies that could,
if chosen, be made by the school district. Now you
might say, yeah, but the school district can't do it
because the parents. I mean, this is what I get.

(13:26):
The parents will go up there that Karen moms will
go up there and complain. If you can't run your
school district, we got a bigger problem than cell phones.
You want local control of the school district. You don't
seem to understand that the kind of people who end
up in a state legislature are Shila Jackson, Lee and

(13:48):
Jasmine Crockett. You don't want people in Austin every other
year for a few days, almost half of whom flee
the state to avoid making decisions, to be making the
rules for your school district in saladoh or Hampshire Finnet
or Abilene will Michael. The schools hadn't prohibited them, so

(14:12):
you know the state, let's lect you had to This
could not be worse. This is exactly what you don't want.
Why don't we have Congress make the rules. How about
we have Congress make the rules and override the state rules.
We'll have Jasmine Crockett and AOC and ilhan Omar making

(14:33):
rules out of DC for your kids' school. If the
schools believe that cell phones in the school are that problematic,
it is their responsibility to have some sort of regulation
to take the cell phones out of the school, or

(14:58):
at least out of the classroom. Whatever excuse you have
for why they can't do that means they don't control
the school anymore. But wait, let's get into practice here.
Let's see how we apply this. So we've got a
state legislative committee of some people in Austin from places

(15:19):
that have never been to your community. They've made a law,
and now who's going to enforce that the school? Again,
the school's going to enforce the law that they could
not enforce before they needed a law to do that.
We're going to hire more school police officers. That's one trend. Look,

(15:41):
I don't think you ought to have cell phones in
the classroom either, But you remember everyone's internet unrelated coming up?
Pride Southern Friede to Michael Barry show so a couple
of years ago, or I Am a Man on the
Moon and everything announced that they were no longer going

(16:05):
to service the BlackBerry, also known as the Crackberry, and
the immediate reaction was what it hadn't been around for
fifteen years? Good to know a friend's wife. I asked
a friend where his wife was the other day. He said, well,

(16:28):
she's gone to the funeral of a mutual friend of ours.
And I paused, befuddled. You know how your dog will
give you that rut roller and you go. I thought
he died a long time ago. I had no idea.

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Well I had one of those moments. Did you know
that dial up still existed? In twenty twenty five, AOL
announces that they are shutting down their dial up internet service,
and a whole bunch of people like me are thinking,
I didn't know you were still doing dial up, stating

(17:13):
on their website that the service will be stopped on
September thirtieth. Who's affected by this? Well, there was a
time Friends dial up. In nineteen ninety five, AOL had
ten million customers.

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You can send and receive email even across the Internet.

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I've done that.

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(18:19):
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Speaker 1 (19:19):
It opened a world of possibility. So much knowledge out
there available at your fingertips. You could probably still make
the noise yourself of what it sounded like right after
you make the noise of the facts machine. Remember standing
at the fax machine waiting on the facts to come in.

(19:40):
I had a real estate company and we'd submit an offer,
and you would wait for the facts to come in
with the written response. Oh, you'd read it, and then
you'd tear it off, and you'd oh, my god, it's
like a baby coming into the world being birthed. The
facts was coming through. Now you didn't even need paper.
You're just line up for the dial up internet. Oh

(20:03):
it was slow as molasses, but you didn't know that
because you didn't have anything to compare it to. Well,
we had a legendary company here in Houston with a
a an inimitable. I don't know what that means ramonment,
but it's the sort of word you use for people
that It's like when people say, yeah, ask how was
the experience? You know, a bomb went off, eight children

(20:26):
were born to your wife at one time? Anything crazy?
It was surreal. I don't know what that means, but
that's the word they use. Well. Inimitable seems like the
kind of word you would use for my dear friend
Roy Marsh, who, along with his brother Robert, founded Everyone's Internet.
Do you remember everyone catching the wave? Just turn on

(20:47):
cobind You've been better sermon than you'd ever respect. Get
some respective, jump on more.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
We got a world to share.

Speaker 6 (21:00):
Just a month.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Are you listening yet?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
There's a new wave.

Speaker 8 (21:04):
It's Everyone's Internet.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
What started as Beeper Booty, what started as Beeper Boutique.
These two brothers built into Everyone's Internet. And there was
a time they were given more in philanthropic that means
charitable ramon donations and probably anybody in this town. I
met Roy Marsh. I was on fifty nine southbound southwest technically,

(21:30):
although at that point really more west than south but
and I had exited Shepherd, or maybe I'd come up Shepherd.
Follow me here, I've turned west on the fifty nine feeter.
I am heading toward Kirby, which is going to be
a north south intersection. I am in the middle lane

(21:57):
and in the rightmost lane in front of As we
head up to Kirby, and eventually we stopped, or maybe
we were still at the Shepherd intersection. There was a
yellow Chevy SSR. You remember those. Those were cools like
a convertible truck, like an El Camino, but even cooler,
great styling, sort of rounded off. There was a fellow

(22:20):
in that and he had real thick flowing hair like
the mad scientist. What was the guy's name in Back
to the Future. Yeah, it was like Doc Brown, A
little bit like Doc Brown. He had a constant smile
on his face like he was up to mischief, which
he was. And he drives up. He's he's pulled up

(22:43):
to the stop side, and I pull up and I
make it my business. I'm on city council at the
time to get to know people. This was back when
I liked people, and I decide I need to get
to know this fellow for sure. That's Roy Marsh. I
know exactly who that is. So I pulled up beside
him and I rolled down my window, you know, being
rich and everything, I could put a push a button

(23:05):
and rolled the window down. Ramon power windows, mind you,
and the window rolls down, and I said, are you
Roy Marsh? And he said I am. I said, I'd
Michael Barry and I'd like to get to know you.
I used to do that and he said, follow me.
Light turns green. He guns it. Well, I can't gun it.
I'm in a four cylinder or something. But I slide

(23:26):
in behind him, pull up behind him, and just over
fifty nine on the fifty nine, just over Kirby on
the fifty nine feet or you could turn right into
what was called Corporate Plaza. It was a terrible office
building with an incredible location. It was brick with kind
of a cream and green trim, if I recall. And
we pulled in and we pulled up and he shook

(23:48):
my hand, come on up. We go upstairs and it
was all glass on the front and it was ghost
It was my kind of place. It was like me
if I had money. It was just stuff everywhere. There
was a yeah, mean basketball and a Tracy McGrady Paris
shoes size thirty one. And I went in and he
gave me the tour. We've known each other for thirty

(24:10):
seconds at this point. He introduces me to everybody in
the shop, and it just it's like in the movies, right,
just moves real fast and you follow in his wake
and his aura, and you're going and we've got to
be very good, very good friends out of that. Well,
Roy Marsh, now I'm just kidding. He's our guests. Hold
on the information that I get from the show that
I don't seem to get from other places.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
The Michael Barry Show and Man no Man, I'm.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
AOL announcing that they will be discontinuing their dial up
at the end of September, And I said, who still
has an account? And Kyle writes, Zara, I still have
an AOL email. I use it as my burner for
online shopping, had it since probably nineteen ninety seven. Now
I think you can still use your emails, right, you

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just can't do the dial up. Somewhere somebody is using
dial up. Roy Marsh, along with his brother Rob, was
the creator of Everyone's Internet, which was a going concern
in Houston. I met Roy at the height of his philanthropy,
and he would kindly invite me to places with him,

(25:19):
and it was like match. There's only a few people
in town that spend money at auctions, and he and Mac.
You know, it's like when they do the Fatted Calf
at the rodeo. There's only a few people bidding, you know,
a couple of plaintiffs, attorneys that have hit big cases
and want to get in the news. And then there
was Roy. And you'd go to these sports memorabilia things
and he would just if something didn't sell, he'd just

(25:41):
buy he bit against himself, spend crazy money. He's one
of my favorite I don't get to see him much
because I don't see anybody anymore. He's one of my
favorite people in the world. I just adore this guy.
Roy Marsh, Welcome to the program.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Thank you, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Roy. Did I ever tell you in the stories we
didn't know about each other. I once traveled the trans
Saharan Highway in an old funeral coach with all the
signs removed.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Get out.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I've been through the desert in a hearse with no name.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
So you have it.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You get massages, do you Roy. Well, my massage therapist
was having the most difficult time working on my back.
She asked, on a one to ten scale, how stressed
are you? And I said, honestly, only point two, and
she nodded and said that explains that you're two tenths.

(26:38):
We might do this all morning. My wife says it's
disgusting to pee in the shower. I suppose I should
wait till she gets out. Well, you sound very peppy
in this hour.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Was this because I told Ramon that I would play
the straight band today.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
As opposed to the usual rumors about Roy Marsh have
been confirmed. Uh, Roy, you know, I know, I know.
We've talked about this on the air. But before we
get to internet and dial up in the go go
days and how awesome you are and how much I
adore you, take us back. You and your brother an
interesting and interesting thing. Although I've seen this more often

(27:24):
than than maybe people would expect you and your brother
take us back to how Booper Booper beeper boutique started,
because before we can talk internet and dial up, we
have to talk about the beeper phenomenon of the eighties,
and you guys rode that wave. So take it away.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Well that started when uh my father and brother were
working for another cell company and their accountant something von
Wippenstein that was his actual last name, crashed that company.
So they had to do something. So they started their

(28:06):
own little company over on Bengal and got into the
beepers just by happenstance. A salesperson came in said, hey,
you know you really ought to add this to the
cell phones. Yeah, and they did it. So I think

(28:31):
I got fired or something from a job and like
dads like, well, you know, you can come work for
slave wages, and so I joined them. But at that
point beepers were just they were professional, you know, doctors.
So we were like, let's take it to the masses.

(28:53):
Let's use radio to approach people. Hey, folks, this is
something you can have access to, and radio is a
perfect way to reach people where you have active listening,

(29:13):
like the Michael Berry Show. So that grew from one
little store to I think at one time we had
twenty five stores across Texas and Louisiana. But we were
seeing that cell phones were gaining in popularity and people

(29:34):
were starting to let their pagers go and go with
the new technology. So our technology provider says, hey, listen,
we know the Internet. You guys know selling, why don't

(29:56):
we go together and start an Internet dial up access
And that was the genesis of everyone's Internet. Put up
a couple of hundred thousand dollars EE, or actually one
hundred thousand dollars each got going. Started advertising on TV

(30:25):
because my brother wanted to get the free Super Bowl
tickets from the of the TV station. TV did nothing
for us. Then Russell and Marshall Williams had results came
in and said, hey, listen, you need to be on radio,

(30:46):
and you don't. It's not just any radio, you need
to be live endorsement radio.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
Now.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
The difference in a live endorsement spot and an avail,
which we we're taking broad rotator a veil. You're buying
leftover inventory, so you get it cheap and it may
run at six am, it may run five pm, you
know somewhere in that slot that you bought. But they

(31:14):
convinced us to spend I think it was either five
or six hundred dollars for a live endorsement for Kalel
and I'm against it. My brother and father they're like, hey,
we got to do something. You know we're not. You know,
we signed up one hundred customers last month. We need

(31:35):
to do better than that. And so, you know, we're
listening that that first morning it's supposed to air, and
I hear the spot and I hear, you know, they're
going on it's forty five seconds into fifty seconds and
they're trying to fill time on the sixty second spot

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and Boner pops up. Yeah, eb one, it doesn't suck.
And I'm about I think I threw. My brother's office
was across the bullpen, and I don't know what I threw,
but I'm sure I threw something, yelled cursed. But before

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I could get over there, the phones just blew up
and the guy, uh, the guys were right Live Endorsement
Radio worked it. We blew up Houston and from that,
you know, we we've got into the web hosting whatever.
But it was an incredible ride. Our people did amazing things.

(32:48):
You know, with with the dial up you had to
send out.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
A disc that's right.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
So I mean at first we were buying, buying blank
visc pop the software and sending it out in a
playing mailer.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Roy Marsh was the co founder of Everyone's Internet If
you're over the age of forty, you know what that is. Otherwise,
ask your parents