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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The air.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Of the weekend, reading about the weaker US dollar and
the global buying of gold to hedge against other countries
buying gold to edge against their own currency. Well, let's
go back to our basic economics. And I know you
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know this, but this is for the kids in the
back that weren't paying attention. But now are The s
just got real? So what happens when we have a
scarce commodity i e. Gold or viz gold and the
demand does not increase while this, oh sorry, the supply
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does not increase while the demand increases. Stables supply increase
in demand. I don't know why the example that always
pops into my head as being the best example for
the every person because literally every person can identify if
you're my age, You remember, bro, what year was cabbage
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pass dolls? We didn't huh okay, he says, eighty four
eighty five. We didn't have any roles in my house.
My poor mother, it was just boys, nothing but a
bunch of boys. And I didn't hardly see my girl
cousins as much as my boy cousins. All my friends
came over were boys, so it was just a bunch
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of guys. Things like cabbage patch dolls. That wasn't you
know all the things that girls did. We didn't know
anything about it, but I remember we went to kmart
in Orange, or as my mother would say, went to
Kmart's and she had to buy something the blue plate
special or blue light special or something.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Jackie Smith makeup.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Something was happening, and they had received a shipment of
cabbage patch and then by shipment they had been promoting
maybe they had two. You know, like talking to lone
star chevyes Mike Batchiss the other day and he was
talking about the things that makes them crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
People will will.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Advertise Chevy Silverado brand new for one thousand dollars and
people run over there and they go, oh, we just
sold it, but I got this one over here.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I can sell you for whatever it is, eighty.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Grand, but I wanted that one for one thousand dollars because.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, well it was only one of those, and so
basically it's a right off to get a bunch of
people over there and now upsell you. And he's like,
I'm just not going to do it, and that's that.
And if we lose sales on the deal. But if
you if you stay and buy a vehicle from somebody
who does that, you're rewarding that behavior. Like you want
to thump somebody on the ear. If you ever find
out they bought anything from a telemarketer, if nobody ever
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bought anything ever from a telemarketer, they would have to
shut down.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Does it make sense.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So we were at the kmarts and they were going
crazy over cabbage passion dolls and they hardly had but
you know, just a couple we were a little town,
weren't going to We weren't high on the priority. And
that night on the evening news it was people fighting,
snatching wigs over cabbage patch dolls, women because they had
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to have it for their kids. You know, it was Christmas.
They had made people crazy over the cabbage patch. Well,
the cabbage patch did not all of a sudden turn
into gold. Did not all of a sudden. It really
didn't have any any virtue to it in the first place.
But it didn't change. But the demand reduced while the
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supply increased, and that drove the value of the bourbon supply.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
A few years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You got to lay those barrels down twelve years before
you sell them for good bourbon. So there was a
relatively steady, relatively consistent mildly like a step, a step
up plateau going on there. It was a step Steppe Remont.
I don't know if you heard the step the way
I said at it right. That's a geographical term. Well,
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a long and short of it is when the demand increase,
they couldn't increase the supply because it takes twelve years
to put more bottles on the shelves.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So that shot the prices.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Up collectors, and that was part of the thrill for people,
is you couldn't get it, and that made it more
and more valuable. So what we have here is as
people started saying, hm, that weaker US dollar, we need
to hedge against our own currency. Let's buy some gold. Well,
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as long as just one person buys gold, that's fine.
You keep a relatively steady market. But when Brazil finds
out El Salvador's buying gold, they want to buy gold.
And then when Austria finds out Brazil is, they want
to buy gold. So I just called Kenny Duncan junior
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at US coins eight four five Katie Freeway, and I
told him this morning, I said, keep me apprized today
because I stayed up way past where I'm supposed to
last night and I'm reading about the week dollar causing
gold to go crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
There are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Who are not believers in the US dollar, A lot
of people, an increasing number of people.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Because, as has been said by.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Key Kalasaki, I forget the guy's name, rich Dad, poor dad,
who actually turns out.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
To be a scam marist. But let's leave that's side.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
For say, he will take out a dollar bill and say,
this is tilet paper, this is tarlet paper.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But if you want to sign up for his class,
it's ninety seven USD.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
He'll say, you know you need assets, real estate, gold,
So gold right now. When the dollar gets weak, when
this stock market gets volatile, that is when gold goes crazy.
So I said to Kenny during the break, I knew
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he'd be busy. I said, Kenny, I need one minute
of your time, literally, and I stick to it. I said,
what did we open at today and what are we
at right now? He said, we opened at thirty six fourteen.
We're at thirty six forty four right now. The idea
that it went over thirty six hundred per ounce. I
think we're at record highs right now.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I need to check that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But I was reading late last night and my retention's
not always as good late night reading.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But gold is on fire right now.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
If you are a person that is looking to buy
or sell gold, you can email me and I'll connect
you with Kenny Duncan Junr or just drive over eighty
four to thirty five Katie Freeway. So I said, are
people coming in to sell? Because if you're betting, okay,
we've hit the high, it may come down. Let me
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dump Papov's gold that I then you rush in and
sell today. But if you say I'm looking at a
run up and thirty six is not the end of
the road, I want to catch some of that wave.
So you come in to buy at thirty six forty
four today, hoping it's going to four.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And he said, I got four fellers and three buyers
this morning. That's kind of been the trend this morning.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
They're at eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway, US coins
or email me. I'm glad to connect to Cherry. I
am fascinated by commodities.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Marie play of songs again.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The song would be in my top five of the
garden Party. You think it's really simple name, you think
there's not much to it, and you find out the
story behind it has so many deep, profound layers, and
you already like the song.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And the truth.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Is he's got a good melody to start with everyone,
he's got a great velvety voice, and at that point
in his career he had really kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Softened it and for public consumption.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And then you find out what it's about, and you go, wow,
that's deep. Man. Do you think puff the Magic Dragon
is about anything other than.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
A dragon?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
What lived?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And you think that's what it was about?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
No, No, what you're pointing out the index finger and
thumb and your other fingers up and putting it to
your lips and then throwing it up in the air.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think I know what you're talking about. I think
I do quick programming.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Note we have space for two more couples on our
Palm Beach three trip, which will be at the end
of October, the last weekend in October. If you are
interested in more details, you can email me through the website.
Michael Berryshow dot com, Emily will send you a message
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that sounds like we're trying to scare you off, which
we kind of are. I vet the people who come
because I'm going to spend four days with people in
close quarters. We're out on a yacht, we're on a
private plane. I'm bringing people tomorrow Lago. I mean, you
don't want somebody that's going to pass out the middle
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of the floor when the president.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Walks in if he does.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You don't want somebody that's going to hurl all over the.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Gold plated toilets.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I mean you've got to have You know, there's a
lot that goes into a trip like this.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's not cheap. It's thirty thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So if you're the person that can't afford it, but
would rather just say that's too expensive, because that's your
way of coping, that's your business too. I don't do that.
I can't afford a Rolls Royce. I don't run around
saying rolls Royces are awful and evil because I can't
afford one. It's okay. I grew up not being able
to afford anything, had a great life, not mad at
anybody about it. That's probably not true, but I like
to think it is that part. Send us an email
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through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. Write letter P
letter B number three as the subject line, or Palm
Beach or mar A Lago, and Emily, my able assistant,
who is also our events director, will send you an
email with a tone that sounds like we're trying to
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get you not to go, because what we've learned is
kind of like a boot camp. Somebody goes through that
email and says, yeah, I can do that. Yeah, I
can do that. Can't be a Sage five cleaner, Yeah,
I can do that. Can't be drunk in public, pukell everybody,
Yeah I can do that. Yeah I think I still
like to go. What was I going to go to next?
Jason wrote me an email. I hear you talk a
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lot about the trades. My son, after getting aggravated his
first semester in twenty twenty of college, decided that was
not the path he wanted to take and got into
refractory work when he was nineteen, which is creating structures
out at the refinery with high temperatures.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
My mother used to say temperatures. Did ever tell you that?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
She had a number of words she mispronounced, and my
brother and I would have so much fun. I'd call
him up and I'd say what's the temperature? In His
response would be that cat was black. She couldn't say black.
I can remember for hours sitting and saying, Hey, Mom,
we're going to say five.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Words in a row. You're ready back back sack sack
crack crack black black, god, dog it gosh dogging.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We do not have dishonest family members who live in
a house full of books.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's not a library, it's a libary. Lie Bravery.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Back to Jason's son, he taught his he bought his
first house and was making six figures a year, and
by twenty three years old bought his second car. Because
he travels all over the country on some of these jobs.
The younger generation needs to realize there's more opportunity than
ever to be a to create income. How about that?
How about that? Now that's I love those stories. I
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absolutely love those stories. I wanted to get to a
couple of things I read last night and made notes
about a very very prominent lawyer in this town who
I know very well in respect for his pure genius
and legal acumen, said many years ago when I was
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still a partner at the firm where he was. I
went to a law function one evening. The speaker was
someone I'd never heard of, but he was the Solicitor
general est State of Texas. Turns out his name was
Ted Cruz. After listening to him speak off the cuff
for thirty minutes, my reaction was, my goodness, I sure
hope I never had to oppose that guy in court.
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His command of the cases was awesome. And that's all
I've ever heard ramon you ever do sauna treatments? So
I don't have three hours to listen to Rogan like
Chad does. I don't know how anybody does that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You have patience. But I get clips sent to me of.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, kind of the highlights of what people do,
and one of them was Rogan talking about saunas with
this guy who's supposed to be that's kind of he's
a you know, wellness is big business now and this
guy was recommending four days a week for twenty minutes
a session.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's a lot of sauna, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So late last night I sent an email to my
dear friend, doctor Stan Duckman, and I said, what do
you think about sauna treatment because I'm reading a lot
about it, and I sent him the quote four days
a week, twenty minute, and here's all the effects it's.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Supposed to have.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
This morning, six oh five am, he writes, Good morning,
what a beautiful morning. There have been several studies conducted
regarding the use of saunas, and various cultures obviously have
used them forever. Ock Obama real into the oh that's different,
that's yeah, different deal. I am unaware of any data
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that showed any life extension with regular use of a sauna.
Many of the physiological responses to the heat are also
elicited with exercise. Well, yeah, Stan, but I'd rather sit
my fat ass in a sauna than go exercise.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's always funny when people like.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Him because he exercises, does everything in moderation.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Smart as hell, I mean the whole thing. Hey, doc,
can I take this pill? It maybe help me lose weight?
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well, the pillar work fine, but you can also eat
less and move around, as Walton Johnson used to say. Well, yeah,
if I could do that, I wouldn't need the pill.
We're looking for a shortcut, so he says, I am
unaware of any data that showed any life extension with
regular use of sona. Many of the physiological responses to
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the heat are also listened with exercise. The bottom line is,
I do not think that sona therapy is harmful, but
I do know that it would necessarily extend But I
do not know that it would necessarily extend your healthy life.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I hope that helps. However, I have not.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Reviewed this stop topic for several decades. I will take
a look at that today as now you've made me
curious if there's anything new in the field, and I
will report back. I love that doctors still want to
learn because there are new developments every darn day. The
godfather of britpop has passed eighty one years old. Sir Davies,
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founding member of Super Tramp.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Was Ray Davies was the godfather. No, Ray Davies was
his god brother. Rick Davies was the founder of Super
Tramp and a lot of good hits.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Take the Long Way Home, the Logical Song, which I
think is the most un heralded of the songs, underrated,
Goodbye Stranger, which you heard there. You know, we're at
an age where those guys that were big in the
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late sixties and early seventies would have been twenty to
twenty seven years old, which means that they were born
at about forty five. He was born in that same era,
and now they're about eighty years old, and it's very
common at that age to pass oh way, So you
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know we're going to keep losing those those folks. I
was telling the story on Facebook over the weekend. You know,
when I was young, younger, everybody that I loved was
older than me, and you don't realize how good you
have it. Everybody you love is older than you, and
all is well, and then they start dying. And now
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I'm truly middle aged, and a lot of people who
I loved and admired and trusted and respected and enjoyed
are not alive anymore. And so I find myself many
days driving and wanting to call someone that I would
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have called before, and I script out a conversation before
it happens. Here's what I'm going to say, Here's what
they're going to say. Usually, because I don't. I'm not
a person who calls and says, hello, how are you,
I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I hate that, So I usually call with something like
I'm mad at you before they can ever say anything why,
And then I'll have some thing that'll make them think
and then they laugh, and then we laugh and we
go back to the story that made me say that,
and then haha, all as well. So of course I
miscalling my brother and him rolling his eyes at whatever
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I'm telling him I'm up to. And I miss calling
my mother finding out what dad, how much my dad's
getting on her nerves, and you know, Michael, did you
see this on the news the other day.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Or whatever else?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And I miss calling my second dad, my mentor Walter Zivley.
I've had a few second dads, if you hear me
say that, Barry Lewis and Fred Zeideman or in that category.
But I would call Walter and tell him something that
I had just accomplished, and I was so proud of
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and I wanted his validation. I wanted him to be proud.
But he knew MY weakness is hubris, and so he
would kind of tamp it down. Don't get too big
for you briches in this country drawl. He had been
from Mineral Wells, Texas, And there's days that I just
I'm driving along and I by once. Well, I shouldn't say.
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Somebody else may have his cell phone number now, but
I know his cell phone number and I haven't called
it in ten years. He's been gone, and I sometimes
I'll just think, oh, well, I'll die that, Or I
know my grandmother's number eight eighty three and I won't
say the last four numbers and I can remember. I mean,
I can think to myself, well, I'll just call it
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one time. But the good news to come of that
is that I have a wistful moment of I wish
I could call and have that experience, but I realize
there's somebody alive today that tomorrow I'm going to feel
that way about. So rather than embracing the sorrow, make
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new memories. So that's usually when I'll call Ramon. I'm like,
he may not live very much longer.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Let me coo. But I do I use that moment.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I always use that moment to call my dad, but
I use it to call other people as well. Oh yes,
forget about the crime in the Houston area and just
build more bike trails because bicycles are going to solve
our problems. ABC thirteen reports on the series of crimes
around Houston at bike trails and parks. A seventy year
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old man attacked on White Oak Trail just the latest
of ongoing attacks.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh sorry, I realize you were napping Number one clip
number one from Chad Rama's Napping. If everybody's keeping let's
caring home. Sometimes he naps and I wake him up louly.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Just update came when police released this sketch more than
two weeks ago. They say this is the man they
believe is responsible. Please say he's connected to four groping
incidents in which he rode up to women on a
bike touched them inappropriately before riding away. They say his
fifth lednettack was much more serious, Please.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Saying it happened at the.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
End of July when he robbed a pregnant woman, knocks
her to the ground, and kicked her in the stomach,
causing her to miscarry. We covered the deadly stabbing of
a grandfather on August seventh. He was killed while biking
to work on the Harrisburg Hike and Bike Trail and
the Harris County Precinct. One Constable's office says they've increased
patrols at Shepherd Park after a man tried to pull
two women into the bushes. They say both were able
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to get away and that man is still on the
loose now. We spoke to a man who filed a
police report Monday after he says a jogger knocked him
off his bike, assaulted him and stole his phone on
the White Oak hike and bike trail near Hog Park.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
I think if we're going to build these public spaces,
we need to protect him, and we need if people
are going to use them, they need to feel like
that they're safe there. And I think there are things
that can be done to make people feel safe and
to make people actually safer, such as I think some
people have said Jess and putting more nine one one
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boxes more lighting.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Today we spoke to Councilman Abbey came in. He represents
District C where a number of these incidents have happened.
She says at Memorial Park. Her office has funded an
off road utility vehicle that allows police to respond to
incidents deeper in the parks, as well as adding security cameras.
Though we do want to note none of the crimes
we've mentioned here happened at Memorial Park.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Memorial Park, isn't that where the park ranger.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The MP ranger was running up on people, threatening to
arrest him if they didn't have sex with him.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I was doing my job, worked in the park jobation well,
the clams key, it claims key.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's done for a girl and the boy. I like
like a berry Shore.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm going to challenge you to do something today that
will take no more than five minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Of your day.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
There's so much, but when you get home to your
wife or ladies, when you get home to your husband
or he comes home to you, whatever that may be,
it will be the highlight of your day. I guarantee you. So.
I have found that gratitude is godly, it is biblical,
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it is spiritual, and it is cathartic. I came to
Houston in eighty nine not knowing a soul. Now it's
two hours from Orange. I'm not trying to act like
you know, some missionary and you rock as a Christian.
But I didn't know anybody, and it was a big
city and I started over. Frankly, I kind of liked
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that I got to recreate myself. I got to be
who I wanted to be. I got to be who
I said I was, and nobody said.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, but you're booger in fourth grade, I.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Didn't eat my book. I mean I probably did eat
my booger, but I wasn't known as a booger reader,
not like.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I got called.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I'm just saying, you know, it's not easy always to
grow up and live in the same town because people
remember you back when you did stupid stuff. So from
the time I got to Houston, there were so many
people who for whatever reason saw talent in me, or
I begged them, or some combination of the two, or
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they just had a philanthropic spirit. They helped me. Lawrence
Curry at the University of Houston, Ross LNT's professors, Dean
Estes Ted Estest, who was my professor. I posted a
poem of that he had exposed me to this weekend.
Robert Linberry, who was my thesis advisor and became a
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dear friend. John Kaufman, who was a World Realm's geography
professor at the University of Texas and a rabble rouser
of the first sort. He was this big He looked
like Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes. It was this big,
fat gay guy with a big goofy mustache. Who wore
cheap sands belt suits and had such a passion for
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world geography that every frat boy, every redneck, every rotc
guy took his World Realms class. It was all men.
It was it was It was about the rugged individualism
around the world of explorers and people who who tamed
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the earth and made things come up out of it. Oh,
I think about how kind all these people were to me.
And then law school and Professor Leno Grauia, who was
nominated for the Court of Appeals on the same day
as antonin Scalia, two Italian Americans. It was a Reagan
initiative in nineteen eighty six, but he was shot down
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in the way that they wronged Trump. They tolen o'grawiy.
Was the first time the ABA ever shot down a candidate,
their nomination for a candidate because he was too conservative.
He was my first real awakening to what would later
be called conservatism. And Michael Sterling, who chose me to
go to England and get another law degree because I
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loved the study of law, and then I got out
from there. In Don Brodsky, who hired me out of
law school. In Pat Sharkey, who was the head of
the Hibernian Society and our real estate section is still
a friend of mine to this day. And I could
just go on and on. Barry Lewis, who invested in
my internet company that failed in two thousand and four,
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Eddie Martini, who believed in this guy and put him
on the air when that just wasn't done, and then
put me in charge of three stations. The CEO of
our company had to approve it. Largest radio company in
the world, and he said, well, look at it this way.
You know he's a complete outsider. If it doesn't work
in six months with fire.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Him, well ed. It didn't tell me that until much later.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And then I think about all the different stations around
the country. The first one Robert Dove at k EX
eleven ninety and in Portland, who took a chance on
me when senior vice president of our company said, you
don't want him, he's two Southern Fried. So they put
on a guy from Minnesota, and they put him on
for six months and they were still registering a zero
point zero and he said, all right, I did your experiment.
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It's been six months. I want Michael Barry. I don't
care if he's Southern Fried, and overnight, revenues came in
and people came in, and we had station events where
thousands of people would show up. It was incredible and
it never would have happened. And Michael Hudson in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
who put me on WJBO, my second station, and how
he believed in me, and all my wife who believed
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in me, all these people who believed in me. Over
the years, every single time a sponsor comes on as
a sponsor of our show, I tell him this is
not a transactional relationship. If you're on TV and print
and SEO and all that, don't add me to your mix.
I don't want to be another way you advertise. I
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don't want you to measure leads. I don't want you
to look at cost per lead. I don't want to
know how to activate an audience with your.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Called I hate all that stuff. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
There's a place for it. Sure, that's how you sell
Johnson and Johnson's supplies or tires. We created a community here,
and as sappy and silly as it may be, it's
meaningful to me. It's important to me, and I've seen
how it makes a difference. I've seen how we've been
able to make a difference for people in their lives
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because of you and the things you do, and that
matters to me. And I don't want to be just
another show.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Where you're doing the Sunday Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Or Memorial Day sale or tell Michael Barry you send
them or ten percent off, and that doesn't work for everybody.
But all that being said, listeners had to believe in us,
and we are an acquired taste. I get it. I'm
an ass most of the time. That's my personality. Sometimes
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I'm sappy, sometimes I'm an ass. Find the middle ground, Michael,
not where I am, not who I am, the highs,
the lows, the silliness. Probably had some opinions you didn't like.
I know in twenty sixteen that was true. Probably said
some things you found offensive to you personally as a Jew, Catholic, Christian, Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, black, white, Hispanic, hillbilly, redneck, transgender, gay,
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Vietnamese Hubert Nah Chris Ascubans, I like no, but I
like everybody, and it's our style. And it probably took
a while, But I say all that to say this,
there's a wonderful, wonderful thing that happened. When you say
thank you to somebody, especially when it comes out of nowhere.
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I've called old coaches old teachers. I can still remember
Miss Alice Martin's phone number. She was my debate coach.
She went around the country. I went to a national
competition Southern Baptist Convention and won an amount of money.
If I told you, you wouldn't believe it. To go to
school from the Southern Baptist Convention winning preaching competitions. You know,
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they would hand you a topic, a Bible verse, and
they'd give you about ten minutes, and then you would
preach on it for I think twenty minutes. And I
went all the way to the top lener and she traveled.
As my mom said, how about miss Martin go with
you instead of and then she can listen to your
speeches and for your sermons and she can improve on that.
So there was a guy named David Stone. We were
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opening the indoors of the RCC.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
We were outdoors first.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Those of you who remember it, you remember it so fondly,
but you forget how much you sweat out there. So
we're going to open indoors in the last thing we need.
They come and do the inspection. Oh, you got to
have a fire suppression system. Oh man, what does that
cost you?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I think it was two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
I could be wrong. I don't know what to do,
and I don't know where this came from. God, I'm
certain of it. An angel appeared over my shoulder. His
name was David Stone. He's had over two hundred kidney
stones that he's passed in his life. That has nothing
doue with his story, but it's fascinating, and he said,
we'll figure it out. They came out the next day
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and they started doing the inspections. How much it is
going to cost, We'll figure it out. They did the work.
Sweetest guy ever, greatest guy ever. What it ever cost me,
We'll figure it out.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The air.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Of the weekend, reading about the weaker US dollar and
the global buying of gold to hedge against other countries
buying gold to edge against their own currency. Well, let's
go back to our basic economics. And I know you
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know this, but this is for the kids in the
back that weren't paying attention. But now are The s
just got real? So what happens when we have a
scarce commodity i e. Gold or viz gold and the
demand does not increase while this, oh sorry, the supply
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does not increase while the demand increases. Stables supply increase
in demand. I don't know why the example that always
pops into my head as being the best example for
the every person because literally every person can identify if
you're my age, You remember, bro, what year was cabbage
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pass dolls? We didn't huh okay, he says, eighty four
eighty five. We didn't have any roles in my house.
My poor mother, it was just boys, nothing but a
bunch of boys. And I didn't hardly see my girl
cousins as much as my boy cousins. All my friends
came over were boys, so it was just a bunch
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of guys. Things like cabbage patch dolls. That wasn't you
know all the things that girls did. We didn't know
anything about it, but I remember we went to kmart
in Orange, or as my mother would say, went to
Kmart's and she had to buy something the blue plate
special or blue light special or something.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Jackie Smith makeup.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Something was happening, and they had received a shipment of
cabbage patch and then by shipment they had been promoting
maybe they had two. You know, like talking to lone
star chevyes Mike Batchiss the other day and he was
talking about the things that makes them crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
People will will.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Advertise Chevy Silverado brand new for one thousand dollars and
people run over there and they go, oh, we just
sold it, but I got this one over here.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I can sell you for whatever it is, eighty.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Grand, but I wanted that one for one thousand dollars because.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, well it was only one of those, and so
basically it's a right off to get a bunch of
people over there and now upsell you. And he's like,
I'm just not going to do it, and that's that.
And if we lose sales on the deal. But if
you if you stay and buy a vehicle from somebody
who does that, you're rewarding that behavior. Like you want
to thump somebody on the ear. If you ever find
out they bought anything from a telemarketer, if nobody ever
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bought anything ever from a telemarketer, they would have to
shut down.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Does it make sense.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So we were at the kmarts and they were going
crazy over cabbage passion dolls and they hardly had but
you know, just a couple we were a little town,
weren't going to We weren't high on the priority. And
that night on the evening news it was people fighting,
snatching wigs over cabbage patch dolls, women because they had
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to have it for their kids. You know, it was Christmas.
They had made people crazy over the cabbage patch. Well,
the cabbage patch did not all of a sudden turn
into gold. Did not all of a sudden. It really
didn't have any any virtue to it in the first place.
But it didn't change. But the demand reduced while the
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supply increased, and that drove the value of the bourbon supply.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
A few years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You got to lay those barrels down twelve years before
you sell them for good bourbon. So there was a
relatively steady, relatively consistent mildly like a step, a step
up plateau going on there. It was a step Steppe Remont.
I don't know if you heard the step the way
I said at it right. That's a geographical term. Well,
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a long and short of it is when the demand increase,
they couldn't increase the supply because it takes twelve years
to put more bottles on the shelves.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So that shot the prices.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Up collectors, and that was part of the thrill for people,
is you couldn't get it, and that made it more
and more valuable. So what we have here is as
people started saying, hm, that weaker US dollar, we need
to hedge against our own currency. Let's buy some gold. Well,
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as long as just one person buys gold, that's fine.
You keep a relatively steady market. But when Brazil finds
out El Salvador's buying gold, they want to buy gold.
And then when Austria finds out Brazil is, they want
to buy gold. So I just called Kenny Duncan junior
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at US coins eight four five Katie Freeway, and I
told him this morning, I said, keep me apprized today
because I stayed up way past where I'm supposed to
last night and I'm reading about the week dollar causing
gold to go crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
There are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Who are not believers in the US dollar, A lot
of people, an increasing number of people.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Because, as has been said by.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Key Kalasaki, I forget the guy's name, rich Dad, poor dad,
who actually turns out.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
To be a scam marist. But let's leave that's side.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
For say, he will take out a dollar bill and say,
this is tilet paper, this is tarlet paper.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But if you want to sign up for his class,
it's ninety seven USD.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
He'll say, you know you need assets, real estate, gold,
So gold right now. When the dollar gets weak, when
this stock market gets volatile, that is when gold goes crazy.
So I said to Kenny during the break, I knew
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he'd be busy. I said, Kenny, I need one minute
of your time, literally, and I stick to it. I said,
what did we open at today and what are we
at right now? He said, we opened at thirty six fourteen.
We're at thirty six forty four right now. The idea
that it went over thirty six hundred per ounce. I
think we're at record highs right now.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I need to check that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But I was reading late last night and my retention's
not always as good late night reading.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But gold is on fire right now.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
If you are a person that is looking to buy
or sell gold, you can email me and I'll connect
you with Kenny Duncan Junr or just drive over eighty
four to thirty five Katie Freeway. So I said, are
people coming in to sell? Because if you're betting, okay,
we've hit the high, it may come down. Let me
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dump Papov's gold that I then you rush in and
sell today. But if you say I'm looking at a
run up and thirty six is not the end of
the road, I want to catch some of that wave.
So you come in to buy at thirty six forty
four today, hoping it's going to four.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And he said, I got four fellers and three buyers
this morning. That's kind of been the trend this morning.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
They're at eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway, US coins
or email me. I'm glad to connect to Cherry. I
am fascinated by commodities.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Marie play of songs again.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The song would be in my top five of the
garden Party. You think it's really simple name, you think
there's not much to it, and you find out the
story behind it has so many deep, profound layers, and
you already like the song.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And the truth.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Is he's got a good melody to start with everyone,
he's got a great velvety voice, and at that point
in his career he had really kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Softened it and for public consumption.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And then you find out what it's about, and you go, wow,
that's deep. Man. Do you think puff the Magic Dragon
is about anything other than.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
A dragon?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
What lived?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And you think that's what it was about?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
No, No, what you're pointing out the index finger and
thumb and your other fingers up and putting it to
your lips and then throwing it up in the air.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think I know what you're talking about. I think
I do quick programming.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Note we have space for two more couples on our
Palm Beach three trip, which will be at the end
of October, the last weekend in October. If you are
interested in more details, you can email me through the website.
Michael Berryshow dot com, Emily will send you a message
(10:06):
that sounds like we're trying to scare you off, which
we kind of are. I vet the people who come
because I'm going to spend four days with people in
close quarters. We're out on a yacht, we're on a
private plane. I'm bringing people tomorrow Lago. I mean, you
don't want somebody that's going to pass out the middle
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of the floor when the president.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Walks in if he does.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You don't want somebody that's going to hurl all over the.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Gold plated toilets.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I mean you've got to have You know, there's a
lot that goes into a trip like this.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's not cheap. It's thirty thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So if you're the person that can't afford it, but
would rather just say that's too expensive, because that's your
way of coping, that's your business too. I don't do that.
I can't afford a Rolls Royce. I don't run around
saying rolls Royces are awful and evil because I can't
afford one. It's okay. I grew up not being able
to afford anything, had a great life, not mad at
anybody about it. That's probably not true, but I like
to think it is that part. Send us an email
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through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. Write letter P
letter B number three as the subject line, or Palm
Beach or mar A Lago, and Emily, my able assistant,
who is also our events director, will send you an
email with a tone that sounds like we're trying to
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get you not to go, because what we've learned is
kind of like a boot camp. Somebody goes through that
email and says, yeah, I can do that. Yeah, I
can do that. Can't be a Sage five cleaner, Yeah,
I can do that. Can't be drunk in public, pukell everybody,
Yeah I can do that. Yeah I think I still
like to go. What was I going to go to next?
Jason wrote me an email. I hear you talk a
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lot about the trades. My son, after getting aggravated his
first semester in twenty twenty of college, decided that was
not the path he wanted to take and got into
refractory work when he was nineteen, which is creating structures
out at the refinery with high temperatures.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
My mother used to say temperatures. Did ever tell you that?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
She had a number of words she mispronounced, and my
brother and I would have so much fun. I'd call
him up and I'd say what's the temperature? In His
response would be that cat was black. She couldn't say black.
I can remember for hours sitting and saying, Hey, Mom,
we're going to say five.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Words in a row. You're ready back back sack sack
crack crack black black, god, dog it gosh dogging.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We do not have dishonest family members who live in
a house full of books.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's not a library, it's a libary. Lie Bravery.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Back to Jason's son, he taught his he bought his
first house and was making six figures a year, and
by twenty three years old bought his second car. Because
he travels all over the country on some of these jobs.
The younger generation needs to realize there's more opportunity than
ever to be a to create income. How about that?
How about that? Now that's I love those stories. I
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absolutely love those stories. I wanted to get to a
couple of things I read last night and made notes
about a very very prominent lawyer in this town who
I know very well in respect for his pure genius
and legal acumen, said many years ago when I was
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still a partner at the firm where he was. I
went to a law function one evening. The speaker was
someone I'd never heard of, but he was the Solicitor
general est State of Texas. Turns out his name was
Ted Cruz. After listening to him speak off the cuff
for thirty minutes, my reaction was, my goodness, I sure
hope I never had to oppose that guy in court.
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His command of the cases was awesome. And that's all
I've ever heard ramon you ever do sauna treatments? So
I don't have three hours to listen to Rogan like
Chad does. I don't know how anybody does that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You have patience. But I get clips sent to me of.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, kind of the highlights of what people do,
and one of them was Rogan talking about saunas with
this guy who's supposed to be that's kind of he's
a you know, wellness is big business now and this
guy was recommending four days a week for twenty minutes
a session.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's a lot of sauna, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So late last night I sent an email to my
dear friend, doctor Stan Duckman, and I said, what do
you think about sauna treatment because I'm reading a lot
about it, and I sent him the quote four days
a week, twenty minute, and here's all the effects it's.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Supposed to have.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
This morning, six oh five am, he writes, Good morning,
what a beautiful morning. There have been several studies conducted
regarding the use of saunas, and various cultures obviously have
used them forever. Ock Obama real into the oh that's different,
that's yeah, different deal. I am unaware of any data
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that showed any life extension with regular use of a sauna.
Many of the physiological responses to the heat are also
elicited with exercise. Well, yeah, Stan, but I'd rather sit
my fat ass in a sauna than go exercise.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's always funny when people like.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Him because he exercises, does everything in moderation.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Smart as hell, I mean the whole thing. Hey, doc,
can I take this pill? It maybe help me lose weight?
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well, the pillar work fine, but you can also eat
less and move around, as Walton Johnson used to say. Well, yeah,
if I could do that, I wouldn't need the pill.
We're looking for a shortcut, so he says, I am
unaware of any data that showed any life extension with
regular use of sona. Many of the physiological responses to
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the heat are also listened with exercise. The bottom line is,
I do not think that sona therapy is harmful, but
I do know that it would necessarily extend But I
do not know that it would necessarily extend your healthy life.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I hope that helps. However, I have not.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Reviewed this stop topic for several decades. I will take
a look at that today as now you've made me
curious if there's anything new in the field, and I
will report back. I love that doctors still want to
learn because there are new developments every darn day. The
godfather of britpop has passed eighty one years old. Sir Davies,
(16:45):
founding member of Super Tramp.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Was Ray Davies was the godfather. No, Ray Davies was
his god brother. Rick Davies was the founder of Super
Tramp and a lot of good hits.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Take the Long Way Home, the Logical Song, which I
think is the most un heralded of the songs, underrated,
Goodbye Stranger, which you heard there. You know, we're at
an age where those guys that were big in the
(17:30):
late sixties and early seventies would have been twenty to
twenty seven years old, which means that they were born
at about forty five. He was born in that same era,
and now they're about eighty years old, and it's very
common at that age to pass oh way, So you
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know we're going to keep losing those those folks. I
was telling the story on Facebook over the weekend. You know,
when I was young, younger, everybody that I loved was
older than me, and you don't realize how good you
have it. Everybody you love is older than you, and
all is well, and then they start dying. And now
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I'm truly middle aged, and a lot of people who
I loved and admired and trusted and respected and enjoyed
are not alive anymore. And so I find myself many
days driving and wanting to call someone that I would
(18:34):
have called before, and I script out a conversation before
it happens. Here's what I'm going to say, Here's what
they're going to say. Usually, because I don't. I'm not
a person who calls and says, hello, how are you,
I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I hate that, So I usually call with something like
I'm mad at you before they can ever say anything why,
And then I'll have some thing that'll make them think
and then they laugh, and then we laugh and we
go back to the story that made me say that,
and then haha, all as well. So of course I
miscalling my brother and him rolling his eyes at whatever
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I'm telling him I'm up to. And I miss calling
my mother finding out what dad, how much my dad's
getting on her nerves, and you know, Michael, did you
see this on the news the other day.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Or whatever else?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And I miss calling my second dad, my mentor Walter Zivley.
I've had a few second dads, if you hear me
say that, Barry Lewis and Fred Zeideman or in that category.
But I would call Walter and tell him something that
I had just accomplished, and I was so proud of
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and I wanted his validation. I wanted him to be proud.
But he knew MY weakness is hubris, and so he
would kind of tamp it down. Don't get too big
for you briches in this country drawl. He had been
from Mineral Wells, Texas, And there's days that I just
I'm driving along and I by once. Well, I shouldn't say.
(20:09):
Somebody else may have his cell phone number now, but
I know his cell phone number and I haven't called
it in ten years. He's been gone, and I sometimes
I'll just think, oh, well, I'll die that, Or I
know my grandmother's number eight eighty three and I won't
say the last four numbers and I can remember. I mean,
I can think to myself, well, I'll just call it
(20:31):
one time. But the good news to come of that
is that I have a wistful moment of I wish
I could call and have that experience, but I realize
there's somebody alive today that tomorrow I'm going to feel
that way about. So rather than embracing the sorrow, make
(20:54):
new memories. So that's usually when I'll call Ramon. I'm like,
he may not live very much longer.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Let me coo. But I do I use that moment.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I always use that moment to call my dad, but
I use it to call other people as well. Oh yes,
forget about the crime in the Houston area and just
build more bike trails because bicycles are going to solve
our problems. ABC thirteen reports on the series of crimes
around Houston at bike trails and parks. A seventy year
(21:25):
old man attacked on White Oak Trail just the latest
of ongoing attacks.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh sorry, I realize you were napping Number one clip
number one from Chad Rama's Napping. If everybody's keeping let's
caring home. Sometimes he naps and I wake him up louly.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Just update came when police released this sketch more than
two weeks ago. They say this is the man they
believe is responsible. Please say he's connected to four groping
incidents in which he rode up to women on a
bike touched them inappropriately before riding away. They say his
fifth lednettack was much more serious, Please.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Saying it happened at the.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
End of July when he robbed a pregnant woman, knocks
her to the ground, and kicked her in the stomach,
causing her to miscarry. We covered the deadly stabbing of
a grandfather on August seventh. He was killed while biking
to work on the Harrisburg Hike and Bike Trail and
the Harris County Precinct. One Constable's office says they've increased
patrols at Shepherd Park after a man tried to pull
two women into the bushes. They say both were able
(22:25):
to get away and that man is still on the
loose now. We spoke to a man who filed a
police report Monday after he says a jogger knocked him
off his bike, assaulted him and stole his phone on
the White Oak hike and bike trail near Hog Park.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
I think if we're going to build these public spaces,
we need to protect him, and we need if people
are going to use them, they need to feel like
that they're safe there. And I think there are things
that can be done to make people feel safe and
to make people actually safer, such as I think some
people have said Jess and putting more nine one one
(23:01):
boxes more lighting.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Today we spoke to Councilman Abbey came in. He represents
District C where a number of these incidents have happened.
She says at Memorial Park. Her office has funded an
off road utility vehicle that allows police to respond to
incidents deeper in the parks, as well as adding security cameras.
Though we do want to note none of the crimes
we've mentioned here happened at Memorial Park.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Memorial Park, isn't that where the park ranger.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The MP ranger was running up on people, threatening to
arrest him if they didn't have sex with him.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I was doing my job, worked in the park jobation well,
the clams key, it claims key.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's done for a girl and the boy. I like
like a berry Shore.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm going to challenge you to do something today that
will take no more than five minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Of your day.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
There's so much, but when you get home to your
wife or ladies, when you get home to your husband
or he comes home to you, whatever that may be,
it will be the highlight of your day. I guarantee you. So.
I have found that gratitude is godly, it is biblical,
(24:33):
it is spiritual, and it is cathartic. I came to
Houston in eighty nine not knowing a soul. Now it's
two hours from Orange. I'm not trying to act like
you know, some missionary and you rock as a Christian.
But I didn't know anybody, and it was a big
city and I started over. Frankly, I kind of liked
(24:54):
that I got to recreate myself. I got to be
who I wanted to be. I got to be who
I said I was, and nobody said.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, but you're booger in fourth grade, I.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Didn't eat my book. I mean I probably did eat
my booger, but I wasn't known as a booger reader,
not like.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I got called.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I'm just saying, you know, it's not easy always to
grow up and live in the same town because people
remember you back when you did stupid stuff. So from
the time I got to Houston, there were so many
people who for whatever reason saw talent in me, or
I begged them, or some combination of the two, or
(25:29):
they just had a philanthropic spirit. They helped me. Lawrence
Curry at the University of Houston, Ross LNT's professors, Dean
Estes Ted Estest, who was my professor. I posted a
poem of that he had exposed me to this weekend.
Robert Linberry, who was my thesis advisor and became a
(25:50):
dear friend. John Kaufman, who was a World Realm's geography
professor at the University of Texas and a rabble rouser
of the first sort. He was this big He looked
like Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes. It was this big,
fat gay guy with a big goofy mustache. Who wore
cheap sands belt suits and had such a passion for
(26:14):
world geography that every frat boy, every redneck, every rotc
guy took his World Realms class. It was all men.
It was it was It was about the rugged individualism
around the world of explorers and people who who tamed
(26:35):
the earth and made things come up out of it. Oh,
I think about how kind all these people were to me.
And then law school and Professor Leno Grauia, who was
nominated for the Court of Appeals on the same day
as antonin Scalia, two Italian Americans. It was a Reagan
initiative in nineteen eighty six, but he was shot down
(26:58):
in the way that they wronged Trump. They tolen o'grawiy.
Was the first time the ABA ever shot down a candidate,
their nomination for a candidate because he was too conservative.
He was my first real awakening to what would later
be called conservatism. And Michael Sterling, who chose me to
go to England and get another law degree because I
(27:18):
loved the study of law, and then I got out
from there. In Don Brodsky, who hired me out of
law school. In Pat Sharkey, who was the head of
the Hibernian Society and our real estate section is still
a friend of mine to this day. And I could
just go on and on. Barry Lewis, who invested in
my internet company that failed in two thousand and four,
(27:39):
Eddie Martini, who believed in this guy and put him
on the air when that just wasn't done, and then
put me in charge of three stations. The CEO of
our company had to approve it. Largest radio company in
the world, and he said, well, look at it this way.
You know he's a complete outsider. If it doesn't work
in six months with fire.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Him, well ed. It didn't tell me that until much later.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And then I think about all the different stations around
the country. The first one Robert Dove at k EX
eleven ninety and in Portland, who took a chance on
me when senior vice president of our company said, you
don't want him, he's two Southern Fried. So they put
on a guy from Minnesota, and they put him on
for six months and they were still registering a zero
point zero and he said, all right, I did your experiment.
(28:22):
It's been six months. I want Michael Barry. I don't
care if he's Southern Fried, and overnight, revenues came in
and people came in, and we had station events where
thousands of people would show up. It was incredible and
it never would have happened. And Michael Hudson in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
who put me on WJBO, my second station, and how
he believed in me, and all my wife who believed
(28:45):
in me, all these people who believed in me. Over
the years, every single time a sponsor comes on as
a sponsor of our show, I tell him this is
not a transactional relationship. If you're on TV and print
and SEO and all that, don't add me to your mix.
I don't want to be another way you advertise. I
(29:06):
don't want you to measure leads. I don't want you
to look at cost per lead. I don't want to
know how to activate an audience with your.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Called I hate all that stuff. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
There's a place for it. Sure, that's how you sell
Johnson and Johnson's supplies or tires. We created a community here,
and as sappy and silly as it may be, it's
meaningful to me. It's important to me, and I've seen
how it makes a difference. I've seen how we've been
able to make a difference for people in their lives
(29:41):
because of you and the things you do, and that
matters to me. And I don't want to be just
another show.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Where you're doing the Sunday Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Or Memorial Day sale or tell Michael Barry you send
them or ten percent off, and that doesn't work for everybody.
But all that being said, listeners had to believe in us,
and we are an acquired taste. I get it. I'm
an ass most of the time. That's my personality. Sometimes
(30:15):
I'm sappy, sometimes I'm an ass. Find the middle ground, Michael,
not where I am, not who I am, the highs,
the lows, the silliness. Probably had some opinions you didn't like.
I know in twenty sixteen that was true. Probably said
some things you found offensive to you personally as a Jew, Catholic, Christian, Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, black, white, Hispanic, hillbilly, redneck, transgender, gay,
(30:45):
Vietnamese Hubert Nah Chris Ascubans, I like no, but I
like everybody, and it's our style. And it probably took
a while, But I say all that to say this,
there's a wonderful, wonderful thing that happened. When you say
thank you to somebody, especially when it comes out of nowhere.
(31:05):
I've called old coaches old teachers. I can still remember
Miss Alice Martin's phone number. She was my debate coach.
She went around the country. I went to a national
competition Southern Baptist Convention and won an amount of money.
If I told you, you wouldn't believe it. To go to
school from the Southern Baptist Convention winning preaching competitions. You know,
(31:27):
they would hand you a topic, a Bible verse, and
they'd give you about ten minutes, and then you would
preach on it for I think twenty minutes. And I
went all the way to the top lener and she traveled.
As my mom said, how about miss Martin go with
you instead of and then she can listen to your
speeches and for your sermons and she can improve on that.
So there was a guy named David Stone. We were
(31:47):
opening the indoors of the RCC.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
We were outdoors first.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Those of you who remember it, you remember it so fondly,
but you forget how much you sweat out there. So
we're going to open indoors in the last thing we need.
They come and do the inspection. Oh, you got to
have a fire suppression system. Oh man, what does that
cost you?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I think it was two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
I could be wrong. I don't know what to do,
and I don't know where this came from. God, I'm
certain of it. An angel appeared over my shoulder. His
name was David Stone. He's had over two hundred kidney
stones that he's passed in his life. That has nothing
doue with his story, but it's fascinating, and he said,
we'll figure it out. They came out the next day
(32:26):
and they started doing the inspections. How much it is
going to cost, We'll figure it out. They did the work.
Sweetest guy ever, greatest guy ever. What it ever cost me,
We'll figure it out.
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