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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Berry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Is joy?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Now here is joy?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Michael Berry?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All right, here is the clue. Selenaphobia?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
What is fear of Mexican music stars?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
But that's a great response.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
What is fear of the moon?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I went to UCLA for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're gonna love it.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Tell your old man to drag this seventies u C
l A and trail Blazer Center and Lanier up and
down on the court for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Kareem who is Kareem? Abdos?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
You bor No, you're the one who delivered the line.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But it was about Bill Walton.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh, embarrassing moments.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm Jeopardy. Catch these men.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Every answer is a person on the FBI's most wanted list.
So let's just forget that category.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'm not pretty sure that that would not turn out well.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I turned out your mother last night.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm ignoring you.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It's a prison term.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It means I've got her working as a prostitute in
my employ My mother is infirm. She uses a walker.
She is a walker, a street walker.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Betridge's Law states that any headline ending in a question
mark can be answered safely by this word. Rebecca, what
is yes?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Chris, No, yes too?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
A time for two hundred.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
This term for a long handled gardening tool can also
mean an immoral pleasure seeker.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ken, what's a hoe? No?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Whoa?
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Whoa whoa?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
They teach you that in school in Utah.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Huh Al what's a rake?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
A rake? Is right?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
If Andy yearns for Brenda and Brenda cares about Sharlene,
who pines for Andy, the three of them form one
of these.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Kara, what is that threesome?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
No?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Roger, what is a love triangle?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Kara has obviously had much more experience than high and
it takes us to Cliff.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Cliff.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
Good news for you.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Both of your opponents came up with incorrect responses, And
what that means is that even if you're wrong, long
as you didn't do anything foolish like wager everything, you're
a since winner.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We we don't.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Have to see my answer to be there. Alex see here,
tournament champions.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
We're running out of time and we are going to
have to take a look at your response. You wrote down,
who are three people who've never been in my kitchen? No?
I'm sorry, that's too Who's wrong. The re response is,
what were the real names of Kerry Grant, Tony Curtis,
and Joan Crawford.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That is in Mayolex.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Those people who have never been in my kitchen?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
To the phone line, we go, Uh, let's go to
all those lines, and I went to the one that
didn't have anyone on it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
David, you're up, Hey, Mike, I wonder no, what what's
the skinny on the bell A Bridge on the east
side of town?
Speaker 9 (03:57):
What do you know about it? When is when is
it going to be finished?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So I saw a YouTube video on this, and I
was fascinated by the feet of engineering that it is,
and I put the word out that I would like
to know more, and I got a few people that
maybe thought they might know someone. My understanding is the
company out of Alabama that was originally engaged to do
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the bridge had to build a bridge, design and build
a bridge, had a problem with a collapse of another bridge,
and they weren't meeting engineering standards. So I don't know
where it is. I have asked. I'm kind of fascinated
by it because I did not realize what a load
that bridge carries. That turns out to be do you
(04:44):
drive it?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (04:47):
I do you regularly? You do ship channel go check
on the Yes, I do drive over at about you know,
four or five times a month.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That is a very important curious bridge for the east
side of of the Greater Houston area. So obviously I'm interested,
But that I didn't. I did not get more of
an answer than that. Yet I'm still trying. In fact,
I had a conversation about that. A friend of a
friend is an engineer, but with Harris County and apparent,
(05:17):
I mean with the state, and apparently this is a
Harris County project. Trace, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, and.
Speaker 10 (05:24):
Michael, I was just curious your thoughts what happened to
Candace Owens? I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Her views and she's I honestly.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Don't move it.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Everybody keeps talking about that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I can't hear you. Trace, You got to talk right
into the phone.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Oh, I'm sorry. I was just wondering Candace Owens, what
happened to her? She's like the bell of the ball
for a long time, and now everybody talks that she's
kind of lost her her way or her mind. I mean,
your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do you follow her, No.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
But i'd see her on a Tuck calls in and
you know, back in the day. But then I've heard
you say something that she's kind of lost your way
and she's got some really wacky views on Israel and stuff.
So I'm just figured open nind Friday and thinking about
it and wonder what your thoughts were.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't recall saying that because I try to make
it my business not to speak ill of other people
who do some version of what I do, because I
think most people do that out of pure jealousy, and
I don't have any with regard to Candace. I don't.
First of all, I don't know Candace personally. We have
mutual friends, but I don't know her personally. She had
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a meteoric rise coming up through the Daily Wire. And
there is in American not Christendom, Christendom, but Conservativedom. Right
now there is a very aggressive split between those who
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are concerned about America's relationship with Israel and are concerned
with Israeli influence in the United States and those who
call them Nazis. So you got this, You've got this split,
and you've got Tucker Carlson and and Candice on this
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side and a few others, and then on the other
side you have I'd say Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Douglas
Brinkley tens to be a more intellectual version of that,
but it's still the same. There is this idea that
everyone is supposed to toe the line that Israel is
the most important place in the world, and that if
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you point out any problems with our relationship with Israel
the way you would with any other country consistently, then
your branded a bad person and there is this attempt
to destroy you. I think that crack happened with Candice,
and once it happened, much like with Tucker, but she
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went scorched earth. I think when it happened, she resented
it so much that she kind of doubled down and
fought back, and that's when they worked to marginalize her.
She still does incredible numbers. She has a tribe, as
as many people in this business do, and I think
she'll turn out find them by the way. I think
it's good to have different views. I think that's healthy.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
You are to ring the King's English.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Diggings, Jonathan, You're on the Michael Berry Show. What did
you what crazy thing looking back? Did you do that
you practically can't believe you did for some woman?
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Basically, I tried to date my ex's best friend.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'm not sure how to react to this. Did you
do this to make her jealous? Or did you do
it because you kind of liked her best friend?
Speaker 9 (09:03):
Well, initially it was to make her jealous, but then
a few weeks after getting involved with her, I started
to catch feelings for her, and now I was like,
oh man, what have I just done it? Oh my goodness?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So how did that end up?
Speaker 12 (09:20):
Not?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Really good? We started having problems and then she started
telling my ex all the problems we were having, and
then it was just one horrible storm.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh oh okay, So take me back. So you and
the original, the original ex, y'all were together for how long?
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Like six months?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And you were how old?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
I was twenty four years old?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
All right? And then who broke it off?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
She did?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
How did you from that moment decide, ah, her best friend,
that I'll make her jealous with her?
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Well, we had always been hanging out together, like her
and her friends or our friends. We were always meet
up and hang out or whatever. And then I always
kind of caught her like looking at me and making
little gestures and stuff and whatnot. And when she when
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the original decided that she didn't want to be with
me anymore, and I really tried to make it work
with her. I said, okay, let me let me show
let me I'll show you type of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And so you reach out and she.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Jumps there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Do you think she tells her best friend the minute
you reach out, or you think she's keeping this quiet
for a while.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
I think she kept it quiet at first, But then again,
I really don't know because I don't even really speak
to either one.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Of them anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So how did you find out that she had told
the original that y'all were messing around?
Speaker 9 (10:54):
The original had reached out to me and said, hey,
why are you messing around with Rachel? And I was like,
I mean, I just froze for a second, and I
told her, I said, well, I don't see that's how
that's any of your business, and she goes, well, that's
my best friend. How dare you? And then it was
just a huge, huge age problem.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
What was the tone you took in response to how
dare you? Did you blow up or were you polite?
Or were you.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
When she said, how dare you? How did I respond?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
I mean I never thought I didn't think she honestly,
at twenty four, I didn't think she was going to
find out.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You hadn't prepared for this moment. Huh you had not
prepared for this moment.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
No, not at all. That's why I said. It was
a really it was a crazy and it was a
dumb and probably immature act.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And so what went on? Did you? Did you end
up getting married.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
Eventually? Yeah, but it was to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Your voice dropped?
Speaker 9 (11:52):
And how did that work out?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
How did that work out?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Over?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Still together?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There you go? And kids?
Speaker 9 (12:03):
We had two beautiful children.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, well there you go. All's well that ends well,
good story, Thanks for telling it. Justin you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning, Michael. I was just calling
to let all of your listeners know that we are
now opening up a Turning Point USA Young Professionals chapter
in Houston.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's fantastic. Tell me more so.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Shortly after September tenth, I had been reaching out to
several contacts at Turning Point. Hey, I want to get involved.
Let me know what I could do. You know I'm
not an alumni, so I'm not falling into that category.
Let me know if there's something else. And it just
so happened that Charlie Kirk and his team had been
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planning on launching a Young Professionals chapter for those that
are twenty one to forty and in different large cities.
It's hardy been launched in Dallas and several other large cities.
It just hadn't marketed to the Houston area yet. And
(13:15):
so my contact he said that, well, you know, we're
not really ready for a Houston yet, let me all be touched.
A few weeks later he called me. He's like, Okay,
we're ready because there's a huge influx of people and
I want you to get help be the starting help.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Start it up.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
So I said absolutely, you know, let me know who
I need to talk to, what we got to do,
and he put a group of eight of us together.
We formed our board last Friday and we're now planning
our launch event for next Friday seventh. Hey, this is
going to be held at Kirby's Ice House in the
(13:55):
Heights at what time? Six thirty pm?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And that's next Friday. Do you have a website or
do you have some way people can reach out.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
To you, So they can reach out to us on
Spadia or on Instagram at tp USA Underscore, tp USA,
yp Underscore HTx, and also on Facebook at Crosby Patriot Club.
The way that that Facebook allows, it doesn't allow name
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changes for so many days. So we'll be an official
turning point page in a few weeks. But I had
proactively started page and I didn't want to associate my
page with it's turning point. So how old are you
and I am thirty four.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
You know this is such an important when you look
at at the lifespan of people in the various phases
of what goes on. I think what you're doing is
so important justin because people end up. You know, there
are high school club if you want to be not
just tp USA, but if you want to be in
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a high school group, there is there is out. And
you go to college, there's a group for every uh
you name it, Jews, Blacks, Indians, Christians, Catholics, there's everything.
But then you have that period when you get out,
you're working and you want to kind of engage and
figure out and this is good for you. I'm happy
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to hear that justin to go.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
The lake Lackaberry ship.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
How you're going?
Speaker 11 (15:43):
This is Shirley Cure Liquor from over here in Pine
Grove in Earths, Texas. Hey, people ask me what you're
gonna do for Halloween? Oh lord, I'm so scared of
these damn children around here.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
We don't call it trick or treat.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
We call it treat our auson, y'all don't have to
come over here.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
I ain't got no Mary monad lace cookies. I don't
put no lsd and y'all I'm saying, I don't put
glass in y'all muffins. I don't even answer the dough.
Y'all not getting no can down of me.
Speaker 12 (16:13):
She you kidding me?
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Since the drug store started taking the EBG card, I
don't buy nobody reaching peanut butter cup, but for my
own damn.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Self and me. I know that's right. Watchers to love.
Speaker 11 (16:25):
Her some mister good bars, that's what she likes. And
then a lot of people say, miss Liquor, I see
you are scared of cats, but you got cats in
your house, cats in your yard. I have many cats
that come up in here. I have what the name
is miss Bullet, because she flies through the damn yard
and she will claw your ass. I have Luther because
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he looked like a Presbyterian Lutheran minister. I have Rebel,
he twelve years old. He from Mississippis. I have butter
Butt and he comes from Kentucky because and I have
who that other cat is?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (17:02):
Gerald name? He was named for Gerald Floyd. Yes, but
my dog is named Rosie and she itch itch itch
behind the flees the help.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
But uh.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
People say do you keep your cats in for Halloween?
And I said, why should I? And they said yes,
because the children will stick of firecrack up the air.
I said, if they try that, I will blow they.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I will run the No, you can't.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Be cruelty to the animals. I don't play that. I
can't stand it. I will knock up.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I new hell.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
What I'm going for is Halloween. Watusa hold on.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm fit to fall down. Oh Lord, there she go.
Speaker 11 (17:46):
Okay, WATCHO says down. I don't go out for Halloween.
I don't believe in that. I think it's of the devil.
We was taught at my Holy second design something one another.
I don't know the address.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
No, more.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
I quit writing the bitches checks. I don't play that.
They are so saditi down there with their rules and
their regulations.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I quit putting no money in the.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
Tie that played. I make my own change. I put
in a five dollar bill to take out ten. The
hell sue me, subpoena me. I wish y'all would bring
the I alreads down on me. The hell y'all not
gonna find no money here. Y'all just gonna find coff sir,
how you daring?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well? At least she's still breathing. We were telling the
story earlier of the DPS trooper who shot himself in
the leg to gain the attention and pity of his
ex girlfriend who dumped him. She's a nurse, and folks
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calling in and telling the stupid things they did to
gain the attention of the opposite secks. Was it David Chapman?
Was a fellow's name that shot Reagan Martin? David Chapman?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh? No, not sir, hensir hand No. It's kind of
sick that we remember their names. I guess I've intentionally
forgotten it. It doesn't matter. John Hinckley Junior, he uh isn't he?
The one that was trying to get Jodie Foster's attention. Listen, fella,
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you're gonna have to do more than shoot John Ronald Reagan.
I don't think. I don't think you're ever going to
get her attention, if you know what I'm mean. I mean,
I I think the things you'd have to do to
get her attention. Yeah, yeah, well we'll leave that one
there anyway, So we would love to hear your story
of the stupid thing you did to get some guy's attention.
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I watch women do this when they get divorced, and
I have seen women go to the greatest links. I mean,
I wonder if you told catic surgeons you cannot do
work on any woman that is trying to make her
ex jealous. You'd cut boob jobs in half, and you
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know the other thing you cut in half. I've seen
this one. I've seen women who have decided they're checking
out of the marriage and they've let themselves go. They'll
get the boob job while they're married on his nime,
and then once it's all they're all ready to go
and ready for the market, boop, they're out. Wait what
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what that's like? What we do in our house. My
wife always gets nervous when I start doing improvements to
the house. I get the landscaping taken care of, and
I get everything painted out it. See, I guess we're
moving again because just about the time I get a
house looking perfect, and in my mind, I really believe
I'm doing it for myself and my wife. But about
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the time I get a house looking that's right, I go, who,
we will probably make make a pretty pity on this thing.
I should put it on the market. Glenn writes, I
text the joke of the day to my sixteen year
old granddaughter who lives in Round Rock, Great Way for
this grandpa to keep in daily contact with his granddaughter.
She loves the jokes and she shares them with the
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other cheerleaders, who often ask her what the new joke
is for the day. So I just wanted to say thanks.
Paul writes the reason for the cops and nurses combination.
Nurses see the worst in people, as do cops, so
they develop that dark sense of humor in order to
deal with the darkness. They understand each other. You know,
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dark humor, gallows humor, and the way cops practice it.
Criminal defense attorneys I'm sure morticians have it. For the
average person, you just can't understand it, but you have
to have it. You have to have it in order
to cope. Three to nine, one thousand, Kevin, you're up.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I was in the Houston Fire Department for thirty four
years and we made a call one day this girl
had kicked her boyfriend out of the apartment. So then
later on that evening we made a call. He had
got back in her apartment, and he got in her
closet and he took an extension card and he filled
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it apart a little bit and exposed the wire on
each hand. He put it on the side of his
head and took some tape and wrapped it around his head,
and he plugged itself in.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
When we got there, he was still plugged in, but
he was he was dead, but he I guess he
got her attention.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Oh, I think she was shocked.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I'll laugh about it to this state. Anyway. Just when
you think you see all the stupid, just hang on.
You'll make something else that's stupider than that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, let me make sure I'm visualizing this properly. So
he shaves off the rubber around the line on both ends.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He made his own little homemade sparky.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay, and then he taped it around.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
His head on one side. One side, he put the
wire and right there around his temple on the right
side and on the left side, and got some tait
and wrapped it around his head so it holded on there,
and then he plugged himself in.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
So when you got there, he's still plugged in.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
He's laying their graveyard dead, plugged in. He's still hot.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So help me understand. I'm not an expert in this
sort of stuff. How do you break that circuit?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Just unplugging? We unplugging?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Did you unplug him or did you mean somebody else
do it?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I don't remember. There was he was on a fire truck.
We got there before the amble, and uh, anyway, I'm
sure he got her a kitchen good.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, the ethereal, the butterflies with the Mickelberry,
they're all duncans, And you know duncan means yo yo.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
We talked about on the broadcast, how you hate candy corn?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What's your favorite Halloween corn?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean, I completely hate candy corn. When I was
a kid, well, gummy bears. Let's see gummy bears for sure,
now we're regular. The hair bones got to me, the
airbow ones. And then the other thing I like is,
uh is when they used to have the Spreez in
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a box with outstanding you have to go to the
dollar store to find it, but I do. And then
the latest, the latest, you know, there's still candy innovation.
Although while back I found that Europe had better candy
than we did overall because they have gummy everything.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And then but the uh, you know, they.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Have those nerds clusters, which is new. Yeah, which is good.
The nerds clusters is good. And then if you got chocolate,
probably all enjoy I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Hopefully you'll get some of that next week. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Thanks going all right, you in invisible man in your bed.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I want to hear Mike Leech's opinion on everything, I
mean everything, don't you, Tom, you old Michael Berry show,
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yes, Mike, you just mentioned it about you know, marticians
and all. I did that for quite a few years.
And and uh, the National Funeral Director Association did always
have their convention there in Vegas round about Halloween time,
and we took the opportunity to really cut loose and
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dress up in costumes and everything. So that was all
until damn over sixty minutes showed up one of them
hidden cameras and they did a whole story on us
about how we were irreverent and everything like this, and uh,
you know, you go around with stiff neck all year long,
you need to cut loose every once in a while.
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And uh, but they caught us out there, that's what
they did. And uh, you want to talk about the
cops in that line, I did a lot of picking
up the people who was either drunk or whatever, crashed,
had bad accidents, a leg over here, a arm over there,
you know, and uh, them big old Burley cops, they was,
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you know. They was like one time I had a guy.
There was a finger that came loose off this fella
and he's over there, fifty yards away from me with
us last night. He says, General Man, I got a
finger over here. I said, Bobby, you got a pair
of gloves, Why don't you just bring it? How ain't
touching the old finger? I'll tell you what. You know.
He just went crazy on me, And so I had
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to go over there and get that thing.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
But how did you overtime? You know, how did you
overcome the original fear?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I'm sorry, how did what?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
How did you overcome the original awkwardness of touching a
human body?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Well, when I was going to school for it, it was,
it was I was worried about that, and at some
point the switch kind of flipped on me where I was.
I was really interested in getting getting into it because
(27:57):
I was getting the education about it. You know, it's
like a a process at this point, and uh, the
the most poignant memory, I guess I can say is
some of the odors you'd run into. But uh uh
and then uh, you know, the saddest part was dealing
(28:19):
with some of the families. But uh it it uh
it became a uh uh a process, and I guess
the easiest way for me to relate it was, you know,
if you were a heart surgeon, I'd be I'd be
terrified I'm gonna screw something up. But at some point,
those doctors they get to the point to where they're like,
(28:42):
you know, a Swiss man working on a fine watch
or something. He knows exactly where everything is supposed to
be and how it's supposed to look, and and uh
it's his uh job is calling whatever to put it
back together and and and uh, you know, fix them up.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So did you have some little trick you played to
trick your mind? Because you know, growing up there's the
you know, a human body is sacred and it's you know,
it's full of life. And then here you are in
a room just you, and then and then there were
all the you know, the boogeyman versions of you know,
the dead body was evil and all that. Did you
(29:21):
did you struggle to get past all that? Or you
didn't have any problems?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
H I really I really didn't. But I worked for
a little bit of funeral home that was owned by
a family and the old man's son who was running
it before I came into it, well, he died and
his wife took it over for a little while. Well,
(29:46):
when she was ninety two years old. I ended up
burying her. Well, after I buried her, her name was Helen.
After I buried her, I would be in the preparation
room by myself, middle of the night, right and a
door would open or I'd go you know, down the hall,
(30:08):
and the light in the bathroom was on and I
wasn't going two hours ago, and I was the only
one in the building, and I would just call up
to I say, Helen, how you doing. You know, and
I do believe in ghosts, but I do not believe
that all ghosts are evil ghosts.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You follow me, I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Uh huh and uh it's uh. It's seeing some of
them people that that having a hard time with it.
I'll tell you this much. The people I dealt with,
they had the hardest time with losing a loved one
(30:54):
were the ones that didn't know the Lord. And I
reasoned that out that you know, there's a there's a
lot of faith involved in religion, and if you don't
know about it, when Grandma or your sister, or your
girlfriend or your wife, God bless you, your child uh leaves.
(31:17):
There's just so many things that you don't understand, and
some points in time you just have to shut up
and and and have faith that things are going to
be okay.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Tom, You're the call of the day, brother, Thank you him.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey, Michael.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
I told h told Ramon that I grew up in
a family family business of the funeral home down on
Corpus and so that was an interesting childhood, to say
the least. Nothing like going getting picked up at elementary
school in a hearse, you know. But my dad used
(32:05):
to do that for a bunch of a bunch of
friends that might have been down.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
There on Halloween. But I'm guessing that'd be odd after
a while.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Well yeah, I mean he would finish the funeral and
my mom would be like, hey, you need to pick
up pick up him at school, and all right, Well
he would fire through in the hearse and he would
get a few looks. He would do that in the
limousines and different stuff, but he would do it for friends.
He would go pick up friends at the airport in
the hearse. He would put on his tuxedo and a
top hat and and you know, somebody's fiftieth birthday. He
(32:35):
would go and do that for fun, for different people. So, uh,
working in the funeral business, you have to have a
tender heart, but you also have to have a good
sense of humor. And that was that was my dad.
But this he was third generation. My great grandfather actually
started the funeral home back in the in the teen
in the nineteen teens, and it was under his name.
(32:57):
But I remember when I was a little boy in
the early eighties. Somehow my dad got preferential treatment from
the bandidos, the big biker ganger if you're familiar with them.
And uh, one of the big bandido bosses passed away,
and they decided that they wanted to use my dad's
funeral home and and so he took care of the
(33:18):
service and and uh, little did we know that there
was going to be over a thousand bandidos and motorcycles
at at our at our place.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Fault
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Berry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Is joy?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Now here is joy?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Michael Berry?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All right, here is the clue. Selenaphobia?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
What is fear of Mexican music stars?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
But that's a great response.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
What is fear of the moon?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I went to UCLA for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're gonna love it.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Tell your old man to drag this seventies u C
l A and trail Blazer Center and Lanier up and
down on the court for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Kareem who is Kareem? Abdos?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
You bor No, you're the one who delivered the line.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But it was about Bill Walton.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh, embarrassing moments.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm Jeopardy. Catch these men.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Every answer is a person on the FBI's most wanted list.
So let's just forget that category.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'm not pretty sure that that would not turn out well.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I turned out your mother last night.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm ignoring you.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It's a prison term.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It means I've got her working as a prostitute in
my employ My mother is infirm. She uses a walker.
She is a walker, a street walker.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Betridge's Law states that any headline ending in a question
mark can be answered safely by this word. Rebecca, what
is yes?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Chris, No, yes too?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
A time for two hundred.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
This term for a long handled gardening tool can also
mean an immoral pleasure seeker.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ken, what's a hoe? No?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Whoa?
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Whoa whoa?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
They teach you that in school in Utah.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Huh Al what's a rake?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
A rake? Is right?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
If Andy yearns for Brenda and Brenda cares about Sharlene,
who pines for Andy, the three of them form one
of these.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Kara, what is that threesome?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
No?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Roger, what is a love triangle?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Kara has obviously had much more experience than high and
it takes us to Cliff.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Cliff.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
Good news for you.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Both of your opponents came up with incorrect responses, And
what that means is that even if you're wrong, long
as you didn't do anything foolish like wager everything, you're
a since winner.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We we don't.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Have to see my answer to be there. Alex see here,
tournament champions.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
We're running out of time and we are going to
have to take a look at your response. You wrote down,
who are three people who've never been in my kitchen? No?
I'm sorry, that's too Who's wrong. The re response is,
what were the real names of Kerry Grant, Tony Curtis,
and Joan Crawford.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That is in Mayolex.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Those people who have never been in my kitchen?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
To the phone line, we go, Uh, let's go to
all those lines, and I went to the one that
didn't have anyone on it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
David, you're up, Hey, Mike, I wonder no, what what's
the skinny on the bell A Bridge on the east
side of town?
Speaker 9 (03:57):
What do you know about it? When is when is
it going to be finished?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So I saw a YouTube video on this, and I
was fascinated by the feet of engineering that it is,
and I put the word out that I would like
to know more, and I got a few people that
maybe thought they might know someone. My understanding is the
company out of Alabama that was originally engaged to do
(04:22):
the bridge had to build a bridge, design and build
a bridge, had a problem with a collapse of another bridge,
and they weren't meeting engineering standards. So I don't know
where it is. I have asked. I'm kind of fascinated
by it because I did not realize what a load
that bridge carries. That turns out to be do you
(04:44):
drive it?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (04:47):
I do you regularly? You do ship channel go check
on the Yes, I do drive over at about you know,
four or five times a month.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That is a very important curious bridge for the east
side of of the Greater Houston area. So obviously I'm interested,
But that I didn't. I did not get more of
an answer than that. Yet I'm still trying. In fact,
I had a conversation about that. A friend of a
friend is an engineer, but with Harris County and apparent,
(05:17):
I mean with the state, and apparently this is a
Harris County project. Trace, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, and.
Speaker 10 (05:24):
Michael, I was just curious your thoughts what happened to
Candace Owens? I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Her views and she's I honestly.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Don't move it.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Everybody keeps talking about that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I can't hear you. Trace, You got to talk right
into the phone.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Oh, I'm sorry. I was just wondering Candace Owens, what
happened to her? She's like the bell of the ball
for a long time, and now everybody talks that she's
kind of lost her her way or her mind. I mean,
your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do you follow her, No.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
But i'd see her on a Tuck calls in and
you know, back in the day. But then I've heard
you say something that she's kind of lost your way
and she's got some really wacky views on Israel and stuff.
So I'm just figured open nind Friday and thinking about
it and wonder what your thoughts were.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't recall saying that because I try to make
it my business not to speak ill of other people
who do some version of what I do, because I
think most people do that out of pure jealousy, and
I don't have any with regard to Candace. I don't.
First of all, I don't know Candace personally. We have
mutual friends, but I don't know her personally. She had
(06:36):
a meteoric rise coming up through the Daily Wire. And
there is in American not Christendom, Christendom, but Conservativedom. Right
now there is a very aggressive split between those who
(06:59):
are concerned about America's relationship with Israel and are concerned
with Israeli influence in the United States and those who
call them Nazis. So you got this, You've got this split,
and you've got Tucker Carlson and and Candice on this
(07:23):
side and a few others, and then on the other
side you have I'd say Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Douglas
Brinkley tens to be a more intellectual version of that,
but it's still the same. There is this idea that
everyone is supposed to toe the line that Israel is
the most important place in the world, and that if
(07:45):
you point out any problems with our relationship with Israel
the way you would with any other country consistently, then
your branded a bad person and there is this attempt
to destroy you. I think that crack happened with Candice,
and once it happened, much like with Tucker, but she
(08:06):
went scorched earth. I think when it happened, she resented
it so much that she kind of doubled down and
fought back, and that's when they worked to marginalize her.
She still does incredible numbers. She has a tribe, as
as many people in this business do, and I think
she'll turn out find them by the way. I think
it's good to have different views. I think that's healthy.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
You are to ring the King's English.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Diggings, Jonathan, You're on the Michael Berry Show. What did
you what crazy thing looking back? Did you do that
you practically can't believe you did for some woman?
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Basically, I tried to date my ex's best friend.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'm not sure how to react to this. Did you
do this to make her jealous? Or did you do
it because you kind of liked her best friend?
Speaker 9 (09:03):
Well, initially it was to make her jealous, but then
a few weeks after getting involved with her, I started
to catch feelings for her, and now I was like,
oh man, what have I just done it? Oh my goodness?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So how did that end up?
Speaker 12 (09:20):
Not?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Really good? We started having problems and then she started
telling my ex all the problems we were having, and
then it was just one horrible storm.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh oh okay, So take me back. So you and
the original, the original ex, y'all were together for how long?
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Like six months?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And you were how old?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
I was twenty four years old?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
All right? And then who broke it off?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
She did?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
How did you from that moment decide, ah, her best friend,
that I'll make her jealous with her?
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Well, we had always been hanging out together, like her
and her friends or our friends. We were always meet
up and hang out or whatever. And then I always
kind of caught her like looking at me and making
little gestures and stuff and whatnot. And when she when
(10:22):
the original decided that she didn't want to be with
me anymore, and I really tried to make it work
with her. I said, okay, let me let me show
let me I'll show you type of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And so you reach out and she.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Jumps there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Do you think she tells her best friend the minute
you reach out, or you think she's keeping this quiet
for a while.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
I think she kept it quiet at first, But then again,
I really don't know because I don't even really speak
to either one.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Of them anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So how did you find out that she had told
the original that y'all were messing around?
Speaker 9 (10:54):
The original had reached out to me and said, hey,
why are you messing around with Rachel? And I was like,
I mean, I just froze for a second, and I
told her, I said, well, I don't see that's how
that's any of your business, and she goes, well, that's
my best friend. How dare you? And then it was
just a huge, huge age problem.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
What was the tone you took in response to how
dare you? Did you blow up or were you polite?
Or were you.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
When she said, how dare you? How did I respond?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
I mean I never thought I didn't think she honestly,
at twenty four, I didn't think she was going to
find out.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You hadn't prepared for this moment. Huh you had not
prepared for this moment.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
No, not at all. That's why I said. It was
a really it was a crazy and it was a
dumb and probably immature act.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And so what went on? Did you? Did you end
up getting married.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
Eventually? Yeah, but it was to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Your voice dropped?
Speaker 9 (11:52):
And how did that work out?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
How did that work out?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Over?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Still together?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There you go? And kids?
Speaker 9 (12:03):
We had two beautiful children.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, well there you go. All's well that ends well,
good story, Thanks for telling it. Justin you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning, Michael. I was just calling
to let all of your listeners know that we are
now opening up a Turning Point USA Young Professionals chapter
in Houston.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's fantastic. Tell me more so.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Shortly after September tenth, I had been reaching out to
several contacts at Turning Point. Hey, I want to get involved.
Let me know what I could do. You know I'm
not an alumni, so I'm not falling into that category.
Let me know if there's something else. And it just
so happened that Charlie Kirk and his team had been
(12:54):
planning on launching a Young Professionals chapter for those that
are twenty one to forty and in different large cities.
It's hardy been launched in Dallas and several other large cities.
It just hadn't marketed to the Houston area yet. And
(13:15):
so my contact he said that, well, you know, we're
not really ready for a Houston yet, let me all be touched.
A few weeks later he called me. He's like, Okay,
we're ready because there's a huge influx of people and
I want you to get help be the starting help.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Start it up.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
So I said absolutely, you know, let me know who
I need to talk to, what we got to do,
and he put a group of eight of us together.
We formed our board last Friday and we're now planning
our launch event for next Friday seventh. Hey, this is
going to be held at Kirby's Ice House in the
(13:55):
Heights at what time? Six thirty pm?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And that's next Friday. Do you have a website or
do you have some way people can reach out.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
To you, So they can reach out to us on
Spadia or on Instagram at tp USA Underscore, tp USA,
yp Underscore HTx, and also on Facebook at Crosby Patriot Club.
The way that that Facebook allows, it doesn't allow name
(14:26):
changes for so many days. So we'll be an official
turning point page in a few weeks. But I had
proactively started page and I didn't want to associate my
page with it's turning point. So how old are you
and I am thirty four.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
You know this is such an important when you look
at at the lifespan of people in the various phases
of what goes on. I think what you're doing is
so important justin because people end up. You know, there
are high school club if you want to be not
just tp USA, but if you want to be in
(15:06):
a high school group, there is there is out. And
you go to college, there's a group for every uh
you name it, Jews, Blacks, Indians, Christians, Catholics, there's everything.
But then you have that period when you get out,
you're working and you want to kind of engage and
figure out and this is good for you. I'm happy
(15:29):
to hear that justin to go.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
The lake Lackaberry ship.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
How you're going?
Speaker 11 (15:43):
This is Shirley Cure Liquor from over here in Pine
Grove in Earths, Texas. Hey, people ask me what you're
gonna do for Halloween? Oh lord, I'm so scared of
these damn children around here.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
We don't call it trick or treat.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
We call it treat our auson, y'all don't have to
come over here.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
I ain't got no Mary monad lace cookies. I don't
put no lsd and y'all I'm saying, I don't put
glass in y'all muffins. I don't even answer the dough.
Y'all not getting no can down of me.
Speaker 12 (16:13):
She you kidding me?
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Since the drug store started taking the EBG card, I
don't buy nobody reaching peanut butter cup, but for my
own damn.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Self and me. I know that's right. Watchers to love.
Speaker 11 (16:25):
Her some mister good bars, that's what she likes. And
then a lot of people say, miss Liquor, I see
you are scared of cats, but you got cats in
your house, cats in your yard. I have many cats
that come up in here. I have what the name
is miss Bullet, because she flies through the damn yard
and she will claw your ass. I have Luther because
(16:46):
he looked like a Presbyterian Lutheran minister. I have Rebel,
he twelve years old. He from Mississippis. I have butter
Butt and he comes from Kentucky because and I have
who that other cat is?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (17:02):
Gerald name? He was named for Gerald Floyd. Yes, but
my dog is named Rosie and she itch itch itch
behind the flees the help.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
But uh.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
People say do you keep your cats in for Halloween?
And I said, why should I? And they said yes,
because the children will stick of firecrack up the air.
I said, if they try that, I will blow they.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I will run the No, you can't.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Be cruelty to the animals. I don't play that. I
can't stand it. I will knock up.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I new hell.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
What I'm going for is Halloween. Watusa hold on.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm fit to fall down. Oh Lord, there she go.
Speaker 11 (17:46):
Okay, WATCHO says down. I don't go out for Halloween.
I don't believe in that. I think it's of the devil.
We was taught at my Holy second design something one another.
I don't know the address.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
No, more.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
I quit writing the bitches checks. I don't play that.
They are so saditi down there with their rules and
their regulations.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I quit putting no money in the.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
Tie that played. I make my own change. I put
in a five dollar bill to take out ten. The
hell sue me, subpoena me. I wish y'all would bring
the I alreads down on me. The hell y'all not
gonna find no money here. Y'all just gonna find coff sir,
how you daring?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well? At least she's still breathing. We were telling the
story earlier of the DPS trooper who shot himself in
the leg to gain the attention and pity of his
ex girlfriend who dumped him. She's a nurse, and folks
(18:48):
calling in and telling the stupid things they did to
gain the attention of the opposite secks. Was it David Chapman?
Was a fellow's name that shot Reagan Martin? David Chapman?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh? No, not sir, hensir hand No. It's kind of
sick that we remember their names. I guess I've intentionally
forgotten it. It doesn't matter. John Hinckley Junior, he uh isn't he?
The one that was trying to get Jodie Foster's attention. Listen, fella,
(19:26):
you're gonna have to do more than shoot John Ronald Reagan.
I don't think. I don't think you're ever going to
get her attention, if you know what I'm mean. I mean,
I I think the things you'd have to do to
get her attention. Yeah, yeah, well we'll leave that one
there anyway, So we would love to hear your story
of the stupid thing you did to get some guy's attention.
(19:50):
I watch women do this when they get divorced, and
I have seen women go to the greatest links. I mean,
I wonder if you told catic surgeons you cannot do
work on any woman that is trying to make her
ex jealous. You'd cut boob jobs in half, and you
(20:11):
know the other thing you cut in half. I've seen
this one. I've seen women who have decided they're checking
out of the marriage and they've let themselves go. They'll
get the boob job while they're married on his nime,
and then once it's all they're all ready to go
and ready for the market, boop, they're out. Wait what
(20:36):
what that's like? What we do in our house. My
wife always gets nervous when I start doing improvements to
the house. I get the landscaping taken care of, and
I get everything painted out it. See, I guess we're
moving again because just about the time I get a
house looking perfect, and in my mind, I really believe
I'm doing it for myself and my wife. But about
(20:58):
the time I get a house looking that's right, I go, who,
we will probably make make a pretty pity on this thing.
I should put it on the market. Glenn writes, I
text the joke of the day to my sixteen year
old granddaughter who lives in Round Rock, Great Way for
this grandpa to keep in daily contact with his granddaughter.
She loves the jokes and she shares them with the
(21:19):
other cheerleaders, who often ask her what the new joke
is for the day. So I just wanted to say thanks.
Paul writes the reason for the cops and nurses combination.
Nurses see the worst in people, as do cops, so
they develop that dark sense of humor in order to
deal with the darkness. They understand each other. You know,
(21:43):
dark humor, gallows humor, and the way cops practice it.
Criminal defense attorneys I'm sure morticians have it. For the
average person, you just can't understand it, but you have
to have it. You have to have it in order
to cope. Three to nine, one thousand, Kevin, you're up.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I was in the Houston Fire Department for thirty four
years and we made a call one day this girl
had kicked her boyfriend out of the apartment. So then
later on that evening we made a call. He had
got back in her apartment, and he got in her
closet and he took an extension card and he filled
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it apart a little bit and exposed the wire on
each hand. He put it on the side of his
head and took some tape and wrapped it around his head,
and he plugged itself in.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
When we got there, he was still plugged in, but
he was he was dead, but he I guess he
got her attention.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Oh, I think she was shocked.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I'll laugh about it to this state. Anyway. Just when
you think you see all the stupid, just hang on.
You'll make something else that's stupider than that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, let me make sure I'm visualizing this properly. So
he shaves off the rubber around the line on both ends.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He made his own little homemade sparky.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay, and then he taped it around.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
His head on one side. One side, he put the
wire and right there around his temple on the right
side and on the left side, and got some tait
and wrapped it around his head so it holded on there,
and then he plugged himself in.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
So when you got there, he's still plugged in.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
He's laying their graveyard dead, plugged in. He's still hot.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So help me understand. I'm not an expert in this
sort of stuff. How do you break that circuit?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Just unplugging? We unplugging?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Did you unplug him or did you mean somebody else
do it?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I don't remember. There was he was on a fire truck.
We got there before the amble, and uh, anyway, I'm
sure he got her a kitchen good.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, the ethereal, the butterflies with the Mickelberry,
they're all duncans, And you know duncan means yo yo.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
We talked about on the broadcast, how you hate candy corn?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What's your favorite Halloween corn?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean, I completely hate candy corn. When I was
a kid, well, gummy bears. Let's see gummy bears for sure,
now we're regular. The hair bones got to me, the
airbow ones. And then the other thing I like is,
uh is when they used to have the Spreez in
(25:00):
a box with outstanding you have to go to the
dollar store to find it, but I do. And then
the latest, the latest, you know, there's still candy innovation.
Although while back I found that Europe had better candy
than we did overall because they have gummy everything.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And then but the uh, you know, they.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Have those nerds clusters, which is new. Yeah, which is good.
The nerds clusters is good. And then if you got chocolate,
probably all enjoy I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Hopefully you'll get some of that next week. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Thanks going all right, you in invisible man in your bed.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I want to hear Mike Leech's opinion on everything, I
mean everything, don't you, Tom, you old Michael Berry show,
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yes, Mike, you just mentioned it about you know, marticians
and all. I did that for quite a few years.
And and uh, the National Funeral Director Association did always
have their convention there in Vegas round about Halloween time,
and we took the opportunity to really cut loose and
(26:11):
dress up in costumes and everything. So that was all
until damn over sixty minutes showed up one of them
hidden cameras and they did a whole story on us
about how we were irreverent and everything like this, and uh,
you know, you go around with stiff neck all year long,
you need to cut loose every once in a while.
(26:32):
And uh, but they caught us out there, that's what
they did. And uh, you want to talk about the
cops in that line, I did a lot of picking
up the people who was either drunk or whatever, crashed,
had bad accidents, a leg over here, a arm over there,
you know, and uh, them big old Burley cops, they was,
(26:57):
you know. They was like one time I had a guy.
There was a finger that came loose off this fella
and he's over there, fifty yards away from me with
us last night. He says, General Man, I got a
finger over here. I said, Bobby, you got a pair
of gloves, Why don't you just bring it? How ain't
touching the old finger? I'll tell you what. You know.
He just went crazy on me, And so I had
(27:18):
to go over there and get that thing.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
But how did you overtime? You know, how did you
overcome the original fear?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I'm sorry, how did what?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
How did you overcome the original awkwardness of touching a
human body?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Well, when I was going to school for it, it was,
it was I was worried about that, and at some
point the switch kind of flipped on me where I was.
I was really interested in getting getting into it because
(27:57):
I was getting the education about it. You know, it's
like a a process at this point, and uh, the
the most poignant memory, I guess I can say is
some of the odors you'd run into. But uh uh
and then uh, you know, the saddest part was dealing
(28:19):
with some of the families. But uh it it uh
it became a uh uh a process, and I guess
the easiest way for me to relate it was, you know,
if you were a heart surgeon, I'd be I'd be
terrified I'm gonna screw something up. But at some point,
those doctors they get to the point to where they're like,
(28:42):
you know, a Swiss man working on a fine watch
or something. He knows exactly where everything is supposed to
be and how it's supposed to look, and and uh
it's his uh job is calling whatever to put it
back together and and and uh, you know, fix them up.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So did you have some little trick you played to
trick your mind? Because you know, growing up there's the
you know, a human body is sacred and it's you know,
it's full of life. And then here you are in
a room just you, and then and then there were
all the you know, the boogeyman versions of you know,
the dead body was evil and all that. Did you
(29:21):
did you struggle to get past all that? Or you
didn't have any problems?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
H I really I really didn't. But I worked for
a little bit of funeral home that was owned by
a family and the old man's son who was running
it before I came into it, well, he died and
his wife took it over for a little while. Well,
(29:46):
when she was ninety two years old. I ended up
burying her. Well, after I buried her, her name was Helen.
After I buried her, I would be in the preparation
room by myself, middle of the night, right and a
door would open or I'd go you know, down the hall,
(30:08):
and the light in the bathroom was on and I
wasn't going two hours ago, and I was the only
one in the building, and I would just call up
to I say, Helen, how you doing. You know, and
I do believe in ghosts, but I do not believe
that all ghosts are evil ghosts.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You follow me, I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Uh huh and uh it's uh. It's seeing some of
them people that that having a hard time with it.
I'll tell you this much. The people I dealt with,
they had the hardest time with losing a loved one
(30:54):
were the ones that didn't know the Lord. And I
reasoned that out that you know, there's a there's a
lot of faith involved in religion, and if you don't
know about it, when Grandma or your sister, or your
girlfriend or your wife, God bless you, your child uh leaves.
(31:17):
There's just so many things that you don't understand, and
some points in time you just have to shut up
and and and have faith that things are going to
be okay.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Tom, You're the call of the day, brother, Thank you him.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey, Michael.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
I told h told Ramon that I grew up in
a family family business of the funeral home down on
Corpus and so that was an interesting childhood, to say
the least. Nothing like going getting picked up at elementary
school in a hearse, you know. But my dad used
(32:05):
to do that for a bunch of a bunch of
friends that might have been down.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
There on Halloween. But I'm guessing that'd be odd after
a while.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Well yeah, I mean he would finish the funeral and
my mom would be like, hey, you need to pick
up pick up him at school, and all right, Well
he would fire through in the hearse and he would
get a few looks. He would do that in the
limousines and different stuff, but he would do it for friends.
He would go pick up friends at the airport in
the hearse. He would put on his tuxedo and a
top hat and and you know, somebody's fiftieth birthday. He
(32:35):
would go and do that for fun, for different people. So, uh,
working in the funeral business, you have to have a
tender heart, but you also have to have a good
sense of humor. And that was that was my dad.
But this he was third generation. My great grandfather actually
started the funeral home back in the in the teen
in the nineteen teens, and it was under his name.
(32:57):
But I remember when I was a little boy in
the early eighties. Somehow my dad got preferential treatment from
the bandidos, the big biker ganger if you're familiar with them.
And uh, one of the big bandido bosses passed away,
and they decided that they wanted to use my dad's
funeral home and and so he took care of the
(33:18):
service and and uh, little did we know that there
was going to be over a thousand bandidos and motorcycles
at at our at our place.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
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