November 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael Berry tackles life’s big questions: Is a po’boy a sandwich or a lifestyle? Why does turkey exist? And can a Monte Cristo achieve enlightenment? Tune in for unsolicited wisdom, sandwich theology, and occasional yelling about mayonnaise.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The question is what is the future of democratic leadership?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Who is going to be effective?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But we have dynamic, young new leaders where some of
the Chris Murphy is a top leader, and Cory Booker
is a dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader.
I mean Elizabeth Warren, someone who's ideology I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We said we are anchoring ourselves in the moral traditions.
When we came out here over ten hours ago, Hakima
and I said, this is a bigger moment than politics.
This is a moral moment in America. And we were
gonna sit here for a long time. I didn't know
we'd be sitting for ten hours. But it's ten hours
and we're still going, and we got some great people here.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Then this is who I grew up believing with my brothers.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
This is our family's story. My apology is an apology
for not having been more sensitive about tribal citizenship and
tribal sovereignty. I really want to underline the point of tribes.
Only trials determined tribal citizenship. It is an issue of
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tribal sovereigns.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I got the d shutdown hurt.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
It did, but unfortunately, I don't think there is a
way to save this country, to save our democracy, without
there being some difficult, hard moments belong to the web.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I got behime. Since we're on the subject of deli sandwiches,
Deli sandwiches to me are a lunch, never a dinner.
Same with barbecue. Just you don't have to agree. I
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understand that some people might disagree with that, but there
are meals I eat for lunch and meals I eat
for dinner, and I don't mix the two. And one
of my mini goofy strident stances on things now that
my wife is spending so much time with my dad,
she now says, man, I didn't realize how much like
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your dad you are. And I don't think she meant
that as a compliment, so I didn't ask for more details.
But I'm watching the game, rooting for the Aggies to
get back in. I'm having a nice Saturday afternoon. And
it didn't take long she came back in. She continued
the conversation. You know, like he's down to only three
(04:18):
Cheerios boxes, and he calls and says he's out of cheerios.
You do that. I don't eat cheerios hard anyway. Yeah,
but you get the point. You got to have a
stockpile of stuff as if at any moment the commercial
system is going to shut down. You got to have
enough of everything just in case, just in case, in
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any contingency. Well, I suppose that's probably true. So we're
talking about Deli sandwiches. And my first Jersey MICS was noteworthy.
I didn't find it to be amazing, but it wasn't bad.
(05:06):
They did give me the wrong sandwich, and because I
was a scared white guy, I didn't complaint. No, I
didn't honestly didn't pay attention until it was way too late.
And there was a long line of people behind me,
not that it matters, but they were all white people,
and I didn't want to go back in line. And
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I knew I was going to throw off the system
if I got my roast beef, which is what I wanted.
So instead I got what I didn't want, which was
turkey and ham Well turkey. I eat turkey twice a year,
Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and that's it, and that's all.
I don't think turkey is a particularly and that too
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now only fried. It's too dry of a meat. It's
why it's never really peeded with beef, chicken and pork.
My wife if we if we eat barbecue, my wife
will get turkey. And I will never understand that for
the life of me. I will never understand that. But
(06:13):
that's what she does anyway. So I thought Jersey Mikes
was fine. I uh my, My sandwich shop of choice
is Nielsen's over on Richmond inside the Loop, about a
mile maybe not quite a mile, about a mile near
the tracks there, where it's been forever, and it's an
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old Danish family. The heir to the family was running it.
He passed away, his wife steps in. She wasn't obviously
raised in the business. She stepped in and she took
it over. Her daughter has come up in the business
and they're still running this business. They're on the they're
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on the hard corner there, and if you're driving by
and they're not busy, you'd think it's just an abandoned,
old nothing fancy, same old building where it's always been.
And for a while I hadn't been back since then
they were changing out the sign, so the sign was
covered so there's no sign out front, but if you
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walk in there. I like to go into places where
old people are ordering, and you get the sense they've
been placing the same order at the same place for
a very very long time. I get my roast beef cheddar.
They have a special spread there which is kind of
kind of a Russian dressing, mayonnaise, combo, chips, and an
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unsweet iced tea and a cookie, and I usually get
a cookie for whoever's going to be around me when
I eat. Actress. You have good cookies that they make
there anyway, so I would like to hear. We'll just
take one segment to do it. Your deli sandwich location
of choice, the name the loc unless it's a franchise,
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in which case we'll we'll we'll figure that one out
and quickly your order. All right, name location and quickly
your order seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Greg Wright
Subway has been passed by Jersey Mike's Firehouse Subs, and
especially in the North mom and pop convenience stores. I
left Subway when they quit carrying carrots for my turkey sandwich.
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Greg and Port Arthur's all right seven one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand, Oh, yes, who doesn't love a good midday sandwich?
When it was just my mom and dad at home,
I went and got gift cards to the restaurants in town,
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and I prepaid the delivery service there. They didn't have
uber Eats or what's the other one door dash didn't
have anything like this too small, didn't have the dzzy
for it, but they did have a regional thing in
that area called grub. So I gave him my card.
I got to know the lady. I gave her a
big tip. I said, listen, anytime my mom or dad calls,
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if you will put a rush on that and you'll
take good care of him, you can put a big
fat tip on there every single time I want them
to be taken care of him there. Later days, she said,
that's very sweet, I'll do that. And they wouldn't do it.
They just couldn't get over the concept of restaurant food
being delivered to their home. Just couldn't get over it.
And they were My mom was still driving at that point,
(09:31):
not my dad and my mom. I'd call every evening, Hey,
how are things going good? What'd y'all have? For dinner,
A sandwich? Oh god, Mom. Dad worked hard his entire life,
never had a penny. I've made a little money. I
want y'all to have good food. I don't want well,
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I knew you were going to say that. I didn't
want to answer, and it drove me crazy. So we
move him into the Old Folks Home. The Old Folks
Home has phenomenal food, just amazing, incredible. Sometimes, so my
wife or I will call him every night before he
goes to bed, and I'll say, Dad, would you have
for dinner? And usually it's catfish, but we do a
(10:15):
big song and dance. He says, oh, I don't know.
I can't remember. Can't remember what you have for dinner? Nah,
you know they got a whole menu stuff. I don't know. Catfish.
Oh yeah, catfish. It's catfish every day, that's catfish everything.
But occasionally I'll say, what do you have for dinner?
The meals are prepaid, and did I mention they're really good?
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And he'll say a sandwich, and I lose my mind,
and my wife says, why can't you understand that's what
he wants. He likes it. I'm gonna ask for a
favor from you and just more, we're gonna get to
the calls on the sandwiches, as my mother said, sandwich
every year. Eddie Martine, who has shared the Saint Jude
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operation here for years and years and years, comes to
me at the last minute because all their other efforts
to raise money have not hit the goal. And he
made a commitment to Saint Jude years ago, and we've
been involved with it, and I will say I got
to know a lot about Saint Jude. We took a
group of listeners there. It's an amazing organization that does
amazing things. Kids that have cancers that can't be treated
wherever they are, they're sent there at no cost to
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the family. It's like I can't hope of kids with cancer.
They're sent there at no cost. The families are sent
there to be with them, and they treat them no
cost to them. They share everything they do. They film
procedures and they share them around the world. So you've
got countries in Africa and Asians South America that don't
have the ability to treat some massive lump in somebody
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in some kid's head, and they film those and they
teach and they share it. They don't keep any of
it proprietary. They share it with anyone because they want
to help heal the world. So every year they do
Houston sends a lot of kids to Saint Jude. It's
in Memphis, So every year they do a golf tournament
and every year we are a to finish out the
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group for them. In the past we've raised thirty teams,
which is a big ask, and I said, look, I
don't want to do that again. That's too much. Raise
everything you can and then come to me. And I
was hoping he wouldn't come to me, but he did.
And you folks have always been very, very very good.
It's five thousand a team. I committed to do fifteen.
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The golf tournament is in December. I'll give you the
details in a minute. I'll get to the calls. I'll
give you the details in a minute. If you will
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com that
you will buy a team. It's Monday, December eighth. And
the fact that you can't play is okay. It's a
five thousand dollars donation. If you can't play, then we
donate that team to Camp Hope. And that means four
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residents of Camp Hope get to play. So if you
can't play, great, I can guarantee you your place will
be taken. The earlier you commit to a team by email,
the more times your company is going to be mentioned.
So mention my name. You know this is there is
Jones with Jones Engineering, and every time you every time
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I mentioned the sponsors until we get to our fifteen.
The earlier you're in, the more times, the more mentions.
That may not be why you do it, but you'll
be helping me out. You can email me Michael at
Michael Berryshow dot com or through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com. It's five thousand dollars. It's Monday, December eighth.
There's a lot of other stuff, but you don't care.
You're going to give the five thousand to Saint Jude
and it's tax adaptable. And when you email me, I'll
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connect you with with Sylvia Jones, who just celebrated forty
four years with our company which is now iHeart but
it was different when she started, but same job and
she will coordinate everything and it's a good group of people.
It's a whole lot of fun and it's a great
cost so email me on that. All right, So the
phone lines we go extra credit if your choice is
a mom and pop, But if it's a franchise, that's
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okay too. Kay. What's your favorite sandwich?
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Mine is a mom and pop and it's located in Liberty, Texas,
and it's called Generation's Coffee and Sandwich Shop. And my
favorite a sandwich is a Money Crisco. And my husband
Kirk is your favorite fan?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh is what's on the money Crystal?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
It has ham.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And cheese and uh, it has a raspberry dip.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
It has something else like a They have a homemade
dressing there and they put their homemade breasting and then
they put powdered sugar on it and then you have
this raspberry dip.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
To dip it in.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
My goodness, Hey, is this dessert or a sandwich?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
No, it's a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Well you can call it a sandwich. You can call
it no notut a sandwich. Kimberly, you're up what you got,
Kimberly Bogart.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
My favorite sandwich is from ames Iowa Downtown Deli. It's
called it All Cheese and I get it with the classics.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No onion, classic, no onion.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Yes, So it's got lettuce, tomato, agger and oil and
salt and pepper.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
The way you had to test leading into the no,
I thought it was a snow onion. I thought, well,
that's an interesting choice, Daniel. Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
Yeah, anytime I'm in Lake Charles, I have to go
to Daryl's. It's one of the best sandwiches, hands down around.
Uh So, like I said, when I'm in Lake Charles,
I have to stop and get it. It's a surfing turf.
Uh you would like it. It's got roast beef. They got
some kind of the special sauce on it with shrimp
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's really good.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
It's it's worth it's worth getting it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's got shrimp on a sandwich.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Yes, he's got.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It's it is good.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
It's called the surf and Turf.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm gonna go ahead and rule right now that Poe
boys do not a surfing turf. That's not a sandwich anymore.
That's a pro boy. That's a whole different operation. I can't,
I can't. I can't be for that. That that that
uh that yeah, yeah, I'm having trouble with that one
right there, Brandon, what's yours?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Well, normally I go to is a poe boy for
my dad's place. But if I had to go to
daily sandwich, I would say the Italian chops though from
local kitchen and market down in Friendswood.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, I've heard of them before, locals.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
In friends One right on.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm gonna ask Connie and Billy Stagneran about that. I
had a couple of cheeseburgers. Are going the best sized team.
I'm gonna tell you, man.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
A dollar and a half.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Are chief change.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Let me have a d I go same to docup
that I'll make it fast and I'm gonna go Damn Murry.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I have read and seen documentaries about Smoking the Bandit,
and apparently Jackie Gleeson had carte blanche to improvise anything
and everything he wanted, and he did. And apparently there's
so many of the things that he said and did,
including walking out with the toilet paper attached that it
rolls behind him, were all completely his. They were not
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in the original script. Hal Needham said, I just let
Jackie go whatever he wanted to do. He did. There
was such respect for him on that set that whatever
he did, you just went with it and you knew
you knew he was not going to cue your line
properly by reading his. He was going to do whatever
the heck he wanted, and you had to improvise. Do
you remember the name of the county? They were in
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Ramon Portugue County. You know where Portugue County is. It
doesn't exist Texas. In Texas twound and fifty four counties,
Portugue is not one of them. We do have a
Montague County, which is probably what it was what it
was modeled on. Craig, what is your favorite sandwich? And
don't say a Poe Boy or a muffelta, because I
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see that you're from New Orleans and I know that's
what you're gonna do.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Where you had Michael and you exactly right, A couple
of guys stole my thunbers, So I'll just have to
pass on this one.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, no, what were you going to say?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What were you going to say?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Poor boys place called shortstop Poor Boys on trans Continental
right off Airline Highway. They got a half and half,
you know, half shrimp and half oyster boys. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
When's the last time you had one?
Speaker 11 (18:29):
It's been a while. I'm trans Texan. I moved from
New Orleans about four years ago to Austin, Texas, And
I'm trying to learn this Texas thing.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
How do you like it so far?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, Austin, not.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
So much Texas. Yeah, Austin. You know, it's growing on me.
It's growing on me. We South Austin, so we kind
of away from, you know, the bad stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah. What area of South Austin are you in?
Speaker 11 (18:57):
We're right off thirty five in South first Street, the
last exit on thirty five before you get the Buda.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, that's nice out there,
you Hlario.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
It's Hunt Country, you know, little hilly and you know
it gets a mile from the house and you got
deer crossing signs, so it's a nice area.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah. What brought you to Austin?
Speaker 11 (19:17):
Well, I got up in age, my daughter married a
Texan and moved over here twenty something years ago. And
when I was still working, we would get four day
weekends and run over here to visit. And then when
I retired, we were coming about once a month, and
that thousand mile round trip was killing us upper seventies,
and we just needed to get close. And we got
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so close we moved in with him and bought a
generational home together.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Oh, good for you. Good for you. So you're retired,
and what does your wife think?
Speaker 11 (19:46):
You retired from the oil field. I was a crane
mechanic and started my own business and was successful in
it for about twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
And what does your wife think of it?
Speaker 11 (19:59):
She's similar issue. We miss New Orleans. We missed the people,
the food, the culture. Seafood and the Italian restaurants are
great over there. But we're learning. We love barbecue and
text next, so we learning.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know, Greg, I believe that people who leave New
Orleans love that city and pine for that city more
than people from anywhere else, more than people from New York,
more than people from Chicago, Los Angeles. I think that
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it's my impression that they do, and they look forward
to going home and when they get when they get home,
they interact. Now a lot of this I see with
Eddie Martini because he's from there, but I know a
lot of people haven't. We have a station there and
I love the listeners, and you go there and there'll
be people there that are from Houston that live there
and love it. And then there are people in Houston
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that are from New Orleans and they talk about it,
and I can just tell that there is such a deep,
deep connection to that place. Thanks for the call, Craig Marchetta,
you're on the Michael Barry Show. Did I pronounce that correctly?
Is it a hard see?
Speaker 12 (21:12):
I did not. It's Marquita Mark. I've gone through I've
gone through my life with people either hearing my name
and miss spelling it or seeing it written and mispronouncing it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Is it m A r q U I t A.
Speaker 12 (21:24):
No, it's m A r c h E t A.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, that's how he wrote it on the screen. I
can't call it marquita, but okay, okay, anyway, Yeah, your
mother did not do you a favor on that. What's
your middle name?
Speaker 12 (21:38):
My mother's middle name or my middle name is my
mother's first name, which was Sedonia. It doesn't get any better, okay?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And what where? Where's the family for? Where are these
names coming from?
Speaker 12 (21:50):
I have no Well, I don't know my mother's people
who were all German. My dad's were French and English
and a little bit of Cherokee Indians.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Was she a hippie or what was going on?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
No?
Speaker 12 (22:03):
No, I'm afraid I'm older than that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Marquita.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Okay, Marquita Sidonia. There was a Perry Cuma song in
the late forties. Marquita like a song. I don't know
whether that's actually how I got stuck with.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is. Yeah,
that would make all of sense in the world. Huh okay, Yes,
how about that? What a great voice, Perry Como. Wow,
what's your favorite Deli sandwich? My dear, well, I.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Don't go eat Deli sandwich is very very ofughen. I
do really love Nielsen's. But my call was to tell
you that the original location was not there on Richmond
at mid Laine. What was actually were on Montrose, just
a little bit north of the Southwest Freeway. In all candor,
I don't know when they moved to the Richmond location,
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because that place used to be a donut shop. But yeah,
when I first started, when I first started practicing law,
that I was with was off Valen Parkway and occasionally
they would order out from Neils for lunches and it
was close by Thearon Montrose.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I don't know what year they moved, but I have
talked to the owner. She is the widow of the
guy who was like the grandson of the founder, and
she told me that, And there's articles on the wall.
What I love about the place is hasn't changed. If
they ever renovated it, I think it would be so disappointed.
I hated that dairy Quinn went to DQ and went
to fancy news stores. I like the old, tired stores.
(23:27):
But I did know they moved. It looks like it
might have been in the old days of Mary Lee
location be my guess, mary Lee Donuts, but I guess
it could have been anything. But now that you mention it,
it's kind of set up that way. I can see
a sort of a gambled roof in the front, and
the roof shingles were sort of the sign. But the
last time I was there, which admittedly has been a minute,
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probably six months, they were finishing renovating out front. They
were putting a new sign out front. So I'll be
curious to see how that turns out. Well, thank you
for the call, Marquita. I realize through this exercise that
for me, a Deli sandwich is a cold cut. It's
not a hot sandwich or a It's certainly not like
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a what I would consider a Poe Boy even though
a poe boy is in the sandwich category, to me,
a poe boy is a whole different category. So when
you get into those surf and turfs and all that stuff, that,
to me is not even actually a sandwich, because I
don't I don't want a sandwich very often. But when
i'm craving a sandwich, I'm craving a cold cut. That's
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just my own goofy of, you know definition, Joel, Can
you hold with me for just a moment, Yeah, hole
with me for just a moment. You and Sandra and
I can't see the list, but I know there's more
we'll get to in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
On the warehouse announces it's Get Them the Stars sale in.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Holy Sound Warehouse. The listener Eric sent along a link
to a guy's blog called Sandwiches of History. And this
fellow named Barry has an old cookbook, like maybe one
hundred year old cookbook. I don't know. It looks like
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it's very very old. And every day it has four
hundred recipes for sandwiches. And every day he makes a
new sandwich, talks about it, tastes it, reviews it, the
whole thing. I don't know if he makes any bread
at the project. But it seems like he's having fun
and that's what really matters. So anyway, it's called Sandwiches
(25:39):
Ofhistory dot com. If you want to check him out.
We've sent him a message to invite him on the show,
but I don't know if he'll respond quickly enough. May
look us up and hear, oh he's a crazy right
wing got okay, but we just want to talk about
sandwiches right now, Sandra. What's yours?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Mate, Mister Michael Barry, how are you today, sir? I'm good, good, well.
When I have the craze for a good old sandwich,
I eat at Shlatsky's out in Kady at Mason and Kingsland,
and I get the pumper nipple bread with heavy mayonnaise
on both sides of the bun, with turkey, lettuce, tomato,
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and piples. I do not eat up suthway. The subway
is for fat folks. I do not eat a subway.
The subway is for fat folks.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
So I eat shalankis you know, uh, let's see it's Jason's.
Is it Shlatsky's or Jason's Deli that's from Beaumont. When
I was a baby, Layd.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Jason DELI is in that center of right when you
come out for uh I can and you turn in
that first center.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Are you a black woman?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, you might be my expert on this CenTra.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I might be your lot my.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Expert on this subject. The reason I say that is
I have noticed going to sandwich shops that black people
buying large do not eat sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Again with me, let me understand you again. He hadn't
said again.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It had It is my experience from going to sandwich
shops that black people do not eat sandwiches at sandwich shops.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Maybe at sandwich shops. Well, I'm gonna tell you. Me
and my husband we ate a Sharlatis and we got
party trade when he wasn't like, I'm a widow now.
I just buried my husband being there for thirty years
to build him this year there here twenty eight, twenty
twenty five, and whenever we wanted sandwiches for the family,
we got party trades, and we got that party trade.
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He liked to ride and he also liked the pumpernickle
bud too, so he would always give two trades. And well,
the kids are brown now you know, twenty and thirty.
My daughter's thirty and my son he's twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Gollach, where is your son?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
My son? As everybody's in Houston?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, what do you do, Sandra?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I retired. I used to be a teacher.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh, good for you. What did you teach?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I used to teach math at Lamar High School with
doctor James mcflain was my boss over there, the principal.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But he's what is your last name? Because there's gonna
be Lamar students who are saying, oh, that's miss Johnson.
My last name is Alan, Miss Allan, Sandra Allen. Okay,
and what does mister Allen do?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Oh, mister Allen, he's uh, he's deceased now. He was
in the security. He was a mission officer for mister
inn f Ral player mister Johnie Baker, and he worked
for mister Johnny Baker. He was his prox security.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh, oh, I bet I met him.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And I missed my husband and I'm a widow now,
so oh.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I did not realize that. Okay, did you say that earlier?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
My husband and she's deceit. He's a widow. I'm a
widow now for thirty years we were married thirty years. Well,
we have two kids at twenty old and a thirty
year old Sandra.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I thought, when you said, did you say y'all y'are married.
We're still getting our volumes right, our equipment still working through,
so my volume on the calls goes down when I'm talking.
But I thought, I thought you said y'all were going
to celebrate November thirty years. But you're saying, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
We got I had a val of Time's Day wedding.
I retreat. I had a Valentine's Day wedding. We got
married a fair ready to fourteenth nineteen ninety five, fair
ready to fourteen nineteen ninety five. When my first I
was pregnant when I got married. You know, I am
a graduate. I'm a lambadad. He's been back to university.
Shout out to the hockey my president, doctor Hollo. Okay,
(29:47):
but I was pregnant when I got married. When my
first born, her name is Ms. Launa Lama Allan. It's
Lona Lama Allen. She is thirty years old. And Nathan
Emanuel Allen, he is twenty second. My kids are ten
years apart. He's the second. Uh he's the prophet in
the family. Okay, prophet, he's Uh. When I was pregnant
(30:08):
with Nathan, Angel of the Lord came to me and
my husband said, Nathan would be a prophet. Do not
name him Larry, name him Nathan Emanuel Allen. People do
the things that your husband was supposed to do for
the Lord. So that's basically that's how Nathan got his name.
God named him, and uh.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's that's a good story.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And when we like sandwiches for the family, but when
I want sandwiches, I just ate a Shloski's two months ago,
and I had to prop a nickle book and heavy
on the turkey and uh, mayonnaise and letters and made
them tickle.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You don't ever do white bread.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I do weat bread, and I don't like white bread.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I do wheat, Yes, my wife does.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
White bread makes you fat?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt it makes you fat.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's why I don't eat a shiloti. They love. They
don't have no proper nipples, they don't have talkhones, black bread.
Hear you all that white bread and robbery though, And
you know I don't eat a subway for fat folks.
That's me.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, I can tell you are definitely not interested in
getting fat. I could definitely tell that.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I'm talking one hundred and twenty pounds no more. I
used to be all through my high school year. That say,
I'm used. In high school, I was one hundred and
twenty pounds, and I didn't start gaining weight until you know,
I got in college. So and then really game right
when I got pregnant with Lorna. So I'm not fat
(31:42):
and I'm not skinny.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I'm just right, just right, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
My husband, my husband say, baby, you just right, baby,
you just right. All that back got back there. You're
just right.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's how he wanted it. Well, you know, it's much
more forgiving in that way to be married to a
black man, because black men likes some meat on the bones.
We white us, white men, we like skinny women. We
like them two skids. It's impossible for a woman as
they age to be as thin as we want them
to be. That is true.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay, Well you know I don't I don't like this.
I don't never want to be skinny, and I don't
never want to be bad. I want to be just
right like you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That's why if you ever see a white man dating
a black woman, she won't have a traditional corpulent, curvy figure.
She'll be a skinny white woman, a skinny black woman.
If you keep you watch. If a white guy's dating
a black woman, she'll be.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
A I dated a white guy before when I was
in college, twenty year dollar. His name was Stewart, and uh,
he was into the breast. I know. White man's love
breast if you don't have big gloss, well, and that's
that's what he that's what he was into. He loved
my bread.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh my goodness. Uh, Sandra, you make me blush. Now
there's one exception that you'll see these.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Uh we branded on the women.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah we. Sandra is a keeper.
Speaker 10 (33:06):
H m hm
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The question is what is the future of democratic leadership?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Who is going to be effective?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But we have dynamic, young new leaders where some of
the Chris Murphy is a top leader, and Cory Booker
is a dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader.
I mean Elizabeth Warren, someone who's ideology I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We said we are anchoring ourselves in the moral traditions.
When we came out here over ten hours ago, Hakima
and I said, this is a bigger moment than politics.
This is a moral moment in America. And we were
gonna sit here for a long time. I didn't know
we'd be sitting for ten hours. But it's ten hours
and we're still going, and we got some great people here.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Then this is who I grew up believing with my brothers.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
This is our family's story. My apology is an apology
for not having been more sensitive about tribal citizenship and
tribal sovereignty. I really want to underline the point of tribes.
Only trials determined tribal citizenship. It is an issue of
(02:04):
tribal sovereigns.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I got the d shutdown hurt.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
It did, but unfortunately, I don't think there is a
way to save this country, to save our democracy, without
there being some difficult, hard moments belong to the web.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I got behime. Since we're on the subject of deli sandwiches,
Deli sandwiches to me are a lunch, never a dinner.
Same with barbecue. Just you don't have to agree. I
(03:31):
understand that some people might disagree with that, but there
are meals I eat for lunch and meals I eat
for dinner, and I don't mix the two. And one
of my mini goofy strident stances on things now that
my wife is spending so much time with my dad,
she now says, man, I didn't realize how much like
(03:56):
your dad you are. And I don't think she meant
that as a compliment, so I didn't ask for more details.
But I'm watching the game, rooting for the Aggies to
get back in. I'm having a nice Saturday afternoon. And
it didn't take long she came back in. She continued
the conversation. You know, like he's down to only three
(04:18):
Cheerios boxes, and he calls and says he's out of cheerios.
You do that. I don't eat cheerios hard anyway. Yeah,
but you get the point. You got to have a
stockpile of stuff as if at any moment the commercial
system is going to shut down. You got to have
enough of everything just in case, just in case, in
(04:41):
any contingency. Well, I suppose that's probably true. So we're
talking about Deli sandwiches. And my first Jersey MICS was noteworthy.
I didn't find it to be amazing, but it wasn't bad.
(05:06):
They did give me the wrong sandwich, and because I
was a scared white guy, I didn't complaint. No, I
didn't honestly didn't pay attention until it was way too late.
And there was a long line of people behind me,
not that it matters, but they were all white people,
and I didn't want to go back in line. And
(05:31):
I knew I was going to throw off the system
if I got my roast beef, which is what I wanted.
So instead I got what I didn't want, which was
turkey and ham Well turkey. I eat turkey twice a year,
Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and that's it, and that's all.
I don't think turkey is a particularly and that too
(05:53):
now only fried. It's too dry of a meat. It's
why it's never really peeded with beef, chicken and pork.
My wife if we if we eat barbecue, my wife
will get turkey. And I will never understand that for
the life of me. I will never understand that. But
(06:13):
that's what she does anyway. So I thought Jersey Mikes
was fine. I uh my, My sandwich shop of choice
is Nielsen's over on Richmond inside the Loop, about a
mile maybe not quite a mile, about a mile near
the tracks there, where it's been forever, and it's an
(06:37):
old Danish family. The heir to the family was running it.
He passed away, his wife steps in. She wasn't obviously
raised in the business. She stepped in and she took
it over. Her daughter has come up in the business
and they're still running this business. They're on the they're
(06:59):
on the hard corner there, and if you're driving by
and they're not busy, you'd think it's just an abandoned,
old nothing fancy, same old building where it's always been.
And for a while I hadn't been back since then
they were changing out the sign, so the sign was
covered so there's no sign out front, but if you
(07:19):
walk in there. I like to go into places where
old people are ordering, and you get the sense they've
been placing the same order at the same place for
a very very long time. I get my roast beef cheddar.
They have a special spread there which is kind of
kind of a Russian dressing, mayonnaise, combo, chips, and an
(07:42):
unsweet iced tea and a cookie, and I usually get
a cookie for whoever's going to be around me when
I eat. Actress. You have good cookies that they make
there anyway, so I would like to hear. We'll just
take one segment to do it. Your deli sandwich location
of choice, the name the loc unless it's a franchise,
(08:02):
in which case we'll we'll we'll figure that one out
and quickly your order. All right, name location and quickly
your order seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Greg Wright
Subway has been passed by Jersey Mike's Firehouse Subs, and
especially in the North mom and pop convenience stores. I
left Subway when they quit carrying carrots for my turkey sandwich.
(08:24):
Greg and Port Arthur's all right seven one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand, Oh, yes, who doesn't love a good midday sandwich?
When it was just my mom and dad at home,
I went and got gift cards to the restaurants in town,
(08:48):
and I prepaid the delivery service there. They didn't have
uber Eats or what's the other one door dash didn't
have anything like this too small, didn't have the dzzy
for it, but they did have a regional thing in
that area called grub. So I gave him my card.
I got to know the lady. I gave her a
big tip. I said, listen, anytime my mom or dad calls,
(09:10):
if you will put a rush on that and you'll
take good care of him, you can put a big
fat tip on there every single time I want them
to be taken care of him there. Later days, she said,
that's very sweet, I'll do that. And they wouldn't do it.
They just couldn't get over the concept of restaurant food
being delivered to their home. Just couldn't get over it.
And they were My mom was still driving at that point,
(09:31):
not my dad and my mom. I'd call every evening, Hey,
how are things going good? What'd y'all have? For dinner,
A sandwich? Oh god, Mom. Dad worked hard his entire life,
never had a penny. I've made a little money. I
want y'all to have good food. I don't want well,
(09:53):
I knew you were going to say that. I didn't
want to answer, and it drove me crazy. So we
move him into the Old Folks Home. The Old Folks
Home has phenomenal food, just amazing, incredible. Sometimes, so my
wife or I will call him every night before he
goes to bed, and I'll say, Dad, would you have
for dinner? And usually it's catfish, but we do a
(10:15):
big song and dance. He says, oh, I don't know.
I can't remember. Can't remember what you have for dinner? Nah,
you know they got a whole menu stuff. I don't know. Catfish.
Oh yeah, catfish. It's catfish every day, that's catfish everything.
But occasionally I'll say, what do you have for dinner?
The meals are prepaid, and did I mention they're really good?
(10:36):
And he'll say a sandwich, and I lose my mind,
and my wife says, why can't you understand that's what
he wants. He likes it. I'm gonna ask for a
favor from you and just more, we're gonna get to
the calls on the sandwiches, as my mother said, sandwich
every year. Eddie Martine, who has shared the Saint Jude
(10:58):
operation here for years and years and years, comes to
me at the last minute because all their other efforts
to raise money have not hit the goal. And he
made a commitment to Saint Jude years ago, and we've
been involved with it, and I will say I got
to know a lot about Saint Jude. We took a
group of listeners there. It's an amazing organization that does
amazing things. Kids that have cancers that can't be treated
wherever they are, they're sent there at no cost to
(11:20):
the family. It's like I can't hope of kids with cancer.
They're sent there at no cost. The families are sent
there to be with them, and they treat them no
cost to them. They share everything they do. They film
procedures and they share them around the world. So you've
got countries in Africa and Asians South America that don't
have the ability to treat some massive lump in somebody
(11:41):
in some kid's head, and they film those and they
teach and they share it. They don't keep any of
it proprietary. They share it with anyone because they want
to help heal the world. So every year they do
Houston sends a lot of kids to Saint Jude. It's
in Memphis, So every year they do a golf tournament
and every year we are a to finish out the
(12:01):
group for them. In the past we've raised thirty teams,
which is a big ask, and I said, look, I
don't want to do that again. That's too much. Raise
everything you can and then come to me. And I
was hoping he wouldn't come to me, but he did.
And you folks have always been very, very very good.
It's five thousand a team. I committed to do fifteen.
(12:25):
The golf tournament is in December. I'll give you the
details in a minute. I'll get to the calls. I'll
give you the details in a minute. If you will
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com that
you will buy a team. It's Monday, December eighth. And
the fact that you can't play is okay. It's a
five thousand dollars donation. If you can't play, then we
donate that team to Camp Hope. And that means four
(12:45):
residents of Camp Hope get to play. So if you
can't play, great, I can guarantee you your place will
be taken. The earlier you commit to a team by email,
the more times your company is going to be mentioned.
So mention my name. You know this is there is
Jones with Jones Engineering, and every time you every time
(13:06):
I mentioned the sponsors until we get to our fifteen.
The earlier you're in, the more times, the more mentions.
That may not be why you do it, but you'll
be helping me out. You can email me Michael at
Michael Berryshow dot com or through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com. It's five thousand dollars. It's Monday, December eighth.
There's a lot of other stuff, but you don't care.
You're going to give the five thousand to Saint Jude
and it's tax adaptable. And when you email me, I'll
(13:27):
connect you with with Sylvia Jones, who just celebrated forty
four years with our company which is now iHeart but
it was different when she started, but same job and
she will coordinate everything and it's a good group of people.
It's a whole lot of fun and it's a great
cost so email me on that. All right, So the
phone lines we go extra credit if your choice is
a mom and pop, But if it's a franchise, that's
(13:48):
okay too. Kay. What's your favorite sandwich?
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Mine is a mom and pop and it's located in Liberty, Texas,
and it's called Generation's Coffee and Sandwich Shop. And my
favorite a sandwich is a Money Crisco. And my husband
Kirk is your favorite fan?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh is what's on the money Crystal?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
It has ham.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And cheese and uh, it has a raspberry dip.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
It has something else like a They have a homemade
dressing there and they put their homemade breasting and then
they put powdered sugar on it and then you have
this raspberry dip.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
To dip it in.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
My goodness, Hey, is this dessert or a sandwich?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
No, it's a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Well you can call it a sandwich. You can call
it no notut a sandwich. Kimberly, you're up what you got,
Kimberly Bogart.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
My favorite sandwich is from ames Iowa Downtown Deli. It's
called it All Cheese and I get it with the classics.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No onion, classic, no onion.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Yes, So it's got lettuce, tomato, agger and oil and
salt and pepper.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
The way you had to test leading into the no,
I thought it was a snow onion. I thought, well,
that's an interesting choice, Daniel. Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
Yeah, anytime I'm in Lake Charles, I have to go
to Daryl's. It's one of the best sandwiches, hands down around.
Uh So, like I said, when I'm in Lake Charles,
I have to stop and get it. It's a surfing turf.
Uh you would like it. It's got roast beef. They got
some kind of the special sauce on it with shrimp
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's really good.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
It's it's worth it's worth getting it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's got shrimp on a sandwich.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Yes, he's got.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It's it is good.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
It's called the surf and Turf.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm gonna go ahead and rule right now that Poe
boys do not a surfing turf. That's not a sandwich anymore.
That's a pro boy. That's a whole different operation. I can't,
I can't. I can't be for that. That that that
uh that yeah, yeah, I'm having trouble with that one
right there, Brandon, what's yours?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Well, normally I go to is a poe boy for
my dad's place. But if I had to go to
daily sandwich, I would say the Italian chops though from
local kitchen and market down in Friendswood.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, I've heard of them before, locals.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
In friends One right on.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm gonna ask Connie and Billy Stagneran about that. I
had a couple of cheeseburgers. Are going the best sized team.
I'm gonna tell you, man.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
A dollar and a half.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Are chief change.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Let me have a d I go same to docup
that I'll make it fast and I'm gonna go Damn Murry.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I have read and seen documentaries about Smoking the Bandit,
and apparently Jackie Gleeson had carte blanche to improvise anything
and everything he wanted, and he did. And apparently there's
so many of the things that he said and did,
including walking out with the toilet paper attached that it
rolls behind him, were all completely his. They were not
(17:17):
in the original script. Hal Needham said, I just let
Jackie go whatever he wanted to do. He did. There
was such respect for him on that set that whatever
he did, you just went with it and you knew
you knew he was not going to cue your line
properly by reading his. He was going to do whatever
the heck he wanted, and you had to improvise. Do
you remember the name of the county? They were in
(17:39):
Ramon Portugue County. You know where Portugue County is. It
doesn't exist Texas. In Texas twound and fifty four counties,
Portugue is not one of them. We do have a
Montague County, which is probably what it was what it
was modeled on. Craig, what is your favorite sandwich? And
don't say a Poe Boy or a muffelta, because I
(17:59):
see that you're from New Orleans and I know that's
what you're gonna do.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Where you had Michael and you exactly right, A couple
of guys stole my thunbers, So I'll just have to
pass on this one.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, no, what were you going to say?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What were you going to say?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Poor boys place called shortstop Poor Boys on trans Continental
right off Airline Highway. They got a half and half,
you know, half shrimp and half oyster boys. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
When's the last time you had one?
Speaker 11 (18:29):
It's been a while. I'm trans Texan. I moved from
New Orleans about four years ago to Austin, Texas, And
I'm trying to learn this Texas thing.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
How do you like it so far?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, Austin, not.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
So much Texas. Yeah, Austin. You know, it's growing on me.
It's growing on me. We South Austin, so we kind
of away from, you know, the bad stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah. What area of South Austin are you in?
Speaker 11 (18:57):
We're right off thirty five in South first Street, the
last exit on thirty five before you get the Buda.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, that's nice out there,
you Hlario.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
It's Hunt Country, you know, little hilly and you know
it gets a mile from the house and you got
deer crossing signs, so it's a nice area.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah. What brought you to Austin?
Speaker 11 (19:17):
Well, I got up in age, my daughter married a
Texan and moved over here twenty something years ago. And
when I was still working, we would get four day
weekends and run over here to visit. And then when
I retired, we were coming about once a month, and
that thousand mile round trip was killing us upper seventies,
and we just needed to get close. And we got
(19:38):
so close we moved in with him and bought a
generational home together.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Oh, good for you. Good for you. So you're retired,
and what does your wife think?
Speaker 11 (19:46):
You retired from the oil field. I was a crane
mechanic and started my own business and was successful in
it for about twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
And what does your wife think of it?
Speaker 11 (19:59):
She's similar issue. We miss New Orleans. We missed the people,
the food, the culture. Seafood and the Italian restaurants are
great over there. But we're learning. We love barbecue and
text next, so we learning.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know, Greg, I believe that people who leave New
Orleans love that city and pine for that city more
than people from anywhere else, more than people from New York,
more than people from Chicago, Los Angeles. I think that
(20:35):
it's my impression that they do, and they look forward
to going home and when they get when they get home,
they interact. Now a lot of this I see with
Eddie Martini because he's from there, but I know a
lot of people haven't. We have a station there and
I love the listeners, and you go there and there'll
be people there that are from Houston that live there
and love it. And then there are people in Houston
(20:57):
that are from New Orleans and they talk about it,
and I can just tell that there is such a deep,
deep connection to that place. Thanks for the call, Craig Marchetta,
you're on the Michael Barry Show. Did I pronounce that correctly?
Is it a hard see?
Speaker 12 (21:12):
I did not. It's Marquita Mark. I've gone through I've
gone through my life with people either hearing my name
and miss spelling it or seeing it written and mispronouncing it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Is it m A r q U I t A.
Speaker 12 (21:24):
No, it's m A r c h E t A.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, that's how he wrote it on the screen. I
can't call it marquita, but okay, okay, anyway, Yeah, your
mother did not do you a favor on that. What's
your middle name?
Speaker 12 (21:38):
My mother's middle name or my middle name is my
mother's first name, which was Sedonia. It doesn't get any better, okay?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And what where? Where's the family for? Where are these
names coming from?
Speaker 12 (21:50):
I have no Well, I don't know my mother's people
who were all German. My dad's were French and English
and a little bit of Cherokee Indians.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Was she a hippie or what was going on?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
No?
Speaker 12 (22:03):
No, I'm afraid I'm older than that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Marquita.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Okay, Marquita Sidonia. There was a Perry Cuma song in
the late forties. Marquita like a song. I don't know
whether that's actually how I got stuck with.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is. Yeah,
that would make all of sense in the world. Huh okay, Yes,
how about that? What a great voice, Perry Como. Wow,
what's your favorite Deli sandwich? My dear, well, I.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Don't go eat Deli sandwich is very very ofughen. I
do really love Nielsen's. But my call was to tell
you that the original location was not there on Richmond
at mid Laine. What was actually were on Montrose, just
a little bit north of the Southwest Freeway. In all candor,
I don't know when they moved to the Richmond location,
(22:49):
because that place used to be a donut shop. But yeah,
when I first started, when I first started practicing law,
that I was with was off Valen Parkway and occasionally
they would order out from Neils for lunches and it
was close by Thearon Montrose.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I don't know what year they moved, but I have
talked to the owner. She is the widow of the
guy who was like the grandson of the founder, and
she told me that, And there's articles on the wall.
What I love about the place is hasn't changed. If
they ever renovated it, I think it would be so disappointed.
I hated that dairy Quinn went to DQ and went
to fancy news stores. I like the old, tired stores.
(23:27):
But I did know they moved. It looks like it
might have been in the old days of Mary Lee
location be my guess, mary Lee Donuts, but I guess
it could have been anything. But now that you mention it,
it's kind of set up that way. I can see
a sort of a gambled roof in the front, and
the roof shingles were sort of the sign. But the
last time I was there, which admittedly has been a minute,
(23:49):
probably six months, they were finishing renovating out front. They
were putting a new sign out front. So I'll be
curious to see how that turns out. Well, thank you
for the call, Marquita. I realize through this exercise that
for me, a Deli sandwich is a cold cut. It's
not a hot sandwich or a It's certainly not like
(24:11):
a what I would consider a Poe Boy even though
a poe boy is in the sandwich category, to me,
a poe boy is a whole different category. So when
you get into those surf and turfs and all that stuff, that,
to me is not even actually a sandwich, because I
don't I don't want a sandwich very often. But when
i'm craving a sandwich, I'm craving a cold cut. That's
(24:32):
just my own goofy of, you know definition, Joel, Can
you hold with me for just a moment, Yeah, hole
with me for just a moment. You and Sandra and
I can't see the list, but I know there's more
we'll get to in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
On the warehouse announces it's Get Them the Stars sale in.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Holy Sound Warehouse. The listener Eric sent along a link
to a guy's blog called Sandwiches of History. And this
fellow named Barry has an old cookbook, like maybe one
hundred year old cookbook. I don't know. It looks like
(25:17):
it's very very old. And every day it has four
hundred recipes for sandwiches. And every day he makes a
new sandwich, talks about it, tastes it, reviews it, the
whole thing. I don't know if he makes any bread
at the project. But it seems like he's having fun
and that's what really matters. So anyway, it's called Sandwiches
(25:39):
Ofhistory dot com. If you want to check him out.
We've sent him a message to invite him on the show,
but I don't know if he'll respond quickly enough. May
look us up and hear, oh he's a crazy right
wing got okay, but we just want to talk about
sandwiches right now, Sandra. What's yours?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Mate, Mister Michael Barry, how are you today, sir? I'm good, good, well.
When I have the craze for a good old sandwich,
I eat at Shlatsky's out in Kady at Mason and Kingsland,
and I get the pumper nipple bread with heavy mayonnaise
on both sides of the bun, with turkey, lettuce, tomato,
(26:19):
and piples. I do not eat up suthway. The subway
is for fat folks. I do not eat a subway.
The subway is for fat folks.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
So I eat shalankis you know, uh, let's see it's Jason's.
Is it Shlatsky's or Jason's Deli that's from Beaumont. When
I was a baby, Layd.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Jason DELI is in that center of right when you
come out for uh I can and you turn in
that first center.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Are you a black woman?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, you might be my expert on this CenTra.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I might be your lot my.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Expert on this subject. The reason I say that is
I have noticed going to sandwich shops that black people
buying large do not eat sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Again with me, let me understand you again. He hadn't
said again.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It had It is my experience from going to sandwich
shops that black people do not eat sandwiches at sandwich shops.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Maybe at sandwich shops. Well, I'm gonna tell you. Me
and my husband we ate a Sharlatis and we got
party trade when he wasn't like, I'm a widow now.
I just buried my husband being there for thirty years
to build him this year there here twenty eight, twenty
twenty five, and whenever we wanted sandwiches for the family,
we got party trades, and we got that party trade.
(27:42):
He liked to ride and he also liked the pumpernickle
bud too, so he would always give two trades. And well,
the kids are brown now you know, twenty and thirty.
My daughter's thirty and my son he's twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Gollach, where is your son?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
My son? As everybody's in Houston?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, what do you do, Sandra?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I retired. I used to be a teacher.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh, good for you. What did you teach?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I used to teach math at Lamar High School with
doctor James mcflain was my boss over there, the principal.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But he's what is your last name? Because there's gonna
be Lamar students who are saying, oh, that's miss Johnson.
My last name is Alan, Miss Allan, Sandra Allen. Okay,
and what does mister Allen do?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Oh, mister Allen, he's uh, he's deceased now. He was
in the security. He was a mission officer for mister
inn f Ral player mister Johnie Baker, and he worked
for mister Johnny Baker. He was his prox security.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh, oh, I bet I met him.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And I missed my husband and I'm a widow now,
so oh.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I did not realize that. Okay, did you say that earlier?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
My husband and she's deceit. He's a widow. I'm a
widow now for thirty years we were married thirty years. Well,
we have two kids at twenty old and a thirty
year old Sandra.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I thought, when you said, did you say y'all y'are married.
We're still getting our volumes right, our equipment still working through,
so my volume on the calls goes down when I'm talking.
But I thought, I thought you said y'all were going
to celebrate November thirty years. But you're saying, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
We got I had a val of Time's Day wedding.
I retreat. I had a Valentine's Day wedding. We got
married a fair ready to fourteenth nineteen ninety five, fair
ready to fourteen nineteen ninety five. When my first I
was pregnant when I got married. You know, I am
a graduate. I'm a lambadad. He's been back to university.
Shout out to the hockey my president, doctor Hollo. Okay,
(29:47):
but I was pregnant when I got married. When my
first born, her name is Ms. Launa Lama Allan. It's
Lona Lama Allen. She is thirty years old. And Nathan
Emanuel Allen, he is twenty second. My kids are ten
years apart. He's the second. Uh he's the prophet in
the family. Okay, prophet, he's Uh. When I was pregnant
(30:08):
with Nathan, Angel of the Lord came to me and
my husband said, Nathan would be a prophet. Do not
name him Larry, name him Nathan Emanuel Allen. People do
the things that your husband was supposed to do for
the Lord. So that's basically that's how Nathan got his name.
God named him, and uh.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's that's a good story.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And when we like sandwiches for the family, but when
I want sandwiches, I just ate a Shloski's two months ago,
and I had to prop a nickle book and heavy
on the turkey and uh, mayonnaise and letters and made
them tickle.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You don't ever do white bread.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I do weat bread, and I don't like white bread.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I do wheat, Yes, my wife does.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
White bread makes you fat?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt it makes you fat.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's why I don't eat a shiloti. They love. They
don't have no proper nipples, they don't have talkhones, black bread.
Hear you all that white bread and robbery though, And
you know I don't eat a subway for fat folks.
That's me.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, I can tell you are definitely not interested in
getting fat. I could definitely tell that.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I'm talking one hundred and twenty pounds no more. I
used to be all through my high school year. That say,
I'm used. In high school, I was one hundred and
twenty pounds, and I didn't start gaining weight until you know,
I got in college. So and then really game right
when I got pregnant with Lorna. So I'm not fat
(31:42):
and I'm not skinny.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I'm just right, just right, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
My husband, my husband say, baby, you just right, baby,
you just right. All that back got back there. You're
just right.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's how he wanted it. Well, you know, it's much
more forgiving in that way to be married to a
black man, because black men likes some meat on the bones.
We white us, white men, we like skinny women. We
like them two skids. It's impossible for a woman as
they age to be as thin as we want them
to be. That is true.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay, Well you know I don't I don't like this.
I don't never want to be skinny, and I don't
never want to be bad. I want to be just
right like you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That's why if you ever see a white man dating
a black woman, she won't have a traditional corpulent, curvy figure.
She'll be a skinny white woman, a skinny black woman.
If you keep you watch. If a white guy's dating
a black woman, she'll be.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
A I dated a white guy before when I was
in college, twenty year dollar. His name was Stewart, and uh,
he was into the breast. I know. White man's love
breast if you don't have big gloss, well, and that's
that's what he that's what he was into. He loved
my bread.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh my goodness. Uh, Sandra, you make me blush. Now
there's one exception that you'll see these.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Uh we branded on the women.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah we. Sandra is a keeper.
Speaker 10 (33:06):
H m hm
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