November 18, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Berry serves up a cocktail of chaos—hazing rituals, liability paranoia, and lawyers who make more money than oil tycoons. Then, the gloves come off in a country music showdown. Who’s got the voice that stops you mid-beer sip?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air. Funny how
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stories stick with you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was two thousand and eight, Michael was three years
old and there was a story that hit the news.
A young man by the name of Jack Pumarrath or
puh Marath p h o U M M A R
A t H. I think the family was tie, but
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they could have been Indonesia. I'm pretty sure they were tied.
And he had a blood alcohol level of point five
to zero, which is a pretty high amount, and the
fraternity was the Lambda phi Epsilon he I guess he
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died alone in his room, so we can only think
that he had weigh too much and went in there
and passed out. You know, the body has a mechanism
of survival that you pass out because your dumb ass
keeps trying to pour booze down it. So the passing
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out is to keep you from continuing to do that.
And that's what made the drug, the cocktails so dangerous.
That had an upper with the downer because now you
were getting all of the outlcohol effects without it shutting
down your brain. Because your brain was being steadily oddly
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jarringly stimulated. So I remember at the time, and I
don't know what ended up happening. But a lot of
universities have had these cases, and honestly, it's not a
university issue. It becomes a university cost, but it's not
a university issue. It becomes an issue of a kid,
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a kid who pushes too far and doesn't know when
to stop. And I So what ends up happening in
a lot of situations like this is that when everyone
is grieving, we decide we're in change the policies. We're
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not gonna have attnities. We're not going to let anyone
ever drink, We're going to kick people out. In fact,
we're not ever going to let anybody have any fun.
The nuanced, difficult decision discussion to have, which people rarely do,
is that many people have as their adult memories things
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they did in their younger life that were inherently dangerous
and may have ended badly. May have ended with the
night in jail, may have ended stumbling down a hill
and breaking their arm. The worse it was, assuming they
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turned out okay, the more they enjoy telling the story
with that much more pride they tell the story so
how do you allow people to make memories? Do you
simply shut down everything because everything is dangerous? Motorcycles are
inherently dangerous, extraordinarily so votes, skiing, snow skiing, drinking, hazing,
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all these things. Well, the problem becomes when people who
don't know who they are and are not able to balance,
which is what real leadership requires, various interests. The easiest
answer is no, we won't allow anything anytime. You could
do that in your household, no fun will ever be
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had at all. You will never be allowed to have
anyone come over to the house. You will never be
allowed to play any sports. You will never be allowed
to do anything ever because it's dangerous, risky. There's liability.
There are so many people terribly afraid of liability that
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it has made the operation of their business from a
consumer's perspective unpleasant. They're so many fears of liability. People
ask me all the time, can.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I get sued? Yes, well, hold on, let me know.
You can get sued for anything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You have to understand the concept of being sued is
frightening to people.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Just the look of that document, the four corners of
that document. They are so imposing, so powerful, so frightening.
It's part of business, it's part of life. You hire
someone who fights, there someone and y'all joust, you have
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it out, you have a duel using documents. Well, it's
going to cost money. You've got plenty of money. People
with plenty of money don't believe they should have to
spend on lawyers. Nobody ever does. But what if you
were the planiff. We hate Planet's attorneys until one is
representing Trump going after.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
CBS, and then we love them.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
In fact, that's the moment we don't want caps, we
want man.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Did you just get every dollar CB at woo? Whoa
whoa whoa whoa? Wait a second, wait a second.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I thought we hated Plans attorneys, Well on this when
they did the president wrong. Well, there's a lot of
people that are wronged, a lot of people that are wronged.
There are people that a doctor engages in such an
aberration of the standard of conduct, standard practices that leaves
someone butchered, and they've done it three times before and
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they're capped at two fifty. Take lawyer's fee out of
fees out of there, and you can't get lawyers to take.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
A case like that I've seen a case like this.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
A young woman forty years old goes in for a
basic internal procedure, doctor absolutely butchers her, leaves her with
a colostopy bag. She's forty years old, single, pretty girl,
wanting to date and called me. I start making calls, Hey,
can we at least get money to take care of
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her medical bills. She goes to two different doctors who
tell her that the other doctor had butchered her, and
three or four surgeries, and three years later she's atast
at least doesn't have a colostomy bag any longer. And
this was a procedure that was not apparently very difficult,
and this doctor absolutely butchered her and had done so
and has probably since done so to other patients. I
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just think we have to be careful that there is
a more deliberate, deliberative, collaborative, measured.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Approach to some things. Do you agree.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Measured, deliberate, thoughtful, Because the immediate reaction from small minded
people is shut it down.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
They not be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
If you become if you let the fun Nazis take
over life in for all this nonsense, the hazing and
all that is once it's over as unpleasant as it is,
it creates lifelong bonds and does you can't deny that.
That's why it's done. It is endemic to the to
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the human spirit. Always has been why does the military
do it?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What Disney productions?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I love Budd Dean Joe, this has been race Driver
Michael Berry funny, that's Ramon the King of Deans suggested
for general audiences.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Good on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I wanna get to the call from just a moment.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But I'm gonna make for you real quick a list
of the most distinctive country music voices of all time.
That is not that the country music voice is the greatest.
Some people don't understand this. That is just that when
you hear that voice, there is no doubt in your
mind who that is. Okay, I'm gonna do John Anderson.
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This is in no particular order. I'm gonna do John Anderson.
I'm gonna do Gary Allen. I wanna do you know,
I would say George straight, but the truth is of
the neo classical era, there's some guys that can get
close enough to George Strait that you got you ought
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to be able to listen to three words and no,
there's George strait has has a distinctive voice and a
beautiful voice. But I think he's so close to some
others that ta can that he Willy will.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's got to be there.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh okay, you want to do yeah, just men, Yeah,
just man. I'm gonna go ahead and do Freddy Fender
because he gets up there in that falsetto. He gets
up there, not falsetto. You can't You're like, I can't
see you anymore, Freddy. And let's see do you have
anything to add Johnny Cash, Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh sorry, George Jones.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We'll do ten George Jones, and we'll have to whittle
it down George Jones.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For sure. I'm not thinking John.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You know Conway is up there. But there's some lines
where you could say, well, oh, Keith Whitley, Keith Whitley,
Keith Whitley for some of the same reasons as John Anderson.
He's over there, he's in that, he's in that realm,
that that that you know, it's not he's it's like
he's not delivering the sound using the same part of
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his of his body.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No Staple doesn't, No.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Staple does not on any lesson, Let's see who else
would be up there. I'm gonna do Whalen. I'm gonna
do Whalen. All people could make an argument on that
that you can you can, you can do, you could
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my missing Oh Hank Senior. You know, I'm gonna say
Hank Senior. But actually, if you go back and listen
to the Luke, the Drifter Phase and Lefty Frazelle, they
they they get is it Drizzelle or Frazel. One of
them was a basketball coach. Roman was a singer uh Saginaw, Michigan.
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I forget uh so again. Charlie Rich is kind of
over there, but he's also in that neo classical.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And those are the most beautiful voices of country.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The Tracy Birds, the Charlie Rich, the Jim Reeves that
just that, just Ray Price, that real, just Rich, beautiful,
beautiful sound. And I'm gonna Dwight Yoaka, let'se it. That'll
round out our list, all right, I'll post it here shortly.
So we got John Anderson, Gary Allen, Willie Nelson, Freddy Fender,
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Johnny Cash, George Jones, Keith Whitley, Waylon Jenny's, Hank Senior,
and Dwight Yoaka.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'd say on the fly. It's a pretty good list. James.
What's your hazing story? You got thirty eight seconds go?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, I was in the marine, so that's in or nothing.
So but when I got promoted to corporal, you go
through the gauntlet, you know, and that's where they're kneeing
you and your thighs because of the blood stripe. And
when you get the chevrons pinned on, I'm sure you've
seen that before, they hammered them into your collarbone. And
for the following weekend it was just a blur, I'll
say that. And that was with guys that survived the
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Beirut bombing, So I was walking among heroes and gods.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Amen, what an experience. Well set, Well set. Reveny is
the soul of wit. You nailed it, Claire, You're up, sweetheart,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Good morning, Michael. I'm not sure if it's Haysten or
if we were taking care of each other. I'll be
eighty next month. And so we were in high school
in the early sixties and we had a friend who
had a garage apartment and after we would be being imps,
we would spend the night there and so I'm not
sure exactly how it ended up that I didn't have
any bathroom items or any clothes or anything for the
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next night for school. But I wouldn't get up and
go to school. So they left me, and they left
me in the apartment with no comb, no brush, not anything. Well,
back in those days, the big teased hair was the
thing to be, and so all I had left was
the toothbrush to tease my hair that I looked great
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the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You took teasing to a whole new level.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
I took teasing to an whole new level. But it
was beautiful. So funny story. I'm not sure it's Hazen.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, it counts it kunts.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We needed a girl on this program anyway, so that
was well done. I started startled when she said Hazen
at the beginning of her sentence. I absolutely I wanted
to give her a hug.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Sure if it's hastened or if we were taking care
of each other, I just.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Wanted to give her. I mean, that's straight out of Orange.
I'm sure if it's hazen.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Sure if it's hazen, or if we were taking care
of each other.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I love that so much.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Anonymous, You're up, go ahead, hey, back in the seventies
started at all and p as alignment's helper.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
And if you didn't act ried or a smart elect
or all of the above, they paint your dunk and uh,
either with my thighlate or grant grief. That's all I got.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Did you call him minute ago?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yeah? I kept getting disconnected.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh okay, it sounded like exactly the same call. And
who says matthiolate instead of monkey blood? Did you call
it monkey blood? That's what I always called it? JT
what you got?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah? The Matthihlates story ended when one guy would have
was getting married two days later. The crew painted him,
not knowing that he was.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Michael Barry Joe. Everything you need and most every law
you want. All right, we're pivoting. Clear the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Victim with the will submit a real quick effort before
you call in. I want you to understand the point
of this exercise. In Congress, we say the budget is
too bloated. You got to cut out the waist. But
for every single thing you go to cut, there is
a group of people who will say that's a single
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most important thing. The inability to prioritize is the inability
to lead. It's called executive decision making. Most people don't
have it. Throw two things at them at one time,
and they will devote equal amount of time to the
two things. When one of them is life or death
the other one is in consequence. Inconsequential. Somebody that has
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three things on their calendar for today that our run
of the mill wrote usual things to do, and then
something really important comes up, I can't do it. I've
already written down on my schedule here that I'll be
rearranging my sock drawer, Okay, And then for the rest
of their lives they'll say, boy, I sure wish I'd
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gotten to meet so and so. I'm sure wish I'd
gotten to go to this thing. Yeah, but you hadn't
already pinned it into your schedule, which is incapable of changing.
That is executive decision making, the ability to pivot. When
Steve Jobs took over at Apple, he came in and
what they called what he called the clear Table concept.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They were on the verge of bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
They had all sorts of products and all sorts of industry,
all sorts of fields, and he said, we're going to
do four products, and we're going to make them really
really good. Out of that came the iPod, iPad, iPhone
and the Mac computer, and he cleared out everything else.
We're going to do those things and do those very well.
So the ability to prioritize is a critically important skill that,
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as we will learn in a moment, most people cannot
simply cannot undertake. And it goes like this, I'm going
to give you the ten most distinctive voices in country
music history.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You take one off to put yours on. So you
can't just say, well, by this gal Hair, what about him?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
There's ten? I got ten, But what about ten? If
we said ten best mile runners and everybody ran their
mile in three minutes and ten seconds, There's another guy
who runs his in three minutes thirty seconds. We're going
to name the top three. Oh by this goll Hair,
Yeah he's number four. He's not top three. This is
a top three list. So these will be the top
ten voices off the top of our head of distinction.
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That means you hear them and you immediately know it. It
doesn't mean they're the greatest or most accomplished, or most
hits or you like them the most. That'll be the
ten country guys and I did three women Dolly Parton
because you know it's Dolly Juice Newton.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay, I've voted on that one little bit like her
in number three.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Tammy one at and you don't need to tell me, Michael,
it's Weinette. It's Weeette, not when I say it's not
Dolly Juice. Tammy. You take one off, you put one on.
You've got to take one off first, which means you
think yours is more distinctive than that one, and that's
going to be the inflection point. Yours has to be
more distinctive than the person you're taking off. Here's the men,
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and I know what you're gonna do. I like to
add this person on there. I can't remember who's on
the list. No, no, no, you got to identify somebody on
this list that your guy's voice has a more distinctive,
differentiated voice then John Anderson, Gary Allen, Willie Nelson, Freddie Fender,
Johnny Cash, George Jones, Keith Whitley, Waylon Jennings, Hank Senior,
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Dwight Yolk seven one three nine ninety nine, one thousand.
This is purely distinctive, not most accomplished, not prettiest not
any of those.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
When you hear that voice, you don't doubt for a.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Moment that that's who that is, because nobody else can
sound like that. A friend of mine said Patsy Klein,
and I said, well, Patsy Clin has a.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Distinctive voice and a beautiful voice.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
The problem is past decline was such a groundbreaker for
her time, a trailblazer for her time, that every young
woman of the day.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Was learning from her.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
She was women's country singing, and so everybody learned from her.
That's why I hesitated to put Hank Senior on there,
because even if you listen to uh, George Jones during
his early days, he sounds like lefty because he hadn't
found his voice yet, so he was imitating what he heard.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And a lot of folks will do that.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
All right, call her, take one off, put one on,
all right, caller, take one off and put one on.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, take off way long Jennings and add Gary Allen,
I mean Gary Stewart.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know I thought about Gary Stewart, I really did.
In fact, that's the one that was tormenting me.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, he's kind of quite unique.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's a unique voice, and you know, we can't deny
that we do vote for people. I'm not going to
accept that as a friendly amendment, but I'll give him
an honorable mention. I did think about Gary Stewart after
I had the whole list made, especially.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She's acting single on me. I'm drinking doubles.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
What a song?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Steve What you Got?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Removed Jews and Patsy.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That's probably the right thing to do. I didn't think
about Patsy when I wrote it, but then since then
I've been.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Arguing over it.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's like when people went to a school and now
they're rooting for that team and you go, hey, my
team's better than your team this year, and they no, No,
They've come up with five reasons, but the real reason
is no, No, I'm already committed to this team.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
So I just got to do that. John What you Got?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, I'm going to go with Gary Stewart as well.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But on the female side, I always say, take off Juice
and put amydo.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Harris No, No, And you didn't even give on one
on the first one. That's three bed calls in Rowe
for John. He's on, he's on a bad slump. Done,
take one off, put one on, don Or not tim
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take one off and put one on.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Take Johnny Cash off and Randy Travis.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So Randy Travis is extremely, extremely distinctive.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I just hate that I got to take Johnny Cash off.
But I would agree. I would agree partly.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I am a I'm a bigger Randy Travis fan than
I am Johnny Cash in terms of the music. Yeah,
it's just I love the Johnny Cash story. It's such
a great story. Bart Take one off, Put one on,
Mad Jerry Reid, Okay, start say it again, start it.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Take off.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Juice Newton adds Jerry Reid.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
There are two different lists. There's Boys and Girls, Mike,
take one off, put one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
On, Why You'll come off?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Junior Brown on. Oh no, no, no, no, no, I
cannot do that.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Junior Brown is the greatest innovator in country music musicianship
in the last fifty years. I will agree with that,
but I would not agree that he is a distinctive voice.
I mean, I guess you could argue Garth was an
innovator because of what he was doing with stadiums, but that,
to me, that's not a good innovation. I will agree
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that Junior Brown is a great innovator. I would not
agree that his voice is sufficiently distinctive.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
James, what you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Got, Garry all or Vince Gil.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Several people emailed in Vince Gil. Yeah, I don't know
that Gary Allen, who I'd take off because Gary Allen
is still very distinctive. He's got such a busted voice,
such an odd sound, which is kind of what we're
talking about here.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Chuck, what you got? Take what? I'll put one on.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'd take off Conway Twitty and and Don Williams and
on the Lake.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Conway didn't make the list, but Don Williams is also
very distinctive. Good point, and really not that different in
where he is and is registered on.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
He just got so much timber in their text.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Go quick, Gary Allen, gun Gene Watson see to me.
Gene has a classical country music sound. It's just a
little different and I love him, but I can't a
lot sounds a.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Lot like the other guys, and that there's not wrong
with that.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There's a good submission in email, but I'm not going
to read them out because somebody might be on hold
with those and I don't want to do that to him.
Most distinctive, unlike others. If you hear it, and within
a word or two you know exactly who is on
the side of the women, Dolly Parton, Juice Newton, Tammy Wynette.
On the side of the men, John Anderson, Gary Allen,
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Willie Nelson, Freddie Fender, Randy Travis, George Jones, Keith Whitley,
Waylon Jennings, Hank Senior, and Dwight Yoakum. I do find
it interesting that Gary Allen is the choice that people
who love classic country take off because they don't really
actually know what his voice sounds like.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hey, take off that one over I don't know he
ain't no good or he ain't no distinctive.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Put this one over here that I do know, because
Gary Allen is very distinctive.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You can't deny that he's not. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Remind me of mom before we go to break, to
give the list of the ones that have been emailed,
because there's some good ones in there. All right, make
it quick, Mike, take one off, put one on.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna say John Anderson and let's steal a
stretch and put Roy Orbison in his place.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You're gonna put Roy Orbison for Johnny Anderson. Yes, it's
not a horrible.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Choice, but I'm going to reject it just out of
pure spo being an ass mark.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Then going off put one on.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'll say, take off Gary Allen. Then put Aaron Tippin.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Why I mean when I hear Aaron Tippon, I know
it's see him, you know every time I think he's
got a real distinctive voice.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh, I don't think Aaron Tippin's distinctive at all. We're
good for that matter, David.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Take off Keith Newton, put on the Red Lin.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Her accent separates her.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
But I don't know that her voice if you could
put it through a computer program and analyze her voice,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That her voice is so different. It's her accent that
is so different. But I do love her. And then
big old puffy cheeks and that fried chicken Rick. Then
going off put one on.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, take off Keith's Quickley and put on Green Campbell.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait what?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
First of all, Glenn Campbell's not that distinctive, and Keith
Whitley's probably the most distinctive one on the on the.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Day list, I don't know about that. Do you even
know who Keith Whitley is?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I do name one song?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Uh, can't name a song.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
How old are you?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Sixty?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm a seventy two man.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I'm gonna pray for you, Rick, because Keith Whitley's the
momb r d.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Go.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Hey, I my thunder got stolen.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I was gonna pick loreda old juice.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Okay, No, there's no problem. There's plenty of thunder to
go around. Kenny, take one off, put one on.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Take off Freddy Fender, and put on Roger Miller.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Roger Miller is not that distinctive, and Freddy is who
else sings falsetto Kenny?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Well, okay, but Freddy had what four hits? Roger Miller
had tons and he does have anything.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
You just did it?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
See the other day you posted Kenny hosts a country
show somewhere out in the country. And the other day
he said, it's nine o'clock and I bet we're the
only station in the country playing Mississippi Boatwater Blues at
the bottom of the Bayou. And I said, yeah, there's
probably a reason for that. You know what I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
About, Mississippi too flash, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I reject your your parliamentary rules, Robert rules, Roberts rules
of order.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I reject that as out of order, James.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
What you got, We all missed the voice. Burn gost
and take Gary Allen off again and put the boys.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I can't do it, because as beautiful as Verne Gosden is,
he is in the category of those deep, rich, beautiful
voices like Jim Reeves. It's prettier, but it's in the
same realm. If I picked the right song, I could
have him sing a whole line and you not be
sure it's him. He is the voice, and he's the
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purest of the pure. But what I'm talking about here
is you're talking about guys that throw fastballs, and Nolan
Ryan throws a better fastball than the others, but he's
throwing fastballs.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And then I'm over here and I got.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You know, Bruce Souter or Dan Quisenberry or Kent Takobe
throwing or Dennis Ackersley throwing submarine or that's a whole
different deal.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It is more distinctive.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Otherwise you're just talking about who rears back throws a
fastball the hardest and the longest.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's such a difficult, it's stressful.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Toby Don Williams for Hank sr the general Giants, as
you could hear him from a mile off. I want
to say no, because he sounds similar to the others,
except for the four thousand packs of cigarettes he had
last week, and that's what gives it. That timber that
kind of rattled to it. It's like there's some valure
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in his voice. He walked past me to Stafford Center.
As close as I got to meeting him, he was
a lot taller than I thought he was.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
He's a big old boy. I love him.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You know, he recorded everything in his living room, Don Williams.
He didn't need the industry's approval.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He just.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
A lot of those songs are Bob mcdial songs from Beaumont, Texas.
Scott go Ahead, take one off, Put one on, Take.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Off, John Anderson put on Kenny Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You know, I thought about that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Kenny's more of a whisper, but I would argue that
Kenny Rogers is in the Bill Anderson category of melodic whisperers.
In that sense, it's not so distinctive. Fiona, what you got, sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (29:39):
I have got Take off, Gary Allen and put on
Trace Atkins, take off, Jos Newton and put Loretta.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Limb Trace Adkins sounds exactly like thirty eight other country
music singers of the last fifty years. Exactly like them,
Fionna exactly, Trace Adkins problem is separating from the crowd.
You know who we didn't bring up is uh Tracy Lawrence.
Tracy Lawrence got a different voice.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Hello, tell him you're.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
A mad Charlie Pride.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Take off whaling.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You know, I had a lot of votes for Charlie Pride,
and I love Charlie Pride. I'm gonna have to ima
have to think on this. I mean, if I'm honest,
Whalen is not really that distinctive. He's in the same
ballpark as the others, just with a little bit of
his own flavor.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I just like him. Thomas, go ahead, take off Juice
Suton and put on Tanya Tucker.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You know, she's kind of the queen of sass in
that way and that whole sassy Uh. I think Reba
McIntyre wants to be Tanya Tucker when she grows up.
And I despise Reba McIntyre by the way. I think
Reaba back and tire ruined Tanya for me.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But yes, I will accept that.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Y'all have not even addressed Tammy Wanette and how distinctive
she was.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You can't sing like Tammy Onette. You can't do it.
Call her you up go sixty two, seventy eight, the
last numbers. I'll come back to him. You don't have
a name, Bob for.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
GoF got a cab, goll mad, Toby Keith.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I don't think Toby Key's that distinctive.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I can't go wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
What about emails? Oh, adoption emails?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
No what?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, thank you? Yes, yes, yes uh.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Here were some that came in that I did that
I had not thought of that that I'll take under advisement.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Merle Merle Haggard, I don't know. I thought I wrote
Merle down.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I didn't my bad Buck Owens this distinctive voice, Ernest
Tubb distinctive. But there's a couple of guys in that
chet Atkins era that that are kind of similar.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
John Conley.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
John Conley's up there with Keith Whitley and John Anderson
in that. He might not have had as many hits,
but he sounds so different. Let me tell you something
straight and Miss Emily's picture is as pretty a country song.
You can say, your song that you choose is as pretty,
but it is as pretty as any country song ever
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sang in the history of Everett
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air. Funny how
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stories stick with you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was two thousand and eight, Michael was three years
old and there was a story that hit the news.
A young man by the name of Jack Pumarrath or
puh Marath p h o U M M A R
A t H. I think the family was tie, but
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they could have been Indonesia. I'm pretty sure they were tied.
And he had a blood alcohol level of point five
to zero, which is a pretty high amount, and the
fraternity was the Lambda phi Epsilon he I guess he
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died alone in his room, so we can only think
that he had weigh too much and went in there
and passed out. You know, the body has a mechanism
of survival that you pass out because your dumb ass
keeps trying to pour booze down it. So the passing
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out is to keep you from continuing to do that.
And that's what made the drug, the cocktails so dangerous.
That had an upper with the downer because now you
were getting all of the outlcohol effects without it shutting
down your brain. Because your brain was being steadily oddly
(02:06):
jarringly stimulated. So I remember at the time, and I
don't know what ended up happening. But a lot of
universities have had these cases, and honestly, it's not a
university issue. It becomes a university cost, but it's not
a university issue. It becomes an issue of a kid,
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a kid who pushes too far and doesn't know when
to stop. And I So what ends up happening in
a lot of situations like this is that when everyone
is grieving, we decide we're in change the policies. We're
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not gonna have attnities. We're not going to let anyone
ever drink, We're going to kick people out. In fact,
we're not ever going to let anybody have any fun.
The nuanced, difficult decision discussion to have, which people rarely do,
is that many people have as their adult memories things
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they did in their younger life that were inherently dangerous
and may have ended badly. May have ended with the
night in jail, may have ended stumbling down a hill
and breaking their arm. The worse it was, assuming they
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turned out okay, the more they enjoy telling the story
with that much more pride they tell the story so
how do you allow people to make memories? Do you
simply shut down everything because everything is dangerous? Motorcycles are
inherently dangerous, extraordinarily so votes, skiing, snow skiing, drinking, hazing,
(04:09):
all these things. Well, the problem becomes when people who
don't know who they are and are not able to balance,
which is what real leadership requires, various interests. The easiest
answer is no, we won't allow anything anytime. You could
do that in your household, no fun will ever be
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had at all. You will never be allowed to have
anyone come over to the house. You will never be
allowed to play any sports. You will never be allowed
to do anything ever because it's dangerous, risky. There's liability.
There are so many people terribly afraid of liability that
(04:51):
it has made the operation of their business from a
consumer's perspective unpleasant. They're so many fears of liability. People
ask me all the time, can.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I get sued? Yes, well, hold on, let me know.
You can get sued for anything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You have to understand the concept of being sued is
frightening to people.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Just the look of that document, the four corners of
that document. They are so imposing, so powerful, so frightening.
It's part of business, it's part of life. You hire
someone who fights, there someone and y'all joust, you have
(05:40):
it out, you have a duel using documents. Well, it's
going to cost money. You've got plenty of money. People
with plenty of money don't believe they should have to
spend on lawyers. Nobody ever does. But what if you
were the planiff. We hate Planet's attorneys until one is
representing Trump going after.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
CBS, and then we love them.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
In fact, that's the moment we don't want caps, we
want man.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Did you just get every dollar CB at woo? Whoa
whoa whoa whoa? Wait a second, wait a second.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I thought we hated Plans attorneys, Well on this when
they did the president wrong. Well, there's a lot of
people that are wronged, a lot of people that are wronged.
There are people that a doctor engages in such an
aberration of the standard of conduct, standard practices that leaves
someone butchered, and they've done it three times before and
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they're capped at two fifty. Take lawyer's fee out of
fees out of there, and you can't get lawyers to take.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
A case like that I've seen a case like this.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
A young woman forty years old goes in for a
basic internal procedure, doctor absolutely butchers her, leaves her with
a colostopy bag. She's forty years old, single, pretty girl,
wanting to date and called me. I start making calls, Hey,
can we at least get money to take care of
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her medical bills. She goes to two different doctors who
tell her that the other doctor had butchered her, and
three or four surgeries, and three years later she's atast
at least doesn't have a colostomy bag any longer. And
this was a procedure that was not apparently very difficult,
and this doctor absolutely butchered her and had done so
and has probably since done so to other patients. I
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just think we have to be careful that there is
a more deliberate, deliberative, collaborative, measured.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Approach to some things. Do you agree.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Measured, deliberate, thoughtful, Because the immediate reaction from small minded
people is shut it down.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
They not be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
If you become if you let the fun Nazis take
over life in for all this nonsense, the hazing and
all that is once it's over as unpleasant as it is,
it creates lifelong bonds and does you can't deny that.
That's why it's done. It is endemic to the to
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the human spirit. Always has been why does the military
do it?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What Disney productions?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I love Budd Dean Joe, this has been race Driver
Michael Berry funny, that's Ramon the King of Deans suggested
for general audiences.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Good on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I wanna get to the call from just a moment.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But I'm gonna make for you real quick a list
of the most distinctive country music voices of all time.
That is not that the country music voice is the greatest.
Some people don't understand this. That is just that when
you hear that voice, there is no doubt in your
mind who that is. Okay, I'm gonna do John Anderson.
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This is in no particular order. I'm gonna do John Anderson.
I'm gonna do Gary Allen. I wanna do you know,
I would say George straight, but the truth is of
the neo classical era, there's some guys that can get
close enough to George Strait that you got you ought
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to be able to listen to three words and no,
there's George strait has has a distinctive voice and a
beautiful voice. But I think he's so close to some
others that ta can that he Willy will.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's got to be there.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh okay, you want to do yeah, just men, Yeah,
just man. I'm gonna go ahead and do Freddy Fender
because he gets up there in that falsetto. He gets
up there, not falsetto. You can't You're like, I can't
see you anymore, Freddy. And let's see do you have
anything to add Johnny Cash, Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh sorry, George Jones.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We'll do ten George Jones, and we'll have to whittle
it down George Jones.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For sure. I'm not thinking John.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You know Conway is up there. But there's some lines
where you could say, well, oh, Keith Whitley, Keith Whitley,
Keith Whitley for some of the same reasons as John Anderson.
He's over there, he's in that, he's in that realm,
that that that you know, it's not he's it's like
he's not delivering the sound using the same part of
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his of his body.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No Staple doesn't, No.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Staple does not on any lesson, Let's see who else
would be up there. I'm gonna do Whalen. I'm gonna
do Whalen. All people could make an argument on that
that you can you can, you can do, you could
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my missing Oh Hank Senior. You know, I'm gonna say
Hank Senior. But actually, if you go back and listen
to the Luke, the Drifter Phase and Lefty Frazelle, they
they they get is it Drizzelle or Frazel. One of
them was a basketball coach. Roman was a singer uh Saginaw, Michigan.
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I forget uh so again. Charlie Rich is kind of
over there, but he's also in that neo classical.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And those are the most beautiful voices of country.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The Tracy Birds, the Charlie Rich, the Jim Reeves that
just that, just Ray Price, that real, just Rich, beautiful,
beautiful sound. And I'm gonna Dwight Yoaka, let'se it. That'll
round out our list, all right, I'll post it here shortly.
So we got John Anderson, Gary Allen, Willie Nelson, Freddy Fender,
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Johnny Cash, George Jones, Keith Whitley, Waylon Jenny's, Hank Senior,
and Dwight Yoaka.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'd say on the fly. It's a pretty good list. James.
What's your hazing story? You got thirty eight seconds go?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, I was in the marine, so that's in or nothing.
So but when I got promoted to corporal, you go
through the gauntlet, you know, and that's where they're kneeing
you and your thighs because of the blood stripe. And
when you get the chevrons pinned on, I'm sure you've
seen that before, they hammered them into your collarbone. And
for the following weekend it was just a blur, I'll
say that. And that was with guys that survived the
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Beirut bombing, So I was walking among heroes and gods.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Amen, what an experience. Well set, Well set. Reveny is
the soul of wit. You nailed it, Claire, You're up, sweetheart,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Good morning, Michael. I'm not sure if it's Haysten or
if we were taking care of each other. I'll be
eighty next month. And so we were in high school
in the early sixties and we had a friend who
had a garage apartment and after we would be being imps,
we would spend the night there and so I'm not
sure exactly how it ended up that I didn't have
any bathroom items or any clothes or anything for the
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next night for school. But I wouldn't get up and
go to school. So they left me, and they left
me in the apartment with no comb, no brush, not anything. Well,
back in those days, the big teased hair was the
thing to be, and so all I had left was
the toothbrush to tease my hair that I looked great
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the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You took teasing to a whole new level.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
I took teasing to an whole new level. But it
was beautiful. So funny story. I'm not sure it's Hazen.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, it counts it kunts.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We needed a girl on this program anyway, so that
was well done. I started startled when she said Hazen
at the beginning of her sentence. I absolutely I wanted
to give her a hug.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Sure if it's hastened or if we were taking care
of each other, I just.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Wanted to give her. I mean, that's straight out of Orange.
I'm sure if it's hazen.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Sure if it's hazen, or if we were taking care
of each other.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I love that so much.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Anonymous, You're up, go ahead, hey, back in the seventies
started at all and p as alignment's helper.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
And if you didn't act ried or a smart elect
or all of the above, they paint your dunk and uh,
either with my thighlate or grant grief. That's all I got.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Did you call him minute ago?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yeah? I kept getting disconnected.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh okay, it sounded like exactly the same call. And
who says matthiolate instead of monkey blood? Did you call
it monkey blood? That's what I always called it? JT
what you got?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah? The Matthihlates story ended when one guy would have
was getting married two days later. The crew painted him,
not knowing that he was.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Michael Barry Joe. Everything you need and most every law
you want. All right, we're pivoting. Clear the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Victim with the will submit a real quick effort before
you call in. I want you to understand the point
of this exercise. In Congress, we say the budget is
too bloated. You got to cut out the waist. But
for every single thing you go to cut, there is
a group of people who will say that's a single
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most important thing. The inability to prioritize is the inability
to lead. It's called executive decision making. Most people don't
have it. Throw two things at them at one time,
and they will devote equal amount of time to the
two things. When one of them is life or death
the other one is in consequence. Inconsequential. Somebody that has
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three things on their calendar for today that our run
of the mill wrote usual things to do, and then
something really important comes up, I can't do it. I've
already written down on my schedule here that I'll be
rearranging my sock drawer, Okay, And then for the rest
of their lives they'll say, boy, I sure wish I'd
(16:11):
gotten to meet so and so. I'm sure wish I'd
gotten to go to this thing. Yeah, but you hadn't
already pinned it into your schedule, which is incapable of changing.
That is executive decision making, the ability to pivot. When
Steve Jobs took over at Apple, he came in and
what they called what he called the clear Table concept.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They were on the verge of bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
They had all sorts of products and all sorts of industry,
all sorts of fields, and he said, we're going to
do four products, and we're going to make them really
really good. Out of that came the iPod, iPad, iPhone
and the Mac computer, and he cleared out everything else.
We're going to do those things and do those very well.
So the ability to prioritize is a critically important skill that,
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as we will learn in a moment, most people cannot
simply cannot undertake. And it goes like this, I'm going
to give you the ten most distinctive voices in country
music history.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You take one off to put yours on. So you
can't just say, well, by this gal Hair, what about him?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
There's ten? I got ten, But what about ten? If
we said ten best mile runners and everybody ran their
mile in three minutes and ten seconds, There's another guy
who runs his in three minutes thirty seconds. We're going
to name the top three. Oh by this goll Hair,
Yeah he's number four. He's not top three. This is
a top three list. So these will be the top
ten voices off the top of our head of distinction.
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That means you hear them and you immediately know it. It
doesn't mean they're the greatest or most accomplished, or most
hits or you like them the most. That'll be the
ten country guys and I did three women Dolly Parton
because you know it's Dolly Juice Newton.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay, I've voted on that one little bit like her
in number three.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Tammy one at and you don't need to tell me, Michael,
it's Weinette. It's Weeette, not when I say it's not
Dolly Juice. Tammy. You take one off, you put one on.
You've got to take one off first, which means you
think yours is more distinctive than that one, and that's
going to be the inflection point. Yours has to be
more distinctive than the person you're taking off. Here's the men,
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and I know what you're gonna do. I like to
add this person on there. I can't remember who's on
the list. No, no, no, you got to identify somebody on
this list that your guy's voice has a more distinctive,
differentiated voice then John Anderson, Gary Allen, Willie Nelson, Freddie Fender,
Johnny Cash, George Jones, Keith Whitley, Waylon Jennings, Hank Senior,
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Dwight Yolk seven one three nine ninety nine, one thousand.
This is purely distinctive, not most accomplished, not prettiest not
any of those.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
When you hear that voice, you don't doubt for a.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Moment that that's who that is, because nobody else can
sound like that. A friend of mine said Patsy Klein,
and I said, well, Patsy Clin has a.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Distinctive voice and a beautiful voice.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
The problem is past decline was such a groundbreaker for
her time, a trailblazer for her time, that every young
woman of the day.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Was learning from her.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
She was women's country singing, and so everybody learned from her.
That's why I hesitated to put Hank Senior on there,
because even if you listen to uh, George Jones during
his early days, he sounds like lefty because he hadn't
found his voice yet, so he was imitating what he heard.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And a lot of folks will do that.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
All right, call her, take one off, put one on,
all right, caller, take one off and put one on.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, take off way long Jennings and add Gary Allen,
I mean Gary Stewart.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know I thought about Gary Stewart, I really did.
In fact, that's the one that was tormenting me.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, he's kind of quite unique.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's a unique voice, and you know, we can't deny
that we do vote for people. I'm not going to
accept that as a friendly amendment, but I'll give him
an honorable mention. I did think about Gary Stewart after
I had the whole list made, especially.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She's acting single on me. I'm drinking doubles.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
What a song?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Steve What you Got?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Removed Jews and Patsy.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That's probably the right thing to do. I didn't think
about Patsy when I wrote it, but then since then
I've been.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Arguing over it.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's like when people went to a school and now
they're rooting for that team and you go, hey, my
team's better than your team this year, and they no, No,
They've come up with five reasons, but the real reason
is no, No, I'm already committed to this team.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
So I just got to do that. John What you Got?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, I'm going to go with Gary Stewart as well.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But on the female side, I always say, take off Juice
and put amydo.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Harris No, No, And you didn't even give on one
on the first one. That's three bed calls in Rowe
for John. He's on, he's on a bad slump. Done,
take one off, put one on, don Or not tim
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take one off and put one on.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Take Johnny Cash off and Randy Travis.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So Randy Travis is extremely, extremely distinctive.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I just hate that I got to take Johnny Cash off.
But I would agree. I would agree partly.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I am a I'm a bigger Randy Travis fan than
I am Johnny Cash in terms of the music. Yeah,
it's just I love the Johnny Cash story. It's such
a great story. Bart Take one off, Put one on,
Mad Jerry Reid, Okay, start say it again, start it.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Take off.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Juice Newton adds Jerry Reid.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
There are two different lists. There's Boys and Girls, Mike,
take one off, put one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
On, Why You'll come off?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Junior Brown on. Oh no, no, no, no, no, I
cannot do that.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Junior Brown is the greatest innovator in country music musicianship
in the last fifty years. I will agree with that,
but I would not agree that he is a distinctive voice.
I mean, I guess you could argue Garth was an
innovator because of what he was doing with stadiums, but that,
to me, that's not a good innovation. I will agree
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that Junior Brown is a great innovator. I would not
agree that his voice is sufficiently distinctive.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
James, what you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Got, Garry all or Vince Gil.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Several people emailed in Vince Gil. Yeah, I don't know
that Gary Allen, who I'd take off because Gary Allen
is still very distinctive. He's got such a busted voice,
such an odd sound, which is kind of what we're
talking about here.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Chuck, what you got? Take what? I'll put one on.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'd take off Conway Twitty and and Don Williams and
on the Lake.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Conway didn't make the list, but Don Williams is also
very distinctive. Good point, and really not that different in
where he is and is registered on.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
He just got so much timber in their text.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Go quick, Gary Allen, gun Gene Watson see to me.
Gene has a classical country music sound. It's just a
little different and I love him, but I can't a
lot sounds a.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Lot like the other guys, and that there's not wrong
with that.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There's a good submission in email, but I'm not going
to read them out because somebody might be on hold
with those and I don't want to do that to him.
Most distinctive, unlike others. If you hear it, and within
a word or two you know exactly who is on
the side of the women, Dolly Parton, Juice Newton, Tammy Wynette.
On the side of the men, John Anderson, Gary Allen,
(24:08):
Willie Nelson, Freddie Fender, Randy Travis, George Jones, Keith Whitley,
Waylon Jennings, Hank Senior, and Dwight Yoakum. I do find
it interesting that Gary Allen is the choice that people
who love classic country take off because they don't really
actually know what his voice sounds like.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Hey, take off that one over I don't know he
ain't no good or he ain't no distinctive.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Put this one over here that I do know, because
Gary Allen is very distinctive.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You can't deny that he's not. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Remind me of mom before we go to break, to
give the list of the ones that have been emailed,
because there's some good ones in there. All right, make
it quick, Mike, take one off, put one on.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna say John Anderson and let's steal a
stretch and put Roy Orbison in his place.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You're gonna put Roy Orbison for Johnny Anderson. Yes, it's
not a horrible.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Choice, but I'm going to reject it just out of
pure spo being an ass mark.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Then going off put one on.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'll say, take off Gary Allen. Then put Aaron Tippin.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Why I mean when I hear Aaron Tippon, I know
it's see him, you know every time I think he's
got a real distinctive voice.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh, I don't think Aaron Tippin's distinctive at all. We're
good for that matter, David.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Take off Keith Newton, put on the Red Lin.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Her accent separates her.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
But I don't know that her voice if you could
put it through a computer program and analyze her voice,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That her voice is so different. It's her accent that
is so different. But I do love her. And then
big old puffy cheeks and that fried chicken Rick. Then
going off put one on.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, take off Keith's Quickley and put on Green Campbell.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait what?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
First of all, Glenn Campbell's not that distinctive, and Keith
Whitley's probably the most distinctive one on the on the.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Day list, I don't know about that. Do you even
know who Keith Whitley is?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I do name one song?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Uh, can't name a song.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
How old are you?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Sixty?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm a seventy two man.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I'm gonna pray for you, Rick, because Keith Whitley's the
momb r d.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Go.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Hey, I my thunder got stolen.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I was gonna pick loreda old juice.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Okay, No, there's no problem. There's plenty of thunder to
go around. Kenny, take one off, put one on.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Take off Freddy Fender, and put on Roger Miller.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Roger Miller is not that distinctive, and Freddy is who
else sings falsetto Kenny?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Well, okay, but Freddy had what four hits? Roger Miller
had tons and he does have anything.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
You just did it?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
See the other day you posted Kenny hosts a country
show somewhere out in the country. And the other day
he said, it's nine o'clock and I bet we're the
only station in the country playing Mississippi Boatwater Blues at
the bottom of the Bayou. And I said, yeah, there's
probably a reason for that. You know what I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
About, Mississippi too flash, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I reject your your parliamentary rules, Robert rules, Roberts rules
of order.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I reject that as out of order, James.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
What you got, We all missed the voice. Burn gost
and take Gary Allen off again and put the boys.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I can't do it, because as beautiful as Verne Gosden is,
he is in the category of those deep, rich, beautiful
voices like Jim Reeves. It's prettier, but it's in the
same realm. If I picked the right song, I could
have him sing a whole line and you not be
sure it's him. He is the voice, and he's the
(27:58):
purest of the pure. But what I'm talking about here
is you're talking about guys that throw fastballs, and Nolan
Ryan throws a better fastball than the others, but he's
throwing fastballs.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And then I'm over here and I got.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You know, Bruce Souter or Dan Quisenberry or Kent Takobe
throwing or Dennis Ackersley throwing submarine or that's a whole
different deal.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It is more distinctive.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Otherwise you're just talking about who rears back throws a
fastball the hardest and the longest.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's such a difficult, it's stressful.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Toby Don Williams for Hank sr the general Giants, as
you could hear him from a mile off. I want
to say no, because he sounds similar to the others,
except for the four thousand packs of cigarettes he had
last week, and that's what gives it. That timber that
kind of rattled to it. It's like there's some valure
(28:52):
in his voice. He walked past me to Stafford Center.
As close as I got to meeting him, he was
a lot taller than I thought he was.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
He's a big old boy. I love him.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You know, he recorded everything in his living room, Don Williams.
He didn't need the industry's approval.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He just.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
A lot of those songs are Bob mcdial songs from Beaumont, Texas.
Scott go Ahead, take one off, Put one on, Take.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Off, John Anderson put on Kenny Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You know, I thought about that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Kenny's more of a whisper, but I would argue that
Kenny Rogers is in the Bill Anderson category of melodic whisperers.
In that sense, it's not so distinctive. Fiona, what you got, sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (29:39):
I have got Take off, Gary Allen and put on
Trace Atkins, take off, Jos Newton and put Loretta.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Limb Trace Adkins sounds exactly like thirty eight other country
music singers of the last fifty years. Exactly like them,
Fionna exactly, Trace Adkins problem is separating from the crowd.
You know who we didn't bring up is uh Tracy Lawrence.
Tracy Lawrence got a different voice.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Hello, tell him you're.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
A mad Charlie Pride.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Take off whaling.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You know, I had a lot of votes for Charlie Pride,
and I love Charlie Pride. I'm gonna have to ima
have to think on this. I mean, if I'm honest,
Whalen is not really that distinctive. He's in the same
ballpark as the others, just with a little bit of
his own flavor.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I just like him. Thomas, go ahead, take off Juice
Suton and put on Tanya Tucker.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You know, she's kind of the queen of sass in
that way and that whole sassy Uh. I think Reba
McIntyre wants to be Tanya Tucker when she grows up.
And I despise Reba McIntyre by the way. I think
Reaba back and tire ruined Tanya for me.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But yes, I will accept that.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Y'all have not even addressed Tammy Wanette and how distinctive
she was.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You can't sing like Tammy Onette. You can't do it.
Call her you up go sixty two, seventy eight, the
last numbers. I'll come back to him. You don't have
a name, Bob for.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
GoF got a cab, goll mad, Toby Keith.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I don't think Toby Key's that distinctive.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I can't go wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
What about emails? Oh, adoption emails?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
No what?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, thank you? Yes, yes, yes uh.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Here were some that came in that I did that
I had not thought of that that I'll take under advisement.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Merle Merle Haggard, I don't know. I thought I wrote
Merle down.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I didn't my bad Buck Owens this distinctive voice, Ernest
Tubb distinctive. But there's a couple of guys in that
chet Atkins era that that are kind of similar.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
John Conley.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
John Conley's up there with Keith Whitley and John Anderson
in that. He might not have had as many hits,
but he sounds so different. Let me tell you something
straight and Miss Emily's picture is as pretty a country song.
You can say, your song that you choose is as pretty,
but it is as pretty as any country song ever
(32:22):
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