December 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Decades-long camping pacts, breakfast clubs that won’t quit, and reunions that feel more like sitcoms—Michael Berry dives into the hilarity of staying connected.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Air on this day.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Nineteen sixty nine, President Richard Nixon and Vice president'spirot Agnew
and forty US governors viewed quote simulated acid trip films
and listen to rock music in order to comprehend the
generation gap.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Can you can you?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So, so this is what this is what an acid
trip is like. Look, mister President, just go ahead and
drop a little acid and see what it is. I
don't think they're simulating what an acid trip is like. Wow,
that was crazy, mister president. What did you think? You're
out of touch with the youth and you need their
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vote for reelection. I found the experience to be groovy.
I mean, what can you imagine the setup for this?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How that looked?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In Orange County, California, a group of eighteen year olds
in nineteen seventy six made a pact with each other
to gather once a year as part of the Last
Man's Society until the last man was standing, until he
was the last one alive.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
They bought a bottle of cognac and that.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Person was to drink or is to drink that bottle
of cognac by toasting each of the members in turn,
as he will have been the last surviving member. We
thought that was pretty cool, so we asked you about
how you gather with folks from your youth and what
pack you've made or where you gather or what you
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find out of the experience. Catherine, you're up first. Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
My husband is the class of sixty four from Elcampo
High School and we, I say we, I'm not part
of that class because I graduated in sixty eight from Walthrop.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
In Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But they get together about every six weeks, maybe eight weeks.
They meet at a restaurant, and I would say ninety
percent of this group, it's usually average twenty twenty five.
They have known each other since first grade, being in
a small town, and they are hilarious. And I've gotten
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to hear a lot of stories about my husband when
he was younger that he didn't even remember. And so,
but they're all like seventy nine. My husband will be
eighty this early next year, and they still get together
and they have a great time. And sadly some of
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them have passed away, and not everybody gets to show
up because some of them have moved to be near
there with their children because the children had left El Campo.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
But we drive in.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We live in Cyprus, and so we drive in every
six weeks, maybe seven weeks whenever they call for the
luncheon gang to get together and they put an email
out to all of the class. I believe there was
a little over one hundred that was in the graduating
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class in sixty four, and a lot of them, like
I say about average about twenty twenty five, still show
up and they have a great time, and they've really
made me feel like I was part of that class.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Also, since you're a one degree removed of the class,
that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Walt.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
What's your story? Hello, yep, you're up, Walt.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Okay, sorry about that. Graduating cares classtests together all about
every few years. We had fifty year reunion two years back,
and this year instead of reunion, the class reunion, they
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had a said this this year seventy five year birthday
party for the whole class.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And where is the class from what.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
School Southew said, Hi, right on, that's fantastic, And how
many of y'all.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Showed up, I'd say about fifty or so.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And how many do you think y'all graduated with?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Oh, probably about three hundred. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know, I'd love to know what the numbers are
of what you can expect as a percentage of the class,
because it feels like one in six so sixteen percent.
It feels like that's low. But I wonder, you know,
people died, they move on, they lose touch, they go
to prison, they whatever else. I wonder, I wonder what
that number you should expect it to be?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Be interesting to know. Ed you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yeah. We have a group of us that all went
to high school together in different high schools Westbury, ros Sterling, Jessey, Jones, Walterrup,
all of them around South Houston and Southwest Houston, and
we all served while we were in high school, and
we would meet at surf sides practically every weekend, and
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then if we could skip school, we'd do it during
the week but es that's when we got to be seniors.
But it was a pretty good sized group. We started
meeting about about fifteen, sixteen years ago down there for
three or four days, and everybody would get rooms or
rent beach houses. And we have a memorial down there
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at the Jetty that we paid for and had put up.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And during this.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Three or four days we have all kinds of different
events going on. We raised money for the community. We
always donate money to the volunteer fire departments there for
money we raise. We also give a clothes and a
food bank. Anyway, we helped support the city of Freeport
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down the surf side and we have a paddle out
where there's started off with several hundred and we're still staying,
you know, above one hundred, even though a lot of
us are in our seventy but a lot of them
have their kids. They are starting to show up and
their grandkids.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Right, so you got.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
A generational thing. Let me get one more call in here, John,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You got one minute? Go ahead? You say, John, Yes,
go ahead?
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Hey, Heyboddy, Yeah, mi'ms John bevil Gosh. Back in seventy
one or seventy two at youth groups at church, three
new brothers came in that night and we hit it off.
Walked down in the parking lot. Our parents are hitting
it off and they invite us over to their house
and we have been going. Our two dads took us
camping the following year, and then the next year and
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after that, the six of us have been camping together
every single year. Back we go again in February, rain,
snow shine. We go out on a piece of land
currently outside of Henderson. We sit around the fire. We've
invited friends to join us, so our group's about ten.
But we have the same thing where the first one
to pass away we'll have an empty chair there each
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night and and toast that person. But so far it
on which passed away. But we have been the closest.
You wouldn't just believe we've just stayed together this whole
time and they're still my two best friends.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And that's what you Brothers.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Nineteen seventy two in Spring Branch at Spring Resch Christian
Churches where we met.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh well, right on, So.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Fifty something years we've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And we got something to be proud of. If you
want to tell your story. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of talk radio
that Rud roofs you can't make old friends.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Of graduates in nineteen seventy six decided that they would
meet once a year to toast each other until there
was but one of them left alive, after which they
named it the Last Man's Society. The last man standing
would open the bottle of tequila they bought or cognac
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they bought nineteen seventy six, and toast each of the
members who had passed. So we asked the question of
how you gather with people from your high school or
your youth, and about that experience.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Linda, you're up next, sweetheart.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Go ahead, Hi, Michael, I live in Lubbook and I'll
make this really quick. I graduated from Fort Stockton and
we had exactly one hundred students graduate that year. And
our ladies have gotten together every year. We've named ourselves
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Old Broad's sixty five. We graduated in nineteen sixty five,
and we try to get together every year somewhere in
Texas and we just have a great time. We've lost
a few of our girls, but not bad, but we've
been lost a few, but we celebrate them every year
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when we get together that they're not there, and it's
just a wonderful camaraderie. We love each other. I didn't
move there till the fourth grade, but most of these
girls were in school from the first grade all the
way through school. Yeah, so it's really fun. It's really
refreshing and fun and enjoyable to be with them and
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all of our lives. We share all of our experiences
and it takes a lot of pictures and it's just
it's just fun. I just want to share that and
thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I love your show. I love you, thank you, Thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Very sweet. Linda kind of hit me there. I didn't
expect that. David, you're up, go ahead by man.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Hi, Michael.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
My name is David Merritt. I'm a military brat. So
I went to high school and kaiserslaughter in American high
school and Kaiserslaughter in West Germany. And what we do
for reunions is they host them just different places all
over the United States at Donald Cruise ships. So that's
how we all get together. We keep in contact your
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Facebook and other stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
There's a lot of criticism of how Facebook operates and
how Facebook disappoints us, and it does, but that's it
wouldn't have the ability to disappoint us if we didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Use it so much and it wasn't so useful.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It has allowed a lot of connections with people we
haven't seen in a very long time, and we can
see what they look like.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Who don't want to know what they look like.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I remember when Facebook got really hot. I remember people's
people having divorces because they would reconnect with someone from
there from their high school years, or their wife would
reconnect with someone from their high school years, and there
would be stories about you know that person, and that
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I know people that I know. Marriage is where the
wife left the husband or vice versa.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
One in particular comes to mind very point. I never
would expected, I haven't, but she somehow.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Reconnected with old Bobby Smith or whatever his name was
from Lufkin or Lumberton or wherever he was from, and
it was on and it was over for that marriage.
Never would have expected that. Did not see that coming, Larry,
what say you, sir?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I am seventy years old as of Sunday. We have
a group that gets together on the first Friday of
every month for breakfast in the Big City at mass Hill, Texas.
All right, we're all from a Harden, Texas. There was
thirty eight my graduating class, and it is an absolute
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who how old are you? Larry seventy years old?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, so I'm fifty five.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We played against I guess half of y'all school.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It had become Hardened Jefferson by then.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yes, we played Harden Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Also, okay, so Harden is different than Harden Jefferson. Yes,
oh okayrd okay, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Harden's just just law the liberty.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Oh I'm sorry, yeah, okay, I did not realize that
Larry so the best player in our class. He ended
up going on to beat to play college football, but
he was the biggest kid even in seventh grade. His
name was Toby Schultz. I we're still friends to this day.
He's he's in the oil past. He's Billy Bob Thornton,
in landman out in middle. He just brought brought a
little hunting ranch out there. I'm so proud of him.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
But he's a great, great guy.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He's he's he's uh, he's as solid a human being
as you would you would ever want to meet. But
Toby was our middle linebacker. He was in our in
our running back. He was the fastest, biggest kid on
the team, and the toughest and the meanest on the field,
and then off the field the nicest guy. But I
remember our first game and we go to Hart and
Jefferson and they're all black, we're all white, and they've
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got some kids that are really fast, and we don't
except for Toby. And they had a kid, the running
back whose dad was in the was in the was
on the mic, and he didn't call on the Hard
Jefferson Hawks. He called him Hard Jefferson Hoggs and he
said number twenty.
Speaker 11 (14:04):
One for the heart Devison holl had broke clues again,
looks like he's gonna score him. Oh no, Big number
fifty five has run him down, and Toby comes up
behind him and horse collars him and throws him to
the ground, knocks him out of the game.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Chest the Harden Jefferson Hogs was no more after that.
So the folks that were public brand.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Ranch went out to Gary Summer and his team send
Hi about twenty five thousand dollars each quarter to Camp
Hope and they do a promotion in December every year,
which has begun now that for anyone who visits Camp Hope,
they will add another one hundred dollars to an additional donation,
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which ends up being about another ten thousand dollars, which
is pretty significant and pretty amazing. There is the only
sad thing I have to say about Camp Hope I
mean about Camp Hope about Republic Grand Ranch, is that
we have sent so many of our listeners out there
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that we are approaching the end times. It will have
been sold out, and I would love for them to
find another community, but it's hard to find like that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Again. There was Texas Grand Ranch. We sold that out.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It was a Republic Grand Ranch, and we have almost
sold that out. And it's unfortunate because they've been such
good partners for us with Camp Hope and everything we've
ever asked of them, they've always done it. And so anyway,
but you know, be grateful for what we have had
so far. If you go out in the month of December,
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then you will have contributed one hundred dollars to Camp
Hope without having to put money in your own pocket.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's just pretty cool to see.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I think Russell Lebarro mentors a fella who owns a
restaurant relatively young restaurant on the north side of Houston
called Poyo Loco. I need to find where exactly that's located.
But part of learning from Russell is that you should
give back to the community. So he patterned after his
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after Russell's Plato Soldado the Soldier Plate, which sends two
dollars to Camp Hope for every time it's ordered, which
will have which will soon.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It may have as of last month, but I haven't.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Probably by this month will surpass two million dollars that
will have been given to Camp Hope by Green Goes,
just as part of the Plato Soldado. That's separate from
all their other other donations, which is pretty amazing, which means,
of course that's a million of those places that will
have been ordered. So Poyo Loco has started that program
at their restaurant as well. If you end up out there,
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Federal American Grill gives based on their Freedom Burger and
they give I think Matt makes that check every month
because he likes writing that check. For every one of
you who your charity, your cause, your company, whatever you
do to tribute to Camp Hope and our veterans saving veterans,
thank you because it makes a huge difference. Jason, what's
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your story of reconnecting with folks from your youth.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Michael, In twenty sixteen, I went to prison behind an
alcohol related event and I'll spend seven years, nine months
and twelve days there, And what I began to realize
real quickly is that there's once you take away the
alcohol and the drugs, there's a lot of really, really
good people there. And I was privileged enough to go
through a program on the Carol Vance, you know, called
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Prison Fellowship Academy, and one of the core values of
that program is community. And I believe that the Lord
throwed on my heart while I was there to continue
that core value and that experience. So what we do
is we have monthly reunions in the Houston San Antonio
area where we get together as men that have gone
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and women who have gone through something. And the closest
thing that if you know, if you've never experienced prison before,
the closest thing that I can really attribute it to
is kind of military service, and you really go through something,
you're in the belly of the beast, and you're surrounded
by thousands of your your closest enemies, and the men
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and women that we've seen be so successful post prison
is those who stay in community with one another. So
these these reunions and these fellowships that we do are
really important to us.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Jason, I am incredibly proud of you, and I know,
I know you understand what a big deal it is
what you've done. It's you're You're You're the exception, not
the norm, and it's a sign of great character.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Everybody makes mistakes.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
The fact that you have come through that gives you
one heck of a testimony, and I hope you share
it everywhere you can.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Thank you for the call. Charles, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Let's say you, sir, Michael.
Speaker 13 (19:02):
Yep, you don't know me, but you know my son
tom boyd.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, yes, I just saw your son at the funeral
this week, right, Yeah, that way. I graduated Larry.
Speaker 13 (19:15):
Harr High School in nineteen fifty. I'll be ninety four
next month. I went to the last high school reunion.
There were twenty four people there. Obviously a lot of
people weren't driving anymore at that age, but I thought
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kind of an interesting story. There was a guy sitting
across the table from me at the we had a
little dinner, and he had gone to bel Air Elementary School.
And I thought in the in the forties when he
was in elementary school, he probably took a school bus.
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And I asked him if the bus went out into
the county and picked up people they were going to
bell Air, because bell Air was a separate town in
those days. He said no, He rode his horse to
school every day, and they tagged the horses up underneath
the water tower and they stayed out of you know,
stayed in the shade and the head water, which I
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thought was kind of an interesting story.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You know, It's interesting, mister Boyd, how for my father's
generation you had an overlap there. You know, we think
of riding horses into town to do business as being
a thousand years ago, or having an outhouse having no
indoor plumbing. But that is, you know, at fifty five,
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I'm still connected to the generation of people who do that.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I watched an interview the other day that was done in.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Nineteen fifty nineteen fifty four. Man was ninety eight years No, No,
fifty eight. He was one hundred and two years old.
He was born in eighteen fifty six, so he remembered
the early day, the final days of the Civil War
as his childhood, you know, being five, six, seven years old.
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And there's just that connection because of that overlap when
someone when someone makes it a long way, it's I
find that incredibly fascinating, which obviously you do too, which
is why you shared it. I saw your son Tom
boyd At. We had a mutual friend in Larry Hoffman,
and I saw him Monday night.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Oh great, great, haven't I haven't talked to Tyler. We
you if you have breakfast every Sunday morning. But I
missed him. I was out of town. I went to
Arkansas to see my sister in law for thanks. Good.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Well, when you call him next and he picks up
the phone, say hi, Stepper, because that's what he calls
me when he when he sees me or texts me,
he'll say high stepper. He'll know that we've been talking. Well,
you got a good kid. I've known him for about
twenty five years. He's a good man.
Speaker 13 (22:08):
He's a great he's a great guy. I think a
lot of him. Well, you're a hard working guy.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
The fruit doesn't fall very far from the tree. Thank
you for the call, mister Boyd appreciate it. I can
call anybody by their first name that calls into the show,
that's the rule. But if you're somebody's daddy, you got
to be mister so and so. I go back into
Eddie Haskell. You know what Eddie Haskell did when he
left Leave It to Beaver, became an.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
L a p D officer. True story. I know you
thought there was gonna be a punchline. No punch line.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Crockett the other day was criticizing Jim Morrison, and I said,
you can go to your room, because around this house,
we don't slam the doors. This is Tracy Birr and
welcome to the Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous,
or as I call it, the Michael Berry Show. As
you start preparing, and then and before you know it,
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we're into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Five just arrived. I used the new year as an
opportunity to do a reset. That's when I do my
my tests.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's when I go see Stan Duckman, my cardiologist, and
do my stress test, have him poke around and look
around at my at my inner pipes. I go see
mo Hit Kara and we talk about my plumbing, and
he asked the awkward question with his hand as if
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he's about to, you know, threaten somebody with a fist.
This is everything working out? Or just go yes, mo,
hit this? How about how about I just tell you
if it's not because having another man. I mean, I'll
be honest with you. It's doing fine, but it ain't.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It ain't like back good know, it's not like that.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
He he does his He does his in a in
a firm grip, bends his elbow upward like he's just
you know, get about ready to punch someone in the face.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It said work, you know, I mean it's good. Don't
get me wrong. I don't know if it's it's that good.
You know, I'm fifty five. But it's not.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You know, it's not hanging down you know to my
side like Stephen Hawking.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I mean, it's somewhere between.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You know what I'm saying. It's it's uh, it's good.
It's a thank you though, it's We're all right on that. Anyway,
as you prepare for the new year, it's a great
opportunity for a reset to start eating the way you'd
like to eat, to drink the amount you would like
to drink, or not drink more than that amount to
get your exercise. Yesterday, Petru sent me a message. Kemerrif
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was a man or a woman eighty seven years old
going to treatments at MD Anderson.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Wants to get stronger.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Listen, this wants to get stronger so they can walk
into MD Inerson not have to take a walker. You know,
people think of working out getting stronger as going to
the gym and flexing and grunting. And for Petrew's people,
and I guess I'm want to I mean, I am
a petro clent, but for Petrew's people, it's just getting
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stronger for life. You know, you there're somebody in their
nineties who just says, I just want to be able
to get up and walk to the restroom on my
own and not have to have assistance or having had
a stroke, I want to be able to do that.
This one was This one was rough. There was somebody
mother and her teenager. Her teenager had had a stroke
and wanted to get this teenager stronger. And yeah, it's
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it's it's amazing. But anyway, as you think about those things,
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com and
sign up for our daily email while you're there, and
I am happy to connect you with our show sponsors directly.
It is not a problem, but I know you're so busy. Look,
that's the business side of our show, and I am
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mindful that there is a business to operate so that
we get to do the show. And I like helping
our sponsors and I like helping our listeners. I love
to connect people. It's a Malcolm Gladwell thing. It's it's uh.
It gives me a lot of joy to I Just
during the break a friend of mine needed plumbing and
he needed some foundation work done because the plumbing.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Had had cracked.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
So I get on the phone with Rob Dechaser, the
head of Atlas Foundation Repair. Hey, Rob, can you take
good care of this person? And they always do. I
send people to to Tom Haynes, the car pro every day,
or Mike Bachiss at lone Star Chevy every day.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I love doing that. So it is not a problem.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
And as you think of things that you need, whatever
that might be getting ready for your financials for the
first year, your health and wellness for the for the year,
your medical, home improvement, you name it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I love to help you with that. I trust trust me.
It is not a a an imposition. Karen, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, good.
Speaker 14 (26:56):
Morning, Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Ma'am.
Speaker 14 (26:58):
So, I graduated from high school in nineteen seventy one
in a small town in Kansas. It's about halfway between
which time Dodge City. We have reunions every five years,
so a lot of us still show up. But one
of the guys in our class would come to our
pep rallies and he would come as John Wayne or
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you know, always entertaining doing voices. He's now the voice
of Goofy.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
He works for Warner Brothers and Disney.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Yeah, and so he.
Speaker 14 (27:27):
Will em see a lot of our reunions and they're
just so much fun. But we all still there's many
of us that still stay in touch on a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So you're seventy two, yep, sweetheart, you sound about thirty five.
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Well, I think you know. I've been told that when
you do drugs when you're young, you don't mature.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay, well, maybe that's a class motto.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
Our class motto is sensex beer.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Were the class of seventy one.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It was the zeitgeist. You're a great caller, Karen, Thank you, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Chuck. You're on Michael Berry Show. What say you?
Speaker 15 (28:11):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
How you doing Michael? You are good?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Hey.
Speaker 15 (28:14):
I was my mom's class was were out of Glena
Park area, and they were a junior high and they
started a class reunion back in that eighties. Now they've
all since have passed except for one, and I call
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that one every year, Color several times a year. She's
a huge Astros fan. But it was kind of crazy.
They were Woodland Hill Junior High because back then and
Gleena Park was kind of like North Shore. You had
all your junior highs, and then they all mixed them
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into the Gleena Park School district. So but they had
a lot of fun they went. As they all retired
to the Hill country, they would meet out in the
hill country every summer.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
It's hopefully we have spurred some people to reconnect with
old friends, because it's pretty cool. You know, I had
forgotten I did this. But Larry Hoffman, who passed on
my birthday, he gets to last laugh on that one.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
On November tenth, at.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
His memorial this Monday, I spoke and After I got off,
one of his friends came up and said, you know,
sometimes I'll call his number and listen to his voicemail
because I get such a kick out of out of
you having left it, and I had forgotten. He loved
my voicemail so much that he said, will you record
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me one? And I said no, Larry, I'm not recording voicemails.
But I couldn't say no, so I did, and this
was it.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You got it. You've reached Larry's voicemail.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Larry is a very important man and he doesn't have
time to review voicemails.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Send a text.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If you leave a voicemail, he won't.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Listen to it, so just be deleted.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
If you send a text, make it very clear.
Speaker 13 (30:21):
What you need.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He may respond or not.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Mike will very can leave a message.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's always weird when you hear the voice of someone
who has passed, because you heard that voice a million
times and you take it for granted. Man, don't take
anything for granted. I'm increasingly of the opinion we're all
gonna die.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Who knew? So live life to the fullest. Oh, Ramona,
(31:26):
I was gonna tell you, remember when I said earlier,
I was going to make an announcement
It's that time. Time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Air on this day.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Nineteen sixty nine, President Richard Nixon and Vice president'spirot Agnew
and forty US governors viewed quote simulated acid trip films
and listen to rock music in order to comprehend the
generation gap.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Can you can you?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So, so this is what this is what an acid
trip is like. Look, mister President, just go ahead and
drop a little acid and see what it is. I
don't think they're simulating what an acid trip is like. Wow,
that was crazy, mister president. What did you think? You're
out of touch with the youth and you need their
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vote for reelection. I found the experience to be groovy.
I mean, what can you imagine the setup for this?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How that looked?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In Orange County, California, a group of eighteen year olds
in nineteen seventy six made a pact with each other
to gather once a year as part of the Last
Man's Society until the last man was standing, until he
was the last one alive.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
They bought a bottle of cognac and that.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Person was to drink or is to drink that bottle
of cognac by toasting each of the members in turn,
as he will have been the last surviving member. We
thought that was pretty cool, so we asked you about
how you gather with folks from your youth and what
pack you've made or where you gather or what you
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find out of the experience. Catherine, you're up first. Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
My husband is the class of sixty four from Elcampo
High School and we, I say we, I'm not part
of that class because I graduated in sixty eight from Walthrop.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
In Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But they get together about every six weeks, maybe eight weeks.
They meet at a restaurant, and I would say ninety
percent of this group, it's usually average twenty twenty five.
They have known each other since first grade, being in
a small town, and they are hilarious. And I've gotten
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to hear a lot of stories about my husband when
he was younger that he didn't even remember. And so,
but they're all like seventy nine. My husband will be
eighty this early next year, and they still get together
and they have a great time. And sadly some of
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them have passed away, and not everybody gets to show
up because some of them have moved to be near
there with their children because the children had left El Campo.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
But we drive in.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We live in Cyprus, and so we drive in every
six weeks, maybe seven weeks whenever they call for the
luncheon gang to get together and they put an email
out to all of the class. I believe there was
a little over one hundred that was in the graduating
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class in sixty four, and a lot of them, like
I say about average about twenty twenty five, still show
up and they have a great time, and they've really
made me feel like I was part of that class.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Also, since you're a one degree removed of the class,
that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Walt.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
What's your story? Hello, yep, you're up, Walt.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Okay, sorry about that. Graduating cares classtests together all about
every few years. We had fifty year reunion two years back,
and this year instead of reunion, the class reunion, they
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had a said this this year seventy five year birthday
party for the whole class.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And where is the class from what.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
School Southew said, Hi, right on, that's fantastic, And how
many of y'all.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Showed up, I'd say about fifty or so.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And how many do you think y'all graduated with?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Oh, probably about three hundred. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know, I'd love to know what the numbers are
of what you can expect as a percentage of the class,
because it feels like one in six so sixteen percent.
It feels like that's low. But I wonder, you know,
people died, they move on, they lose touch, they go
to prison, they whatever else. I wonder, I wonder what
that number you should expect it to be?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Be interesting to know. Ed you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yeah. We have a group of us that all went
to high school together in different high schools Westbury, ros Sterling, Jessey, Jones, Walterrup,
all of them around South Houston and Southwest Houston, and
we all served while we were in high school, and
we would meet at surf sides practically every weekend, and
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then if we could skip school, we'd do it during
the week but es that's when we got to be seniors.
But it was a pretty good sized group. We started
meeting about about fifteen, sixteen years ago down there for
three or four days, and everybody would get rooms or
rent beach houses. And we have a memorial down there
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at the Jetty that we paid for and had put up.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And during this.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Three or four days we have all kinds of different
events going on. We raised money for the community. We
always donate money to the volunteer fire departments there for
money we raise. We also give a clothes and a
food bank. Anyway, we helped support the city of Freeport
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down the surf side and we have a paddle out
where there's started off with several hundred and we're still staying,
you know, above one hundred, even though a lot of
us are in our seventy but a lot of them
have their kids. They are starting to show up and
their grandkids.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Right, so you got.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
A generational thing. Let me get one more call in here, John,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You got one minute? Go ahead? You say, John, Yes,
go ahead?
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Hey, Heyboddy, Yeah, mi'ms John bevil Gosh. Back in seventy
one or seventy two at youth groups at church, three
new brothers came in that night and we hit it off.
Walked down in the parking lot. Our parents are hitting
it off and they invite us over to their house
and we have been going. Our two dads took us
camping the following year, and then the next year and
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after that, the six of us have been camping together
every single year. Back we go again in February, rain,
snow shine. We go out on a piece of land
currently outside of Henderson. We sit around the fire. We've
invited friends to join us, so our group's about ten.
But we have the same thing where the first one
to pass away we'll have an empty chair there each
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night and and toast that person. But so far it
on which passed away. But we have been the closest.
You wouldn't just believe we've just stayed together this whole
time and they're still my two best friends.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And that's what you Brothers.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Nineteen seventy two in Spring Branch at Spring Resch Christian
Churches where we met.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh well, right on, So.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Fifty something years we've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And we got something to be proud of. If you
want to tell your story. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of talk radio
that Rud roofs you can't make old friends.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Of graduates in nineteen seventy six decided that they would
meet once a year to toast each other until there
was but one of them left alive, after which they
named it the Last Man's Society. The last man standing
would open the bottle of tequila they bought or cognac
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they bought nineteen seventy six, and toast each of the
members who had passed. So we asked the question of
how you gather with people from your high school or
your youth, and about that experience.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Linda, you're up next, sweetheart.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Go ahead, Hi, Michael, I live in Lubbook and I'll
make this really quick. I graduated from Fort Stockton and
we had exactly one hundred students graduate that year. And
our ladies have gotten together every year. We've named ourselves
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Old Broad's sixty five. We graduated in nineteen sixty five,
and we try to get together every year somewhere in
Texas and we just have a great time. We've lost
a few of our girls, but not bad, but we've
been lost a few, but we celebrate them every year
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when we get together that they're not there, and it's
just a wonderful camaraderie. We love each other. I didn't
move there till the fourth grade, but most of these
girls were in school from the first grade all the
way through school. Yeah, so it's really fun. It's really
refreshing and fun and enjoyable to be with them and
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all of our lives. We share all of our experiences
and it takes a lot of pictures and it's just
it's just fun. I just want to share that and
thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I love your show. I love you, thank you, Thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Very sweet. Linda kind of hit me there. I didn't
expect that. David, you're up, go ahead by man.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Hi, Michael.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
My name is David Merritt. I'm a military brat. So
I went to high school and kaiserslaughter in American high
school and Kaiserslaughter in West Germany. And what we do
for reunions is they host them just different places all
over the United States at Donald Cruise ships. So that's
how we all get together. We keep in contact your
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Facebook and other stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
There's a lot of criticism of how Facebook operates and
how Facebook disappoints us, and it does, but that's it
wouldn't have the ability to disappoint us if we didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Use it so much and it wasn't so useful.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It has allowed a lot of connections with people we
haven't seen in a very long time, and we can
see what they look like.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Who don't want to know what they look like.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I remember when Facebook got really hot. I remember people's
people having divorces because they would reconnect with someone from
there from their high school years, or their wife would
reconnect with someone from their high school years, and there
would be stories about you know that person, and that
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I know people that I know. Marriage is where the
wife left the husband or vice versa.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
One in particular comes to mind very point. I never
would expected, I haven't, but she somehow.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Reconnected with old Bobby Smith or whatever his name was
from Lufkin or Lumberton or wherever he was from, and
it was on and it was over for that marriage.
Never would have expected that. Did not see that coming, Larry,
what say you, sir?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I am seventy years old as of Sunday. We have
a group that gets together on the first Friday of
every month for breakfast in the Big City at mass Hill, Texas.
All right, we're all from a Harden, Texas. There was
thirty eight my graduating class, and it is an absolute
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who how old are you? Larry seventy years old?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, so I'm fifty five.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We played against I guess half of y'all school.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It had become Hardened Jefferson by then.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yes, we played Harden Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Also, okay, so Harden is different than Harden Jefferson. Yes,
oh okayrd okay, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Harden's just just law the liberty.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Oh I'm sorry, yeah, okay, I did not realize that
Larry so the best player in our class. He ended
up going on to beat to play college football, but
he was the biggest kid even in seventh grade. His
name was Toby Schultz. I we're still friends to this day.
He's he's in the oil past. He's Billy Bob Thornton,
in landman out in middle. He just brought brought a
little hunting ranch out there. I'm so proud of him.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
But he's a great, great guy.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He's he's he's uh, he's as solid a human being
as you would you would ever want to meet. But
Toby was our middle linebacker. He was in our in
our running back. He was the fastest, biggest kid on
the team, and the toughest and the meanest on the field,
and then off the field the nicest guy. But I
remember our first game and we go to Hart and
Jefferson and they're all black, we're all white, and they've
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got some kids that are really fast, and we don't
except for Toby. And they had a kid, the running
back whose dad was in the was in the was
on the mic, and he didn't call on the Hard
Jefferson Hawks. He called him Hard Jefferson Hoggs and he
said number twenty.
Speaker 11 (14:04):
One for the heart Devison holl had broke clues again,
looks like he's gonna score him. Oh no, Big number
fifty five has run him down, and Toby comes up
behind him and horse collars him and throws him to
the ground, knocks him out of the game.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Chest the Harden Jefferson Hogs was no more after that.
So the folks that were public brand.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Ranch went out to Gary Summer and his team send
Hi about twenty five thousand dollars each quarter to Camp
Hope and they do a promotion in December every year,
which has begun now that for anyone who visits Camp Hope,
they will add another one hundred dollars to an additional donation,
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which ends up being about another ten thousand dollars, which
is pretty significant and pretty amazing. There is the only
sad thing I have to say about Camp Hope I
mean about Camp Hope about Republic Grand Ranch, is that
we have sent so many of our listeners out there
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that we are approaching the end times. It will have
been sold out, and I would love for them to
find another community, but it's hard to find like that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Again. There was Texas Grand Ranch. We sold that out.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It was a Republic Grand Ranch, and we have almost
sold that out. And it's unfortunate because they've been such
good partners for us with Camp Hope and everything we've
ever asked of them, they've always done it. And so anyway,
but you know, be grateful for what we have had
so far. If you go out in the month of December,
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then you will have contributed one hundred dollars to Camp
Hope without having to put money in your own pocket.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's just pretty cool to see.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I think Russell Lebarro mentors a fella who owns a
restaurant relatively young restaurant on the north side of Houston
called Poyo Loco. I need to find where exactly that's located.
But part of learning from Russell is that you should
give back to the community. So he patterned after his
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after Russell's Plato Soldado the Soldier Plate, which sends two
dollars to Camp Hope for every time it's ordered, which
will have which will soon.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It may have as of last month, but I haven't.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Probably by this month will surpass two million dollars that
will have been given to Camp Hope by Green Goes,
just as part of the Plato Soldado. That's separate from
all their other other donations, which is pretty amazing, which means,
of course that's a million of those places that will
have been ordered. So Poyo Loco has started that program
at their restaurant as well. If you end up out there,
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Federal American Grill gives based on their Freedom Burger and
they give I think Matt makes that check every month
because he likes writing that check. For every one of
you who your charity, your cause, your company, whatever you
do to tribute to Camp Hope and our veterans saving veterans,
thank you because it makes a huge difference. Jason, what's
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your story of reconnecting with folks from your youth.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Michael, In twenty sixteen, I went to prison behind an
alcohol related event and I'll spend seven years, nine months
and twelve days there, And what I began to realize
real quickly is that there's once you take away the
alcohol and the drugs, there's a lot of really, really
good people there. And I was privileged enough to go
through a program on the Carol Vance, you know, called
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Prison Fellowship Academy, and one of the core values of
that program is community. And I believe that the Lord
throwed on my heart while I was there to continue
that core value and that experience. So what we do
is we have monthly reunions in the Houston San Antonio
area where we get together as men that have gone
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and women who have gone through something. And the closest
thing that if you know, if you've never experienced prison before,
the closest thing that I can really attribute it to
is kind of military service, and you really go through something,
you're in the belly of the beast, and you're surrounded
by thousands of your your closest enemies, and the men
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and women that we've seen be so successful post prison
is those who stay in community with one another. So
these these reunions and these fellowships that we do are
really important to us.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Jason, I am incredibly proud of you, and I know,
I know you understand what a big deal it is
what you've done. It's you're You're You're the exception, not
the norm, and it's a sign of great character.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Everybody makes mistakes.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
The fact that you have come through that gives you
one heck of a testimony, and I hope you share
it everywhere you can.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Thank you for the call. Charles, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Let's say you, sir, Michael.
Speaker 13 (19:02):
Yep, you don't know me, but you know my son
tom boyd.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, yes, I just saw your son at the funeral
this week, right, Yeah, that way. I graduated Larry.
Speaker 13 (19:15):
Harr High School in nineteen fifty. I'll be ninety four
next month. I went to the last high school reunion.
There were twenty four people there. Obviously a lot of
people weren't driving anymore at that age, but I thought
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kind of an interesting story. There was a guy sitting
across the table from me at the we had a
little dinner, and he had gone to bel Air Elementary School.
And I thought in the in the forties when he
was in elementary school, he probably took a school bus.
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And I asked him if the bus went out into
the county and picked up people they were going to
bell Air, because bell Air was a separate town in
those days. He said no, He rode his horse to
school every day, and they tagged the horses up underneath
the water tower and they stayed out of you know,
stayed in the shade and the head water, which I
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thought was kind of an interesting story.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You know, It's interesting, mister Boyd, how for my father's
generation you had an overlap there. You know, we think
of riding horses into town to do business as being
a thousand years ago, or having an outhouse having no
indoor plumbing. But that is, you know, at fifty five,
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I'm still connected to the generation of people who do that.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I watched an interview the other day that was done in.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Nineteen fifty nineteen fifty four. Man was ninety eight years No, No,
fifty eight. He was one hundred and two years old.
He was born in eighteen fifty six, so he remembered
the early day, the final days of the Civil War
as his childhood, you know, being five, six, seven years old.
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And there's just that connection because of that overlap when
someone when someone makes it a long way, it's I
find that incredibly fascinating, which obviously you do too, which
is why you shared it. I saw your son Tom
boyd At. We had a mutual friend in Larry Hoffman,
and I saw him Monday night.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Oh great, great, haven't I haven't talked to Tyler. We
you if you have breakfast every Sunday morning. But I
missed him. I was out of town. I went to
Arkansas to see my sister in law for thanks. Good.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Well, when you call him next and he picks up
the phone, say hi, Stepper, because that's what he calls
me when he when he sees me or texts me,
he'll say high stepper. He'll know that we've been talking. Well,
you got a good kid. I've known him for about
twenty five years. He's a good man.
Speaker 13 (22:08):
He's a great he's a great guy. I think a
lot of him. Well, you're a hard working guy.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
The fruit doesn't fall very far from the tree. Thank
you for the call, mister Boyd appreciate it. I can
call anybody by their first name that calls into the show,
that's the rule. But if you're somebody's daddy, you got
to be mister so and so. I go back into
Eddie Haskell. You know what Eddie Haskell did when he
left Leave It to Beaver, became an.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
L a p D officer. True story. I know you
thought there was gonna be a punchline. No punch line.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Crockett the other day was criticizing Jim Morrison, and I said,
you can go to your room, because around this house,
we don't slam the doors. This is Tracy Birr and
welcome to the Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous,
or as I call it, the Michael Berry Show. As
you start preparing, and then and before you know it,
(23:02):
we're into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Five just arrived. I used the new year as an
opportunity to do a reset. That's when I do my
my tests.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's when I go see Stan Duckman, my cardiologist, and
do my stress test, have him poke around and look
around at my at my inner pipes. I go see
mo Hit Kara and we talk about my plumbing, and
he asked the awkward question with his hand as if
(23:38):
he's about to, you know, threaten somebody with a fist.
This is everything working out? Or just go yes, mo,
hit this? How about how about I just tell you
if it's not because having another man. I mean, I'll
be honest with you. It's doing fine, but it ain't.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It ain't like back good know, it's not like that.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
He he does his He does his in a in
a firm grip, bends his elbow upward like he's just
you know, get about ready to punch someone in the face.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It said work, you know, I mean it's good. Don't
get me wrong. I don't know if it's it's that good.
You know, I'm fifty five. But it's not.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You know, it's not hanging down you know to my
side like Stephen Hawking.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I mean, it's somewhere between.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You know what I'm saying. It's it's uh, it's good.
It's a thank you though, it's We're all right on that. Anyway,
as you prepare for the new year, it's a great
opportunity for a reset to start eating the way you'd
like to eat, to drink the amount you would like
to drink, or not drink more than that amount to
get your exercise. Yesterday, Petru sent me a message. Kemerrif
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was a man or a woman eighty seven years old
going to treatments at MD Anderson.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Wants to get stronger.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Listen, this wants to get stronger so they can walk
into MD Inerson not have to take a walker. You know,
people think of working out getting stronger as going to
the gym and flexing and grunting. And for Petrew's people,
and I guess I'm want to I mean, I am
a petro clent, but for Petrew's people, it's just getting
(25:14):
stronger for life. You know, you there're somebody in their
nineties who just says, I just want to be able
to get up and walk to the restroom on my
own and not have to have assistance or having had
a stroke, I want to be able to do that.
This one was This one was rough. There was somebody
mother and her teenager. Her teenager had had a stroke
and wanted to get this teenager stronger. And yeah, it's
(25:37):
it's it's amazing. But anyway, as you think about those things,
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com and
sign up for our daily email while you're there, and
I am happy to connect you with our show sponsors directly.
It is not a problem, but I know you're so busy. Look,
that's the business side of our show, and I am
(25:58):
mindful that there is a business to operate so that
we get to do the show. And I like helping
our sponsors and I like helping our listeners. I love
to connect people. It's a Malcolm Gladwell thing. It's it's uh.
It gives me a lot of joy to I Just
during the break a friend of mine needed plumbing and
he needed some foundation work done because the plumbing.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Had had cracked.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
So I get on the phone with Rob Dechaser, the
head of Atlas Foundation Repair. Hey, Rob, can you take
good care of this person? And they always do. I
send people to to Tom Haynes, the car pro every day,
or Mike Bachiss at lone Star Chevy every day.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I love doing that. So it is not a problem.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
And as you think of things that you need, whatever
that might be getting ready for your financials for the
first year, your health and wellness for the for the year,
your medical, home improvement, you name it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I love to help you with that. I trust trust me.
It is not a a an imposition. Karen, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, good.
Speaker 14 (26:56):
Morning, Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Ma'am.
Speaker 14 (26:58):
So, I graduated from high school in nineteen seventy one
in a small town in Kansas. It's about halfway between
which time Dodge City. We have reunions every five years,
so a lot of us still show up. But one
of the guys in our class would come to our
pep rallies and he would come as John Wayne or
(27:19):
you know, always entertaining doing voices. He's now the voice
of Goofy.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
He works for Warner Brothers and Disney.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Yeah, and so he.
Speaker 14 (27:27):
Will em see a lot of our reunions and they're
just so much fun. But we all still there's many
of us that still stay in touch on a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So you're seventy two, yep, sweetheart, you sound about thirty five.
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Well, I think you know. I've been told that when
you do drugs when you're young, you don't mature.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay, well, maybe that's a class motto.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
Our class motto is sensex beer.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Were the class of seventy one.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It was the zeitgeist. You're a great caller, Karen, Thank you, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Chuck. You're on Michael Berry Show. What say you?
Speaker 15 (28:11):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
How you doing Michael? You are good?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Hey.
Speaker 15 (28:14):
I was my mom's class was were out of Glena
Park area, and they were a junior high and they
started a class reunion back in that eighties. Now they've
all since have passed except for one, and I call
(28:36):
that one every year, Color several times a year. She's
a huge Astros fan. But it was kind of crazy.
They were Woodland Hill Junior High because back then and
Gleena Park was kind of like North Shore. You had
all your junior highs, and then they all mixed them
(28:57):
into the Gleena Park School district. So but they had
a lot of fun they went. As they all retired
to the Hill country, they would meet out in the
hill country every summer.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
It's hopefully we have spurred some people to reconnect with
old friends, because it's pretty cool. You know, I had
forgotten I did this. But Larry Hoffman, who passed on
my birthday, he gets to last laugh on that one.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
On November tenth, at.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
His memorial this Monday, I spoke and After I got off,
one of his friends came up and said, you know,
sometimes I'll call his number and listen to his voicemail
because I get such a kick out of out of
you having left it, and I had forgotten. He loved
my voicemail so much that he said, will you record
(29:56):
me one? And I said no, Larry, I'm not recording voicemails.
But I couldn't say no, so I did, and this
was it.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You got it. You've reached Larry's voicemail.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Larry is a very important man and he doesn't have
time to review voicemails.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Send a text.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If you leave a voicemail, he won't.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Listen to it, so just be deleted.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
If you send a text, make it very clear.
Speaker 13 (30:21):
What you need.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He may respond or not.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Mike will very can leave a message.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's always weird when you hear the voice of someone
who has passed, because you heard that voice a million
times and you take it for granted. Man, don't take
anything for granted. I'm increasingly of the opinion we're all
gonna die.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Who knew? So live life to the fullest. Oh, Ramona,
(31:26):
I was gonna tell you, remember when I said earlier,
I was going to make an announcement
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