January 7, 2026 • 32 mins
A raw, witty, and honest look at everyday America—where small business battles, aging parents, forgotten workers, shifting protests, and unexpected life lessons collide. From ditch‑diggers to flag shops, from grumpy dads in nursing homes to the chaos of modern culture, this episode blends humor, heart, and hard truths into one compelling conversation.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Honing a small business is tough. Talk about this all
the time. Small business owners are fascinating creatures. Because there's
there's a there's a movie called like six feet from
Greatness or three feet from You don't talking about No,
it's not thirty feet yeah about the backup singers? Is
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it thirty feet? Okay? Well, it's just because over the years,
you know, RCC gave me this experience where there's the
rock star lead singer that you know, books are written about,
they're interviewed wherever they are.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
People are like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That twenty feet from stardom, and people are literally melting
because this person is two tables over. Now, if the
lead guitarist or the drummer is there, people have no idea,
nor when they're told, do they really care other than
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to ask that person about the famous person. And yet
that secondary person is the is the one on stage
helping make the music.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
They're part of all this.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They have the same experiences within reason, and yet you don't,
we don't think of it that way, right, Well, it's
interesting to me that in the course of the day
I drive past guy who's digging a ditch, not me,
Not really, nobody digs ditches anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Do you get that idea? And you know there's your
ditch digger.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Or I go into a restaurant and there's a guy
back there in the kitchen, not the celebrated chef, you know,
not Matt Brice coming out in his chef jacket, and
everybody hopes he'll come to their table and bless them.
I mean the guy who's in the back, who's the cook.
And ever I go into kitchens because I like to
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go into kitchens. You're out there having a nice time.
You've got real nice music, you know, that's being piped
in and hopefully at just the right level, and it's
it's very calming, and the sounds and the clinking of
the glass and the waiter comes over, and you know,
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if it's the right kind of restaurant, they should be
tending to your needs.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What would you like? How can we make you happy? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
With that?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Is that not to your liking? What could we do?
Could I refill this? You horse? You finish the trough water?
Which you like? Some more? Oh? The restroom?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, you'd like to move somebody, Okay, that's down here,
and can we do this? And can I take your
jacket and all that, and so here we are, and
we're having this wonderful experience. And even the waiter is
kind of in on the experience because he's getting to
enjoy the air conditioning, which by historical standard, is in
and of itself a big deal. Right, So he's going
through all this and he's dressed nice, in your dressed nice,
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and somewhere about thirty forty fifty feet away as part
of this whole process, is the person who took the
raw materials in that awful heat pit of a kitchen.
He's got burns up and down his arms, and he's
making the food that is at the root of all this.
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And so there's like these concentric circles. We live on
the same planet, we live in the same city. We
may occupy the same space in a restaurant, but the
patron may go home to a twenty thousand dollars mansion
and butlers and drivers, and he made the next morning
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get up and be taken to his private plane. And
the waiter somewhere in between, he's he's over here and
he's in his little apartment and he's maybe gonna if
he makes a little extra money, now he's gonna go
get hammered and get a tattoo. And then you got
the guy in the back who's cooking. And the concentric
circle is they're all under the same roof of the
same restaurant at the same time. But it's a very
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different life in a very different moment, and we don't
think about that. You know, you drive past a bus stop.
Most people that are at the bus stop are not
there to conserve energy. They're there because they can't afford
a vehicle. And if you can't afford a vehicle in
the United States in twenty twenty six, things are rough
right and yet here we are to say, you know, hey,
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how you doing your way going in and out of
the grocery store or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I think about this all the time. Well, when you.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Walk into a small business, we view it as what
I'm going in to buy a couple of items, and
I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Leave that space. He's got to keep it clean, he's
got to keep it safe.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You're the nice guy coming in, You're not the Democrat
coming in trying to rip him off, threatning him sue him.
If everybody could run a small business, they would. It
is not easy. But you know who must be killing
it right now? I'm going to call them when we
hang up. Flag shop owners, Cromberg's flag shop, Cromberg's flags
and flagpoles, all of them. You got protesters changing sides
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all the time. You got Palestinian flags one day, then
you got Ukraine. People can't find Ukraine on a map.
Now it's Viva Venezuela. That's the new one. That's what
they're doing now. I mean, you think about all this,
How do these people keep up? If you go to
their house? Do they just have random discarded like old
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discard like used two? People have discarded concert shirts, you know,
the Ramoness seventy eight, the sex Pistols World Tour. Do
people just have like what became of Ukraine? Did Ukraine
just doesn't matter anymore? Honestly, I think about these things.
Does nobody care about Ukraine anymore? Did the Palestinians just
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go away? What happened to the transgenders? We were all
gonna die if the transgenders weren't happy, And now whatever
whatever became of the transgenders? I toured Cromberg's flags and
flagpoles recently, and they got flags from countries I didn't
know existed, honest to goodness, and I pride myself on
knowing flags. But you got to figure. You got to
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figure flag shop owners right now have to be loving protesters.
Thank you for joining us on Action News at six.
We continue our feature on local small businesses.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Tonight we introduced you to Simply Sensational Flags and their owner,
Elmer Clutterbuck, who says political protesters provide most of it business,
but he can never be certain which flag is gonna fly,
So Simply Sensational Flags of the family business. My sisters
started things back in seventy seven. They wanted to sell
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and I said that's silly. So here I am. Years ago,
we were big into sports flags, Seahawks, Stealers, Saints, Spurs.
They were big sellers for us. Then the protesters became sensational.
Boy are they passionate little suckers. Problem is you never
know who they're gonna support. Palestine flags were fizzling for
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a while, then we had a pivot to Ukraine. We
can thank Secretary Susan for that one. Now it's been
this Whalen flags selling like hotcakes. Of course, I can
always count on the Rainbow flags being a big seller.
Those really set sail in June. Now we make all
of our flags non cotton. That would simply be racist.
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Our clientele will not go for that. I see one thing.
As long as we have protests, we're gonna have because
those guys are thumthing out. Oh and I'd be re
myth if I didn't tell you this.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We're expanding.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Take a look at our newith item flying off the shelf, candles.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are you ready for it?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Thanktuary, cinnamon either gonna dominate the Democrat candlelight.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Vigilance like food ramon You know es cargo is snails?
Do you know why of the French eat snails? They
hate fast food?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Left Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Lifeless eyes, black eyes to get dolls.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
This weekend I got a message from Russell Yborrow. It's
a picture of him and my dad and he had
the most cheshire cat grin on his face. Russell because
he knew that I didn't know he was going over
to visit my dad, and he knew I would get
a kick out of him being there, and of course
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I did. And night before last Michael Petrew, my trainer
and dear friend went by and visited him, and he
played for University of Texas. He was a free safety,
and so my dad was a football nut. He doesn't
have the memory he used to, but Petrew kind of
was prompting him to players and different people, and my
dad would claim he remembered.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I don't know if he did or not.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But he's at a point now where when people go
by and visit him, sometimes.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
He forgets to tell me. And so.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
If I don't mention it to somebody and they went
to visit my dad did, a month later, they'll say, hey,
did your dad tell you I visited? No, if he had,
I would have thanked you. But I'm glad you told me.
And I'll say it to him, and I don't know that.
I don't know if he then recalls or if he
just says, oh yeah, because as your memory starts to go.
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A coping technique is when people tell you something that's happened,
Rather than argue it because you don't remember it, you
just go along because it's not worth the fight.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And that's what he does.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But I say that to say this, you might not
be in a position where you have various friends who
can go and visit your mom or your dad, and
you look more likely your mom, because that's what old
folks homes are. It's men die before women for a
number of reasons. Used to the man was always older
than a woman. My dad was five years older my mom.
But also because men live harder, smoked more, drank more,
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worked harder, slept less, engaged in dangerous activities, and underwent
a lot more stress. They bore the burden, the yoke
of taking care of the family, and the mom was
usually a little better in handling that stress, so they
lived longer. Just a fact, but that is to say
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that when you scale it all back and you know,
the conversation with Bason Punt or train remind me. Reminded
me that when you you know, if your bedridden with
no use of your arms or legs, then you don't
live in your phone when you get to a certain age.
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My dad doesn't. My dad ever did, but it's his age.
He's eighty five. He doesn't live in his phone now.
He will wear out two programs on TV twenty four
to seven, and that's baywatching Dug Dynasty. But if you
walk in and turn the TV off, which is what
I do, cause he plays it so loud. If you
have an elderly parent, you know what this is like.
You will get hot, but you have to have to
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turn that also so we can focus on our conversation.
Then you know that what really matters when you come
into this world, when you go out. I mean, I
imagine a scenario where a baby comes into this world
and there's no nurse, doctor, or.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Mother to cradle.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It is because they're all on their phones. Well, at
that moment, we understand to put things away and focus
on what matters. And if you are lucky enough to
have people in your life, because eventually we're going to lose.
We're either going to die, you're going to lose everyone
else around you. If you're lucky enough to have them,
then be grateful for them and interact with them, whether
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it's bringing them a cookie or placing a call asking
how they're doing. I do notice something that bothers me
at the Old Folks Home, and that is that there
are some adult children my age who go and visit
their parent for the sole purpose of fussing at their parent.
And I've come to the conclusion that the reason they
fuss at their parent, is they're angry at their parent
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for growing old and dying, because before you die, you're
in the process of dying. We're all in the process
of dying. To think about it, you know, in an
existential sense, but you're in the process of dying. Your
systems are shutting down, the cancers are taking over, the
heart is weakening. And as that's happening. As the adult child,
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I think there is a tendency and it's very natural
to be angry at them. If you can just make
them stop dying, then they'll stop dying. And what you're
really mad at is not mom or dad who's too
old to be able to fix this. You're mad at
the fact that this is life and there's a cycle
and we're at a phase of it that is hard
to deal with. So instead we fuss at our mom
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or dad that they're not getting up and walking, or
they're doing this, or they are getting up and walking
and they forgot their walk, or they're not taking their pill,
or they're doing this, or they're doing this, when in fact,
my philosophy is these should be their golden years. They
should be wonderful and who in the world are you
to be fussing at them. You should be there making
their lives better, making them happy, and if they're grumpy,
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listening to them. And if they want to talk about
their doctor's appointments. A spoiler alert for those of you
who don't have elderly parents, that's all they want to
talk about. What hurts, what doesn't move, and should what
does move and shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like a cranky child that's hungry and sleepy. That's you know,
It's the circle of life. I don't know that I
have any great wisdom on the matter, other than to
say there's a good reminder to be had on frequent
occasion that we're only here for a moment, and that
what really matters cannot be manufactured in Palo Alto, and
it does not come with a service manual. Those are
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the things that make life rich. Those are the things
that make life meaningful. If you look back on our
civilization in a thousand years, nobody's going to be really
really impressed that you figured out how to use Siri
to coordinate your schedule. That's just not The things that
are going to matter are the things that always did
matter and that will always be the change that will
always be the same. The question will be will you
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unfortunately get sucked into thinking that this or that social
media app that's the hot new thing that the young
people are all into. That's the craziest thing is how
many of these these moms and some dads a certain
age are desperately trying to engage in social media apps
or musicians or movies, or a dance or a drink
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because that's what all the kids are doing. I can't
imagine taking my cue from what all the kids are doing.
Do you realize how stupid they are at that age
and we all were. You don't have any wisdom, You
should have grown out of that. In any case, I
think we're overdue for it. I truly believe Ramon, So
we will open the phone lines. Remember the rules. Get
right to it. I know your name, you know mine.
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Even if I don't say it right, I'm good, You're good,
Get right to it. Seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
is I truly believe.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
A story for journalistic purposes.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Message from a sweet woman who visits her dad every day,
and he's eighty six years old and she said, I'd
like your advice.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He is.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Very conservative and very grumpy, and I don't want to
know how I should deal with him. Well, I don't
know how you should do him. I'll tell you what
I would do.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Love him. He's your dad.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
When you were a little bitty and couldn't feed yourself,
he either fed you or provided so that you could
be provided. He's made incredible sacrifices for you your entire life.
There were times that you were unbearable and grumpy and
cranky in a little part, and he made sacrifices so
that you could eat if he couldn't. He was awakened
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in the middle of the night more times than you
can imagine that you don't even remember, but he does.
And now he's old and he's dying. Because the process
is dying. You don't just wake up one day and
then you die. You die over a period of time
when you're old. Dying of old age is a brutal
thing to watch, and having watched it now for years
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and spending time at an old folks home has given
me a whole new perspective. And it's not made me
a cynic, to be clear, quite the opposite has given
me a new appreciation for life because we are very
comfortable with our dogs dying. People can talk about their
dogs dying. To be emotional, they talk about their dogs dying.
I'm not suggesting assisted suicide. I'm just giving you something
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to process for a moment. But i want you to
think about this. Do you ever think about the fact
that we put our dog down because we don't want
it to suffer, but mom and dad have to suffer
until the day they die. We would not dare allow
our dog to do that. I'm not for assisted suicide necessarily.
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I'm just saying, isn't it interesting. I'm just talking about
the issue of suffering. We cannot bear for our dog
to have to suffer, so we go to the veterinarian.
It's difficult on us. We give our dog that last meal,
we treat. Oh, we'd love on them, we'd get our
photos out, we'd talk about them because we can't have
them suffer because we love them so much. Oh yeah,
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but dad, he wet the bed all night and pooped
himself all day, and every bit of his every inch
his body aches. And you know that's just old dad,
He's just her mom. That that's what they're supposed to
do so. The short answer is no, your parents are
not pleasant. When they're eighty six years old. Every aspect
of every inch of them hurts. They're grumpy, they know
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they're dying. They have nothing to look forward to. They
haven't had a good bowel movement in ten years. They
can't sleep well. The world has changed on them. They
can't taste food, and they know that at some point
an impending illness is going to take them down, but
probably after a long period of illness. I'm not trying
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to depress anybody. I'm trying to make you understand that
growing old is clearly is clearly difficult.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's hell.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
My mentor, Walter Zibly used to tell me for years
before he died, Michael, getting old is hell. And I
used to laugh because I was in my thirties and
forties and I didn't understand. But now I realized he
was serious and he was right hard.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's not truly believe, Ramon and all, but Michael Barry
Show presents are truly believe. All right, this is our
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first I truly believe.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
In the year twenty twenty six, which is the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this great nation.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No pressure, but make it awesome. Cliff, you're up. Go.
What do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I truly believe the person that graduates last in their
class from.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Medical school is still called a doctor. I love that line.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
You have a great radio voice, my man, fantastic voice.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Let's see here, Robert, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I truly believe that I'd rather be fedual polar bear
in a garbage of dump in Alaska than die in
a nursing home.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's rough, it's rough. I don't know that there's a
good answer for everybody. Everybody's situation is different. But uh
seven one three, nine, nine, one thousand. If you weren't
able to get in, try again, because each line that
pops open, each call that finishes, pops open the line.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Jim, what do you truly believe? I truly believe that
the United States government is weaponized the weather against us
using the declassified information from.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
The United States Air Force. It's called the Higher War
Space Frequency Program.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tim, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I truly believe that no bicycle of any kind should
be ridden on a traffic lane.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Lawrence, what do you truly believe I truly believe that
when driving in the fog you should have your headlights
and tail lights on several things I wanted to speak
to for a second that call about the riding a
bike in the lane. I think it's absolutely absurd that
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the most dangerous thing on the road mode is speed disparity.
So whether everybody's driving eighty five or fifty five or
twenty five, as long as everybody is driving about the
same speed and not changing lanes, the incidence of crashes
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would go down to such a minimal level as to
approach zero. The only thing that would stop you then
is being distracted and not able to avoid collision because you.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Crash into the guy in front of you.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But within reason, as long as you're all driving the
same speed, you'd have fewer crashes, you'd have fewer everything.
So we understand that you don't want one guy doing
seventy five and another guy doing forty. That creates a
very dangerous situation. And yet you can go down Memorial
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Parkway coming out of downtown at five o'clock on a
weekday and.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You can see some dude on his bicycle.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
He's got his little helmet, he's got his touring bike,
he's doing maybe he's wearing his Lance Armstrong bracelet, and
he's on his he's riding home. And we're supposed to
think that's great because he's not in a car, you see,
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because not being in a car is going to save
us all. But actually he's going to, at a minimum,
inconvenience everyone else. He's endangering himself, not to mention the
people who have to swerve around him. He's pissing the
f out of everybody behind him because the fastest he
can go is what twenty five thirty and they're all
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doing forty five fifty five. So he's a nuisance, he's
a menace. He shouldn't be in the road. The roads
are for cars. He should be on the sidewalk. Now,
the bikers will tell you, yeah, but we're supposed to
be in the road. That is legally where we're supposed
to be, which is true, which is stupid, And the
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reason for that is.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's a it's a don't throw them in the briar
pretch situation.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The bicyclists pushed for laws that made it so that
they could ride in the road, they would have to
they'd have to get off the sidewalk, and that would
give them the defense that I'm in the road because
I'm not allowed to be on the sidewalk. The sidewalk
is far safer than being in the road. Roads are
for driving. I am so tired of protests in the road,
marathons in the road, bicyclists in the road, ups drivers
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in the road.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
The damn roads are to be driven.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
They're not parking lots or protest sites or bike lanes.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Seven three nine, one thousand, James, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I truly believe that you bring back the blue Bonnet Bowl?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The blue Bonnet Bowl. Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I say that because the University of Tenants would have
to go to Orlando to play a bowl game.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
They could played the glue bottom ball, And so these.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Text teams, college text teams have played it push at
the home.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know, it's amazing to me how transformative a few
changes in college football have been to the game we
knew before. The bowl games have almost no meaning with
since the college football playoffs. And so I heard people saying,
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I miss this. You know, the bowl games don't mean
anything anymore. We have to go back. Do you remember
why we did the playoffs? Because everybody did a different
bowl game, and you argued, my team's better than your team.
They were both undefeated or both had one loss, and
we beat acts and y'all beat why, and then we
argued over it was.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
A dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
It was like some some debate camp show starter. This
team is better than this team, but they never played
each other, and so you could never decide or determine
who who was who was the best. So we started
a playoff system. And what happens is if you don't
make a playoff, you get pissed off. You not there, dame,
You bunch of sissies. You're not going to play. Can
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you imagine you're the university. You tell these boys to
come to your school to play football, and you got
seniors who this will be the last chance they ever
have to suit up and get to play football. They'll
never every everything you do on a football field will
be an assault and battery for the rest of their lives.
This is their chance to do one more time on
a national stage what they love to do. And you
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get an I just want because we're pouting because we
didn't get in. So the college Football Playoff was progress
because now we get to see we get to crown
a champion based on winning a damn game.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
How awesome is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Oh, you have him all right, the guy who's uh
whose vehicle was stolen.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That he saw it on TV. We've got him on
the line.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Papa Roue, Yes, yes, yes, good morning, good morning, Good
morning in Houston, Good morning surrounding area.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
What the hell time? Name is Papa rou Are you
a rapper or something?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, you know what, it's a short for my it's
a short for my name. My real name is Ruben.
So I'm giving my government out.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm not Paul Wall talk to me on the West
side is giving his government out.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I love that, all right. So what happened?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
So you or your who saw the TV and saw
your your stuff being stolen?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay, okay, what happened was, like I said, I woke
up in the morning like everybody else, I know, everybody
could relate to this. You wake up most of the time,
the first thing you checked is your phone. And I
got on my phone and I saw on TikTok a
truck zooming by with swats following it, I'm like, that
looked like a truck like mine. Then I looked again,
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I said, that is my truck. Reason why I knew
it was my truck because I put some LEDs in
the front of it, and I saw the LEDs flickering.
So that's why I came to conclusion that it was
my truck when I saw it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, exactly explain this truck to me.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Okay, well, this is a military is a real military
truck that was you get deregulated from the military and
what it is. I had access to purchase the truck.
It's one of those trucks that could go in any
type of high water, even damn near underwater, you understand.
So it was one of the trucks that was built
by the military. All folks from the military probably know
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about the BN y nine thirty nine, you know, they
know about this truck. It's like, it's like a bulletproof truck.
Nothing could stop it. But you know in situations like this,
you know, hey, that's that's why it's so hard to
get it stopped.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
To be honest with you, turns out nothing could stop it,
but anyone could started.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, nothing could stop it. But anyone could start it. Yep,
you a way to put it. I have a lot
of close veteran friends and family.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And what was your interest in owning this vehicle?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Well, like I said, after the freeze in Houston, I'm
a I'm a well known artist in Houston. You know,
I'm involved in over like thirty to forty million sales collectively.
You know, been with be with Beyonce, the the movie
Fighting Temptation. I have records on there where with cash Money,
little Wayne, Rick Ross, name it, all the elite with
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the in the game. I'm pretty much connected too. So
what happened is I'm from Houston, and after the freeze,
you know, I had friends that had family on dialysis
that that that that didn't make it. You understand that
that really touched me. So what I did on my
own expense, I said, you know what, I'm gonna do
something back for the community, and I'm gonna go ahead
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and try to do my point. I can't favor everybody,
I can't do, but I could just do my part.
So I purchased all these military high grade stuff that
we're not break down anytime soon, because you know, when
the military make it, you know, you pretty much have
one of the best. So I bought the truck to
move around all the power equipment. I bought a lot
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of generators so in case the situation like that comes again,
I'm equipped to do my part. That's all it was about.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You weren't inspired by Marv he Meyer to make kill
Those or two point.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Zero come again?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Do you know about Killdozer? The guy in Granby, Colorado.
They cut off access at his placed and got pissed off,
and he took a bulldozer and he made a tank
out of it. It came to be known as the
kill Dozer, and he plowed through the town.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No, I never knew about that. Oh you give me somebody.
You're educating me on that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh watch the movie Kill Those Are Papa Rue, and
you'll be you'll be singing songs about him. Because let
me tell you something, a lot of people know about
kill Doozer.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
This guy.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
This guy didn't just get mad, he got even. And
I mean it is a show. It is it is
something else Dozer.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Okay, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna take that out and
get a Netflix or something.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
One of them. I forget which one. So did you
get the vehicle back.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
No, well, well right now I'm in process of it.
But you know, for all these days, they pepper they
bombed the vehicle with a pepper, with the with the smoke,
and it's hard to even get close to the vehicle
with that mal you get it. Yeah, he takes a while.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
So now you think this was an inside job? I
mean I would assume this isn't an easy thing to
oper No.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Well, to be honest with you, I've got ideas on
who it could probably have a situation with that because
that morn when I saw the picture of who done it,
I know someone that I've seen him with.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You get it. So I'm putting the pieces together right now. Yeah,
I have an individual that brought him to my yard
with all the equipment.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Huh, he's the sugar night to his tupac. Yep, he
did to his notorious b I G I get it. Yeah.
Basically that's how that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
The guy he befriend you and then sets you up
for people to come and take care of equipment and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
That happens all the time. Workmen will come to your house,
well you know what to do some work?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
What's that this is my first time experiencing this.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, I'm sorry to hear it. I appreciate you calling in.
I'm glad you're getting it back. Let's meet up.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, okay, we'll meet up. And like I said, I'm
trying to Like I was trying to see if because
right now they have me, there's tons of expenses because
now they want me to spend almost three thousand to
get it out, then another three thousands of toy back,
then another twenty something to fix it. But I was
trying to do a go fund me since he was
for the community to have the community come back into
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let's get the truck back together so we can move these.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Generators and we can make it into a kill dozer. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Look
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Honing a small business is tough. Talk about this all
the time. Small business owners are fascinating creatures. Because there's
there's a there's a movie called like six feet from
Greatness or three feet from You don't talking about No,
it's not thirty feet yeah about the backup singers? Is
(00:55):
it thirty feet? Okay? Well, it's just because over the years,
you know, RCC gave me this experience where there's the
rock star lead singer that you know, books are written about,
they're interviewed wherever they are.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
People are like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That twenty feet from stardom, and people are literally melting
because this person is two tables over. Now, if the
lead guitarist or the drummer is there, people have no idea,
nor when they're told, do they really care other than
(01:34):
to ask that person about the famous person. And yet
that secondary person is the is the one on stage
helping make the music.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
They're part of all this.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They have the same experiences within reason, and yet you don't,
we don't think of it that way, right, Well, it's
interesting to me that in the course of the day
I drive past guy who's digging a ditch, not me,
Not really, nobody digs ditches anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Do you get that idea? And you know there's your
ditch digger.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Or I go into a restaurant and there's a guy
back there in the kitchen, not the celebrated chef, you know,
not Matt Brice coming out in his chef jacket, and
everybody hopes he'll come to their table and bless them.
I mean the guy who's in the back, who's the cook.
And ever I go into kitchens because I like to
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go into kitchens. You're out there having a nice time.
You've got real nice music, you know, that's being piped
in and hopefully at just the right level, and it's
it's very calming, and the sounds and the clinking of
the glass and the waiter comes over, and you know,
(02:51):
if it's the right kind of restaurant, they should be
tending to your needs.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What would you like? How can we make you happy? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
With that?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Is that not to your liking? What could we do?
Could I refill this? You horse? You finish the trough water?
Which you like? Some more? Oh? The restroom?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, you'd like to move somebody, Okay, that's down here,
and can we do this? And can I take your
jacket and all that, and so here we are, and
we're having this wonderful experience. And even the waiter is
kind of in on the experience because he's getting to
enjoy the air conditioning, which by historical standard, is in
and of itself a big deal. Right, So he's going
through all this and he's dressed nice, in your dressed nice,
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and somewhere about thirty forty fifty feet away as part
of this whole process, is the person who took the
raw materials in that awful heat pit of a kitchen.
He's got burns up and down his arms, and he's
making the food that is at the root of all this.
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And so there's like these concentric circles. We live on
the same planet, we live in the same city. We
may occupy the same space in a restaurant, but the
patron may go home to a twenty thousand dollars mansion
and butlers and drivers, and he made the next morning
(04:11):
get up and be taken to his private plane. And
the waiter somewhere in between, he's he's over here and
he's in his little apartment and he's maybe gonna if
he makes a little extra money, now he's gonna go
get hammered and get a tattoo. And then you got
the guy in the back who's cooking. And the concentric
circle is they're all under the same roof of the
same restaurant at the same time. But it's a very
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different life in a very different moment, and we don't
think about that. You know, you drive past a bus stop.
Most people that are at the bus stop are not
there to conserve energy. They're there because they can't afford
a vehicle. And if you can't afford a vehicle in
the United States in twenty twenty six, things are rough
right and yet here we are to say, you know, hey,
(04:54):
how you doing your way going in and out of
the grocery store or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I think about this all the time. Well, when you.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Walk into a small business, we view it as what
I'm going in to buy a couple of items, and
I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Leave that space. He's got to keep it clean, he's
got to keep it safe.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You're the nice guy coming in, You're not the Democrat
coming in trying to rip him off, threatning him sue him.
If everybody could run a small business, they would. It
is not easy. But you know who must be killing
it right now? I'm going to call them when we
hang up. Flag shop owners, Cromberg's flag shop, Cromberg's flags
and flagpoles, all of them. You got protesters changing sides
(05:34):
all the time. You got Palestinian flags one day, then
you got Ukraine. People can't find Ukraine on a map.
Now it's Viva Venezuela. That's the new one. That's what
they're doing now. I mean, you think about all this,
How do these people keep up? If you go to
their house? Do they just have random discarded like old
(05:54):
discard like used two? People have discarded concert shirts, you know,
the Ramoness seventy eight, the sex Pistols World Tour. Do
people just have like what became of Ukraine? Did Ukraine
just doesn't matter anymore? Honestly, I think about these things.
Does nobody care about Ukraine anymore? Did the Palestinians just
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go away? What happened to the transgenders? We were all
gonna die if the transgenders weren't happy, And now whatever
whatever became of the transgenders? I toured Cromberg's flags and
flagpoles recently, and they got flags from countries I didn't
know existed, honest to goodness, and I pride myself on
knowing flags. But you got to figure. You got to
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figure flag shop owners right now have to be loving protesters.
Thank you for joining us on Action News at six.
We continue our feature on local small businesses.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Tonight we introduced you to Simply Sensational Flags and their owner,
Elmer Clutterbuck, who says political protesters provide most of it business,
but he can never be certain which flag is gonna fly,
So Simply Sensational Flags of the family business. My sisters
started things back in seventy seven. They wanted to sell
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and I said that's silly. So here I am. Years ago,
we were big into sports flags, Seahawks, Stealers, Saints, Spurs.
They were big sellers for us. Then the protesters became sensational.
Boy are they passionate little suckers. Problem is you never
know who they're gonna support. Palestine flags were fizzling for
(07:35):
a while, then we had a pivot to Ukraine. We
can thank Secretary Susan for that one. Now it's been
this Whalen flags selling like hotcakes. Of course, I can
always count on the Rainbow flags being a big seller.
Those really set sail in June. Now we make all
of our flags non cotton. That would simply be racist.
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Our clientele will not go for that. I see one thing.
As long as we have protests, we're gonna have because
those guys are thumthing out. Oh and I'd be re
myth if I didn't tell you this.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We're expanding.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Take a look at our newith item flying off the shelf, candles.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are you ready for it?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Thanktuary, cinnamon either gonna dominate the Democrat candlelight.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Vigilance like food ramon You know es cargo is snails?
Do you know why of the French eat snails? They
hate fast food?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Left Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Lifeless eyes, black eyes to get dolls.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
This weekend I got a message from Russell Yborrow. It's
a picture of him and my dad and he had
the most cheshire cat grin on his face. Russell because
he knew that I didn't know he was going over
to visit my dad, and he knew I would get
a kick out of him being there, and of course
(09:09):
I did. And night before last Michael Petrew, my trainer
and dear friend went by and visited him, and he
played for University of Texas. He was a free safety,
and so my dad was a football nut. He doesn't
have the memory he used to, but Petrew kind of
was prompting him to players and different people, and my
dad would claim he remembered.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I don't know if he did or not.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
But he's at a point now where when people go
by and visit him, sometimes.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
He forgets to tell me. And so.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
If I don't mention it to somebody and they went
to visit my dad did, a month later, they'll say, hey,
did your dad tell you I visited? No, if he had,
I would have thanked you. But I'm glad you told me.
And I'll say it to him, and I don't know that.
I don't know if he then recalls or if he
just says, oh yeah, because as your memory starts to go.
(10:02):
A coping technique is when people tell you something that's happened,
Rather than argue it because you don't remember it, you
just go along because it's not worth the fight.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And that's what he does.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But I say that to say this, you might not
be in a position where you have various friends who
can go and visit your mom or your dad, and
you look more likely your mom, because that's what old
folks homes are. It's men die before women for a
number of reasons. Used to the man was always older
than a woman. My dad was five years older my mom.
But also because men live harder, smoked more, drank more,
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worked harder, slept less, engaged in dangerous activities, and underwent
a lot more stress. They bore the burden, the yoke
of taking care of the family, and the mom was
usually a little better in handling that stress, so they
lived longer. Just a fact, but that is to say
(10:56):
that when you scale it all back and you know,
the conversation with Bason Punt or train remind me. Reminded
me that when you you know, if your bedridden with
no use of your arms or legs, then you don't
live in your phone when you get to a certain age.
(11:18):
My dad doesn't. My dad ever did, but it's his age.
He's eighty five. He doesn't live in his phone now.
He will wear out two programs on TV twenty four
to seven, and that's baywatching Dug Dynasty. But if you
walk in and turn the TV off, which is what
I do, cause he plays it so loud. If you
have an elderly parent, you know what this is like.
You will get hot, but you have to have to
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turn that also so we can focus on our conversation.
Then you know that what really matters when you come
into this world, when you go out. I mean, I
imagine a scenario where a baby comes into this world
and there's no nurse, doctor, or.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Mother to cradle.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It is because they're all on their phones. Well, at
that moment, we understand to put things away and focus
on what matters. And if you are lucky enough to
have people in your life, because eventually we're going to lose.
We're either going to die, you're going to lose everyone
else around you. If you're lucky enough to have them,
then be grateful for them and interact with them, whether
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it's bringing them a cookie or placing a call asking
how they're doing. I do notice something that bothers me
at the Old Folks Home, and that is that there
are some adult children my age who go and visit
their parent for the sole purpose of fussing at their parent.
And I've come to the conclusion that the reason they
fuss at their parent, is they're angry at their parent
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for growing old and dying, because before you die, you're
in the process of dying. We're all in the process
of dying. To think about it, you know, in an
existential sense, but you're in the process of dying. Your
systems are shutting down, the cancers are taking over, the
heart is weakening. And as that's happening. As the adult child,
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I think there is a tendency and it's very natural
to be angry at them. If you can just make
them stop dying, then they'll stop dying. And what you're
really mad at is not mom or dad who's too
old to be able to fix this. You're mad at
the fact that this is life and there's a cycle
and we're at a phase of it that is hard
to deal with. So instead we fuss at our mom
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or dad that they're not getting up and walking, or
they're doing this, or they are getting up and walking
and they forgot their walk, or they're not taking their pill,
or they're doing this, or they're doing this, when in fact,
my philosophy is these should be their golden years. They
should be wonderful and who in the world are you
to be fussing at them. You should be there making
their lives better, making them happy, and if they're grumpy,
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listening to them. And if they want to talk about
their doctor's appointments. A spoiler alert for those of you
who don't have elderly parents, that's all they want to
talk about. What hurts, what doesn't move, and should what
does move and shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like a cranky child that's hungry and sleepy. That's you know,
It's the circle of life. I don't know that I
have any great wisdom on the matter, other than to
say there's a good reminder to be had on frequent
occasion that we're only here for a moment, and that
what really matters cannot be manufactured in Palo Alto, and
it does not come with a service manual. Those are
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the things that make life rich. Those are the things
that make life meaningful. If you look back on our
civilization in a thousand years, nobody's going to be really
really impressed that you figured out how to use Siri
to coordinate your schedule. That's just not The things that
are going to matter are the things that always did
matter and that will always be the change that will
always be the same. The question will be will you
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unfortunately get sucked into thinking that this or that social
media app that's the hot new thing that the young
people are all into. That's the craziest thing is how
many of these these moms and some dads a certain
age are desperately trying to engage in social media apps
or musicians or movies, or a dance or a drink
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because that's what all the kids are doing. I can't
imagine taking my cue from what all the kids are doing.
Do you realize how stupid they are at that age
and we all were. You don't have any wisdom, You
should have grown out of that. In any case, I
think we're overdue for it. I truly believe Ramon, So
we will open the phone lines. Remember the rules. Get
right to it. I know your name, you know mine.
(15:32):
Even if I don't say it right, I'm good, You're good,
Get right to it. Seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
is I truly believe.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
A story for journalistic purposes.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Message from a sweet woman who visits her dad every day,
and he's eighty six years old and she said, I'd
like your advice.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He is.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Very conservative and very grumpy, and I don't want to
know how I should deal with him. Well, I don't
know how you should do him. I'll tell you what
I would do.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Love him. He's your dad.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
When you were a little bitty and couldn't feed yourself,
he either fed you or provided so that you could
be provided. He's made incredible sacrifices for you your entire life.
There were times that you were unbearable and grumpy and
cranky in a little part, and he made sacrifices so
that you could eat if he couldn't. He was awakened
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in the middle of the night more times than you
can imagine that you don't even remember, but he does.
And now he's old and he's dying. Because the process
is dying. You don't just wake up one day and
then you die. You die over a period of time
when you're old. Dying of old age is a brutal
thing to watch, and having watched it now for years
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and spending time at an old folks home has given
me a whole new perspective. And it's not made me
a cynic, to be clear, quite the opposite has given
me a new appreciation for life because we are very
comfortable with our dogs dying. People can talk about their
dogs dying. To be emotional, they talk about their dogs dying.
I'm not suggesting assisted suicide. I'm just giving you something
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to process for a moment. But i want you to
think about this. Do you ever think about the fact
that we put our dog down because we don't want
it to suffer, but mom and dad have to suffer
until the day they die. We would not dare allow
our dog to do that. I'm not for assisted suicide necessarily.
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I'm just saying, isn't it interesting. I'm just talking about
the issue of suffering. We cannot bear for our dog
to have to suffer, so we go to the veterinarian.
It's difficult on us. We give our dog that last meal,
we treat. Oh, we'd love on them, we'd get our
photos out, we'd talk about them because we can't have
them suffer because we love them so much. Oh yeah,
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but dad, he wet the bed all night and pooped
himself all day, and every bit of his every inch
his body aches. And you know that's just old dad,
He's just her mom. That that's what they're supposed to
do so. The short answer is no, your parents are
not pleasant. When they're eighty six years old. Every aspect
of every inch of them hurts. They're grumpy, they know
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they're dying. They have nothing to look forward to. They
haven't had a good bowel movement in ten years. They
can't sleep well. The world has changed on them. They
can't taste food, and they know that at some point
an impending illness is going to take them down, but
probably after a long period of illness. I'm not trying
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to depress anybody. I'm trying to make you understand that
growing old is clearly is clearly difficult.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's hell.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
My mentor, Walter Zibly used to tell me for years
before he died, Michael, getting old is hell. And I
used to laugh because I was in my thirties and
forties and I didn't understand. But now I realized he
was serious and he was right hard.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's not truly believe, Ramon and all, but Michael Barry
Show presents are truly believe. All right, this is our
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first I truly believe.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
In the year twenty twenty six, which is the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this great nation.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No pressure, but make it awesome. Cliff, you're up. Go.
What do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I truly believe the person that graduates last in their
class from.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Medical school is still called a doctor. I love that line.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
You have a great radio voice, my man, fantastic voice.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Let's see here, Robert, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I truly believe that I'd rather be fedual polar bear
in a garbage of dump in Alaska than die in
a nursing home.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's rough, it's rough. I don't know that there's a
good answer for everybody. Everybody's situation is different. But uh
seven one three, nine, nine, one thousand. If you weren't
able to get in, try again, because each line that
pops open, each call that finishes, pops open the line.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Jim, what do you truly believe? I truly believe that
the United States government is weaponized the weather against us
using the declassified information from.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
The United States Air Force. It's called the Higher War
Space Frequency Program.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tim, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I truly believe that no bicycle of any kind should
be ridden on a traffic lane.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Lawrence, what do you truly believe I truly believe that
when driving in the fog you should have your headlights
and tail lights on several things I wanted to speak
to for a second that call about the riding a
bike in the lane. I think it's absolutely absurd that
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the most dangerous thing on the road mode is speed disparity.
So whether everybody's driving eighty five or fifty five or
twenty five, as long as everybody is driving about the
same speed and not changing lanes, the incidence of crashes
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would go down to such a minimal level as to
approach zero. The only thing that would stop you then
is being distracted and not able to avoid collision because you.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Crash into the guy in front of you.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But within reason, as long as you're all driving the
same speed, you'd have fewer crashes, you'd have fewer everything.
So we understand that you don't want one guy doing
seventy five and another guy doing forty. That creates a
very dangerous situation. And yet you can go down Memorial
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Parkway coming out of downtown at five o'clock on a
weekday and.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You can see some dude on his bicycle.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
He's got his little helmet, he's got his touring bike,
he's doing maybe he's wearing his Lance Armstrong bracelet, and
he's on his he's riding home. And we're supposed to
think that's great because he's not in a car, you see,
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because not being in a car is going to save
us all. But actually he's going to, at a minimum,
inconvenience everyone else. He's endangering himself, not to mention the
people who have to swerve around him. He's pissing the
f out of everybody behind him because the fastest he
can go is what twenty five thirty and they're all
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doing forty five fifty five. So he's a nuisance, he's
a menace. He shouldn't be in the road. The roads
are for cars. He should be on the sidewalk. Now,
the bikers will tell you, yeah, but we're supposed to
be in the road. That is legally where we're supposed
to be, which is true, which is stupid, And the
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reason for that is.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's a it's a don't throw them in the briar
pretch situation.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The bicyclists pushed for laws that made it so that
they could ride in the road, they would have to
they'd have to get off the sidewalk, and that would
give them the defense that I'm in the road because
I'm not allowed to be on the sidewalk. The sidewalk
is far safer than being in the road. Roads are
for driving. I am so tired of protests in the road,
marathons in the road, bicyclists in the road, ups drivers
(23:38):
in the road.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
The damn roads are to be driven.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
They're not parking lots or protest sites or bike lanes.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Seven three nine, one thousand, James, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I truly believe that you bring back the blue Bonnet Bowl?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The blue Bonnet Bowl. Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I say that because the University of Tenants would have
to go to Orlando to play a bowl game.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
They could played the glue bottom ball, And so these.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Text teams, college text teams have played it push at
the home.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know, it's amazing to me how transformative a few
changes in college football have been to the game we
knew before. The bowl games have almost no meaning with
since the college football playoffs. And so I heard people saying,
(24:41):
I miss this. You know, the bowl games don't mean
anything anymore. We have to go back. Do you remember
why we did the playoffs? Because everybody did a different
bowl game, and you argued, my team's better than your team.
They were both undefeated or both had one loss, and
we beat acts and y'all beat why, and then we
argued over it was.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
A dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
It was like some some debate camp show starter. This
team is better than this team, but they never played
each other, and so you could never decide or determine
who who was who was the best. So we started
a playoff system. And what happens is if you don't
make a playoff, you get pissed off. You not there, dame,
You bunch of sissies. You're not going to play. Can
(25:22):
you imagine you're the university. You tell these boys to
come to your school to play football, and you got
seniors who this will be the last chance they ever
have to suit up and get to play football. They'll
never every everything you do on a football field will
be an assault and battery for the rest of their lives.
This is their chance to do one more time on
a national stage what they love to do. And you
(25:42):
get an I just want because we're pouting because we
didn't get in. So the college Football Playoff was progress
because now we get to see we get to crown
a champion based on winning a damn game.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
How awesome is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Oh, you have him all right, the guy who's uh
whose vehicle was stolen.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That he saw it on TV. We've got him on
the line.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Papa Roue, Yes, yes, yes, good morning, good morning, Good
morning in Houston, Good morning surrounding area.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
What the hell time? Name is Papa rou Are you
a rapper or something?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, you know what, it's a short for my it's
a short for my name. My real name is Ruben.
So I'm giving my government out.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm not Paul Wall talk to me on the West
side is giving his government out.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I love that, all right. So what happened?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
So you or your who saw the TV and saw
your your stuff being stolen?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay, okay, what happened was, like I said, I woke
up in the morning like everybody else, I know, everybody
could relate to this. You wake up most of the time,
the first thing you checked is your phone. And I
got on my phone and I saw on TikTok a
truck zooming by with swats following it, I'm like, that
looked like a truck like mine. Then I looked again,
(27:01):
I said, that is my truck. Reason why I knew
it was my truck because I put some LEDs in
the front of it, and I saw the LEDs flickering.
So that's why I came to conclusion that it was
my truck when I saw it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, exactly explain this truck to me.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Okay, well, this is a military is a real military
truck that was you get deregulated from the military and
what it is. I had access to purchase the truck.
It's one of those trucks that could go in any
type of high water, even damn near underwater, you understand.
So it was one of the trucks that was built
by the military. All folks from the military probably know
(27:39):
about the BN y nine thirty nine, you know, they
know about this truck. It's like, it's like a bulletproof truck.
Nothing could stop it. But you know in situations like this,
you know, hey, that's that's why it's so hard to
get it stopped.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
To be honest with you, turns out nothing could stop it,
but anyone could started.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, nothing could stop it. But anyone could start it. Yep,
you a way to put it. I have a lot
of close veteran friends and family.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And what was your interest in owning this vehicle?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Well, like I said, after the freeze in Houston, I'm
a I'm a well known artist in Houston. You know,
I'm involved in over like thirty to forty million sales collectively.
You know, been with be with Beyonce, the the movie
Fighting Temptation. I have records on there where with cash Money,
little Wayne, Rick Ross, name it, all the elite with
(28:30):
the in the game. I'm pretty much connected too. So
what happened is I'm from Houston, and after the freeze,
you know, I had friends that had family on dialysis
that that that that didn't make it. You understand that
that really touched me. So what I did on my
own expense, I said, you know what, I'm gonna do
something back for the community, and I'm gonna go ahead
(28:50):
and try to do my point. I can't favor everybody,
I can't do, but I could just do my part.
So I purchased all these military high grade stuff that
we're not break down anytime soon, because you know, when
the military make it, you know, you pretty much have
one of the best. So I bought the truck to
move around all the power equipment. I bought a lot
(29:11):
of generators so in case the situation like that comes again,
I'm equipped to do my part. That's all it was about.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You weren't inspired by Marv he Meyer to make kill
Those or two point.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Zero come again?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Do you know about Killdozer? The guy in Granby, Colorado.
They cut off access at his placed and got pissed off,
and he took a bulldozer and he made a tank
out of it. It came to be known as the
kill Dozer, and he plowed through the town.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No, I never knew about that. Oh you give me somebody.
You're educating me on that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh watch the movie Kill Those Are Papa Rue, and
you'll be you'll be singing songs about him. Because let
me tell you something, a lot of people know about
kill Doozer.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
This guy.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
This guy didn't just get mad, he got even. And
I mean it is a show. It is it is
something else Dozer.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Okay, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna take that out and
get a Netflix or something.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
One of them. I forget which one. So did you
get the vehicle back.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
No, well, well right now I'm in process of it.
But you know, for all these days, they pepper they
bombed the vehicle with a pepper, with the with the smoke,
and it's hard to even get close to the vehicle
with that mal you get it. Yeah, he takes a while.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
So now you think this was an inside job? I
mean I would assume this isn't an easy thing to
oper No.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Well, to be honest with you, I've got ideas on
who it could probably have a situation with that because
that morn when I saw the picture of who done it,
I know someone that I've seen him with.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You get it. So I'm putting the pieces together right now. Yeah,
I have an individual that brought him to my yard
with all the equipment.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Huh, he's the sugar night to his tupac. Yep, he
did to his notorious b I G I get it. Yeah.
Basically that's how that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
The guy he befriend you and then sets you up
for people to come and take care of equipment and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
That happens all the time. Workmen will come to your house,
well you know what to do some work?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
What's that this is my first time experiencing this.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, I'm sorry to hear it. I appreciate you calling in.
I'm glad you're getting it back. Let's meet up.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, okay, we'll meet up. And like I said, I'm
trying to Like I was trying to see if because
right now they have me, there's tons of expenses because
now they want me to spend almost three thousand to
get it out, then another three thousands of toy back,
then another twenty something to fix it. But I was
trying to do a go fund me since he was
for the community to have the community come back into
(31:37):
let's get the truck back together so we can move these.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Generators and we can make it into a kill dozer. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
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