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Michael Berry. It's Sean Connery. But you had a little
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This is Uncle Jerry's panky too. Wishing you a very
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We're not wearing this.
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Morning.
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Week Basta gone.
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Damn.
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You remember how Eddie Haskell was always over at the
Cleavers home and everything revolved around that house and what
was going on there, and that was our that was
our narrative location, that was the set of the show.
But you got the sense that that was the hub
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of activity. Well, we lost a good one this week.
Speaker 10 (01:57):
There was.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Am My best friend in high school was a fellow
named Craig McCabe. We still keep up to this day.
And Craig lived right across the highway from me, directly
across from old First Orange Baptist Church where we all
went to went to church. And Craig's parents, Horton McCabe
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and Robbie McCabe, were stalwarts of our church. You know,
in a small town you have you typically have just
a small handful of folks who are the pillars of
the church. I called funny thing. I thought I was
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so clever. Craig's parents, who were like my own parents.
I spent so much time at their house. I would
eat dinner with them, we would talk about my future,
Craig's future, issues of the day. Craig's father was named
Horton McCabe. We lost him a few years ago, and
I called him Daddy Hoe for Horton. And then Craig's
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mother was Robbie McCabe, and I called her Mama Roe.
They all started with the consonant and then the vowel. Well, interestingly,
after I had been doing this, he started referring to
my mother as Mama Loe for Loretta, my father as Daddy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So what are the chances that they all had a
consonant and the letter oh as their second letter that vowel. Anyway,
So Mama Row passed this week, and she was eighty
eight years old. And some of you will have had
this experience, and I don't know how common this was, Ramona.
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I don't know if this was your experience, but there
is a blessing in life when you have more than
one mother and father, when you are so close to
other people that they take on a role. I guess
maybe the man would be avuncular, like an uncle. But
I referred to them as as Mama Roe and Daddy Hope.
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And we lost Mama Reau this week. But I think
back to I can't imagine growing up differently than I
grew up. I cannot imagine missing out on the blessings
that I had. Their house was so warm, so intimate,
so affectionate, so loving. They were so steeped in our church,
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never missed a church service. They knew every hymn we
sang from the Baptist Hymnal. But what they would do
during the summer, this is what good Stewart's Stewards they were.
Every summer they would go on the building trip and
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on with our pastor, Reverend Bobby Spross. They and the Reeseys.
There were several families. We had a husband wife team
Archie Jones and his wife Archie Jones, so they were
Archie Boy and Archie Girl, and they would travel around
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the country and every summer they would pick a different
location and the families would all go together and they'd
go for several weeks and they would build a church
wherever they went. I mean, you think about the legacy
of doing that when you do that over the course
of thirty years or more. And the crazy thing about
that is Daddy Hoe worked. He worked for a company
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called Corbel Construction as a brick mason, and then he
left that company and started his own masonry company, which
is laying bricks as himself to be his own his
own boss. And he was kind of a one man operation.
And I remember cracking. I worked for him during the
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summer and we he was building. I don't know what.
I can't remember what it was he was building, but
he was building something that required cinder blocks. And I
would carry one cinder block with my little scrawny self.
I was as weak as I am now, and I'm
carrying my cinder block too, and I'd send it down
and then I'd go back and i'd pick up my
cinder block. I'd bring another and I'd put it now.
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And we couldn't bring him cinder block as fast as
with one hand, maybe one finger, he could put that
cinder block in place, slap the mortar on it, and
move on. He wanted us to move faster. So finally
he got aggravated with us, and he went and got
the cinder blocks himself, and he'd grab one on each
side and he'd zoom back. He'd drop him down, and
he'd lay the mortar in and maybe I'd bring him
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one more. Anyway, his sweet wife. They married. They met
in high school, married in high school. She'd gone to
Orangefield High School. She was just one of those people
you know you look back, that did everything. She was
like the church secretary. She was whatever needed to be done,
she did it. And then and over the course of
a lifetime of service, you think about all the things
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she accomplished. She was a valedictorian of her high school.
Back when women didn't really go off and get fancy
corporate jobs. They took care of the family. So she
was always kind of over talented for the job that
she held. But she ran her house, she ran the church,
she ran her job. And one of those people that
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I never saw do anything other than smile. She was
Miss Beautiful at Orangefield high school in the late fifties.
But she was just always beautiful to me. If you
had a person like that that was important in your life,
stop and count your blessings, because that's one of those
things that you know. They make you who you are.
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To this day, you never forget that she was. She
was an absolute angel to me and everybody else who
ever knew her. Robbie mccaber, her name was self. The
selfs lived I can't remember somewhere, maybe Brenda Maria I
can't remember. But we lost a good when she was
almost ninety years old. Mama rock good speakers, smart devices
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from Michael's brain, every single one of them.
Speaker 11 (08:24):
To your ears.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 12 (08:33):
You ever take your own food to Dodger Stadium. You
see him making food, You're like, oh, man, I don't
want to go. Then don't go, and you tell them
you have hot dogs over there. Grandma, two fifty fey
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twenty we need at Then with two fifty you can
get a loaf for Brendan balonik out on that we
can all eat, not just you miss the selfish.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Why are you crying but you didn't get a week me?
Speaker 12 (09:12):
You go with the biggest safeway sacked man in the
two gallon punch and two slurpee cups. The security guard,
Can I look in there? Miss?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You started laughing home.
Speaker 12 (09:23):
She yes, the wet back section is over there.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Over there.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All the Mexican sat on.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
The left field pavilion.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's why all the.
Speaker 12 (09:37):
Mexican sat.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Left field.
Speaker 12 (09:41):
And you sit there and you go, how come we
don't sit over there? You're not playing card? Me not
tell you that's not sam. And they would always tell me,
take your glove, me come take care what they you know?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Done that?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
One day?
Speaker 12 (09:58):
They don't hit it where we sit. Oh, you can
sneak some liquor in me down that round, he said,
you're later. They're not gonna check you. Hold that glove
like that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Why are you crying? Why are you crying?
Speaker 12 (10:11):
Hold that club?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Why are you crying for? Can you have liquor?
Speaker 11 (10:16):
Come on?
Speaker 12 (10:16):
Let them find it and see what's gonna happen to you?
Speaker 13 (10:17):
Hold that club? Ack?
Speaker 12 (10:23):
Natural walk natural, cover on. Oh, they're gonna find them in.
Let's stay back that way.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They want to get him.
Speaker 12 (10:34):
We have a young boy here named Jorhank. But I
don't look over the man. Don't look over them, don't
let them go, don't let them go, don't look over it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You have been to a game at cheve Ezravin.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
You go with me?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
How I went with you? That's funny, That's not how
I remember it. Game six? I believe the World Series Halloween?
Was that Halloween night? You brought your dad, didn't you.
Jim Mudd came on that trip, you remember, Mattress. Mac
chartered a plane and we got to fill it, went
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to see the Astros and the Dodgers. I guess that
was a World Series, wasn't it. Game six? It's just
weird for me because I grew up. The Astros and
the Dodgers couldn't have played in the World Series, you know.
Moving them to the al is odd for me. I
couldn't tell you the alignment today, but I could tell you.
I can tell you to this day. You pick any team,
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I can tell you whether they were n L or
AL team, because that mattered a lot to me. The
same thing with the Houston Oilers. I could tell you
the teams in our division, in our conference. But today,
obviously that whole thing has changed. So Mac chartered this
playing and we brought the whole group out to see
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the Astros. I think we lost that game but won
the series. But boy, was that ever a treat. We
got to pick the winners, so people would email us
and we would pick them based on these great stories,
so veterans, law enforcement, teachers, cancer survivors. That was a
fun thing, filling up, getting to fill up a private
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plane with free tickets, good seats, that too, to see
the Houston Astros played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the
World Series. Now that's a treat, man, that's a treat
right there. That's an experience you don't forget. A friend
of mine said, when one door closes, another one opens,
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is a good dude. Terrible cabinet maker, but a good dude.
An eighty one year old Dodgers super fan who's been
a season ticket holder for over fifty years is upset
with the franchise because they will no longer print his ticket.
Imagine how he feels, you, mate, how frustrated and sad
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he feels. The story from NBCLA The city.
Speaker 14 (13:03):
Truck's rented out an average time about ten minutes.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
At eighty one years old, Errol Siegel is still hard
at work.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I enjoy working. I don't feel my age.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
He runs this recycling center in South LA and all.
Speaker 14 (13:15):
Our different albums are in these bins here and each
one's marked.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
But as much as he loves recycling, Errol loves something
else even more. We love the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I've been a supporter of them and a fan of
them for over fifty years.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
For fifty years, he's been a Dodgers season ticket holder
with some of the best seats in the house, first base,
Aisle twenty row you and every season the Dodgers have
always printed his tickets until now.
Speaker 14 (13:42):
This year, I received a notice that no longer will
I be able to get printed tickets.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
He says.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
The team told him they've gone fully digital and printing
tickets is no longer an option. That's a problem for Errol.
He doesn't use a computer.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Pull back in there and ask him, because mister Siegal
turn on a from I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Does Eryl know how to use the computer?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yep, not at all?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
And he barely uses a phone.
Speaker 13 (14:08):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't think he can get tickets on that phone.
You can't.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
We reached out to the team for a response to
see if they'll make an exception in print tickets. For
the eighty one year old. We haven't turned back, But
yesterday Errol wanted to try something. He left this recycling center,
went to Dodger Stadium and bought four tickets at the
ticket window. Guess what he got them? Four printed tickets.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
So clearly they can print tickets. They could print them,
they just don't want to print them for me.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Errol's ticket troubles have been very upsetting for this faithful
fan who supported the Dodgers for more than five decades.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How does this make you feel terrible?
Speaker 14 (14:45):
Fifty years, five generations. I've had these tickets fifty years,
and they threw me under the bus.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Errol says. For the past twelve seasons, the team's been
mostly digital. He actually paid an additional six hundred dollars
to have his tickets printed. This is the first year,
he says, where that is just not an option. I
asked him what his hope is moving forward. He says
he hopes the team reconsiders.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's amazing to me how technology can enable people to
be so cruel to forget other If you're not on
technology is wonderful, exciting, Look what it can do. Well,
I'm not on board. I can't use that, then, die boomer.
It's amazing to me. I would like to hear from
you for one segment of how you feel left out
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to technology because you're not on board with the new thing.
You feel like you've been left behind and nobody cares.
Seven one three, nine nine, nine one thousand with more
of The Michael Berry Show show. Eighty one year old
man's had season tickets to the Dodgers for over fifty years.
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Too cool, they will no longer print his tickets. He
paid an extra six hundred dollars to have them printed
for the last few years, and now they just said, no,
we're not going to fool with it. You can, We're
just not going to do it. Pull it up on
your phone. I don't use a phone. It's a flip phone.
I don't have a computer. I can't do that. I
want to go to the game. I'm willing to pay
you for it. We're leaving you behind, old man, We're
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leaving you behind. There's so many ways that people lose
their soul over technology. Somewhere in Heaven, Vin'scully and Milo
Hamilton are calling the game and sharing their thoughts on
what's happened here. Just north of the Burley Gates.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
It's a beautiful day for baseball, or what we now
call baseball. The sky hasn't changed, the grass is still green,
but just about everything else has.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Good old vent.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I walked up to the gate today, held out my ticket,
and it says, sir, you need your phone, I said, Suddenly,
only calls I'm making are in the booth swaying, you know,
miss ah, Yes, the electronic ticket, no stuff to say,
no memory in your pocket, just a battery at twelve percent.
Then of prayer, and don't get me started on those scoreboard.
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Used to be numbers, just numbers. Now it's a movie
theater out there, fireworks trivia, a dancing hot dog with
better footwork than half the roster bowled away. There was
a time when the only analytics we needed was a
pencil and a good eraser. Now they've got launch angles,
exit velocity. Oh man, oh man, I just want to
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know if a fella hit it hard or not. And
somewhere a fan is watching the game, not on a
transistor radio, not even on television, but on a device
in his hand while ordering not Joe's also from that scene.
You know, if you told me that in nineteen seventy five, Pally,
I'd have asked what you were smoking and if you
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brought enough with the booth.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Way high ball too.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Through it all though, the pitcher still appears in the batter,
still waits, and for a moment time stands still. Yeah,
until your phone dies and you can't get back into
the stadium.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
And that, my friends, is the modern ball.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Game, the talking ball, the man and Bob Feather, the scooter,
the Bob An, the Duke.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
People have an unhealthy, unholy love of technology, and they
forget what makes us real, what makes us human, the
human soul, the human essence. Sharon, how have you felt
left behind by technology?
Speaker 10 (18:44):
Well, a few years ago a friend of mine that
had been he's a boomer too, I'm seventy six, and
he had never been to a professional baseball game. So
I talked him into driving me to Houston. I had
to call the astros to get the tickets. Well, you
can print off this receipt, and I said, I don't
even own a printer. I don't want a printer, And
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so I had to email the stuff to office depot
and go get it printed. And so we get to
the game and it was a chore just to get
in with a printed piece of paper and took us
an hour and the Astros lost seventeen to nothing. How appropriate?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
And yeah, they you know.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
They want everything electronic. We'll get your phone out. I'm sorry,
I don't do smarty phone. I'm like the guy in California.
I got a flip phone. It's only for emergencies on
the highway.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And uh dang Boomer. I like to imagine her at
office depot because she didn't go in there and just
print it out. She went in there and there's some foreigner,
some inner city resident, and she's like, excuse me, excuse me.
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We've driven into town from Salesby. We'd like to go
to the game, but I can't figure out how to
get my tickets. Do you have some way? You can
take this ticket and put it on paper, but we
can use the printer. Yeah, the printer. How much would
that be? Thirty cents a page? O. That would be
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a fun exchange. I love the exchange of the old
and the new. That's glorious. It's beautiful. R. D. Russell,
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Yes, sir, and I should talk to you, Michael. I'm
going through problems similar right now with the city will report.
I found out used to you can get five loads
of dirt delivered to your place and you didn't need
a permit. Now you need a no pay permit in
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order to get some dirt brought to your place to
build it up so it won't keep flooding. So I
go up to the permit office and used to you
going there and sat down with someone, tell them everything
you needed at print out to permit. Wam bam, thank you, ma'am.
Everything was fine. Now they point you to some big
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touch screen computer thing over there to the side, and
I'm seventy one years old. I go over there and
I go to trying to touch this thing. I have
no idea what I'm doing, so this lady finally comes out,
helps me with it, and I put in the request
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for the permit. Well, three weeks later, I get an
email from them saying that my permitter has been declined
and I already have two loads of dirt setting in
my yard and I can't even spread that out until
I ain't get a permit. So I go back down
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there and mainly the engineer he's out on maternity leaves.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh lord, so for three months no less.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yes, I can't get this done. They want me to
do it on the computer. I spent eight years in
the Air Force and I cannot get anybody to help
me get my permit so I could spread the dirt
out that I have. So yeah, this technology stuff has
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got me really frustrated.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well, and that's understandable, that's from the beginning of time.
What amazes me is that human beings they check their
humanity at the door. They decide, well, I've learned this technology,
and anybody who doesn't is a bad person. It becomes
a judgment. I have a real problem with that. You
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don't have to lose who you are as a result
of that. My favorite part of that call was when
r D said, I went down there and no th
ch in down there. I just I went down there.
I can tell you you'd like to have r D
as your next door name because he might not have
a computer, But when your paper gets delivered four times
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because you've been on vacation, he'll go pick it up,
hold it for you. This is reached down there and
get it. What's your name to say, Michael, buddy, there's
nothing of Eddy Rabbits that's going to rock your world,
make it in anybody's top ten list. But it was
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very catchy, right, kind of pop, kind of like exile,
very pop infused, meats up tempo, but none of it's
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real deep stuff.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I do get the impression that Eddie Rabbit was betting
about as many women as Burt Reynolds during that time, though,
I will say that he had a look that for
that time was the hot look, you know, the sort
of unkempt beard, the satin shirt, you know, unbuttoned one
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too many. He was dating somebody just glorious beautiful? Was
it Crystal Gail? They did do a duet? Uh, sure did,
Sure did, now that you mean, but it was like,
not Sheena Easton, but it was somebody like that. It was,
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I tell you. The one that was having sex in
broad daylight, right in front of us, with no shame
about it, but he did it with such dignity was
Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rodgers, just Shelley West come over here,
we're gonna sing, and then we're gonna have sex, and
everybody's gonna watch us. And when I'm done with you,
I'm gonna get together with Dolly parton and you're gonna
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like it. I'm gonna sing a song about her moobs
written by my friend and Barry GiB She's laying in
the bathtub and she looked down and that's where it
came from. No, that's not where it came from. Well
that should be, it should be. I think that's probably
my favorite song about a geographical position. You know, you
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don't get as many good songs that can pass as
country and pop that would qualify for a chapter in
a geography book, but that one shirt does.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
When have you felt left out and left behind by technology? Chris,
you're up?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I actually liked technology. I was
born in nineteen seventy five. But I think the really
problem is social media. With technology, social media really suck
you in. There's a documentary called the Social Dilemma really
over my eyes to how it just really sucks up
your time. I have two daughters. One now is eighteen
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and one is thirteen, and when the oldest was in daycare,
I was dropping them off and I was seeing these
like five and six year olds with iPhones and just
looking at social media. I thought that was crazy, and
I knew then I wasn't going to let my kiddos
have that technology.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, the technology doesn't do it. I mean, Mark Lanear
won a case last week that shows that just like
putting addictive elements in a cigarette, they want to loop
you in. But if parents were parents, they wouldn't give
the phone to the kids. Anyway. I remember people asking me,
because our kids didn't have phones, how do you keep
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them from having phones? You're an adult, they're a child.
Is that really a question? Randy? You're up.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
Hey, I'm sixty nine and still working full time because
I choose to, and I certainly appreciate technology. I started
working when they had secretarial pools and you had to
grease the secretary with flowers and candy and things like
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that just to get your documents put on the top
of the pile. And so I certainly appreciated technology after that.
But your last caller, Chris talking about social media, My
wife and I just choose to disregard Facebook and Twitter
or I guess next. And we certainly are capable. But
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with my kids and grandkids, they do everything, invitations, anything,
all on Facebook, and if you're not plugged in, then
you just get lapped out and Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It becomes kind of one of those sort of deals
that is there is a sense of that. But I
find the happiest people are people who's spend the least
amount of time with technology. John, you're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (28:03):
Go ahead, sir, five one thousand dollars for homeowners insurance
and they don't print your policy. I have to print
it myself. Burning up my owner gold watch. Astros are
on Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah I can't. I can't keep up with that. I
go over and set my dad up for the game
every day, and it feels like throwing a different network.
We had to get Space City Network. But I'm to
tell you what, I was happy to get it because
that provides him a lot of entergy. He waits something
in the morning, excited about the Astros game. It gives
us something to talk about. It gives us something to
do together. You know, he's he's you know, pretty much
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bound to his room. He didn't want to go out
and about and leave the room much. But he will
sit and watch Astros and it gives him joy. So
you know that, to me, that's a that's a treat.
Joyce to save his Sunnyside ninety three years young. Now, yes,
did you get your gifts.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
First?
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Michael, let me say I received your tech last Thirsty,
And it's just I just felt so blessed with all
the love I received, all the nice comments, and you know,
they called me and my family in the pack rat
rat and I keep all this stuff and I keep
every one of them, and from time to time I
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would just go get it to Sta in a big
bag and I just go with the bag and I
just started reading and I'd be reading all these precious comments,
and I just it just lifts my spirits. So I
don't have words to really express how I feel that
I was receiving birthday blessings the from the first to
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March until the day that you saw I had already
been been. And I said, and I kept kill, remember
you still remember my birthday? And they said, sure, I
can get your birthday and and it just three of
my heart. It just made me feels. People will come
by and I've had calls. I don't know how they
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got my number, said are you are you a joys
on radio and TV? And you know I've been on
TV a lot. I use the joys that I saw
on TV. You know, like that, and I said yes,
but I just again, I can't even express how grateful
I am.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Well, I just wanted to share that you bring us
a lot of joy. That's why we call you rejoice
and bring all of us.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
A lot of joy.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
If it's my phone, I don't have any problems listen
to anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Else, but gosh, dogg it, Well, thank you for the call, Joyce.
We enjoyed getting to be a part of your birthday.
I hope you enjoyed it. I know r J on
the black Line dropped off about ten checks into those
ten people who contributed those. I just hope it's. It's
one way of saying that we appreciate you, we love you.
(31:03):
Keep up the great work. You are an inspiration to us.
All it's and r J showed me the photo that
you brought out as he was leaving, of you and
me over twenty years together. Man, that did I feel
like I looked a whole lot younger there, My goodness,
I've been being hard years among hard years, rough roads,