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It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. Yes, that means it's Friday.
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Take a deep breath. Whatever's goingon in your mouth, in your mouth,
in your mind, whatever's Yeah,well, I don't know where that
came from. Just left this washover you. I was just about to
take a sip of coffee. Ithink that's what happened. I blame Cat's
Coffee for that. Happy day.Keep concentrating on not burning my mouth,
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if you want to know the truth. The minute I finished that word,
I was going to take a hotsip. I blame Abby Cats and Cat's
Coffee for that. Do not litigationnecessarily, but you know somebody has to
get blamed, all right. I'mgonna get complaints that we messed up.
Oh happy day, So let's juststart it over. Go ahead, we'll
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do it right this time. Ohyes, oh yes, let that wash
over your ears. I mean happyd oh, happy day? When wheny
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war, when war is the way? Hello? Happy or happy day?
Happy or happy day when Jesus warwitty war, when Jesus War sheilds away
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he loved the abby day, happyday or a happy day, happy winter,
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Those wars. Oh whendy wars winterthose war three away. He need
a love happy day, Oh happyday, Oh happy day. Oh heavy
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when Jesus war waity war, whenJesus war. See it's away. Oh
yes, it is Friday. Thelines are open. You can tell us
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whether it has blown or blown.Seven one three, one thousand. There
are a lot of people listening,so be ready. Turn the bluetooths off,
get off the speaker phone. Beprepared, be focused, even if
you wait for a few moments andthink through what you're going to say,
so you get right to it.I'm great, You're great, Get right
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to your call if we're looking forwardto hearing from you. Seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. Andto get us started as we always do,
from the greatest courtesy of the greatestexecutive producer in all the land,
Chattaconi Nakanishi. You'll week are theysay football is king in Texas until the
King of Country rolls in Yep,History was made here in Texas. One
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hundred and ten thousand people who crammedinto Texas A and M's Kyle Field last
night to see country superstar George Straight. One hundred and ten thousand, nine
hundred and five fans were in attendance. All I can think is, couldn't
you just jam ninety five more peoplein there and round it off a hundred
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eleven? And didn't I figure,you know, probably at about one hundred
three thousand, two hundred and fourteenpeople they said, couldn't we gram enough
people in here to get to onehundred and ten? A now former City
of Houston park ranger used a threateningto arrest park goers unless they paid him
and allegedly forcing men to straych Heapproached a car with two men in it
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and told them to get out,made one of the victims strip down naked
and confessed to a crime which hedidn't commit, and allegedly told him he
would take him to jail if hedidn't pay him money. City of Houston
Urban Root Ranger Urban Root Ranger victimizedhis gay men enjoying Pride Month at Colin
Parks. In a family of martialarts instructors are being credited with stopping an
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attempted rape. Hurt screams it onlytook a moment for their dad, Grandmaster
han On, to jump in.He grabbed the suspect and took him down.
You know, there's video of theon family walking in and Discovery.
I would love to imagine in mymind the young kids come in and they
put a couple of rounds on andhe's like a pinball. He's going back.
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It is my thirty second wedding anniversaryto mend at the Vancitation Run Barry
I better when I was eighteen.I never expected to marry early. When
you know this person loves you asmuch as you love you, and in
my case, that's a lot.You know, it's the one after all,
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ue together, lood, After all, I'm gonna say to the anglobe
doing a great job in Memorial Park. May my diversity a firm, joyous
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well already. Our dear friend MarkChestnutt is in a precarious situation. He
had a major emergency heart surgery justa few days ago, and I have
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not contacted him har his wife Tracy, because that's the last thing they need
is one more person checking in onthem. We will find out soon enough.
I am very hopeful that he willrecover. I paid tribute to Mark
at length last night. If you'dlike to hear it, you can go
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there. I won't do it againthis morning. Other than to say,
my brother worked an extra job atCutters in the nineties and he would tell
me that I to come up andsee this this place because there's a guy
that's incredible and his phill in who'shis good friend. The guy that's playing
this guy named Mark Chestnut. Neverheard of him, don't care. And
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he's got the guy that comes inbehind him called Tracy Bird and he grew
up invited her and they're both inBeaumont and I hadn't heard of him,
don't care. Well when I didhear of him, I fell in love
both of their music and the BeaumontBoys story and and all of that.
And then klay Walker would come uplater, not through that bar, but
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uh, that was that was ahigh water mark. Any any city in
America would love to have all ofthat come from their community, you know
at one time, and Beaumont's notthat big. That was a that was
a high water mark and another occasionwhere my brother was right and I was
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wrong. And anyway, so Markwas one of our first performers at the
RCC. He held the longest Heheld the record for the longest performance at
three hours until Tracy Bird broke itwith three hours, seventeen minutes. But
in any case, he also heldthe record which was never broken, of
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twenty four straight beers without breaking theseal. And I just can't imagine he
wasn't very tall. That's just anincredible, incredible feat. So in any
case, please keep Mark Chestnut inyour prayers. Let's hope, let's hope
for a recovery. Ramon, isthat Pam on the line. Okay,
ask Pam to hold for just asecond. We have asked Pam Golf of
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Galveston Bait and Tackle to call.I don't want to do a bunch of
calls about the storm, but Idid want to get her story. There
was some video the storm hit anumber of our neighbors, especially the Galveston
area. I had a listener inslide El, Louisiana send me an email
and how high the water had gottenin hers. Let's go with Hank Ryan
and then we'll talk to Pam fora while. How about that, Hank,
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you are on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome sir, Oh, thank
you, hey. I just realquick. I love your music choices and
yesterday I'm listening to you and youtalked about Jimmy Swaggert. Well, I
moved from Joplin, Missouri, toSoutheast Texas or Southeast Louisiana back in nineteen
sixty eight, and I want totell you a little quick story about Oh
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Happy Day. We had a nineteensixty four Chevrolet and no air conditioning,
free speed on the column driving back, I think it was sixty nine or
nineteen seventy, and on the AMradio, I'm listening to this song,
Oh Happy Day. I couldn't tellif it was a man singing it or
a woman singing it, but Ilove that tune. I loved it so
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much I got when I got backto South Louisiana, I went and bought
for a dollar, I bought meto forty five. And I used to
listen to that all the time.So when I hear it on your radios
on Fridays, it's awesome. Hey. The other one I want to mention
this is about Jimmy. I wantto mentioned Jimmy Swagger because you mentioned just
yesterday about that guy, and I, like say, I grew up down
in Gonzales, Louisiana, so Iknew all about the Jimmy Swagger stuff.
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But I was just listening one day, just like you said, you were
going through the channels and you ranacross Jimmy Swagger. He's got that one
Renditionently, I think this guy he'sgot in his group Barton and they sing
he knows my name. And man, I pulled that up yesterday after I
heard your thing. I said,let me pull that song, that swaggered
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song up. I pulled that suckerup in my car and man, I
couldn't stop crying. It was soI don't know what it did. It
just pulled. It just pulled myheart. And I just wanted to mention
to you. I love your Ilove your music choices in the way you
thank you, thank you. Youknow yes, Jimmy Swagger always said,
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and Jerry Lee Lewis confirmed that hewas a better piano player growing up than
Jerry le Lewis when they grew uptogether in Ferdie Louis him, Mickey Gilly
and Jerry Lee Lewis. But whathe wanted to be and where he started
his career was as a boxer,and he was supposedly quite the brawler,
a heck of a boxer. AndI'll say that I don't care what anybody
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says I know about the scandals.He was a hell of a preacher.
To watch him preach and sing atthe same time, I was a wonderful
worship experience. Anytime I ever sawhim on, I would stop and watch
it. Ryan, you're on theMichael Berry Show. You've got and I
truly believe. I understand, Yes, sir, Good morning to you and
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your show. I've got my kidswith me today. We're kind of playing
hooky, but we never get tocall in during the I truly believe.
So we thought we'd do it onopen line Friday, go ahead, and
we just wanted to call and saywe truly believe that Tillimack ice cream is
better than Bluebell. Oh my goodness. Listen. We're not airing on k
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e X eleven ninety Portland right now, so I don't have to worry about
any blowback. We do have folksthere who listen, who listened to our
morning show as well as the eveningshow. Tillamook is a good ice cream,
and Chad KNOCKANISHI may disagree because hespent so much time there, but
it's not Bluebell. Tillamook is good. It is a very good ice cream.
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It's it's in the top ten inthe country, and it's it's a
great ice cream. It's just it'sjust not Bluebell, never has been and
never will be. All Right,So I'm going to open up the phone
lines, but we're gonna have oneconversation first, so you'll be first in
because we had cleared the lines forPam GoF to call in seven one,
three, one thousand. But wego now to Pam Goff, the owner
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of Galveston Bait and Tackle. Welcome, sweetheart, good morning. Now are
you I'm good, Ramon. Canyou pot the calls up a little bit?
I'm just not hearing them very well. So I got a video sent
to me yesterday. I think itwas from Mason Monroe, which I've come
to understand is a young man thatworks for you. And it was a
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panoramic unison the Augustin baiten Tackle,and y'all looked like you were completely underwater.
Oh we have been for about threedays now, and in fact,
I'm standing here right now on thedock of the bake camp looking at everything
and I'm going, oh, mygoodness, I don't know how Glenn did
it. My husband, Glenn boughtthe bake camp about. Oh, it's
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been about thirty years ago, andhe passed away with cancer eight and a
half years ago. I saw it, and when he passed away, I
took it over Pam I saw.I don't know who wrote it to him,
And here we are in memory ofGlenn Allen Gough nineteen fifty four to
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twenty sixteen. Glenn, you willbe missed for your industriousness and honesty.
But more than that, we willmiss your boisterous entries and exits, companionship
at home, on the road andon the water, your generosity and willingness
to help, your teasing and sillyjokes, your uncensored speech, and your
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embrace of imperfections into loving arms.And welcome you into eternity. You know,
people generally speak in glittering generalities ofthe recently departed. I feel like
I get a sense of what kindof guy this was, and I think
I'd like him. Glenn Allen Goffnineteen fifty four to nineteen to twenty sixteen.
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He didn't get to live long enough. Sixty two is just not long
enough. I'm golf. I'm goingto ask you to hold with us for
just a moment Galveston Bait and Tackle. We're only going to take one flood
call today, so if you wantto be on on anything else, get
in line. Snaking Michael Show.Well, as you know as it's Radio
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Insiders with a peak behind the curtain. There's something called sonic branding and it's
very important to our show. Fridaymorning, we start with old Happy Day
Friday Drive Home. We start withgood One coming on another song my brother
told me to listen to that Ididn't for a while. When I did,
it became our Friday drive home.Kind of get the sense that maybe
I should listen. But I don'ttell you about the three hundred times that
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it was a dumb idea, right, I just tell you about the times
that I was an idiot. Buttoday we're breaking that in honor of our
friend Mark Chestnut in hopes that hefully recover from his emergency heart surgery and
some elements he's had of late aswell. Mark Chestnut's cover of Beer Bait
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and m O two gets us toGalveston Bait and Tackle, which has been
underwater for the last few days,and the widow of the founder, Pam
Goff, is our guest Pam,before we talk about storms, and this
is the only storm call we're gonnatell or flod call we're gonna take.
Uh. But I did want totalk to you about your business. I'd
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like to read from this because Imean this sounds like a throwback to a
different era. Can I get someGalveston Bait and Tackle music, maybe just
something a little nice underneath me toget to set the tone for you know,
kind of a cross between Mayberry andthe Dukes of Hazard. I'll let
you pick it up whenever you're ready. Bait and Tackle is your salt water
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fishing store. You know what,Pam? You know what would be nice
When I come to the end ofa sentence, I will pause, I
will pause for a second, andI want you to do some version of
okay, practice version of what youjust like wow, you know, you
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know when somebody's telling the story andyou're over there and you're like, boy,
ain't that the true? And justgo, Pam, just what,
Yeah, you're gonna do? Ihave some up, you know how when
you're in a Yeah, Ramon's gotall our levels off today for summer.
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You know, at the end ofa sentence, when somebody's telling a story
and you're standing next to them.You're like, boy, ain't that the
truth? But you're not the onegetting to speak, so you just go
mm yeah, okay, yeah,okay, so you do. When I
finish the sentence, you do.But the problem is you can't do the
same twice. You can be louderor softer, you can drag it out
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a little, but when I pauseat the end of each sentence, you'll
hear me pause. You do someversion of to kind of emphasize, de
emphasize, boy, ain't that thetruth? Whatever? But you can only
do oomph, okay, okay,ready, okay, and ramon may or
may not add some music at somepoint. Galveston Bait and Tackle is your
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salt water fishing store for rods,reels, lures, live baits, lines,
nets, life jackets and tackle.Yeah okay, We're the first business
you see off the I forty fivecauseway on Galveston Island, Texas KAM.
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Galveston Bait and Tackle is focused onproviding you with the highest quality service and
we'll do everything we can to ensureyour fishing experience is the best. Galveston
Bait and Tackle opens at five amdaily, with fresh free coffee. We
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have sandwiches and snacks as well asbeer, soda, ice and water.
You can launch your boat for tendollars and we have docks with picnic tables.
There is plenty parking for cars andtrucks with trailers. Plus. After
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your successful day on the bay,you are welcome to use our fish cleaning
table. Bayfishing bait as available.Live shrimp, fresh dead shrimp and squid,
shad, crabs, mullet piggies,croakers and mudfish. Offshore bait as
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available, Spanish sardines, squid,shad, ribbonfish, ballyhoo fishing tackle.
And that's it. You did well, Pam. You're a pretty good person.
Yeah, except right now my dogswon't hold anything, and my launch
can't get to and my picnic tablesare still here. I'm surprised they didn't
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float away. But I'm looking atthis picture of the picnic tables. The
pickny tables didn't float away. No, and you know the last four storms
that we've survived and uh, theyhad not floated away. I have to
say the home depot tables are wellnot float away. Wow, They're amazing,
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and they are not nailed down oranything. Did your husband Glenn start
the bait camp? Is he didhe do Galveson Bait and Tackle? No
he didn't, Okay, no hedidn't. Actually, Herschel Payne from Peco
Marina and them started the business,was probably about fifty years ago. And
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then Herschel passed away. And whenhe did, Tommy and Debbie Payne sel
Paco to to Bill Cochran and hisson Bill Cochran Jr. And uh and
they've been in the business now fora year I think, and Iley the
property from them and uh so theyall the repairs and everything's fall on new
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Yeah, okay, so and noinsurance hold on just a moment. Pam
goth Galveston Bait and Tackle. Sheseems so sweet. We mom, but
you know what she got outwork you. I can tell you that you do
not want to try to outwork that. You can already tell me say it
again. That's why I had myguitar probably out of tune. Now you
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might have to edit that. Thisis Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio
clams Off as our guest. Sheis the owner of Galveston Bait and Tackle.
Pam, uh do y'all still havewater in the bait shop right now.
Uh. We've got it up toup to one one step from it.
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Uh. In fact, I'm standinghere looking at it right now.
We have mud in it. AndI usually have this one. Uh we'll
just call it tween you and usedit comes in and gets all the mud
out for me. And I'm lookingat it to see if that's sure.
We're not open. No, oh, no, no, we're not open
at all. I've had about tencustomers so far this morning. Wasn't baked.
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I don't know what they're thinking.I mean, they can't see that.
I don't they can see the waterall the way to the door and
they're still wasn't baked. They thinkwe're open. But anyway, Hey,
Pam, I just I just gota message from a buddy of mine named
Jimmy Pappas that lives out in PiratePirate's Cove. He's on the bay and
he said the tide is back upthis point. It is and he said
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it is it's getting bad again.Are you are you? You're not taking
on more water or about to takeon more water? Are you? Probably
so? Probably? So that's whatI'm standing here looking. I had I
don't know. In fact, I'mstanding here thinking what am I going to
do? Because yeah, it lookslike it's the water's coming back up again.
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Oh and uh so I'm not surewhat right now, I'm at a
standstill. I'm gonna sure what todo with you. So I probably won't
do anything today, you know,just see what's gonna happen, because like
I said, it's still over mostof the docks, and it's still in
my back room. It's it's stillup you know, over to to my
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bank tanks, over halfway. Andso I probably won't try to do anything
today as far as trying to cleanup or anything. You'll just wait it
out. Pam. Let me askyou a couple of questions about when it's
not flooded. Okay, let's talkabout when it's not flooded. You open
at five o'clock daily. What timedo you get there normally most of the
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time five o'clock five fifteen. Usuallymy business partner who helps me out a
great deal, Billy Howe, Heusually takes the first shift at five o'clock
and I usually come in, youknow, oh fieen five point thirty most
and especially on the weekends. Whenwe're busy, and uh, but usually
I try to work seven days aweek. Does anybody come in with donuts
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and leave them there for all thenext people? They do? They do?
And we have some really really niceguides. We have about twenty five
guides that go out of here.And I call them my boys because they
all, you know, they alltreat me like I'm their mother, of
course, and uh and they bringdonuts, pilate's and all kinds of things.
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Yeah, so many good guides.How many boats you think launched from
there per day on the weekend,let's see, probably some weekends, will
you know, like on the holidays, we'll have one hundred boats launch a
hundred launch to a lot of people. Uh huh yeah, yeah, every
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little bit helps, let me tellyou. And when you have a small
business like this, no, youhave to you have to count every penny.
I bet. Parking is you know, especially when you have no insurance.
We do have a parking, uhyou know, parking, and it's
five dollars when you're parking this onearea. Yes, so is that the
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people who just launched their boat theypark there? Uh, the parking the
launch for the launch is ten dollars. Yes, and that's just for the
that's for the launches and their parking, and then the other people that come
to go with their guides, it'sfive dollars per car. And then they,
like I said, they have aplace, they have a place to
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park where they can lock the carand be sure you know, nobody bothers
it. And uh, that's youknow, in a different section. Pam.
If I tell you something about myselfthat I know it is not going
to make me sound good, willyou promise me you won't judge me for
it? I promise. Okay,you know you're gonna not like this,
So just say, well, Iunderstand, because I don't you scold me
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because I didn't have to tell youthis. So when I if I'm going
out to the West End, andespecially if it's like a Friday evening and
I exit off there and I seeyou on the right, you know how
you can't go through that neighborhood tothe right. They want you to stay
on the feeder there. But it'sall jammed up because people are trying to
get up to the light and turnright on sixty eight. You know they
got they got those little sticks.She's not supposed to go, and they
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got away so that the neighborhood canget out to the feeder, but you
can't get in. But of courseyou can get in if you're willing to.
Why a lot of times I dothat, I go through the neighborhood.
Yeah, I hate the thing too. Yeah. Well, I guess
if they didn't do it, theywould wear the neighborhood out. So now
it's just me doing it. Yeah. See, I don't like those I
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don't like the way they cut.I don't like the way they put those
way they cut chopped up the sideways, you know, the when you went
in. But I guess the neighborsthey did that or something. I'm not
sure, but anyway, so,uh no, we'll probably down here cleaning
tomorrow. What's the hardest part aboutrunning Galveston? Probably repairing dogs? I'm
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sorry. What's the hardest part aboutrunning Galveston? Bait and tackle? What's
the hardest part? Storms? Storms? How many times have you been hit?
But then like mm ten times welost our building and I lost the
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building and everything and we had torebuild, and I thought, I don't
know if I could do it again. I don't know if I could do
it again. But then when Iget out here this morning, I'm looking
at the bright blue skies looking overthe water, and I said, yeah,
I can do it again. Pullup your pull up your pants,
and let's go to work. Andlet's get this place back in business where
I can see all my friends andmy guys and all this stuff, and
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let's go to work. Pam,you're my kind of girl. As soon
as y'all are back up and running, I'm gonna pomp in on you and
have a beer at five point thirtyin the morning. All right, you
do that. Good luck, sweetheart. Thank you, and thank you for
lett me call you. Okay,well we tracked you down, and thank
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you for talking to us. Youknow, if that doesn't make your day
better, whatever you're doing today,you're on the way to the job site,
you're on your way to do thisor that. The resilience of people
like that, forget Joe Biden andpolitics. That resilience right there, that
strength to get up when when mostpeople could just feel sorry for themselves.
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Man, we should all have moreof that. I got a guy that's
a cook at waffle House that I'vebeen trying to talk into coming on the
air with us and he's finally agreedhe's going to be our guest Max after
that. Will take your call sevenone three nine nine nine one thousand,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. Yes, that means it's Friday.
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Take a deep breath. Whatever's goingon in your mouth, in your mouth,
in your mind, whatever's Yeah,well, I don't know where that
came from. Just left this washover you. I was just about to
take a sip of coffee. Ithink that's what happened. I blame Cat's
Coffee for that. Happy day.Keep concentrating on not burning my mouth,
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if you want to know the truth. The minute I finished that word,
I was going to take a hotsip. I blame Abby Cats and Cat's
Coffee for that. Do not litigationnecessarily, but you know somebody has to
get blamed, all right. I'mgonna get complaints that we messed up.
Oh happy day, So let's juststart it over. Go ahead, we'll
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do it right this time. Ohyes, oh yes, let that wash
over your ears. I mean happyd oh, happy day? When wheny
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war, when war is the way? Hello? Happy or happy day?
Happy or happy day when Jesus warwitty war, when Jesus War sheilds away
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he loved the abby day, happyday or a happy day, happy winter,
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Those wars. Oh whendy wars winterthose war three away. He need
a love happy day, Oh happyday, Oh happy day. Oh heavy
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when Jesus war waity war, whenJesus war. See it's away. Oh
yes, it is Friday. Thelines are open. You can tell us
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whether it has blown or blown.Seven one three, one thousand. There
are a lot of people listening,so be ready. Turn the bluetooths off,
get off the speaker phone. Beprepared, be focused, even if
you wait for a few moments andthink through what you're going to say,
so you get right to it.I'm great, You're great, Get right
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to your call if we're looking forwardto hearing from you. Seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. Andto get us started as we always do,
from the greatest courtesy of the greatestexecutive producer in all the land,
Chattaconi Nakanishi. You'll week are theysay football is king in Texas until the
King of Country rolls in Yep,History was made here in Texas. One
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hundred and ten thousand people who crammedinto Texas A and M's Kyle Field last
night to see country superstar George Straight. One hundred and ten thousand, nine
hundred and five fans were in attendance. All I can think is, couldn't
you just jam ninety five more peoplein there and round it off a hundred
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eleven? And didn't I figure,you know, probably at about one hundred
three thousand, two hundred and fourteenpeople they said, couldn't we gram enough
people in here to get to onehundred and ten? A now former City
of Houston park ranger used a threateningto arrest park goers unless they paid him
and allegedly forcing men to straych Heapproached a car with two men in it
(07:21):
and told them to get out,made one of the victims strip down naked
and confessed to a crime which hedidn't commit, and allegedly told him he
would take him to jail if hedidn't pay him money. City of Houston
Urban Root Ranger Urban Root Ranger victimizedhis gay men enjoying Pride Month at Colin
Parks. In a family of martialarts instructors are being credited with stopping an
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attempted rape. Hurt screams it onlytook a moment for their dad, Grandmaster
han On, to jump in.He grabbed the suspect and took him down.
You know, there's video of theon family walking in and Discovery.
I would love to imagine in mymind the young kids come in and they
put a couple of rounds on andhe's like a pinball. He's going back.
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It is my thirty second wedding anniversaryto mend at the Vancitation Run Barry
I better when I was eighteen.I never expected to marry early. When
you know this person loves you asmuch as you love you, and in
my case, that's a lot.You know, it's the one after all,
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ue together, lood, After all, I'm gonna say to the anglobe
doing a great job in Memorial Park. May my diversity a firm, joyous
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well already. Our dear friend MarkChestnutt is in a precarious situation. He
had a major emergency heart surgery justa few days ago, and I have
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not contacted him har his wife Tracy, because that's the last thing they need
is one more person checking in onthem. We will find out soon enough.
I am very hopeful that he willrecover. I paid tribute to Mark
at length last night. If you'dlike to hear it, you can go
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there. I won't do it againthis morning. Other than to say,
my brother worked an extra job atCutters in the nineties and he would tell
me that I to come up andsee this this place because there's a guy
that's incredible and his phill in who'shis good friend. The guy that's playing
this guy named Mark Chestnut. Neverheard of him, don't care. And
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he's got the guy that comes inbehind him called Tracy Bird and he grew
up invited her and they're both inBeaumont and I hadn't heard of him,
don't care. Well when I didhear of him, I fell in love
both of their music and the BeaumontBoys story and and all of that.
And then klay Walker would come uplater, not through that bar, but
(10:28):
uh, that was that was ahigh water mark. Any any city in
America would love to have all ofthat come from their community, you know
at one time, and Beaumont's notthat big. That was a that was
a high water mark and another occasionwhere my brother was right and I was
(10:50):
wrong. And anyway, so Markwas one of our first performers at the
RCC. He held the longest Heheld the record for the longest performance at
three hours until Tracy Bird broke itwith three hours, seventeen minutes. But
in any case, he also heldthe record which was never broken, of
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twenty four straight beers without breaking theseal. And I just can't imagine he
wasn't very tall. That's just anincredible, incredible feat. So in any
case, please keep Mark Chestnut inyour prayers. Let's hope, let's hope
for a recovery. Ramon, isthat Pam on the line. Okay,
ask Pam to hold for just asecond. We have asked Pam Golf of
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Galveston Bait and Tackle to call.I don't want to do a bunch of
calls about the storm, but Idid want to get her story. There
was some video the storm hit anumber of our neighbors, especially the Galveston
area. I had a listener inslide El, Louisiana send me an email
and how high the water had gottenin hers. Let's go with Hank Ryan
and then we'll talk to Pam fora while. How about that, Hank,
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you are on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome sir, Oh, thank
you, hey. I just realquick. I love your music choices and
yesterday I'm listening to you and youtalked about Jimmy Swaggert. Well, I
moved from Joplin, Missouri, toSoutheast Texas or Southeast Louisiana back in nineteen
sixty eight, and I want totell you a little quick story about Oh
(12:22):
Happy Day. We had a nineteensixty four Chevrolet and no air conditioning,
free speed on the column driving back, I think it was sixty nine or
nineteen seventy, and on the AMradio, I'm listening to this song,
Oh Happy Day. I couldn't tellif it was a man singing it or
a woman singing it, but Ilove that tune. I loved it so
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much I got when I got backto South Louisiana, I went and bought
for a dollar, I bought meto forty five. And I used to
listen to that all the time.So when I hear it on your radios
on Fridays, it's awesome. Hey. The other one I want to mention
this is about Jimmy. I wantto mentioned Jimmy Swagger because you mentioned just
yesterday about that guy, and I, like say, I grew up down
in Gonzales, Louisiana, so Iknew all about the Jimmy Swagger stuff.
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But I was just listening one day, just like you said, you were
going through the channels and you ranacross Jimmy Swagger. He's got that one
Renditionently, I think this guy he'sgot in his group Barton and they sing
he knows my name. And man, I pulled that up yesterday after I
heard your thing. I said,let me pull that song, that swaggered
(13:30):
song up. I pulled that suckerup in my car and man, I
couldn't stop crying. It was soI don't know what it did. It
just pulled. It just pulled myheart. And I just wanted to mention
to you. I love your Ilove your music choices in the way you
thank you, thank you. Youknow yes, Jimmy Swagger always said,
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and Jerry Lee Lewis confirmed that hewas a better piano player growing up than
Jerry le Lewis when they grew uptogether in Ferdie Louis him, Mickey Gilly
and Jerry Lee Lewis. But whathe wanted to be and where he started
his career was as a boxer,and he was supposedly quite the brawler,
a heck of a boxer. AndI'll say that I don't care what anybody
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says I know about the scandals.He was a hell of a preacher.
To watch him preach and sing atthe same time, I was a wonderful
worship experience. Anytime I ever sawhim on, I would stop and watch
it. Ryan, you're on theMichael Berry Show. You've got and I
truly believe. I understand, Yes, sir, Good morning to you and
(14:35):
your show. I've got my kidswith me today. We're kind of playing
hooky, but we never get tocall in during the I truly believe.
So we thought we'd do it onopen line Friday, go ahead, and
we just wanted to call and saywe truly believe that Tillimack ice cream is
better than Bluebell. Oh my goodness. Listen. We're not airing on k
(14:58):
e X eleven ninety Portland right now, so I don't have to worry about
any blowback. We do have folksthere who listen, who listened to our
morning show as well as the eveningshow. Tillamook is a good ice cream,
and Chad KNOCKANISHI may disagree because hespent so much time there, but
it's not Bluebell. Tillamook is good. It is a very good ice cream.
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It's it's in the top ten inthe country, and it's it's a
great ice cream. It's just it'sjust not Bluebell, never has been and
never will be. All Right,So I'm going to open up the phone
lines, but we're gonna have oneconversation first, so you'll be first in
because we had cleared the lines forPam GoF to call in seven one,
three, one thousand. But wego now to Pam Goff, the owner
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of Galveston Bait and Tackle. Welcome, sweetheart, good morning. Now are
you I'm good, Ramon. Canyou pot the calls up a little bit?
I'm just not hearing them very well. So I got a video sent
to me yesterday. I think itwas from Mason Monroe, which I've come
to understand is a young man thatworks for you. And it was a
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panoramic unison the Augustin baiten Tackle,and y'all looked like you were completely underwater.
Oh we have been for about threedays now, and in fact,
I'm standing here right now on thedock of the bake camp looking at everything
and I'm going, oh, mygoodness, I don't know how Glenn did
it. My husband, Glenn boughtthe bake camp about. Oh, it's
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been about thirty years ago, andhe passed away with cancer eight and a
half years ago. I saw it, and when he passed away, I
took it over Pam I saw.I don't know who wrote it to him,
And here we are in memory ofGlenn Allen Gough nineteen fifty four to
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twenty sixteen. Glenn, you willbe missed for your industriousness and honesty.
But more than that, we willmiss your boisterous entries and exits, companionship
at home, on the road andon the water, your generosity and willingness
to help, your teasing and sillyjokes, your uncensored speech, and your
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embrace of imperfections into loving arms.And welcome you into eternity. You know,
people generally speak in glittering generalities ofthe recently departed. I feel like
I get a sense of what kindof guy this was, and I think
I'd like him. Glenn Allen Goffnineteen fifty four to nineteen to twenty sixteen.
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He didn't get to live long enough. Sixty two is just not long
enough. I'm golf. I'm goingto ask you to hold with us for
just a moment Galveston Bait and Tackle. We're only going to take one flood
call today, so if you wantto be on on anything else, get
in line. Snaking Michael Show.Well, as you know as it's Radio
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Insiders with a peak behind the curtain. There's something called sonic branding and it's
very important to our show. Fridaymorning, we start with old Happy Day
Friday Drive Home. We start withgood One coming on another song my brother
told me to listen to that Ididn't for a while. When I did,
it became our Friday drive home.Kind of get the sense that maybe
I should listen. But I don'ttell you about the three hundred times that
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it was a dumb idea, right, I just tell you about the times
that I was an idiot. Buttoday we're breaking that in honor of our
friend Mark Chestnut in hopes that hefully recover from his emergency heart surgery and
some elements he's had of late aswell. Mark Chestnut's cover of Beer Bait
(18:42):
and m O two gets us toGalveston Bait and Tackle, which has been
underwater for the last few days,and the widow of the founder, Pam
Goff, is our guest Pam,before we talk about storms, and this
is the only storm call we're gonnatell or flod call we're gonna take.
Uh. But I did want totalk to you about your business. I'd
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like to read from this because Imean this sounds like a throwback to a
different era. Can I get someGalveston Bait and Tackle music, maybe just
something a little nice underneath me toget to set the tone for you know,
kind of a cross between Mayberry andthe Dukes of Hazard. I'll let
you pick it up whenever you're ready. Bait and Tackle is your salt water
(19:27):
fishing store. You know what,Pam? You know what would be nice
When I come to the end ofa sentence, I will pause, I
will pause for a second, andI want you to do some version of
okay, practice version of what youjust like wow, you know, you
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know when somebody's telling the story andyou're over there and you're like, boy,
ain't that the true? And justgo, Pam, just what,
Yeah, you're gonna do? Ihave some up, you know how when
you're in a Yeah, Ramon's gotall our levels off today for summer.
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You know, at the end ofa sentence, when somebody's telling a story
and you're standing next to them.You're like, boy, ain't that the
truth? But you're not the onegetting to speak, so you just go
mm yeah, okay, yeah,okay, so you do. When I
finish the sentence, you do.But the problem is you can't do the
same twice. You can be louderor softer, you can drag it out
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a little, but when I pauseat the end of each sentence, you'll
hear me pause. You do someversion of to kind of emphasize, de
emphasize, boy, ain't that thetruth? Whatever? But you can only
do oomph, okay, okay,ready, okay, and ramon may or
may not add some music at somepoint. Galveston Bait and Tackle is your
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salt water fishing store for rods,reels, lures, live baits, lines,
nets, life jackets and tackle.Yeah okay, We're the first business
you see off the I forty fivecauseway on Galveston Island, Texas KAM.
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Galveston Bait and Tackle is focused onproviding you with the highest quality service and
we'll do everything we can to ensureyour fishing experience is the best. Galveston
Bait and Tackle opens at five amdaily, with fresh free coffee. We
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have sandwiches and snacks as well asbeer, soda, ice and water.
You can launch your boat for tendollars and we have docks with picnic tables.
There is plenty parking for cars andtrucks with trailers. Plus. After
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your successful day on the bay,you are welcome to use our fish cleaning
table. Bayfishing bait as available.Live shrimp, fresh dead shrimp and squid,
shad, crabs, mullet piggies,croakers and mudfish. Offshore bait as
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available, Spanish sardines, squid,shad, ribbonfish, ballyhoo fishing tackle.
And that's it. You did well, Pam. You're a pretty good person.
Yeah, except right now my dogswon't hold anything, and my launch
can't get to and my picnic tablesare still here. I'm surprised they didn't
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float away. But I'm looking atthis picture of the picnic tables. The
pickny tables didn't float away. No, and you know the last four storms
that we've survived and uh, theyhad not floated away. I have to
say the home depot tables are wellnot float away. Wow, They're amazing,
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and they are not nailed down oranything. Did your husband Glenn start
the bait camp? Is he didhe do Galveson Bait and Tackle? No
he didn't, Okay, no hedidn't. Actually, Herschel Payne from Peco
Marina and them started the business,was probably about fifty years ago. And
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then Herschel passed away. And whenhe did, Tommy and Debbie Payne sel
Paco to to Bill Cochran and hisson Bill Cochran Jr. And uh and
they've been in the business now fora year I think, and Iley the
property from them and uh so theyall the repairs and everything's fall on new
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Yeah, okay, so and noinsurance hold on just a moment. Pam
goth Galveston Bait and Tackle. Sheseems so sweet. We mom, but
you know what she got outwork you. I can tell you that you do
not want to try to outwork that. You can already tell me say it
again. That's why I had myguitar probably out of tune. Now you
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might have to edit that. Thisis Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio
clams Off as our guest. Sheis the owner of Galveston Bait and Tackle.
Pam, uh do y'all still havewater in the bait shop right now.
Uh. We've got it up toup to one one step from it.
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Uh. In fact, I'm standinghere looking at it right now.
We have mud in it. AndI usually have this one. Uh we'll
just call it tween you and usedit comes in and gets all the mud
out for me. And I'm lookingat it to see if that's sure.
We're not open. No, oh, no, no, we're not open
at all. I've had about tencustomers so far this morning. Wasn't baked.
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I don't know what they're thinking.I mean, they can't see that.
I don't they can see the waterall the way to the door and
they're still wasn't baked. They thinkwe're open. But anyway, Hey,
Pam, I just I just gota message from a buddy of mine named
Jimmy Pappas that lives out in PiratePirate's Cove. He's on the bay and
he said the tide is back upthis point. It is and he said
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it is it's getting bad again.Are you are you? You're not taking
on more water or about to takeon more water? Are you? Probably
so? Probably? So that's whatI'm standing here looking. I had I
don't know. In fact, I'mstanding here thinking what am I going to
do? Because yeah, it lookslike it's the water's coming back up again.
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Oh and uh so I'm not surewhat right now, I'm at a
standstill. I'm gonna sure what todo with you. So I probably won't
do anything today, you know,just see what's gonna happen, because like
I said, it's still over mostof the docks, and it's still in
my back room. It's it's stillup you know, over to to my
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bank tanks, over halfway. Andso I probably won't try to do anything
today as far as trying to cleanup or anything. You'll just wait it
out. Pam. Let me askyou a couple of questions about when it's
not flooded. Okay, let's talkabout when it's not flooded. You open
at five o'clock daily. What timedo you get there normally most of the
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time five o'clock five fifteen. Usuallymy business partner who helps me out a
great deal, Billy Howe, Heusually takes the first shift at five o'clock
and I usually come in, youknow, oh fieen five point thirty most
and especially on the weekends. Whenwe're busy, and uh, but usually
I try to work seven days aweek. Does anybody come in with donuts
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and leave them there for all thenext people? They do? They do?
And we have some really really niceguides. We have about twenty five
guides that go out of here.And I call them my boys because they
all, you know, they alltreat me like I'm their mother, of
course, and uh and they bringdonuts, pilate's and all kinds of things.
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Yeah, so many good guides.How many boats you think launched from
there per day on the weekend,let's see, probably some weekends, will
you know, like on the holidays, we'll have one hundred boats launch a
hundred launch to a lot of people. Uh huh yeah, yeah, every
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little bit helps, let me tellyou. And when you have a small
business like this, no, youhave to you have to count every penny.
I bet. Parking is you know, especially when you have no insurance.
We do have a parking, uhyou know, parking, and it's
five dollars when you're parking this onearea. Yes, so is that the
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people who just launched their boat theypark there? Uh, the parking the
launch for the launch is ten dollars. Yes, and that's just for the
that's for the launches and their parking, and then the other people that come
to go with their guides, it'sfive dollars per car. And then they,
like I said, they have aplace, they have a place to
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park where they can lock the carand be sure you know, nobody bothers
it. And uh, that's youknow, in a different section. Pam.
If I tell you something about myselfthat I know it is not going
to make me sound good, willyou promise me you won't judge me for
it? I promise. Okay,you know you're gonna not like this,
So just say, well, Iunderstand, because I don't you scold me
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because I didn't have to tell youthis. So when I if I'm going
out to the West End, andespecially if it's like a Friday evening and
I exit off there and I seeyou on the right, you know how
you can't go through that neighborhood tothe right. They want you to stay
on the feeder there. But it'sall jammed up because people are trying to
get up to the light and turnright on sixty eight. You know they
got they got those little sticks.She's not supposed to go, and they
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got away so that the neighborhood canget out to the feeder, but you
can't get in. But of courseyou can get in if you're willing to.
Why a lot of times I dothat, I go through the neighborhood.
Yeah, I hate the thing too. Yeah. Well, I guess
if they didn't do it, theywould wear the neighborhood out. So now
it's just me doing it. Yeah. See, I don't like those I
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don't like the way they cut.I don't like the way they put those
way they cut chopped up the sideways, you know, the when you went
in. But I guess the neighborsthey did that or something. I'm not
sure, but anyway, so,uh no, we'll probably down here cleaning
tomorrow. What's the hardest part aboutrunning Galveston? Probably repairing dogs? I'm
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sorry. What's the hardest part aboutrunning Galveston? Bait and tackle? What's
the hardest part? Storms? Storms? How many times have you been hit?
But then like mm ten times welost our building and I lost the
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building and everything and we had torebuild, and I thought, I don't
know if I could do it again. I don't know if I could do
it again. But then when Iget out here this morning, I'm looking
at the bright blue skies looking overthe water, and I said, yeah,
I can do it again. Pullup your pull up your pants,
and let's go to work. Andlet's get this place back in business where
I can see all my friends andmy guys and all this stuff, and
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let's go to work. Pam,you're my kind of girl. As soon
as y'all are back up and running, I'm gonna pomp in on you and
have a beer at five point thirtyin the morning. All right, you
do that. Good luck, sweetheart. Thank you, and thank you for
lett me call you. Okay,well we tracked you down, and thank
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you for talking to us. Youknow, if that doesn't make your day
better, whatever you're doing today,you're on the way to the job site,
you're on your way to do thisor that. The resilience of people
like that, forget Joe Biden andpolitics. That resilience right there, that
strength to get up when when mostpeople could just feel sorry for themselves.
(31:38):
Man, we should all have moreof that. I got a guy that's
a cook at waffle House that I'vebeen trying to talk into coming on the
air with us and he's finally agreedhe's going to be our guest Max after
that. Will take your call sevenone three nine nine nine one thousand,
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