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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. Ah, yes, it's Friday,
(00:25):
and it's a special edition. It is Father's Day Sunday. Well,
we think is incredibly important in this country, and as
always we pay tribute.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Today, heavy ded.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Happy day, when do war, whenny war? When war.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
She is away? He loves me happy day or happy
d happy or happy day.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
When Jesus war, Oh pitty war, when Jesus war.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
She is away? He loved the abby day.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Happy day, a happy day.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Winter, those wars, oh whitty war, windy those war fut.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Three years away?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He did?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He love.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy day, oh happy or happy deal?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Taking the.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Happy day? Oh habit.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
When Jesus wall wait he w was when Jesus war
three yets away? He need to look I have it?
(05:03):
Oh long, good god.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh yes. One of my favorite shows of the year
where we pay tribute to fathers seven one three nine
ninety nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand. Don't just say your father was great, wonderful, awesome.
Those are adjectives, but they're not descriptive. What specifically did
your father do that you remember that meant a lot
(05:42):
that you look back on that at the time you
understood that was a show of his love and sacrifice.
That was his gift to you, of his time, his energy,
his effort, his patience is kindness seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine one one thousand.
To get a started, as we always do, go to
(06:02):
see of the greatest executive producer in all the land,
Chattiko Nation. You're a week in review.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I Love bar is It.
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You're going to have some dif from Saint Luis p
to see carrying a Hamas flag, and it's supposed to
give you the image that, look, wherever we're from, we're
all angry at this country. We refuse to leave from
I Love bar is It.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Anti Ice protesters clashing with the National Guard troops outside
of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Cars being sat on fire, fireworks being shot off at
police officers, protesters blocking roadways.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You'll notice it's all foreign flags.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
It's all Mexican flags, Palestinian flags.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Flags from like El Salvador, it's all four it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
When you're carrying the Mexican flag in Los Angeles protesting
that you don't want to be sent back to Mexico.
I am very proud Mexican. You can't send me back
to Mexico. Well, perhaps you're not as proud a Mexican
as you claim to be.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
For a lot of high school seniors, at the end
of the school year senior pranks. Two Sealy High School
seniors put up a coming soon sign for fake HB.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Well, they're posts on Facebook has people celebrating, sharing and
tagging their friends.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
But according to Facebook comments, people really want one.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
This is the best pr HGB could ever hope and
it's funny and it's young people. When young people think
you're cool, that's rare. You're a grocery store Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, please rise for the zame bone. I
can't speak for girls because they're wired different, and thank
(07:45):
God for that. But what dude hadn't wanted to drive
the zambone? And I bet a good number of men
listening to the to the show. Maybe women too, I
just don't know thought for themselves now. I like drive zambone.
I'd go work on Saturny one. Just drive zambone. It'd
be fun. Why this game now?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Ol Man.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Feel the chass on his hands.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Dusty overall.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
My man now understand.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
EHS the four hour System from the Michael Very Show
and other leading companies.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Sixteen alarm clock won't stop going.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I'll stumble to the same, Try to think. Fill the
coffee pot, Mmm, coffee.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Get the sleepy heads out of bed, get them fed,
get them dressed, hurry up, get your stuff in the truck.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Blow them both to kiss when you drop them off.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
If I kill the fields died a month of Monday,
since I had a break. Sometimes to tell myself when
I had all.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I could take Fridays, come here. Tomorrow is the birthday
of the United States Army. It's a very special birthday.
It's a quarter century, two hundred and fiftieth birthday of
the United States Army. Our army actually precedes our independence
(09:34):
from the Fatherland, it precedes our constitution, it precedes America
as we know it, and we will be paying tribute
to that tomorrow on a special Saturday Bonus podcast. We
always do a Saturday Bonus podcast. Tomorrow's topic will be
(09:57):
the United States Army and will include the speech President
Trump gave it Fort Bragg earlier this week to the
United States Army. Heck of a speech. He had a
lot of fun doing that. You could tell, you could
really see that he thrives on it. He thrives on
that energy that he gets from a live audience like that,
(10:17):
especially one that he has such respect for like that.
So that'll be the bonus podcast tomorrow. If the person
about whom you are paying tribute is the United States
Army veteran, be sure to mention that as well. All Right,
seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand or more.
I will handle the calls. Let's see how that works
out here. Mark, you're up first, sir, Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Morning, Michael. I got three brothers, and our dad did
many things for us, But the two most important things
he did was he kept us in church as a family.
And then secondly, Buddy, he taught us how to work,
and I mean weren't hard. He taught us skills, and
those skills have carried all four of us way down
(11:01):
the road in life.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Interesting you should say that, Mark, thank you for the call.
We've been talking. We've been talking about that this week
on the show. And I study people, families, cultures, personalities, policies.
These these are things that I don't have a hobby
in that sense. That's what I do, that's what I study,
that's what I'm constantly trying to understand. And I have
(11:29):
noticed that well to do families, their kids do not
sit around all summer. They put their kids to work
doing things. As they get older, they put them in
office environments where they're you know, whether they're at trans
Western or one of the energy companies, or a downtown
(11:51):
law firm, or when they're younger, they have them doing
things like manual labor, whether that's on a farm, whether
that's in a restaurant kitchen. I think you learn so
much from that. And it's not that they need the
money or the kid needs the money. It's that it's
an important trait to learn. Happy Father's Ay to your father.
(12:13):
Mark stand Low, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Go ahead, Good morning, Michael. I wanted to talk about
several dads in my life because my dad died when
I was thirteen, and he was a pastor, and he
was a wonderful dad. He did all sorts of things
for us, and I could still remember the steel of
(12:37):
his coat on my cheek when I would stand next
to him, when he would shake hands with people on
the way out. He just was a great guy and
I just lost him way too soon. But I had
four uncles that stepped in and you know, rode in
my first truck to decide if it was going to
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be good, or or brought me a tobacco leaf from
his vacation because every girl should have tobacco in a pouch,
tobacco in her truck, and little stuff like that. You know,
they were they were always there to help me with everything.
(13:19):
And uh, my husband had been raised without a dad,
and so they kind of took him under his there
his wing as well. And so now, when uh we
became parents, we really decided the things that we missed
most about our dad was things that we were going
(13:40):
to pour into our son. And my husband, Larry is
the greatest dad. He's just an awesome dad, and uh
an awesome grandpa. And now I watched my son. He's
a fifth grade teacher and he's a dad three children,
(14:00):
three daughters, and I just see that, you know, sometimes
even when you start with hard times, you can learn
to be a good dad if you want to be
a good dad. And I just think, you know, a
lot of times people don't realize that if they're a
Sunday school teacher or a ball coach or something like
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that and they see a kid that doesn't have that
in their life, they have an opportunity to make that
extra space.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I do. I do, And I just wanted to say,
you know, not only a really special because I'll also
my dad very tragically and it was very traumatic, and
it was at a time me being thirteen, you know,
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it was at a time where a girl needs her
dad and so and you know, they talk about boys
being their dads, but girls need that, you know, to
see how a dad loves his mom, you know, and
stuff like that. And uh but I think that when
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you go through trauma like that, because my husband and
I both went through different kinds of trauma, but both
of our homes were broken in different ways, and the
people around us that picked up the slack. You know,
I feel like I had many fathers in a lot
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of ways, even though the one I wanted the most
I didn't have for as long. So that was kind
of wanted what I wanted to share. He had a well,
they they they didn't do an autopsy. We were we
went to bed one night. My mom worked night, and
when we were when the three of us woke up
(15:57):
to go to school, he was hunched over in the floor,
dead in the floor. Uh, and had probably been dead
for about four or five hours. So us three kids,
we were sixteen, thirteen, and eleven, we're there with the
body for several hours. And uh, it was pretty it
was pretty tragic. So yeah, and so you know, but
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my mom was good about you know, she was very
open about everything. And like I said, she had she
had three outstanding brothers that just kind of you know,
surrounded us with good male role models. But you know,
it's a little PTSD, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Thirteen years old. Thank you for the call. Stamna beautiful.
If you're on hold, hang with me. We will get
to you. Stay right there.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Now, only.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Many more fast, a million dollar rested tail. We'll go now.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Thank you for the emails you have sent, for the
voicemails you have left. By the way, you can always
leave a voicemail for the show when we are not
on the air. It'll go it's the same number seven
one three one thousand, seven one three one zero zero zero,
and it'll go to a voicemail and you can leave it.
(17:28):
You can leave it.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Then.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
People leave us voicemails at all hours of the day,
and we occasionally use those on the show, and we
don't take calls very often on the evening show, and
sometimes we will we will splice those in there just
to get more voices on the show. I think it
makes I think makes for a better sound, better feel.
(17:50):
But you're always welcome to leave a voicemail for the
show when we are not on the air. The phone
line is always open for that. For those of you
who did take time to email and leave voicemails, those
will be used both on this the morning show and
on the evening show. So thank you all for that.
You know, it's a very interesting thing that happens. I
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noticed that on Father's Day I tend to get almost
exclusively calls from men, and on Mother's Day it's about
sixty forty from women. I don't know why that is.
It's a really really interesting phenomenon, but I do note it. Charles,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Go ahead, sir, Thank you, Michael. I'm really grateful for
this opportunity. It's my first time ever calling to your show.
Or to any kind of show ever. But I'm grateful
that I use it to appreciate my dad in some way.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I'm glad to have you d him.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
Losing him as the Weston that ever happened to me
as specific Michael. And what my dad did specifically was
he instilled in me and my siblings, you know, the
discipline to be hard working and truthful. And the one
that affects me directly was his physical expression of confidence
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and loving me publicly, which she did in an event
family battering event where I had to speak and people
try to shut me down, and he stood up and
he said, I believe in that sixteen year old boy.
He's very confident and he's very smart. You guys should
listen to whatever ideas he might have to whatever he
wanted to contribute. And that has kept me going all
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my life, has sent me through all my success in
life after this day, and I'm so so grateful to him.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Charles.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Where are you from? Where were you born?
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Geria?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Mm hm where legos oh?
Speaker 10 (20:06):
No I was born in the north, a place called
Bauchi was pretty dominantly.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Ebo.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Were you adopted?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
No uh I moved here permanently sixteen years ago, okay,
and uh, I've ever since lived here in America and
I currently have families. I have two boys and two girls,
and every day I pray to God for the grace
to give them what my dad gave me.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What do you do for a living?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Yeah, uh, I'm an engineer with an oil company in
Houston here.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It's not Shell, is it.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Uh No, it's one of the indigenous.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Companies, Indigenous LA.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I was living in England when kin Sara Wewa was executed,
and it was for several months it was the hottest
issue in English politics because obviously, if you know the story,
he had studied in London and he'd gone back to
be an activist there, and the British government was doing
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everything they could to save his life. But I did
a deep dive into Nigerian politics and culture and tribes
and languages and the Muslims and the Christians, and it's
a really really interesting, very very interesting place. Charles, wonderful call, sir,
I think thank you for that wonderful call. Call back
(21:52):
again sometime. Let's go to Philip. Philip you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning, Michael, first time caller
as well, and appreciate the time you're giving me. So,
you know, I lost my dad ten years ago. I
was about fifty forty two at the time when when
he passed away. But my dad, you know, was was
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a provider. You know, he was the foundation came and
my mom both they were a team. And my mom
she's still alive. She's already eighty one, and thank god
she's you know, she's well and able. She does for herself.
She still drives, she still goes to the grocery store,
and you know, I'm grateful for them. But they were
a team, and they were providers, and they instilled a
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lot of a lot of values in us. You know,
my dad was not the kind of guy that was
going to take you and say, hey, I want to
teach you this, Come watch and you know, come learn.
He was going to just do something and you would
just have to kind of see what he was doing.
And the biggest thing for him was he was a
hard worker. You know, my dad had had had a
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regular job money dough Friday, he was a machinist in
a machine shop and on the weekends, you know, he
would cut grass on Saturday, sometimes Sundays. But he was
also a musician, uh in the spare time, you know,
so on the weekends, Friday night, Saturday night, he would
go out with you know, with his little group and
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they would play in these little places. And it wasn't
really for him making the money for himself because my dad,
you know, like I said, you know, he heard, he
worked hard and he provided. So my dad was the
one that had all the equipment, he had all the setups,
he had the transportation, so he would pick up his
group members and they would go to these little establishments
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and you know, play their music. And my dad was
split the money evenly with them because he knew that
they weren't you know, they weren't more in need than
he was, which was to me that that that's you know,
something you don't see a lot. But you know, my
dad worked all the time time, you know, no matter
what time he went to bed, what was going on
the night before, he was going to get up and
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go to work the next day on time, and you know,
working where he did. You know, he would be at
work sometimes three in the morning to six in the morning,
just depending what kind of what kind of jobs they had,
you know, lined up. But you know, like I said,
he's he's gone now, but you know he's he's instilled
a lot of those values in us, you know, and
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my parents were They were stable, very stable, and they
believed in putting the time in and and and being
being grounded. You know, my dad worked for at the
job where he worked for over thirty five years. And
you know, growing up, you know, we always had what
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we needed. You know, we didn't grow up in the
best area, but you know, we always always had electricity,
We always had water, We always had a telephone, We
always had gas, you know, the natural gas. You know,
we had neighbors sometimes that would get their electricity turned
off or their water turned off. But you know, we
always we always had and my parents, like I said,
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always gave us what we needed. And sometimes we got
some of the things that we wanted, but not often.
But you know, we we had a I tell people
I had a great childhood. Uh it's the best that
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Sorry about that, don't be great. Call Philip, thank you
for calling. Victor, Mike, will all of you hangtut to
get right to you seven one three nine nine nine one.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I used to do aerobics till I dropped and then
I found you, Michael Very Joe.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
I recommend that all.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I had heard this song before. It wasn't that I hadn't,
but I hadn't really really focused on it and studied
it looked in the history of it. But it's one
of Ramon's favorites. And so twenty years of doing this
every year at Father's Day, he would play the song
and talk about how special it was to him, and
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I came to understand there's so much to that song.
It comes out in nineteen sixty nine, height of the
Vietnam War. We would end up losing fifty eight two
hundred and twenty men in Vietnam, and those were the years.
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You know, people believed the election of Nixon in November
of sixty eight would lead by sixty nine to a withdrawal,
and that's not what happened. He was duping people, and
that's when you begin the Cambodian bombings on the west
side of Vietnam to keep that Ho Chi Minh trail,
(26:55):
to try to disrupt the Ho Chi Min Trail. A
lot of Americans getting killed at that time. And in
that song, it's not just some Diddy. It's a song
the dad of these seven kids has been killed in
the war, which you know, because of Vietnam, and this
was happening. You know, dads were being killed in the war,
(27:16):
and so basically I hate the word. But the man
he's talking about coloring his father is his stepfather, who
you know, steps in and becomes his dad. Just such
a beautiful, beautiful message because life is not perfect. You know,
blind Victor didn't choose to be born or to develop blindness.
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We don't choose to be born with thyroid disorders or
as a midget, or who knows what other conditions people have,
or how things happen, or parents split, one dies, one
gets cancer, But you make the most of.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
What you have.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
A guy who wrote that is Richard Lewis Spencer. He
was a tenor Sacks for Otis Redding. Of course had
to move on and he played backed up Curtis Mayfield
with the Impressions and then of course the Winstons great
song Color Him Father by the Winston's Denise, I'm moving
(28:22):
you to the front of line because you're the first
girl to call in this week. You're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Sweetheart, go ahead, Hi, Michael. I'm so excited that I've
listened to your show for years as I used to
drive to work, and thank you for having me on.
My late dad was a surgeon. I was raised in
South Africa and has lived in this beautiful country since
nineteen seventy nine. He was this big, fat, jolly, technically
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brilliant surgeon who had the best sense of humor and
treated everybody from the scrub nurses to the guys cleaning
the garage the same. He had no a level of
importance about him and he was adored by everyone. Unfortunately,
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he was killed in a head on collision at the
age of sixty, leaving my mom, who was an absolute
darling who've passed away in March this year as a widow.
And he taught me several things. First of all, instilled
the love of medicine, which have followed as a career
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and two of my kids have followed as well. He
taught me how to laugh. He taught me a sense
of humor and looking at the world and seeing humor
in sometimes some of the most desperate situations, which has
helped me deal with so many other traumas that have
occurred in our family. And most of all, he taught
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me about compa and having respect for other human beings
and respecting anyone who went out and did a job
of work, never mind what it was, because his work
ethic was very strong, which was instilled in all of us.
And I've never ever made a tribute to him, but
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I thank you for this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You know, it's interesting the things we remember about our
dads that maybe at that time we would not have
appreciated their prowess for fixing things, how hard they work.
Reading the emails laid into the night last night and
early this morning, how many people talked about the multiple
(30:46):
jobs their fathers worked. It's really interesting we come as adults,
we come to appreciate our fathers in a different way
for things that maybe as a child we would not have.
Where in South Africa are you from, Denise?
Speaker 9 (31:04):
I was born and raised in Johannesburg and have lived
in Houston since seventy nine, where my husband is also
South African and I were his three amazing kids who
all went to hisd UT. Two of them are practicing
physicians in Houston at the moment, and the third lives
in New York. Is a systems analyst, and our kids
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knew from day one when they went to school much
to try and get the initial of the subject that
we're studying, not to come back with them F for
French and G four history and and H for history.
I mean a G for geography and H for history.
They called me a lion mother or lion parents because
we kind of instilled upon them that they're better come
(31:49):
back with a A well, otherwise I have to do
some explaining. So we laugh about it because we're very
close and appreciated living here and enjoying this wonderful country.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. Ah, yes, it's Friday,
(00:25):
and it's a special edition. It is Father's Day Sunday. Well,
we think is incredibly important in this country, and as
always we pay tribute.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Today, heavy ded.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Happy day, when do war, whenny war? When war.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
She is away? He loves me happy day or happy
d happy or happy day.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
When Jesus war, Oh pitty war, when Jesus war.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
She is away? He loved the abby day.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Happy day, a happy day.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Winter, those wars, oh whitty war, windy those war fut.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Three years away?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He did?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He love.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy day, oh happy or happy deal?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Taking the.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Happy day? Oh habit.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
When Jesus wall wait he w was when Jesus war
three yets away? He need to look I have it?
(05:03):
Oh long, good god.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh yes. One of my favorite shows of the year
where we pay tribute to fathers seven one three nine
ninety nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand. Don't just say your father was great, wonderful, awesome.
Those are adjectives, but they're not descriptive. What specifically did
your father do that you remember that meant a lot
(05:42):
that you look back on that at the time you
understood that was a show of his love and sacrifice.
That was his gift to you, of his time, his energy,
his effort, his patience is kindness seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine one one thousand.
To get a started, as we always do, go to
(06:02):
see of the greatest executive producer in all the land,
Chattiko Nation. You're a week in review.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I Love bar is It.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You're going to have some dif from Saint Luis p
to see carrying a Hamas flag, and it's supposed to
give you the image that, look, wherever we're from, we're
all angry at this country. We refuse to leave from
I Love bar is It.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Anti Ice protesters clashing with the National Guard troops outside
of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Cars being sat on fire, fireworks being shot off at
police officers, protesters blocking roadways.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You'll notice it's all foreign flags.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
It's all Mexican flags, Palestinian flags.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Flags from like El Salvador, it's all four it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
When you're carrying the Mexican flag in Los Angeles protesting
that you don't want to be sent back to Mexico.
I am very proud Mexican. You can't send me back
to Mexico. Well, perhaps you're not as proud a Mexican
as you claim to be.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
For a lot of high school seniors, at the end
of the school year senior pranks. Two Sealy High School
seniors put up a coming soon sign for fake HB.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Well, they're posts on Facebook has people celebrating, sharing and
tagging their friends.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
But according to Facebook comments, people really want one.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
This is the best pr HGB could ever hope and
it's funny and it's young people. When young people think
you're cool, that's rare. You're a grocery store Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, please rise for the zame bone. I
can't speak for girls because they're wired different, and thank
(07:45):
God for that. But what dude hadn't wanted to drive
the zambone? And I bet a good number of men
listening to the to the show. Maybe women too, I
just don't know thought for themselves now. I like drive zambone.
I'd go work on Saturny one. Just drive zambone. It'd
be fun. Why this game now?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Ol Man.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Feel the chass on his hands.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Dusty overall.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
My man now understand.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
EHS the four hour System from the Michael Very Show
and other leading companies.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Sixteen alarm clock won't stop going.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I'll stumble to the same, Try to think. Fill the
coffee pot, Mmm, coffee.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Get the sleepy heads out of bed, get them fed,
get them dressed, hurry up, get your stuff in the truck.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Blow them both to kiss when you drop them off.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
If I kill the fields died a month of Monday,
since I had a break. Sometimes to tell myself when
I had all.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I could take Fridays, come here. Tomorrow is the birthday
of the United States Army. It's a very special birthday.
It's a quarter century, two hundred and fiftieth birthday of
the United States Army. Our army actually precedes our independence
(09:34):
from the Fatherland, it precedes our constitution, it precedes America
as we know it, and we will be paying tribute
to that tomorrow on a special Saturday Bonus podcast. We
always do a Saturday Bonus podcast. Tomorrow's topic will be
(09:57):
the United States Army and will include the speech President
Trump gave it Fort Bragg earlier this week to the
United States Army. Heck of a speech. He had a
lot of fun doing that. You could tell, you could
really see that he thrives on it. He thrives on
that energy that he gets from a live audience like that,
(10:17):
especially one that he has such respect for like that.
So that'll be the bonus podcast tomorrow. If the person
about whom you are paying tribute is the United States
Army veteran, be sure to mention that as well. All Right,
seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand or more.
I will handle the calls. Let's see how that works
out here. Mark, you're up first, sir, Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Morning, Michael. I got three brothers, and our dad did
many things for us, But the two most important things
he did was he kept us in church as a family.
And then secondly, Buddy, he taught us how to work,
and I mean weren't hard. He taught us skills, and
those skills have carried all four of us way down
(11:01):
the road in life.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Interesting you should say that, Mark, thank you for the call.
We've been talking. We've been talking about that this week
on the show. And I study people, families, cultures, personalities, policies.
These these are things that I don't have a hobby
in that sense. That's what I do, that's what I study,
that's what I'm constantly trying to understand. And I have
(11:29):
noticed that well to do families, their kids do not
sit around all summer. They put their kids to work
doing things. As they get older, they put them in
office environments where they're you know, whether they're at trans
Western or one of the energy companies, or a downtown
(11:51):
law firm, or when they're younger, they have them doing
things like manual labor, whether that's on a farm, whether
that's in a restaurant kitchen. I think you learn so
much from that. And it's not that they need the
money or the kid needs the money. It's that it's
an important trait to learn. Happy Father's Ay to your father.
(12:13):
Mark stand Low, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Go ahead, Good morning, Michael. I wanted to talk about
several dads in my life because my dad died when
I was thirteen, and he was a pastor, and he
was a wonderful dad. He did all sorts of things
for us, and I could still remember the steel of
(12:37):
his coat on my cheek when I would stand next
to him, when he would shake hands with people on
the way out. He just was a great guy and
I just lost him way too soon. But I had
four uncles that stepped in and you know, rode in
my first truck to decide if it was going to
(12:58):
be good, or or brought me a tobacco leaf from
his vacation because every girl should have tobacco in a pouch,
tobacco in her truck, and little stuff like that. You know,
they were they were always there to help me with everything.
(13:19):
And uh, my husband had been raised without a dad,
and so they kind of took him under his there
his wing as well. And so now, when uh we
became parents, we really decided the things that we missed
most about our dad was things that we were going
(13:40):
to pour into our son. And my husband, Larry is
the greatest dad. He's just an awesome dad, and uh
an awesome grandpa. And now I watched my son. He's
a fifth grade teacher and he's a dad three children,
(14:00):
three daughters, and I just see that, you know, sometimes
even when you start with hard times, you can learn
to be a good dad if you want to be
a good dad. And I just think, you know, a
lot of times people don't realize that if they're a
Sunday school teacher or a ball coach or something like
(14:23):
that and they see a kid that doesn't have that
in their life, they have an opportunity to make that
extra space.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I do. I do, And I just wanted to say,
you know, not only a really special because I'll also
my dad very tragically and it was very traumatic, and
it was at a time me being thirteen, you know,
(14:54):
it was at a time where a girl needs her
dad and so and you know, they talk about boys
being their dads, but girls need that, you know, to
see how a dad loves his mom, you know, and
stuff like that. And uh but I think that when
(15:16):
you go through trauma like that, because my husband and
I both went through different kinds of trauma, but both
of our homes were broken in different ways, and the
people around us that picked up the slack. You know,
I feel like I had many fathers in a lot
(15:36):
of ways, even though the one I wanted the most
I didn't have for as long. So that was kind
of wanted what I wanted to share. He had a well,
they they they didn't do an autopsy. We were we
went to bed one night. My mom worked night, and
when we were when the three of us woke up
(15:57):
to go to school, he was hunched over in the floor,
dead in the floor. Uh, and had probably been dead
for about four or five hours. So us three kids,
we were sixteen, thirteen, and eleven, we're there with the
body for several hours. And uh, it was pretty it
was pretty tragic. So yeah, and so you know, but
(16:23):
my mom was good about you know, she was very
open about everything. And like I said, she had she
had three outstanding brothers that just kind of you know,
surrounded us with good male role models. But you know,
it's a little PTSD, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Thirteen years old. Thank you for the call. Stamna beautiful.
If you're on hold, hang with me. We will get
to you. Stay right there.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Now, only.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Many more fast, a million dollar rested tail. We'll go now.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Thank you for the emails you have sent, for the
voicemails you have left. By the way, you can always
leave a voicemail for the show when we are not
on the air. It'll go it's the same number seven
one three one thousand, seven one three one zero zero zero,
and it'll go to a voicemail and you can leave it.
(17:28):
You can leave it.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Then.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
People leave us voicemails at all hours of the day,
and we occasionally use those on the show, and we
don't take calls very often on the evening show, and
sometimes we will we will splice those in there just
to get more voices on the show. I think it
makes I think makes for a better sound, better feel.
(17:50):
But you're always welcome to leave a voicemail for the
show when we are not on the air. The phone
line is always open for that. For those of you
who did take time to email and leave voicemails, those
will be used both on this the morning show and
on the evening show. So thank you all for that.
You know, it's a very interesting thing that happens. I
(18:12):
noticed that on Father's Day I tend to get almost
exclusively calls from men, and on Mother's Day it's about
sixty forty from women. I don't know why that is.
It's a really really interesting phenomenon, but I do note it. Charles,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Go ahead, sir, Thank you, Michael. I'm really grateful for
this opportunity. It's my first time ever calling to your show.
Or to any kind of show ever. But I'm grateful
that I use it to appreciate my dad in some way.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I'm glad to have you d him.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
Losing him as the Weston that ever happened to me
as specific Michael. And what my dad did specifically was
he instilled in me and my siblings, you know, the
discipline to be hard working and truthful. And the one
that affects me directly was his physical expression of confidence
(19:23):
and loving me publicly, which she did in an event
family battering event where I had to speak and people
try to shut me down, and he stood up and
he said, I believe in that sixteen year old boy.
He's very confident and he's very smart. You guys should
listen to whatever ideas he might have to whatever he
wanted to contribute. And that has kept me going all
(19:46):
my life, has sent me through all my success in
life after this day, and I'm so so grateful to him.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Charles.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Where are you from? Where were you born?
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Geria?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Mm hm where legos oh?
Speaker 10 (20:06):
No I was born in the north, a place called
Bauchi was pretty dominantly.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Ebo.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Were you adopted?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
No uh I moved here permanently sixteen years ago, okay,
and uh, I've ever since lived here in America and
I currently have families. I have two boys and two girls,
and every day I pray to God for the grace
to give them what my dad gave me.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What do you do for a living?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Yeah, uh, I'm an engineer with an oil company in
Houston here.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It's not Shell, is it.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Uh No, it's one of the indigenous.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Companies, Indigenous LA.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I was living in England when kin Sara Wewa was executed,
and it was for several months it was the hottest
issue in English politics because obviously, if you know the story,
he had studied in London and he'd gone back to
be an activist there, and the British government was doing
(21:31):
everything they could to save his life. But I did
a deep dive into Nigerian politics and culture and tribes
and languages and the Muslims and the Christians, and it's
a really really interesting, very very interesting place. Charles, wonderful call, sir,
I think thank you for that wonderful call. Call back
(21:52):
again sometime. Let's go to Philip. Philip you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning, Michael, first time caller
as well, and appreciate the time you're giving me. So,
you know, I lost my dad ten years ago. I
was about fifty forty two at the time when when
he passed away. But my dad, you know, was was
(22:18):
a provider. You know, he was the foundation came and
my mom both they were a team. And my mom
she's still alive. She's already eighty one, and thank god
she's you know, she's well and able. She does for herself.
She still drives, she still goes to the grocery store,
and you know, I'm grateful for them. But they were
a team, and they were providers, and they instilled a
(22:41):
lot of a lot of values in us. You know,
my dad was not the kind of guy that was
going to take you and say, hey, I want to
teach you this, Come watch and you know, come learn.
He was going to just do something and you would
just have to kind of see what he was doing.
And the biggest thing for him was he was a
hard worker. You know, my dad had had had a
(23:02):
regular job money dough Friday, he was a machinist in
a machine shop and on the weekends, you know, he
would cut grass on Saturday, sometimes Sundays. But he was
also a musician, uh in the spare time, you know,
so on the weekends, Friday night, Saturday night, he would
go out with you know, with his little group and
(23:23):
they would play in these little places. And it wasn't
really for him making the money for himself because my dad,
you know, like I said, you know, he heard, he
worked hard and he provided. So my dad was the
one that had all the equipment, he had all the setups,
he had the transportation, so he would pick up his
group members and they would go to these little establishments
(23:45):
and you know, play their music. And my dad was
split the money evenly with them because he knew that
they weren't you know, they weren't more in need than
he was, which was to me that that that's you know,
something you don't see a lot. But you know, my
dad worked all the time time, you know, no matter
what time he went to bed, what was going on
the night before, he was going to get up and
(24:07):
go to work the next day on time, and you know,
working where he did. You know, he would be at
work sometimes three in the morning to six in the morning,
just depending what kind of what kind of jobs they had,
you know, lined up. But you know, like I said,
he's he's gone now, but you know he's he's instilled
a lot of those values in us, you know, and
(24:27):
my parents were They were stable, very stable, and they
believed in putting the time in and and and being
being grounded. You know, my dad worked for at the
job where he worked for over thirty five years. And
you know, growing up, you know, we always had what
(24:49):
we needed. You know, we didn't grow up in the
best area, but you know, we always always had electricity,
We always had water, We always had a telephone, We
always had gas, you know, the natural gas. You know,
we had neighbors sometimes that would get their electricity turned
off or their water turned off. But you know, we
always we always had and my parents, like I said,
(25:09):
always gave us what we needed. And sometimes we got
some of the things that we wanted, but not often.
But you know, we we had a I tell people
I had a great childhood. Uh it's the best that
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Sorry about that, don't be great. Call Philip, thank you
for calling. Victor, Mike, will all of you hangtut to
get right to you seven one three nine nine nine one.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I used to do aerobics till I dropped and then
I found you, Michael Very Joe.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
I recommend that all.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I had heard this song before. It wasn't that I hadn't,
but I hadn't really really focused on it and studied
it looked in the history of it. But it's one
of Ramon's favorites. And so twenty years of doing this
every year at Father's Day, he would play the song
and talk about how special it was to him, and
(26:11):
I came to understand there's so much to that song.
It comes out in nineteen sixty nine, height of the
Vietnam War. We would end up losing fifty eight two
hundred and twenty men in Vietnam, and those were the years.
(26:33):
You know, people believed the election of Nixon in November
of sixty eight would lead by sixty nine to a withdrawal,
and that's not what happened. He was duping people, and
that's when you begin the Cambodian bombings on the west
side of Vietnam to keep that Ho Chi Minh trail,
(26:55):
to try to disrupt the Ho Chi Min Trail. A
lot of Americans getting killed at that time. And in
that song, it's not just some Diddy. It's a song
the dad of these seven kids has been killed in
the war, which you know, because of Vietnam, and this
was happening. You know, dads were being killed in the war,
(27:16):
and so basically I hate the word. But the man
he's talking about coloring his father is his stepfather, who
you know, steps in and becomes his dad. Just such
a beautiful, beautiful message because life is not perfect. You know,
blind Victor didn't choose to be born or to develop blindness.
(27:40):
We don't choose to be born with thyroid disorders or
as a midget, or who knows what other conditions people have,
or how things happen, or parents split, one dies, one
gets cancer, But you make the most of.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
What you have.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
A guy who wrote that is Richard Lewis Spencer. He
was a tenor Sacks for Otis Redding. Of course had
to move on and he played backed up Curtis Mayfield
with the Impressions and then of course the Winstons great
song Color Him Father by the Winston's Denise, I'm moving
(28:22):
you to the front of line because you're the first
girl to call in this week. You're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Sweetheart, go ahead, Hi, Michael. I'm so excited that I've
listened to your show for years as I used to
drive to work, and thank you for having me on.
My late dad was a surgeon. I was raised in
South Africa and has lived in this beautiful country since
nineteen seventy nine. He was this big, fat, jolly, technically
(28:54):
brilliant surgeon who had the best sense of humor and
treated everybody from the scrub nurses to the guys cleaning
the garage the same. He had no a level of
importance about him and he was adored by everyone. Unfortunately,
(29:15):
he was killed in a head on collision at the
age of sixty, leaving my mom, who was an absolute
darling who've passed away in March this year as a widow.
And he taught me several things. First of all, instilled
the love of medicine, which have followed as a career
(29:35):
and two of my kids have followed as well. He
taught me how to laugh. He taught me a sense
of humor and looking at the world and seeing humor
in sometimes some of the most desperate situations, which has
helped me deal with so many other traumas that have
occurred in our family. And most of all, he taught
(29:57):
me about compa and having respect for other human beings
and respecting anyone who went out and did a job
of work, never mind what it was, because his work
ethic was very strong, which was instilled in all of us.
And I've never ever made a tribute to him, but
(30:19):
I thank you for this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You know, it's interesting the things we remember about our
dads that maybe at that time we would not have
appreciated their prowess for fixing things, how hard they work.
Reading the emails laid into the night last night and
early this morning, how many people talked about the multiple
(30:46):
jobs their fathers worked. It's really interesting we come as adults,
we come to appreciate our fathers in a different way
for things that maybe as a child we would not have.
Where in South Africa are you from, Denise?
Speaker 9 (31:04):
I was born and raised in Johannesburg and have lived
in Houston since seventy nine, where my husband is also
South African and I were his three amazing kids who
all went to hisd UT. Two of them are practicing
physicians in Houston at the moment, and the third lives
in New York. Is a systems analyst, and our kids
(31:27):
knew from day one when they went to school much
to try and get the initial of the subject that
we're studying, not to come back with them F for
French and G four history and and H for history.
I mean a G for geography and H for history.
They called me a lion mother or lion parents because
we kind of instilled upon them that they're better come
(31:49):
back with a A well, otherwise I have to do
some explaining. So we laugh about it because we're very
close and appreciated living here and enjoying this wonderful country.
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