November 7, 2025 • 29 mins
From emotional mariachis to awkward leg grabs on the way to a recital, Michael Berry serves up a Friday mix of faith, food, and fishing—with a side of salsa and sass.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh yes, even Ramon messing up the cross faith can't
ruin good Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I heard that.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, I did my ears very carefully, tuned to the
perfection we never seem to quite achieve.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is open line Friday. Has your week flown or bloom?
What would you like to share with us?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Happy when.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Whendy wool, whenos.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
She's the way he loves, a happy day or happy day?
Happy or happy day?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
When those war.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Pitty wary, when those.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
War sheel the way he loved. It's a happy day.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
A happy day or a happy day.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Happy winter, those war, oh whity war, winder those war.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Three years away.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
He need a lot happy day.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Heapy deed good happy deal, God, happy deal, happy day,
(04:40):
Oh happy they.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
When those world oh waity war, when those wool threeas away,
he needed to uk me the hay day, Oh.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Good indeed, it is a happy day, a beautiful day outside,
a beautiful day to be alive, a beautiful day in America.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You'd like to be on the program seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. Of course you can always
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. And
now to get us started as we always do, courtesy
of the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chad Aconey.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Knakanishi, you will weaken with out of sugar. Sugar, what
a crunch?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Somehow pop it up on my screen a photo of
send him a buttertoes sen him buttertoes Man. I look
back now.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My grandmother lived in a little ramshackle trailer, but it
was the happiest place I've ever been in my life
because she was such a good cook.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Really an unbelievable scene.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You're in Houston, hundreds of people at risk of losing
their SNAP benefits lined.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Up for food.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Malagiata go has been a SNAP recipients for more than
three decades, been a Snap recipients for more than three decades.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
More than three decades. I have depended on those benefits
since the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Are there some people who would go hungry if we
stopped buying every meal for them?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah? Is that a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, it's why you don't feed the animals at a safari.
They'll stop learning how to feed themselves. But Backel, there's children.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
People need to stop having children. They cannot support.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Former Vice President Kamala Harris's sparking debate after saying she
believes the voting age should be lowered to sixteen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think we should produce voting age to sixteen.
Speaker 11 (06:49):
Gen Z, there is about thirteen for twenty seven. They've
only known the climate crisis. They've coined the term climate
anxiety to describe fear of not only being able to
buy a home, but who fairly'll be wiped out by
extreame with it, but fear of having.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
To climate change anxiety.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You know, when I was growing up, this was kind
of stuff that adults and especially men, would say, stop being.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Such a little sissy. What in the world are you doing?
We need more of that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Things took a bad turn at the newly opened Bass
Pro Shops.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The Odessa Police Department was called to the store.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We're all at Vans Pro Shops, brought touches kicks. I
do love watching smalltown TV reports because they're not polished.
She's attempting to capture the collective sadness of man.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's why we can't have nothing nice. Supposed to be
the time to celebrate the first basket Pro shop celebrate midnight.
It's getting a mass pro shop. But no, we can't
have nothing nice. Y'all messed it up with his.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Shoe three feet you've seen it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You see it with his finger on the pulse. The
King Up team continues on The Michael Berry Show, Who
the Phone Lines?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We go seven one, three, one thousand, Willie Europe first,
be excellent.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That was tough to do. Go more to Mike, Michael.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
Uh, yeah, as far as the week off on the
Downloe but finishing in you know, only good one. My
dad passed away a couple of weeks ago, ninety well,
we buried him on his birthday, would have been ninety
six years old. And it's lived a great life and
made a great legacy for Galveston and all his kids.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
What was his name?
Speaker 12 (09:07):
Carlos Bangs Gonzalez b a n gs. Gonzalez Bangs is
from the Samuel Bangs that started all the newspapers in
the Texas Gulf Coast way back and I'm named after
William Bangs.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But side notes, where was Samuel Bangs from?
Speaker 12 (09:26):
I couldn't tell you Europe somewhere came here and did
he started papers on both sides of the border back
you know, and when there was when the world was
changing between Texas governed in Mexico governed in US. So
it was an interesting time. Started the Jalason paper.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And what did Carlos Gazalez do?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You name it?
Speaker 12 (09:49):
I mean he was really a born engineered by by trade.
He was, I guess you could say the first class
worlder and did just I could show you some pictures.
In fact, I'll sent them to you. Just come home
top to bottom dirty, you know, after twelve hour shift
working all the ships.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Or wherever, and.
Speaker 12 (10:08):
You dressed up, put on his Matador type outfit, you know,
and go singing and serenading people in restaurants and that
kind of thing. And he was very good at it.
In fact, he started me singing when I was five
years old, and that started my career. I mean, that's
what I do today. You have to feed my family.
And it was an honor to sing a song that
he taught me. Oh gosh, it's over fifty years ago
(10:32):
at his funeral with the Mariachis player. It was a
nice moment. The hard to get through. But Maga Carmela, and.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You say it, I sing it, yes, good for you?
How'd you feel? Like you did to do it.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
I give myself a b you know, but it's it's
it was.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It was.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
The first verses was almost non existent. But at the service,
you know, we had to sing songs on that reminds
me my dad a lot. Is Dan Fogelberg, the leader
of the band. Of course, that's it. You know, every
time I hear it, it gets me. But at his service,
I sang, why me, Lord Chris Chostopherson and and actually
(11:15):
the third verse I created a third verse of Spanish.
It was a translation from the first one and two.
And uh, my nephew Taylor Gonzalez accompanied me on the guitar.
It was, it was, it was really nice.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
You couldn't that's not that's not it ramon, I assure you.
But why don't you sing along with it? Let's here
because I don't even know you spoke Spanish.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh man, I didn't see you like that.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Now, that's.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, good for you, my man, very very proud of
his uh of his grandson. Did he come out and
watch the lineup band play?
Speaker 12 (12:03):
Oh you know, yeah, there's videos of him bencing and
getting all the young girls up on the the floor
and oh yeah, yeah, absolutely he was he was. He
was a suave guy, so just some pitchers. He just
kind of resembled Dean Martin a whole lot actually.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
With bud uh Pat. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 14 (12:20):
Go ahead, Hey Michael Berry, good morning. Yeah, I'm gonna
go eat uh my weekly Mexican dinner with my friend
and our favorite local restaurant.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And where is that Flindora, Texas? And what is the
name of it?
Speaker 14 (12:40):
El Carter and ile I'm gonna eat the same thing
on the menu always eat. We act like we go
in there and look at the menu so we can
eat up chips and salsa, and then we're ready to order.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And what do you order?
Speaker 14 (12:51):
Tonicles al carbone with charlo beans and lieu of beans
and right in lieu of the refrides.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And do you get assert.
Speaker 14 (13:01):
Now I'm so full after that, I can't do you.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Get kso with your chips or you just do chips
and red sauce?
Speaker 14 (13:08):
I get the sauce, so just the regular sauce.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And who do you go with?
Speaker 14 (13:13):
Wendy my child my son's childhood friend since high school.
He's thirty four and in the Navy, but he's been
friend with this boy since he was in high school,
and I'd either run him over there or go get
him and he'd be over here.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But who's gas, y'all?
Speaker 14 (13:28):
Burn mine?
Speaker 12 (13:30):
I go, I don't mind, you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay? Do y'all get anything to drink?
Speaker 14 (13:34):
And we go once a week?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Do y'all get anything to drink? We drink water?
Speaker 14 (13:39):
Save the four dollars on the drink?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And what does the bill come to for the two
of y'all?
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Twenty five?
Speaker 12 (13:47):
Ish?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, sound like a good time. Enjoy Pat Chuck on
to Michael Berry, show what you got, sir.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Hey, Michael, you know you talk a lot about different
people's jobs in the world, work, ethic and all that,
And I just think the toughest job on the planet
far as I'm concerned, is that of my wife.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
She is.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Such a help to me. I'm a pastor, and I
think the toughest job on the planet is the wife
of a pastor.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I would assume that's pretty tough, especially in a small town.
You're being watched at all times. You know, the wife
of fill in the blank does not get its due
for how difficult it is in various ways. But the
wife of a pastor, if it's done right, should be
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itself a full time job, a full time ministry, and
a lot of time and effort. Because I'm a Jean
Spross who was our pastor, Bobby Spross's wife. She worked
as the number of hours he did, and she raised
the kids. That's a tough deal.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The church is it.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
We are a free wheeled actress church. We're located in Tomball, Texas.
And uh my wife is just what's her name, chuck
real quick? Her name is Cheryl Wisacker.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Pastor's wives.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The Michael Berry Show is nwide.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I told Ramon that I would like to do if
he would please do a bump related to fishing or fish,
because I'm going to talk about fishing and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I don't even know what that was. I have no
idea what that was or where that came from.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Can we start this segment over and do something that
is a little more identifiable and a nicer song related
to fishing? I don't have one in mind, As I said,
if I did, I would have asked for it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But could you just oh hell yeah no, that is redemption.
You have redeemed yourself. Yep? Is this nitty gritty oh yeah,
lazy yelling moon coming up to night, shining through the tree.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh yeah, crickets singing and lighting bug.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
If floating on him. Breeze Betty riding.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
Across the field of the Princk turns back.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
By the old husband and wife were driving around. He's
off work today and this is on No, no, turn
it back up.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
He's getting all fired up over this song because he's
on testosterone now.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And he reaches over and puts his hand on her legs.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We're on our way to our kids reciting the start.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's a morning on a weekday, and he goes, you
used to it on the morning on all week they remember,
were Dayton?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh my god, that was twenty five years ago. Earl,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Stop?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But she kind of likes it. She kind of likes
it feels sexy. And he's all he's all been out
of shape now. She's thinking it's sacrilege because in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We'll be watching our kid up on stage at the school.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well that's how he got here. Do you ever think
about that? That's wholesome. It's wholesome radio right here. But
the reason for the fishing story is what I wanted
to tell you, and let me give you the history
of this story.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So years ago when I came to Houston, it was
probably an orange too, I just don't remember it. I
wasn't old enough.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I started noticing everywhere they had there was a bumper
sticker you see on guy's trucks, CCA Texas. I didn't
know what CCA Texas was, but I noticed that over
the years, if I ever met somebody that had a
CCA Texas sticker on their truck, it was always a
good person. There are just certain things you know, that's
(18:20):
gonna be a good guy, that's gonna be a good, honest, honorable.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Decent person.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, the first big conversation I ever had about CCA
Texas was with Levi good And and Levi was a member.
I think he was cooking for one of the events
or speaking at well, I don't know what it was,
but at any point I asked him about the organization.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, it's a great organization.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's for the the recreational fishermen, and it's just a
great guy. It's a it's a great guy thing. It's
a great I guess there's women too, but they're they're
just it's a great organization and.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He uh.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And over the years, I've come to find out it's
like Vaccaro's if somebody says, you know, if some if
a name comes up and somebody will say, oh, yeah,
he's a Vocaro, you just you know those guys are
gonna be good guys. You know you're gonna like them.
A rodeo, if somebody's involved with the rodeo, you know
you're gonna you're gonna have a lot in common with
those people.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You're gonna like what they do.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They're family oriented, they're gonna take care of their customers
and their employees. So years ago I thought, you know,
I'd love to be sponsored by CCA Texas. So I
think somebody dropped a line in the world. I never
heard back from it. And then about a year ago
I heard from Robbie Buyers over there and he started
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with big fan of the show, which you like to hear, right,
It's nice to hear people.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sometimes when I'm out, a husband or wife listens to
the show and their spouse will say, I think they
do it because they're nervous.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's what my wife doing.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They'll say, I don't really know who you are, and
I don't listen to your show, but my wife loves you,
or same thing, but my husband loves you. And I
don't know why they say that, or maybe they don't
realize that's a knife in the back because not being
known to someone it means that you're not as big
a deal as you thought you were. But being known
to someone, and that the fact that people that you
(20:21):
will listen to what I'm saying every day, especially because
I know sometimes I'm saying things to irritate you, or
sometimes I'm preaching or lecturing you or hectoring you, and
oftentimes you're going to disagree with me, and yet yet
you hang around, which is pretty cool. So he said, hey,
we want to sponsor your show, We want to be
(20:42):
partners with you. Yeah, you don't have to ask me twice.
So anyway, it will start next year because that's when
their budget process. They got a whole budget process. But
the timing works out where by the time they start,
I think they will officially become show sponsors, maybe in March.
(21:03):
But they've got this big tournament called the Star Tournament
that starts in May. And they said, uh, you know,
that's that's what we really we want folks to become members,
want them to become active.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
We want them to support what we do.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Be part of a Texas grassroots tradition ramon that works
to ensure the health and conservation of our marine resources
and anglers access to them. That's pretty cool, right, that's
the kind of stuff we stand for. Yeah, so I
was honored. So they won't officially be show sponsors. Can
(21:39):
we give them like an ex officio status romo. But
here's what I'm gonna ask you to do, not just
as a favorite to me, but because I think you
will enjoy it. Their website is CCA Texas dot org.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Go there.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
They have this CCA Texas Star Tournament. I think that's
where they I think that's their big their big membership push.
Whatever you do, you can meet good people. I've met
a lot of good people that are CCA Texas members.
But I also want to say thank you to the
executive board over there, the chairman, Robbie Buyers, the people
who like what we do, because there will invariably be
(22:12):
somebody in the organization that'll bitch about it, because that
always happens, and they.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Have decided no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The profit and loss side of the legend a lot
of people can say, well, even if we get ninety
nine people because of you, but then one complains, we're
gonna let the complainer went out, but they decided not
to do that, and I think that's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So we are honored. This is a perfect partnership.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It is so good that our business has developed to
the point that our show sponsors are people that we like,
we support, we enjoy talking about them. We'd do it
for free, but don't tell anybody, because you know, people
got to get paid. Ramona's got high expenses and all
of that sort of stuff. But if you would go
(22:55):
to CCA Texas dot org and become a member, I'd
consider that a solid. If you become a member and
your membership email you get, you forward that to me
with the name of your business and what you do
in your contact you know, your phone.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Number, whatever, I'll read those on there.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'll do that solid. So you get a free mention.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And if you're already a member, if you would send
Robbie Byers over there a note saying, hey, thanks for
supporting to Michael Berry show.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I like the show. The show stays on the air.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Because of sponsors, so welcome to the show sponsor family,
CCA Texas dot org.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And so I've just put that on the Michael Barris
Michael Berry's Show.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
If the spirit moves you, rob an email to Robbie
Byers or anyone else at CCA Texas that you know
and thank them for joining our show. We are delighted
to have them. Got an email this morning from Jeff
Keene Big Jeff. He played O line over at the
University of Houston, so we call him Big j It's
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for good reason. He's a big boy.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And he says one you know, we hired Daniel Dean
to regrade and do the whole thing. Let's see if
I can find the actual words he use. Here we go, Treli.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Willim Frame just hired Daniel Dean Land Clearing for a
two hundred, twenty thousand dollars grading, paving and draining project
at our location. Thanks to the efforts of our friend
and fellow Barry Brigadier Daniel Dean, in a few weeks,
my teammates in the back will have a less bumpy
and muddy existence. We are delighted to know that our
project will be done flawlessly and by someone who gives
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back to our community. Thank you for attracting so many
best in class service providers.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love it when our show sponsors use our fellow
show sponsors. I love it when you use our show sponsors.
It delights me when you email me and say, hey,
who is your guy who does X? And I can
forward you by email to usually to the person who
runs the operation to make sure that you get the
absolute best service, which is what I want you to
get every single time. Today marks the sixty third birthday
(25:07):
a very dear friend of mine, Chancellor McLain. Chancellor McLain,
who has contributed so much to the show over the years,
through so many different.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Characters, songs, writing, and.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Eventually became a show sponsor. Who would have guessed my
dad's seventy fifth birthday. He set out with my dad
for about four hours and interviewed him because I didn't
know how long we'd have with my dad has ten years.
I never would have guessed we'd get another ten years.
And they went through my dad's entire life. My mom
and dad pulled together every photo they had of my dad,
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and he weaves all of that in the interview into
into a beautiful biopic beautiful little biography. Why should biographies
only be for famous people. My dad's life is meaningful,
it's important. There are lessons to be learned from it.
And so every year on his birthday we get together
and we watched that movie again, and I've sent it,
of course to all the family members, and I said,
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you know, a chance you got a business here.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
This is a This is a real business. People want this.
What is it where? You know?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
People spend all this money on a headstone to put
a piece of rock out in a cemetery. But this
is this is a way to memorialize, to remember, and
you know, for the whenever my dad passes, which we
all will, I'll be able to go back and watch
him and see him talk and see his mannerisms and
hear his mannerisms, and hear him talking about his life
and my life and being my father and his work
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and all those stories I heard as a kid. Now
we've got him down on tape and in a very
pleasant form of storytelling through film. Yeah, we've got a
real business. And slowly but surely that became ninety nine
percent of his business. In fact, he does it now
on a on a grand scale as well. For cities,
for businesses telling their story but using the same heritage
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film mindset, and he has built a team of people
that include his honor, his son, and his wife in there.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
It's been a gorgeous thing to watch, a glorious thing
to watch.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So happy sixty third birthday to my good friend Chancellor
McLean and I am reminded of the first the first
thing he ever did that aired on radio.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It was not on our show.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It was actually on six' ten But john And lance
at the, time and it was A Matt bullard.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Tribute. Yeah Remember Matt bullard played for The. Rockets here
it is.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Every.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Night you know what it's Not we're not gonna do
it justice for more to play it in the next.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Segment Matt bullard was really tall and slight of build
player for The, rockets and he was tall enough to
play low, post but what he wanted to do was
spot up jack. Threes he's a really good three point,
shooter kind of Like Sam. Perkins he didn't want to
get down there and bang around with those big.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Boys wasn't his. Fault he was.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Tall and it's a tribute To Matt bullard in the
same way that he in the same way That chance
made a tribute to the third string quarterback for The
university For Houston texans at the, time who we ended
up coaching.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Against it's kind of, funny small.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
World but he was just a listener and he would
he would call in To John granado And lynzerlines show
on six' ten in the morning, sports radio and then
eventually they offered him a position to come in and
work for, the show and eventually they would all go
over to a STATION called kagal and he would be
the station the, program director and eventually he would. Get
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fired he tells the story BETTER than. I do he
would get fired for not being willing to do whatever
they told him. To do chance is not a great.
Order taker but that was the best thing, ever happened
because then he started his business and the rest. Is
history
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh yes, even Ramon messing up the cross faith can't
ruin good Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I heard that.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, I did my ears very carefully, tuned to the
perfection we never seem to quite achieve.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is open line Friday. Has your week flown or bloom?
What would you like to share with us?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Happy when.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Whendy wool, whenos.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
She's the way he loves, a happy day or happy day?
Happy or happy day?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
When those war.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Pitty wary, when those.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
War sheel the way he loved. It's a happy day.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
A happy day or a happy day.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Happy winter, those war, oh whity war, winder those war.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Three years away.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
He need a lot happy day.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Heapy deed good happy deal, God, happy deal, happy day,
(04:40):
Oh happy they.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
When those world oh waity war, when those wool threeas away,
he needed to uk me the hay day, Oh.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Good indeed, it is a happy day, a beautiful day outside,
a beautiful day to be alive, a beautiful day in America.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You'd like to be on the program seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. Of course you can always
email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. And
now to get us started as we always do, courtesy
of the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chad Aconey.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Knakanishi, you will weaken with out of sugar. Sugar, what
a crunch?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Somehow pop it up on my screen a photo of
send him a buttertoes sen him buttertoes Man. I look
back now.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My grandmother lived in a little ramshackle trailer, but it
was the happiest place I've ever been in my life
because she was such a good cook.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Really an unbelievable scene.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You're in Houston, hundreds of people at risk of losing
their SNAP benefits lined.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Up for food.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Malagiata go has been a SNAP recipients for more than
three decades, been a Snap recipients for more than three decades.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
More than three decades. I have depended on those benefits
since the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Are there some people who would go hungry if we
stopped buying every meal for them?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah? Is that a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, it's why you don't feed the animals at a safari.
They'll stop learning how to feed themselves. But Backel, there's children.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
People need to stop having children. They cannot support.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Former Vice President Kamala Harris's sparking debate after saying she
believes the voting age should be lowered to sixteen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think we should produce voting age to sixteen.
Speaker 11 (06:49):
Gen Z, there is about thirteen for twenty seven. They've
only known the climate crisis. They've coined the term climate
anxiety to describe fear of not only being able to
buy a home, but who fairly'll be wiped out by
extreame with it, but fear of having.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
To climate change anxiety.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You know, when I was growing up, this was kind
of stuff that adults and especially men, would say, stop being.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Such a little sissy. What in the world are you doing?
We need more of that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Things took a bad turn at the newly opened Bass
Pro Shops.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The Odessa Police Department was called to the store.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We're all at Vans Pro Shops, brought touches kicks. I
do love watching smalltown TV reports because they're not polished.
She's attempting to capture the collective sadness of man.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's why we can't have nothing nice. Supposed to be
the time to celebrate the first basket Pro shop celebrate midnight.
It's getting a mass pro shop. But no, we can't
have nothing nice. Y'all messed it up with his.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Shoe three feet you've seen it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You see it with his finger on the pulse. The
King Up team continues on The Michael Berry Show, Who
the Phone Lines?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We go seven one, three, one thousand, Willie Europe first,
be excellent.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That was tough to do. Go more to Mike, Michael.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
Uh, yeah, as far as the week off on the
Downloe but finishing in you know, only good one. My
dad passed away a couple of weeks ago, ninety well,
we buried him on his birthday, would have been ninety
six years old. And it's lived a great life and
made a great legacy for Galveston and all his kids.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
What was his name?
Speaker 12 (09:07):
Carlos Bangs Gonzalez b a n gs. Gonzalez Bangs is
from the Samuel Bangs that started all the newspapers in
the Texas Gulf Coast way back and I'm named after
William Bangs.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But side notes, where was Samuel Bangs from?
Speaker 12 (09:26):
I couldn't tell you Europe somewhere came here and did
he started papers on both sides of the border back
you know, and when there was when the world was
changing between Texas governed in Mexico governed in US. So
it was an interesting time. Started the Jalason paper.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And what did Carlos Gazalez do?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You name it?
Speaker 12 (09:49):
I mean he was really a born engineered by by trade.
He was, I guess you could say the first class
worlder and did just I could show you some pictures.
In fact, I'll sent them to you. Just come home
top to bottom dirty, you know, after twelve hour shift
working all the ships.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Or wherever, and.
Speaker 12 (10:08):
You dressed up, put on his Matador type outfit, you know,
and go singing and serenading people in restaurants and that
kind of thing. And he was very good at it.
In fact, he started me singing when I was five
years old, and that started my career. I mean, that's
what I do today. You have to feed my family.
And it was an honor to sing a song that
he taught me. Oh gosh, it's over fifty years ago
(10:32):
at his funeral with the Mariachis player. It was a
nice moment. The hard to get through. But Maga Carmela, and.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You say it, I sing it, yes, good for you?
How'd you feel? Like you did to do it.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
I give myself a b you know, but it's it's
it was.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It was.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
The first verses was almost non existent. But at the service,
you know, we had to sing songs on that reminds
me my dad a lot. Is Dan Fogelberg, the leader
of the band. Of course, that's it. You know, every
time I hear it, it gets me. But at his service,
I sang, why me, Lord Chris Chostopherson and and actually
(11:15):
the third verse I created a third verse of Spanish.
It was a translation from the first one and two.
And uh, my nephew Taylor Gonzalez accompanied me on the guitar.
It was, it was, it was really nice.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
You couldn't that's not that's not it ramon, I assure you.
But why don't you sing along with it? Let's here
because I don't even know you spoke Spanish.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh man, I didn't see you like that.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Now, that's.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, good for you, my man, very very proud of
his uh of his grandson. Did he come out and
watch the lineup band play?
Speaker 12 (12:03):
Oh you know, yeah, there's videos of him bencing and
getting all the young girls up on the the floor
and oh yeah, yeah, absolutely he was he was. He
was a suave guy, so just some pitchers. He just
kind of resembled Dean Martin a whole lot actually.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
With bud uh Pat. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 14 (12:20):
Go ahead, Hey Michael Berry, good morning. Yeah, I'm gonna
go eat uh my weekly Mexican dinner with my friend
and our favorite local restaurant.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And where is that Flindora, Texas? And what is the
name of it?
Speaker 14 (12:40):
El Carter and ile I'm gonna eat the same thing
on the menu always eat. We act like we go
in there and look at the menu so we can
eat up chips and salsa, and then we're ready to order.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And what do you order?
Speaker 14 (12:51):
Tonicles al carbone with charlo beans and lieu of beans
and right in lieu of the refrides.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And do you get assert.
Speaker 14 (13:01):
Now I'm so full after that, I can't do you.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Get kso with your chips or you just do chips
and red sauce?
Speaker 14 (13:08):
I get the sauce, so just the regular sauce.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And who do you go with?
Speaker 14 (13:13):
Wendy my child my son's childhood friend since high school.
He's thirty four and in the Navy, but he's been
friend with this boy since he was in high school,
and I'd either run him over there or go get
him and he'd be over here.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But who's gas, y'all?
Speaker 14 (13:28):
Burn mine?
Speaker 12 (13:30):
I go, I don't mind, you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay? Do y'all get anything to drink?
Speaker 14 (13:34):
And we go once a week?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Do y'all get anything to drink? We drink water?
Speaker 14 (13:39):
Save the four dollars on the drink?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And what does the bill come to for the two
of y'all?
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Twenty five?
Speaker 12 (13:47):
Ish?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, sound like a good time. Enjoy Pat Chuck on
to Michael Berry, show what you got, sir.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Hey, Michael, you know you talk a lot about different
people's jobs in the world, work, ethic and all that,
And I just think the toughest job on the planet
far as I'm concerned, is that of my wife.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
She is.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Such a help to me. I'm a pastor, and I
think the toughest job on the planet is the wife
of a pastor.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I would assume that's pretty tough, especially in a small town.
You're being watched at all times. You know, the wife
of fill in the blank does not get its due
for how difficult it is in various ways. But the
wife of a pastor, if it's done right, should be
(14:41):
itself a full time job, a full time ministry, and
a lot of time and effort. Because I'm a Jean
Spross who was our pastor, Bobby Spross's wife. She worked
as the number of hours he did, and she raised
the kids. That's a tough deal.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The church is it.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
We are a free wheeled actress church. We're located in Tomball, Texas.
And uh my wife is just what's her name, chuck
real quick? Her name is Cheryl Wisacker.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Pastor's wives.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The Michael Berry Show is nwide.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I told Ramon that I would like to do if
he would please do a bump related to fishing or fish,
because I'm going to talk about fishing and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I don't even know what that was. I have no
idea what that was or where that came from.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Can we start this segment over and do something that
is a little more identifiable and a nicer song related
to fishing? I don't have one in mind, As I said,
if I did, I would have asked for it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But could you just oh hell yeah no, that is redemption.
You have redeemed yourself. Yep? Is this nitty gritty oh yeah,
lazy yelling moon coming up to night, shining through the tree.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh yeah, crickets singing and lighting bug.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
If floating on him. Breeze Betty riding.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
Across the field of the Princk turns back.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
By the old husband and wife were driving around. He's
off work today and this is on No, no, turn
it back up.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
He's getting all fired up over this song because he's
on testosterone now.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And he reaches over and puts his hand on her legs.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We're on our way to our kids reciting the start.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's a morning on a weekday, and he goes, you
used to it on the morning on all week they remember,
were Dayton?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh my god, that was twenty five years ago. Earl,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Stop?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But she kind of likes it. She kind of likes
it feels sexy. And he's all he's all been out
of shape now. She's thinking it's sacrilege because in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We'll be watching our kid up on stage at the school.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well that's how he got here. Do you ever think
about that? That's wholesome. It's wholesome radio right here. But
the reason for the fishing story is what I wanted
to tell you, and let me give you the history
of this story.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So years ago when I came to Houston, it was
probably an orange too, I just don't remember it. I
wasn't old enough.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I started noticing everywhere they had there was a bumper
sticker you see on guy's trucks, CCA Texas. I didn't
know what CCA Texas was, but I noticed that over
the years, if I ever met somebody that had a
CCA Texas sticker on their truck, it was always a
good person. There are just certain things you know, that's
(18:20):
gonna be a good guy, that's gonna be a good, honest, honorable.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Decent person.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, the first big conversation I ever had about CCA
Texas was with Levi good And and Levi was a member.
I think he was cooking for one of the events
or speaking at well, I don't know what it was,
but at any point I asked him about the organization.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, it's a great organization.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's for the the recreational fishermen, and it's just a
great guy. It's a it's a great guy thing. It's
a great I guess there's women too, but they're they're
just it's a great organization and.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He uh.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And over the years, I've come to find out it's
like Vaccaro's if somebody says, you know, if some if
a name comes up and somebody will say, oh, yeah,
he's a Vocaro, you just you know those guys are
gonna be good guys. You know you're gonna like them.
A rodeo, if somebody's involved with the rodeo, you know
you're gonna you're gonna have a lot in common with
those people.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You're gonna like what they do.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They're family oriented, they're gonna take care of their customers
and their employees. So years ago I thought, you know,
I'd love to be sponsored by CCA Texas. So I
think somebody dropped a line in the world. I never
heard back from it. And then about a year ago
I heard from Robbie Buyers over there and he started
(19:41):
with big fan of the show, which you like to hear, right,
It's nice to hear people.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sometimes when I'm out, a husband or wife listens to
the show and their spouse will say, I think they
do it because they're nervous.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's what my wife doing.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They'll say, I don't really know who you are, and
I don't listen to your show, but my wife loves you,
or same thing, but my husband loves you. And I
don't know why they say that, or maybe they don't
realize that's a knife in the back because not being
known to someone it means that you're not as big
a deal as you thought you were. But being known
to someone, and that the fact that people that you
(20:21):
will listen to what I'm saying every day, especially because
I know sometimes I'm saying things to irritate you, or
sometimes I'm preaching or lecturing you or hectoring you, and
oftentimes you're going to disagree with me, and yet yet
you hang around, which is pretty cool. So he said, hey,
we want to sponsor your show, We want to be
(20:42):
partners with you. Yeah, you don't have to ask me twice.
So anyway, it will start next year because that's when
their budget process. They got a whole budget process. But
the timing works out where by the time they start,
I think they will officially become show sponsors, maybe in March.
(21:03):
But they've got this big tournament called the Star Tournament
that starts in May. And they said, uh, you know,
that's that's what we really we want folks to become members,
want them to become active.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
We want them to support what we do.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Be part of a Texas grassroots tradition ramon that works
to ensure the health and conservation of our marine resources
and anglers access to them. That's pretty cool, right, that's
the kind of stuff we stand for. Yeah, so I
was honored. So they won't officially be show sponsors. Can
(21:39):
we give them like an ex officio status romo. But
here's what I'm gonna ask you to do, not just
as a favorite to me, but because I think you
will enjoy it. Their website is CCA Texas dot org.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Go there.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
They have this CCA Texas Star Tournament. I think that's
where they I think that's their big their big membership push.
Whatever you do, you can meet good people. I've met
a lot of good people that are CCA Texas members.
But I also want to say thank you to the
executive board over there, the chairman, Robbie Buyers, the people
who like what we do, because there will invariably be
(22:12):
somebody in the organization that'll bitch about it, because that
always happens, and they.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Have decided no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The profit and loss side of the legend a lot
of people can say, well, even if we get ninety
nine people because of you, but then one complains, we're
gonna let the complainer went out, but they decided not
to do that, and I think that's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So we are honored. This is a perfect partnership.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It is so good that our business has developed to
the point that our show sponsors are people that we like,
we support, we enjoy talking about them. We'd do it
for free, but don't tell anybody, because you know, people
got to get paid. Ramona's got high expenses and all
of that sort of stuff. But if you would go
(22:55):
to CCA Texas dot org and become a member, I'd
consider that a solid. If you become a member and
your membership email you get, you forward that to me
with the name of your business and what you do
in your contact you know, your phone.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Number, whatever, I'll read those on there.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'll do that solid. So you get a free mention.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And if you're already a member, if you would send
Robbie Byers over there a note saying, hey, thanks for
supporting to Michael Berry show.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I like the show. The show stays on the air.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Because of sponsors, so welcome to the show sponsor family,
CCA Texas dot org.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And so I've just put that on the Michael Barris
Michael Berry's Show.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
If the spirit moves you, rob an email to Robbie
Byers or anyone else at CCA Texas that you know
and thank them for joining our show. We are delighted
to have them. Got an email this morning from Jeff
Keene Big Jeff. He played O line over at the
University of Houston, so we call him Big j It's
(24:01):
for good reason. He's a big boy.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And he says one you know, we hired Daniel Dean
to regrade and do the whole thing. Let's see if
I can find the actual words he use. Here we go, Treli.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Willim Frame just hired Daniel Dean Land Clearing for a
two hundred, twenty thousand dollars grading, paving and draining project
at our location. Thanks to the efforts of our friend
and fellow Barry Brigadier Daniel Dean, in a few weeks,
my teammates in the back will have a less bumpy
and muddy existence. We are delighted to know that our
project will be done flawlessly and by someone who gives
(24:37):
back to our community. Thank you for attracting so many
best in class service providers.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love it when our show sponsors use our fellow
show sponsors. I love it when you use our show sponsors.
It delights me when you email me and say, hey,
who is your guy who does X? And I can
forward you by email to usually to the person who
runs the operation to make sure that you get the
absolute best service, which is what I want you to
get every single time. Today marks the sixty third birthday
(25:07):
a very dear friend of mine, Chancellor McLain. Chancellor McLain,
who has contributed so much to the show over the years,
through so many different.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Characters, songs, writing, and.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Eventually became a show sponsor. Who would have guessed my
dad's seventy fifth birthday. He set out with my dad
for about four hours and interviewed him because I didn't
know how long we'd have with my dad has ten years.
I never would have guessed we'd get another ten years.
And they went through my dad's entire life. My mom
and dad pulled together every photo they had of my dad,
(25:41):
and he weaves all of that in the interview into
into a beautiful biopic beautiful little biography. Why should biographies
only be for famous people. My dad's life is meaningful,
it's important. There are lessons to be learned from it.
And so every year on his birthday we get together
and we watched that movie again, and I've sent it,
of course to all the family members, and I said,
(26:04):
you know, a chance you got a business here.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
This is a This is a real business. People want this.
What is it where? You know?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
People spend all this money on a headstone to put
a piece of rock out in a cemetery. But this
is this is a way to memorialize, to remember, and
you know, for the whenever my dad passes, which we
all will, I'll be able to go back and watch
him and see him talk and see his mannerisms and
hear his mannerisms, and hear him talking about his life
and my life and being my father and his work
(26:33):
and all those stories I heard as a kid. Now
we've got him down on tape and in a very
pleasant form of storytelling through film. Yeah, we've got a
real business. And slowly but surely that became ninety nine
percent of his business. In fact, he does it now
on a on a grand scale as well. For cities,
for businesses telling their story but using the same heritage
(26:55):
film mindset, and he has built a team of people
that include his honor, his son, and his wife in there.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
It's been a gorgeous thing to watch, a glorious thing
to watch.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So happy sixty third birthday to my good friend Chancellor
McLean and I am reminded of the first the first
thing he ever did that aired on radio.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It was not on our show.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It was actually on six' ten But john And lance
at the, time and it was A Matt bullard.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Tribute. Yeah Remember Matt bullard played for The. Rockets here
it is.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Every.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Night you know what it's Not we're not gonna do
it justice for more to play it in the next.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Segment Matt bullard was really tall and slight of build
player for The, rockets and he was tall enough to
play low, post but what he wanted to do was
spot up jack. Threes he's a really good three point,
shooter kind of Like Sam. Perkins he didn't want to
get down there and bang around with those big.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Boys wasn't his. Fault he was.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Tall and it's a tribute To Matt bullard in the
same way that he in the same way That chance
made a tribute to the third string quarterback for The
university For Houston texans at the, time who we ended
up coaching.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Against it's kind of, funny small.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
World but he was just a listener and he would
he would call in To John granado And lynzerlines show
on six' ten in the morning, sports radio and then
eventually they offered him a position to come in and
work for, the show and eventually they would all go
over to a STATION called kagal and he would be
the station the, program director and eventually he would. Get
(28:46):
fired he tells the story BETTER than. I do he
would get fired for not being willing to do whatever
they told him. To do chance is not a great.
Order taker but that was the best thing, ever happened
because then he started his business and the rest. Is
history
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