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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's pretty amazing when you think about it. A year ago,
Donald Trump was serving French fries in the McDonald's drive
through and working in a garbage truck. Yesterday, the culmination
(00:23):
of brokering the piece deal that has eluded the world
over all these years. It really is a truly historic moment.
It will be remembered for decades to come. And it's
(00:46):
an interesting time to look around and see the people
who are not happy about it. That's when you learn
a lot who is not happy that this has happened,
who is not excited about this opportunity for these people,
(01:11):
for this region, for the rest of the world. Our
president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel
and Iran, Rwanda and the Democrat Republic of Democratic Republic
of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt
(01:39):
and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and now Israel and Hamas.
That makes eight. Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers.
Such a fascinating moment. There is so much clarity. You know,
(02:04):
when folks, the families of the little girls who died
at Camp Mystic on July fourth, I made a statement
that it's truly heroic for the people who went and
waded through the waters trying to find those bodies. And
(02:26):
I made the statement to bring closure. Well, many times
people will say there is no closure. It's a step
in the process, but it's not closure. Okay, that's your experience,
not mine. I've not had to deal with that, so
I'm not going to say. But it's incredible to think.
(02:55):
It's incredible to think how powerful emotions can be at
a moment like this, and how we deal with grief
and how we are experiencing the world around us. I
(03:16):
had a friend who this morning told me about two
different people who have taken their own lives very recently
won a doctor another law enforcement agency, and talking about
(03:37):
how intense the world we're in today is. And in
the middle of that, I think it's good to stop
and take a deep breath and say, Wow, well done
to our president. Iside. The vast majority of our twenty
(03:58):
years on the air, we worked out of the what
was then Clear Channel then became iHeartMedia Studios at two
thousand and west Loop, so west Loop and Sam Philippi
on the East Side of the loop, so just outside
(04:20):
the loop, but literally, you know, actually fronting the loop
and down the hall were when I started eight stations.
But there was a regulatory requirement some number of years ago,
seventeen years ago or so fifteen to seventeen years ago
(04:42):
that then Clear Channel had to shed two stations, and
one of those was MIXED and one of those was Mega,
and so those went over to CBS, leaving us with
six stations in Houston. And of those stations, you know,
we we were programming was all on one floor, which
(05:04):
was the fifth floor of that building, and we all
used one bathroom and we shared one I say kitchen.
It was actually a pass through, but it had some
surface space and there was a vending machine, and there
was a microwave, and there was a fridge. It was
one of those fridges that you could literally as I
(05:28):
did work there all those years and never use because
and some of you had this experience at your own.
But there was always that person who brought in their
food from home and they would put their food in
the fridge and forget about it for six months. And
(05:50):
there was a woman who was like the team mom
for the office. She was my predecessor, my predecessor's assistant,
and then she was my assistant. But because everybody in radio,
it's it's an odd set of personalities, but the commonality
is they're all kind of weird and that's just the
nature of their their creative types, and creative types in
(06:14):
radio are their own special breed, and they're not particularly
tidy people are overly clean people. It's mostly people who
wear old concert t shirts and and have a little
(06:34):
food dribbled on their their mouth and are very witty,
very funny, very entertaining, and typically very knowledgeable about their
genre whatever that is, you know, what, what style of
music or or talk. And in the middle of that,
one of the fellows that that I got to know
(06:56):
very well. And he's also close to Chad and and Ramone,
Jim did you like Matt Thomas? Sometimes their rivalries, so
that's why I asked. By the way, Ramone is out
for a week and he's fine, he's on a road
trip with his family, but he is out this week
and Jim Mudd will be filling in, so you'll notice
(07:18):
the quality of the music will be far superior. In
case you were wondering, you know, it's always odd when
Jim fills in for Ramon because I get emails tell
ramone he did a great job with the music. Well,
I wanted to tell you about that. So anyway, our friend,
our friend, Matt Thomas, this nice story on k show
(07:38):
you about him. He does middays on seven ninety. He
is the voice of the Rockets when you go to
the stadium, and he's a guy that's been around the
sports scene for a very, very long time. He closed
out his senior daughter's high school volleyball season by serving
as the team's public address announcer in between his Rockets
(08:01):
play by play in KBMME, which is seven ninety hosting duties.
His daughter is a senior setter at Kingwood High School
and is heading to play Division one volleyball. That's a
big deal next year in Rhode Island. The story from KHOU.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Matt Thomas spends many hours preparing to talk about sports,
but this assignment requires little prep.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now let's meet tonight's teams.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He simply speaks from the heart.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Senior Number eleven College Tamis.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
For years, Matt has been one of the leading voices
of Houston sports through his daily talk radio show, What
Do you think I would do and play by play
duties for the Rockets. Good evening and welcome to Kingwood
High School. But here at Kingwood High School, he calls
something much more personal.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
She said, Hey, would you like to introduce our team?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
She is Carly Thomas, a senior, one of the up
volleyball setters in the Houston area and Matt's daughter.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And I said sure.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I didn't used to do that for the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
First, the start the match. Now it's kind of a
normal thing for me to be here at Kingwod High
School every Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's really special.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean everyone's like, Carley, that's your dad must Yeah,
I mean I give him a hug before every game.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Game Night for Matt begins with a quick review of
the team's rosters, agreeing. Then player introductions come out price
and that's when his voice spikes and your king.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Must.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Even though I'm supposed to be impartial when I'm the
announcer at Kingwood High School, she knows when it's her
turn to get her name announced.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
I'll put a little ectures in it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
These Mustangs get a kick out of Matt being here.
Among those who notice Matt's wife, Kimberly.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
He hates when he asks to meth and the kids,
and the kids hate when he messages to.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Call and point.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
King The team's coach says, there's no denying it. Matt
brings a little NBA flair to game night. Yeah, he
It brings more energy to it, and than most high
school volleyball games has been wonderful. This season feels different
for another reason as well. It's Carly's senior year, her
final chance to wear a Kingwood uniform before heading off
(10:22):
to college.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
She has worked tirelessly to become one of the best
players in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Traveling with the Rockets, Matt's world is often airports and arenas,
not bleachers and booster clubs, which means nights like these.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I get to be a normal dad.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Don't come around often.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
I've got you, so I miss them all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But it's why both he and Carly are savoring this experience.
Matt Thomas has broadcasted thousands of plays, described countless moments,
but few have met more than this, Because sometimes the
most meaningful call you can make isn't about the game
(11:02):
at all, It's just being there. And Matt's last game
announcing was this past Tuesday. Since the Rockets are now
into their preseason schedule, I'm guessing it was emotional since
it was also senior night. As for college, Carly will
be playing D one volleyball. She is heading to Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
That's a cool story. The things you get to do
that involve your kids that use your skill set, that's chat.
That's special.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Bro has Michael Barry Show, I think you would be
a good thing to take a few calls on that subject.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Something you did for your kids that involved a skill
of yours that was particularly enjoyable to get to bring
to school, or to bring to the Boy Scouts or
the Girl Scouts, or the team or their sporting event.
Something you did that involved your skill set, that felt
(12:08):
pretty cool to get to do that for the kids
in some way or another, as Matt Thomas getting to
call the volleyball game for his daughter, a senior at
Kingwood High School was one of those experiences just extra meaningful.
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one
(12:29):
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. So here we sit October fourteenth,
and we are less than six months from the primary
election day, we'll be voting. We'll start voting almost a
(12:51):
month before that, so it's five months away, and a
lot of folks are going to wake up on election
day and go who are all these people? Who are
all these people running for state Senate, state rep. There'll
(13:11):
be a lot of new candidates, There's a lot of
movement this primary. The Attorney General running for the US
Senate made the US Senate race much more interesting than
it's been in the last twenty four years, probably the
most interesting race. Where Cornyn is fending off a challenger. Then,
of course Wesley Hunt gets into the race. Well. Ken
(13:36):
Paxton leaving the Attorney General's office opens that seat to
a number of people who then make a move for that.
If Joan Huffman were to win, that would open her
state Senate seat. If not, she stays in the state Senate,
You've got May's Middleton who gives up his state Senate seat.
(13:56):
You've got Aaron Wrights is not in office. You've got
Chip Roy, who if he were, he doesn't get to
run for his congressional seat for reelection, So that opens
up that seat. So now you'll have people entering into there.
You've got Brandon Creighton, who was a state senator who
will be leading Texas Tech University. So you'll have a
(14:17):
competitive race there. The only candidate I know of who's
in that race is Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligan.
You will have some State Rep races and you'll have
a number of other positions that will be on the ballot.
This is the time if you are going to run,
(14:42):
or if you would like to help a campaign. This
is the time when the shoe leather is worn out.
Where it happens most people will wake up right before
the election and have this sort of haughty idea of
I don't know any pay, but what's going on? Well,
(15:03):
six months ago, a year ago, people were working very
hard to jockey for these positions. The fact that you
didn't know it doesn't make that not the case. I
never heard of them. Well how would you just out
of curious? How would you have heard of them? Do
you want them to go on TV? If you're running
for state Rep. Doesn't make sense to pay for TV
(15:24):
for the region when you're in one little race. So anyway,
now is the time if you're wanting to get involved
with the candidate, or if you're considering running for office,
now is the time to do that. The state Party
met this weekend in an effort to try to clean
(15:46):
up a lot of problems that Republican voters, that have
vexed Republican voters. How is it that the Democrats keep
electing our person? How is it that we are a
Republican state but we can get the representation that the
people want. Why can't we fix this? And they have
attempted to do exactly that, and we will talk about
(16:11):
that in the coming days. But that was the mandate,
That's what we actually wanted. Well, they get criticized by
the elected officials who really are beholden to Democrats in
the establishment. Well, you know, Dan Crenshaw is going to
criticize restrictions on stock trading by Congressman, and he's going
(16:32):
to do it in a way that is supposed to
shame those who want to bring transparency to the process.
These people are good at what they do, make no
mistake about that. By the way, Tucker Carlson has two
different interviews, one with Steve Toathe, one with the guy
who does the Pelosi tracker that he has dropped in
the last ten days or so about where there is
(16:55):
mention of Crenshaw and they are both very good and
I would encourage you to go see them. You can
at them on YouTube or wherever. All right, we're gonna
go lead Lisa Stephanie down the list that way. Let's
start with Lee. Something you did that use your skills
for your kids that you found to be rewarding.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I was invited by a church that I was going
to locally in Santa Fe, Texas, to have my children
and I play a song at a Christmas thing and
that they were doing. Now, all of my children were
musically talented and I myself, but we had never done
anything together or neither one of us been in the band,
any of us. And so in two weeks time we
(17:36):
were able to come together and put two songs together,
God's Not Dead and a rock and roll version of
the Little Drummer Boy. And having not played together in
a band and us being able to do it together.
It was all of our own music, and we set
the whole thing off and the whole church was up
and dancing and celebrating, and it was just one of
the coolest moments of my life to be up and
(17:56):
with my children building and doing something that we create
it on our own and was invited to do so
and not just imposed that we could. So it was
really special for me.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's awesome. I'm sorry, what instrument do you play or
what do you do in this?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I play bass and I sing, and then my oldest
boy does lead guitar and actually an instrument that he
can play. My youngest one did rhythm guitar. My other
son played the drums, and my daughter played the tambourine
and we just all kind of masked it together and
made it work. It was just a real blessing for us.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That is very coolly, very cool. Indeed, I can see
where you would enjoy that. Let's go to Lisa Youl
Michael Berry Shaw.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hello, Hello, go ahead. My dear, I was a musician.
I came from a musical family, play friendschhorn. I joined
this It's Army band straight out of high school. And anyway,
I have three boys and two of them are musicians
also and well helping them teaching them. My middle son,
(19:11):
he plays trombone, and he wanted to create a jazz band. Uh.
I was from Tasadena and so he went to Pasadena
High School and he started with the help of his
high school band director, the two twenty five Jazz Band,
which lasted for many years and my youngest son played
(19:32):
french horn. Also highlight of.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
My hold on Just a Moment. Michael Very Show continued.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Game after midday talker on seven ninety AM and the
voice of the Rockets, Matt Thomas, announced.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
His daughter's senior volleyball season. Kjo, you doing a story
on that. We were talking about when you get an
opportunity to use your life skills your professional skills for
your kids, how neat that is. And I asked if
(20:15):
you had such an experience, whatever that may be, to
give us a call. Stephanie, you are up, sweetheart, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Good morning. I am on a mud board and when
my boys were younger, I would take the cub Scouts
on tours of the wastewater Tuma plant with the help
of the operators and the engineers. I also bring in
brought in the boy Scouts for their citizenship and the
community badge to our meetings sed the dinner. They became
part of the minute. It was a lot of fun. Currently,
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I teach continuing education classes sur realtors on water conservation
and MUDs and I've also been a career day for
MUDs and my boys. I was always known as the
poof mom after that, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It love hoop.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
And I also have been the speaker at four h
on water conservation.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I think that is so cool. I can't imagine how
much the kids would have enjoyed seeing the whole water
treatment and waste water and the process, because it's the
sort of thing that we all take for granted, but
it's a rather elaborate process. And to think that this
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is going on and you never knew it all to
bring water into your tub or your toilet or your sink,
and you know, you just never give any consideration to
what all has to happen to get there. That's pretty cool.
How did you are you a lawyer? How'd you get
into the mud process?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
No, sir, I am just an average citizen who was
interested in property taxes and so I got on the
board when I got my first house and I've been
on ever since, been sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Do you work outside the home?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
What do you do?
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I'm a real estate broker?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Oh run on with whom.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
My partner and I own our brokerage. We're an Indie brokerage,
Heartland Real Estate Company.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
What I have heard of that because that actually sounds familiar.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Maybe because I'm pretty active in mud world and I'm
pretty active in real estate world. Like I said, I
teach continuing education classes specifically on MUDs to realtors. Water
and wastewater treatment are very important to real estate and
people don't always understand that. And as agents, we don't
always understand all of the our constituents don't always understand
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how important it is to know and understand property taxes,
especially mus We have so many people that come to Houston,
that come to Texas who are not familiar with that,
and so it's a very big passion of mine, not
only to teach the community no wipes and the pipes
and scraped the plate, but also our real estate agent
how important it is to understand where our water comes from,
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how that affects our property taxes, and the benefits that
it has two people moving here.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, I think to the extent most people have any
experience with the mud, they're just annoyed as to where
all this money is going, and then it's.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
There shots to a meeting'rouchy yep.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It feels like this, this kind of insider cabal of
people who are who are setting their raids. Great call, Stephanie.
Thank you, dear. Let's go to Randa. You're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Clothes are thank you for taking my call. I was
in mortgage banking for about almost forty years, but I've
also been a first responder. I was a captain with
South Side Place Fire Department, and I used to bring well,
used to have all the birthday parties for the for
(24:00):
my boys at the fire station, which the parents hated me.
And I remember I was three years old going to
the fire station when my dad was a volunteer firefighter.
And you know, it never leaves you. So my oldest,
while he was at SAM Houston, he was a paid
firefighter with New Katie Fire Department. And after he graduated college,
(24:26):
he went to the dark side, went into law enforcement,
which was a little embarrassment for the family. Love them,
that's right. And my second graduated college and went into
the Navy and studied firefighting. Now he's in his master's
at SAM Houston. And my youngest is a certified firefighter
(24:52):
in the Upper Peninsula in the state of Michigan, and
he's a CPS case officer. So you know, three generations
of firefighters, public servants. And you know, I tell my
kids do as I do, as I do, not as
I say, and that way they get let in the
straight and narrow path.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That is. It's a cool story and not particularly atypical.
It's amazing to me how many families, you know, go
into law enforcement, how many families go into firefighting, and
and how consistent that theme seems seems to keep to
keep popping up. Are you an active firefighter?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Now, No, I'm I'm sixty five years old. I've but
you know they say, as you know, once a marine,
always a marine. So in my car I carry I
carry a center punch to take out windows. I carry
a seat belt cutter. I've got a CO two fire
extinguisher in my car. So you know, you never know
(25:59):
when might be called to serve.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Where did you last work?
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
I was a volunteer with South Side Place Fire Department
for twelve years. I was a captain right too old
to join, too old to join Houston by about six months.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Oh wow wow, wellyeah it is. You know, my my
experience with firefighters has been that for the my nephews
also named Michael. Michael Berry is an He's an Umble firefighter, Jim.
That doesn't that doesn't mean that he does not brag.
(26:38):
He does brag. He's similar in personality to me, but
it's the city of Umble. But he's a great kid.
I'm very proud of him.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
He.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
One thing I've noticed or come to learn about firefighters
is that it's the passion firefighters have and then you
know their kids grew up to that is not necessarily
a passion for fire and extinguishing it. It is the
camaraderie of it. I am convinced that one of the
(27:12):
elements of PTSD that that causes so much of the
the trauma and the struggle is that there's a deep
bond that is formed, particularly in combat. Better firefighters have
a similar, very deep bond. And it's why if if
you when firefighters aren't fighting fires or working another job,
(27:35):
they all hunt together. They all they're on barbecue cook
teams together, they all fish together. Uh. It's guys that
that that feed off of the revelry of the camaraderie,
and and firefighter who sends tends to lend itself very
well to that.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Being a police officer is much more solitary thing. You're
in you're in a car, and typically by yourself because
they don't have too many units. The firefighters are very
social and and and sort of pack oriented and once
if that's your personality and your kid's personality, there's I
don't know there's anything else like that.
It's pretty amazing when you think about it. A year ago,
Donald Trump was serving French fries in the McDonald's drive
through and working in a garbage truck. Yesterday, the culmination
(00:23):
of brokering the piece deal that has eluded the world
over all these years. It really is a truly historic moment.
It will be remembered for decades to come. And it's
(00:46):
an interesting time to look around and see the people
who are not happy about it. That's when you learn
a lot who is not happy that this has happened,
who is not excited about this opportunity for these people,
(01:11):
for this region, for the rest of the world. Our
president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel
and Iran, Rwanda and the Democrat Republic of Democratic Republic
of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt
(01:39):
and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and now Israel and Hamas.
That makes eight. Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers.
Such a fascinating moment. There is so much clarity. You know,
(02:04):
when folks, the families of the little girls who died
at Camp Mystic on July fourth, I made a statement
that it's truly heroic for the people who went and
waded through the waters trying to find those bodies. And
(02:26):
I made the statement to bring closure. Well, many times
people will say there is no closure. It's a step
in the process, but it's not closure. Okay, that's your experience,
not mine. I've not had to deal with that, so
I'm not going to say. But it's incredible to think.
(02:55):
It's incredible to think how powerful emotions can be at
a moment like this, and how we deal with grief
and how we are experiencing the world around us. I
(03:16):
had a friend who this morning told me about two
different people who have taken their own lives very recently
won a doctor another law enforcement agency, and talking about
(03:37):
how intense the world we're in today is. And in
the middle of that, I think it's good to stop
and take a deep breath and say, Wow, well done
to our president. Iside. The vast majority of our twenty
(03:58):
years on the air, we worked out of the what
was then Clear Channel then became iHeartMedia Studios at two
thousand and west Loop, so west Loop and Sam Philippi
on the East Side of the loop, so just outside
(04:20):
the loop, but literally, you know, actually fronting the loop
and down the hall were when I started eight stations.
But there was a regulatory requirement some number of years ago,
seventeen years ago or so fifteen to seventeen years ago
(04:42):
that then Clear Channel had to shed two stations, and
one of those was MIXED and one of those was Mega,
and so those went over to CBS, leaving us with
six stations in Houston. And of those stations, you know,
we we were programming was all on one floor, which
(05:04):
was the fifth floor of that building, and we all
used one bathroom and we shared one I say kitchen.
It was actually a pass through, but it had some
surface space and there was a vending machine, and there
was a microwave, and there was a fridge. It was
one of those fridges that you could literally as I
(05:28):
did work there all those years and never use because
and some of you had this experience at your own.
But there was always that person who brought in their
food from home and they would put their food in
the fridge and forget about it for six months. And
(05:50):
there was a woman who was like the team mom
for the office. She was my predecessor, my predecessor's assistant,
and then she was my assistant. But because everybody in radio,
it's it's an odd set of personalities, but the commonality
is they're all kind of weird and that's just the
nature of their their creative types, and creative types in
(06:14):
radio are their own special breed, and they're not particularly
tidy people are overly clean people. It's mostly people who
wear old concert t shirts and and have a little
(06:34):
food dribbled on their their mouth and are very witty,
very funny, very entertaining, and typically very knowledgeable about their
genre whatever that is, you know, what, what style of
music or or talk. And in the middle of that,
one of the fellows that that I got to know
(06:56):
very well. And he's also close to Chad and and Ramone,
Jim did you like Matt Thomas? Sometimes their rivalries, so
that's why I asked. By the way, Ramone is out
for a week and he's fine, he's on a road
trip with his family, but he is out this week
and Jim Mudd will be filling in, so you'll notice
(07:18):
the quality of the music will be far superior. In
case you were wondering, you know, it's always odd when
Jim fills in for Ramon because I get emails tell
ramone he did a great job with the music. Well,
I wanted to tell you about that. So anyway, our friend,
our friend, Matt Thomas, this nice story on k show
(07:38):
you about him. He does middays on seven ninety. He
is the voice of the Rockets when you go to
the stadium, and he's a guy that's been around the
sports scene for a very, very long time. He closed
out his senior daughter's high school volleyball season by serving
as the team's public address announcer in between his Rockets
(08:01):
play by play in KBMME, which is seven ninety hosting duties.
His daughter is a senior setter at Kingwood High School
and is heading to play Division one volleyball. That's a
big deal next year in Rhode Island. The story from KHOU.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Matt Thomas spends many hours preparing to talk about sports,
but this assignment requires little prep.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now let's meet tonight's teams.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He simply speaks from the heart.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Senior Number eleven College Tamis.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
For years, Matt has been one of the leading voices
of Houston sports through his daily talk radio show, What
Do you think I would do and play by play
duties for the Rockets. Good evening and welcome to Kingwood
High School. But here at Kingwood High School, he calls
something much more personal.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
She said, Hey, would you like to introduce our team?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
She is Carly Thomas, a senior, one of the up
volleyball setters in the Houston area and Matt's daughter.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And I said sure.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I didn't used to do that for the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
First, the start the match. Now it's kind of a
normal thing for me to be here at Kingwod High
School every Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's really special.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean everyone's like, Carley, that's your dad must Yeah,
I mean I give him a hug before every game.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Game Night for Matt begins with a quick review of
the team's rosters, agreeing. Then player introductions come out price
and that's when his voice spikes and your king.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Must.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Even though I'm supposed to be impartial when I'm the
announcer at Kingwood High School, she knows when it's her
turn to get her name announced.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
I'll put a little ectures in it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
These Mustangs get a kick out of Matt being here.
Among those who notice Matt's wife, Kimberly.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
He hates when he asks to meth and the kids,
and the kids hate when he messages to.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Call and point.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
King The team's coach says, there's no denying it. Matt
brings a little NBA flair to game night. Yeah, he
It brings more energy to it, and than most high
school volleyball games has been wonderful. This season feels different
for another reason as well. It's Carly's senior year, her
final chance to wear a Kingwood uniform before heading off
(10:22):
to college.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
She has worked tirelessly to become one of the best
players in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Traveling with the Rockets, Matt's world is often airports and arenas,
not bleachers and booster clubs, which means nights like these.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I get to be a normal dad.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Don't come around often.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
I've got you, so I miss them all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But it's why both he and Carly are savoring this experience.
Matt Thomas has broadcasted thousands of plays, described countless moments,
but few have met more than this, Because sometimes the
most meaningful call you can make isn't about the game
(11:02):
at all, It's just being there. And Matt's last game
announcing was this past Tuesday. Since the Rockets are now
into their preseason schedule, I'm guessing it was emotional since
it was also senior night. As for college, Carly will
be playing D one volleyball. She is heading to Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
That's a cool story. The things you get to do
that involve your kids that use your skill set, that's chat.
That's special.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Bro has Michael Barry Show, I think you would be
a good thing to take a few calls on that subject.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Something you did for your kids that involved a skill
of yours that was particularly enjoyable to get to bring
to school, or to bring to the Boy Scouts or
the Girl Scouts, or the team or their sporting event.
Something you did that involved your skill set, that felt
(12:08):
pretty cool to get to do that for the kids
in some way or another, as Matt Thomas getting to
call the volleyball game for his daughter, a senior at
Kingwood High School was one of those experiences just extra meaningful.
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one
(12:29):
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. So here we sit October fourteenth,
and we are less than six months from the primary
election day, we'll be voting. We'll start voting almost a
(12:51):
month before that, so it's five months away, and a
lot of folks are going to wake up on election
day and go who are all these people? Who are
all these people running for state Senate, state rep. There'll
(13:11):
be a lot of new candidates, There's a lot of
movement this primary. The Attorney General running for the US
Senate made the US Senate race much more interesting than
it's been in the last twenty four years, probably the
most interesting race. Where Cornyn is fending off a challenger. Then,
of course Wesley Hunt gets into the race. Well. Ken
(13:36):
Paxton leaving the Attorney General's office opens that seat to
a number of people who then make a move for that.
If Joan Huffman were to win, that would open her
state Senate seat. If not, she stays in the state Senate,
You've got May's Middleton who gives up his state Senate seat.
(13:56):
You've got Aaron Wrights is not in office. You've got
Chip Roy, who if he were, he doesn't get to
run for his congressional seat for reelection, So that opens
up that seat. So now you'll have people entering into there.
You've got Brandon Creighton, who was a state senator who
will be leading Texas Tech University. So you'll have a
(14:17):
competitive race there. The only candidate I know of who's
in that race is Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligan.
You will have some State Rep races and you'll have
a number of other positions that will be on the ballot.
This is the time if you are going to run,
(14:42):
or if you would like to help a campaign. This
is the time when the shoe leather is worn out.
Where it happens most people will wake up right before
the election and have this sort of haughty idea of
I don't know any pay, but what's going on? Well,
(15:03):
six months ago, a year ago, people were working very
hard to jockey for these positions. The fact that you
didn't know it doesn't make that not the case. I
never heard of them. Well how would you just out
of curious? How would you have heard of them? Do
you want them to go on TV? If you're running
for state Rep. Doesn't make sense to pay for TV
(15:24):
for the region when you're in one little race. So anyway,
now is the time if you're wanting to get involved
with the candidate, or if you're considering running for office,
now is the time to do that. The state Party
met this weekend in an effort to try to clean
(15:46):
up a lot of problems that Republican voters, that have
vexed Republican voters. How is it that the Democrats keep
electing our person? How is it that we are a
Republican state but we can get the representation that the
people want. Why can't we fix this? And they have
attempted to do exactly that, and we will talk about
(16:11):
that in the coming days. But that was the mandate,
That's what we actually wanted. Well, they get criticized by
the elected officials who really are beholden to Democrats in
the establishment. Well, you know, Dan Crenshaw is going to
criticize restrictions on stock trading by Congressman, and he's going
(16:32):
to do it in a way that is supposed to
shame those who want to bring transparency to the process.
These people are good at what they do, make no
mistake about that. By the way, Tucker Carlson has two
different interviews, one with Steve Toathe, one with the guy
who does the Pelosi tracker that he has dropped in
the last ten days or so about where there is
(16:55):
mention of Crenshaw and they are both very good and
I would encourage you to go see them. You can
at them on YouTube or wherever. All right, we're gonna
go lead Lisa Stephanie down the list that way. Let's
start with Lee. Something you did that use your skills
for your kids that you found to be rewarding.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I was invited by a church that I was going
to locally in Santa Fe, Texas, to have my children
and I play a song at a Christmas thing and
that they were doing. Now, all of my children were
musically talented and I myself, but we had never done
anything together or neither one of us been in the band,
any of us. And so in two weeks time we
(17:36):
were able to come together and put two songs together,
God's Not Dead and a rock and roll version of
the Little Drummer Boy. And having not played together in
a band and us being able to do it together.
It was all of our own music, and we set
the whole thing off and the whole church was up
and dancing and celebrating, and it was just one of
the coolest moments of my life to be up and
(17:56):
with my children building and doing something that we create
it on our own and was invited to do so
and not just imposed that we could. So it was
really special for me.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's awesome. I'm sorry, what instrument do you play or
what do you do in this?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I play bass and I sing, and then my oldest
boy does lead guitar and actually an instrument that he
can play. My youngest one did rhythm guitar. My other
son played the drums, and my daughter played the tambourine
and we just all kind of masked it together and
made it work. It was just a real blessing for us.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That is very coolly, very cool. Indeed, I can see
where you would enjoy that. Let's go to Lisa Youl
Michael Berry Shaw.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Hello, Hello, go ahead. My dear, I was a musician.
I came from a musical family, play friendschhorn. I joined
this It's Army band straight out of high school. And anyway,
I have three boys and two of them are musicians
also and well helping them teaching them. My middle son,
(19:11):
he plays trombone, and he wanted to create a jazz band. Uh.
I was from Tasadena and so he went to Pasadena
High School and he started with the help of his
high school band director, the two twenty five Jazz Band,
which lasted for many years and my youngest son played
(19:32):
french horn. Also highlight of.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
My hold on Just a Moment. Michael Very Show continued.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Game after midday talker on seven ninety AM and the
voice of the Rockets, Matt Thomas, announced.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
His daughter's senior volleyball season. Kjo, you doing a story
on that. We were talking about when you get an
opportunity to use your life skills your professional skills for
your kids, how neat that is. And I asked if
(20:15):
you had such an experience, whatever that may be, to
give us a call. Stephanie, you are up, sweetheart, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Good morning. I am on a mud board and when
my boys were younger, I would take the cub Scouts
on tours of the wastewater Tuma plant with the help
of the operators and the engineers. I also bring in
brought in the boy Scouts for their citizenship and the
community badge to our meetings sed the dinner. They became
part of the minute. It was a lot of fun. Currently,
(20:46):
I teach continuing education classes sur realtors on water conservation
and MUDs and I've also been a career day for
MUDs and my boys. I was always known as the
poof mom after that, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It love hoop.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
And I also have been the speaker at four h
on water conservation.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I think that is so cool. I can't imagine how
much the kids would have enjoyed seeing the whole water
treatment and waste water and the process, because it's the
sort of thing that we all take for granted, but
it's a rather elaborate process. And to think that this
(21:30):
is going on and you never knew it all to
bring water into your tub or your toilet or your sink,
and you know, you just never give any consideration to
what all has to happen to get there. That's pretty cool.
How did you are you a lawyer? How'd you get
into the mud process?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
No, sir, I am just an average citizen who was
interested in property taxes and so I got on the
board when I got my first house and I've been
on ever since, been sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Do you work outside the home?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
What do you do?
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I'm a real estate broker?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Oh run on with whom.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
My partner and I own our brokerage. We're an Indie brokerage,
Heartland Real Estate Company.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
What I have heard of that because that actually sounds familiar.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Maybe because I'm pretty active in mud world and I'm
pretty active in real estate world. Like I said, I
teach continuing education classes specifically on MUDs to realtors. Water
and wastewater treatment are very important to real estate and
people don't always understand that. And as agents, we don't
always understand all of the our constituents don't always understand
(22:45):
how important it is to know and understand property taxes,
especially mus We have so many people that come to Houston,
that come to Texas who are not familiar with that,
and so it's a very big passion of mine, not
only to teach the community no wipes and the pipes
and scraped the plate, but also our real estate agent
how important it is to understand where our water comes from,
(23:06):
how that affects our property taxes, and the benefits that
it has two people moving here.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, I think to the extent most people have any
experience with the mud, they're just annoyed as to where
all this money is going, and then it's.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
There shots to a meeting'rouchy yep.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It feels like this, this kind of insider cabal of
people who are who are setting their raids. Great call, Stephanie.
Thank you, dear. Let's go to Randa. You're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Clothes are thank you for taking my call. I was
in mortgage banking for about almost forty years, but I've
also been a first responder. I was a captain with
South Side Place Fire Department, and I used to bring well,
used to have all the birthday parties for the for
(24:00):
my boys at the fire station, which the parents hated me.
And I remember I was three years old going to
the fire station when my dad was a volunteer firefighter.
And you know, it never leaves you. So my oldest,
while he was at SAM Houston, he was a paid
firefighter with New Katie Fire Department. And after he graduated college,
(24:26):
he went to the dark side, went into law enforcement,
which was a little embarrassment for the family. Love them,
that's right. And my second graduated college and went into
the Navy and studied firefighting. Now he's in his master's
at SAM Houston. And my youngest is a certified firefighter
(24:52):
in the Upper Peninsula in the state of Michigan, and
he's a CPS case officer. So you know, three generations
of firefighters, public servants. And you know, I tell my
kids do as I do, as I do, not as
I say, and that way they get let in the
straight and narrow path.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That is. It's a cool story and not particularly atypical.
It's amazing to me how many families, you know, go
into law enforcement, how many families go into firefighting, and
and how consistent that theme seems seems to keep to
keep popping up. Are you an active firefighter?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Now, No, I'm I'm sixty five years old. I've but
you know they say, as you know, once a marine,
always a marine. So in my car I carry I
carry a center punch to take out windows. I carry
a seat belt cutter. I've got a CO two fire
extinguisher in my car. So you know, you never know
(25:59):
when might be called to serve.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Where did you last work?
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
I was a volunteer with South Side Place Fire Department
for twelve years. I was a captain right too old
to join, too old to join Houston by about six months.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Oh wow wow, wellyeah it is. You know, my my
experience with firefighters has been that for the my nephews
also named Michael. Michael Berry is an He's an Umble firefighter, Jim.
That doesn't that doesn't mean that he does not brag.
(26:38):
He does brag. He's similar in personality to me, but
it's the city of Umble. But he's a great kid.
I'm very proud of him.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
He.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
One thing I've noticed or come to learn about firefighters
is that it's the passion firefighters have and then you
know their kids grew up to that is not necessarily
a passion for fire and extinguishing it. It is the
camaraderie of it. I am convinced that one of the
(27:12):
elements of PTSD that that causes so much of the
the trauma and the struggle is that there's a deep
bond that is formed, particularly in combat. Better firefighters have
a similar, very deep bond. And it's why if if
you when firefighters aren't fighting fires or working another job,
(27:35):
they all hunt together. They all they're on barbecue cook
teams together, they all fish together. Uh. It's guys that
that that feed off of the revelry of the camaraderie,
and and firefighter who sends tends to lend itself very
well to that.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Being a police officer is much more solitary thing. You're
in you're in a car, and typically by yourself because
they don't have too many units. The firefighters are very
social and and and sort of pack oriented and once
if that's your personality and your kid's personality, there's I
don't know there's anything else like that.
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