November 14, 2025 • 30 mins
Michael Berry tackles Open Line Friday with Texas stories, listener calls, and sharp takes on politics, culture, and health tips like sauna benefits—all with humor and heart.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh yes, oh happy day.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What a great way to start our Friday mornings together.
Just take a deep breath, let it wash over. You
recenter yourself.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Heavy day, happy day.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
When war, when he woo? Whenos war?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
She's the way love happy, happy day or happy de
happy or happy day?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
When you thos war pitty warm, When Jo's war.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
She looked the way he loved it.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
What's a abby day.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
A happy day or a happy day?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Happy winter? Those war, oh windy war winter, those war.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Three years away?
Speaker 7 (02:33):
You need a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy day?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Had good happy deal, good happy deal, happy day.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Oh habit when j loos wool whendy wold, when j
loos wool.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
She's away.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yes, it is Friday, It is open line. Has
it flown or bloom for you? Is there something you
wanted to share that you didn't get in on the show,
some opinion, something you're just sure of that nobody's talked about.
Whatever that might be. Seven one three nine nine nine
(05:18):
one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand and to
get us started, as we always do curtsy of the
greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi KNAKANISHI beyond
just being blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Can
(05:40):
you clip that evil in wicked and put an echo
behind it? Do I need to get Chad Ball? Okay,
you got this? I mean I was giving you a
big compliment. I seen if you're ready to step up
to the big league.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We can review ready, but you might get You might
could do evil and wicked. Marcus Latrelle, retired United States
Navy Seal. Your bride had told me that you would
be completing the fortieth day of a forty day.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Fast when the tentptations would come on for food. I
started watching food videos online, YouTube and Instagram to fight it.
I turned it into a fight the devil attenting me.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Pretty sure he's got a gear that I don't. The
many emails, you can't do that, you'll die. If he
did that, he died, he's dead. Well, technically he's died before,
so maybe he died every day for this as well.
The National Toy Hall of Fame just revealed his class
of twenty twenty five Battleship Trivial Pursuit and Slim Battleship
(06:37):
finalists that didn't make it this year, Connect four corn Hole?
How does cornhole not make it? Corn Hole is such
a perfect if you want to call it a toy,
It's like hacky sack. I mean, you can do it
anywhere and everybody enjoys cornhole.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
This is Crockett Marco'sberry and you're listening.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
To my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
When Crockett came home, Charles Clark found out what time
it was going to be that he got at home.
But he was texting me and I didn't know why.
We're sitting in the backyard. Kroc has been home about
thirty minutes and all of a sudden we hear something
out front. Hello, Hello, and they ripped into it and
(07:16):
it's Marioci And so he had sent Mariocci because he
said this you're in Texas now, and that's your Texas welcome.
And we still to this day laugh about Crockett remembers
that like it was yesterday. That was his welcome to Texas.
Was Mariocci's playing in the yard.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
I don't packed this SENSI I ain't got no crystal
Ball had a million dollars, but I I'd spent and
did oh if I could find that hunter And that's
sign show that she's fine. Well out my book, captain
signe man, I'd snipper down.
Speaker 11 (08:11):
I'm in on.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The Michael Barry Show. Simple man, What did I tell you?
I saw a crime being committed in an Apple store.
I was an eyewitness. Mike, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir, Hi, Michael, how are you? I'm good.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Hey. We have a good friend we share in the past, Monday,
Larry Hoffson. I wanted to appreciate you for mentioning him,
and you know, he was like a brother to me
and a mentor. He was a great leader too, and
you know we're going to miss him dearly. And I
was hoping that, you know, maybe you could say another
word about it. And I didn't know if you had
(09:06):
heard anything yet about a you know, celebration of life
or anything like that yet. But I'm pretty close with
his family, so hopefully we'll be in touch with that.
And you know, it meant a lot for us to
hear that from you. And I'm trying to get a
little tape of it on a podcast from Monday to
maybe play it when we do have this. And I
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know you were with him not too long ago like
I was, and he'll always be with me in spirit.
Like I said, I'm a registered Texas public land surveyor,
so you know we were partners for twelve years from
nineteen ninety six to two thousand and nine. He bought
me out and I went on my own and still
on my own. And you know, I just want again
(09:51):
thank you so much for mentioning him. I know he
was dear to you as well as me.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, indeed, a very special man, a very special and
gone too soon. But you know, I've been thinking about this.
Larry was only sixty seven, and I was constantly fussing
at him for about taking better care of himself. From
a purely selfish perspective, I wanted him to live many
(10:16):
more years. But I try to find a silver lining
in anything, and that is that he did not have
to suffer because he just went to lay down on
the couch and fell asleep and didn't wake up. So
I find some comfort in those sorts of things I've seen, folks.
(10:38):
Modern medicine is a blessing and a curse in that
sense that I have seen folks who their passing process
is delayed and lengthy and painful. And I think that's
easier for everybody else because you get to be ready
for them to go, because you can't bear seeing them
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suffer any longer. But for the person themselves, I think
that's rough. I think we would all hope to go
in our sleep, not not when he went. I would
have preferred it be much later. But I try to
find a silver lining and everything. That's that's what what
does that mean? You're such an idiot, Scott. You're on
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Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 12 (11:31):
How you doing, Michael?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm good. Hey.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
I wanted to call and inform you and and this
is my first time able to get through a couple
of years ago. Uh, William Bill Bourban he was from Ukraine.
He was a he was occasionally call into the show.
He was Uh, he was a conservative.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
But uh.
Speaker 12 (11:55):
He he passed away around January to about a couple
of year years ago. I'm not sure if you're familiar
with or you remember.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't. Maybe if I heard his voice, I don't.
I don't know that I ever met him, but yeah,
if he if he was important to you, then then
that's what matters.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had mentioned that he'd called in
all the time, and you guys would talk about things.
But I just wanted to let you know that you
know that he passed away and he had mentioned you
quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Well, that's very kind.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Am a very fortunate person to get to do what
we do. I get to interact with a lot of people,
and you make relationships. You create these relationships very quickly,
and I think part of that is because when someone
calls the show, they've been listening for a long time.
(13:04):
And in twenty years of doing this, I learned a
long time ago that I wanted to do the show
that I wanted to do, and that is very revealing
of my personality, my family, my likes and dislikes, my quirks,
my annoying habits, you name it. And so I think
a number of people through a phone call on the
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show will feel a connection because we are spending time
with y'all every single in many cases, every single day
for multiple hours. And this is more time than you
spend with your adult kids. It's more time than you
spend with an employee, and so you develop these these relationships.
We don't just talk about politics. We talk about a
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lot of issues. You know, what foods we like to
eat and don't, adoption, parenting, sex, marriage, dating, youth, you know,
you name it. We talk about all of it. And
I think that creates a very deep connection. Even for
people that never meet me, they will say, I feel
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like I know you, and you know is that weird?
It's not weird at all. I think it's cool you
do know me. It's I always tell people you're going
to be disappointed if you meet me, because there's nothing left.
We we cover it all on the show. There's not
some grand thing I'm going to do in person that
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you're going to learn that's any different than what we
do on the air. That's when you do five hours
a day, you pretty much you lay it out there,
and so there's not a whole lot left. But what
a blessing to get to do what we do every day.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
It is.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I constantly think to myself that if I were to
go tomorrow, I would be a I would die happy man.
I have had so much fun around the neatest people,
our team, my family, our listeners, and to get to
do this day in and day out, For this long.
I mean, some people think this is a job. It's
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it's insane. It really is amazing that we get to
do it, and I try never to forget that fact,
because it is. It is a dream come true. I
feel like my entire life has prepared me to get
to do what we do now, and and I'm grateful
for every single day and every single person. You're uncle
(15:35):
Billy among them. Seven one nine one thousand, seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. This is you, Michael
Verie show enjoy it. Oh yes, it's open line Friday.
In the phones are a buzz. Roger, you're up? What'say you?
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Sor?
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Hey Michael, this is Roger with Arsia Trucking and we connected.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yes, sir, we're uh. We got a good level on him,
good level, Yes, okay, my level's good. Yep, we're good.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
I went to the check cashing place. Yes, said get
some change in an envelope. So I'm in there, and
then some man walks in there and he needs proof
of all the money he's been spending in there. He
got money invested in this company he was raising. You
know what, he started saying, I'm mayor turns nephew I'm
Mayor Turns nephew. I almost fell that last It was
it was crazy.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
What were you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Check cashing place?
Speaker 11 (16:34):
Uh? Getting twenty for two hundred dollars bills and to
put in an envelope which I got for free. They
didn't charge me, That's what I told. That guy said
that just gave me this envelope for free, you know,
walked out. So, yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So you just go in there and make change out
of one hundred dollars bill that they're happy.
Speaker 13 (16:50):
To do it. Yeah, they charged me two dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh man, So they charged you. So you give them
a hundred dollar bill and they give you four twenties
and then a ten of five and three bucks something
like that.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Yes, sir, I paid that separate though it was two
hundred dollars. Michael, you're a good man. I forgot what
I was going to tell you last time I talked
to you. But I shed a tear when Russell Mball
passed away.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I sure did.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
We all did. Yes, indeed, that's what I love you, Michael.
Speaker 11 (17:14):
I'm hanging up, thank you.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
He got for clempt Ramon. Not's wrong with that? We
all miss rushing bath only sometimes I'll be thinking through
an issue in the shower, walking down the stairs, getting
in my truck, anything, and I will hear Russia's words
on something, and I think, you've you've done well when
you when you've given that level of uh uh, when
(17:42):
you when you've had that that level of impact. Barbara,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead. Oh now,
Ramon tells me Barbara didn't want to come on. She
just wanted to ask a question, which is my favorite thing,
because Ramona hates that more than life itself. When people
call them and they don't want to go on the air.
(18:05):
They pass this to Michael. Joe Rogan was doing an interview.
I think it was this week. Like with both most things,
I don't watch anything in its organic form. I just
watched the kind of recap of things and this statement
was made, and I assume this was from Joe. It
might have been from his guest, but I'm doing research
on this now, and this was the statement. If you
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do the sauna four times a week for twenty minutes
at one hundred and seventy five degrees, it's a forty
percent decrease in all cause mortality. It's great for reduction
in inflammation and increase in red blood cells. If you
do the sauna four times a week for twenty minutes
each time at one hundred and seventy five degrees, it's
(18:49):
a forty percent decrease in all cause mortality. It's great
for reduction in inflammation and increase in red blood cells.
I've told you before, but there's always new people coming
in and out of the show. I asked Stan Dukman,
(19:09):
my cardiologists several years ago. I said, if somebody, if
somebody said, I don't want to end up on your table,
what's the one simple thing I can do to end
up on your table with a heart attack? And he said,
reduce inflammation. Inflammation is your enemy. And then we've talked
(19:32):
a lot, and now I'll send them articles that I've read,
or studies that have been done, or opinions that are given,
and we'll talk it through. And it's interesting that so
many of the problems we associate are actually just some
form or another of inflammation. And if you can reduce
that inflammation, you reduce so many problems for the human body.
(19:56):
And so when you start thinking in terms of health
and wellness, it's not what you eat or what you
don't eat. It is preserving the human body in a
form that reduces inflammation. Inflammation is your enemy. Charlie, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
Go ahead, sir, oh I just had a little story
to relay, mister Barry. What is the difference between a
well dressed man on a bicycle and a poorly dressed
man on a tricycle attire?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Shoot, I was on the wheel.
Speaker 13 (20:31):
Come on with it.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Bless you, Michael Berry.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
You're good regular, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was stuck on the wheel, free wheel wheel. I
could just couldn't get there.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Dogg.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Former Minneapolis police officer tal Thow reunited with his children
after serving almost five years in prison over George Floyd's death.
Derek Chauvain should not have gone to prison, and he's
the one that they accused of choking George Floyd. He
didn't choke George Floyd. But tal thal went to prison
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because they decided he hadn't done enough. And the picture
is him walking toward his children with his arms outstretched,
young children. Five years he's been away from his children
because George Floyd took a fentanyl and choked out. He
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had done that a matter of days before, less than
three months before, and been imprisoned for over I mean
been hospitalized for over a week. When the officer pulled
up on him and he put the drugs in his mouth.
Did that again. This time he was in the middle
of committing a crime, had the drug on him, didn't
want to go back to prison, so he swallowed it.
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And that's why he said he couldn't breathe. When he
was in the back seat of the car. He was saying,
I can't breathe, long before he was on the ground.
Oh but listen to him. It just breaks your heart.
This man calling for his mama and he can't Breathe
called for his mama three months earlier, said his mom
had just been killed. His mom had just been killed,
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and that's why he was upset. That's what he told her,
don't take me back to prison. My mama just died.
His mom had died like four years earlier. The man
was a chronic liar, lay about he made babies he
never raised. At his funeral, officers that worked the funeral
said the baby mama's had to prep the kids as
to which one of the family members they were supposed
(22:38):
to pretend like they knew because they knew none of them.
Because this man just made babies. That's what he did,
made babies and committed crimes. That's what he did. He
made babies and committed crimes. And we got his his
visage painted on the side of buildings like he was
some great American patriot. But you know what, to a
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subculture of Americans, he kind of was because he is.
He got his his and his family, they got thays.
It's the most disgusting thing ever. That's what we've been
reduced to in this country. That's what white guilt has
led to. I saw a post about Jasmine crocket and
(23:26):
it was talking about it said that Jasmine Crockett is
getting roasted for how she's spending money. Let's see if
I can find it. FEC filings expose she's dropped seventy
five thousand dollars on luxury hotels, limos and private security
in Martha's Vineyard, New York City and Vegas. Joke's on you.
(23:49):
She's not getting roasted in her districts like yours.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Everyone listens to Michael Verry show. Brandon, you're on the
Michael Berry You sure what you got.
Speaker 14 (24:02):
Man y are telling all these sad stories about your buddies, dye,
And I've got a funny story that's probably gonna be
what we hear when we die. So a bunch of
a bunch of old cops went deer hunting together every year.
And this was told to me by a very old
policeman that they all went hunting together somewhere out in
West Texas had this little ramshackle place that was cold
(24:24):
and freezing and all that sort of thing, and they all,
you know, stayed up too late, drinking and smoking cigars,
playing cards, that that sort of thing every night. And
this one guy who was an elected sheriff in a county,
and I'm not going to say who it was, been
so long ago, probably nobody remember him anyway, but evidently
wasn't the nicest or best guy in the world. Was
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always the first one up, would get up, make coffee,
do all that, and everybody else would get up and
start cooking and you know, getting ready for the hunt,
et cetera. And they all got up one morning and
the old sheriff wasn't up. They thought he had just
slept in, which was unusual, and finally somebody went in
there and came out and said he's dead, and another
(25:05):
guy in the group looked at him just as serious
he could be the way the story was told me anyway,
and said he didn't deserve to die like that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's gonna be us, Michael B. We didn't deserve to
die like that. Yeah, well we deserved a long, painful death. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Have a great weekend, bro.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But it took me to say. I didn't get the
point of the joke until he kind of explained it there.
It took me a minute. When Dade feeling drunk, Dade
was running for reelection, he got pushed to a runoff
because he had he had turned against Trump, he turned
(25:53):
against the voters. He had become a swamp machine, and
that and being just staggering drunk while conducting the house
and it all caught on camera that that certainly didn't
help well. Whenever he was running, I saw a we
(26:15):
went back and looked. He pretended to support Trump because
of his district is very pro Trump. I know that
because I'm from there. I know those people. Those are
our people. They're not drunk Dad's people. But he pretended
that he loved Trump. And Trump was great. And Trump
even came out and endorsed his opponent in a state
(26:37):
rep race. Well, now that he's leaving office, and Trump
has told him, don't let the door hit you. On
the way out. He went to the Texas Tribune Festival,
and that's where all the liberals liked to go and
have their speeches. You see, they all talk about, well,
you have to understand the people of the state of
(26:59):
Texas aphisticated like us. They're not here at the Texas
Tribune and the Festival of Ideas. And this is where
you will get people who cannot get elected to office.
White Democrats cannot get elected to state wide office, but
they go to these things. This is a Beto O'Rourke fest,
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Gavin Newsom. This is where these people go and they
all sit around their other and they feel like they're
smarter than everyone else. And how can they scheme and
connive to get you dumb ass heathen serfs back home
to vote for them. And drunk Dade while giving his speech,
and honestly, I'm sure being given a great round of
(27:43):
applause because they love nothing more than a Republican who
doesn't vote for Trump, and he announced that he is
not a maga Republican. He's definitely not, and he could
not work with Donald Trump. He just couldn't do it.
And that's why he's walking away. As he says he's
walking away, I'm really not sure he's walking away. I
(28:08):
think he has a good sense to realize he was
going to be beaten and that's embarrassing and that's why
he's Besides, he can't even get a bill passed named
for the margin of victory that he won that was
targeted at me to get me charged or fined for
making funny memes about him. Yeah, he tried that and
(28:28):
couldn't even get it done. Somebody sent me an email
earlier in the week and it said United Healthcare. Earlier
this year, the left applauded the murder of the CEO
of United Healthcare. Now they fought for subsidies to fund
healthcare provided by United Healthcare. Make it make sense. I
(28:50):
was reading a review on on Obamacare and why insurance
companies are doing so well under Obamacare. Obamacare was probably
written Obamacare is not about health care at all. Obamacare
(29:16):
is about insurance subsidies. It is a massive insurance subsidy
and requirement that you buy insurance. People a lot of
people didn't buy insurance before that, And then we had
court rulings that if you didn't have insurance, you still
had to be provided healthcare. Well, we don't require a
(29:41):
restaurant to serve you food if you don't pay for it.
We don't require that someone take you in their house
if you don't pay the rent. Why we insist on
giving health care to people who refuse to pay for it,
I'll never understand. Because you create perverse incentives. You create
(30:01):
a situation where it is more advantageous to simply not
pay for insurance. But I will tell you I think
insurance is the scourge of America's health care. We have
the best healthcare in America. We say that all the time.
What we have is the most innovative, cutting edge healthcare.
We have very expensive health care that costs a much
(30:23):
higher percentage for the most basic, simple, tedious things. If
you shattered the whole system and went back to pay
for the services you receive, you ever think about the
fact that you go to the doctor, you have these
procedures done, and you have no idea, and then one day,
one day you find out what it's going to cost you.
Can you imagine going to the car dealership or the
(30:44):
restaurant or looking for houses on this basis
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh yes, oh happy day.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What a great way to start our Friday mornings together.
Just take a deep breath, let it wash over. You
recenter yourself.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Heavy day, happy day.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
When war, when he woo? Whenos war?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
She's the way love happy, happy day or happy de
happy or happy day?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
When you thos war pitty warm, When Jo's war.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
She looked the way he loved it.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
What's a abby day.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
A happy day or a happy day?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Happy winter? Those war, oh windy war winter, those war.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Three years away?
Speaker 7 (02:33):
You need a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy day?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Had good happy deal, good happy deal, happy day.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Oh habit when j loos wool whendy wold, when j
loos wool.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
She's away.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yes, it is Friday, It is open line. Has
it flown or bloom for you? Is there something you
wanted to share that you didn't get in on the show,
some opinion, something you're just sure of that nobody's talked about.
Whatever that might be. Seven one three nine nine nine
(05:18):
one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand and to
get us started, as we always do curtsy of the
greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi KNAKANISHI beyond
just being blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Can
(05:40):
you clip that evil in wicked and put an echo
behind it? Do I need to get Chad Ball? Okay,
you got this? I mean I was giving you a
big compliment. I seen if you're ready to step up
to the big league.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We can review ready, but you might get You might
could do evil and wicked. Marcus Latrelle, retired United States
Navy Seal. Your bride had told me that you would
be completing the fortieth day of a forty day.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Fast when the tentptations would come on for food. I
started watching food videos online, YouTube and Instagram to fight it.
I turned it into a fight the devil attenting me.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Pretty sure he's got a gear that I don't. The
many emails, you can't do that, you'll die. If he
did that, he died, he's dead. Well, technically he's died before,
so maybe he died every day for this as well.
The National Toy Hall of Fame just revealed his class
of twenty twenty five Battleship Trivial Pursuit and Slim Battleship
(06:37):
finalists that didn't make it this year, Connect four corn Hole?
How does cornhole not make it? Corn Hole is such
a perfect if you want to call it a toy,
It's like hacky sack. I mean, you can do it
anywhere and everybody enjoys cornhole.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
This is Crockett Marco'sberry and you're listening.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
To my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
When Crockett came home, Charles Clark found out what time
it was going to be that he got at home.
But he was texting me and I didn't know why.
We're sitting in the backyard. Kroc has been home about
thirty minutes and all of a sudden we hear something
out front. Hello, Hello, and they ripped into it and
(07:16):
it's Marioci And so he had sent Mariocci because he
said this you're in Texas now, and that's your Texas welcome.
And we still to this day laugh about Crockett remembers
that like it was yesterday. That was his welcome to Texas.
Was Mariocci's playing in the yard.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
I don't packed this SENSI I ain't got no crystal
Ball had a million dollars, but I I'd spent and
did oh if I could find that hunter And that's
sign show that she's fine. Well out my book, captain
signe man, I'd snipper down.
Speaker 11 (08:11):
I'm in on.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The Michael Barry Show. Simple man, What did I tell you?
I saw a crime being committed in an Apple store.
I was an eyewitness. Mike, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir, Hi, Michael, how are you? I'm good.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Hey. We have a good friend we share in the past, Monday,
Larry Hoffson. I wanted to appreciate you for mentioning him,
and you know, he was like a brother to me
and a mentor. He was a great leader too, and
you know we're going to miss him dearly. And I
was hoping that, you know, maybe you could say another
word about it. And I didn't know if you had
(09:06):
heard anything yet about a you know, celebration of life
or anything like that yet. But I'm pretty close with
his family, so hopefully we'll be in touch with that.
And you know, it meant a lot for us to
hear that from you. And I'm trying to get a
little tape of it on a podcast from Monday to
maybe play it when we do have this. And I
(09:27):
know you were with him not too long ago like
I was, and he'll always be with me in spirit.
Like I said, I'm a registered Texas public land surveyor,
so you know we were partners for twelve years from
nineteen ninety six to two thousand and nine. He bought
me out and I went on my own and still
on my own. And you know, I just want again
(09:51):
thank you so much for mentioning him. I know he
was dear to you as well as me.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, indeed, a very special man, a very special and
gone too soon. But you know, I've been thinking about this.
Larry was only sixty seven, and I was constantly fussing
at him for about taking better care of himself. From
a purely selfish perspective, I wanted him to live many
(10:16):
more years. But I try to find a silver lining
in anything, and that is that he did not have
to suffer because he just went to lay down on
the couch and fell asleep and didn't wake up. So
I find some comfort in those sorts of things I've seen, folks.
(10:38):
Modern medicine is a blessing and a curse in that
sense that I have seen folks who their passing process
is delayed and lengthy and painful. And I think that's
easier for everybody else because you get to be ready
for them to go, because you can't bear seeing them
(10:58):
suffer any longer. But for the person themselves, I think
that's rough. I think we would all hope to go
in our sleep, not not when he went. I would
have preferred it be much later. But I try to
find a silver lining and everything. That's that's what what
does that mean? You're such an idiot, Scott. You're on
(11:27):
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 12 (11:31):
How you doing, Michael?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm good. Hey.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
I wanted to call and inform you and and this
is my first time able to get through a couple
of years ago. Uh, William Bill Bourban he was from Ukraine.
He was a he was occasionally call into the show.
He was Uh, he was a conservative.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
But uh.
Speaker 12 (11:55):
He he passed away around January to about a couple
of year years ago. I'm not sure if you're familiar
with or you remember.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't. Maybe if I heard his voice, I don't.
I don't know that I ever met him, but yeah,
if he if he was important to you, then then
that's what matters.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had mentioned that he'd called in
all the time, and you guys would talk about things.
But I just wanted to let you know that you
know that he passed away and he had mentioned you
quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Well, that's very kind.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Am a very fortunate person to get to do what
we do. I get to interact with a lot of people,
and you make relationships. You create these relationships very quickly,
and I think part of that is because when someone
calls the show, they've been listening for a long time.
(13:04):
And in twenty years of doing this, I learned a
long time ago that I wanted to do the show
that I wanted to do, and that is very revealing
of my personality, my family, my likes and dislikes, my quirks,
my annoying habits, you name it. And so I think
a number of people through a phone call on the
(13:25):
show will feel a connection because we are spending time
with y'all every single in many cases, every single day
for multiple hours. And this is more time than you
spend with your adult kids. It's more time than you
spend with an employee, and so you develop these these relationships.
We don't just talk about politics. We talk about a
(13:46):
lot of issues. You know, what foods we like to
eat and don't, adoption, parenting, sex, marriage, dating, youth, you know,
you name it. We talk about all of it. And
I think that creates a very deep connection. Even for
people that never meet me, they will say, I feel
(14:10):
like I know you, and you know is that weird?
It's not weird at all. I think it's cool you
do know me. It's I always tell people you're going
to be disappointed if you meet me, because there's nothing left.
We we cover it all on the show. There's not
some grand thing I'm going to do in person that
(14:32):
you're going to learn that's any different than what we
do on the air. That's when you do five hours
a day, you pretty much you lay it out there,
and so there's not a whole lot left. But what
a blessing to get to do what we do every day.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
It is.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I constantly think to myself that if I were to
go tomorrow, I would be a I would die happy man.
I have had so much fun around the neatest people,
our team, my family, our listeners, and to get to
do this day in and day out, For this long.
I mean, some people think this is a job. It's
(15:13):
it's insane. It really is amazing that we get to
do it, and I try never to forget that fact,
because it is. It is a dream come true. I
feel like my entire life has prepared me to get
to do what we do now, and and I'm grateful
for every single day and every single person. You're uncle
(15:35):
Billy among them. Seven one nine one thousand, seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. This is you, Michael
Verie show enjoy it. Oh yes, it's open line Friday.
In the phones are a buzz. Roger, you're up? What'say you?
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Sor?
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Hey Michael, this is Roger with Arsia Trucking and we connected.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yes, sir, we're uh. We got a good level on him,
good level, Yes, okay, my level's good. Yep, we're good.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
I went to the check cashing place. Yes, said get
some change in an envelope. So I'm in there, and
then some man walks in there and he needs proof
of all the money he's been spending in there. He
got money invested in this company he was raising. You
know what, he started saying, I'm mayor turns nephew I'm
Mayor Turns nephew. I almost fell that last It was
it was crazy.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
What were you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Check cashing place?
Speaker 11 (16:34):
Uh? Getting twenty for two hundred dollars bills and to
put in an envelope which I got for free. They
didn't charge me, That's what I told. That guy said
that just gave me this envelope for free, you know,
walked out. So, yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So you just go in there and make change out
of one hundred dollars bill that they're happy.
Speaker 13 (16:50):
To do it. Yeah, they charged me two dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh man, So they charged you. So you give them
a hundred dollar bill and they give you four twenties
and then a ten of five and three bucks something
like that.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Yes, sir, I paid that separate though it was two
hundred dollars. Michael, you're a good man. I forgot what
I was going to tell you last time I talked
to you. But I shed a tear when Russell Mball
passed away.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I sure did.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
We all did. Yes, indeed, that's what I love you, Michael.
Speaker 11 (17:14):
I'm hanging up, thank you.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
He got for clempt Ramon. Not's wrong with that? We
all miss rushing bath only sometimes I'll be thinking through
an issue in the shower, walking down the stairs, getting
in my truck, anything, and I will hear Russia's words
on something, and I think, you've you've done well when
you when you've given that level of uh uh, when
(17:42):
you when you've had that that level of impact. Barbara,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead. Oh now,
Ramon tells me Barbara didn't want to come on. She
just wanted to ask a question, which is my favorite thing,
because Ramona hates that more than life itself. When people
call them and they don't want to go on the air.
(18:05):
They pass this to Michael. Joe Rogan was doing an interview.
I think it was this week. Like with both most things,
I don't watch anything in its organic form. I just
watched the kind of recap of things and this statement
was made, and I assume this was from Joe. It
might have been from his guest, but I'm doing research
on this now, and this was the statement. If you
(18:26):
do the sauna four times a week for twenty minutes
at one hundred and seventy five degrees, it's a forty
percent decrease in all cause mortality. It's great for reduction
in inflammation and increase in red blood cells. If you
do the sauna four times a week for twenty minutes
each time at one hundred and seventy five degrees, it's
(18:49):
a forty percent decrease in all cause mortality. It's great
for reduction in inflammation and increase in red blood cells.
I've told you before, but there's always new people coming
in and out of the show. I asked Stan Dukman,
(19:09):
my cardiologists several years ago. I said, if somebody, if
somebody said, I don't want to end up on your table,
what's the one simple thing I can do to end
up on your table with a heart attack? And he said,
reduce inflammation. Inflammation is your enemy. And then we've talked
(19:32):
a lot, and now I'll send them articles that I've read,
or studies that have been done, or opinions that are given,
and we'll talk it through. And it's interesting that so
many of the problems we associate are actually just some
form or another of inflammation. And if you can reduce
that inflammation, you reduce so many problems for the human body.
(19:56):
And so when you start thinking in terms of health
and wellness, it's not what you eat or what you
don't eat. It is preserving the human body in a
form that reduces inflammation. Inflammation is your enemy. Charlie, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
Go ahead, sir, oh I just had a little story
to relay, mister Barry. What is the difference between a
well dressed man on a bicycle and a poorly dressed
man on a tricycle attire?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Shoot, I was on the wheel.
Speaker 13 (20:31):
Come on with it.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Bless you, Michael Berry.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
You're good regular, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was stuck on the wheel, free wheel wheel. I
could just couldn't get there.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Dogg.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Former Minneapolis police officer tal Thow reunited with his children
after serving almost five years in prison over George Floyd's death.
Derek Chauvain should not have gone to prison, and he's
the one that they accused of choking George Floyd. He
didn't choke George Floyd. But tal thal went to prison
(21:09):
because they decided he hadn't done enough. And the picture
is him walking toward his children with his arms outstretched,
young children. Five years he's been away from his children
because George Floyd took a fentanyl and choked out. He
(21:29):
had done that a matter of days before, less than
three months before, and been imprisoned for over I mean
been hospitalized for over a week. When the officer pulled
up on him and he put the drugs in his mouth.
Did that again. This time he was in the middle
of committing a crime, had the drug on him, didn't
want to go back to prison, so he swallowed it.
(21:53):
And that's why he said he couldn't breathe. When he
was in the back seat of the car. He was saying,
I can't breathe, long before he was on the ground.
Oh but listen to him. It just breaks your heart.
This man calling for his mama and he can't Breathe
called for his mama three months earlier, said his mom
had just been killed. His mom had just been killed,
(22:15):
and that's why he was upset. That's what he told her,
don't take me back to prison. My mama just died.
His mom had died like four years earlier. The man
was a chronic liar, lay about he made babies he
never raised. At his funeral, officers that worked the funeral
said the baby mama's had to prep the kids as
to which one of the family members they were supposed
(22:38):
to pretend like they knew because they knew none of them.
Because this man just made babies. That's what he did,
made babies and committed crimes. That's what he did. He
made babies and committed crimes. And we got his his
visage painted on the side of buildings like he was
some great American patriot. But you know what, to a
(23:00):
subculture of Americans, he kind of was because he is.
He got his his and his family, they got thays.
It's the most disgusting thing ever. That's what we've been
reduced to in this country. That's what white guilt has
led to. I saw a post about Jasmine crocket and
(23:26):
it was talking about it said that Jasmine Crockett is
getting roasted for how she's spending money. Let's see if
I can find it. FEC filings expose she's dropped seventy
five thousand dollars on luxury hotels, limos and private security
in Martha's Vineyard, New York City and Vegas. Joke's on you.
(23:49):
She's not getting roasted in her districts like yours.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Everyone listens to Michael Verry show. Brandon, you're on the
Michael Berry You sure what you got.
Speaker 14 (24:02):
Man y are telling all these sad stories about your buddies, dye,
And I've got a funny story that's probably gonna be
what we hear when we die. So a bunch of
a bunch of old cops went deer hunting together every year.
And this was told to me by a very old
policeman that they all went hunting together somewhere out in
West Texas had this little ramshackle place that was cold
(24:24):
and freezing and all that sort of thing, and they all,
you know, stayed up too late, drinking and smoking cigars,
playing cards, that that sort of thing every night. And
this one guy who was an elected sheriff in a county,
and I'm not going to say who it was, been
so long ago, probably nobody remember him anyway, but evidently
wasn't the nicest or best guy in the world. Was
(24:44):
always the first one up, would get up, make coffee,
do all that, and everybody else would get up and
start cooking and you know, getting ready for the hunt,
et cetera. And they all got up one morning and
the old sheriff wasn't up. They thought he had just
slept in, which was unusual, and finally somebody went in
there and came out and said he's dead, and another
(25:05):
guy in the group looked at him just as serious
he could be the way the story was told me anyway,
and said he didn't deserve to die like that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's gonna be us, Michael B. We didn't deserve to
die like that. Yeah, well we deserved a long, painful death. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Have a great weekend, bro.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But it took me to say. I didn't get the
point of the joke until he kind of explained it there.
It took me a minute. When Dade feeling drunk, Dade
was running for reelection, he got pushed to a runoff
because he had he had turned against Trump, he turned
(25:53):
against the voters. He had become a swamp machine, and
that and being just staggering drunk while conducting the house
and it all caught on camera that that certainly didn't
help well. Whenever he was running, I saw a we
(26:15):
went back and looked. He pretended to support Trump because
of his district is very pro Trump. I know that
because I'm from there. I know those people. Those are
our people. They're not drunk Dad's people. But he pretended
that he loved Trump. And Trump was great. And Trump
even came out and endorsed his opponent in a state
(26:37):
rep race. Well, now that he's leaving office, and Trump
has told him, don't let the door hit you. On
the way out. He went to the Texas Tribune Festival,
and that's where all the liberals liked to go and
have their speeches. You see, they all talk about, well,
you have to understand the people of the state of
(26:59):
Texas aphisticated like us. They're not here at the Texas
Tribune and the Festival of Ideas. And this is where
you will get people who cannot get elected to office.
White Democrats cannot get elected to state wide office, but
they go to these things. This is a Beto O'Rourke fest,
(27:21):
Gavin Newsom. This is where these people go and they
all sit around their other and they feel like they're
smarter than everyone else. And how can they scheme and
connive to get you dumb ass heathen serfs back home
to vote for them. And drunk Dade while giving his speech,
and honestly, I'm sure being given a great round of
(27:43):
applause because they love nothing more than a Republican who
doesn't vote for Trump, and he announced that he is
not a maga Republican. He's definitely not, and he could
not work with Donald Trump. He just couldn't do it.
And that's why he's walking away. As he says he's
walking away, I'm really not sure he's walking away. I
(28:08):
think he has a good sense to realize he was
going to be beaten and that's embarrassing and that's why
he's Besides, he can't even get a bill passed named
for the margin of victory that he won that was
targeted at me to get me charged or fined for
making funny memes about him. Yeah, he tried that and
(28:28):
couldn't even get it done. Somebody sent me an email
earlier in the week and it said United Healthcare. Earlier
this year, the left applauded the murder of the CEO
of United Healthcare. Now they fought for subsidies to fund
healthcare provided by United Healthcare. Make it make sense. I
(28:50):
was reading a review on on Obamacare and why insurance
companies are doing so well under Obamacare. Obamacare was probably
written Obamacare is not about health care at all. Obamacare
(29:16):
is about insurance subsidies. It is a massive insurance subsidy
and requirement that you buy insurance. People a lot of
people didn't buy insurance before that, And then we had
court rulings that if you didn't have insurance, you still
had to be provided healthcare. Well, we don't require a
(29:41):
restaurant to serve you food if you don't pay for it.
We don't require that someone take you in their house
if you don't pay the rent. Why we insist on
giving health care to people who refuse to pay for it,
I'll never understand. Because you create perverse incentives. You create
(30:01):
a situation where it is more advantageous to simply not
pay for insurance. But I will tell you I think
insurance is the scourge of America's health care. We have
the best healthcare in America. We say that all the time.
What we have is the most innovative, cutting edge healthcare.
We have very expensive health care that costs a much
(30:23):
higher percentage for the most basic, simple, tedious things. If
you shattered the whole system and went back to pay
for the services you receive, you ever think about the
fact that you go to the doctor, you have these
procedures done, and you have no idea, and then one day,
one day you find out what it's going to cost you.
Can you imagine going to the car dealership or the
(30:44):
restaurant or looking for houses on this basis
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