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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air. Well, it's our day
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of thanks So if ever you should let this wash over.
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Use today, Happy D, happy D.
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When does war? When he war?
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When do wardres away?
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Love?
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Happy day or happy d happy.
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Or happy Dad?
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When Jo's warm?
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A witty war, when Jo's ward away?
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He loved.
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The habit day, happy day? Or a happy day?
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Winter? Those wars, oh whitty war winter, those wars of.
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Three away.
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You need to luck.
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Happy day, happy de, happy day, Oh happy.
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When Jesus war wait it w was when je thos
war three years away? He needed to look.
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The habbit.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh long, good God.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Lo Well. Every Friday before Thanksgiving for the last ten
years or so, we do our Thanksgiving special. The lines
are open and you can call about anything you want,
with preference for that for which you are thankful. Maybe
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you beat cancer, maybe you found the love of your life.
Maybe your business has flourished. Whatever that may be, it's
just the time to tell it. Seven one three nine
nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Man now to get us started as we always do.
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Courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land,
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over here, and then here's the script for the black people.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Burger King.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Maybe you got some big old hot hips on your as.
Could I give me a whappa back there?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Why?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Sure, honey, you could have a wop.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well that's not all I.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Want a major change for the home of the Houston Astros.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
For twenty two years, this has been minime Park. But
soon that'll change.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Greetings from Diking Park, dik In Park.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Dike In Park. With dike In the air conditioning manufacturer
getting the naming rights, it will be called the Ice Bots.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Somo president Like Donald Trump's cabinet pics are on Capitol
Hill today, trying to show up support among Senators for confirmation.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
One, already drawing criticism from Senate Republicans Matt Gates for
Trump's pick for attorney general. Just getting word that Matt
Gates has taken himselves out of the running to be
Donald Trump's attorney general.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
In order to.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Reform our government, you're gonna have to have some people
who are going to go in there who were Devil
may Care. They're not just fearless they're actually reckless. Are
the type of people who feed off of this intense
hatred that they engender and don't care who likes somebody.
Our Adoption Special Jeff ere upsar.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Yeah, we adopted our two sons from Russia.
Speaker 10 (07:37):
We just celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of them being here.
Speaker 11 (07:41):
What a blessing they are.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Laura, you're on the.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 12 (07:44):
I'm an adopt the back from the sixties. About thirty
years ago did search for my birth parents. It doesn't
mean anything about how much you love your parents if
you do decide to search for your roots and your identity.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Adoption for me is the idea that a child deserves love.
If the traditional relationships are not in place, for whatever reason,
then someone else steps in.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Body unbody, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Phone lines were open seven one three, one thousand. You
can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com,
Michael Berryshow dot com, or directly Michael at Michael Berryshow
dot com. It is the Thanksgiving Special. It doesn't just
mean today that we Turkey. That means the time at
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which we are grateful and count out of the.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Blessings to both sessions of your show every day, Michael, Mary,
get the most pleasant boy.
Speaker 11 (09:11):
Sixteen alarm clock won't stop going.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'll stumble through the same, try to think.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Fill the coffee pot, m.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Coffee, Get the sleepy heads out of bed, get them fed,
get them dressed, to ready up, get your stuff in
the truck, blow them both to kiss when you drop
them off.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
By kids.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
It feels like a month of Monday since I had
a break.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Sometimes I tell myself when I had a all I
could take.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Fridays come in, just slip back. It's gonna come back
and around. Gotta keep on running.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Can't let trouble me the ground out, ready to.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Feel that feeling?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Not then?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What's the chants?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Back?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Singing?
Speaker 11 (10:05):
Damn a torpedos, cool little titles, Friday'sier Games, traffic gives
a mess through the stress and my brain want to
flip the moth, But I do my.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Best to free.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Melanie. You're on the Michael Berry Show Thanksgiving Special Go ahead, sweetheart?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Sure who supports his family not only immediate but also
extended family?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Who is this? I'm sorry that Mike wasn't on.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
This is Melanie?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No, no, But who is the person you're talking about?
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
My husband. I am very thankful for my husband, Neil Biser.
He supports his immediate family and he supports his extended
family with a small family business. And it doesn't get
said enough.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Funny that you would be the first call of the day.
I was talking to an old friend. I hadn't talked
to it in quite some time this morning on my
drive in, and he was talking about a friend whose
wife just gives him nine kinds of hell and he
takes care of her and her children and her extended family,
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and she just rides his ass, saying, you know, you
don't do enough. You don't do enough for us. And
I can't tell you all the things he does for them.
It might give away who that was, but it is
such a Having a grateful spirit puts such good energy
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in the world. It's such a positive thing. Whether someone
is grateful for what they have and content with what
they have. Happy, we use the word is very rarely
related to how much they have. It's related to the
spirit they bring to the measure. Because there are people
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who are very content, joyous with their eight hundred square
foot house in little Toyota Corolla and you know, tiny
little lot, and then they're and they're happy. And then
there are people who they've got the biggest house in
the private planes and travel all over and if they
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could just get this one more thing, they would be happy. Leslie,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, Leslie.
Leslie might be in a bad saleszone. Let's go to Alex. Alex,
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
Good morning, Michael. I am so thankful for my daughter.
Her name's Jacqueline. She's in her second year at the
United States Air Force Academy, and she is happy and thriving.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And Colorado Springs, Yes, sir, we are on in Colorado Springs.
In fact that the station owner is a former Air
Force is former top air Force. Do you go up there?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (13:13):
Or very often?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It's a nice town.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
I love it, you know down Manitou Springs is real nice.
We like everything around it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Do you know what former baseball star with a great
mustache lives in Colorado Springs?
Speaker 13 (13:31):
Rich you're going to say mustache?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh sorry, who are you gonna say? Rodley fingers?
Speaker 13 (13:38):
Yes, I was gonna go as singers if we were
thinking muscle.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh yeah, that's a great mustache too. Pete Vukovich had
a hell of a mustache as well. Remember Vukovich with
the Brewers.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
Yes, sir, that was absolutely Phil Garner.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let's put Phil Garner in there. It's a different kind
of mustache, but it's a heck of a mustache. Let's
go to Allen the Trucker, because he's a trucker coming
up next. You're up, Mike, You're up, Allen.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Hey, Michael, I'm in this, y'all. And alex is his
daughter's in military. My daughter's in military, and I got
so much to be tyful for her before the show
come over this morning. I was always thanking God for
another day of living and looking forward to the show.
And the Holy Spirit of God speaks through you, Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Hold on, Alan, are you the one? You the one
can get me from Dayton up to Rochester, New York
with the Rhodes.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
God, Yes, I am the one.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
I've called you several times there. And my kid wrote
on at Willard for seventeen years of her life, she
can make your work. And every day she saw me
hit that floorboard before my feet hit the ground. Thank
God for another the truck. Thank God that I live
in America, and I serve America, and she saw me
work my ass off there shoes almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Right now and the army from Alan. Hold on, I've
got to shop you. I've got to stop you. I
get I get emails asking when you're gonna come back
on and if I can get you so you can
take somebody from here to there. All right, here we go,
you ready?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Oh god?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Oh all right?
Speaker 10 (15:08):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I want you to get me from Orange, Texas. We're
not going to use any major freeways, no I ten okay.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Oh god, how do you make it hard?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You're the man for this. You've you've got this task. Okay.
I want you to get me from Orange, Texas to Seattle, Washington,
and as much as possible to stay off the main freeways.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Go oh god, lady, I mean, first of all, the
mileing from ours to Seattle's about twenty five twenty six.
I don't think I got to get there.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Rise to the occasion. We got people counting on you.
Now take a moment and compose.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
All right, from Orange, let me start off from there,
go out to Baumat and they take an old highway
fan up there to Winnie and then go to deck
of What the hell I'm just exactor that rose over
there to Antalaci, goll Its and them longway. It takes
me too long to get there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
All we got a way to go in a short
time to get there.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
And then come on, okay, okay, all right, we're going
to go from Houston. We're going to go out to
all to eighty seven out to forty out forty to
forty four Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's actually right now. And
you go out to Farmington, Courtess, Colorado, Montchelo, Utah, go
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up to my wab Utah and there's a divide there,
a prish canny. You go to the west of a
Soldier summit and you'll come into Salt Lake City, going
north over there to a fourth eighty four, and you'll
go over there into a Utah all the way up
into a Snowville and to Idaho and to Ontario, organ
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and going up into a Yakama yakamall Washington, go all
the way up there to night Nik what the hill
is Nighty And then you go over there to Seattle, Washington.
It's about twenty five twenty six hundred miles to get there.
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And uh, when I was an outlaw, Tucker, I would
do it in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, Alan, that is amazing.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And I can describe. I'll tell
you something else. I flew with my mama backwood to
see it from Seattle down here, and I were sitting
I want a window seat, and I described the country
all the way from Seattle, Washington, down to Intercottinental Airport.
I could I could identify all the landscape exactly from
thirty thousand feet, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What time is Waston?
Speaker 14 (18:04):
What?
Speaker 10 (18:04):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What time is?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Wapner? Judge Wapner? No, yeah, yackamal No, Alan, I am
your knowledge of roads, you know, you know what's amazing.
While you were doing that, I was thinking of a
further place I could get you to drive. You make
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the country seem so small with your knowledge. It's it's amazing.
I'm so glad you called so.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Totally wago that everybody has a fight.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He's the Michael Berry Joe.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I've got a hundred dollars walking my hole.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I know all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Anybody's burning in.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
The hole right through my fock.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Sure how you doing?
Speaker 15 (19:11):
And this is missus Shirley q lickor well the other day,
my little nine you old boy assist came up to.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Me telling about this Mama, He's sick. What do we
have to be thankful for? They's giving? I said, what
you're talking about?
Speaker 15 (19:27):
Assis, And he said, well, they call it Thanksgiving? He said,
but what do we have to be thankful?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Fuck?
Speaker 15 (19:35):
And I say, child, hadn't you been paying attention?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
See that's the problem with the children today.
Speaker 15 (19:41):
They be out there hanging with they homies and they
don't be up on their currents and they events and
things like us more intelligent older folks. Is so Anyway,
I told him, I say, Aci, this Thanksgiving, I have
so much to be thankful.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Fuck. I'm thankful that that cute little Will Smith.
Speaker 15 (20:01):
Did another rap record. I'm thankful that they don't increase
the strength of that road.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Game heir growing product.
Speaker 15 (20:09):
And I is thankful to President Clifford and his wife
Hillary Clifford Ridman have not gone to prison yet, honey.
But most of all asked adopts. I is thankful that
Swanson makes a really nice frozen turkey TV dinner so
your mama don't have to cook on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That's right, honey.
Speaker 15 (20:28):
Oh look tell you mama and my asking how she
during and look if they got any leftovers? Actually, if
she mind dropping them by over here later by Huney.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
When I think of the cast of characters who have
called over the years, Joyce, the son of Saga's Sunnyside Chaos,
who we played yesterday from his adoption call, I have
to put Allen in the top ten because he's just
something else, and he's kind of gott An all Shu
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Gfall can't really you know, Gumer Paul Golly, he can't
really believe that we're that impressed with what has come
naturally to him after what forty years are driving a truck? Corey,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. You're up, sweetheart.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Go ahead, hi, Michael nacall and tell you that I
am very, very thankful for my job. I'm seventy one
and I'm a waitress at the Texas Roadhouse up in Kingwood,
and it's a pretty hard job, real dis appoint God,
be on your feet the whole time, no breakroom, no
sitting down, go go go. But I make real good
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money and I'm real happy there. I've been there almost
ten years, so that's what I'm thankful for.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You have such a chirpy little attitude. What time do
you go to work today?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Today? I go at five. A lot of days I'll
go in at five point thirty, but sometimes at four,
and then I'm there until close, so tender in the
week and eleven on the weekends. And you know, I
work a full forty hours and I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So so do you go so you always work evenings?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Yes, And that's one of the things I really like
about it. I'm home during the day. My daughter and
my granddaughter and I live together. We have a nice
house in a Taska seat of two stories, real pretty
and I can be here for anything that needs to
go on. So if somebody has to come and do
some work, or the lawn guy or whatever, I'm always
home to take care of all of that. And then
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I work at night and I make good money.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
How much is good money? What would you make on
today's a Friday? What would you make on a Friday?
Speaker 9 (22:37):
I should do one hundred and fifty, but if I
get real lucky, I'll do closer to two hundred. And
that's take home.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, it's good. What do you get
per hour? Like your your paycheck? Wags? Is it is
three thirty five? Is it two? Was it too? No,
it's two thirteen thirteen. Okay, so that's thirteen.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
But at all every bit of it goes to taxes
because anything that you get, any tip that you get
on a credit card, has to be taxed by the restaurant.
So my paycheck is generally zero.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But that's okay.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I'm not working for the paycheck. I'm working for the tips.
And the tips are good.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Now it sounds like it. Now when you if someone
tips in cash, can you take that straight out or
do you have to put that in the till and
then get paid at the end of the night and
it all has to go through your paycheck.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
No, no, you keep all your cash, and so at
the end of the night when you do a checkout,
if your credit card tips are a lot more, then
you're going to pay in and we have a cash
drop machine. Or if a lot of your tables have
paid you in cash, well, then you'll have more cash
than you've earned, so you'll drop that in the drop
machine and you'll take home whatever's left, which is your tips.
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But a lot of times it's real funny, like you'll
have a night when you're all cash and the night
when you're all credit, and on the nights that you're
all credit, that comes to your Texas Road Have card
the next morning.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So what time will you typically get out of there?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
They don't take what time between ten thirty and eleven thirty?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay, that's not as bad as I would have thought. Okay,
so y'all close it?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
What no ten, ten during the week and eleven on
the weekends. And then you got to clean your tables
and sweep underneath them. And that's really all the work
we have. We don't do a lot of side work
because we have bussers who do who all are allocated
different parts of the sidework and they do all the
back of the housework. So we just cleaned the front
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of the house, clean your tables, set them up for
the next day.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So can somebody come in tonight and say I'd like
to sit in Corey's section and they'd put them there.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Yes. Absolutely. I have a lot of regular customers because
I've been there so long, and so I even have
people who do the call ahead, which you can do.
You can it's called call ahead to get on the weight,
but it's not really like reservations. It's just hey, we're coming.
We're going to be there in thirty minutes.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
You know.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
My name's John Party five. We want to sit with
mimss Corey and then they'll put him in my section
and they get there.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
How old are you.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Seventy one?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh my god, are you serious?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I thought you were going to be fifty two.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
No, seventy one. I was born in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I believe you.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
But my goodness, that is incredible. You are wonderful. And
how old is your daughter that lives with you?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Oh? Thank you. She's thirty one because she I had
her when I was forty. Wow, so she's thirty one.
And then she has a little girl who is turning
eleven next weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
And it's just a three of y'all's.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
It is.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Yeah, but we do real well. We're real happy.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
We're not feeling sorry for it. I mean, you've got
them just a beautiful spirit. No wonder you get tipped. Well.
People don't want to go out and hear somebody's problems.
They want they want positive and happy, and you can
tell yours is real. Oh my goodness. What color hair
do you have?
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Coy gray?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And how do you wear it?
Speaker 9 (26:07):
It's very gray. It's cutting a little bob. I like
to keep it short because it stays out of the
food and it's a little bit more flattering when you're older.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, Corey, I want you to send me an
email this weekend because I guarantee you somebody's going to
come in tonight and they're going to do their normal
tip of twenty two percent or whatever, and they're going
to give you a separate hundred dollars Bill. I know
that's gonna happen. Is it that the most dangerous place
is between Sheila Jackson Lee and the camp Michael Verry
and the Triple Crown Weave is, you know, tilting to
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the side, the leaning tower of Weaver.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
I want everybody to get them off your seat and
get your arms together and your hands together, and give
me some of at all.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So did you did?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Bunk? You did?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You didn't have to see them like you did.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
What you did?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
What you did?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I thank you.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
If you did to love somewhere else, I wouldn't know
what admited love to death.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
You made me feel like I'm never a FLT said
so good.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I have to holler for help to come.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
To speak like you did, but you did.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
But you did. You didn't have to hold man.
Speaker 12 (27:35):
You did that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
You didn't. Can I thank you day for something Loop you.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Pull out your back and you're bad. You got to
try new things too. That's so you did that, wy
you You didenough to shake that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
My message from David Malsby, whose ministry is leading Camp Hope.
Most of you you know he was a pastor before
Camp Hope, and he is a pastor today. The combat
veterans beating PTSD day in and day out, referred to
him as Pastor Malsby, not as the executive director of
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the organization, because it is truly a ministry, a faith
based ministry. But he shared with me the message that
goes out to folks who have supported Camp Hope and
over the last year. Here are some of the numbers
since last Thanksgiving, just from the interim housing programs. Ninety
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four graduates sorry ninety four veterans graduated from Camp Hope.
One ninety two classes taught, one hundred two warrior groups,
four one hundred and sixty one on ones with a mentor,
sixty two thousand, four hundred meals, served, three hundred forty
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two legal appointments, four thousand individual counseling sessions, seven hundred
ten VA medical trips, nineteen thousand, two hundred and fifty
medical services provided over the last year. This list could
go on and on, as you know, but you get
the point. One such veteran as Derek, whose life and
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family have been greatly transformed. An Army veteran, Derek stepped
into Michael Barrett stepped into Barry Brigade Boulevard into the
Camp Hope program. This past January. Derek took full advantage
of the opportunity given to him through the class as
one on one's Warrior groups, counseling sessions, meals, and so
much more to change the trajectory of his life. In August,
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Derek became one of the ninety four graduates from this
past year and moved back home with his wife and
his family. Derek said, without hesitation, Camp Hope saved me
and my family. Derek and his wife are organizing a
fundraiser in December benefiting Camp Hope. It says, I love
giving back after taking so long. How beautiful as that
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A lot of you will be considering end of year
charitable gifts this year. I would encourage you to make
that to Camp Hope. By the way, I'm overdue telling you.
I just checked online for the michael Berry Family Foundation
and a number of you have started contributing to the
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Family Foundation, and some of you on a monthly donation,
and we appreciate you. Most of those donations go to
Camp Hope, but not all of them. This past year
we have contributed to the Chance for Hope, which is
housing for families who it's kind of a Saint Jude
on a local level. Some of that has gone to
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assist the officer for officers who have been injured in
the line of duty. You remember Officer Durfrey who was
shot in Spring Branch when he went in and saved
the mother and her two kids. Those are the primaries
there are. So I think we gave five thousand to
another charity and I can't remember, but it is usually
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a one time spot contribution for something that is happening
that we consider important at that time. So for all
of you who have supported the michael Berry Family Foundation,
I appreciate you. If you would like a link to that,
you can email me and I will send it directly
to you. Yes, it is a charitable donation because it
is a charitable entity. I have a nonprofit organization that
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administers the checks because that keeps me from getting in trouble.
I don't ever touch the money. Let's go to Carlos
on the Brown line.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
You're up, sir, Hey, how are you brother?
Speaker 10 (31:57):
I mean, yes, I'm sorry. I suppose that good. I
know you're good.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
iPods.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Hey, I am a permanent resident alien. I am thankful
that I am here. I've been a permanent resident alien
for fifty three years. I'm not allowed to vote, although
when I went to some of the polling side they
said that I could vote. Some Democrat people wanted me
to vote, get a voter registration or whatever it was.
But I encouraged a bunch of people as many as
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I could. My girls from here, I encouraged her to
vote and all that. So I got a lot of
people to vote, and I am thankful for that. I'm
also thankful that God gave me twenty years with my daughter,
and she's the color of my world and everything that
was good in me, and I am thankful.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
What do you do for living, Blarlos to your family.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
I have a very small painting business. I'm a lowly painter. Uneducated,
lowly painter, immigrant guy.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You know, I've always thought, Carlos, of the of the
jobs that someone could get if they're willing to work
and start that people need that, you don't need a
licensed certification, a lot of capital. I've always thought that
would that would be one of them. I have a
friend named del Busik who owns cert of Pro Painters,
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and they are very successful, and they have locations all
over and they're very high end. They do a lot
of interloot. But I've always thought, you know, even being
a handyman, you've got to learn some basic skills. There
is so much opportunity, and you're proving that for guys
who just if you can just keep the drugs and
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alcohol under control and get up every morning and show
up to a site where you're expected to work for individuals,
families will tell other families and they will you know,
that will spread the business. It's amazing to me how
many people I see who do that. And then you
buy astro van because you're Hispanic. That's what you do.
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You buy a Chevy astro Van, a nineteen eighty astro van,
and you put the astro stickers on it and eventually
you find somebody else maybe to help you, or do
it yourself and keep it lean. You take care of
Miss Smith and she tells Miss Jones, I got a
good guy that campaign. And he shows up and he's trustworthy,
he's a nice guy. And you know he helped me home.
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My grocery is in because he was there when I
did it. And you charge a fair amount. You don't
fight with people. It's amazing people that I know who
do that. They stay. Bert Harvey stays busy year round.
He has more work thing and possibly say grace over
because if you just do a good job for people.
Now it gets harder when you get bigger and you
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have a company, because you have to keep a lot
of guys busy. But for a one off guy like that,
as you say, a lowly guy like that. Not to
say it's not hard work, because obviously it is, but
there is so much opportunity out there. It's amazing to
me that people are not able to see that. Ramon.
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You know, Mozart was Mozart was very jealous, right, you
know why he got rid of his chickens because they
kept going by. I wasn't throw Oh go ahead, you
go ahead, you hear about the cross eyed teacher at
the school that was fired. She couldn't control her pupils.
It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air. Well, it's our day
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of thanks So if ever you should let this wash over.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Use today, Happy D, happy D.
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When does war? When he war?
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When do wardres away?
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Love?
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Happy day or happy d happy.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Or happy Dad?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
When Jo's warm?
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A witty war, when Jo's ward away?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
He loved.
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The habit day, happy day? Or a happy day?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Winter? Those wars, oh whitty war winter, those wars of.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Three away.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
You need to luck.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Happy day, happy de, happy day, Oh happy.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
When Jesus war wait it w was when je thos
war three years away? He needed to look.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The habbit.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh long, good God.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Lo Well. Every Friday before Thanksgiving for the last ten
years or so, we do our Thanksgiving special. The lines
are open and you can call about anything you want,
with preference for that for which you are thankful. Maybe
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you beat cancer, maybe you found the love of your life.
Maybe your business has flourished. Whatever that may be, it's
just the time to tell it. Seven one three nine
nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Man now to get us started as we always do.
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Courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land,
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over here, and then here's the script for the black people.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
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Could I give me a whappa back there?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
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Speaker 6 (06:33):
Sure, honey, you could have a wop.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well that's not all I.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Want a major change for the home of the Houston Astros.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
For twenty two years, this has been minime Park. But
soon that'll change.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Greetings from Diking Park, dik In Park.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Dike In Park. With dike In the air conditioning manufacturer
getting the naming rights, it will be called the Ice Bots.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Somo president Like Donald Trump's cabinet pics are on Capitol
Hill today, trying to show up support among Senators for confirmation.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
One, already drawing criticism from Senate Republicans Matt Gates for
Trump's pick for attorney general. Just getting word that Matt
Gates has taken himselves out of the running to be
Donald Trump's attorney general.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
In order to.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Reform our government, you're gonna have to have some people
who are going to go in there who were Devil
may Care. They're not just fearless they're actually reckless. Are
the type of people who feed off of this intense
hatred that they engender and don't care who likes somebody.
Our Adoption Special Jeff ere upsar.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Yeah, we adopted our two sons from Russia.
Speaker 10 (07:37):
We just celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of them being here.
Speaker 11 (07:41):
What a blessing they are.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Laura, you're on the.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 12 (07:44):
I'm an adopt the back from the sixties. About thirty
years ago did search for my birth parents. It doesn't
mean anything about how much you love your parents if
you do decide to search for your roots and your identity.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Adoption for me is the idea that a child deserves love.
If the traditional relationships are not in place, for whatever reason,
then someone else steps in.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Body unbody, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Phone lines were open seven one three, one thousand. You
can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com,
Michael Berryshow dot com, or directly Michael at Michael Berryshow
dot com. It is the Thanksgiving Special. It doesn't just
mean today that we Turkey. That means the time at
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which we are grateful and count out of the.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Blessings to both sessions of your show every day, Michael, Mary,
get the most pleasant boy.
Speaker 11 (09:11):
Sixteen alarm clock won't stop going.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'll stumble through the same, try to think.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Fill the coffee pot, m.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Coffee, Get the sleepy heads out of bed, get them fed,
get them dressed, to ready up, get your stuff in
the truck, blow them both to kiss when you drop
them off.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
By kids.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
It feels like a month of Monday since I had
a break.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Sometimes I tell myself when I had a all I
could take.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Fridays come in, just slip back. It's gonna come back
and around. Gotta keep on running.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Can't let trouble me the ground out, ready to.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Feel that feeling?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Not then?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What's the chants?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Back?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Singing?
Speaker 11 (10:05):
Damn a torpedos, cool little titles, Friday'sier Games, traffic gives
a mess through the stress and my brain want to
flip the moth, But I do my.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Best to free.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Melanie. You're on the Michael Berry Show Thanksgiving Special Go ahead, sweetheart?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Sure who supports his family not only immediate but also
extended family?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Who is this? I'm sorry that Mike wasn't on.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
This is Melanie?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No, no, But who is the person you're talking about?
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
My husband. I am very thankful for my husband, Neil Biser.
He supports his immediate family and he supports his extended
family with a small family business. And it doesn't get
said enough.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Funny that you would be the first call of the day.
I was talking to an old friend. I hadn't talked
to it in quite some time this morning on my
drive in, and he was talking about a friend whose
wife just gives him nine kinds of hell and he
takes care of her and her children and her extended family,
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and she just rides his ass, saying, you know, you
don't do enough. You don't do enough for us. And
I can't tell you all the things he does for them.
It might give away who that was, but it is
such a Having a grateful spirit puts such good energy
(11:46):
in the world. It's such a positive thing. Whether someone
is grateful for what they have and content with what
they have. Happy, we use the word is very rarely
related to how much they have. It's related to the
spirit they bring to the measure. Because there are people
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who are very content, joyous with their eight hundred square
foot house in little Toyota Corolla and you know, tiny
little lot, and then they're and they're happy. And then
there are people who they've got the biggest house in
the private planes and travel all over and if they
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could just get this one more thing, they would be happy. Leslie,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, Leslie.
Leslie might be in a bad saleszone. Let's go to Alex. Alex,
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
Good morning, Michael. I am so thankful for my daughter.
Her name's Jacqueline. She's in her second year at the
United States Air Force Academy, and she is happy and thriving.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And Colorado Springs, Yes, sir, we are on in Colorado Springs.
In fact that the station owner is a former Air
Force is former top air Force. Do you go up there?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (13:13):
Or very often?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It's a nice town.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
I love it, you know down Manitou Springs is real nice.
We like everything around it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Do you know what former baseball star with a great
mustache lives in Colorado Springs?
Speaker 13 (13:31):
Rich you're going to say mustache?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh sorry, who are you gonna say? Rodley fingers?
Speaker 13 (13:38):
Yes, I was gonna go as singers if we were
thinking muscle.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh yeah, that's a great mustache too. Pete Vukovich had
a hell of a mustache as well. Remember Vukovich with
the Brewers.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
Yes, sir, that was absolutely Phil Garner.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let's put Phil Garner in there. It's a different kind
of mustache, but it's a heck of a mustache. Let's
go to Allen the Trucker, because he's a trucker coming
up next. You're up, Mike, You're up, Allen.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Hey, Michael, I'm in this, y'all. And alex is his
daughter's in military. My daughter's in military, and I got
so much to be tyful for her before the show
come over this morning. I was always thanking God for
another day of living and looking forward to the show.
And the Holy Spirit of God speaks through you, Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Hold on, Alan, are you the one? You the one
can get me from Dayton up to Rochester, New York
with the Rhodes.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
God, Yes, I am the one.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
I've called you several times there. And my kid wrote
on at Willard for seventeen years of her life, she
can make your work. And every day she saw me
hit that floorboard before my feet hit the ground. Thank
God for another the truck. Thank God that I live
in America, and I serve America, and she saw me
work my ass off there shoes almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Right now and the army from Alan. Hold on, I've
got to shop you. I've got to stop you. I
get I get emails asking when you're gonna come back
on and if I can get you so you can
take somebody from here to there. All right, here we go,
you ready?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Oh god?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Oh all right?
Speaker 10 (15:08):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I want you to get me from Orange, Texas. We're
not going to use any major freeways, no I ten okay.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Oh god, how do you make it hard?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You're the man for this. You've you've got this task. Okay.
I want you to get me from Orange, Texas to Seattle, Washington,
and as much as possible to stay off the main freeways.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Go oh god, lady, I mean, first of all, the
mileing from ours to Seattle's about twenty five twenty six.
I don't think I got to get there.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Rise to the occasion. We got people counting on you.
Now take a moment and compose.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
All right, from Orange, let me start off from there,
go out to Baumat and they take an old highway
fan up there to Winnie and then go to deck
of What the hell I'm just exactor that rose over
there to Antalaci, goll Its and them longway. It takes
me too long to get there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
All we got a way to go in a short
time to get there.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
And then come on, okay, okay, all right, we're going
to go from Houston. We're going to go out to
all to eighty seven out to forty out forty to
forty four Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's actually right now. And
you go out to Farmington, Courtess, Colorado, Montchelo, Utah, go
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up to my wab Utah and there's a divide there,
a prish canny. You go to the west of a
Soldier summit and you'll come into Salt Lake City, going
north over there to a fourth eighty four, and you'll
go over there into a Utah all the way up
into a Snowville and to Idaho and to Ontario, organ
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and going up into a Yakama yakamall Washington, go all
the way up there to night Nik what the hill
is Nighty And then you go over there to Seattle, Washington.
It's about twenty five twenty six hundred miles to get there.
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And uh, when I was an outlaw, Tucker, I would
do it in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, Alan, that is amazing.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And I can describe. I'll tell
you something else. I flew with my mama backwood to
see it from Seattle down here, and I were sitting
I want a window seat, and I described the country
all the way from Seattle, Washington, down to Intercottinental Airport.
I could I could identify all the landscape exactly from
thirty thousand feet, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What time is Waston?
Speaker 14 (18:04):
What?
Speaker 10 (18:04):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What time is?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Wapner? Judge Wapner? No, yeah, yackamal No, Alan, I am
your knowledge of roads, you know, you know what's amazing.
While you were doing that, I was thinking of a
further place I could get you to drive. You make
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the country seem so small with your knowledge. It's it's amazing.
I'm so glad you called so.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Totally wago that everybody has a fight.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He's the Michael Berry Joe.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I've got a hundred dollars walking my hole.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I know all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Anybody's burning in.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
The hole right through my fock.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Sure how you doing?
Speaker 15 (19:11):
And this is missus Shirley q lickor well the other day,
my little nine you old boy assist came up to.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Me telling about this Mama, He's sick. What do we
have to be thankful for? They's giving? I said, what
you're talking about?
Speaker 15 (19:27):
Assis, And he said, well, they call it Thanksgiving? He said,
but what do we have to be thankful?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Fuck?
Speaker 15 (19:35):
And I say, child, hadn't you been paying attention?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
See that's the problem with the children today.
Speaker 15 (19:41):
They be out there hanging with they homies and they
don't be up on their currents and they events and
things like us more intelligent older folks. Is so Anyway,
I told him, I say, Aci, this Thanksgiving, I have
so much to be thankful.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Fuck. I'm thankful that that cute little Will Smith.
Speaker 15 (20:01):
Did another rap record. I'm thankful that they don't increase
the strength of that road.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Game heir growing product.
Speaker 15 (20:09):
And I is thankful to President Clifford and his wife
Hillary Clifford Ridman have not gone to prison yet, honey.
But most of all asked adopts. I is thankful that
Swanson makes a really nice frozen turkey TV dinner so
your mama don't have to cook on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That's right, honey.
Speaker 15 (20:28):
Oh look tell you mama and my asking how she
during and look if they got any leftovers? Actually, if
she mind dropping them by over here later by Huney.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
When I think of the cast of characters who have
called over the years, Joyce, the son of Saga's Sunnyside Chaos,
who we played yesterday from his adoption call, I have
to put Allen in the top ten because he's just
something else, and he's kind of gott An all Shu
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Gfall can't really you know, Gumer Paul Golly, he can't
really believe that we're that impressed with what has come
naturally to him after what forty years are driving a truck? Corey,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. You're up, sweetheart.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Go ahead, hi, Michael nacall and tell you that I
am very, very thankful for my job. I'm seventy one
and I'm a waitress at the Texas Roadhouse up in Kingwood,
and it's a pretty hard job, real dis appoint God,
be on your feet the whole time, no breakroom, no
sitting down, go go go. But I make real good
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money and I'm real happy there. I've been there almost
ten years, so that's what I'm thankful for.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You have such a chirpy little attitude. What time do
you go to work today?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Today? I go at five. A lot of days I'll
go in at five point thirty, but sometimes at four,
and then I'm there until close, so tender in the
week and eleven on the weekends. And you know, I
work a full forty hours and I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So so do you go so you always work evenings?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Yes, And that's one of the things I really like
about it. I'm home during the day. My daughter and
my granddaughter and I live together. We have a nice
house in a Taska seat of two stories, real pretty
and I can be here for anything that needs to
go on. So if somebody has to come and do
some work, or the lawn guy or whatever, I'm always
home to take care of all of that. And then
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I work at night and I make good money.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
How much is good money? What would you make on
today's a Friday? What would you make on a Friday?
Speaker 9 (22:37):
I should do one hundred and fifty, but if I
get real lucky, I'll do closer to two hundred. And
that's take home.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, it's good. What do you get
per hour? Like your your paycheck? Wags? Is it is
three thirty five? Is it two? Was it too? No,
it's two thirteen thirteen. Okay, so that's thirteen.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
But at all every bit of it goes to taxes
because anything that you get, any tip that you get
on a credit card, has to be taxed by the restaurant.
So my paycheck is generally zero.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But that's okay.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I'm not working for the paycheck. I'm working for the tips.
And the tips are good.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Now it sounds like it. Now when you if someone
tips in cash, can you take that straight out or
do you have to put that in the till and
then get paid at the end of the night and
it all has to go through your paycheck.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
No, no, you keep all your cash, and so at
the end of the night when you do a checkout,
if your credit card tips are a lot more, then
you're going to pay in and we have a cash
drop machine. Or if a lot of your tables have
paid you in cash, well, then you'll have more cash
than you've earned, so you'll drop that in the drop
machine and you'll take home whatever's left, which is your tips.
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But a lot of times it's real funny, like you'll
have a night when you're all cash and the night
when you're all credit, and on the nights that you're
all credit, that comes to your Texas Road Have card
the next morning.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So what time will you typically get out of there?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
They don't take what time between ten thirty and eleven thirty?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay, that's not as bad as I would have thought. Okay,
so y'all close it?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
What no ten, ten during the week and eleven on
the weekends. And then you got to clean your tables
and sweep underneath them. And that's really all the work
we have. We don't do a lot of side work
because we have bussers who do who all are allocated
different parts of the sidework and they do all the
back of the housework. So we just cleaned the front
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of the house, clean your tables, set them up for
the next day.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So can somebody come in tonight and say I'd like
to sit in Corey's section and they'd put them there.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Yes. Absolutely. I have a lot of regular customers because
I've been there so long, and so I even have
people who do the call ahead, which you can do.
You can it's called call ahead to get on the weight,
but it's not really like reservations. It's just hey, we're coming.
We're going to be there in thirty minutes.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
You know.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
My name's John Party five. We want to sit with
mimss Corey and then they'll put him in my section
and they get there.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
How old are you.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Seventy one?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh my god, are you serious?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I thought you were going to be fifty two.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
No, seventy one. I was born in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I believe you.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
But my goodness, that is incredible. You are wonderful. And
how old is your daughter that lives with you?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Oh? Thank you. She's thirty one because she I had
her when I was forty. Wow, so she's thirty one.
And then she has a little girl who is turning
eleven next weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
And it's just a three of y'all's.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
It is.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Yeah, but we do real well. We're real happy.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
We're not feeling sorry for it. I mean, you've got
them just a beautiful spirit. No wonder you get tipped. Well.
People don't want to go out and hear somebody's problems.
They want they want positive and happy, and you can
tell yours is real. Oh my goodness. What color hair
do you have?
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Coy gray?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And how do you wear it?
Speaker 9 (26:07):
It's very gray. It's cutting a little bob. I like
to keep it short because it stays out of the
food and it's a little bit more flattering when you're older.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, Corey, I want you to send me an
email this weekend because I guarantee you somebody's going to
come in tonight and they're going to do their normal
tip of twenty two percent or whatever, and they're going
to give you a separate hundred dollars Bill. I know
that's gonna happen. Is it that the most dangerous place
is between Sheila Jackson Lee and the camp Michael Verry
and the Triple Crown Weave is, you know, tilting to
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the side, the leaning tower of Weaver.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
I want everybody to get them off your seat and
get your arms together and your hands together, and give
me some of at all.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So did you did?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Bunk? You did?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You didn't have to see them like you did.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
What you did?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
What you did?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I thank you.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
If you did to love somewhere else, I wouldn't know
what admited love to death.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
You made me feel like I'm never a FLT said
so good.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I have to holler for help to come.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
To speak like you did, but you did.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
But you did. You didn't have to hold man.
Speaker 12 (27:35):
You did that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
You didn't. Can I thank you day for something Loop you.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Pull out your back and you're bad. You got to
try new things too. That's so you did that, wy
you You didenough to shake that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
My message from David Malsby, whose ministry is leading Camp Hope.
Most of you you know he was a pastor before
Camp Hope, and he is a pastor today. The combat
veterans beating PTSD day in and day out, referred to
him as Pastor Malsby, not as the executive director of
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the organization, because it is truly a ministry, a faith
based ministry. But he shared with me the message that
goes out to folks who have supported Camp Hope and
over the last year. Here are some of the numbers
since last Thanksgiving, just from the interim housing programs. Ninety
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four graduates sorry ninety four veterans graduated from Camp Hope.
One ninety two classes taught, one hundred two warrior groups,
four one hundred and sixty one on ones with a mentor,
sixty two thousand, four hundred meals, served, three hundred forty
(29:08):
two legal appointments, four thousand individual counseling sessions, seven hundred
ten VA medical trips, nineteen thousand, two hundred and fifty
medical services provided over the last year. This list could
go on and on, as you know, but you get
the point. One such veteran as Derek, whose life and
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family have been greatly transformed. An Army veteran, Derek stepped
into Michael Barrett stepped into Barry Brigade Boulevard into the
Camp Hope program. This past January. Derek took full advantage
of the opportunity given to him through the class as
one on one's Warrior groups, counseling sessions, meals, and so
much more to change the trajectory of his life. In August,
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Derek became one of the ninety four graduates from this
past year and moved back home with his wife and
his family. Derek said, without hesitation, Camp Hope saved me
and my family. Derek and his wife are organizing a
fundraiser in December benefiting Camp Hope. It says, I love
giving back after taking so long. How beautiful as that
(30:17):
A lot of you will be considering end of year
charitable gifts this year. I would encourage you to make
that to Camp Hope. By the way, I'm overdue telling you.
I just checked online for the michael Berry Family Foundation
and a number of you have started contributing to the
(30:37):
Family Foundation, and some of you on a monthly donation,
and we appreciate you. Most of those donations go to
Camp Hope, but not all of them. This past year
we have contributed to the Chance for Hope, which is
housing for families who it's kind of a Saint Jude
on a local level. Some of that has gone to
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assist the officer for officers who have been injured in
the line of duty. You remember Officer Durfrey who was
shot in Spring Branch when he went in and saved
the mother and her two kids. Those are the primaries
there are. So I think we gave five thousand to
another charity and I can't remember, but it is usually
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a one time spot contribution for something that is happening
that we consider important at that time. So for all
of you who have supported the michael Berry Family Foundation,
I appreciate you. If you would like a link to that,
you can email me and I will send it directly
to you. Yes, it is a charitable donation because it
is a charitable entity. I have a nonprofit organization that
(31:45):
administers the checks because that keeps me from getting in trouble.
I don't ever touch the money. Let's go to Carlos
on the Brown line.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
You're up, sir, Hey, how are you brother?
Speaker 10 (31:57):
I mean, yes, I'm sorry. I suppose that good. I
know you're good.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
iPods.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Hey, I am a permanent resident alien. I am thankful
that I am here. I've been a permanent resident alien
for fifty three years. I'm not allowed to vote, although
when I went to some of the polling side they
said that I could vote. Some Democrat people wanted me
to vote, get a voter registration or whatever it was.
But I encouraged a bunch of people as many as
(32:24):
I could. My girls from here, I encouraged her to
vote and all that. So I got a lot of
people to vote, and I am thankful for that. I'm
also thankful that God gave me twenty years with my daughter,
and she's the color of my world and everything that
was good in me, and I am thankful.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
What do you do for living, Blarlos to your family.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
I have a very small painting business. I'm a lowly painter. Uneducated,
lowly painter, immigrant guy.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You know, I've always thought, Carlos, of the of the
jobs that someone could get if they're willing to work
and start that people need that, you don't need a
licensed certification, a lot of capital. I've always thought that
would that would be one of them. I have a
friend named del Busik who owns cert of Pro Painters,
(33:13):
and they are very successful, and they have locations all
over and they're very high end. They do a lot
of interloot. But I've always thought, you know, even being
a handyman, you've got to learn some basic skills. There
is so much opportunity, and you're proving that for guys
who just if you can just keep the drugs and
(33:34):
alcohol under control and get up every morning and show
up to a site where you're expected to work for individuals,
families will tell other families and they will you know,
that will spread the business. It's amazing to me how
many people I see who do that. And then you
buy astro van because you're Hispanic. That's what you do.
(33:57):
You buy a Chevy astro Van, a nineteen eighty astro van,
and you put the astro stickers on it and eventually
you find somebody else maybe to help you, or do
it yourself and keep it lean. You take care of
Miss Smith and she tells Miss Jones, I got a
good guy that campaign. And he shows up and he's trustworthy,
he's a nice guy. And you know he helped me home.
(34:18):
My grocery is in because he was there when I
did it. And you charge a fair amount. You don't
fight with people. It's amazing people that I know who
do that. They stay. Bert Harvey stays busy year round.
He has more work thing and possibly say grace over
because if you just do a good job for people.
Now it gets harder when you get bigger and you
(34:39):
have a company, because you have to keep a lot
of guys busy. But for a one off guy like that,
as you say, a lowly guy like that. Not to
say it's not hard work, because obviously it is, but
there is so much opportunity out there. It's amazing to
me that people are not able to see that. Ramon.
(35:00):
You know, Mozart was Mozart was very jealous, right, you
know why he got rid of his chickens because they
kept going by. I wasn't throw Oh go ahead, you
go ahead, you hear about the cross eyed teacher at
the school that was fired. She couldn't control her pupils.
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