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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael varieshow is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let me make this an absolute fact. The goal is
world peace. That must be our prime responsibility. We are
the leader of the free world, whether we want to
be or not, and therefore we are the only ones
that can preserve the peace.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, first of all, the Russians are already facing very
severe consequences. There's not a single sanction that's been lifted,
and not one, I mean, they're facing all the same
sanctions that have been in place today. All the American
support continues for Ukraine. And ultimately, look, if we're not
going to be able to reach an agreement here at
any point, then there are going to be consequences. What
we're trying to do right now is end the war.
And in order to end the war, you've got to
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give every opportunity that exists. You have to be open
any opportunity that exists to bring it about. And here's
the thing to remind everybody. And when the President says,
this is not our war, but let's be frank, this
is not our war. The United States is not in
a war. Ukraine is in a war, and we've been
supporting Ukraine. We happen to be in the role of
the only country.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We're the only leader in the world that can actually
bring put into a table to even discuss these things. Now,
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the President has traveled, you know, all the way to
Alaska all the way back, has dedicated months and months
of work him, our entire team on this matter, because
we want to see.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
An end of the war.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But if tomorrow the war continues, life in America will
not be fundamentally altered.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So I think that we have to understand is that this.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Has been a priority for this president because he wants
to promote peace. He wants to promote the end of
a war, and I think we should be happy that
we have a president that's trying to promote peace and
bring a war to an end. You can't have a
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peace agreement unless both sides give and get. You can't
have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions. That's
a fact that's true in virtually any negotiation. If not,
it's just called surrender. And neither side is going to surrender.
Both sides are going to have to make concessions. So
of course concessions were asked. These negotiations. As much as
everyone would love it to be a live, pay per
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view event, these discussions only work best when they are
conducted privately, so we need to create space for concessions
to be made. But of course the concessions were asked.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Only our creative director Jim Mudd could find a way
to slide a Van Halen song into the middle of
the Trump Ukraine Russia Dogs. We'll play, Jim, We'll played
good Man. During the Sermon on the Mount Matthew five nine,
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Jesus says, blessed are the peacemakers, or they shall be
called the children of God. Some translations, that's the sons
of God. Blessed are the peacemakers, or they shall be
called the children of God. You know, in my lifetime,
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when I think about the wars that were most devastating
and bringing an end to them, that starts, and it
was already happening by the time I was born, with Vietnam,
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and that was, as much as anything, an exit from
a debacle that we had been dragged into that cost
us a lot of young men of a generation really
to the edge of two generations, and ended up being
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a horrible mistake and we pay for it to this
day in the lives of men who suffer every single
day from what they experienced. And then you think of
the Camp David Accords in seventy eight where Carter, to
his credit, tried in bringing Sadat and monocom Begum together.
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It was not as successful as they had hoped. It ends,
of course in assassination. But this effort is truly monumentally historic.
We can't know that it will be successful. Time will tell.
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But the Alaska Accords in Alaska on Friday and then
Zelensky being shuttled in yesterday that are from Zelenski's wife
to Milania Trump. I think there's some state craft, as
they call it. I think there's some efforts to imbue
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this occasion with hopeful gestures that that make this an
affair of the heart, and I think that's a good thing.
This is an awful war that has cost a lot
of lives in those countries. It's an awful war that
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we should not have sent all the money that we did.
But I am certain certain that powerful American families have
become billionaires over the money that was sent into Ukraine
that went unaccounted for. I am certain of it, I
am certain that was our involvement. I don't think the
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Biden's made the most money out of it, but I
do think think they made money. I think Ukraine was
used as a as a petri dish for things we
can't do on American soil, making them a satellite state,
a sort of light Los Alamos exploding bombs there, but
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instead using using using laboratories to do things you couldn't
do on American soil. If President Trump does not win
the Nobel Prize, and even Hillary Clinton on Friday saying
that if he can pull off what he has promised,
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and I would nominate him for the Nobel Prize, I
really think this is an opportunity for her to try
to claw her her evil, wretched self back into relevance.
But I would be off for that yet. Yay Hillary.
You know I'd rather see her in an orange jumpsuit
as she submits the letter, but I think it would
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be I think she sees it as a foregone conclusion
at the moment she does that, and then wants to
get some credit for it, right the person. If they can't,
if they can't lead the parade, they figure out a
way to slide into it. I have a story. It's
it's quite a story of something that happened in the
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next segment. If you're gonna listen to one segment, it
should probably be this next week. Need to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
My name is MITCHA Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Do I have a story for you? So last week
I went up to the Woodlands to get my teeth
cleaned by my dentist, doctor Guy Lewis, whose nickname is Mojo,
And this will be relevant later in the segment. Mojo
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is about what would you guess gout was six y'
five at least he's a big man. What was the
guy's name that was the bouncer for led Zeppelin? You
know what? What? Peter Grant? Yeah, I think Peter Grant,
Mountain of a man, big fellow. And his son, Teddy's
a big fellow too, He just hadn't filled out yet
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because he's young. So while I'm there and they're all
in my mouth and they got, I've got. I've really
embraced the sedation dentistry. I didn't have an aspen till
I was twenty nine, but boy, I embraced that sedation
dentistry and they put it on, they can go up
and down and then they can bring you out of
it in five minutes. It's a it's a thing, man
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who So anyway, I'm going at it. And he says, Hey,
I'm going to the Astros game on Sunday morning and
we're bringing Jimmy Jimmy Barrett. Would you like to join us?
And I said, i'm'll be in Austin. We're moving Michael
t in second year. But I really appreciate it. He said, well,
what do you think about Ramon? I said, oh, Ramon
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would love that. So he invites Ramon. Now, Guy Lewis
is the official dentist of the Houston Astros. So if
you if you go into the suites, you'll see pictures
of him. You'll see him out on the in the
in the outfield, you'll see him on the screen he
throws out the first pitch, you'll see him down on
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the field. He's he's a big deal with the Astros
and as such, he gets a suite, the Inspirity Suite.
Big part of that is his and the Inspirity Suite
used to be used to be the old press box,
so we got press passes and the press box was
where you reported from. So when I took over the
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stations in seven, I had a press pass. I would
drive down and just go to the games and just
sit in the press pass. I wasn't reporting on anything.
I was just watching the game. It's the best seating.
You're elevated a little, you got a great sight line.
There's almost nobody in there. Oh, it was heavenly. So
Ramone goes to the game and he is sitting here.
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Next to Ramone in the middle is sitting Jimmy Barrett,
and next to Jimmy is sitting doctor Guy Lewis. And
it's early in the game, which we would lose badly
to the Orioles. Which my theory on that on one
hundred and sixty two game season, if you're gonna lose,
go ahead and lose badly. Just don't lose two to
one or one. Nothing that makes me crazy. So we're
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at the ball game and Ramone and Jimmy are looking
forward to the food because the Inspirator Suite has a
buffet line of cornucopia of awesomeness. It is a smorgasboard
of good food. And Ramone and Jimmy had bantered back
and forth that hey, you know, at the right time
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and we're going to be classy about this, but at
the right time, we're going to go do some damage
to that buffet line. They're going to know we were here.
So they're both getting a good laugh at that. And so, uh,
at the appointed time they do. And so they go
over and survey the offerings and they don't overload their
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player act foolish because they're thinking, we'll make multiple runs.
And you know, this is a this is a client
of the company for Ramona, it's a show sponsor for us.
Jimmy does endorsements. Yeah, you want to you want to
shut what did? What did Darryl kay Royle tell uh
Earl Campbell after he scored a touchdown? He's act like
you've been there before. So Ramon's trying to do the
act like you've been there before. Dance and Jimmy as
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well well. So we got Ramona on the far left,
Jimmy in the middle, and Guy Lewis on the right.
Jimmy is not a little guy himself. We think he's
six to two. He's a he's a tall he's a
big guy. And so Ramone is the littlest of these
three guys. All right, he's a big mountain of men.
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So at some point, Jimmy Barrett, our morning star on
kt each morning News goes there's a little cough, and
Ramon notices, this isn't a scratching your throat cough. This
is a something in your throat cough. But he doesn't
look at him because you know, Ramon's thought was, you know,
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when you when you're choking, you don't want you don't
want people look at you. Just let let you kind
of work it out. And he does it again, and
Guy Lewis says, Jimmy or you, okay, I can do
the Heimlich maneuver, kind of half jokingly, and Jimmy puts
his hand up like no, no, I'm just it's just
it's kind of hung up in there. It's fun. And
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then Guy Lewis says, well, it wasn't. It wouldn't be
the first time kind of making it. Okay, if I
need to come, you know, sling shock this thing out
of there, I will so a few seconds more. And
the coughing it's getting worse and worse, but it sounds
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like af a rumble in an engine. There's something in there.
And it's hung up. So Ramon decides, I don't want
to look at him because he's feeling awkward, and I
would feel awkward. I would want to be left alone
until I can get this thing out, whereupon Jimmy stands
straight up and Ramone catches out of the corner of
his eye. His face is tomato red. He's getting no oxygen,
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and he does what Ramon calls a universal symbol of
I'm choking, where he crosses his hands over his throat
like it's hung I'm choking, okay, all right, And they
didn't wait till in between innings like this is going on.
This is happening live right now, This is happening. So
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Ramon doesn't know what to do. But doctor Guy Lewis,
before Ramone knows thinks what to do, jumps into action,
comes around behind Jimmy, Jimmy standing up. Good news is
Got louis a big fella. He puts those big arms
around him and poop. He gives it a pump, nothing,
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tries again, poop nothing, so to hear Ramon describe it
after two pumps unsuccessful and we're running out of time here.
Got Louis, she said, he kind of goes Carlos Carrell.
He kind of steps back, put a little spit on
his hand. Get ready, and I stretch out a little bit.
I mean this is going. I'm swinging for the fences
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on this one. He goes back, locks those hands around
Jimmy's stomach and hump and foul. This meat comes out
and hits a guy eight rows in front ended this kidding.
It goes into Jimmy's hand, and Ramon said, surprisingly, it
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was the danious little piece of meat that could have
killed Jimmy Barrett. That little bit of it just went
down the wrong hole. So they stopped the game and
gave us standing ovation to No, they should have though,
So anyway, that's what happened when Ramon went to the
baseball game on Sunday. He's still traumatized by it. I'm
not even joking with it.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Sounds like this that Michael Berry show cap.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Tone indicates everything is ready for your call.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ramon said, the Astros weren't the only ones that choked
on Sunday. I didn't think that was very nice because
Jimmy Barrett is my friend, and you didn't you didn't
save his life. You if gott Lewis hadn't been there,
it'd be no Jimmy Barrett today. There'd be no Jimmy Barrett.
And then where it would be, Well, Jimmy Barrett is
gracious enough to join us and tell his side of
this story. Welcome to the program. Good sir.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
By the way, if I if I weren't here, if
I at at Dyke in Park, Uh, do you think
my wife could assume to get part of the Astros
or something?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Probably? So hey got Lewis told me something last week,
he said, he said, uh, I said, well, you know
he came to us from Richmond, and he said, yeah,
but did you know he used to be the public
address announcer for the Detroit Tigers? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
True story? That's like, uh, yeah, you were talking about
Alan Tamildo, Whitaker, Cecil Fielder, that group.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, oh wow, that's really cool.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
It was. But I saw a lot of bad baseball
over those ten years. We're very good, Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You know, that's the thing I think about Sparky and
what a great job Sparky does for us with the Astros,
and nothing is better than after the Astros win in
a playoff win and he's living it he's loving it,
and he's down there in the locker room, and you're
just you're you're with him and you're enjoying. But people,
you slog, you know, we're these are the salad days
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right now. You slog day in and day out. I mean,
you were, as you said, watching a lot of bad baseball,
and during that time, you never choked. Did we lose Jimmy?
Oh we might have muted Jimmy. Oh my goodness, tell
me it's not happening. Tell me this is not happening
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right now, Jimmy, just knock on something.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
The hell.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I don't know. I'm just gonna sit here and wait.
I wish guy Lewis was here. He could solve this.
This is crazy. That really just happened. It's on the line.
Oh my goodness, Seve, that is that him? Try him?
Uh you see the number. I'll give you the number,
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folkses huh Jimmy, Oh my goodness, that's too funny. It's
like Jimmy was in on the bit. I like it,
my goodness. We're just yeah, we're not clever enough to
come up with something that good.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
That was.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
My goodness. People are sending me all their choking stories,
and all I can think is what a what a
dubious way, what an inglorious way to go out? When
my wife was growing up, there was a state meeting
between the Soviet Union and India, and uh, the I
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can't remember I as a Soviet leader or the Indian leader.
They served fish at the meal, and the fishbone got
stuck in his throat and he choked to death. And
the lore goes that since that day they never again
served fish at state dinners. Did you get him? Oh,
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we're trying to Okay, this is don't try huh. Oh
my goodness, Okay, Jimmy, this is weird. That's his it's
our phones. And in fairness to Jimmy, we over the weekend,
our engineers were here, Girlovich and David over the whole
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crew and trying to fix some problems we've been having
with the phones. And then and so everything was rewired
this weekend. So, but isn't it odd that we're right
in the middle of talking about the choking when the
phone line goes down. That's too good. The gods of
comedy have shined upon us. That's I'm just stalling. If
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y'all were wondering, so if you need, if you need
a minute, freshen up, get yourself ready for this story,
take a moment. We'll call you all back together. I'm
gonna we're gonna mute this conference call until we get
Jimmy back on the line. See if you pick up Jeff.
If you can pick up Jeff, then is Jimmy's phone
See if you can do that, Jeff, No, it's the
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phone line. Okay, Well tell him what's going on so
he knows. And then, poor Jimmy, first of all, he
agreed to let me tell the story, which he didn't
have to do, and hold on, let me see if
I can find the exchange. I want to be true
to what he said. I said, hey, my man, you
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scared Ramon to death. I'm glad you're okay. The world
is much better place with you in it. And he said,
thanks man. And then I went in for the Can
I tell the story on air? But it's your story.
If you don't feel comfortable, I won't do it because
I wouldn't want somebody doing that to me. And he says,
this is Jimmy's line. I forgot this. Just resist the
temptation to exaggerate. He knows me well, and then he says,
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I wasn't going down on a damn roll. He would, Oh,
I should tell you it was roast beef. Now, reading
the emails as they come in, the interesting thing about
this is it is more often than not a piece
of meat that seems to be the issue that causes
choking more than any I've heard of a lot a
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lot of hot dog chokings, and I don't know what
that is. But this was roast beef. If I were
to say the thing I've heard more than anything else,
it is a chunk of beef and a chunk of
beef getting caught in there. But we are gonna have
to talk about how tiny what came up was. Because
Ramon remarked that, you know, he was worried there was
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going to be this he was going to blow this
huge chunk out because it was it choked him. But
I guess if it goes down the wrong hole, I
don't really know how all that, you know, plumbing works,
but if it goes down the wrong hole, apparently it
does not take much to get lodged down in there
and and and do the damage. Where are we at
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in there, Ramon? You're restarting the phones. Okay, well you
want me to do while? Are you doing that? I'm
just gonna sit here for a minute. I'm a count
just spending. I'm an account Spanish to ten. You want me?
You want me to do that? You know what I
could do? I don't want to lose my best material.
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We've got some we got some things here. Let's see here.
You want to break early? Oh my goodness, you f
p Okay, see if you can get Jimmy back. It's
about to be a good story, old fellow. Have we
not put him through enough? Michael on the air night,
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he's zart y'all, he's got it all. You have to
laugh at situation. That's the only way to approach them.
And the best comedy came from frequent emailer Art Seiberger,
who wrote, I feel horrible for even thinking that a
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guy Lewis hasn't been involved in a choking situation like
this since Albuquerque of eighty three. I still can't watch
clips of that game forty two years later. That's uh,
that's pretty solid right there. And our friend Rick Doak,
the the realtor Country realtor, who is just absolutely killing it,
selling everything from Brendham to Belleville, to Columbus and uh
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round Top says, I almost choked to death a month
ago at a steakhouse. Not the first time. I went
to the best doctor in Houston and had esophageal surgery
last week. My throat was only opening the size of
a green pea. The doctor dilated my esophagus, and I
can now eat anything. Told Jimmy to hang in there. Well,
there you go. Jimmy Barrett is our.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Guest dogg on it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yes, maybe you get thought that, maybe you got a
Louis p sized it. Savages.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's hard to believe this big voice comes out of
a peace sized esophagus, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Maybe that's the reason, you know, Freddie Mercury wouldn't get
his teeth fixed because he was afraid it would affect
his voice. There you go, and he had those awful teeth.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
They actually look into that. It would have been a
lot better to to be chill, been on a piece
of steak and a piece of dinner. Roll. Don't you think, well,
I do. You're going to go down? Go down with beef,
don't go down on a piece of bread.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, no doubt. If you if you had died, God forbid,
Ramona and I have agreed that we would have told
your wife. It was a huge h fourteen fourteen ounce
rivi and not a little bitty piece of Well, let's
go back and hear your side room. Can we cue
the music again? It's apparently it's early in the game,
second inning or so, right, Yeah, okay, so yeah, familiarly,
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all right, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So anyway, yeah, we go through the line. They have
a little buffet. We were in the Inspirity suite and
they have a little buffet there and I get a
dinner roll, and which I should have left on the table.
It was it was a little dry, to be honest.
And they had beef tenderloin, and I'm a I'm a
fiend for beet tenderline. You give me medium rare beef tenderline,
I'll eat that all day long. So I got beat
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tenderloin and I had I had some mashed potatoes, by
the way, spettional potato day, and and uh, I had
the dinner roll. I come back and you know, I
had a drink. And I came back and I sat
down and the first thing I took a bite of
was the dinner roll. And it wasn't even a big bite.
It was a fairly small bite. And I'm chewing on
it and I swallowed, and then all of a sudden,
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I felt my throat kind of see stuff on me,
and I start to cough, and I thought, well, there's
just a little piece there that stuck. So, you know,
I just kept coughing and nothing was that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You replicate the call, let me get a sense of
like it was a big cough or a little cough.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
It was a big cough.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
That's a big cough, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's a that's a that cough should move something, right,
that's they get things moving, and and it just didn't. Yeah,
they didn't dislodge it. So I'm wheezing just a little bit,
and guy looks at me. Doctor Lewis looks at me,
and he says, okay. And at first I nodded yes,
because I thought I'm just going to cough again and
it'll be fine, and I take a little sip. So
I took a little sip of liquid and it went
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down and and but nothing changed as far as that
piece of roll and where that was. So after a
while I've done this, it was getting a little you know,
I wasn't be there. I could get some air, but
I couldn't get enough air to be able to stay
that way much longer. So he asked again, you know
I can do the Heimlich? Would you like me to
do the Heimlich? And I just kind of nodded yes.
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So he said, all right, stand up. I stood up,
face the other direction, so as not to, you know,
have a piece of dinner roll fly into the seats
in front of me. Yeah, yes, exactly, don't want to
embarrass him. Right, So it dislodged and it was a
tiny little piece of bread. It was not it's not
that big a piece of It was a piece that
you would normally think there would be no problem whatsoever.
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And then everything was fine.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
At that moment. Do you do you see your your
your life flash before your eyes. You think, oh, I
can't go out like this. What are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I'm thinking it'd be a real shame if I didn't
get to eat that beet tenderloin as much as I
like beet tenderloin. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, Yeah,
I hate to not have that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Beat tender and finish what you started.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I waited. I waited about two minutes. I didn't touch
the dinner roll again, but yeah, I started. I started,
started with a little mashed potato because I figured that
that goes down easy.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah, And then I, yeah, I chewed that beef tender
loin like a cow would showed cut just to make
sure that it was not going to a bullets You did, yes,
and everything was fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So during that two minutes before you're going back, are
you thinking I'd like to go back for that beef tenderline?
But these boys are watching me, and so I got
to put a decent amount of time in between the
choking accident incident and and the beef tenderlin or are
you just.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well yeah, no, I waited, Yeah, I waited. I probably
gave it a respectful maybe five minutes before I ate,
but I didn't go for seconds. I might have gone
for seconds on beef tenderline, but I didn't go for seconds.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Ramon said he saved the bread just for posterity. If
you wanted to put in a jar, can we.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Have it bronzed or something?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So so the next question we had, we had a
lot of questions.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The next question we had is do you call your wife?
Do you text your wife from the game and say
you won't believe this is almost died, but don't worry.
Im okay, do you call her on the drive home
or do you wait till you get home? Or do
you not even bring it up?
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I haven't even brought it up.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Oh has she ever gotten after you for eating too fast?
Because that seems like the kind of thing that a
wife will will fuster her husband over and you don't
want to add you well, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, I kind of thought, well she would. She would
probably say you did what?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Were you embarrassed? You know, did you embarrass doctor Lewis?
You know, she probably would have gone that route, and
I thought, well, you know, just easier just not to if.
I mean, if she brings it up in good Lord,
now that I'm on your show talking about it, she
probably will then at that point I'll have to have
a discussion about it. But you know, are you careful?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's another Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, I could try You could try that, Try.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That and see how that works. I don't think there's
anything to be embarrassed. If we've all had it happened.
You know, my oldest son Michael T. We were in
the HGB on West Timer at a out I don't
know Edla whatever that cross section is, and we were
in there and he he ate a jellybean and it
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got stuck. My wife reminded me of that, because we
talked about this, and my wife reminded me of that,
and I went home to go on that kid. I
think I ruptured something because I was so scared. I
jumped behind him and I went fool and that thing
shot out of there. Now, that thing didn't just a
little bit dribble. It shot out of there ramon. So
it's scary. And the funny thing is Michael T brought
that episode up this weekend. He's nineteen years old now
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and that was probably ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
So you don't forget something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I was going to ask you something right before that.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I think, you know, I think the thing, the reason
why I thought it might be a little embarrassing is
just the setting. You know, you're in a very crowded
suite at a at a Houston Astros game, and I think,
you know, I think I imagined in my mind if
something had happened to me, I imagine the horrible headline
in the Houston Chronicle the next day. Yeah about about
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how he died.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well, we were more worriedb wanting to do with the morning.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
News, Morning Post jokes a piece of bread.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Lyns Saunders day in early there's been a bad thing happened,
A really bad thing has happened here. Yeah, but look
at it this way, Jimmy. Ten years from now, Guy
Lewis is the dentist for the Astros. He goes to
loads and loads of gibs. He throws out the first pitch,
he's down on the field. He's he's living large.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
But ten years from now, when they ask when somebody says,
you go to a lot of games, and he'll go, yeah,
I go, I mean lots lots of games. They all
kind of run together. And he'll go, I heard a
story years ago about somebody was there, somebody choked in it.
Oh yeah, Jimmy Barrett choked in the Inspiritor suite and
I had to save his life. The legend of Guy
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Lewis continues. Oh Ramon pointed something out, so he said
it was the third pump before he got it out.
Did he hit that third with harder?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yes, he did. He hit it a little bit, you
noticed it hit it harder, Yeah, the first time. Yeah,
I think, Yeah, I think probably anytime you're doing the
Heimlich you you want to be You probably think to yourself,
I don't want to crush this breaks of this guy's ribs. Right,
he's a big boy. He is a big guy. He's
like six foot seven. I think, what are you? Yeah,
I'm six two and a half. I had you at
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six to two. Okay, I'll give you six two and
a half. Yeah, So this is two big fellas carrying on.
Do you know that Ramon didn't turn and look for
the longest time because he thought you were just calling
to hear him. Well, yeah, and he said he said,
I didn't want to embarrass him, so I just looked
the other way. I said, but what if guy Lewis hadn't.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Have been there? He said, Oh, I don't like to
care about that. I'm not sure Ramon would have jumped
up and done it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Does he know the high link?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, I don't know. And his arms arm is big.
I mean he's got his arms are he got kind
of alligator arms. The bill comes, he doesn't, he's never
going to get it. Jimmy very You're a great sport.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Okay, Lewis was there.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We're glad you're okay, my friend, that this could be
a very.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Edge of my man.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, thank you, brother, and thank you for being a
great sport.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
For more dinner rolls. No more dinner rolls for me
or I'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Boss, Jimmy, you lost so much weight. Well, actually, let
me tell you what I hapened. I choked and then
the dinner rolls and no carbs.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael varieshow is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let me make this an absolute fact. The goal is
world peace. That must be our prime responsibility. We are
the leader of the free world, whether we want to
be or not, and therefore we are the only ones
that can preserve the peace.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, first of all, the Russians are already facing very
severe consequences. There's not a single sanction that's been lifted,
and not one, I mean, they're facing all the same
sanctions that have been in place today. All the American
support continues for Ukraine. And ultimately, look, if we're not
going to be able to reach an agreement here at
any point, then there are going to be consequences. What
we're trying to do right now is end the war.
And in order to end the war, you've got to
(00:58):
give every opportunity that exists. You have to be open
any opportunity that exists to bring it about. And here's
the thing to remind everybody. And when the President says,
this is not our war, but let's be frank, this
is not our war. The United States is not in
a war. Ukraine is in a war, and we've been
supporting Ukraine. We happen to be in the role of
the only country.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We're the only leader in the world that can actually
bring put into a table to even discuss these things. Now,
(01:50):
the President has traveled, you know, all the way to
Alaska all the way back, has dedicated months and months
of work him, our entire team on this matter, because
we want to see.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
An end of the war.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But if tomorrow the war continues, life in America will
not be fundamentally altered.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So I think that we have to understand is that this.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Has been a priority for this president because he wants
to promote peace. He wants to promote the end of
a war, and I think we should be happy that
we have a president that's trying to promote peace and
bring a war to an end. You can't have a
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peace agreement unless both sides give and get. You can't
have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions. That's
a fact that's true in virtually any negotiation. If not,
it's just called surrender. And neither side is going to surrender.
Both sides are going to have to make concessions. So
of course concessions were asked. These negotiations. As much as
everyone would love it to be a live, pay per
(03:06):
view event, these discussions only work best when they are
conducted privately, so we need to create space for concessions
to be made. But of course the concessions were asked.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Only our creative director Jim Mudd could find a way
to slide a Van Halen song into the middle of
the Trump Ukraine Russia Dogs. We'll play, Jim, We'll played
good Man. During the Sermon on the Mount Matthew five nine,
(03:54):
Jesus says, blessed are the peacemakers, or they shall be
called the children of God. Some translations, that's the sons
of God. Blessed are the peacemakers, or they shall be
called the children of God. You know, in my lifetime,
(04:17):
when I think about the wars that were most devastating
and bringing an end to them, that starts, and it
was already happening by the time I was born, with Vietnam,
(04:38):
and that was, as much as anything, an exit from
a debacle that we had been dragged into that cost
us a lot of young men of a generation really
to the edge of two generations, and ended up being
(05:02):
a horrible mistake and we pay for it to this
day in the lives of men who suffer every single
day from what they experienced. And then you think of
the Camp David Accords in seventy eight where Carter, to
his credit, tried in bringing Sadat and monocom Begum together.
(05:23):
It was not as successful as they had hoped. It ends,
of course in assassination. But this effort is truly monumentally historic.
We can't know that it will be successful. Time will tell.
(05:48):
But the Alaska Accords in Alaska on Friday and then
Zelensky being shuttled in yesterday that are from Zelenski's wife
to Milania Trump. I think there's some state craft, as
they call it. I think there's some efforts to imbue
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this occasion with hopeful gestures that that make this an
affair of the heart, and I think that's a good thing.
This is an awful war that has cost a lot
of lives in those countries. It's an awful war that
(06:33):
we should not have sent all the money that we did.
But I am certain certain that powerful American families have
become billionaires over the money that was sent into Ukraine
that went unaccounted for. I am certain of it, I
am certain that was our involvement. I don't think the
(06:56):
Biden's made the most money out of it, but I
do think think they made money. I think Ukraine was
used as a as a petri dish for things we
can't do on American soil, making them a satellite state,
a sort of light Los Alamos exploding bombs there, but
(07:16):
instead using using using laboratories to do things you couldn't
do on American soil. If President Trump does not win
the Nobel Prize, and even Hillary Clinton on Friday saying
that if he can pull off what he has promised,
(07:37):
and I would nominate him for the Nobel Prize, I
really think this is an opportunity for her to try
to claw her her evil, wretched self back into relevance.
But I would be off for that yet. Yay Hillary.
You know I'd rather see her in an orange jumpsuit
as she submits the letter, but I think it would
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be I think she sees it as a foregone conclusion
at the moment she does that, and then wants to
get some credit for it, right the person. If they can't,
if they can't lead the parade, they figure out a
way to slide into it. I have a story. It's
it's quite a story of something that happened in the
(08:21):
next segment. If you're gonna listen to one segment, it
should probably be this next week. Need to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
My name is MITCHA Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Do I have a story for you? So last week
I went up to the Woodlands to get my teeth
cleaned by my dentist, doctor Guy Lewis, whose nickname is Mojo,
And this will be relevant later in the segment. Mojo
(08:59):
is about what would you guess gout was six y'
five at least he's a big man. What was the
guy's name that was the bouncer for led Zeppelin? You
know what? What? Peter Grant? Yeah, I think Peter Grant,
Mountain of a man, big fellow. And his son, Teddy's
a big fellow too, He just hadn't filled out yet
(09:20):
because he's young. So while I'm there and they're all
in my mouth and they got, I've got. I've really
embraced the sedation dentistry. I didn't have an aspen till
I was twenty nine, but boy, I embraced that sedation
dentistry and they put it on, they can go up
and down and then they can bring you out of
it in five minutes. It's a it's a thing, man
(09:41):
who So anyway, I'm going at it. And he says, Hey,
I'm going to the Astros game on Sunday morning and
we're bringing Jimmy Jimmy Barrett. Would you like to join us?
And I said, i'm'll be in Austin. We're moving Michael
t in second year. But I really appreciate it. He said, well,
what do you think about Ramon? I said, oh, Ramon
(10:02):
would love that. So he invites Ramon. Now, Guy Lewis
is the official dentist of the Houston Astros. So if
you if you go into the suites, you'll see pictures
of him. You'll see him out on the in the
in the outfield, you'll see him on the screen he
throws out the first pitch, you'll see him down on
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the field. He's he's a big deal with the Astros
and as such, he gets a suite, the Inspirity Suite.
Big part of that is his and the Inspirity Suite
used to be used to be the old press box,
so we got press passes and the press box was
where you reported from. So when I took over the
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stations in seven, I had a press pass. I would
drive down and just go to the games and just
sit in the press pass. I wasn't reporting on anything.
I was just watching the game. It's the best seating.
You're elevated a little, you got a great sight line.
There's almost nobody in there. Oh, it was heavenly. So
Ramone goes to the game and he is sitting here.
(11:08):
Next to Ramone in the middle is sitting Jimmy Barrett,
and next to Jimmy is sitting doctor Guy Lewis. And
it's early in the game, which we would lose badly
to the Orioles. Which my theory on that on one
hundred and sixty two game season, if you're gonna lose,
go ahead and lose badly. Just don't lose two to
one or one. Nothing that makes me crazy. So we're
(11:29):
at the ball game and Ramone and Jimmy are looking
forward to the food because the Inspirator Suite has a
buffet line of cornucopia of awesomeness. It is a smorgasboard
of good food. And Ramone and Jimmy had bantered back
and forth that hey, you know, at the right time
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and we're going to be classy about this, but at
the right time, we're going to go do some damage
to that buffet line. They're going to know we were here.
So they're both getting a good laugh at that. And so, uh,
at the appointed time they do. And so they go
over and survey the offerings and they don't overload their
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player act foolish because they're thinking, we'll make multiple runs.
And you know, this is a this is a client
of the company for Ramona, it's a show sponsor for us.
Jimmy does endorsements. Yeah, you want to you want to
shut what did? What did Darryl kay Royle tell uh
Earl Campbell after he scored a touchdown? He's act like
you've been there before. So Ramon's trying to do the
act like you've been there before. Dance and Jimmy as
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well well. So we got Ramona on the far left,
Jimmy in the middle, and Guy Lewis on the right.
Jimmy is not a little guy himself. We think he's
six to two. He's a he's a tall he's a
big guy. And so Ramone is the littlest of these
three guys. All right, he's a big mountain of men.
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So at some point, Jimmy Barrett, our morning star on
kt each morning News goes there's a little cough, and
Ramon notices, this isn't a scratching your throat cough. This
is a something in your throat cough. But he doesn't
look at him because you know, Ramon's thought was, you know,
(13:17):
when you when you're choking, you don't want you don't
want people look at you. Just let let you kind
of work it out. And he does it again, and
Guy Lewis says, Jimmy or you, okay, I can do
the Heimlich maneuver, kind of half jokingly, and Jimmy puts
his hand up like no, no, I'm just it's just
it's kind of hung up in there. It's fun. And
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then Guy Lewis says, well, it wasn't. It wouldn't be
the first time kind of making it. Okay, if I
need to come, you know, sling shock this thing out
of there, I will so a few seconds more. And
the coughing it's getting worse and worse, but it sounds
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like af a rumble in an engine. There's something in there.
And it's hung up. So Ramon decides, I don't want
to look at him because he's feeling awkward, and I
would feel awkward. I would want to be left alone
until I can get this thing out, whereupon Jimmy stands
straight up and Ramone catches out of the corner of
his eye. His face is tomato red. He's getting no oxygen,
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and he does what Ramon calls a universal symbol of
I'm choking, where he crosses his hands over his throat
like it's hung I'm choking, okay, all right, And they
didn't wait till in between innings like this is going on.
This is happening live right now, This is happening. So
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Ramon doesn't know what to do. But doctor Guy Lewis,
before Ramone knows thinks what to do, jumps into action,
comes around behind Jimmy, Jimmy standing up. Good news is
Got louis a big fella. He puts those big arms
around him and poop. He gives it a pump, nothing,
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tries again, poop nothing, so to hear Ramon describe it
after two pumps unsuccessful and we're running out of time here.
Got Louis, she said, he kind of goes Carlos Carrell.
He kind of steps back, put a little spit on
his hand. Get ready, and I stretch out a little bit.
I mean this is going. I'm swinging for the fences
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on this one. He goes back, locks those hands around
Jimmy's stomach and hump and foul. This meat comes out
and hits a guy eight rows in front ended this kidding.
It goes into Jimmy's hand, and Ramon said, surprisingly, it
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was the danious little piece of meat that could have
killed Jimmy Barrett. That little bit of it just went
down the wrong hole. So they stopped the game and
gave us standing ovation to No, they should have though,
So anyway, that's what happened when Ramon went to the
baseball game on Sunday. He's still traumatized by it. I'm
not even joking with it.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Sounds like this that Michael Berry show cap.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Tone indicates everything is ready for your call.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ramon said, the Astros weren't the only ones that choked
on Sunday. I didn't think that was very nice because
Jimmy Barrett is my friend, and you didn't you didn't
save his life. You if gott Lewis hadn't been there,
it'd be no Jimmy Barrett today. There'd be no Jimmy Barrett.
And then where it would be, Well, Jimmy Barrett is
gracious enough to join us and tell his side of
this story. Welcome to the program. Good sir.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
By the way, if I if I weren't here, if
I at at Dyke in Park, Uh, do you think
my wife could assume to get part of the Astros
or something?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Probably? So hey got Lewis told me something last week,
he said, he said, uh, I said, well, you know
he came to us from Richmond, and he said, yeah,
but did you know he used to be the public
address announcer for the Detroit Tigers? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
True story? That's like, uh, yeah, you were talking about
Alan Tamildo, Whitaker, Cecil Fielder, that group.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, oh wow, that's really cool.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
It was. But I saw a lot of bad baseball
over those ten years. We're very good, Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You know, that's the thing I think about Sparky and
what a great job Sparky does for us with the Astros,
and nothing is better than after the Astros win in
a playoff win and he's living it he's loving it,
and he's down there in the locker room, and you're
just you're you're with him and you're enjoying. But people,
you slog, you know, we're these are the salad days
(17:50):
right now. You slog day in and day out. I mean,
you were, as you said, watching a lot of bad baseball,
and during that time, you never choked. Did we lose Jimmy?
Oh we might have muted Jimmy. Oh my goodness, tell
me it's not happening. Tell me this is not happening
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right now, Jimmy, just knock on something.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
The hell.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I don't know. I'm just gonna sit here and wait.
I wish guy Lewis was here. He could solve this.
This is crazy. That really just happened. It's on the line.
Oh my goodness, Seve, that is that him? Try him?
Uh you see the number. I'll give you the number,
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folkses huh Jimmy, Oh my goodness, that's too funny. It's
like Jimmy was in on the bit. I like it,
my goodness. We're just yeah, we're not clever enough to
come up with something that good.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
That was.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
My goodness. People are sending me all their choking stories,
and all I can think is what a what a
dubious way, what an inglorious way to go out? When
my wife was growing up, there was a state meeting
between the Soviet Union and India, and uh, the I
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can't remember I as a Soviet leader or the Indian leader.
They served fish at the meal, and the fishbone got
stuck in his throat and he choked to death. And
the lore goes that since that day they never again
served fish at state dinners. Did you get him? Oh,
(19:50):
we're trying to Okay, this is don't try huh. Oh
my goodness, Okay, Jimmy, this is weird. That's his it's
our phones. And in fairness to Jimmy, we over the weekend,
our engineers were here, Girlovich and David over the whole
(20:10):
crew and trying to fix some problems we've been having
with the phones. And then and so everything was rewired
this weekend. So, but isn't it odd that we're right
in the middle of talking about the choking when the
phone line goes down. That's too good. The gods of
comedy have shined upon us. That's I'm just stalling. If
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y'all were wondering, so if you need, if you need
a minute, freshen up, get yourself ready for this story,
take a moment. We'll call you all back together. I'm
gonna we're gonna mute this conference call until we get
Jimmy back on the line. See if you pick up Jeff.
If you can pick up Jeff, then is Jimmy's phone
See if you can do that, Jeff, No, it's the
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phone line. Okay, Well tell him what's going on so
he knows. And then, poor Jimmy, first of all, he
agreed to let me tell the story, which he didn't
have to do, and hold on, let me see if
I can find the exchange. I want to be true
to what he said. I said, hey, my man, you
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scared Ramon to death. I'm glad you're okay. The world
is much better place with you in it. And he said,
thanks man. And then I went in for the Can
I tell the story on air? But it's your story.
If you don't feel comfortable, I won't do it because
I wouldn't want somebody doing that to me. And he says,
this is Jimmy's line. I forgot this. Just resist the
temptation to exaggerate. He knows me well, and then he says,
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I wasn't going down on a damn roll. He would, Oh,
I should tell you it was roast beef. Now, reading
the emails as they come in, the interesting thing about
this is it is more often than not a piece
of meat that seems to be the issue that causes
choking more than any I've heard of a lot a
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lot of hot dog chokings, and I don't know what
that is. But this was roast beef. If I were
to say the thing I've heard more than anything else,
it is a chunk of beef and a chunk of
beef getting caught in there. But we are gonna have
to talk about how tiny what came up was. Because
Ramon remarked that, you know, he was worried there was
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going to be this he was going to blow this
huge chunk out because it was it choked him. But
I guess if it goes down the wrong hole, I
don't really know how all that, you know, plumbing works,
but if it goes down the wrong hole, apparently it
does not take much to get lodged down in there
and and and do the damage. Where are we at
(22:47):
in there, Ramon? You're restarting the phones. Okay, well you
want me to do while? Are you doing that? I'm
just gonna sit here for a minute. I'm a count
just spending. I'm an account Spanish to ten. You want me?
You want me to do that? You know what I
could do? I don't want to lose my best material.
(23:09):
We've got some we got some things here. Let's see here.
You want to break early? Oh my goodness, you f
p Okay, see if you can get Jimmy back. It's
about to be a good story, old fellow. Have we
not put him through enough? Michael on the air night,
(23:34):
he's zart y'all, he's got it all. You have to
laugh at situation. That's the only way to approach them.
And the best comedy came from frequent emailer Art Seiberger,
who wrote, I feel horrible for even thinking that a
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guy Lewis hasn't been involved in a choking situation like
this since Albuquerque of eighty three. I still can't watch
clips of that game forty two years later. That's uh,
that's pretty solid right there. And our friend Rick Doak,
the the realtor Country realtor, who is just absolutely killing it,
selling everything from Brendham to Belleville, to Columbus and uh
(24:18):
round Top says, I almost choked to death a month
ago at a steakhouse. Not the first time. I went
to the best doctor in Houston and had esophageal surgery
last week. My throat was only opening the size of
a green pea. The doctor dilated my esophagus, and I
can now eat anything. Told Jimmy to hang in there. Well,
there you go. Jimmy Barrett is our.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Guest dogg on it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yes, maybe you get thought that, maybe you got a
Louis p sized it. Savages.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's hard to believe this big voice comes out of
a peace sized esophagus, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Maybe that's the reason, you know, Freddie Mercury wouldn't get
his teeth fixed because he was afraid it would affect
his voice. There you go, and he had those awful teeth.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
They actually look into that. It would have been a
lot better to to be chill, been on a piece
of steak and a piece of dinner. Roll. Don't you think, well,
I do. You're going to go down? Go down with beef,
don't go down on a piece of bread.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, no doubt. If you if you had died, God forbid,
Ramona and I have agreed that we would have told
your wife. It was a huge h fourteen fourteen ounce
rivi and not a little bitty piece of Well, let's
go back and hear your side room. Can we cue
the music again? It's apparently it's early in the game,
second inning or so, right, Yeah, okay, so yeah, familiarly,
(25:29):
all right, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So anyway, yeah, we go through the line. They have
a little buffet. We were in the Inspirity suite and
they have a little buffet there and I get a
dinner roll, and which I should have left on the table.
It was it was a little dry, to be honest.
And they had beef tenderloin, and I'm a I'm a
fiend for beet tenderline. You give me medium rare beef tenderline,
I'll eat that all day long. So I got beat
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tenderloin and I had I had some mashed potatoes, by
the way, spettional potato day, and and uh, I had
the dinner roll. I come back and you know, I
had a drink. And I came back and I sat
down and the first thing I took a bite of
was the dinner roll. And it wasn't even a big bite.
It was a fairly small bite. And I'm chewing on
it and I swallowed, and then all of a sudden,
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I felt my throat kind of see stuff on me,
and I start to cough, and I thought, well, there's
just a little piece there that stuck. So, you know,
I just kept coughing and nothing was that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You replicate the call, let me get a sense of
like it was a big cough or a little cough.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
It was a big cough.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
That's a big cough, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's a that's a that cough should move something, right,
that's they get things moving, and and it just didn't. Yeah,
they didn't dislodge it. So I'm wheezing just a little bit,
and guy looks at me. Doctor Lewis looks at me,
and he says, okay. And at first I nodded yes,
because I thought I'm just going to cough again and
it'll be fine, and I take a little sip. So
I took a little sip of liquid and it went
(26:53):
down and and but nothing changed as far as that
piece of roll and where that was. So after a
while I've done this, it was getting a little you know,
I wasn't be there. I could get some air, but
I couldn't get enough air to be able to stay
that way much longer. So he asked again, you know
I can do the Heimlich? Would you like me to
do the Heimlich? And I just kind of nodded yes.
(27:15):
So he said, all right, stand up. I stood up,
face the other direction, so as not to, you know,
have a piece of dinner roll fly into the seats
in front of me. Yeah, yes, exactly, don't want to
embarrass him. Right, So it dislodged and it was a
tiny little piece of bread. It was not it's not
that big a piece of It was a piece that
you would normally think there would be no problem whatsoever.
(27:38):
And then everything was fine.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
At that moment. Do you do you see your your
your life flash before your eyes. You think, oh, I
can't go out like this. What are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I'm thinking it'd be a real shame if I didn't
get to eat that beet tenderloin as much as I
like beet tenderloin. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, Yeah,
I hate to not have that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Beat tender and finish what you started.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I waited. I waited about two minutes. I didn't touch
the dinner roll again, but yeah, I started. I started,
started with a little mashed potato because I figured that
that goes down easy.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah, And then I, yeah, I chewed that beef tender
loin like a cow would showed cut just to make
sure that it was not going to a bullets You did, yes,
and everything was fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So during that two minutes before you're going back, are
you thinking I'd like to go back for that beef tenderline?
But these boys are watching me, and so I got
to put a decent amount of time in between the
choking accident incident and and the beef tenderlin or are
you just.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well yeah, no, I waited, Yeah, I waited. I probably
gave it a respectful maybe five minutes before I ate,
but I didn't go for seconds. I might have gone
for seconds on beef tenderline, but I didn't go for seconds.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Ramon said he saved the bread just for posterity. If
you wanted to put in a jar, can we.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Have it bronzed or something?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So so the next question we had, we had a
lot of questions.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The next question we had is do you call your wife?
Do you text your wife from the game and say
you won't believe this is almost died, but don't worry.
Im okay, do you call her on the drive home
or do you wait till you get home? Or do
you not even bring it up?
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I haven't even brought it up.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Oh has she ever gotten after you for eating too fast?
Because that seems like the kind of thing that a
wife will will fuster her husband over and you don't
want to add you well, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, I kind of thought, well she would. She would
probably say you did what?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Were you embarrassed? You know, did you embarrass doctor Lewis?
You know, she probably would have gone that route, and
I thought, well, you know, just easier just not to if.
I mean, if she brings it up in good Lord,
now that I'm on your show talking about it, she
probably will then at that point I'll have to have
a discussion about it. But you know, are you careful?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's another Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, I could try You could try that, Try.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That and see how that works. I don't think there's
anything to be embarrassed. If we've all had it happened.
You know, my oldest son Michael T. We were in
the HGB on West Timer at a out I don't
know Edla whatever that cross section is, and we were
in there and he he ate a jellybean and it
(30:11):
got stuck. My wife reminded me of that, because we
talked about this, and my wife reminded me of that,
and I went home to go on that kid. I
think I ruptured something because I was so scared. I
jumped behind him and I went fool and that thing
shot out of there. Now, that thing didn't just a
little bit dribble. It shot out of there ramon. So
it's scary. And the funny thing is Michael T brought
that episode up this weekend. He's nineteen years old now
(30:34):
and that was probably ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
So you don't forget something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I was going to ask you something right before that.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I think, you know, I think the thing, the reason
why I thought it might be a little embarrassing is
just the setting. You know, you're in a very crowded
suite at a at a Houston Astros game, and I think,
you know, I think I imagined in my mind if
something had happened to me, I imagine the horrible headline
in the Houston Chronicle the next day. Yeah about about
(31:03):
how he died.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well, we were more worriedb wanting to do with the morning.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
News, Morning Post jokes a piece of bread.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Lyns Saunders day in early there's been a bad thing happened,
A really bad thing has happened here. Yeah, but look
at it this way, Jimmy. Ten years from now, Guy
Lewis is the dentist for the Astros. He goes to
loads and loads of gibs. He throws out the first pitch,
he's down on the field. He's he's living large.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
But ten years from now, when they ask when somebody says,
you go to a lot of games, and he'll go, yeah,
I go, I mean lots lots of games. They all
kind of run together. And he'll go, I heard a
story years ago about somebody was there, somebody choked in it.
Oh yeah, Jimmy Barrett choked in the Inspiritor suite and
I had to save his life. The legend of Guy
(31:48):
Lewis continues. Oh Ramon pointed something out, so he said
it was the third pump before he got it out.
Did he hit that third with harder?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yes, he did. He hit it a little bit, you
noticed it hit it harder, Yeah, the first time. Yeah,
I think, Yeah, I think probably anytime you're doing the
Heimlich you you want to be You probably think to yourself,
I don't want to crush this breaks of this guy's ribs. Right,
he's a big boy. He is a big guy. He's
like six foot seven. I think, what are you? Yeah,
I'm six two and a half. I had you at
(32:19):
six to two. Okay, I'll give you six two and
a half. Yeah, So this is two big fellas carrying on.
Do you know that Ramon didn't turn and look for
the longest time because he thought you were just calling
to hear him. Well, yeah, and he said he said,
I didn't want to embarrass him, so I just looked
the other way. I said, but what if guy Lewis hadn't.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Have been there? He said, Oh, I don't like to
care about that. I'm not sure Ramon would have jumped
up and done it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Does he know the high link?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, I don't know. And his arms arm is big.
I mean he's got his arms are he got kind
of alligator arms. The bill comes, he doesn't, he's never
going to get it. Jimmy very You're a great sport.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Okay, Lewis was there.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We're glad you're okay, my friend, that this could be
a very.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Edge of my man.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, thank you, brother, and thank you for being a
great sport.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
For more dinner rolls. No more dinner rolls for me
or I'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Boss, Jimmy, you lost so much weight. Well, actually, let
me tell you what I hapened. I choked and then
the dinner rolls and no carbs.
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