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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If it's the birthday of Edwin Hawkins. He didn't write
the song, though it began as a hymn written way
back in the mid eighteenth century by English clergyman Philip Doddridge,
based on the verse Acts eight thirty five. The line
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originally was oh happy day that fixed my choice. It
was set to a seventeen four melody by J. A. Freilinghausen.
By the mid nineteenth century, it had been given a
new melody by Edward F. Rimbaul, who also added a chorus,
and was commonly used for baptismal or confirmation ceremonies. Edwin
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Hawkins changed the time signature from three four to four
four times, and his new arrangement contains only the repeated
Rimball refrain, with all of the original verses being omitted.
Hawkins rearranged the hymn to give it more of a
gospel feel and devised a piano introduction, which he said
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was influenced by the music of Sergio Mendez. When the
choir made the famous recording that we use here on
the show in nineteen sixty seven, lead singer Dorothy Morrison
added some lyrical improvisations influenced by James Brown, which she
said made the song feel even more current. Hawkins arrangement
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quickly became a standard and has been recorded by hundreds
of artists. It was included on THEAA Songs of the
Centuries list, and it won Edwin Hawkins a Grammy Award
for Best Soul Gospel Performance. In nineteen seventy, it made
it all the way up to number four on the
Billboard Hot one hundred a gospel song, making it into
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a secular chart is something, but making it all the
way up to number four, it's a mazing. It wasn't
just popular here in America, it was wildly popular around
the world. George Harrison has said the song was a
primary inspiration in the writing of his nineteen seventy single
My Sweet Lord. It's an amazing song and the perfect
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way to kick off our fridays, and that's why we
do it. Regrounds me and hopefully it recenters you as well.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, now I'm thinking to act like a band director.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
All right, by lift they hounds up today. Get your
instrument ready, Okay, I pull it up time. Make sure
you're not chop a flat today?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How you pinocostal preacher?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Tell you rarin things when you come on here and
do your things. Shoot all chudgen that don't start on time?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I got some fun. I believe you would not the
turn on time bot some chicken wag. I believe you
come the turn time by some chicken way. Complete this
from sea fee time on the video crime, but the
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night don't got it right on time? Somebody mount to
tore y'all path to a servant, some city ware, Chicken
Chicken way, Chicken where heaven you come to church on time?
It was some chicken way.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Let me tell you this service time.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The crime will have been margin without you. It served on.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Sun some chicken way.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Michael Barry Show continues.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Just check in with our emails, shall we?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
By the way, it just seems to be some level
of disagreement or lack of understanding. I do not respond
to every email. I do read them all. When you
do understand that just adding the time to respond to them,
I'd never get to them. Steven writes, the I R
S does not need guns to confiscate our money. They
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need guns to confiscate guns. They will freeze our bank accounts,
demand our guns, and then raid us when we don't comply.
You know, whenever, whenever your account is seized, it's a
very very powerful tool. The State of Texas comptroller decided
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that we hadn't paid enough in taxes, and the person
who's running the RCC for me at the time when
the letters were coming in from the comptroller, was just
putting the letters in the file cabinet and not telling anybody.
So I wasn't aware as the owner and the comptroller
froze our account. But they do this and a lot
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of people have had this happen to them. They do
this on Friday morning. You know what happens on Friday,
that's today. You pay your staff, that's today the paychecks
come in. So guess what happens? Maximum misery. So I
go into the account to check on things as I
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do every day, and I'm trying to do a payment
and it showed that the account is frozen. So I
called my bank, Hey, what's going on? Is there something
wrong with the account the comptroller issued in order to
freeze your account. Well, I got fifty five people that
just got their paychecks or getting them this morning. Those
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paychecks will not clear. These people have rent to pay. Yeah,
this is why they do it this way. Well, so
I had to run and open a new account at
a different bank, immediately call my payment processor, my payroll company,
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and say, hold on, don't draw down on those paychecks
because the comptroller has frozen our accounts. I got it
all done by whatever time I managed to get it done,
and I had everybody on hold. I had the manager
call on every part, Hey, don't deposit your paycheck, it
won't clear. And so you know, I couldn't do any
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untill I got off the air at eleven. So I
got it all done by maybe two o'clock in the afternoon,
and I got it solved. But I thought it was
a really crappy thing in the Texas Comptroller to do,
because it doesn't just hurt me, it hurt my employees. Right,
So in time we argued and there was some money owed.
Full disclosure. You know, when you own a business and
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you're not there all day, every day, paying every check
and reading every message that comes in, every piece of
mail that comes in, you run the risk that somebody
can do you wrong. It happens, and when it does happen,
and you're a public figure, that's me. Your name's on
the line. So I am always in a situation where
I have to go above and beyond what the average
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person would do, because my reputation matters more to me
than the thousands of dollars they want. And by the way,
I still pay the comptroller every month. I will for
years because somebody that worked for me didn't handle what
they were supposed to handle, and she well, and here
we are, and every month I pay sixty two hundred
and fifty dollars to the comptroller out of my personal account,
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long after the club is closed. So yeah, I'm a
little bitter about that, Yes, I am so. In any case,
what made me think of that? Ramon? Why was I
talking about that? I did not catch you stealing anyway,
Robert writes Zar on tonight's show. While you were speaking
of Rushdie's assailant, I was surprised that you didn't mention
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that his surname matar m ata r is Spanish for
to kill. Interesting. No, I mean, I guess it, It didn't.
It didn't cross my mind, Zar. Thank god, someone finally
mentioned the fact that these new taxpayer funded programs are
nothing more than Democrat campaign slush funds. Here's another thought
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for you to ponder. Why are most of the immigrants
streaming over the border, young single men. Well, these men
can enter the US military service as foreign nationals and
apply for citizenship after one year, after which time they
can bring in their families. So if you wonder will
an American soldier fire upon a US civilian, they won't
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be American soldiers in the traditional sense. After proving their
loyalty to their home country by picking up stakes and
beating feet, they've proven they're not the kind of soldier
we need in our volunteer force. But I fear their
purpose here will have nothing to do with our security.
Thanks for listening, Zar, State and Rights.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Zar.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I've been listening since twenty sixteen, but this is the
first time reaching out to you. I'm an outside sales
representative for Gulf Coast Papers, so I have plenty of
windshield time to listen and enjoy. Anyway, what prompted me
to send this message was the call you got from
Larry on Friday regarding school lunches. It's not very often
that you hear the name Molten, so my interest was piqued.
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I graduated from Molton High School in two thousand and eight.
By the time I left, the lunches had changed, but
in our early days we had some of the same
old check ladies cooking for us that he described. Some
of my favorites were the homemade hot rolls served with
baked ham. When the ladies were baking those in the morning,
you could smell them all over our little town. On
Pizza Day, kids brought pockets full of change in anticipation
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of getting an extra slice for afternoon break, and you
were eating high on the hog if you got a
middle piece no crust. The dessert that will make every
Molten kid's mouth instantly water is the thought of the
homemade donuts. Yep, you read it right. Although baked chicken
Day was not a favorite, it was well known that
you would be getting a hot, fresh golden brown doughnut
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served to you for dessert at ten cents apiece. For
every additional donut. Pockets were jingling. In that lunch line
you mentioned you knew where Molten was located. First time
I ever heard you referred to it was several years
ago during an interview with Jeff Wagner regarding a certain
trans am in the RCC. Side note, Jeff's mother, Dolora,
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was one of the ladies that worked in our high
school cafeteria for many many years. I know she was
there during my entire thirteen year tenure. Point of the story.
You may remember that Donald Jeff's father has your Transam.
This is my smoking the band at Transam in Moulton.
In fact, it's not uncommon to see mister and missus
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Wagner cruising through town in it. The last time I
saw it was about a month ago at the Molton
Jamboree car show. Attached to this email or screenshots of
the car on display and mister Wagner receiving his trophy.
He won a trophy with my damn car. It's always
fun to walk up and say, Michael's car sure does
look good. I'll wrap this up by saying, keep doing
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what you're doing. We all appreciate it. God bless you.
Stayton Julufka, Gulf Coast Paper, Imperial Dade, Texas. Remember the
story behind that ramon. I needed to raise money for
the RCC because we had a band, a big band
like a j John'son'm going to get to come in.
So I did a raffle and it was supposed to
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be one hundred dollars a raffle, and I was going
to try to raise twenty five thousand dollars with the car,
and then I was going to use that to subsidize
the show because I wanted to have this big show. Well,
it didn't get promoted internally, and it turns out that
there were only about a thousand dollars where the ticket sold,
and one guy bought three or four and he won
the damn thing. So when he won it, I heard
they weren't using it, and I called him and I said, hey,
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I hear you all got how about I give you
ten thousand for the car and you give it back
to me. You only got three hundred in it, three
hundred dollars in it, And they said, oh no, we
love the car. When my boys found out that I
kind of halfway gave that car away, they were so bummed.
I'm looking at the award here. The whole family won
an award for second place with the seventy seven Trens.
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If that's my car, dang it. For the moment, I
want my car back. He's about a dime.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
There's more to like on Facebook, like the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Jeff on the Black Line that says he smokes barbecue
with pairwood and you got my interest. Jeff.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Hey, Mike, I've talked to you a couple of times
before I probably started using that stuff in nineteen ninety
eight Pearwood when I Pairwood, Sir, Where would he get
in Pearwood? I was in Medford, Oregon at the time.
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Any dfr d oh yeah, man, yea. And of course
if you google the Mail Tribune, it'll pull up the
story Texas Pit Stop Barbecue, and it'll show you a
picture of myself and my wife Rose at that time.
But we couldn't get hit.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Is she not your wife anymore?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No? We divorced back in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How come?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Uh, well she came to me one day. Uh in
the midst of that restaurant. Say one of us got
to go, Jeff. The restaurant of me is a lot
of work, Mike, A lot of work. And uh on.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Texas pit Stop Barbecue. Uh is still again? Yeah, but
it's still on the sea wall. That's not you.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
No, no, no, Medford Ore again, Medford, ore again, m
d F Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Where it is? Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah? Oh yeah, no no Medford e d F O r.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
D Jeff ring your neck, I know how it's showing
up is it.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Texas Texas pit Stop Barbecue? What's your last main street Williams.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Jeff, And what what was the article? What was the
article entitled.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
About Texas pit Stop Barbecue? Myself and my wife? I
don't recall. I don't recall. Yeah, I've got a copy
of it at home somewhere stowed away, but I haven't
read it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Couldn't You couldn't get mesquite, which was what you wanted.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, no, no, no, no, that's the trick, Mike. We
couldn't get hickory. Oh well, you could get mesquite and
you couldn't get pekan. But if you recall, Harry and
David's is in Medford, Yeah, they're in Medford and Ashland, Oregon.
And of course there are there are pair orchards.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's why they always put pairs in all their packages.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Absolutely all that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I had no idea they're hiring the cats ass. I
like their stuff, but mine, guess.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, they had they had pear wood to throw away
up there.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Explain something everything that Harry and David does. They always
have a pair in there, and they use pairs. Yet
that's because there's sir.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The orchids are all over the place up there. So
a guy came to me one day and who knew
me one of my name you said, well, Jeff, why
don't you try fruit wood? And I said, because I
don't know nothing about fruit wood. He said, well, we
got lots of it. Why don't you try it? And
I ended up my pairing it with mesquite. There was
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lots of mesquite there that I could get. And I
tell you what, because the guy at the Grange co
op told me, he said, you don't want to go
with black oak. They had a lot of that up there.
He said, it's a cidity. It has a lot of
acid in it, and you don't want that in your meat.
So I listened to those guys and they talked to
me about almond wood and something else. But the sam
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that's in pear and applewood will will bleed right into
your meat as you cook it. That sweetness of that
sam and and and the mesquite provided the heat and
the and the pair provided the flavor. And I was
blown away. I was blown away, Yes, I was blown
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away by it. The customers couldn't figure out what the
hell I was doing to that meat, so they pear, no, sir, huh, no, sir.
They were burning it into chimneys because they had so
much of it, and and of course a lot folks
in the valley up there, uh still had chimneys. That's
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what they were using it for. But no one was
really cooking with it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You know, talking about that sap. Jeff, the Indian head
firewood guy, came over last night and he brought me
some different things to try and we would put it
on and then him and my my buddy Ray and
I we'd kind of just go through and make our
notes on how this burned and what it smelled like
and on it. And it brought me some of what
they call fat wood. And it's this Okay, it's a pine,
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but it has real thick in sap, and I sap
smells so good. I can't imagine what that pair. I'm
wishing I could smell some of that right now.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Again, next time you cook up something. And I don't
know if that's your thing or not, I've heard you
talk about it a lot of times. But if you
throw some fruit wood on apple, well, you know, applewood's
become popular with bacon and stuff like that, but it's
that flavor. It'll put a sweetness in there along with
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whatever kind of rub you're gonna rub down with it.
But like I say, it's not that hot of a wood,
and you need heat. If you got a firewood pit,
it's not gonna provide enough heat to get you to
tempt to cook a lot of meat like I had
to cook. The mesquite did that. The mosquite took care
of that problem for me. But that pair flavored it up,
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so you need to give it a try. I just
happened to tune in and I was backing up to
the dock here and just happened to tune in. When
you said somebody's got a pear wood store. I said,
he must be talking to me.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Delivers to the Walgreens.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's me. That's me. I'm originally from Houston. Yeah, and
we moved up to We moved up to Medford, and uh,
there wasn't much work. And my wife talked to me.
She said, I saw you staring at that barbecue that
that barbecue pit day after day and finally, Uh, I
cooked up some We had a big garden and and
some folks stopped by, and uh, we were pretty much
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giving away the vegetan. We had such a large garden
and uh and you know, you.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Had to be the only black people in Medford.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Just about Mike. Just about my sister. And she wasn't
my blood sister, but she was like a sister. She
moved there after her uh break up, and we went
to check on her. I was driving.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
White people call a sister because they're close to her,
but she's not actually their blood sister, our friend. She's
your friend, Jeff, that's what that means. She's not your sister.
She's not your sister, my sister. Oh no, no, she's
not my sister. Friend. He's so crazy, well done.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So this is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You've all heard of the reference to the slippery slope, right.
I was reading a report yesterday in a medical journal
that said that cigarettes are a gateway to more powerful drugs,
and it's not. There are lots of there's been lots
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of study of this over the years. But one of
the reasons they find that to be the case. I'm sorry,
not cigarettes, marijuana is that it opens up receptor to addiction. Now,
I don't believe that marijuana should be illegal. You're free
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to disagree with me. You're free to think I'm a
horrible person. That's fine. And you're free to think. Well,
the only thinks that because he's a user. I'm not
a user. I have tried it, but it didn't do
anything for me. I do like bourbon and wine and beer.
And there was a time that the same mindset was
in effect with that we had prohibition in this country,
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might I remind you, And it did not end well.
In fact, our government, this same United States government during prohibition,
one of their ways to get people to stop drinking,
which they couldn't seem to be able to do, was
they sent out poisoned alcohol so that when people would
consume the alcohol, they would die. And that was supposed
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to spread fear in the land that I don't want
to drink that alcohol or I'll die. But it didn't work.
But the government murdered people for their purposes. Wow, was
that a precursor That should have been our wake up
call to stop trusting a government. And that was one
hundred years ago. The only thing that came out of
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that prohibition was NASCAR. The mafia was more powerful than ever.
You see, when people want something bad enough, they'll go
underground to get it. You can't just say, can't just
by legislative FIAT say, not going to happen. But I
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have to ask you, you know, when we talk about
the slippery slopes of arguments, if I were to ask you,
let's take the pandemic, what more could our government have
done to punish us? What more tyranny could they have
visited upon us than they did? If we started with
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them doing nothing? How far from there to the worst
thing you can imagine did we get? In Australia they
locked people into prisons. In China, they literally fastened the
doors closed. You could not escape. Can you imagine how
claustrophobic you had to feel. Can you imagine how mad
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you would have to go in that rubber room. That's
a torture palace. That's awful. Our government may not have
gone that far, but they went pretty damn far. Do
you remember the moms that were out in the park
because they lived in tiny apartments and their kids were
stir crazy and the moms needed a moment, These kids
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needed some fresh air, and they took them out and
they arrested them in front of their children, mothers and
fathers in front of their children. You wouldn't believe that
would happen in this country, but it did. Go look
up the Tuskegee syphilis study. It's a wonder black people
trust the government to this day. Go look at what
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they did to black people so they could study syphilis,
treating them like mice, like animals. How quickly people have
forgotten what our government has done where our government has lied.
Was fdr In any way aware ahead of time or
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more of Pearl Harbor? I don't know, but I'll tell
you the people who said that he was and allowed
it to happen, because that inspired the action that inspired
us to get into the war, that dragged us into
the war. This idea of provoking a clash, a shooting,
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a riot, a murder, this is not new. You remember
the little white punk in South Carolina that went into
a prayer group and as the members of the church
were holding his hand and to pray over him, he
pulls out his gun and shoots all of them. Do
you remember why he did it? He wanted to incite
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a race riot. The blacks would be so angry over
this that they'd start killing white people. So if you
were the devil, what would you do that's not currently
being done? I send it to the Great Paul.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Harvey if I were the devil. If I were the devil,
if I were the Prince of darkness, I'd want to
indulp the whole world in darkness, and i'd have a
third of its real estate and four fifths of its population.
But I wouldn't be happy until I have seized the
ripest apple on the tree the So I'd set about,
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however necessary to take over the United States. I'd subport
the churches first. I'd begin with a campaign of whispers.
With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to
you as I whispered to Eve, do as you please.
To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is
a myth. I would convince them that man created God
instead of the other way around. I would confide that
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what's bad is good, and what's good is square, and
the old I would teach to pray after me our father,
which aren't in Washington. And then I'd get organized. I'd
educate authors in how to make the lorid literature exciting,
so that anything else would appear dull and noninteresting. I'd
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threatened TV with dirtier movies, and vice versa. I peddle
narcotics to whom I could, I'd sell alcohol to ladies
and gentlemen of distinction. I tranquilize the rest with pills.
If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at
war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations
at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed,
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and with promises of higher ratings. I'd have mesmerizing media
fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would
encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect the discipline emotions,
just let those run wild until before you knew it.
You'd have to have drug snipping dogs and metal detectors
at every school house door. Within a decade, i'd have
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prisons overflowing. I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could
evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and
then from the houses of Congress and in his own churches.
I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I
would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls
and church money. If I were the Devil, I'd make
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the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of
Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take
from those who have and give to those who wanted,
until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. What
will you do? I couldn't get whole states to promote
gambling as the way to get rich.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I would caution.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct.
I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned,
that swinging is more fun, that what you see on
TV is the way to be. And thus I could
undress you in public, and I could lure you into
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bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In
other words, if I were the devil, I'd just keep
right on doing what he's doing.
If it's the birthday of Edwin Hawkins. He didn't write
the song, though it began as a hymn written way
back in the mid eighteenth century by English clergyman Philip Doddridge,
based on the verse Acts eight thirty five. The line
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originally was oh happy day that fixed my choice. It
was set to a seventeen four melody by J. A. Freilinghausen.
By the mid nineteenth century, it had been given a
new melody by Edward F. Rimbaul, who also added a chorus,
and was commonly used for baptismal or confirmation ceremonies. Edwin
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Hawkins changed the time signature from three four to four
four times, and his new arrangement contains only the repeated
Rimball refrain, with all of the original verses being omitted.
Hawkins rearranged the hymn to give it more of a
gospel feel and devised a piano introduction, which he said
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was influenced by the music of Sergio Mendez. When the
choir made the famous recording that we use here on
the show in nineteen sixty seven, lead singer Dorothy Morrison
added some lyrical improvisations influenced by James Brown, which she
said made the song feel even more current. Hawkins arrangement
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quickly became a standard and has been recorded by hundreds
of artists. It was included on THEAA Songs of the
Centuries list, and it won Edwin Hawkins a Grammy Award
for Best Soul Gospel Performance. In nineteen seventy, it made
it all the way up to number four on the
Billboard Hot one hundred a gospel song, making it into
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a secular chart is something, but making it all the
way up to number four, it's a mazing. It wasn't
just popular here in America, it was wildly popular around
the world. George Harrison has said the song was a
primary inspiration in the writing of his nineteen seventy single
My Sweet Lord. It's an amazing song and the perfect
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way to kick off our fridays, and that's why we
do it. Regrounds me and hopefully it recenters you as well.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, now I'm thinking to act like a band director.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
All right, by lift they hounds up today. Get your
instrument ready, Okay, I pull it up time. Make sure
you're not chop a flat today?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How you pinocostal preacher?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Tell you rarin things when you come on here and
do your things. Shoot all chudgen that don't start on time?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I got some fun. I believe you would not the
turn on time bot some chicken wag. I believe you
come the turn time by some chicken way. Complete this
from sea fee time on the video crime, but the
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night don't got it right on time? Somebody mount to
tore y'all path to a servant, some city ware, Chicken
Chicken way, Chicken where heaven you come to church on time?
It was some chicken way.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Let me tell you this service time.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The crime will have been margin without you. It served on.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Sun some chicken way.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Michael Barry Show continues.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Just check in with our emails, shall we?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
By the way, it just seems to be some level
of disagreement or lack of understanding. I do not respond
to every email. I do read them all. When you
do understand that just adding the time to respond to them,
I'd never get to them. Steven writes, the I R
S does not need guns to confiscate our money. They
(04:40):
need guns to confiscate guns. They will freeze our bank accounts,
demand our guns, and then raid us when we don't comply.
You know, whenever, whenever your account is seized, it's a
very very powerful tool. The State of Texas comptroller decided
(05:09):
that we hadn't paid enough in taxes, and the person
who's running the RCC for me at the time when
the letters were coming in from the comptroller, was just
putting the letters in the file cabinet and not telling anybody.
So I wasn't aware as the owner and the comptroller
froze our account. But they do this and a lot
(05:33):
of people have had this happen to them. They do
this on Friday morning. You know what happens on Friday,
that's today. You pay your staff, that's today the paychecks
come in. So guess what happens? Maximum misery. So I
go into the account to check on things as I
(05:56):
do every day, and I'm trying to do a payment
and it showed that the account is frozen. So I
called my bank, Hey, what's going on? Is there something
wrong with the account the comptroller issued in order to
freeze your account. Well, I got fifty five people that
just got their paychecks or getting them this morning. Those
(06:16):
paychecks will not clear. These people have rent to pay. Yeah,
this is why they do it this way. Well, so
I had to run and open a new account at
a different bank, immediately call my payment processor, my payroll company,
(06:38):
and say, hold on, don't draw down on those paychecks
because the comptroller has frozen our accounts. I got it
all done by whatever time I managed to get it done,
and I had everybody on hold. I had the manager
call on every part, Hey, don't deposit your paycheck, it
won't clear. And so you know, I couldn't do any
(07:01):
untill I got off the air at eleven. So I
got it all done by maybe two o'clock in the afternoon,
and I got it solved. But I thought it was
a really crappy thing in the Texas Comptroller to do,
because it doesn't just hurt me, it hurt my employees. Right,
So in time we argued and there was some money owed.
Full disclosure. You know, when you own a business and
(07:23):
you're not there all day, every day, paying every check
and reading every message that comes in, every piece of
mail that comes in, you run the risk that somebody
can do you wrong. It happens, and when it does happen,
and you're a public figure, that's me. Your name's on
the line. So I am always in a situation where
I have to go above and beyond what the average
(07:44):
person would do, because my reputation matters more to me
than the thousands of dollars they want. And by the way,
I still pay the comptroller every month. I will for
years because somebody that worked for me didn't handle what
they were supposed to handle, and she well, and here
we are, and every month I pay sixty two hundred
and fifty dollars to the comptroller out of my personal account,
(08:07):
long after the club is closed. So yeah, I'm a
little bitter about that, Yes, I am so. In any case,
what made me think of that? Ramon? Why was I
talking about that? I did not catch you stealing anyway,
Robert writes Zar on tonight's show. While you were speaking
of Rushdie's assailant, I was surprised that you didn't mention
(08:30):
that his surname matar m ata r is Spanish for
to kill. Interesting. No, I mean, I guess it, It didn't.
It didn't cross my mind, Zar. Thank god, someone finally
mentioned the fact that these new taxpayer funded programs are
nothing more than Democrat campaign slush funds. Here's another thought
(08:53):
for you to ponder. Why are most of the immigrants
streaming over the border, young single men. Well, these men
can enter the US military service as foreign nationals and
apply for citizenship after one year, after which time they
can bring in their families. So if you wonder will
an American soldier fire upon a US civilian, they won't
(09:15):
be American soldiers in the traditional sense. After proving their
loyalty to their home country by picking up stakes and
beating feet, they've proven they're not the kind of soldier
we need in our volunteer force. But I fear their
purpose here will have nothing to do with our security.
Thanks for listening, Zar, State and Rights.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Zar.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I've been listening since twenty sixteen, but this is the
first time reaching out to you. I'm an outside sales
representative for Gulf Coast Papers, so I have plenty of
windshield time to listen and enjoy. Anyway, what prompted me
to send this message was the call you got from
Larry on Friday regarding school lunches. It's not very often
that you hear the name Molten, so my interest was piqued.
(09:55):
I graduated from Molton High School in two thousand and eight.
By the time I left, the lunches had changed, but
in our early days we had some of the same
old check ladies cooking for us that he described. Some
of my favorites were the homemade hot rolls served with
baked ham. When the ladies were baking those in the morning,
you could smell them all over our little town. On
Pizza Day, kids brought pockets full of change in anticipation
(10:16):
of getting an extra slice for afternoon break, and you
were eating high on the hog if you got a
middle piece no crust. The dessert that will make every
Molten kid's mouth instantly water is the thought of the
homemade donuts. Yep, you read it right. Although baked chicken
Day was not a favorite, it was well known that
you would be getting a hot, fresh golden brown doughnut
(10:38):
served to you for dessert at ten cents apiece. For
every additional donut. Pockets were jingling. In that lunch line
you mentioned you knew where Molten was located. First time
I ever heard you referred to it was several years
ago during an interview with Jeff Wagner regarding a certain
trans am in the RCC. Side note, Jeff's mother, Dolora,
(10:59):
was one of the ladies that worked in our high
school cafeteria for many many years. I know she was
there during my entire thirteen year tenure. Point of the story.
You may remember that Donald Jeff's father has your Transam.
This is my smoking the band at Transam in Moulton.
In fact, it's not uncommon to see mister and missus
(11:20):
Wagner cruising through town in it. The last time I
saw it was about a month ago at the Molton
Jamboree car show. Attached to this email or screenshots of
the car on display and mister Wagner receiving his trophy.
He won a trophy with my damn car. It's always
fun to walk up and say, Michael's car sure does
look good. I'll wrap this up by saying, keep doing
(11:44):
what you're doing. We all appreciate it. God bless you.
Stayton Julufka, Gulf Coast Paper, Imperial Dade, Texas. Remember the
story behind that ramon. I needed to raise money for
the RCC because we had a band, a big band
like a j John'son'm going to get to come in.
So I did a raffle and it was supposed to
(12:04):
be one hundred dollars a raffle, and I was going
to try to raise twenty five thousand dollars with the car,
and then I was going to use that to subsidize
the show because I wanted to have this big show. Well,
it didn't get promoted internally, and it turns out that
there were only about a thousand dollars where the ticket sold,
and one guy bought three or four and he won
the damn thing. So when he won it, I heard
they weren't using it, and I called him and I said, hey,
(12:26):
I hear you all got how about I give you
ten thousand for the car and you give it back
to me. You only got three hundred in it, three
hundred dollars in it, And they said, oh no, we
love the car. When my boys found out that I
kind of halfway gave that car away, they were so bummed.
I'm looking at the award here. The whole family won
an award for second place with the seventy seven Trens.
(12:49):
If that's my car, dang it. For the moment, I
want my car back. He's about a dime.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
There's more to like on Facebook, like the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Jeff on the Black Line that says he smokes barbecue
with pairwood and you got my interest. Jeff.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Hey, Mike, I've talked to you a couple of times
before I probably started using that stuff in nineteen ninety
eight Pearwood when I Pairwood, Sir, Where would he get
in Pearwood? I was in Medford, Oregon at the time.
(13:37):
Any dfr d oh yeah, man, yea. And of course
if you google the Mail Tribune, it'll pull up the
story Texas Pit Stop Barbecue, and it'll show you a
picture of myself and my wife Rose at that time.
But we couldn't get hit.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Is she not your wife anymore?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No? We divorced back in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How come?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Uh, well she came to me one day. Uh in
the midst of that restaurant. Say one of us got
to go, Jeff. The restaurant of me is a lot
of work, Mike, A lot of work. And uh on.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Texas pit Stop Barbecue. Uh is still again? Yeah, but
it's still on the sea wall. That's not you.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
No, no, no, Medford Ore again, Medford, ore again, m
d F Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Where it is? Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah? Oh yeah, no no Medford e d F O r.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
D Jeff ring your neck, I know how it's showing
up is it.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Texas Texas pit Stop Barbecue? What's your last main street Williams.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Jeff, And what what was the article? What was the
article entitled.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
About Texas pit Stop Barbecue? Myself and my wife? I
don't recall. I don't recall. Yeah, I've got a copy
of it at home somewhere stowed away, but I haven't
read it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Couldn't You couldn't get mesquite, which was what you wanted.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, no, no, no, no, that's the trick, Mike. We
couldn't get hickory. Oh well, you could get mesquite and
you couldn't get pekan. But if you recall, Harry and
David's is in Medford, Yeah, they're in Medford and Ashland, Oregon.
And of course there are there are pair orchards.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's why they always put pairs in all their packages.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Absolutely all that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I had no idea they're hiring the cats ass. I
like their stuff, but mine, guess.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, they had they had pear wood to throw away
up there.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Explain something everything that Harry and David does. They always
have a pair in there, and they use pairs. Yet
that's because there's sir.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The orchids are all over the place up there. So
a guy came to me one day and who knew
me one of my name you said, well, Jeff, why
don't you try fruit wood? And I said, because I
don't know nothing about fruit wood. He said, well, we
got lots of it. Why don't you try it? And
I ended up my pairing it with mesquite. There was
(16:25):
lots of mesquite there that I could get. And I
tell you what, because the guy at the Grange co
op told me, he said, you don't want to go
with black oak. They had a lot of that up there.
He said, it's a cidity. It has a lot of
acid in it, and you don't want that in your meat.
So I listened to those guys and they talked to
me about almond wood and something else. But the sam
(16:49):
that's in pear and applewood will will bleed right into
your meat as you cook it. That sweetness of that
sam and and and the mesquite provided the heat and
the and the pair provided the flavor. And I was
blown away. I was blown away, Yes, I was blown
(17:12):
away by it. The customers couldn't figure out what the
hell I was doing to that meat, so they pear, no, sir, huh, no, sir.
They were burning it into chimneys because they had so
much of it, and and of course a lot folks
in the valley up there, uh still had chimneys. That's
(17:34):
what they were using it for. But no one was
really cooking with it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You know, talking about that sap. Jeff, the Indian head
firewood guy, came over last night and he brought me
some different things to try and we would put it
on and then him and my my buddy Ray and
I we'd kind of just go through and make our
notes on how this burned and what it smelled like
and on it. And it brought me some of what
they call fat wood. And it's this Okay, it's a pine,
(18:00):
but it has real thick in sap, and I sap
smells so good. I can't imagine what that pair. I'm
wishing I could smell some of that right now.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Again, next time you cook up something. And I don't
know if that's your thing or not, I've heard you
talk about it a lot of times. But if you
throw some fruit wood on apple, well, you know, applewood's
become popular with bacon and stuff like that, but it's
that flavor. It'll put a sweetness in there along with
(18:34):
whatever kind of rub you're gonna rub down with it.
But like I say, it's not that hot of a wood,
and you need heat. If you got a firewood pit,
it's not gonna provide enough heat to get you to
tempt to cook a lot of meat like I had
to cook. The mesquite did that. The mosquite took care
of that problem for me. But that pair flavored it up,
(18:55):
so you need to give it a try. I just
happened to tune in and I was backing up to
the dock here and just happened to tune in. When
you said somebody's got a pear wood store. I said,
he must be talking to me.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Delivers to the Walgreens.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's me. That's me. I'm originally from Houston. Yeah, and
we moved up to We moved up to Medford, and uh,
there wasn't much work. And my wife talked to me.
She said, I saw you staring at that barbecue that
that barbecue pit day after day and finally, Uh, I
cooked up some We had a big garden and and
some folks stopped by, and uh, we were pretty much
(19:32):
giving away the vegetan. We had such a large garden
and uh and you know, you.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Had to be the only black people in Medford.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Just about Mike. Just about my sister. And she wasn't
my blood sister, but she was like a sister. She
moved there after her uh break up, and we went
to check on her. I was driving.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
White people call a sister because they're close to her,
but she's not actually their blood sister, our friend. She's
your friend, Jeff, that's what that means. She's not your sister.
She's not your sister, my sister. Oh no, no, she's
not my sister. Friend. He's so crazy, well done.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So this is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You've all heard of the reference to the slippery slope, right.
I was reading a report yesterday in a medical journal
that said that cigarettes are a gateway to more powerful drugs,
and it's not. There are lots of there's been lots
(20:44):
of study of this over the years. But one of
the reasons they find that to be the case. I'm sorry,
not cigarettes, marijuana is that it opens up receptor to addiction. Now,
I don't believe that marijuana should be illegal. You're free
(21:07):
to disagree with me. You're free to think I'm a
horrible person. That's fine. And you're free to think. Well,
the only thinks that because he's a user. I'm not
a user. I have tried it, but it didn't do
anything for me. I do like bourbon and wine and beer.
And there was a time that the same mindset was
in effect with that we had prohibition in this country,
(21:31):
might I remind you, And it did not end well.
In fact, our government, this same United States government during prohibition,
one of their ways to get people to stop drinking,
which they couldn't seem to be able to do, was
they sent out poisoned alcohol so that when people would
consume the alcohol, they would die. And that was supposed
(21:53):
to spread fear in the land that I don't want
to drink that alcohol or I'll die. But it didn't work.
But the government murdered people for their purposes. Wow, was
that a precursor That should have been our wake up
call to stop trusting a government. And that was one
hundred years ago. The only thing that came out of
(22:16):
that prohibition was NASCAR. The mafia was more powerful than ever.
You see, when people want something bad enough, they'll go
underground to get it. You can't just say, can't just
by legislative FIAT say, not going to happen. But I
(22:37):
have to ask you, you know, when we talk about
the slippery slopes of arguments, if I were to ask you,
let's take the pandemic, what more could our government have
done to punish us? What more tyranny could they have
visited upon us than they did? If we started with
(23:01):
them doing nothing? How far from there to the worst
thing you can imagine did we get? In Australia they
locked people into prisons. In China, they literally fastened the
doors closed. You could not escape. Can you imagine how
claustrophobic you had to feel. Can you imagine how mad
(23:22):
you would have to go in that rubber room. That's
a torture palace. That's awful. Our government may not have
gone that far, but they went pretty damn far. Do
you remember the moms that were out in the park
because they lived in tiny apartments and their kids were
stir crazy and the moms needed a moment, These kids
(23:43):
needed some fresh air, and they took them out and
they arrested them in front of their children, mothers and
fathers in front of their children. You wouldn't believe that
would happen in this country, but it did. Go look
up the Tuskegee syphilis study. It's a wonder black people
trust the government to this day. Go look at what
(24:03):
they did to black people so they could study syphilis,
treating them like mice, like animals. How quickly people have
forgotten what our government has done where our government has lied.
Was fdr In any way aware ahead of time or
(24:24):
more of Pearl Harbor? I don't know, but I'll tell
you the people who said that he was and allowed
it to happen, because that inspired the action that inspired
us to get into the war, that dragged us into
the war. This idea of provoking a clash, a shooting,
(24:46):
a riot, a murder, this is not new. You remember
the little white punk in South Carolina that went into
a prayer group and as the members of the church
were holding his hand and to pray over him, he
pulls out his gun and shoots all of them. Do
you remember why he did it? He wanted to incite
(25:12):
a race riot. The blacks would be so angry over
this that they'd start killing white people. So if you
were the devil, what would you do that's not currently
being done? I send it to the Great Paul.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Harvey if I were the devil. If I were the devil,
if I were the Prince of darkness, I'd want to
indulp the whole world in darkness, and i'd have a
third of its real estate and four fifths of its population.
But I wouldn't be happy until I have seized the
ripest apple on the tree the So I'd set about,
(25:56):
however necessary to take over the United States. I'd subport
the churches first. I'd begin with a campaign of whispers.
With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to
you as I whispered to Eve, do as you please.
To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is
a myth. I would convince them that man created God
instead of the other way around. I would confide that
(26:17):
what's bad is good, and what's good is square, and
the old I would teach to pray after me our father,
which aren't in Washington. And then I'd get organized. I'd
educate authors in how to make the lorid literature exciting,
so that anything else would appear dull and noninteresting. I'd
(26:37):
threatened TV with dirtier movies, and vice versa. I peddle
narcotics to whom I could, I'd sell alcohol to ladies
and gentlemen of distinction. I tranquilize the rest with pills.
If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at
war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations
at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed,
(27:00):
and with promises of higher ratings. I'd have mesmerizing media
fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would
encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect the discipline emotions,
just let those run wild until before you knew it.
You'd have to have drug snipping dogs and metal detectors
at every school house door. Within a decade, i'd have
(27:23):
prisons overflowing. I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could
evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and
then from the houses of Congress and in his own churches.
I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I
would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls
and church money. If I were the Devil, I'd make
(27:46):
the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of
Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take
from those who have and give to those who wanted,
until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. What
will you do? I couldn't get whole states to promote
gambling as the way to get rich.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I would caution.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct.
I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned,
that swinging is more fun, that what you see on
TV is the way to be. And thus I could
undress you in public, and I could lure you into
(28:32):
bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In
other words, if I were the devil, I'd just keep
right on doing what he's doing.
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