November 6, 2025 • 26 mins
Michael Berry serves up sizzling satire with a side of southern sass. From filibuster-sized sandwiches to Jimmy Dean sausage meltdowns, Big Chiffon tributes, and political roastings hotter than Houston in November—this episode’s got more flavor than a Dairy Queen Blizzard in campaign season.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
When they see Barack Obama, people remember a time in
America where there was unity.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this
could have been my son.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I intend to keep this promise.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to
keep your healthcare plan.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
He acclaiming to Dunton's or origin or antipatheatic people who
aren't like that.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
And I think to myself, what a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Another issue that confronts all democracies as they move to
the future is how we deal with the past.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
The United States is still.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Working through some of our own darker periods in our history.
Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation,
the past treatment of Native America.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Cannot think myself.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know that we can't just drill our way to
lower gas prices. There are no quick fixes or silver bonets.
If somebody tells you there are, they're not telling you
the truth.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.
You just have to flood a country's public square with
enough law sewage. You just have to raise enough questions,
spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy, theorizing that citizens no
longer know what to believe once they lose trust in
(01:46):
their leaders, the mainstream media, and political institutions in each other.
In the possibility of truth the games, one.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Can myself right, I run, I think to myself, right,
I wand up.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
I didn't sign up for ninety degree November weather. This
is stupid, Michael. It's only eighty seven. It might as
well be ninety. Feels like feels like ninety. And the
worst part is I had my head wrapped around low sixties,
(02:56):
so now it feels like this mid to high eighties
weather is one hundred and ten. It's bothered me more
than a summer heat. We had that little coal front
come through, and I don't ever check the weather. I
just kind of guess what I think it'll be. And
I thought, oh, okay, we got cold front coming. That's
(03:18):
gonna be good. So the coal front's gonna come through.
It's gonna be cold, nice and crisp air. Oh I
like this, get a light jacket out. Yeah, this is
gonna be good. And then once that comes through, that'll
usher in the beginning of we can't really call it winter.
(03:39):
Let's have some self respect here. But at least it'll
be other places fall, which is kind of perfect.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Right.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Oh no, no, this is not working out for me
at all. So I'm told that by I think Sunday
it's gonna start dipping down.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But this isn't working. This isn't working one bit.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
I was mentally prepared for nice, crisp, cool weather.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And that it's not what we're having. On this day.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
In eighteen fourteen, Adolph Sachs was born, and you guess
which musical instrument he invented.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You'll never guess on this day.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
In eighteen sixty Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the
United States. In eighteen sixty two, New York City to
San Francisco direct telegraphic link arms. Nineteen twenty eight, America
elects Herbert Hoover over Catholic Al Smith. The Democrat convention
(04:50):
that year was held in Houston, Texas. It's a great
story behind that. They we had the city of Houston
had put together a pretty convincing pitch.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Amazing how that works to get to host the Democrat convention.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And so.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
They pitched the Democrat convention and whoever the people or
person was that came down to Houston. They came in
November December, and they thought, yeah, this is a nice place.
Hard to believe that before the Internet, before really nationwide television,
(05:38):
you didn't know very much about things and you couldn't
quickly access information about things like this. So there they
were in the middle of the summer. I believe it
was in July, might have been June. The Democrat convention
city of Houston threw together a convention center that the
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delegates could hold their national convention in Houston. Texas was
a Democrat state at the time, and they were very
excited Houston was going to have this moment where we
were going to be.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
The host of the Democrat national Convention.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
And apparently they got down here and the consensus when
they left was, we're never doing anything in Houston again.
It is as hot as hades down there. But that
was the convention that elected the first Catholic nominee of
a major party, which was Al Smith. There's a lot
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made of John F. Kennedy being a nominee, but that
was still thirty two years later, nineteen twenty eight, Good
Southern Baptists did not want somebody who was bowing before
the Pope, did not want a papist as the nominee,
but that's what they got. Hoover, of course, would win
that election. Speaking of Houston in the early days, I
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finally got to see It's been I think three years
since I was interviewed for a movie that was about
Bum Phillips and his son, Wade Phillips and his son
Wes Phillips and three generations of coaches. Pretty special deal.
(07:29):
Add into that that Bum is such a larger than
life personality that he is one of the most interesting
personalities in NFL history. And then his son who goes
on to coach and win with multiple programs. I think
he's been a head coach of seven teams. He's been
a defensive coordinator and head coach across probably half the
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league in the course of his career. And then Wade
and Laurie's son, Wes, who goes on to win a
Super Bowl himself in the coaching ranks and continues to
rise through the coaching ranks. So I was very excited
about this movie coming out, and then it was bought
(08:13):
out by another group and they changed it from the
the to Love You Bum.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It's all about bum with some about it.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
And I watched it last night and they didn't cut
me out, Ramon. I made the final cut mill President Trump.
I was trying to reopen the government and scrap the filibuster.
Attorney General Ken Paxton supports that. Congressman Wesley Hunt supports that.
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What about John Wayne mccornyn, Well, he uh he he.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
You know, he's with the president nine nine percent of
the time, you know, is he he? Well he you know,
he didn't say he's against it and say he's against
President Trump's move because you know they're working, well, they're
working arm and armors. Have you heard the spot they're
airing Ramon, You can breathe again because our border is
(09:20):
secure because President Trump and John Wayne mccornan have made
sure of that. It is the most ridiculous scene in
the world. This guy told Trump last year, don't run.
He held a press interview where he had everybody on
(09:43):
a zoom call on the record where he said it
is time for the Republican Party to move on past
Trump and now he's acting like they're best friends.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
And Trump cannot stand him.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
So h Trump pointed out during his interview with sixty
Minutes this past weekend that Republicans quote, have to get tougher.
You got to play ball the Democrats do. They have
to because the Democrats quote are vicious, noting that under Biden,
the Democrats tried to end the filibuster but were stopped
(10:20):
by Democrat senators Mansion and Cinema. Trump wants the filibuster ended.
Cornyn is working behind the scenes to keep that from happening.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
This was the Trump sixty Minutes interview. I think we
should do the nuclear option.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
This is a totally different nuclear by the way, it's
called ending the philibuster. Did you see John Thune said
today that I know John doesn't well John and a
few other but you know what, the Republicans have to
get tougher. If we end the philibuster, we can do
exactly what we want. We're not going to lose power.
The theory is, oh, then we'll do it, but then
when they get into power someday they'll do it. That's true.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But you know what, so you think you're here right now.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
No.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
I like John and I think it's terrific, but I
disagree with him on this point.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
He said today he wasn't going to do it.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Well, that's too bad, you know. I mean, I think
we're much better because he's the problem. The Democrats will
do it in the first week in office. The Democrats
and I told that to John, and I get along
with them great, We've had a great relationship. And I
also know there are other Republicans that feel the other way,
and I understand that too, but they're wrong. The Democrats
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will do it if they get into power, and someday
I guess they will. Who knows, it's hard to believe
when they have men and women's sports, open borders, open everything,
a transgender for everyone. The Democrats will do it in
their first day in office.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And the only.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Reason they didn't do it is because of cinema and
because of men named Joe Manchin from West Candia, a
good man, and they disagreed with it. No way had
they approved it, I think, just one of them. Had
they been able to get those votes, you would have
had the nuclear option used, you would have had the
philibus are ended, and the Democrats would have used it.
(12:02):
So I say to the Republicans that want to be
you know, all like, oh, well, you know, we're abobb
all that the Democrats will do. See, the Republicans have
much better policy. We have smart policy, We have great policy.
That's how we win. The Democrats are vicious. They're vicious.
They have horrible policy, but they are the most vicious.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Human beings on earth.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
They are people that weaponize government do a lot of
better things.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's true.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
It's also true that most Republicans, not all, most Republicans
don't want to do what it takes to win, which
would ruffle some feathers, it would make it unpleasant turn
to punch bowl kind of stuff because they're not here
to win a battle. They're not fighting as if this
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is the big game, this is the super Bowl, lay
it all on the line. They look at this in
the long term. We want to get to be here
for our entire career.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
We don't. We don't want to have to scrap with them.
That is why there's.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
There's something of a truce in the establishment. You don't
criticize me, I won't criticize you. We'll just kind of
talk a little to keep the base happy, and we'll
fend off challenges from within the fringes of each of
our parties and we'll get to be here for life,
get a nice pension, do some self dealing. If you're
John Corny, you get your daughter hired by a lobbying firm,
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little lobbying firm out of Austin. They put her as
the face of the of the firm. Open a big
d C office, start getting some contracts. Daddy, Daddy Shepherd's
the cases through the legislature.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh, it's a good racket.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
But have the decency not to criticize Joe Biden for
doing the same thing with Hunter Biden. This is basically
the John Cornyn story is basically the same as as
getting people to pay millions of dollars for your kid's
finger art. John Cornyn's got his own little Hunter Biden
on the payroll. It's disgusting, it's grotesque. That's what he does.
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That's what he does, and that's who he is, and
that's what he's been. And finally, finally we're doing something
about that, with both Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton coming
out in support of what the President is doing to end.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
This stupid filibuster.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
But John Wayne mccornyn, he's uh, I mean, you know,
I'm not against it.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
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(15:07):
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Speaker 4 (15:25):
The Philly Buster.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
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can't shut it down.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Is the Michael Berry Show. Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection.
What's she going to do? She's only eighty five?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Rom that song? Interesting that song by Jimmy Dean which
he wrote and of course sang prior to in nineteen
sixty nine opening the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company. They would
let her sell to Sarah Lee, which would eventually go
to Hillshire and then part of Tyson Foods. But that
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tribute to Big John and then our our joke of
the Phillybuster from Dairy Queen got me thinking to one
of the most beautiful tributes I think I've ever heard
done in music.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You know you two did a tribute to Martin Luther
King Junior.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
There have been there have been some great tributes in song,
but I can't think of one that was more touching
and tender and poignant than Shirley Cue Licker's tribute to
Big Chaffon.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
You know, this morning I was thinking about this big
old girl, big woman, used to be the assistant manager
over here to Dery Queen. You remember her name was Chiffon.
You remember old big Chiffon. I remember working down there.
If a morning, at the crack of dawn, you still
arrived by six foot six three forty five, big old
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broad shoulders and big old hips. Everybody I know they
gave no lip the mischief Oni, no lord, not to hub.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
She knock your teval. She was tough.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Mischief, yes Lord, nobody seemed to know where to call home.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
She just drift into town. She stay all alone, they
said much.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
She's kind of quiet and shy, and if you spoke
at all, you better just say how you during this
falled mixiphon, she didn't like no kind of conversation, not
her lord mixta boy dig old hips on her had
big old woman. Somebody says she come from New Orleans
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and she got in a big fight with a Cajun
queen and a crashing blow from a huge right hands
in a Louisiana to the Promised Land.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That chiffall.
Speaker 11 (17:53):
Graminal convictions aggravated us all assist the manager that Chifa.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Derry clean. But that's just how I meant.
Speaker 11 (18:05):
But I might be wrong, tell you, Mom and m
I EXAs had.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
So our team made the Dairy Q Dairy Queen d
Q Phillybuster parody. We play that go to Break. And
I'm reading through notes and I see that today is
the day of Big John's release in nineteen sixty one,
and I thought, what are the chances all these things
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are coming together? And I said, let me look up
the history of Jimmy Dean Sausage and see when that
was founded. And I look it up. It was only
nineteen sixty nine. I just assumed it had been around
longer than that. And that got me thinking of Jimmy
Dean Sausage and Jimmy Dean the Artist. Jimmy Dean gave
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Jim Henson the Puppeteer his first television exposure with a
character called Rolf r Owlff. I don't know if I'm
pronouncing that correctly or not. He gave him his first
exposure with that character, obviously prior to the Muppets. He
also started in television on The Pat Boone Show, where
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he played alongside Fess Parker, What a career, Jimmy Dean,
What a career?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And what a sausage? But there was that one time.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
Frendy eight p. One seven. I don't know where few
people come from. I don't know if you test your products,
your quantity of your products. Your product's are very delicious.
Love your sausage for thirty something years, But I can't
take and fee a family of five on a little
twelve ounce roll of sausage. I don't mind paying you
more money for you sixteen ounce roll of sausage, but
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you don't have it anymore. You've got a twelve ounce
roll and you've got three men that way over two
hundred pounds of peace a woman. That's a little plump
Scotch girl and a daughter who's thirteen, And you're gonna
try to take a twelve ounce litt of sausage and
a couple of dozen eggs and feed that. It ain't
gonna work. And I'm not gonna purchase your product anymore
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or ever again. And as far as you're sixteen ounce
in maple and sage, I don't eat that. I'm not
from the North. I'm a Texas man. Jimmy Dean sausage
is for Southern people to eat with their breakfast, with
the fried eggs and their tea bone steaks. And I
can't see going to a little twelve ounce package to
feed four or five six people. And I'm not gonna
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buy two of those twelve ounce packages just because you
want to downsize and charge the same pride. I'd sure
like a reply, and i'd sure like you to go
back to your sixteen ounce package on your regular sausage,
because I'm not gonna buy it otherwise every again. I'll
just have my own tasks made like I used to
something years ago. It's not tasty as years is, but
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it'll work. Thank you. Eight one seven, goodbye little twelve.
Now I'm rella sausage supposed to feed your brother and
me and you six hundred pounds of men. At least
you get my point and the two girls, and they
put it in a roll of sausage. Somebody needs to
kid some little consumer geek. Alloyd saved money, Yes, saved money.
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Saved money someone to eat.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Have you ever loved a product so much that you've
got that angry over them changing it? Seven one thousand.
You know, I think about things like that, particularly the seventies.
I said, what happened to stuff like that? What happened
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to people that you could admire? You could think we're
really cool. There's no body out today that I think
that about. But with that that era, and again, maybe
it's where I was in my life. Maybe I wasn't
so cynical about everything. Maybe it was because my mother
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and my grandparents loved that sort of stuff. I don't know,
but it takes me to a happy place. I saw
a story that Tom Brady reveals shocking detail about his dog.
He had his dog cloned. I've always thought that Fellow
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was off, didn't you. There's just something about him we're
gonna find out one day. Yes, he was a great quarterback. Yes,
he played well into the old folks home. Yes he
has maintained his shape. Yes he looks good and he
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looks young. But we're gonna find out some wee weird
stuff with that dude. Well, like he left his dog.
Did you wake up this morning and say today I'm
gonna be alb as be a little bit? Yes, Like
he loved his dog. Okay, that's okay. Well, if I
told you had sex was dog, will is it wrong?
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He loves his dog. He just wants to express his
love for his dog. Cloning your dog is weird. Now.
I know I'd lose some of the audience on that,
because I know there's some folks out there that probably
think that's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
But that's weird. Seth, You're on a Michael Berry show.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Has there been a company or a product that so
changed that you felt the need to make a Jimmy
Dean call You just got aggravated over it.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
I'm not sure if it's happened yet, but I got
a call from my father last week after he went
to the waffle house and the waiter informed him that
they have changed their waffle recipe. Now it's been a
long time. Sadly, since I've been to a waffle house.
But if that is the case, you are going to
get an entire swath of this population spitting mad, more
mad than that feller what got his sausage messed with.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I wonder if that's true, because I don't know anybody
that actually eats waffles at the waffle house, do you remote.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I know a lot of people.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
We went to Palm Beach a couple of weeks ago,
and Jonathan Kim, the president of the Gringoes Empire, every morning.
Jonathan is very, very methodical and consistent. He's a systems guy,
which is a perfect personality to run all those restaurants
because all day, every day he's going from location to
location and checking on things and ensuring quality and making
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sure the teams are good at what they're doing. He
goes every morning to the waffle house and he gets
the same order.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And it's something like ten.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
I think he gets ten eggs and some making our sausage.
I don't think he gets any carbs. And so my
wife got interested in it because my wife likes to know,
you know, anybody has a strong opinion on what you're
putting into your body and performance and longevity and all
these things, and uh, he wants to get his proteins
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in any way. And then there was another fellow inmed
Mike Bowman, who was hunting hunt and they make drilling guns,
and he goes every morning to the waffle house.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And I thought, Man, I love what we do.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
But I mean, I guess we could technically go every
morning to the waffle house.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
We just have to start really early.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
All these other people like Mike and Jonathan don't really
have a job like us, you know, John, what about you, sir?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Uh it's Coke? Sorry, Coca Coca Cola. I'm sorry, what
was the question?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I was told a brand or product that you got
upset over.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yeah, Coca Cola. When they quit using the cane sugar,
I quit drinking them, and I mean that's just never
been the same.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I remember nineteen eighty five like it was yesterday, John,
when they switched over to new Coke. I mean, I
remember that was big news. Why would they do this?
And people were stockpiling the coke like it was toilet
paper before the storm.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
And then it wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
But four months later they brought back what they now
called the Classic and I don't, I don't. I guess they.
I guess they stopped doing the New Coke, right. It's
a great story which I find fascinating. Anyway, when they
came out with New Coke, they came out with a
diet version called Diet Coke, so there was and then
so then they went back to Coke Classic, but you
had Diet New Coke, And it wasn't until years later
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that they did Coke Zero, which is the diet version
of the Coke Classic. So for all those years you
had the diet version of coke based on the New
Coke bottle, which was just around for a little while,
but it was so popular.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
When they see Barack Obama, people remember a time in
America where there was unity.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this
could have been my son.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I intend to keep this promise.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to
keep your healthcare plan.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
He acclaiming to Dunton's or origin or antipatheatic people who
aren't like that.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
And I think to myself, what a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Another issue that confronts all democracies as they move to
the future is how we deal with the past.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
The United States is still.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Working through some of our own darker periods in our history.
Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation,
the past treatment of Native America.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Cannot think myself.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know that we can't just drill our way to
lower gas prices. There are no quick fixes or silver bonets.
If somebody tells you there are, they're not telling you
the truth.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.
You just have to flood a country's public square with
enough law sewage. You just have to raise enough questions,
spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy, theorizing that citizens no
longer know what to believe once they lose trust in
(01:46):
their leaders, the mainstream media, and political institutions in each other.
In the possibility of truth the games, one.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Can myself right, I run, I think to myself, right,
I wand up.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
I didn't sign up for ninety degree November weather. This
is stupid, Michael. It's only eighty seven. It might as
well be ninety. Feels like feels like ninety. And the
worst part is I had my head wrapped around low sixties,
(02:56):
so now it feels like this mid to high eighties
weather is one hundred and ten. It's bothered me more
than a summer heat. We had that little coal front
come through, and I don't ever check the weather. I
just kind of guess what I think it'll be. And
I thought, oh, okay, we got cold front coming. That's
(03:18):
gonna be good. So the coal front's gonna come through.
It's gonna be cold, nice and crisp air. Oh I
like this, get a light jacket out. Yeah, this is
gonna be good. And then once that comes through, that'll
usher in the beginning of we can't really call it winter.
(03:39):
Let's have some self respect here. But at least it'll
be other places fall, which is kind of perfect.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Right.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Oh no, no, this is not working out for me
at all. So I'm told that by I think Sunday
it's gonna start dipping down.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But this isn't working. This isn't working one bit.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
I was mentally prepared for nice, crisp, cool weather.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And that it's not what we're having. On this day.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
In eighteen fourteen, Adolph Sachs was born, and you guess
which musical instrument he invented.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You'll never guess on this day.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
In eighteen sixty Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the
United States. In eighteen sixty two, New York City to
San Francisco direct telegraphic link arms. Nineteen twenty eight, America
elects Herbert Hoover over Catholic Al Smith. The Democrat convention
(04:50):
that year was held in Houston, Texas. It's a great
story behind that. They we had the city of Houston
had put together a pretty convincing pitch.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Amazing how that works to get to host the Democrat convention.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And so.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
They pitched the Democrat convention and whoever the people or
person was that came down to Houston. They came in
November December, and they thought, yeah, this is a nice place.
Hard to believe that before the Internet, before really nationwide television,
(05:38):
you didn't know very much about things and you couldn't
quickly access information about things like this. So there they
were in the middle of the summer. I believe it
was in July, might have been June. The Democrat convention
city of Houston threw together a convention center that the
(06:01):
delegates could hold their national convention in Houston. Texas was
a Democrat state at the time, and they were very
excited Houston was going to have this moment where we
were going to be.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
The host of the Democrat national Convention.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
And apparently they got down here and the consensus when
they left was, we're never doing anything in Houston again.
It is as hot as hades down there. But that
was the convention that elected the first Catholic nominee of
a major party, which was Al Smith. There's a lot
(06:41):
made of John F. Kennedy being a nominee, but that
was still thirty two years later, nineteen twenty eight, Good
Southern Baptists did not want somebody who was bowing before
the Pope, did not want a papist as the nominee,
but that's what they got. Hoover, of course, would win
that election. Speaking of Houston in the early days, I
(07:06):
finally got to see It's been I think three years
since I was interviewed for a movie that was about
Bum Phillips and his son, Wade Phillips and his son
Wes Phillips and three generations of coaches. Pretty special deal.
(07:29):
Add into that that Bum is such a larger than
life personality that he is one of the most interesting
personalities in NFL history. And then his son who goes
on to coach and win with multiple programs. I think
he's been a head coach of seven teams. He's been
a defensive coordinator and head coach across probably half the
(07:53):
league in the course of his career. And then Wade
and Laurie's son, Wes, who goes on to win a
Super Bowl himself in the coaching ranks and continues to
rise through the coaching ranks. So I was very excited
about this movie coming out, and then it was bought
(08:13):
out by another group and they changed it from the
the to Love You Bum.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It's all about bum with some about it.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
And I watched it last night and they didn't cut
me out, Ramon. I made the final cut mill President Trump.
I was trying to reopen the government and scrap the filibuster.
Attorney General Ken Paxton supports that. Congressman Wesley Hunt supports that.
(08:48):
What about John Wayne mccornyn, Well, he uh he he.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
You know, he's with the president nine nine percent of
the time, you know, is he he? Well he you know,
he didn't say he's against it and say he's against
President Trump's move because you know they're working, well, they're
working arm and armors. Have you heard the spot they're
airing Ramon, You can breathe again because our border is
(09:20):
secure because President Trump and John Wayne mccornan have made
sure of that. It is the most ridiculous scene in
the world. This guy told Trump last year, don't run.
He held a press interview where he had everybody on
(09:43):
a zoom call on the record where he said it
is time for the Republican Party to move on past
Trump and now he's acting like they're best friends.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
And Trump cannot stand him.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
So h Trump pointed out during his interview with sixty
Minutes this past weekend that Republicans quote, have to get tougher.
You got to play ball the Democrats do. They have
to because the Democrats quote are vicious, noting that under Biden,
the Democrats tried to end the filibuster but were stopped
(10:20):
by Democrat senators Mansion and Cinema. Trump wants the filibuster ended.
Cornyn is working behind the scenes to keep that from happening.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
This was the Trump sixty Minutes interview. I think we
should do the nuclear option.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
This is a totally different nuclear by the way, it's
called ending the philibuster. Did you see John Thune said
today that I know John doesn't well John and a
few other but you know what, the Republicans have to
get tougher. If we end the philibuster, we can do
exactly what we want. We're not going to lose power.
The theory is, oh, then we'll do it, but then
when they get into power someday they'll do it. That's true.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But you know what, so you think you're here right now.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
No.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
I like John and I think it's terrific, but I
disagree with him on this point.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
He said today he wasn't going to do it.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Well, that's too bad, you know. I mean, I think
we're much better because he's the problem. The Democrats will
do it in the first week in office. The Democrats
and I told that to John, and I get along
with them great, We've had a great relationship. And I
also know there are other Republicans that feel the other way,
and I understand that too, but they're wrong. The Democrats
(11:25):
will do it if they get into power, and someday
I guess they will. Who knows, it's hard to believe
when they have men and women's sports, open borders, open everything,
a transgender for everyone. The Democrats will do it in
their first day in office.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And the only.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Reason they didn't do it is because of cinema and
because of men named Joe Manchin from West Candia, a
good man, and they disagreed with it. No way had
they approved it, I think, just one of them. Had
they been able to get those votes, you would have
had the nuclear option used, you would have had the
philibus are ended, and the Democrats would have used it.
(12:02):
So I say to the Republicans that want to be
you know, all like, oh, well, you know, we're abobb
all that the Democrats will do. See, the Republicans have
much better policy. We have smart policy, We have great policy.
That's how we win. The Democrats are vicious. They're vicious.
They have horrible policy, but they are the most vicious.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Human beings on earth.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
They are people that weaponize government do a lot of
better things.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's true.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
It's also true that most Republicans, not all, most Republicans
don't want to do what it takes to win, which
would ruffle some feathers, it would make it unpleasant turn
to punch bowl kind of stuff because they're not here
to win a battle. They're not fighting as if this
(12:54):
is the big game, this is the super Bowl, lay
it all on the line. They look at this in
the long term. We want to get to be here
for our entire career.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
We don't. We don't want to have to scrap with them.
That is why there's.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
There's something of a truce in the establishment. You don't
criticize me, I won't criticize you. We'll just kind of
talk a little to keep the base happy, and we'll
fend off challenges from within the fringes of each of
our parties and we'll get to be here for life,
get a nice pension, do some self dealing. If you're
John Corny, you get your daughter hired by a lobbying firm,
(13:35):
little lobbying firm out of Austin. They put her as
the face of the of the firm. Open a big
d C office, start getting some contracts. Daddy, Daddy Shepherd's
the cases through the legislature.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh, it's a good racket.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
But have the decency not to criticize Joe Biden for
doing the same thing with Hunter Biden. This is basically
the John Cornyn story is basically the same as as
getting people to pay millions of dollars for your kid's
finger art. John Cornyn's got his own little Hunter Biden
on the payroll. It's disgusting, it's grotesque. That's what he does.
(14:17):
That's what he does, and that's who he is, and
that's what he's been. And finally, finally we're doing something
about that, with both Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton coming
out in support of what the President is doing to end.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
This stupid filibuster.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
But John Wayne mccornyn, he's uh, I mean, you know,
I'm not against it.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
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Speaker 4 (15:25):
The Philly Buster.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
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Speaker 4 (15:33):
Is the Michael Berry Show. Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection.
What's she going to do? She's only eighty five?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Rom that song? Interesting that song by Jimmy Dean which
he wrote and of course sang prior to in nineteen
sixty nine opening the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company. They would
let her sell to Sarah Lee, which would eventually go
to Hillshire and then part of Tyson Foods. But that
(16:03):
tribute to Big John and then our our joke of
the Phillybuster from Dairy Queen got me thinking to one
of the most beautiful tributes I think I've ever heard
done in music.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You know you two did a tribute to Martin Luther
King Junior.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
There have been there have been some great tributes in song,
but I can't think of one that was more touching
and tender and poignant than Shirley Cue Licker's tribute to
Big Chaffon.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
You know, this morning I was thinking about this big
old girl, big woman, used to be the assistant manager
over here to Dery Queen. You remember her name was Chiffon.
You remember old big Chiffon. I remember working down there.
If a morning, at the crack of dawn, you still
arrived by six foot six three forty five, big old
(16:56):
broad shoulders and big old hips. Everybody I know they
gave no lip the mischief Oni, no lord, not to hub.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
She knock your teval. She was tough.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Mischief, yes Lord, nobody seemed to know where to call home.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
She just drift into town. She stay all alone, they
said much.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
She's kind of quiet and shy, and if you spoke
at all, you better just say how you during this
falled mixiphon, she didn't like no kind of conversation, not
her lord mixta boy dig old hips on her had
big old woman. Somebody says she come from New Orleans
(17:43):
and she got in a big fight with a Cajun
queen and a crashing blow from a huge right hands
in a Louisiana to the Promised Land.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That chiffall.
Speaker 11 (17:53):
Graminal convictions aggravated us all assist the manager that Chifa.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Derry clean. But that's just how I meant.
Speaker 11 (18:05):
But I might be wrong, tell you, Mom and m
I EXAs had.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
So our team made the Dairy Q Dairy Queen d
Q Phillybuster parody. We play that go to Break. And
I'm reading through notes and I see that today is
the day of Big John's release in nineteen sixty one,
and I thought, what are the chances all these things
(18:35):
are coming together? And I said, let me look up
the history of Jimmy Dean Sausage and see when that
was founded. And I look it up. It was only
nineteen sixty nine. I just assumed it had been around
longer than that. And that got me thinking of Jimmy
Dean Sausage and Jimmy Dean the Artist. Jimmy Dean gave
(18:57):
Jim Henson the Puppeteer his first television exposure with a
character called Rolf r Owlff. I don't know if I'm
pronouncing that correctly or not. He gave him his first
exposure with that character, obviously prior to the Muppets. He
also started in television on The Pat Boone Show, where
(19:25):
he played alongside Fess Parker, What a career, Jimmy Dean,
What a career?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And what a sausage? But there was that one time.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
Frendy eight p. One seven. I don't know where few
people come from. I don't know if you test your products,
your quantity of your products. Your product's are very delicious.
Love your sausage for thirty something years, But I can't
take and fee a family of five on a little
twelve ounce roll of sausage. I don't mind paying you
more money for you sixteen ounce roll of sausage, but
(19:57):
you don't have it anymore. You've got a twelve ounce
roll and you've got three men that way over two
hundred pounds of peace a woman. That's a little plump
Scotch girl and a daughter who's thirteen, And you're gonna
try to take a twelve ounce litt of sausage and
a couple of dozen eggs and feed that. It ain't
gonna work. And I'm not gonna purchase your product anymore
(20:17):
or ever again. And as far as you're sixteen ounce
in maple and sage, I don't eat that. I'm not
from the North. I'm a Texas man. Jimmy Dean sausage
is for Southern people to eat with their breakfast, with
the fried eggs and their tea bone steaks. And I
can't see going to a little twelve ounce package to
feed four or five six people. And I'm not gonna
(20:40):
buy two of those twelve ounce packages just because you
want to downsize and charge the same pride. I'd sure
like a reply, and i'd sure like you to go
back to your sixteen ounce package on your regular sausage,
because I'm not gonna buy it otherwise every again. I'll
just have my own tasks made like I used to
something years ago. It's not tasty as years is, but
(21:03):
it'll work. Thank you. Eight one seven, goodbye little twelve.
Now I'm rella sausage supposed to feed your brother and
me and you six hundred pounds of men. At least
you get my point and the two girls, and they
put it in a roll of sausage. Somebody needs to
kid some little consumer geek. Alloyd saved money, Yes, saved money.
(21:26):
Saved money someone to eat.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Have you ever loved a product so much that you've
got that angry over them changing it? Seven one thousand.
You know, I think about things like that, particularly the seventies.
I said, what happened to stuff like that? What happened
(21:51):
to people that you could admire? You could think we're
really cool. There's no body out today that I think
that about. But with that that era, and again, maybe
it's where I was in my life. Maybe I wasn't
so cynical about everything. Maybe it was because my mother
(22:14):
and my grandparents loved that sort of stuff. I don't know,
but it takes me to a happy place. I saw
a story that Tom Brady reveals shocking detail about his dog.
He had his dog cloned. I've always thought that Fellow
(22:36):
was off, didn't you. There's just something about him we're
gonna find out one day. Yes, he was a great quarterback. Yes,
he played well into the old folks home. Yes he
has maintained his shape. Yes he looks good and he
(22:56):
looks young. But we're gonna find out some wee weird
stuff with that dude. Well, like he left his dog.
Did you wake up this morning and say today I'm
gonna be alb as be a little bit? Yes, Like
he loved his dog. Okay, that's okay. Well, if I
told you had sex was dog, will is it wrong?
(23:19):
He loves his dog. He just wants to express his
love for his dog. Cloning your dog is weird. Now.
I know I'd lose some of the audience on that,
because I know there's some folks out there that probably
think that's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
But that's weird. Seth, You're on a Michael Berry show.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Has there been a company or a product that so
changed that you felt the need to make a Jimmy
Dean call You just got aggravated over it.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
I'm not sure if it's happened yet, but I got
a call from my father last week after he went
to the waffle house and the waiter informed him that
they have changed their waffle recipe. Now it's been a
long time. Sadly, since I've been to a waffle house.
But if that is the case, you are going to
get an entire swath of this population spitting mad, more
mad than that feller what got his sausage messed with.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I wonder if that's true, because I don't know anybody
that actually eats waffles at the waffle house, do you remote.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I know a lot of people.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
We went to Palm Beach a couple of weeks ago,
and Jonathan Kim, the president of the Gringoes Empire, every morning.
Jonathan is very, very methodical and consistent. He's a systems guy,
which is a perfect personality to run all those restaurants
because all day, every day he's going from location to
location and checking on things and ensuring quality and making
(24:39):
sure the teams are good at what they're doing. He
goes every morning to the waffle house and he gets
the same order.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And it's something like ten.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
I think he gets ten eggs and some making our sausage.
I don't think he gets any carbs. And so my
wife got interested in it because my wife likes to know,
you know, anybody has a strong opinion on what you're
putting into your body and performance and longevity and all
these things, and uh, he wants to get his proteins
(25:12):
in any way. And then there was another fellow inmed
Mike Bowman, who was hunting hunt and they make drilling guns,
and he goes every morning to the waffle house.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And I thought, Man, I love what we do.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
But I mean, I guess we could technically go every
morning to the waffle house.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
We just have to start really early.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
All these other people like Mike and Jonathan don't really
have a job like us, you know, John, what about you, sir?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Uh it's Coke? Sorry, Coca Coca Cola. I'm sorry, what
was the question?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I was told a brand or product that you got
upset over.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yeah, Coca Cola. When they quit using the cane sugar,
I quit drinking them, and I mean that's just never
been the same.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I remember nineteen eighty five like it was yesterday, John,
when they switched over to new Coke. I mean, I
remember that was big news. Why would they do this?
And people were stockpiling the coke like it was toilet
paper before the storm.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
And then it wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
But four months later they brought back what they now
called the Classic and I don't, I don't. I guess they.
I guess they stopped doing the New Coke, right. It's
a great story which I find fascinating. Anyway, when they
came out with New Coke, they came out with a
diet version called Diet Coke, so there was and then
so then they went back to Coke Classic, but you
had Diet New Coke, And it wasn't until years later
(26:42):
that they did Coke Zero, which is the diet version
of the Coke Classic. So for all those years you
had the diet version of coke based on the New
Coke bottle, which was just around for a little while,
but it was so popular.
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