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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
In fact, drunken stupid is no way to go through life.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Stuck.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off
my feet and I'm gonna see the world.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
All my.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The frig gass water type that.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Is a yes, we believe it is bad.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm going steady and that French kiss so everybody does that. Yeah,
but Daddy says I'm the gust.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Daddy a careful.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Man in the fabrics.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We gotta what a telescope, sir?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What the wide wide world of sports going on?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Heresy?
Speaker 7 (01:19):
The adjective for metal is metallic, but not so for iron,
which is ironic. Guy sent me a dad joke that
used a reference to a mop, and I got to
thinking about mopping.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Ramon, how has it been since you've mopped a minute?
How long would you guess? Two years?
Speaker 7 (01:47):
And was it a spill? M Amy cleans up the message.
She's she's the mop girl. There's a clear delineation of
tasks in your home. I bet you Chad mops.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I guarantee you Chad.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Chad is the ultimate husband because he takes a lot
of what might be the traditional wife duties. Also, he cooks.
He cooks for the family on the weekend, so they
have meals in their tupperware for the week and it's
all healthy Asian stuff. He does everything at the house.
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He is never sick or you know, anything like that.
He's I mean he's married, so don't get your hopes up.
But he'd be somebody's he'd be most women's ideal husband.
I mean most men's too. You're right, You're right, yeah, Oh,
he's he does it all. I am in awe of that.
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But I've always been interested. I've always been fascinated with
the concept of mopping. It's one of those things that
gets mentioned in movies and and things. You get get
a mop bugget. It's kind of kind of a wholesome task.
I don't know, Maybe sweeping is not in the same
category mopping. Just something special about mopping. Maybe because I
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don't have to do it, I have this love affair
with it, maybe I wouldn't find it to be so great.
It's also a workout. I mean, it's it's it's an
it's a legitimate workout. But you know, growing up, there
was not a lot of mopping. My mom was not
a big mopper. You could not have. We had a
linoleum floor, which you know, is kind of perfect for
mopping because you can't hurt linoleum until that moment that
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you get a tear in the linoleum. My goodness alive.
When you tear the linoleum, it's it's downhill from there.
And I love to go into these older homes where
they had a linoleum over a linoleum. They decide because
that lonoleum is hard to get up, there's a lot
of scraping, so they just slapped a linoleum down over it,
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and they would do like the terra cotta colored linoleum
over one, or they'd kind of try to make it
look like it was tile. And then when that has
a tear in it, or the other one is when
the linoleum has been stepped on, like in in stores.
You'll go to old kind of country stores and there's
there's a hole worn in the linoleum and you're down
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into the sub floor. You know, you're down at the
wood at that point. I find such things fascinating. Jeff
on the Black Line, Welcome to the program sir.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I just so took her when I call you, because
I got a bond to pick with you.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, you're you're, yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
You're really feeling yourself today.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I'm I'm calling to represent all of the old folks today,
Mac and and and the rest.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Cause see you're just throwing that word old folks home.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
And then you got you got on the guy that
plays the organ, and you built him up good for
a while.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Law.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You know, he two or three shells a day.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
And then you say this guy gotta be.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Gotta be sixty five. I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Damn, I wasn't gonna call in, but I need.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
To call my home.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
My point is, you know, if they think of him
as a young man, but in society he's on the
back end, so he would be old out on the streets,
but at the Old Ways room, he's a he's a
breath of fresh run.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You yeah, yeah, we're young.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I'm sixty eight.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
See that's the only I said.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Then let me call him and get him because because you.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Know, sixty time, I ain't old.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Mike. You just you know, especially if you're mopping, because
you know that's mopping is like dancing it's all in
the hip, Moe. You gotta swing that mop like.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Jeff. How long is itgain since you month? When's the
last time you month?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Last week? Last week?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
At your house or at work?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Every no, no, no, at the house. I do the
mopping at home. And is it a regular thing. It's
a regular thing, so is it?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
And how often would that be? How often on average
would you say your mom.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Every weekend, every every every Sunday?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, so every Sunday.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
And we've got the what you call the imitation wood floors.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, and uh yeah yeah, and so gotta
and do you put down pine sal or? Do you
do you use any product?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
H you know, either little light saw sometime a little fabula,
old soul with a little bleach. You know, it's a
black thing. You gotta have a bleach, Michael, black thing.
Throw a little bleach in there with it.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I love the smell of fabulau sauce, not as much
as Mexican women do, but I love the smell. It
smells clean. But I grew up on pine salt. My
mother used pine saal, And if I smell that pine
sauce smell, that is the smell of clean to me.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Well, see, uh uh uh uh, I can't do that
because see, old folks homes smell like that. See now you've.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Got me saying, God dam mature folks homes.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Home for the age mature.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I don't know if you hear their conversations, I would
not call them mature.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You said mature, like my mother gies.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Listen, listen, the older people need to call in and
give you another word.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
For other than old.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
See we ain't we no, no, no that.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I like old people that are very blunt, you know
that speak very directly, because an old folks home is
a home for old folks. And that's what my mother
always said when we were younger. She'd say, when we
get old, you're just gonna stick us in the old
folks home.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That was always her line.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, that was a place out offer of color way
back in the day when it was shockolate by you.
I think it was called Elijah Johnson Home for the Age.
And I always looked at that place thinking, man, I
am I don't want to get old. Look at that
place and you go into it and it always had
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a smell and it's like, oh, oh.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Man, that is such a black thing from the seventies
is to give something an exalted name like that, you know,
the Elijah Johnson Home for the Age. Yeah, you know
what I mean, instead of seenior living facility.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
That's that's the black woman with the PhD who starts
using the big words, the euphemisms. I must admit, I
love that. Jeff is always a pleasure to hear your voice.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
My man, you are listening to the Michael Berry Show,
taking a hatchet, your lowless, got a kin sensing.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Humor, she got a tattoo down, your arms up, got
in a little mind, weirdly fascinated by caller Jeff's mopping routine.
And I never everyone knew that adding bleach to the
pine saw was a black thing.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
The things you learned.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
Bobby writes, here's a radio commercial for Johnson Wax's glow
coat for Linoleum. They were the sponsor of the Fibber,
McGhee and Molly Show in the late thirties and into
the forties. The spokesman would come on every week and
talk to the characters. Didn't find a way to turn
any conversation into one about a Johnson Wax product. Most
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of you, if you're a radio fan, you know that
used to radio shows would be would be sponsored. They'd
have a lead sponsor, and it would be a household
consumer product and it would be in the title of
the show and they would be a banner behind them
and painted on the wall.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So whether it was.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
An ant acid or a toothpaste or a drink or
whatever else, and it was shameless, I mean they would
they would just talk about it and maybe work it
into there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They might have a patch on their outfit.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Was a fellow named Pappy le O'Daniel and the Light
Crust Boys, and they were sponsored by They were a
musical act on the radio, and he beat Lyndon Johnson
in an election. And his popularity was that people tuned
in and listened to him on the radio at night
with this show that was quite popular, playing Western swing
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and kind of a variety show. JT seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine one.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Thousand, j T. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Go ahead, sir, say Michael Man. Look at him.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was in the Navy for eight years and all
we did was mop and so I'm a fiend for it.
Me and my brother share a house in sun Louisiana
and a house in New Orleans, and I got industrial
mobs at both of them. Man, I can't stand my
floors being nasty, sticky anything. Man, I'm mop all the time. Man,
I gotta do it. I mean, what women in my
life do it?
Speaker 7 (11:05):
T You strike me as the kind of guy who
randomly says to young black men out in society that
you need to put some lotion on those elbows because
they're ashy.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You that you do no.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
No, you strike me as the kind of guy that
believes you go out in public, you're buttoned up.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You know you present yourself properly. You don't.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
You don't uh, you don't disrespect you race, your people,
your family.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know, you do things the right way.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
You park properly, you you wait a line, pray. You
strike me as that type, and my guess is that.
Two reasons for that is that's the way you were
raised with strict values. And number two the military.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, my mama, she was a tough, tough old broad man.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
No, she passed.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Man, it's a tragic, tragic story. My youngest brother died
from fentanyl poison and when I had to go tell her,
I found him dead.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
In his apartment.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Man, she had two art attacks right in front of me,
and she died of a broken heart.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Man, Oh, how old was your brother?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
He was fifty six?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And how did.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He he was our baby? He was a baby of
the family. Man, I'm gonna tell you it was terrible.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm sixty one.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
How did he get Did he have a history of drugs?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
He struggled with it his whole life. Man?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
What was his drug of choice during most of that.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, when he died, he had methan, fhetamine, cocaine, and.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Tentanol in his system.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, so he got off of it plenty times,
but he always gravitated back to it. Yeah, mostly because
of the women he hung with. Not that I blame them,
I blame him. But man, we hunt even fished all
over this country. Man when he was when he was sober.
You know, he had a nice business man. He made
a lot of money. And it's like kind of business
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from well, he had a discount tobacco store over and
uh and and go for it?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Hm hm and and where do you where's home to you?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I bounced back and forth. I me and my brother
shared home on just off Allegiant.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Fields in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Then I had this home and son and I got
deer properly up in Varnadough.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
If you know where any of that place.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is, yeah, of course. Uh what what is you saying?
Sun like sun?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Sun, Louisiana. It's between Covington and Bob Lusa Nicole place.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Man, I got here, my property here. It's beautiful. Man.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And so where did you go to high school?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Both LUSA High?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
And you came out and then you stayed there, you
stayed in that community.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, I was in the Navy for eight years.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I was in a nuclear operator on a nuclear ship
in the Navy, and then I got out, and uh,
I worked for a nuclear power plants just south of
western New Orleans. And so I live mostly.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
In New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But I'm back here on the north Shore. And then
I stayed in staying at the place in Allegian Fields.
I've been down there for two weeks. I was entertaining
clients down there for two weeks. But I'm back home now.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Man, it's entertaining clients for a What do you still
work for the nuclear power plant?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And no, I do software. I do software now and Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
These are nuclear power clients from Philadelphia. I've met them
years ago and and I go out and service their
plants with the with the software that runs in them.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
They come down and fish with me about twice a
year in November. It's at the time we go we
go to the track Man Fairground. Have you ever been
at the fairgrounds?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Michael, No, but I know of it. But hold on,
let me go back for saying. So, so you you
go in with this software? Is this like an automation control?
Is a safety and specially quality control?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What is it? No, it's uh.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
They they keep all the chemistry data in the software
product and uh, and it tells about they're violating limits
and they get you got to go out and do
extra samples.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And so you're going in to test that?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
No, I go into service it like you know, they
reports and stuff they want me to do for them,
and I just go on site and do that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And where did you learn to do that?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I was working at a nuclear power plant water for
three south of New Orleans, and I was a chemistry
tech and they put a computer.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
On my desk in the early nineties. I'm like, what's
this thing?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You know, it was the computer first coming out, and
we were doing these hand calculations for nuclear safety. And
I figured out how to put a calculation spreadsheet in
the computers, all dolls based.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And when when I did that, we were doing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Our calculations in the computer, and they said, man, you
got a talent for this.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So they sent me to school to learn how to program.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I've been doing it ever since. You know, that's
twenty five years ago.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Hold on, just a moment of tea.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
M J T.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What does the J and T stand for? John Thomas?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
John Thomas?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Were you named after a family member?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was named after my sperm donor if I didn't,
if I can say that on the radio.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
But uh, my stepdad raised me.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
He married me when I was He married my mom
when I was still in diapers, you know. But he
was a little short, sought off Italian guy. But uh
my youngest brother was his biological son. But that man
never treated me any different, and he treated by my
youngest brother.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Got him. Choke it up, Dad, I hate to do
this to you.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
God, that's okay. How many of y'all were there? How
many kids?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
There was five boys and two girls.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
My dad had two girls, and my mom had four
boys and they had one child together.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And is he still alive.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Now? My dad passed?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What did he do?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
He passed twenty five twenty five years ago. He was
he was a merchant, seman. Interesting, God, I hate choking.
I'm like just on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Many it's better on the radio than on TV.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Want to tell you when my brother passed, I have
a pet Peeve Michael. I won't let nobody put their
hands on my family when they passed. My dad, my mother,
my mother in law, my brother, and the corner had
to inspect my brother's body for signs and foul.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Plate because he died of over the right.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I said, I'll do what you want me to do,
and he said, can you remove the banket? I pulled
the blanket off, Mike class. I was like, what in
the world. And the corner was when my brother was
there with me. My older brother in the corner said,
what's the matter, JT. I said, he's got a bigger
one than me, and he's dead. And it's true, that
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corner my brother almost died. Man.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That is uh, that is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was funny, man, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I was just trying to make light of the situation
because it was a pretty pretty sad event.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And I had to go in and tell my mom.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Because his apartment was on her property and she was
out on the porch. She said, Johnny, wesh Chucky. I said, Mom,
Chucky is gone. She said, where's he at? Said Mom,
He's gone. Don't you get it, He's gone. And she
had two art attacks right in front of me. Michael,
it was horrible.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Oh man, that is uh, that's that's a double whammie.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Your brother and then your mother just like that, and
that is uh.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
She lasted about two months after that, and she but
she had me and the rest of my brothers were
at her side. My two sisters had already passed. But
so uh man, I hate to tell such a sad
story on your.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
It's a real story. Well, let me ask you this,
because you had called about this. You said, you got
a mopping routine and you like to mop, you know,
leave that to a woman.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
How often do you mop?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
At least once a week at least to see my
brother's house and New Orleans that we share. That's his
house and I have the house and son. When when
I when I when he comes down and he doesn't
stay there very often. I stayed there more than he does.
But when he comes in there he knows and I
will whip about the mop, get on the back porch
and stay out.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Of my way.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And how long does it take?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
This house is always go ah.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It takes me about maybe at least an hour, because
I hit it with pine soal and then I come
back with clean water. That was our routine routine in
the navy. You know, you mock it with some kind
of disintective and then you come back with clean water,
and then you know you got your floors clean.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
It's interesting. It's interesting how tasks performing tasks. Mopping is
not my thing, because I wasn't the one in our
family growing up mopping, but mowing the lines that you
create when you mow, knocking down tasks. I like repetitive,
simple tasks that are mindless because you get you get
the joy when you finish something. Of seeing when we
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leave every day, I hope we did some good in
one way or another, but I can't see. It doesn't
manifest itself the way if you're constructing something or cleaning
something or fixing something physically, you can see that with
your own eyes, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, Michael, I'm on a shoe yep, Like we kept
our forest clean. It was like each division had their
own little space they had to keep clean, and we
took pride in our floors. And the guys that got
seasick would walk around with plastic bags tied to their
belt loops so that they didn't, you know, vomit on
the floors. And every now and then you get a
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guy that came through there and you could hear it happening,
and we would have to chase them down and make
them come clean our floors force, because if they got away,
then we had to clean it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Up right, you know. It was It was terrible. Man.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We were sitting in our birthing and we would hear
somebody heaving up and we would immediately run out there
because if you didn't, they would run away and you would.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Have to clean up the mess behind them.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Ship life was a totally different life than you can
even imagine.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You spent eight years at sea.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, I wasn't in the maybe five years before
I even saw a ship, because I did so well
in training up in upstate New York that kept me
on as an instructor and teach your new new new
engineers and uh and I even taught some officers too.
But uh, once I I left, uh the prototype what
we called it up in Upstate New York, and I
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got sent out to a ship. I spent three years
on a ship and then I got out reserves. Oh, man,
I'll tell you what, looking back on it, I love
that life.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, I was in the Mediterranean for the better party
in three years, and I went everywhere in the Middle
East of Europe and everything.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Man, I would recommend that to any young man. It
is it maybe be a man?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Did that's a big statement? Did you consider making a
career out of it when you left eight years?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Was there ever a moment I did not?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I wish I would have stayed in that went into
the neighbor reserves, you know, because I would I would
have a retirement coming from it. But no, I didn't
want to stay. And I missed New Orleans so bad.
I said, I got to get out and go back home,
you know. And I miss my dad and my mom
and my brothers, my sisters, so uh, so I got out.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
What do you what did you miss most? About New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, I'm the big hunter and fisherman, and I finished
in Virginia as much as I could when I was
stationed there. But the Bogachita Swamp is my place, man, Okay,
I missed hunt in there, you know, if you if
you're not familiar, look it up.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Man.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
When I was growing up, we and maybe this is
just the fact that I live in Houston now, but
when I was growing up, we were more Southwest Louisiana
than we were Southeast Texas because all the people were
from there, and we were in and out of Louisiana.
But the whole sportsman's paradise was was the motto, and
that was really, really heavily promoted. But I never hear
anything about that anymore, no one, you don't. I don't
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see or hear people talking about what a great place
particular lead to fish that Louisiana is. And I don't
know if they don't promote that anymore, or it's just
I'm not running in the same circles.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Now. I'm gonna tell you what it is, Michael.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Drugs have ruined the hunting and fishing for people, you know,
just like my brother me and my brother used to
camp in the Bogata Swamp of like ten fifteen other people,
and nobody does it anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I go out there by myself. I'm sixty one years
old and I can barely take it anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But they just people don't do it, man, They just
don't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Thank you for your service, JT. And really enjoyed your car.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You are listening to Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Live for River.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I'm going across that river. I'm going to kiss.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
Tomorrow, and now.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You're calling walm Hold just like I always told you.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
End of the month just ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
There will be many days that a cloudy gray. Isn't
it very important?
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Speaker 2 (25:46):
When all is blown abound.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
And your primary missionism me, ma'am, what just happen?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Min?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh wow, Let's go Chuck. Let's go John first, and
then we'll go to Chuck.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
John You're on the Michael Berry Show post see it?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh my goodness, what is going on.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
On the Curver? I went under curver last night into
the belly of the beasts over in Rosenbergh with the
bato walls, Count Hall.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I bet you set right in.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Oh it was excellent. I mean it was a lot
of fun.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
A couple of takeaways, hold on, hold on to get
yourself ready, you know, like my brother used to put
weird synths on his skin for smells and things like that.
Did you did you have anything you did to get
ready to go under cover to kind of really make
it fit in?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Not?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Really.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
I just kept a low profile and actually I was
working as a bodyguard or young man who held.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
A a sign. The sign read uh tampon Tim you're
not texting enough. And he was there by himself, so
I sort of just made sure that no one uh
harassed him. So I sort of his was his bodyguard,
so they didn't. I wasn't real vocal or anything on
(27:25):
that account. But some of the takeaways I had was
they believed the media is against them. They think all
Republicans due to LYU lost a walk of march and
(27:46):
lost step with Donald Trump. Uh, they're not They're not wrong.
They have all the answers, and particularly I found him
to be not very smart. Beto cussed a lot and
(28:07):
his speech very fiery.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
That's the thing they're doing now. Van Jones was talking
about this on seeing any other day. I think they
have focused grouped this and what I suspect, what it
looks like has manifested is a plan to win win
back young people, and that young people like to cuss,
(28:32):
and so what you're trying to do is get relatability
with young people, and the way to do that is
through the language. And so the cussing makes you cool.
You break the rules, you speak from the street. You're
not the establishment, you're not the sellout. You're gonna cuss
(28:54):
and Beto has always done that. There's always been a
very contrived his image has always been very carefully cultivated.
If you remember the skateboarding, we would have to see
lots of late night skateboarding and lots of having fun,
frolicking with young members of the media and having drinks
and look at us, we're so cool, we're having fun.
(29:16):
Betos like us. There were lots of water Burger trips
and constant, incessant talking about.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
It because Beto's like us.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
He's going on a road trip across Texas to Waterburger
and he's cool and he's hip.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
There's a lot of that that goes with his image.
But proceed keep going.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Yes, well he's you know, here's a degree from Kleby University.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
He was also raised He was also.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Raised in a pretty well to do family where his
father was the county judge and probably grifting on the.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Side is what I've heard.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
And he married a woman whose father, if not a billionaire,
he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So the whole
thing is he's an actor in a play and there's
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And you know the.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Worst part is you'd think they could get the poor
fellow in the in the props department. They could get
him an upper lift. But whatever, any way, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Well another takeaway was, of course they blame you racism
here in Texas even though we have what do we
have two weeks virtually twenty four to seven voting? You know,
we're people are not gonnowed to vote, you know, so
(30:30):
that's that's what we're gonna change that. We're gonna make it,
make a voting. I think I think Wall.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
Said in Minnesota you can register to vote when you
apply for your driver's license. They have sixteen and seventeen
year olds working as election judges.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
A particularly interesting take of a and this was an
older crowd, Minu. These were not really young people.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Was they brought up.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
LBJ and Barbara Jordan? You know how great they were.
And I thought to myself, LBJ, he did not run
for re election because of because of the Vietnam War.
And eighty percent of people that were in that crowd
(31:29):
last night were of that age. They probably marched against LBJ.
Speaker 14 (31:35):
But yeah, we know LBJ, we know LBJ.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
And then when they mentioned Barbara Jordan, it too, you know,
it's like wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Didn't you read that?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
We've you know, we have talked about this many times
on your program, how Barbara Jordan was against open borders.
But oh, we love Barbara Jordan.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
We love Barbara bah But you got to realize, John,
they don't know who Barbara Jordan is. They don't know
what she stood for. She's to them, she's an icon.
She's Tony Bennett or Betty White. They don't know anything
about it. Speaking of which, Beto and Tim Waltz as
John infiltrated last night in sugar Land.
Speaker 12 (32:22):
Last night, CNN presents a thrilling sugar Land Showcase Thursday
night townhall event featuring Timmy Walks.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
I think we all agree on this issue.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Coach THEO will never be the bad come Sugar and
Beto o Roy.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I want to thank everyone who actually thought I was pspetic.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Discussing what matters most to want to be leaders of
the floundering Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Seriously, this is really happening. Necess's almost included. Got this
on a well that's just a little sweeter than a
sugar silo. Oh Rour eats his tacos with a fornaces.
It's almost together. On Sharing Wednesday, Hey, Texas.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Time, putting some extra sugar in my tank.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
In the head, if you're working
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
In fact, drunken stupid is no way to go through life.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Stuck.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off
my feet and I'm gonna see the world.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
All my.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The frig gass water type that.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Is a yes, we believe it is bad.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm going steady and that French kiss so everybody does that. Yeah,
but Daddy says I'm the gust.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Daddy a careful.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Man in the fabrics.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We gotta what a telescope, sir?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What the wide wide world of sports going on?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Heresy?
Speaker 7 (01:19):
The adjective for metal is metallic, but not so for iron,
which is ironic. Guy sent me a dad joke that
used a reference to a mop, and I got to
thinking about mopping.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Ramon, how has it been since you've mopped a minute?
How long would you guess? Two years?
Speaker 7 (01:47):
And was it a spill? M Amy cleans up the message.
She's she's the mop girl. There's a clear delineation of
tasks in your home. I bet you Chad mops.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I guarantee you Chad.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Chad is the ultimate husband because he takes a lot
of what might be the traditional wife duties. Also, he cooks.
He cooks for the family on the weekend, so they
have meals in their tupperware for the week and it's
all healthy Asian stuff. He does everything at the house.
(02:24):
He is never sick or you know, anything like that.
He's I mean he's married, so don't get your hopes up.
But he'd be somebody's he'd be most women's ideal husband.
I mean most men's too. You're right, You're right, yeah, Oh,
he's he does it all. I am in awe of that.
(02:44):
But I've always been interested. I've always been fascinated with
the concept of mopping. It's one of those things that
gets mentioned in movies and and things. You get get
a mop bugget. It's kind of kind of a wholesome task.
I don't know, Maybe sweeping is not in the same
category mopping. Just something special about mopping. Maybe because I
(03:04):
don't have to do it, I have this love affair
with it, maybe I wouldn't find it to be so great.
It's also a workout. I mean, it's it's it's an
it's a legitimate workout. But you know, growing up, there
was not a lot of mopping. My mom was not
a big mopper. You could not have. We had a
linoleum floor, which you know, is kind of perfect for
mopping because you can't hurt linoleum until that moment that
(03:28):
you get a tear in the linoleum. My goodness alive.
When you tear the linoleum, it's it's downhill from there.
And I love to go into these older homes where
they had a linoleum over a linoleum. They decide because
that lonoleum is hard to get up, there's a lot
of scraping, so they just slapped a linoleum down over it,
(03:49):
and they would do like the terra cotta colored linoleum
over one, or they'd kind of try to make it
look like it was tile. And then when that has
a tear in it, or the other one is when
the linoleum has been stepped on, like in in stores.
You'll go to old kind of country stores and there's
there's a hole worn in the linoleum and you're down
(04:12):
into the sub floor. You know, you're down at the
wood at that point. I find such things fascinating. Jeff
on the Black Line, Welcome to the program sir.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I just so took her when I call you, because
I got a bond to pick with you.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, you're you're, yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
You're really feeling yourself today.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I'm I'm calling to represent all of the old folks today,
Mac and and and the rest.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
Cause see you're just throwing that word old folks home.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
And then you got you got on the guy that
plays the organ, and you built him up good for
a while.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Law.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You know, he two or three shells a day.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
And then you say this guy gotta be.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Gotta be sixty five. I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Damn, I wasn't gonna call in, but I need.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
To call my home.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
My point is, you know, if they think of him
as a young man, but in society he's on the
back end, so he would be old out on the streets,
but at the Old Ways room, he's a he's a
breath of fresh run.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You yeah, yeah, we're young.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I'm sixty eight.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
See that's the only I said.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Then let me call him and get him because because you.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Know, sixty time, I ain't old.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Mike. You just you know, especially if you're mopping, because
you know that's mopping is like dancing it's all in
the hip, Moe. You gotta swing that mop like.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Jeff. How long is itgain since you month? When's the
last time you month?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Last week? Last week?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
At your house or at work?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Every no, no, no, at the house. I do the
mopping at home. And is it a regular thing. It's
a regular thing, so is it?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
And how often would that be? How often on average
would you say your mom.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Every weekend, every every every Sunday?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, so every Sunday.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
And we've got the what you call the imitation wood floors.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, and uh yeah yeah, and so gotta
and do you put down pine sal or? Do you
do you use any product?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
H you know, either little light saw sometime a little fabula,
old soul with a little bleach. You know, it's a
black thing. You gotta have a bleach, Michael, black thing.
Throw a little bleach in there with it.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I love the smell of fabulau sauce, not as much
as Mexican women do, but I love the smell. It
smells clean. But I grew up on pine salt. My
mother used pine saal, And if I smell that pine
sauce smell, that is the smell of clean to me.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Well, see, uh uh uh uh, I can't do that
because see, old folks homes smell like that. See now you've.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Got me saying, God dam mature folks homes.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Home for the age mature.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I don't know if you hear their conversations, I would
not call them mature.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You said mature, like my mother gies.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Listen, listen, the older people need to call in and
give you another word.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
For other than old.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
See we ain't we no, no, no that.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I like old people that are very blunt, you know
that speak very directly, because an old folks home is
a home for old folks. And that's what my mother
always said when we were younger. She'd say, when we
get old, you're just gonna stick us in the old
folks home.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That was always her line.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, that was a place out offer of color way
back in the day when it was shockolate by you.
I think it was called Elijah Johnson Home for the Age.
And I always looked at that place thinking, man, I
am I don't want to get old. Look at that
place and you go into it and it always had
(07:55):
a smell and it's like, oh, oh.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Man, that is such a black thing from the seventies
is to give something an exalted name like that, you know,
the Elijah Johnson Home for the Age. Yeah, you know
what I mean, instead of seenior living facility.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
That's that's the black woman with the PhD who starts
using the big words, the euphemisms. I must admit, I
love that. Jeff is always a pleasure to hear your voice.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
My man, you are listening to the Michael Berry Show,
taking a hatchet, your lowless, got a kin sensing.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Humor, she got a tattoo down, your arms up, got
in a little mind, weirdly fascinated by caller Jeff's mopping routine.
And I never everyone knew that adding bleach to the
pine saw was a black thing.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
The things you learned.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
Bobby writes, here's a radio commercial for Johnson Wax's glow
coat for Linoleum. They were the sponsor of the Fibber,
McGhee and Molly Show in the late thirties and into
the forties. The spokesman would come on every week and
talk to the characters. Didn't find a way to turn
any conversation into one about a Johnson Wax product. Most
(09:31):
of you, if you're a radio fan, you know that
used to radio shows would be would be sponsored. They'd
have a lead sponsor, and it would be a household
consumer product and it would be in the title of
the show and they would be a banner behind them
and painted on the wall.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So whether it was.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
An ant acid or a toothpaste or a drink or
whatever else, and it was shameless, I mean they would
they would just talk about it and maybe work it
into there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They might have a patch on their outfit.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Was a fellow named Pappy le O'Daniel and the Light
Crust Boys, and they were sponsored by They were a
musical act on the radio, and he beat Lyndon Johnson
in an election. And his popularity was that people tuned
in and listened to him on the radio at night
with this show that was quite popular, playing Western swing
(10:32):
and kind of a variety show. JT seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine one.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Thousand, j T. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Go ahead, sir, say Michael Man. Look at him.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was in the Navy for eight years and all
we did was mop and so I'm a fiend for it.
Me and my brother share a house in sun Louisiana
and a house in New Orleans, and I got industrial
mobs at both of them. Man, I can't stand my
floors being nasty, sticky anything. Man, I'm mop all the time. Man,
I gotta do it. I mean, what women in my
life do it?
Speaker 7 (11:05):
T You strike me as the kind of guy who
randomly says to young black men out in society that
you need to put some lotion on those elbows because
they're ashy.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You that you do no.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
No, you strike me as the kind of guy that
believes you go out in public, you're buttoned up.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You know you present yourself properly. You don't.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
You don't uh, you don't disrespect you race, your people,
your family.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know, you do things the right way.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
You park properly, you you wait a line, pray. You
strike me as that type, and my guess is that.
Two reasons for that is that's the way you were
raised with strict values. And number two the military.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, my mama, she was a tough, tough old broad man.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
No, she passed.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Man, it's a tragic, tragic story. My youngest brother died
from fentanyl poison and when I had to go tell her,
I found him dead.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
In his apartment.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Man, she had two art attacks right in front of me,
and she died of a broken heart.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Man, Oh, how old was your brother?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
He was fifty six?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And how did.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He he was our baby? He was a baby of
the family. Man, I'm gonna tell you it was terrible.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm sixty one.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
How did he get Did he have a history of drugs?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
He struggled with it his whole life. Man?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
What was his drug of choice during most of that.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, when he died, he had methan, fhetamine, cocaine, and.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Tentanol in his system.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, so he got off of it plenty times,
but he always gravitated back to it. Yeah, mostly because
of the women he hung with. Not that I blame them,
I blame him. But man, we hunt even fished all
over this country. Man when he was when he was sober.
You know, he had a nice business man. He made
a lot of money. And it's like kind of business
(13:01):
from well, he had a discount tobacco store over and
uh and and go for it?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Hm hm and and where do you where's home to you?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I bounced back and forth. I me and my brother
shared home on just off Allegiant.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Fields in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Then I had this home and son and I got
deer properly up in Varnadough.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
If you know where any of that place.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is, yeah, of course. Uh what what is you saying?
Sun like sun?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Sun, Louisiana. It's between Covington and Bob Lusa Nicole place.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Man, I got here, my property here. It's beautiful. Man.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And so where did you go to high school?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Both LUSA High?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
And you came out and then you stayed there, you
stayed in that community.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, I was in the Navy for eight years.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I was in a nuclear operator on a nuclear ship
in the Navy, and then I got out, and uh,
I worked for a nuclear power plants just south of
western New Orleans. And so I live mostly.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
In New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But I'm back here on the north Shore. And then
I stayed in staying at the place in Allegian Fields.
I've been down there for two weeks. I was entertaining
clients down there for two weeks. But I'm back home now.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Man, it's entertaining clients for a What do you still
work for the nuclear power plant?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And no, I do software. I do software now and Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
These are nuclear power clients from Philadelphia. I've met them
years ago and and I go out and service their
plants with the with the software that runs in them.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
They come down and fish with me about twice a
year in November. It's at the time we go we
go to the track Man Fairground. Have you ever been
at the fairgrounds?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Michael, No, but I know of it. But hold on,
let me go back for saying. So, so you you
go in with this software? Is this like an automation control?
Is a safety and specially quality control?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What is it? No, it's uh.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
They they keep all the chemistry data in the software
product and uh, and it tells about they're violating limits
and they get you got to go out and do
extra samples.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And so you're going in to test that?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
No, I go into service it like you know, they
reports and stuff they want me to do for them,
and I just go on site and do that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And where did you learn to do that?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I was working at a nuclear power plant water for
three south of New Orleans, and I was a chemistry
tech and they put a computer.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
On my desk in the early nineties. I'm like, what's
this thing?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You know, it was the computer first coming out, and
we were doing these hand calculations for nuclear safety. And
I figured out how to put a calculation spreadsheet in
the computers, all dolls based.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And when when I did that, we were doing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Our calculations in the computer, and they said, man, you
got a talent for this.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So they sent me to school to learn how to program.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I've been doing it ever since. You know, that's
twenty five years ago.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Hold on, just a moment of tea.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
M J T.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What does the J and T stand for? John Thomas?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
John Thomas?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Were you named after a family member?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was named after my sperm donor if I didn't,
if I can say that on the radio.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
But uh, my stepdad raised me.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
He married me when I was He married my mom
when I was still in diapers, you know. But he
was a little short, sought off Italian guy. But uh
my youngest brother was his biological son. But that man
never treated me any different, and he treated by my
youngest brother.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Got him. Choke it up, Dad, I hate to do
this to you.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
God, that's okay. How many of y'all were there? How
many kids?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
There was five boys and two girls.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
My dad had two girls, and my mom had four
boys and they had one child together.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And is he still alive.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Now? My dad passed?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What did he do?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
He passed twenty five twenty five years ago. He was
he was a merchant, seman. Interesting, God, I hate choking.
I'm like just on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Many it's better on the radio than on TV.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Want to tell you when my brother passed, I have
a pet Peeve Michael. I won't let nobody put their
hands on my family when they passed. My dad, my mother,
my mother in law, my brother, and the corner had
to inspect my brother's body for signs and foul.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Plate because he died of over the right.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I said, I'll do what you want me to do,
and he said, can you remove the banket? I pulled
the blanket off, Mike class. I was like, what in
the world. And the corner was when my brother was
there with me. My older brother in the corner said,
what's the matter, JT. I said, he's got a bigger
one than me, and he's dead. And it's true, that
(18:25):
corner my brother almost died. Man.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That is uh, that is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was funny, man, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I was just trying to make light of the situation
because it was a pretty pretty sad event.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And I had to go in and tell my mom.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Because his apartment was on her property and she was
out on the porch. She said, Johnny, wesh Chucky. I said, Mom,
Chucky is gone. She said, where's he at? Said Mom,
He's gone. Don't you get it, He's gone. And she
had two art attacks right in front of me. Michael,
it was horrible.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Oh man, that is uh, that's that's a double whammie.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Your brother and then your mother just like that, and
that is uh.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
She lasted about two months after that, and she but
she had me and the rest of my brothers were
at her side. My two sisters had already passed. But
so uh man, I hate to tell such a sad
story on your.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
It's a real story. Well, let me ask you this,
because you had called about this. You said, you got
a mopping routine and you like to mop, you know,
leave that to a woman.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
How often do you mop?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
At least once a week at least to see my
brother's house and New Orleans that we share. That's his
house and I have the house and son. When when
I when I when he comes down and he doesn't
stay there very often. I stayed there more than he does.
But when he comes in there he knows and I
will whip about the mop, get on the back porch
and stay out.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Of my way.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And how long does it take?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
This house is always go ah.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It takes me about maybe at least an hour, because
I hit it with pine soal and then I come
back with clean water. That was our routine routine in
the navy. You know, you mock it with some kind
of disintective and then you come back with clean water,
and then you know you got your floors clean.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
It's interesting. It's interesting how tasks performing tasks. Mopping is
not my thing, because I wasn't the one in our
family growing up mopping, but mowing the lines that you
create when you mow, knocking down tasks. I like repetitive,
simple tasks that are mindless because you get you get
the joy when you finish something. Of seeing when we
(20:43):
leave every day, I hope we did some good in
one way or another, but I can't see. It doesn't
manifest itself the way if you're constructing something or cleaning
something or fixing something physically, you can see that with
your own eyes, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, Michael, I'm on a shoe yep, Like we kept
our forest clean. It was like each division had their
own little space they had to keep clean, and we
took pride in our floors. And the guys that got
seasick would walk around with plastic bags tied to their
belt loops so that they didn't, you know, vomit on
the floors. And every now and then you get a
(21:19):
guy that came through there and you could hear it happening,
and we would have to chase them down and make
them come clean our floors force, because if they got away,
then we had to clean it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Up right, you know. It was It was terrible. Man.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We were sitting in our birthing and we would hear
somebody heaving up and we would immediately run out there
because if you didn't, they would run away and you would.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Have to clean up the mess behind them.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Ship life was a totally different life than you can
even imagine.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You spent eight years at sea.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, I wasn't in the maybe five years before
I even saw a ship, because I did so well
in training up in upstate New York that kept me
on as an instructor and teach your new new new
engineers and uh and I even taught some officers too.
But uh, once I I left, uh the prototype what
we called it up in Upstate New York, and I
(22:13):
got sent out to a ship. I spent three years
on a ship and then I got out reserves. Oh, man,
I'll tell you what, looking back on it, I love
that life.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, I was in the Mediterranean for the better party
in three years, and I went everywhere in the Middle
East of Europe and everything.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Man, I would recommend that to any young man. It
is it maybe be a man?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Did that's a big statement? Did you consider making a
career out of it when you left eight years?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Was there ever a moment I did not?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I wish I would have stayed in that went into
the neighbor reserves, you know, because I would I would
have a retirement coming from it. But no, I didn't
want to stay. And I missed New Orleans so bad.
I said, I got to get out and go back home,
you know. And I miss my dad and my mom
and my brothers, my sisters, so uh, so I got out.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
What do you what did you miss most? About New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, I'm the big hunter and fisherman, and I finished
in Virginia as much as I could when I was
stationed there. But the Bogachita Swamp is my place, man, Okay,
I missed hunt in there, you know, if you if
you're not familiar, look it up.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Man.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
When I was growing up, we and maybe this is
just the fact that I live in Houston now, but
when I was growing up, we were more Southwest Louisiana
than we were Southeast Texas because all the people were
from there, and we were in and out of Louisiana.
But the whole sportsman's paradise was was the motto, and
that was really, really heavily promoted. But I never hear
anything about that anymore, no one, you don't. I don't
(23:56):
see or hear people talking about what a great place
particular lead to fish that Louisiana is. And I don't
know if they don't promote that anymore, or it's just
I'm not running in the same circles.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Now. I'm gonna tell you what it is, Michael.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Drugs have ruined the hunting and fishing for people, you know,
just like my brother me and my brother used to
camp in the Bogata Swamp of like ten fifteen other people,
and nobody does it anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I go out there by myself. I'm sixty one years
old and I can barely take it anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But they just people don't do it, man, They just
don't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Thank you for your service, JT. And really enjoyed your car.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You are listening to Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Live for River.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I'm going across that river. I'm going to kiss.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
Tomorrow, and now.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You're calling walm Hold just like I always told you.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
End of the month just ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
There will be many days that a cloudy gray. Isn't
it very important?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
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Speaker 2 (25:46):
When all is blown abound.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
And your primary missionism me, ma'am, what just happen?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Min?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh wow, Let's go Chuck. Let's go John first, and
then we'll go to Chuck.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
John You're on the Michael Berry Show post see it?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh my goodness, what is going on.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
On the Curver? I went under curver last night into
the belly of the beasts over in Rosenbergh with the
bato walls, Count Hall.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I bet you set right in.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Oh it was excellent. I mean it was a lot
of fun.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
A couple of takeaways, hold on, hold on to get
yourself ready, you know, like my brother used to put
weird synths on his skin for smells and things like that.
Did you did you have anything you did to get
ready to go under cover to kind of really make
it fit in?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Not?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Really.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
I just kept a low profile and actually I was
working as a bodyguard or young man who held.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
A a sign. The sign read uh tampon Tim you're
not texting enough. And he was there by himself, so
I sort of just made sure that no one uh
harassed him. So I sort of his was his bodyguard,
so they didn't. I wasn't real vocal or anything on
(27:25):
that account. But some of the takeaways I had was
they believed the media is against them. They think all
Republicans due to LYU lost a walk of march and
(27:46):
lost step with Donald Trump. Uh, they're not They're not wrong.
They have all the answers, and particularly I found him
to be not very smart. Beto cussed a lot and
(28:07):
his speech very fiery.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
That's the thing they're doing now. Van Jones was talking
about this on seeing any other day. I think they
have focused grouped this and what I suspect, what it
looks like has manifested is a plan to win win
back young people, and that young people like to cuss,
(28:32):
and so what you're trying to do is get relatability
with young people, and the way to do that is
through the language. And so the cussing makes you cool.
You break the rules, you speak from the street. You're
not the establishment, you're not the sellout. You're gonna cuss
(28:54):
and Beto has always done that. There's always been a
very contrived his image has always been very carefully cultivated.
If you remember the skateboarding, we would have to see
lots of late night skateboarding and lots of having fun,
frolicking with young members of the media and having drinks
and look at us, we're so cool, we're having fun.
(29:16):
Betos like us. There were lots of water Burger trips
and constant, incessant talking about.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
It because Beto's like us.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
He's going on a road trip across Texas to Waterburger
and he's cool and he's hip.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
There's a lot of that that goes with his image.
But proceed keep going.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Yes, well he's you know, here's a degree from Kleby University.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
He was also raised He was also.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Raised in a pretty well to do family where his
father was the county judge and probably grifting on the.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Side is what I've heard.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
And he married a woman whose father, if not a billionaire,
he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So the whole
thing is he's an actor in a play and there's
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And you know the.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Worst part is you'd think they could get the poor
fellow in the in the props department. They could get
him an upper lift. But whatever, any way, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Well another takeaway was, of course they blame you racism
here in Texas even though we have what do we
have two weeks virtually twenty four to seven voting? You know,
we're people are not gonnowed to vote, you know, so
(30:30):
that's that's what we're gonna change that. We're gonna make it,
make a voting. I think I think Wall.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
Said in Minnesota you can register to vote when you
apply for your driver's license. They have sixteen and seventeen
year olds working as election judges.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
A particularly interesting take of a and this was an
older crowd, Minu. These were not really young people.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Was they brought up.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
LBJ and Barbara Jordan? You know how great they were.
And I thought to myself, LBJ, he did not run
for re election because of because of the Vietnam War.
And eighty percent of people that were in that crowd
(31:29):
last night were of that age. They probably marched against LBJ.
Speaker 14 (31:35):
But yeah, we know LBJ, we know LBJ.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
And then when they mentioned Barbara Jordan, it too, you know,
it's like wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Didn't you read that?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
We've you know, we have talked about this many times
on your program, how Barbara Jordan was against open borders.
But oh, we love Barbara Jordan.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
We love Barbara bah But you got to realize, John,
they don't know who Barbara Jordan is. They don't know
what she stood for. She's to them, she's an icon.
She's Tony Bennett or Betty White. They don't know anything
about it. Speaking of which, Beto and Tim Waltz as
John infiltrated last night in sugar Land.
Speaker 12 (32:22):
Last night, CNN presents a thrilling sugar Land Showcase Thursday
night townhall event featuring Timmy Walks.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
I think we all agree on this issue.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Coach THEO will never be the bad come Sugar and
Beto o Roy.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I want to thank everyone who actually thought I was pspetic.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Discussing what matters most to want to be leaders of
the floundering Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Seriously, this is really happening. Necess's almost included. Got this
on a well that's just a little sweeter than a
sugar silo. Oh Rour eats his tacos with a fornaces.
It's almost together. On Sharing Wednesday, Hey, Texas.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Time, putting some extra sugar in my tank.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
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