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long forgotten. It's incredible, and each of us has a
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It's really a fascinating thing, really, really a fascinating thing.
Tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
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and the day we deliver that podcast. Tomorrow will be
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Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Tomorrow being his seventy ninth birthday day, pretty darn strong
for seventy nine, I must say pretty darn strong for
seventy nine, Ramon. I lost my callscreen, I reset my computer,
and I completely forgot to pull it up. So you
just tell me who we have and we're go on. Sure,
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let's do him in that order. Mike, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning, Michael. I lost my father
in nineteen seventy six when I was ten years old.
When I was nine, I walked down the Girlings with
my oldest sister. She went to buy a few things.
I didn't have any money. I decided I needed a
milky way bar.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I got caught. They sent my sister on her way.
I had to sit the manditor's office while they called
my father from work. He came pick me up. They
made me apologize, took a very short ride back to
the house. Nothing was said. I'm ready for my boat will.
Then when we get to the house, we walk in
the living room, my father turning me into Michael. I'm
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very disappointed to do because my mom. We turned around
went back to work. That killed me. I disappointed my dad.
I wanted that boat whooping so bad, and it sticks
to me to this day. That I disappointed my father.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Just you know, yeah, great girl. It's funny how that works.
You know, when you're a kid, you want the butt
whipping because then you can see it on the other
side of it. We know it's coming. Let's just get
it over with. But the disappointment that lingers, that lingers,
it's unsettling. Let's go to JB JB. You're on the
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Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hello, Michael.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
I have a story about appreciation. I appreciated it then,
but I didn't appreciate it nearly nearly enough. Back in
nineteen seventy five, my mother committed sue side a few
days before my eighth birthday. This devastated my father much
more than my little brother and I because we were
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too young to really comprehend what was going on. I
grew up resenting my mother for that loss, until as
a grown up I learned the backstory of what happened.
My mother was on had a prescription for valium, and
apparently she got depended on it, and because of her dependency,
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she did some doctor shopping and had two three four prescription.
Who knows, I don't know how they caught her, because
this is the mid seventies, no computers. You'd think she'd
get away with it, but something happened and she got caught,
and there's no treatment. There's no compassion for addiction back then,
and so they just cut her off cold turkey. She
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went into a drawl, and that's where the suicide came from.
I still look, I still don't basically forgive her, but
now I understand. This is the appreciation part. My father
was devastated for obvious reasons, and instead of just deteriorating
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into whatever he could have done, he really stepped up.
My brother and I grew up playing sports, fantastic grades,
just felt like a regular middle class upbringing. And I
didn't realize until later in life how important that was.
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My dad died in nineteen ninety one. He had a
heart attack, but I was grown then. I was twenty
one years old. But the fact that when the worst
of the worst happened, instead of instead of diminishing and
not doing well was right, he stepped up and we
never you know, we weren't rich, but we never wanted
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for anything. He took care of us, told us he
loved this every day. My brother and I grew up
with a regular, normal, happy childhood despite that, and I
cannot appreciate. I couldn't appreciate that more than anything in
this world.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Come join us.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It'll be like old times.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
My name is Crockett Berry. I love my eyb because
he buys for me a lot of his stuff and
he just form me nice stuff. After that, I love
him and he makes some hard money. After that, he
buys for me toy and food. After that he buy
from a costume. He buy from me anything you want
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after that, because he does naice think That's why I
love him. Happy for this day.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And I knew for sure I was loved.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
If I could.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Get another chance, another walk, another dance.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
With him, all that would never any how. I love
love to dance with my father again.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Man. I was looking for that play that a little
bit longer. I was looking for. Jim said something about
Luther Vandros a couple of days ago, and I didn't
address it that day because I knew we had Father's
Day coming up and we would we would play it.
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Let me see if I can find it.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Come fun here it is.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So it was Tuesday, So Tuesday this week. The album
Dance with My Father was released on June tenth, two
thousand and three, so at that point it was twenty
two years old. He had just two months earlier suffered
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a debilitating stroke. The number the album went to number
one in America, and the title track, Danced with My
Father won the Grammy for Song of the Year. But
of course Luther would not live much longer. He would
die July one, two thousand and five. His quality of
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life after that stroke was not good up up until
the moment that that he did die. It's a beautiful song. Though,
it's a beautiful song. Please don't do that again. My goodness,
hard to believe that little fella and that voice is
now a rising senior. Wow, I'malia from our I think
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she came on our Aspen trip last year or the
year before from Puerto Rico. I'm sure it's the same, Amalia, Amalia.
You're up, sweetheart, Go.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Ahead, same one, Hi, Michael. Today is the feast of
Saint Anthony and my dad was Antonio. He was born
in Italy and then I'm always looking to do better.
He went to Cuba, met my mom. We left to
Mexico City till we could come into the States. Puerto Rico,
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New Jersey and then the Valley, and he always was
looking for a better opportunity. He was a jeweler, he
was he manufactured jewelry on forty seventh Street before we
moved to Texas, and we never we never needed anything,
but we had everything that you know. He gave us
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everything and a beautiful life, a charmed life. And we
lost him four years ago. And the biggest gift that
I ever got was he was there when I was born,
which was a very unusual in nineteen sixty three that
my grandfather was a Nobejian and he delivered me and
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my dad was there and then I was there laying
next to him holding his hand when he died. So
God gave me the gift of being with him when
he passed and he was the best. Thank you for
letting me I wasn't going to.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, I'm glad you did. I'm glad you did. Nothing
wrong with a good cry, Nothing wrong with a good cry, Kevin,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. By the way,
Ramon Amalia's husband is Sante Claus year round. There's no
he doesn't. He doesn't tape it on, glue it on.
He lives as Sante Claus.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're round.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He's got the perfect size belly, and I don't mean
a loose, jiggly belly. He's got a belly that's like
he has a kickball in there. It's round and kind
of solids. He's just a walking, talking h Puerto Rican
Santi Claus, which we don't know where Santa Claus was
technically from. I mean, the allegation is Danish, but this,
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I'll tell you what this fella. He's a he's a
pretty convincing Santa Claus. And you make you think, maybe,
just maybe that's where Santa Claus was from. Kevin, you're
on the Michael Berry Show Father's Day Edition. Take it away.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
What I wish my father a happy Father's Day?
Speaker 10 (14:04):
Larry Bainbridge.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Yeah, my dad. He's still alive, still with us, still
a pain, but we still love him.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I want to be clear, Kevin, I'm sorry to interrupt.
I want to be very clear. The Larry Bainbridge that
I've allowed you to wish for Father's Day is the
elder Larry Bainbridge. The other person whose name will not
be mentioned, who happens to share the same name because
he's a junior, is persona non Grada on this show
for as you know, a very inappropriate Facebook post he
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put up yesterday criticizing Saturday Night Fever and then doubling
down by by criticizing Urban Cowboy. So I just want
to be very clear which which Larry Bainbridge we're paying
tribute to. Go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Yet, yes, sir, we're talking about the elder. Yes, yes,
he you know taught me and my brother and my sister,
just all the basic things that you know, you you
didn't know you needed to learn, taping and drywalling, framing,
changing a tire, building cabinets. I mean, just all the
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you know, normal stuff you needed to learn as a kid. So,
like I said, still, you know, a little difficult and
stubborn to deal with at times, but we still like
him and plan on keeping him around. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So that that is a blessing. Every day we have
with our dads is an absolute blessing. And if you need, uh,
if you need to be reminded, ask anyone who has
lost their father and they they will, they will do.
So Yeah, it's uh. I actually know Kevin because he
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used to be one of the leaders of the team
at Downing Street, which was my very regular hangout almost
daily when I was on City Council at the corner
of Westheimer and Kirby. It was a great, great cigar lounge,
the best one in Houston. It was just amazing. It
was It was was where the political folks hung outs,
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where the finance folks hung outs, where the legal folks
hung out. That little intersection was perfect for anybody who
was in downtown because you just come up Allen Parkway
and you were right there.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Uh you know.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It was basically where Kirby you know, begins, and I
would eat there so many times. We lived not far
from there, so my wife was working. I was working,
so she couldn't cook dinner back then, so she was
just as happy if I ate before I got home.
In every day, I would eat a roast beef sandwich
with apple wood cheddar. I would mix a horse radish
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and mayonnaise sauce and Lais potato chips and a cold
beer while I smoked a cigar. And that's where I
held my meetings. Oh those were good.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Teams, mister Michael Berry.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I never wants back down from Apoch.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, I take it square.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I found out fast bullies.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You a slam you've got this.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
My name is Michael Berry, and I love my elba
Ba because he takes me to stuff I really love
and he takes care of my mom and me and
my brother. And this is why I love my Elboba.
Happy for this day, dead.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Gowing, tough little boys grow up to beneath dance.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
They turned into bibabbes again.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Scared me to death when you took your first steps.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Will I fall every time you build down?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And your first day is school? I cried like a fool,
and I followed your schools to tell.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I didn't cry when old Yeller die.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You can go ahead and quit that right now, Kurt.
You're on the Michael Berry Show Father's Day Special.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Go ahead, Good morning, Michael. I just wanted to give
let you know I feel like one of the luckiest
people of life. My father, who is eighty eight, and
my mother, who's eighty five, are both still with us
and doing very well. My father provided everything. Like your
dad was a plant worker. He's been retired as long
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as he worked down and he's probably listening to this,
and I just wanted to wish him a happy Father's Day.
In addition to their wedding, anniversary is to Laura and
it will be sixty seven years.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh my goodness. What's your father's name?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
His name was pauls and they live over in Pasadena.
And uh, like I said, he was a plant worker
for Well for thirty five years and retired in nineteen
ninety two. He still walks four miles a day. If
you can believe that, So probably.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Say, yeah, no, that's it. That's the way to do it.
Stay active, stay uh, stay busy, stay active. I had
a guy email me about twenty minutes ago, and he
was talking about an earlier caller, and he said, you
have reminded me why I threw my television in the trash,
because life is meant to be lived, not spent on
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a couch watching programming. And how much more active he
is and more you know what he does people used to.
We have been become a post industrial, postmodern society where
we have much more time for leisure. We have much
greater wealth. People don't. People don't believe this, but we
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have much greater wealth than we ever did. But they
think they're poorer than they ever were. But you think
about it. Most people, many people today, especially men, work
fewer hours than they did in the past, the holding
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two or three jobs, the way men would do, working overtime,
the way men would do many many people keep Ramon's hours.
You know where you get off early, you don't work.
You know anytime when you A lot of men are
off early and keeping far fewer hours, which gives much
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more time for leisure. And that's where I think the
bad habits creep in. That's where that's where the unproductive
things in life. When you had to work constantly, you
stayed busy. And I think that's better for you. I
think it's better for your mind. I think it's better
for your body. Ramon. Is that Joyce the Sage of Sunnyside.
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Ramon's had her on hold for three minutes while he
talked to her because he wanted us to keep her
for himself. Joyce the Sage of Sunnyside. Can we get
the organists to queue it up? Take it away, sweetheart?
To pull it is yours? Yeah, it's all you, Joyce.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, go ahead, I'm stepping back. You're on the rostrum
and you're the guest pastor.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
From now.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
No. No, when you I heard just talking about fathers,
and I was just thinking how I loved my father.
And I can remember me and my dad we would
just sit out of the tree of my dad would
just talk. We would just talk for maybe hours at
a time. And I regret by then it wasn't any
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recording it. I regret not recording those conversations so I
could play it with the grandchildren and the grandchildren the
day of you know, Granny's sitting out talking to her dad.
And my dad lived to be one hundred years old,
but I can remember we talk about that today, my daddy.
If my dad would send us to the store to
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get something, when we came back, if it was a penny,
do him. My dad wanted his penny, and it was
vice versa. It was the same thing. If Dad went
to get something and you had a penny, my dad
was gonna give us, give you your penny. And we
could not understand what is soul said going about a penny.
But he was teaching us honesty, and that stayed with me.
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That came down through raising my children, my grandchildren all ways,
that to them honesty because my dad's philotis was that
penny is is that person is not mine? And it
was just teaching us honesty. And I and as I
look around today, that is not being caught because if
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that was being caught, they wouldn't be robbing in my
community like they're doing today because that's not their stuff.
But that's why we are today. But I just I
just have to share that because with teenagers, we thought
that was the stupidest thing that we had ever heard of, somebody,
you know, addressing a penny. But he had a philosophy too,
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but if you watched your pennies, your dollars to take
care of themselves. So we didn't understand none of that stuff, Michael.
But as I grew older, I understood what my daddy
was teaching us honesty, and it brought me through the years.
And I just wanted to say that, you.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Know, Joyce, it's uh the idea that you would honor
your word, that you are honest. It's a lesson that
that we worked very hard on with our children. And
I would always say, my kids are naturally good kids,
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and that's not me being a great parent. That was
they had sweet dispositions and my mother, their mother, my wife,
had a lot to do with that. But I would say,
you know, did you do this or did you not
do this? Answering this question, honestly, is more important than
any punishment you're going to get, And the punishment for
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lying about it is going to be far worse than
whatever you did or were supposed to do and didn't do.
And I think that that's that's something that's not taught
to the degree. Now I want to know when someone
tells me I didn't do that, I want to know.
The highest compliment I can give you is I don't
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need to check with anyone else When people will say
to me, you know I did this or whatever. You
can ask my mom, or you can ask this person,
you can ask anyone. I shouldn't need to ask anyone.
I should be able to trust you at your word.
And and that's what your father was teaching you. That
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your word, your bond, your honor, your integrity. Boy, that
is something When somebody has that, when you know that
they're honest, man, that's that's worth its weight in goal.
That is really important and really rare.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
You're listening to Altoso.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Boys and girls staate warning if you go near the lake.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
July.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Do you know what this Sunday is?
Speaker 9 (26:17):
What is it.
Speaker 11 (26:19):
Norl Right network school.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Do you know what else today for Sunday?
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Is? Is it Father's Day?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah? Yeah? What does Father's Day mean?
Speaker 9 (26:30):
We told Daddy, We told Daddy that we love him. Yeah,
and we're very grateful that he's our daddy.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
What's your favorite thing about daddy?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Winning plays with your train?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
What about when he helps you look for bugs outside?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
What's your favorite kind of bug?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
The sneaky snake?
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
What else is your favorite thing about daddy?
Speaker 11 (27:01):
Do you like it when you put on your dinosaur pajamas?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
And what happens?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
You may attack?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
They attack, Daddy go?
Speaker 11 (27:12):
And can you tell Daddy say happy follows?
Speaker 9 (27:17):
He Daddy had the dollary Daddy say I love you,
I love you?
Speaker 10 (27:23):
When he.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So well, first, I take a quick story on this song.
I loved Sneaky Snake. I loved loved the song. And
if my mom had to run errands or maybe just
wanted some time off, uh, she and my dad would
drive over to Gillies. They would I would stay with
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my grandmother. I loved stay with my grandmother and grandfather
and my grandfather other had a bunch of different jobs,
and one of them was he drove the bus for
some of the local high schools, and he was a
sports nut, and so I would go with him when
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he would drive. I saw Hebert's last football game, and
I saw I traveled with P and G. Niederloon lots
of those schools because when they needed extra bus drivers
for the games, and he'd drive, you know, to Dallas
if they were in the state playoffs or whatever, and
I'd get to go and hang out with the team
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and I'd be six, seven, eight years That's the coolest
thing ever. And when he would come home from work
when I was there, the big treat she cooked every day.
She's a great cook. But the big treat when I
was over is we'd have fried chicken. And I loved
fried chicken. But the battle would be I would want
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Kentucky fried chicken and he would want Ames. And only
people one orange will understand this, But that was that
was the big battle. And then Tinsley's came in, and
I know some of you from Huntsville know how good
Tinsley's Tinsley's chicken, and more importantly, their their buttered rolls.
That was the greatest thing ever. They had a they
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had a Tinsley's plane. That was the greatest fried chicken
I've ever eaten in my life. It was so incredibly good. Man,
was it ever good? But I would sit at my
grandmother's feet. The trailers back then, I don't know if
they still do. Trailers are much nicer now. But the
air would come from under the house and blow up.
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There weren't any ducks in the house. It was easier.
I guess they just dropped the unit underneath the trailer.
And I would sit on top of the vent whether
it was cold outside, and I'd sit on that warm
vent or if it was warm, I'd sit on the
vent and it would blow up. And I would sit
with my back to my grandmother's shins, and we listened
to the radio, which was perched atop the Curtis Mathis TV.
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And I would call in and I would ask BBRC
big Boy Richard Carter, the DJ legend in Orange. I
would ask him to play Sneaky Snake, and I remember
on more than one occasion he'd say, Michael, you already
asked for that. I already played it, okay, but if
you could play it all right. I went to school
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with his boys. Richard and bart I was a year
younger than his Richard Craig he was. Richard Craig was
a year older than me. Both all state offensive linemen. Anyway,
that song has great meaning to me. But Ramon playing
his wife Amy and his kids like that reminds me.
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You know, when my dad was turning seventy five ten
years ago, and we wanted to make a film about him,
and so I hired Chance McLain to make this film.
And at the end of it, we all sat down
and it was a film about my dad's life, and
we gathered together all his photos and he interviewed my
dad and interviewed my mom, and he told the story
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my dad told. My dad narrated his own life story
over pictures, and so it was really really amazing how
it turned out, because you know, you see documentaries on
Biography Channel or History Channel of famous people, but hold
on say that long. I don't know what's happening in
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my dank cochus feeling over. Anyway, you see these documentaries
on famous people, and you know, but what about not
famous people. They have a story to tell, a story
that needs to be heard. And so that became the
business and I don't tell that story to tell you
to have a heritage film made with my buddy Chance McLean,
although you should. I say that you can pull out
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your phone yourself and capture these moments as folks get
older and as they are young and grow up, because
their voices are going to change and you're going to
wish you had that moment, uh and you can't ever
get that moment back. So that was that was what
that was kind of the emotion behind heritage films and
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our Father's Day Show always makes me think of that
and always makes me think that, you know, for every
memory we captured, I am so glad, so glad that
we did, and make sure you do the same. Let's
see Ramon, who you got next? Matt seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
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nine one thousand. Matt, you are the next contestant on
the Michael Barry Show Father's Day Edition. Take it away,
my man.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Hey, Michael, my dad he's still with us, a Baptist preacher.
So he was very very strict, right and uh me
and my brother as we got older, I mean, he
didn't mind slapping you when you got out of line.
So as we got older, we started playing this game
who could get him to hit you the fastest by
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saying something? And you know, so we would say something
in appropriate and hit slap you and you were the winner. Well,
we are in our forties now and we still play
this game with my dad and it still works, and.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
He still slaps you.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Yes, yeah, I mean, and he don't. He still thinks
he's teaching you right and wrong. And we're in our
forties and I mean, I hope he's not listening. And
I'm letting him in on this, on this secret. But
we were stringing some barbari fence a couple months ago
and me and my brother started playing this game, and
my brother had said something vulgar, right, So boy, he's
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laughing and I hit the ground laughing, holding my stomach
so hard, and he comes over and kicks me because
I found it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Sonny, I like your dad, and I like the fact
that y'all do this. I mean that is I think
I could fit right in. That sounds like My brother
and I had a running commentary Laurel and Hardy messing
with my mother on words. She mispronounced things that she
(34:13):
had done when we were kids that we still resented.
That was our therapy. Nobody in our family ever went
to therapy. We had our own therapy. Our catharsis was
dredging up things that were inappropriate or were bad memories
and making the other person have to suffer through it.
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I know that's very dark. I understand that I'm dark.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
What can I say?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, I'm I'm so sad and pitiful and maudeling. I
got teary eyed. Listen it at your kids because their
voices have changed, and their voices haven't even changed that much.
My goodness alive. Hey tell me something. My diet coachs
are are bubbling up and coming out and they weren't
shook up. What's causing that?
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Oh not?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
What can you say? It look
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You know, music is seared into every sine. It can
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It's really a fascinating thing, really, really a fascinating thing.
Tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
United States Army. Our Saturday podcast, Our Bonus Podcast will
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pay tribute to the United States Army and will include
the speech by President Trump earlier in the week to
Fort Bragg on the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday
and the day we deliver that podcast. Tomorrow will be
the seventy ninth birthday of your President, Donald J.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Tomorrow being his seventy ninth birthday day, pretty darn strong
for seventy nine, I must say pretty darn strong for
seventy nine, Ramon. I lost my callscreen, I reset my computer,
and I completely forgot to pull it up. So you
just tell me who we have and we're go on. Sure,
(04:18):
let's do him in that order. Mike, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning, Michael. I lost my father
in nineteen seventy six when I was ten years old.
When I was nine, I walked down the Girlings with
my oldest sister. She went to buy a few things.
I didn't have any money. I decided I needed a
milky way bar.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I got caught. They sent my sister on her way.
I had to sit the manditor's office while they called
my father from work. He came pick me up. They
made me apologize, took a very short ride back to
the house. Nothing was said. I'm ready for my boat will.
Then when we get to the house, we walk in
the living room, my father turning me into Michael. I'm
(05:04):
very disappointed to do because my mom. We turned around
went back to work. That killed me. I disappointed my dad.
I wanted that boat whooping so bad, and it sticks
to me to this day. That I disappointed my father.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Just you know, yeah, great girl. It's funny how that works.
You know, when you're a kid, you want the butt
whipping because then you can see it on the other
side of it. We know it's coming. Let's just get
it over with. But the disappointment that lingers, that lingers,
it's unsettling. Let's go to JB JB. You're on the
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Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hello, Michael.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
I have a story about appreciation. I appreciated it then,
but I didn't appreciate it nearly nearly enough. Back in
nineteen seventy five, my mother committed sue side a few
days before my eighth birthday. This devastated my father much
more than my little brother and I because we were
(06:10):
too young to really comprehend what was going on. I
grew up resenting my mother for that loss, until as
a grown up I learned the backstory of what happened.
My mother was on had a prescription for valium, and
apparently she got depended on it, and because of her dependency,
(06:34):
she did some doctor shopping and had two three four prescription.
Who knows, I don't know how they caught her, because
this is the mid seventies, no computers. You'd think she'd
get away with it, but something happened and she got caught,
and there's no treatment. There's no compassion for addiction back then,
and so they just cut her off cold turkey. She
(06:55):
went into a drawl, and that's where the suicide came from.
I still look, I still don't basically forgive her, but
now I understand. This is the appreciation part. My father
was devastated for obvious reasons, and instead of just deteriorating
(07:21):
into whatever he could have done, he really stepped up.
My brother and I grew up playing sports, fantastic grades,
just felt like a regular middle class upbringing. And I
didn't realize until later in life how important that was.
(07:42):
My dad died in nineteen ninety one. He had a
heart attack, but I was grown then. I was twenty
one years old. But the fact that when the worst
of the worst happened, instead of instead of diminishing and
not doing well was right, he stepped up and we
never you know, we weren't rich, but we never wanted
(08:05):
for anything. He took care of us, told us he
loved this every day. My brother and I grew up
with a regular, normal, happy childhood despite that, and I
cannot appreciate. I couldn't appreciate that more than anything in
this world.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Come join us.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It'll be like old times.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
My name is Crockett Berry. I love my eyb because
he buys for me a lot of his stuff and
he just form me nice stuff. After that, I love
him and he makes some hard money. After that, he
buys for me toy and food. After that he buy
from a costume. He buy from me anything you want
(09:10):
after that, because he does naice think That's why I
love him. Happy for this day.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And I knew for sure I was loved.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
If I could.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Get another chance, another walk, another dance.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
With him, all that would never any how. I love
love to dance with my father again.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Man. I was looking for that play that a little
bit longer. I was looking for. Jim said something about
Luther Vandros a couple of days ago, and I didn't
address it that day because I knew we had Father's
Day coming up and we would we would play it.
(10:15):
Let me see if I can find it.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Come fun here it is.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So it was Tuesday, So Tuesday this week. The album
Dance with My Father was released on June tenth, two
thousand and three, so at that point it was twenty
two years old. He had just two months earlier suffered
(10:42):
a debilitating stroke. The number the album went to number
one in America, and the title track, Danced with My
Father won the Grammy for Song of the Year. But
of course Luther would not live much longer. He would
die July one, two thousand and five. His quality of
(11:03):
life after that stroke was not good up up until
the moment that that he did die. It's a beautiful song. Though,
it's a beautiful song. Please don't do that again. My goodness,
hard to believe that little fella and that voice is
now a rising senior. Wow, I'malia from our I think
(11:28):
she came on our Aspen trip last year or the
year before from Puerto Rico. I'm sure it's the same, Amalia, Amalia.
You're up, sweetheart, Go.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Ahead, same one, Hi, Michael. Today is the feast of
Saint Anthony and my dad was Antonio. He was born
in Italy and then I'm always looking to do better.
He went to Cuba, met my mom. We left to
Mexico City till we could come into the States. Puerto Rico,
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New Jersey and then the Valley, and he always was
looking for a better opportunity. He was a jeweler, he
was he manufactured jewelry on forty seventh Street before we
moved to Texas, and we never we never needed anything,
but we had everything that you know. He gave us
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everything and a beautiful life, a charmed life. And we
lost him four years ago. And the biggest gift that
I ever got was he was there when I was born,
which was a very unusual in nineteen sixty three that
my grandfather was a Nobejian and he delivered me and
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my dad was there and then I was there laying
next to him holding his hand when he died. So
God gave me the gift of being with him when
he passed and he was the best. Thank you for
letting me I wasn't going to.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, I'm glad you did. I'm glad you did. Nothing
wrong with a good cry, Nothing wrong with a good cry, Kevin,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. By the way,
Ramon Amalia's husband is Sante Claus year round. There's no
he doesn't. He doesn't tape it on, glue it on.
He lives as Sante Claus.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're round.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He's got the perfect size belly, and I don't mean
a loose, jiggly belly. He's got a belly that's like
he has a kickball in there. It's round and kind
of solids. He's just a walking, talking h Puerto Rican
Santi Claus, which we don't know where Santa Claus was
technically from. I mean, the allegation is Danish, but this,
(13:46):
I'll tell you what this fella. He's a he's a
pretty convincing Santa Claus. And you make you think, maybe,
just maybe that's where Santa Claus was from. Kevin, you're
on the Michael Berry Show Father's Day Edition. Take it away.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
What I wish my father a happy Father's Day?
Speaker 10 (14:04):
Larry Bainbridge.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Yeah, my dad. He's still alive, still with us, still
a pain, but we still love him.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I want to be clear, Kevin, I'm sorry to interrupt.
I want to be very clear. The Larry Bainbridge that
I've allowed you to wish for Father's Day is the
elder Larry Bainbridge. The other person whose name will not
be mentioned, who happens to share the same name because
he's a junior, is persona non Grada on this show
for as you know, a very inappropriate Facebook post he
(14:36):
put up yesterday criticizing Saturday Night Fever and then doubling
down by by criticizing Urban Cowboy. So I just want
to be very clear which which Larry Bainbridge we're paying
tribute to. Go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Yet, yes, sir, we're talking about the elder. Yes, yes,
he you know taught me and my brother and my sister,
just all the basic things that you know, you you
didn't know you needed to learn, taping and drywalling, framing,
changing a tire, building cabinets. I mean, just all the
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you know, normal stuff you needed to learn as a kid. So,
like I said, still, you know, a little difficult and
stubborn to deal with at times, but we still like
him and plan on keeping him around. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So that that is a blessing. Every day we have
with our dads is an absolute blessing. And if you need, uh,
if you need to be reminded, ask anyone who has
lost their father and they they will, they will do.
So Yeah, it's uh. I actually know Kevin because he
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used to be one of the leaders of the team
at Downing Street, which was my very regular hangout almost
daily when I was on City Council at the corner
of Westheimer and Kirby. It was a great, great cigar lounge,
the best one in Houston. It was just amazing. It
was It was was where the political folks hung outs,
(16:10):
where the finance folks hung outs, where the legal folks
hung out. That little intersection was perfect for anybody who
was in downtown because you just come up Allen Parkway
and you were right there.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Uh you know.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It was basically where Kirby you know, begins, and I
would eat there so many times. We lived not far
from there, so my wife was working. I was working,
so she couldn't cook dinner back then, so she was
just as happy if I ate before I got home.
In every day, I would eat a roast beef sandwich
with apple wood cheddar. I would mix a horse radish
(16:43):
and mayonnaise sauce and Lais potato chips and a cold
beer while I smoked a cigar. And that's where I
held my meetings. Oh those were good.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Teams, mister Michael Berry.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I never wants back down from Apoch.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, I take it square.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I found out fast bullies.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You a slam you've got this.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
My name is Michael Berry, and I love my elba
Ba because he takes me to stuff I really love
and he takes care of my mom and me and
my brother. And this is why I love my Elboba.
Happy for this day, dead.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Gowing, tough little boys grow up to beneath dance.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
They turned into bibabbes again.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Scared me to death when you took your first steps.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Will I fall every time you build down?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And your first day is school? I cried like a fool,
and I followed your schools to tell.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I didn't cry when old Yeller die.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You can go ahead and quit that right now, Kurt.
You're on the Michael Berry Show Father's Day Special.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Go ahead, Good morning, Michael. I just wanted to give
let you know I feel like one of the luckiest
people of life. My father, who is eighty eight, and
my mother, who's eighty five, are both still with us
and doing very well. My father provided everything. Like your
dad was a plant worker. He's been retired as long
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as he worked down and he's probably listening to this,
and I just wanted to wish him a happy Father's Day.
In addition to their wedding, anniversary is to Laura and
it will be sixty seven years.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh my goodness. What's your father's name?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
His name was pauls and they live over in Pasadena.
And uh, like I said, he was a plant worker
for Well for thirty five years and retired in nineteen
ninety two. He still walks four miles a day. If
you can believe that, So probably.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Say, yeah, no, that's it. That's the way to do it.
Stay active, stay uh, stay busy, stay active. I had
a guy email me about twenty minutes ago, and he
was talking about an earlier caller, and he said, you
have reminded me why I threw my television in the trash,
because life is meant to be lived, not spent on
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a couch watching programming. And how much more active he
is and more you know what he does people used to.
We have been become a post industrial, postmodern society where
we have much more time for leisure. We have much
greater wealth. People don't. People don't believe this, but we
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have much greater wealth than we ever did. But they
think they're poorer than they ever were. But you think
about it. Most people, many people today, especially men, work
fewer hours than they did in the past, the holding
(20:32):
two or three jobs, the way men would do, working overtime,
the way men would do many many people keep Ramon's hours.
You know where you get off early, you don't work.
You know anytime when you A lot of men are
off early and keeping far fewer hours, which gives much
(20:53):
more time for leisure. And that's where I think the
bad habits creep in. That's where that's where the unproductive
things in life. When you had to work constantly, you
stayed busy. And I think that's better for you. I
think it's better for your mind. I think it's better
for your body. Ramon. Is that Joyce the Sage of Sunnyside.
(21:17):
Ramon's had her on hold for three minutes while he
talked to her because he wanted us to keep her
for himself. Joyce the Sage of Sunnyside. Can we get
the organists to queue it up? Take it away, sweetheart?
To pull it is yours? Yeah, it's all you, Joyce.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, go ahead, I'm stepping back. You're on the rostrum
and you're the guest pastor.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
From now.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
No. No, when you I heard just talking about fathers,
and I was just thinking how I loved my father.
And I can remember me and my dad we would
just sit out of the tree of my dad would
just talk. We would just talk for maybe hours at
a time. And I regret by then it wasn't any
(22:08):
recording it. I regret not recording those conversations so I
could play it with the grandchildren and the grandchildren the
day of you know, Granny's sitting out talking to her dad.
And my dad lived to be one hundred years old,
but I can remember we talk about that today, my daddy.
If my dad would send us to the store to
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get something, when we came back, if it was a penny,
do him. My dad wanted his penny, and it was
vice versa. It was the same thing. If Dad went
to get something and you had a penny, my dad
was gonna give us, give you your penny. And we
could not understand what is soul said going about a penny.
But he was teaching us honesty, and that stayed with me.
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That came down through raising my children, my grandchildren all ways,
that to them honesty because my dad's philotis was that
penny is is that person is not mine? And it
was just teaching us honesty. And I and as I
look around today, that is not being caught because if
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that was being caught, they wouldn't be robbing in my
community like they're doing today because that's not their stuff.
But that's why we are today. But I just I
just have to share that because with teenagers, we thought
that was the stupidest thing that we had ever heard of, somebody,
you know, addressing a penny. But he had a philosophy too,
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but if you watched your pennies, your dollars to take
care of themselves. So we didn't understand none of that stuff, Michael.
But as I grew older, I understood what my daddy
was teaching us honesty, and it brought me through the years.
And I just wanted to say that, you.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Know, Joyce, it's uh the idea that you would honor
your word, that you are honest. It's a lesson that
that we worked very hard on with our children. And
I would always say, my kids are naturally good kids,
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and that's not me being a great parent. That was
they had sweet dispositions and my mother, their mother, my wife,
had a lot to do with that. But I would say,
you know, did you do this or did you not
do this? Answering this question, honestly, is more important than
any punishment you're going to get, And the punishment for
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lying about it is going to be far worse than
whatever you did or were supposed to do and didn't do.
And I think that that's that's something that's not taught
to the degree. Now I want to know when someone
tells me I didn't do that, I want to know.
The highest compliment I can give you is I don't
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need to check with anyone else When people will say
to me, you know I did this or whatever. You
can ask my mom, or you can ask this person,
you can ask anyone. I shouldn't need to ask anyone.
I should be able to trust you at your word.
And and that's what your father was teaching you. That
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your word, your bond, your honor, your integrity. Boy, that
is something When somebody has that, when you know that
they're honest, man, that's that's worth its weight in goal.
That is really important and really rare.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
You're listening to Altoso.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Boys and girls staate warning if you go near the lake.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
July.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Do you know what this Sunday is?
Speaker 9 (26:17):
What is it.
Speaker 11 (26:19):
Norl Right network school.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Do you know what else today for Sunday?
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Is? Is it Father's Day?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah? Yeah? What does Father's Day mean?
Speaker 9 (26:30):
We told Daddy, We told Daddy that we love him. Yeah,
and we're very grateful that he's our daddy.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
What's your favorite thing about daddy?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Winning plays with your train?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
What about when he helps you look for bugs outside?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
What's your favorite kind of bug?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
The sneaky snake?
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
What else is your favorite thing about daddy?
Speaker 11 (27:01):
Do you like it when you put on your dinosaur pajamas?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
And what happens?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
You may attack?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
They attack, Daddy go?
Speaker 11 (27:12):
And can you tell Daddy say happy follows?
Speaker 9 (27:17):
He Daddy had the dollary Daddy say I love you,
I love you?
Speaker 10 (27:23):
When he.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So well, first, I take a quick story on this song.
I loved Sneaky Snake. I loved loved the song. And
if my mom had to run errands or maybe just
wanted some time off, uh, she and my dad would
drive over to Gillies. They would I would stay with
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my grandmother. I loved stay with my grandmother and grandfather
and my grandfather other had a bunch of different jobs,
and one of them was he drove the bus for
some of the local high schools, and he was a
sports nut, and so I would go with him when
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he would drive. I saw Hebert's last football game, and
I saw I traveled with P and G. Niederloon lots
of those schools because when they needed extra bus drivers
for the games, and he'd drive, you know, to Dallas
if they were in the state playoffs or whatever, and
I'd get to go and hang out with the team
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and I'd be six, seven, eight years That's the coolest
thing ever. And when he would come home from work
when I was there, the big treat she cooked every day.
She's a great cook. But the big treat when I
was over is we'd have fried chicken. And I loved
fried chicken. But the battle would be I would want
(28:56):
Kentucky fried chicken and he would want Ames. And only
people one orange will understand this, But that was that
was the big battle. And then Tinsley's came in, and
I know some of you from Huntsville know how good
Tinsley's Tinsley's chicken, and more importantly, their their buttered rolls.
That was the greatest thing ever. They had a they
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had a Tinsley's plane. That was the greatest fried chicken
I've ever eaten in my life. It was so incredibly good. Man,
was it ever good? But I would sit at my
grandmother's feet. The trailers back then, I don't know if
they still do. Trailers are much nicer now. But the
air would come from under the house and blow up.
(29:42):
There weren't any ducks in the house. It was easier.
I guess they just dropped the unit underneath the trailer.
And I would sit on top of the vent whether
it was cold outside, and I'd sit on that warm
vent or if it was warm, I'd sit on the
vent and it would blow up. And I would sit
with my back to my grandmother's shins, and we listened
to the radio, which was perched atop the Curtis Mathis TV.
(30:07):
And I would call in and I would ask BBRC
big Boy Richard Carter, the DJ legend in Orange. I
would ask him to play Sneaky Snake, and I remember
on more than one occasion he'd say, Michael, you already
asked for that. I already played it, okay, but if
you could play it all right. I went to school
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with his boys. Richard and bart I was a year
younger than his Richard Craig he was. Richard Craig was
a year older than me. Both all state offensive linemen. Anyway,
that song has great meaning to me. But Ramon playing
his wife Amy and his kids like that reminds me.
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You know, when my dad was turning seventy five ten
years ago, and we wanted to make a film about him,
and so I hired Chance McLain to make this film.
And at the end of it, we all sat down
and it was a film about my dad's life, and
we gathered together all his photos and he interviewed my
dad and interviewed my mom, and he told the story
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my dad told. My dad narrated his own life story
over pictures, and so it was really really amazing how
it turned out, because you know, you see documentaries on
Biography Channel or History Channel of famous people, but hold
on say that long. I don't know what's happening in
(31:32):
my dank cochus feeling over. Anyway, you see these documentaries
on famous people, and you know, but what about not
famous people. They have a story to tell, a story
that needs to be heard. And so that became the
business and I don't tell that story to tell you
to have a heritage film made with my buddy Chance McLean,
although you should. I say that you can pull out
(31:54):
your phone yourself and capture these moments as folks get
older and as they are young and grow up, because
their voices are going to change and you're going to
wish you had that moment, uh and you can't ever
get that moment back. So that was that was what
that was kind of the emotion behind heritage films and
(32:16):
our Father's Day Show always makes me think of that
and always makes me think that, you know, for every
memory we captured, I am so glad, so glad that
we did, and make sure you do the same. Let's
see Ramon, who you got next? Matt seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
(32:37):
nine one thousand. Matt, you are the next contestant on
the Michael Barry Show Father's Day Edition. Take it away,
my man.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Hey, Michael, my dad he's still with us, a Baptist preacher.
So he was very very strict, right and uh me
and my brother as we got older, I mean, he
didn't mind slapping you when you got out of line.
So as we got older, we started playing this game
who could get him to hit you the fastest by
(33:07):
saying something? And you know, so we would say something
in appropriate and hit slap you and you were the winner. Well,
we are in our forties now and we still play
this game with my dad and it still works, and.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
He still slaps you.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Yes, yeah, I mean, and he don't. He still thinks
he's teaching you right and wrong. And we're in our
forties and I mean, I hope he's not listening. And
I'm letting him in on this, on this secret. But
we were stringing some barbari fence a couple months ago
and me and my brother started playing this game, and
my brother had said something vulgar, right, So boy, he's
(33:46):
laughing and I hit the ground laughing, holding my stomach
so hard, and he comes over and kicks me because
I found it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Sonny, I like your dad, and I like the fact
that y'all do this. I mean that is I think
I could fit right in. That sounds like My brother
and I had a running commentary Laurel and Hardy messing
with my mother on words. She mispronounced things that she
(34:13):
had done when we were kids that we still resented.
That was our therapy. Nobody in our family ever went
to therapy. We had our own therapy. Our catharsis was
dredging up things that were inappropriate or were bad memories
and making the other person have to suffer through it.
(34:33):
I know that's very dark. I understand that I'm dark.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
What can I say?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, I'm I'm so sad and pitiful and maudeling. I
got teary eyed. Listen it at your kids because their
voices have changed, and their voices haven't even changed that much.
My goodness alive. Hey tell me something. My diet coachs
are are bubbling up and coming out and they weren't
shook up. What's causing that?
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Oh not?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
What can you say? It look
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