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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Joe writes, beside's been a talk radio geek since the eighties.
I've been a local news junkie since I was a kid.
Dave Ward, Sheriff Friar Ron Stone. I remember a weatherman
on Channel eleven named Sid Lasher who famously died between
six and ten o'clock newscasts. In the studio, I can
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tell you that Channel thirteen has gone full on Trump
derangements syndrome. Only one I can stand to watch now
is eleven, and that's because of the smoking haunt Jennifer Raina. Well,
let me ask you something. I'm gonna give you ten
seconds to ponder this. After I give you the subject.
I want you to tell me a local newsgirl. It
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could be trafficing weather, you can include that, but I
want you to tell me a local newsgirl who has
looked good longer than Jennifer Raina. Because she's looked good
for a very long time, a very long time. You know,
she's an old buzzgirl.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Kaloel?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, it was Kalel. You wouldn't think she's old enough
she's a lot older than you think. She might be fifty.
She might be I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Know that, do you know?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So she and I were MC in an event, was
singing and it was a firefighter benefit because we lost
a firefighter or firefighter been injured. It might have been
after the fires on Southwest Freeway at Hillcroft where we
lost those four firefighters.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And and Iron Iron.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Iron Bill Dowling survived, but he he had I think
he suffered horribly, and then he died a few years later,
So I think I think you could say all four
of them died. And it was a big fundraiser. It
was at Discovery Park, although I don't know if they
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called it Discovery Park yet at that point. And this
thing was was full and it was a like a festival.
And I had agreed to m C, and I never
agreed to EMC because you're stuck there the whole time.
And I was so mad at myself that morning I
woke up. I could be out there all day and
I don't I don't care how noble your cause is.
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I don't care what it could be the most noble.
I do not like to have to go back out
and come back in come back out and go by
that I'll contribute in some other way, but that is
not my idea of a good time. But I did
it because it was a firefighters and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And I get there and she is my co host,
which I'm not aware of, and I knew her in
a way that I knew all the local newspeople, but
she wasn't one of the ones that you know, I'd text,
you know things, they'd call and ask for some background
on a story or whatever else. I think it must
have been about eight o nine maybe later, because I
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had left city council, I know that. And I'm looking
pretty good. I've got my blue jeans nicely ironed and
they're heavily start so they'd stand up on their own.
And I've got my boots on, and I've got a
blazer and a polo shirt and I don't remember if
I'm wearing my cowboy hat or not, but I know
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I can. I got a feeling that look good and
I don't very often feel that way, so it's, you know,
one of those deals. And it was a little hot outside,
but my blazer rounds out the outfit. So I'm committed
to the Blazer. We're in on the Blazer. We're going
to do the Blazer. And I get there and whoever
the guy was running a thing said, Hey, your co
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host is Jennifer Reina. Do y'all know each other? And
she kind of smile that little adorable smile thing she does.
And she has the whitest teeth. She has like Mattress
mac White teeth. I'm not saying she goes to doctor
Guy Lewis, but I'm telling you she has really really
why teeth. And she's just adorable. She's absolutely adorable.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And we go to.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Go out there for the first time to start the event,
and they said, y'all are going to be ready. Y'all
are going to be out in ten seconds. You know,
I don't need to count now. I'm just gonna walk.
I'll start talking, but it is not a space mission
or anything. And she's to my left and she grabs
my hand and starts walking me out like a slight
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pace in front of me, and she's in very, very
high heels. All I could think was, man, it's got
to hurt right. My wife friend five marathons and had
to have back surgery and next surgery because of it,
and the doctors do not want her wearing heels, but
she will wear heels if it works with the outfit,
and I beg her not to cause the whole next
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day she says, why did you let me wear heels
because her back hurts so much? But anyway, so Jennifer
Raina grasps me by the hand and she walks me
out and I'm about a pace behind, and I'm still
slightly in shock. And it's a long walkway, right, it's
like some fashion show or something, and she walks me
all the way out there, and she's holding my hand
the whole time. Well, I'm so neurotic that I'm thinking,
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am I holding on too long?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is it to be like I was too excited about it?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Should I like disengage or just let my hand go?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Limp?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's been a long time. She still hold my hand.
It's been a long time. And I like to move
the microphone from one hand to the other again my neurosis.
And I'm out on stage and I can't move the
hand because she's still holding my left hand. And we
do our whole thing, and she looks up at me
and she's a pro. She's done this one hundred times.
Ainyth like she's into me. But you know, it was
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a lot for me. It's a lot to process. You know,
you're all out in public.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
My jeans are.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Really tight, if you know what I mean. This is
a lot. This is a lot for me to process
at this point in my career. And obviously it's fifteen
years later, and I still remember a friend of mine
said Lisa Farronda, Lisa Faranda. She was I like short women.
There's nothing wrong with Lisa Fronda. But Lisa Farnda was
my neighbor, my three doors over neighbor. And if I'm lying,
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I'm dying. We lived on this little country lane road.
It was Crestwood. It was over next to next to
Memorial Park. And I would turn onto that road and
usually while I'm driving, when I'm out of the traffic,
I sing, and well, I sing, and I let myself
my mind wander, and I would turn onto that road
and I'd come around a corner and there would be
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Lisa farn Is hot, but it would be the back
of her. So I see her jogging along and I
think she's Filipina. If I'm not mistake, is that right?
I think she is And Asian women tend to have
bigger calf muscles, and she had. She had these just
luscious calf muscles. And I would turn the corner, and
I bet you this happened to me ten different times
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over the course of living down the street from her.
I lived past her house, so she'd be headed back
to her house and I turned the corner and go, wow,
that's a smoke show. But we were right next to
Memorial Park, so you'd think to yourself, that's somebody that's jogging.
That she's come down our street, which I don't appreciate.
But I would drive up on her and I think, wow,
I mean, it all looks good. I mean there, it's
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all right in its placed, man. And then I'd get
up beside her and I'd realize I'd been talking, and
she'd wave like hey, Michael, and then I'd be embarrassed
because I didn't know if she caught me looking or whatever.
So then I'd roll down the window, Hey Lisa, but
you don't want to stay too long because she's jogging.
But I also didn't maybe she wanted to talk. So
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it's all very.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Confused, very well documented that words nowadays can actually break
your balls.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Are you not at the Michael Berry Show. There's your
hand and kicks.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Comb your hay, honey, I'm going to snowballs Jackson here.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
See then I breeze into that city.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Beat me.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I got no less than ten emails during the break
from fellows who went online and checked Jenniferinu's age. I
think of all the things I could have talked about
that would cause fellows to go consult the WWW. That
seems to have been. She's forty five. She's born January first,
nineteen eighty. That's kind of an interesting birthday. David Boulot
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or could be below rights Dairy Queen. My first job
was at Dairy Queen in Huffman in eighty two. I
was sixteen and I had to ride my bike to work.
That's how I got my first car. Very sad to
hear their closing was a great job. Brings back some
great memories. Tom Keeling Wrights Zar. I live in the valley,
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but I'm gonna start watching Jennifer Reno on KHOU eleven now.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
James writes Zar.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
A week or so ago, you had a deputy constable
on Paul Hubbard that was retiring after forty three years
of service. Great story. You should check out Texas Ranger
Joe Harrelson. Joe Harrelson is the longest serving ranger in
Texas history. Good read, and he's still working currently in Jasper,
Tyler and Newton Counties. I bet we could find somebody
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that could track him down. Joe Harrelson in Jasper, Newton and.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What was the other county? I can't remember what the
other county was? What did I tell you were, mom?
Jasper Newton. No, let's see if I can find it again.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Watching Jennifer Rena on KHOU eleven now. James writes, Czar,
a week or so ago, you had a deputy constable
on Paul Hubbard that was retiring after forty three years
of service. Great story. You should check out Texas Ranger
Joe Harrelson. Joe Harrelson is the longest serving ranger in
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Texas history. Good read, and he's still working currently in Jasper,
Tyler and Newton Tyler County. Chris writes, let's not forget
the smoke show that is Dominique Sosa. I think she's
working for doctor Phil. Now, uh huh she left doctor Phil.
Something happened there? I think he uh well, I don't
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know what happened. I'm just speculating, but something happened because
she up and moved to Dallas. She uprooted the whole deal.
My understanding is she came back.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Do you know.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She looked good a long time too. Had lunch with
Steve Wasserman one time.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He ran that station, and I asked him what he
was most proud of in his career, and he'd been
in he was not far from retiring, and he's probably
sixty years old, and he said, I took a girl
from the traffic desk, was not even on air. She
was filing traffic reports at a computer, and I pulled
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her out and put her on the air. And today
you know her as Dominique Sachsa. Her real name was
Mary Smith. I mean, no, I just made that up,
But I mean not to say that in your career
that person is your biggest accomplished. That's a pretty big compliment.
Tammy writes Zor. I'm grateful for your segment on Dairy Queen.
My mom who turned eighty one on February. Who will
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turn eighty one on February twenty ninth, Well it's the
twenty eighth, but she's a leap.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Year girl called to tell me that Dairy Queen was closed,
with no heads up, no warning, no explanation.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
She lives in the town of Panhandle, Texas, a small
farming community of approximately twenty five hundred, close to Pantex's
nuclear plant and thirty minutes east of Amarillo. So when
a restaurant closes down, it's a big deal. Why would
you do that, because if you if you announced you're
going to close down, you could make a little money.
We're closing next week and people would come in. Can
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you imagine, I mean, can you imagine you're eighty one
years old and you call your nephew Braden, Can you
come over here and take me to Dairy Queen? Well, ain't, Patricia,
I can't. I mean, I got class till four. I
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could probably when I finished class, I got to be
at my job at six, I could probably be over
there about four point thirty.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If you can be ready, I can run you over
and run you. That'd be fine. That'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And so you get, you know, put some lipstick on,
you get that little smoking purse out, remember the little
smoking purse. You'd have the check book and then you'd
have the coin purse portion, and then you'd have the
part where the cigarettes went, and you put a little
lighter in there and you'd pop it open that the
two prongs would cross over and you pop that thing open.
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And my grandmother could just whip out a cigarette on
a moment's notice, just you know, Oh, we're gonna be
Oh he went to get the car. Well, let me
fire up a cigarette, real, let me burn a heater
right now. And you get all excited, you know, you
brush your teeth or put your teeth in and maybe
brush them before you put them in, and put some
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poly dan in and put your shoes on in the
whole deal, right, get your purse out and maybe squirt
a little perfume one and you're going going to Dairy Queen,
and you're all excited about the Dairy Queen and you
get there and they're closed down. I mean, it's just
it's supposed to apocalyptic, right, it's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Let's go to Kevin. Kevin, you're on the Michael Berry Show, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
To Wayey on Channel thirteen. She's been off the air
for a few years. She Katherine Waaley, blondhaired girl.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I remember her. Yeah, she was good. I enjoyed
traffic with her doing it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I'm not a blonde about I think Kathleen Willy is
a very attractive woman. She's also tough as nails. I
would not want to fight Kathleen Willie. I mean Jessica Willy.
I would not want to fight Jessica Willy. That is
a true story.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I know her.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We're not big friends, but we're friendly and I've done
stories for her. But I get the impression that Jessica
Willy will whip your ass if need be. If you
had one too many and you mouthed off, I could
see her punching you. And I don't mean a slap.
I mean a straight on, closed fist knuckle punch where
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you get hit. And I'm not talking about where you go.
I can't believe you've slapped me. I'm talking about it
hits you in the jaw and you fall over the
bean bag. The kids are watching daddy and you're down
on the ground and you're thinking, man, I might have
lost a tooth to my wife. This is gonna be
an awkward story. I'm gonna have to make up a
story on this one. I think she could punch you
in the face like that. Her husband Ross, I don't
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know what he's doing today, but she married a fellow
who was a two sport collegiate athlete. I think at
Arkansas or Arkansas State. He was on the golf team,
and I think he was a quarterback. A true story.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I know him. I'm dead Seriously, why would I lie
about that?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
See feature pack PRS reprecerators.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Addie to Michael Berry show, little can't last long, so hurry.
Jeanie Barton writes.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
In Conrod, the temperature just dropped almost ten degrees.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Michael writes, how could you forget the smoke show? That
is Sophia Oheita. She is easily one of the hottest
news anchors in Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You know her. I haven't watched I haven't watched some
local news report. What station is she on?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Two?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
She left?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Where'd she go? Phoenix? She missed you, she came back.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I haven't watched a local news report in easily ten years.
I just Chad pulls them and whatever I need to
know the next day, it's there with the background story.
I watched the story and that's all I need to
see and that never includes the anchor, because the reporters
doing the story Gene in Cyprus gene Rach.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Or roach r Oe, n sc H could be Ranch
could be roach Czar.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
When my mom was still living, I would pick up
the blizzard of the month for her before visiting her
in the nursery home in Schulenburg.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
During COVID.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This was not an easy task since the nursing home
required a check in, temperature check and COVID test. The
blizzard would melt by the time I got to a room.
But it was still a treat for her, and it's
a sweet memory for me, you know. I wonder, I
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wonder how much it hurt the business of the old
folks homes the way they acted during COVID. They lost
their minds, absolutely lost their minds. I wonder how many
people did not put their elderly parents in an old
folks home because because of the way they imprisoned people
and kept their loved ones away and act foolish.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
There's no excuse for that, by the way.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
When people went when I say, hey, remember when you
did that, really stud Remember when you wouldn't talk to
any of.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Us guys in the gang for about four years. And oh,
that was my wife.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
She would No, that was you. You allowed your wife
to do that, and anybody who would do that once
so doing it? Why did you let her choose who
your friends were going to be? Well, I'm not married
to her anymore, so you so you bear no responsibility
for who you are.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's ridiculous. Oh well it was crazy. You know it
was COVID. You know they made us do this. No, no,
you chose to do it. You chose to do it.
You didn't have to do it. Billy, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Billy, what you got.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
When I was in college in the seventies, my mother
and I, well we've always watched said last year, I
mean always when I was younger than that. And one
day I got a call from my mom and we
were we had very little money, and my mom called
and I thought, oh, my goodness, who died? And so
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she called me and I answered, I said, I said, Mom,
what's what's the problem. What's up? And she said, I
have some really sad news to tell you, Billy, And
I went, I'm thinking, my goodness, what relative died? And
she goes, I said, well, okay, Mom, let me have it.
She said, Sid lash Er died and I went really,
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and she goes, yeah, she said, I just thought you'd
want to know. And I'm thinking, I'm a college kid,
and yeah, Sid was good and everything, but he was
very important to my mom because it made him think
of me. So that and the other thing is your
little corps where you have your little smart alec remarks.
Sometimes I love that stuff because sometimes during the I
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get a laugh, I mean I get an out loud
laugh in my car when you do that crap, And
I think it's just wonderful. So don't stop that no
matter what anybody.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey calling in under the name
of Billy. No, you sound just like him.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
No, No, it's really Billy.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You hold one, just saying put him on hold. You
got do you have?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Last time Tom Ramsey called in? Probably not at the ready,
I guarantee you. When you lay those tracks side by side,
sounds just like Tom Ramsey, just like him. Roger, you're
on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, Roger?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I forgot the lady's name. Curry Channel two, Kasey Curry.
She's hot, especially when she was pregnant.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Are you looking at me like that? I mean, that's
his thing. It's his thing.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I mean, you know, they talk about a glow when
a woman was pregnant. Maybe maybe she got the glow.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Don't look at me. I didn't say it, Kim. What's
say you, sir? Oh ma'am man? What's they used to her?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Sorry? DQ on Kempbell Road. It's between Hammery and Kipwood,
but it's right there at in Minora. There's a bridge
that they decided to replace and it's taken forever, so
that Q is really struggling for business. So I just
thought i'd call in and.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
In the area.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Know who owns that thing? Is it an Asian family?
I believe they're Middle Eastern.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, that seems like a story that would be owned
by an Asian family.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
But what's interesting is I've probably heard from twenty different
people asking me if I would take up the cause
of that DQ.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And you know why, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And I'm not proud of this, Kim, But I'm gonna
be completely honest with you transparent here. I don't like
DQ being in the metropolitan limits. DQ is a road
trip food for me DQ, and for me, the only
dqs I'll mess with are they've got to be I mean,
if I if I were setting the standards, they would
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have be no closer than Columbus to the west.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So anything east of Columbus, I'm just gonna drive past it.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And then.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Due north you probably have to get at least to Huntsville,
maybe maybe further. You know, you you probably But I
don't really think of of Dairy Queen as an I
forty five north thing, right. I think of it more
as an I ten west thing and a two ninety thing.
But like I won't need at that one in gettings
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that's too close. And also also I don't like the
fact that they did a new DQ. I don't know
who was sitting around in the DQ headquarters and said,
you know what we need. You know, this classic red
logo we've had for one hundred and sixty eight years,
the red logo with the white spelling it out Dairy Queen,
and that same store style we've had for one hundred
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and sixty eight years, where you got the brick pillars
out front, you got the drive through to the you
know to the right. If you looking at the store
and you pull up, you got a little bit of
an awning out front. You may have a little little
play area at the front.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Usually not, but you might.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And then you you can walk in the front, or
you can walk in the side. You know exactly where
the where the veneer over particleboard, mellowmine, each of those
bolted down chairs and table and all that's going to be.
And then you you turn to the right, and then
you you either have you either have the the the
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counter right there that's that's parallel to the door you
walked into, or it could be perpendicular, or you go
over to the right like the one in Orange and
it could be perpendicular. You don't need to change anything nothing.
I don't go into the new ones. It's it's like
it's a whole different restaurant. It's trying to be something
that's not. I didn't want it to change. I want
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the same, I want the I want some of the
melamine in the veneera over particle board. I want to
be worn down where you can, you know, talk about
repeat the oils of people's and I wanted to be
just worn down from just years.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Of Michael Berry Little League.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You know we sponsored the local Little league goes plaques
on the wall.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Here's a great Listeria hysteria ice cream melt down of
twenty fifteen. What the hell is less steria? It's kind
of misterious. How did ice cream made in two different
places both come up with measurable traces? And now it's
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the headline that just won't quit. Slash it on the news. Baby,
it's a head It's a great less steria hysteria ice
cream meltdown of two thy fifteen. I'm lactose tolerance, so
you might say I don't eat much ice cream any
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way of the anchor man on the evening News has
got me scrambling to the store to get a case
or two of the grade listeria hissteria ice cream melt
down of two thousand and fifteen. As if we ain't
got enough to be worried about the media as everyone
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freaking out, they took all the ice cream out of
the store. Now people going crazy, going to start a war.
It's a grade listeeria hissteria ice cream melt down of
two thousand and fifteen. Let me signing autographs over there.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That's our friend Kenny Allen Ountain Waller.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He wrote, czar my old neighbor Francis, who's around seventy
three years old.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
If I was guessing, do you know what I love
about that?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
If you're gonna guess somebody's name, guess seventy or seventy five,
But who guesses seventy three? My old neighbor Francis, who's
around seventy three years old, if I was guessing. Is
heavily invested in Berkshire Hathaway. It's probably ninety percent of
his portfolio since Dairy Queen is under the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Of Berkshire Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
He brags that he owns Dairy Queen, so he and
his wife eated a dqu almost every day. When DQ
did their fifty cent soft served cone deal last year,
he and his wife rode there Harley something like three
hundred miles and visited six different dairy queens in a
single day to get a cone at each one.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, I look at it like this.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I would ask my mom what they did that day,
and she'd tell what it was, and I think she
was kind of embarrassed because it wasn't anything fancy to do,
you know, Well, at the she loved going to library. Well,
at the library, they had the old mayor there, and
he did a twenty minute talk about how the town
had changed. And I would pause because I wasn't sure
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if you know, she was going to say it was
a crappy talk, or she wished she hadn't gone, or
you know, it was quite enjoyable, or she saw Betty
Smith there and she hadn't seen Betty since the seventies,
or I would pause for a second, but she would
interpret that pause as me judging them as small town
people who did boring things.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
So she'd say, Michael, it's just something to do. It's
just something to do. We got to find something to do.
And that's kind of the deal.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I mean, you know, we have this idea, especially if
you watch TV or even worse, the Internet, that you're
supposed to be her Instagram. You're supposed to be doing
something fascinating out on a yacht with naked women and
the Kardashians and you know, a plane landing, and I
mean tim Vin Fertina owns all that and he doesn't
do that all day long.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I mean, that's just not realistic. But I think people
have this impression that that's what life's going to be like.
But it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I mean, it really shouldn't be. Mike Vozka rites, Cheetah
craft is very beau. I got a lot for Cheetah.
Cheetah craft is very beautiful. She used to do camel
riding for a one oh one radio station at the
horse Track when she first came to Houston. Karen Youngblood rites,
growing up in the fifties, my only transportation was my horse.
(28:20):
Our dqu had a place I could tie up my horse,
or I could go through the drive through, if only
getting a treat that I could eat while riding on
to my destination.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I like the thought of a horse in the drive
through at the dairy Queen.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's a nice Peggy Spitzenberger writes DQ sign story. Years ago,
I was in white Horse in Canada. I looked at
an interesting two to three story log building nearby with
a tall DQ sign behind it towering over it. It
was an interesting visual. I'm still thinking about Kenny Allen
(28:55):
imagining that guy that the guy's age is seventy three,
who says, I don't know how old he is? Probably
I don't know seventy three. Would you ever say seventy three?
It would always be seventy five or seventy That's the
most random thing in the world. Kenny Allen has so many,
so many good songs he has created for our show
(29:16):
over here.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Do you still have that one romon?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Remember the naked one big fat naked woman got up
on top of the eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
He wrote a song, you do. He wrote a song
about that.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
This here's a great crazy naked lady on a semi
truck Houston traffic again in of twenty sixteen, there was
a crazy naked lady on a semi truck traffic on
two ninety was completely stuck. She was dancing like a
stripper for the world to see. Everybody. He takeing fixturess
(29:46):
he ever seen a crazy naked lady on a semi
truck look in like a can of biscuits ready and
to bust. And the traffic Hella Cockers was the circles
in round, getting the area shots of the circus on
the ground and the craze and naked lady was flipping
the bird at the police on the ground trying to
(30:08):
arrest her down. All the people had to stop it.
Stare they get a picture with their faults so that
they could share the crazing naked lady on their Facebook.
Faith is making stupid people famous, It's all the rage.
Was the drugs or just the traffic book that drove
ear loose. She was shading in it like Healthy Center
(30:30):
Earth Day suit and the crazy naked lady would knocking themply.
We were watching on the TV as they broadcasted live
Leake breaking New Street out of Houston Town. I will
wonder if they'll taser to get her down. There's a
crazy naked lady. Who crazy naked lady? Just say no,
(30:53):
there's a crazy naked lady. But seriously, folks, drug abuse
and mental health issues are for the lovely ju.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
I don't know if that last. I don't know if
that was a PSA or if that was adding to
the comp I hope it was. It was said in jest.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I know some Michael, there's people with joke, but I
know and there's a lot more people that need to laugh.
It's more funny if if it was told as a joke.
A fellow named Michael Hale, who posts under the name
stunner Aide forty four, you think that was his number
in high school. What he wasn't born than forty four.
(31:43):
The dude looks like he's about thirty eight years old,
maybe younger. No, well, I guess you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I did do it. No, I mean, he could have
been forty four when he did it, but he doesn't
look like he's forty four.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
He's got that look like every white dude that hunts
and fishes about that age. Like his profile picture. He's
got sunglasses, he's got a ball cap on. He's got
kind of a polo style fishing shirt because it breathes.
Probably what's the brand they all wear at Orvis? Probably
at Orbis. His description is Oilers slash Titans. I don't
(32:23):
know anybody that followed the Titans after they left Houston.
I don't know that's we're writing him off for that one.
Oilers Slash Titans, Rockets, Astros, and Mike Leech. I don't
know he might make up for with that Mike Leech
rough he said best. DQ's in Yoakam. A lot of
workers inside, always busy. Food tastes great and still has
that old school.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Feel to it. He likes people. He likes to go
places and watch the people work hard. He likes to
know they're in there working hard. Y'all working hard in.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
There, he's eating his Frinch rush. Yeah, all right, and
I'm gonna watch y'all work hard for a minute
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Joe writes, beside's been a talk radio geek since the eighties.
I've been a local news junkie since I was a kid.
Dave Ward, Sheriff Friar Ron Stone. I remember a weatherman
on Channel eleven named Sid Lasher who famously died between
six and ten o'clock newscasts. In the studio, I can
(00:56):
tell you that Channel thirteen has gone full on Trump
derangements syndrome. Only one I can stand to watch now
is eleven, and that's because of the smoking haunt Jennifer Raina. Well,
let me ask you something. I'm gonna give you ten
seconds to ponder this. After I give you the subject.
I want you to tell me a local newsgirl. It
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could be trafficing weather, you can include that, but I
want you to tell me a local newsgirl who has
looked good longer than Jennifer Raina. Because she's looked good
for a very long time, a very long time. You know,
she's an old buzzgirl.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Kaloel?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, it was Kalel. You wouldn't think she's old enough
she's a lot older than you think. She might be fifty.
She might be I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Know that, do you know?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So she and I were MC in an event, was
singing and it was a firefighter benefit because we lost
a firefighter or firefighter been injured. It might have been
after the fires on Southwest Freeway at Hillcroft where we
lost those four firefighters.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And and Iron Iron.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Iron Bill Dowling survived, but he he had I think
he suffered horribly, and then he died a few years later,
So I think I think you could say all four
of them died. And it was a big fundraiser. It
was at Discovery Park, although I don't know if they
(02:40):
called it Discovery Park yet at that point. And this
thing was was full and it was a like a festival.
And I had agreed to m C, and I never
agreed to EMC because you're stuck there the whole time.
And I was so mad at myself that morning I
woke up. I could be out there all day and
I don't I don't care how noble your cause is.
(03:02):
I don't care what it could be the most noble.
I do not like to have to go back out
and come back in come back out and go by
that I'll contribute in some other way, but that is
not my idea of a good time. But I did
it because it was a firefighters and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And I get there and she is my co host,
which I'm not aware of, and I knew her in
a way that I knew all the local newspeople, but
she wasn't one of the ones that you know, I'd text,
you know things, they'd call and ask for some background
on a story or whatever else. I think it must
have been about eight o nine maybe later, because I
(03:39):
had left city council, I know that. And I'm looking
pretty good. I've got my blue jeans nicely ironed and
they're heavily start so they'd stand up on their own.
And I've got my boots on, and I've got a
blazer and a polo shirt and I don't remember if
I'm wearing my cowboy hat or not, but I know
(03:59):
I can. I got a feeling that look good and
I don't very often feel that way, so it's, you know,
one of those deals. And it was a little hot outside,
but my blazer rounds out the outfit. So I'm committed
to the Blazer. We're in on the Blazer. We're going
to do the Blazer. And I get there and whoever
the guy was running a thing said, Hey, your co
(04:24):
host is Jennifer Reina. Do y'all know each other? And
she kind of smile that little adorable smile thing she does.
And she has the whitest teeth. She has like Mattress
mac White teeth. I'm not saying she goes to doctor
Guy Lewis, but I'm telling you she has really really
why teeth. And she's just adorable. She's absolutely adorable.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And we go to.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Go out there for the first time to start the event,
and they said, y'all are going to be ready. Y'all
are going to be out in ten seconds. You know,
I don't need to count now. I'm just gonna walk.
I'll start talking, but it is not a space mission
or anything. And she's to my left and she grabs
my hand and starts walking me out like a slight
(05:12):
pace in front of me, and she's in very, very
high heels. All I could think was, man, it's got
to hurt right. My wife friend five marathons and had
to have back surgery and next surgery because of it,
and the doctors do not want her wearing heels, but
she will wear heels if it works with the outfit,
and I beg her not to cause the whole next
(05:33):
day she says, why did you let me wear heels
because her back hurts so much? But anyway, so Jennifer
Raina grasps me by the hand and she walks me
out and I'm about a pace behind, and I'm still
slightly in shock. And it's a long walkway, right, it's
like some fashion show or something, and she walks me
all the way out there, and she's holding my hand
the whole time. Well, I'm so neurotic that I'm thinking,
(05:57):
am I holding on too long?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is it to be like I was too excited about it?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Should I like disengage or just let my hand go?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Limp?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's been a long time. She still hold my hand.
It's been a long time. And I like to move
the microphone from one hand to the other again my neurosis.
And I'm out on stage and I can't move the
hand because she's still holding my left hand. And we
do our whole thing, and she looks up at me
and she's a pro. She's done this one hundred times.
Ainyth like she's into me. But you know, it was
(06:27):
a lot for me. It's a lot to process. You know,
you're all out in public.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
My jeans are.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Really tight, if you know what I mean. This is
a lot. This is a lot for me to process
at this point in my career. And obviously it's fifteen
years later, and I still remember a friend of mine
said Lisa Farronda, Lisa Faranda. She was I like short women.
There's nothing wrong with Lisa Fronda. But Lisa Farnda was
my neighbor, my three doors over neighbor. And if I'm lying,
(06:54):
I'm dying. We lived on this little country lane road.
It was Crestwood. It was over next to next to
Memorial Park. And I would turn onto that road and
usually while I'm driving, when I'm out of the traffic,
I sing, and well, I sing, and I let myself
my mind wander, and I would turn onto that road
and I'd come around a corner and there would be
(07:16):
Lisa farn Is hot, but it would be the back
of her. So I see her jogging along and I
think she's Filipina. If I'm not mistake, is that right?
I think she is And Asian women tend to have
bigger calf muscles, and she had. She had these just
luscious calf muscles. And I would turn the corner, and
I bet you this happened to me ten different times
(07:36):
over the course of living down the street from her.
I lived past her house, so she'd be headed back
to her house and I turned the corner and go, wow,
that's a smoke show. But we were right next to
Memorial Park, so you'd think to yourself, that's somebody that's jogging.
That she's come down our street, which I don't appreciate.
But I would drive up on her and I think, wow,
I mean, it all looks good. I mean there, it's
(07:57):
all right in its placed, man. And then I'd get
up beside her and I'd realize I'd been talking, and
she'd wave like hey, Michael, and then I'd be embarrassed
because I didn't know if she caught me looking or whatever.
So then I'd roll down the window, Hey Lisa, but
you don't want to stay too long because she's jogging.
But I also didn't maybe she wanted to talk. So
(08:18):
it's all very.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Confused, very well documented that words nowadays can actually break
your balls.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Are you not at the Michael Berry Show. There's your
hand and kicks.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Comb your hay, honey, I'm going to snowballs Jackson here.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
See then I breeze into that city.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Beat me.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I got no less than ten emails during the break
from fellows who went online and checked Jenniferinu's age. I
think of all the things I could have talked about
that would cause fellows to go consult the WWW. That
seems to have been. She's forty five. She's born January first,
nineteen eighty. That's kind of an interesting birthday. David Boulot
(09:13):
or could be below rights Dairy Queen. My first job
was at Dairy Queen in Huffman in eighty two. I
was sixteen and I had to ride my bike to work.
That's how I got my first car. Very sad to
hear their closing was a great job. Brings back some
great memories. Tom Keeling Wrights Zar. I live in the valley,
(09:34):
but I'm gonna start watching Jennifer Reno on KHOU eleven now.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
James writes Zar.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
A week or so ago, you had a deputy constable
on Paul Hubbard that was retiring after forty three years
of service. Great story. You should check out Texas Ranger
Joe Harrelson. Joe Harrelson is the longest serving ranger in
Texas history. Good read, and he's still working currently in Jasper,
Tyler and Newton Counties. I bet we could find somebody
(10:04):
that could track him down. Joe Harrelson in Jasper, Newton and.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What was the other county? I can't remember what the
other county was? What did I tell you were, mom?
Jasper Newton. No, let's see if I can find it again.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Watching Jennifer Rena on KHOU eleven now. James writes, Czar,
a week or so ago, you had a deputy constable
on Paul Hubbard that was retiring after forty three years
of service. Great story. You should check out Texas Ranger
Joe Harrelson. Joe Harrelson is the longest serving ranger in
(10:47):
Texas history. Good read, and he's still working currently in Jasper,
Tyler and Newton Tyler County. Chris writes, let's not forget
the smoke show that is Dominique Sosa. I think she's
working for doctor Phil. Now, uh huh she left doctor Phil.
Something happened there? I think he uh well, I don't
(11:08):
know what happened. I'm just speculating, but something happened because
she up and moved to Dallas. She uprooted the whole deal.
My understanding is she came back.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Do you know.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She looked good a long time too. Had lunch with
Steve Wasserman one time.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He ran that station, and I asked him what he
was most proud of in his career, and he'd been
in he was not far from retiring, and he's probably
sixty years old, and he said, I took a girl
from the traffic desk, was not even on air. She
was filing traffic reports at a computer, and I pulled
(11:46):
her out and put her on the air. And today
you know her as Dominique Sachsa. Her real name was
Mary Smith. I mean, no, I just made that up,
But I mean not to say that in your career
that person is your biggest accomplished. That's a pretty big compliment.
Tammy writes Zor. I'm grateful for your segment on Dairy Queen.
My mom who turned eighty one on February. Who will
(12:08):
turn eighty one on February twenty ninth, Well it's the
twenty eighth, but she's a leap.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Year girl called to tell me that Dairy Queen was closed,
with no heads up, no warning, no explanation.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
She lives in the town of Panhandle, Texas, a small
farming community of approximately twenty five hundred, close to Pantex's
nuclear plant and thirty minutes east of Amarillo. So when
a restaurant closes down, it's a big deal. Why would
you do that, because if you if you announced you're
going to close down, you could make a little money.
We're closing next week and people would come in. Can
(12:39):
you imagine, I mean, can you imagine you're eighty one
years old and you call your nephew Braden, Can you
come over here and take me to Dairy Queen? Well, ain't, Patricia,
I can't. I mean, I got class till four. I
(13:01):
could probably when I finished class, I got to be
at my job at six, I could probably be over
there about four point thirty.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If you can be ready, I can run you over
and run you. That'd be fine. That'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And so you get, you know, put some lipstick on,
you get that little smoking purse out, remember the little
smoking purse. You'd have the check book and then you'd
have the coin purse portion, and then you'd have the
part where the cigarettes went, and you put a little
lighter in there and you'd pop it open that the
two prongs would cross over and you pop that thing open.
(13:31):
And my grandmother could just whip out a cigarette on
a moment's notice, just you know, Oh, we're gonna be
Oh he went to get the car. Well, let me
fire up a cigarette, real, let me burn a heater
right now. And you get all excited, you know, you
brush your teeth or put your teeth in and maybe
brush them before you put them in, and put some
(13:54):
poly dan in and put your shoes on in the
whole deal, right, get your purse out and maybe squirt
a little perfume one and you're going going to Dairy Queen,
and you're all excited about the Dairy Queen and you
get there and they're closed down. I mean, it's just
it's supposed to apocalyptic, right, it's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Let's go to Kevin. Kevin, you're on the Michael Berry Show, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
To Wayey on Channel thirteen. She's been off the air
for a few years. She Katherine Waaley, blondhaired girl.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I remember her. Yeah, she was good. I enjoyed
traffic with her doing it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I'm not a blonde about I think Kathleen Willy is
a very attractive woman. She's also tough as nails. I
would not want to fight Kathleen Willie. I mean Jessica Willy.
I would not want to fight Jessica Willy. That is
a true story.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I know her.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We're not big friends, but we're friendly and I've done
stories for her. But I get the impression that Jessica
Willy will whip your ass if need be. If you
had one too many and you mouthed off, I could
see her punching you. And I don't mean a slap.
I mean a straight on, closed fist knuckle punch where
(15:12):
you get hit. And I'm not talking about where you go.
I can't believe you've slapped me. I'm talking about it
hits you in the jaw and you fall over the
bean bag. The kids are watching daddy and you're down
on the ground and you're thinking, man, I might have
lost a tooth to my wife. This is gonna be
an awkward story. I'm gonna have to make up a
story on this one. I think she could punch you
in the face like that. Her husband Ross, I don't
(15:37):
know what he's doing today, but she married a fellow
who was a two sport collegiate athlete. I think at
Arkansas or Arkansas State. He was on the golf team,
and I think he was a quarterback. A true story.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I know him. I'm dead Seriously, why would I lie
about that?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
See feature pack PRS reprecerators.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Addie to Michael Berry show, little can't last long, so hurry.
Jeanie Barton writes.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
In Conrod, the temperature just dropped almost ten degrees.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Michael writes, how could you forget the smoke show? That
is Sophia Oheita. She is easily one of the hottest
news anchors in Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You know her. I haven't watched I haven't watched some
local news report. What station is she on?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Two?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
She left?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Where'd she go? Phoenix? She missed you, she came back.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I haven't watched a local news report in easily ten years.
I just Chad pulls them and whatever I need to
know the next day, it's there with the background story.
I watched the story and that's all I need to
see and that never includes the anchor, because the reporters
doing the story Gene in Cyprus gene Rach.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Or roach r Oe, n sc H could be Ranch
could be roach Czar.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
When my mom was still living, I would pick up
the blizzard of the month for her before visiting her
in the nursery home in Schulenburg.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
During COVID.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This was not an easy task since the nursing home
required a check in, temperature check and COVID test. The
blizzard would melt by the time I got to a room.
But it was still a treat for her, and it's
a sweet memory for me, you know. I wonder, I
(17:39):
wonder how much it hurt the business of the old
folks homes the way they acted during COVID. They lost
their minds, absolutely lost their minds. I wonder how many
people did not put their elderly parents in an old
folks home because because of the way they imprisoned people
and kept their loved ones away and act foolish.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
There's no excuse for that, by the way.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
When people went when I say, hey, remember when you
did that, really stud Remember when you wouldn't talk to
any of.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Us guys in the gang for about four years. And oh,
that was my wife.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
She would No, that was you. You allowed your wife
to do that, and anybody who would do that once
so doing it? Why did you let her choose who
your friends were going to be? Well, I'm not married
to her anymore, so you so you bear no responsibility
for who you are.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's ridiculous. Oh well it was crazy. You know it
was COVID. You know they made us do this. No, no,
you chose to do it. You chose to do it.
You didn't have to do it. Billy, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Billy, what you got.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
When I was in college in the seventies, my mother
and I, well we've always watched said last year, I
mean always when I was younger than that. And one
day I got a call from my mom and we
were we had very little money, and my mom called
and I thought, oh, my goodness, who died? And so
(19:06):
she called me and I answered, I said, I said, Mom,
what's what's the problem. What's up? And she said, I
have some really sad news to tell you, Billy, And
I went, I'm thinking, my goodness, what relative died? And
she goes, I said, well, okay, Mom, let me have it.
She said, Sid lash Er died and I went really,
(19:27):
and she goes, yeah, she said, I just thought you'd
want to know. And I'm thinking, I'm a college kid,
and yeah, Sid was good and everything, but he was
very important to my mom because it made him think
of me. So that and the other thing is your
little corps where you have your little smart alec remarks.
Sometimes I love that stuff because sometimes during the I
(19:51):
get a laugh, I mean I get an out loud
laugh in my car when you do that crap, And
I think it's just wonderful. So don't stop that no
matter what anybody.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey calling in under the name
of Billy. No, you sound just like him.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
No, No, it's really Billy.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You hold one, just saying put him on hold. You
got do you have?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Last time Tom Ramsey called in? Probably not at the ready,
I guarantee you. When you lay those tracks side by side,
sounds just like Tom Ramsey, just like him. Roger, you're
on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, Roger?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I forgot the lady's name. Curry Channel two, Kasey Curry.
She's hot, especially when she was pregnant.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Are you looking at me like that? I mean, that's
his thing. It's his thing.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I mean, you know, they talk about a glow when
a woman was pregnant. Maybe maybe she got the glow.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Don't look at me. I didn't say it, Kim. What's
say you, sir? Oh ma'am man? What's they used to her?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Sorry? DQ on Kempbell Road. It's between Hammery and Kipwood,
but it's right there at in Minora. There's a bridge
that they decided to replace and it's taken forever, so
that Q is really struggling for business. So I just
thought i'd call in and.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
In the area.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Know who owns that thing? Is it an Asian family?
I believe they're Middle Eastern.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, that seems like a story that would be owned
by an Asian family.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
But what's interesting is I've probably heard from twenty different
people asking me if I would take up the cause
of that DQ.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And you know why, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And I'm not proud of this, Kim, But I'm gonna
be completely honest with you transparent here. I don't like
DQ being in the metropolitan limits. DQ is a road
trip food for me DQ, and for me, the only
dqs I'll mess with are they've got to be I mean,
if I if I were setting the standards, they would
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have be no closer than Columbus to the west.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So anything east of Columbus, I'm just gonna drive past it.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And then.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Due north you probably have to get at least to Huntsville,
maybe maybe further. You know, you you probably But I
don't really think of of Dairy Queen as an I
forty five north thing, right. I think of it more
as an I ten west thing and a two ninety thing.
But like I won't need at that one in gettings
(22:31):
that's too close. And also also I don't like the
fact that they did a new DQ. I don't know
who was sitting around in the DQ headquarters and said,
you know what we need. You know, this classic red
logo we've had for one hundred and sixty eight years,
the red logo with the white spelling it out Dairy Queen,
and that same store style we've had for one hundred
(22:54):
and sixty eight years, where you got the brick pillars
out front, you got the drive through to the you
know to the right. If you looking at the store
and you pull up, you got a little bit of
an awning out front. You may have a little little
play area at the front.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Usually not, but you might.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And then you you can walk in the front, or
you can walk in the side. You know exactly where
the where the veneer over particleboard, mellowmine, each of those
bolted down chairs and table and all that's going to be.
And then you you turn to the right, and then
you you either have you either have the the the
(23:30):
counter right there that's that's parallel to the door you
walked into, or it could be perpendicular, or you go
over to the right like the one in Orange and
it could be perpendicular. You don't need to change anything nothing.
I don't go into the new ones. It's it's like
it's a whole different restaurant. It's trying to be something
that's not. I didn't want it to change. I want
(23:51):
the same, I want the I want some of the
melamine in the veneera over particle board. I want to
be worn down where you can, you know, talk about
repeat the oils of people's and I wanted to be
just worn down from just years.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Of Michael Berry Little League.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You know we sponsored the local Little league goes plaques
on the wall.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Here's a great Listeria hysteria ice cream melt down of
twenty fifteen. What the hell is less steria? It's kind
of misterious. How did ice cream made in two different
places both come up with measurable traces? And now it's
(24:31):
the headline that just won't quit. Slash it on the news. Baby,
it's a head It's a great less steria hysteria ice
cream meltdown of two thy fifteen. I'm lactose tolerance, so
you might say I don't eat much ice cream any
(24:53):
way of the anchor man on the evening News has
got me scrambling to the store to get a case
or two of the grade listeria hissteria ice cream melt
down of two thousand and fifteen. As if we ain't
got enough to be worried about the media as everyone
(25:16):
freaking out, they took all the ice cream out of
the store. Now people going crazy, going to start a war.
It's a grade listeeria hissteria ice cream melt down of
two thousand and fifteen. Let me signing autographs over there.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That's our friend Kenny Allen Ountain Waller.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He wrote, czar my old neighbor Francis, who's around seventy
three years old.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
If I was guessing, do you know what I love
about that?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
If you're gonna guess somebody's name, guess seventy or seventy five,
But who guesses seventy three? My old neighbor Francis, who's
around seventy three years old, if I was guessing. Is
heavily invested in Berkshire Hathaway. It's probably ninety percent of
his portfolio since Dairy Queen is under the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Of Berkshire Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
He brags that he owns Dairy Queen, so he and
his wife eated a dqu almost every day. When DQ
did their fifty cent soft served cone deal last year,
he and his wife rode there Harley something like three
hundred miles and visited six different dairy queens in a
single day to get a cone at each one.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, I look at it like this.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I would ask my mom what they did that day,
and she'd tell what it was, and I think she
was kind of embarrassed because it wasn't anything fancy to do,
you know, Well, at the she loved going to library. Well,
at the library, they had the old mayor there, and
he did a twenty minute talk about how the town
had changed. And I would pause because I wasn't sure
(26:59):
if you know, she was going to say it was
a crappy talk, or she wished she hadn't gone, or
you know, it was quite enjoyable, or she saw Betty
Smith there and she hadn't seen Betty since the seventies,
or I would pause for a second, but she would
interpret that pause as me judging them as small town
people who did boring things.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
So she'd say, Michael, it's just something to do. It's
just something to do. We got to find something to do.
And that's kind of the deal.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I mean, you know, we have this idea, especially if
you watch TV or even worse, the Internet, that you're
supposed to be her Instagram. You're supposed to be doing
something fascinating out on a yacht with naked women and
the Kardashians and you know, a plane landing, and I
mean tim Vin Fertina owns all that and he doesn't
do that all day long.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I mean, that's just not realistic. But I think people
have this impression that that's what life's going to be like.
But it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I mean, it really shouldn't be. Mike Vozka rites, Cheetah
craft is very beau. I got a lot for Cheetah.
Cheetah craft is very beautiful. She used to do camel
riding for a one oh one radio station at the
horse Track when she first came to Houston. Karen Youngblood rites,
growing up in the fifties, my only transportation was my horse.
(28:20):
Our dqu had a place I could tie up my horse,
or I could go through the drive through, if only
getting a treat that I could eat while riding on
to my destination.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I like the thought of a horse in the drive
through at the dairy Queen.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's a nice Peggy Spitzenberger writes DQ sign story. Years ago,
I was in white Horse in Canada. I looked at
an interesting two to three story log building nearby with
a tall DQ sign behind it towering over it. It
was an interesting visual. I'm still thinking about Kenny Allen
(28:55):
imagining that guy that the guy's age is seventy three,
who says, I don't know how old he is? Probably
I don't know seventy three. Would you ever say seventy three?
It would always be seventy five or seventy That's the
most random thing in the world. Kenny Allen has so many,
so many good songs he has created for our show
(29:16):
over here.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Do you still have that one romon?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Remember the naked one big fat naked woman got up
on top of the eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
He wrote a song, you do. He wrote a song
about that.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
This here's a great crazy naked lady on a semi
truck Houston traffic again in of twenty sixteen, there was
a crazy naked lady on a semi truck traffic on
two ninety was completely stuck. She was dancing like a
stripper for the world to see. Everybody. He takeing fixturess
(29:46):
he ever seen a crazy naked lady on a semi
truck look in like a can of biscuits ready and
to bust. And the traffic Hella Cockers was the circles
in round, getting the area shots of the circus on
the ground and the craze and naked lady was flipping
the bird at the police on the ground trying to
(30:08):
arrest her down. All the people had to stop it.
Stare they get a picture with their faults so that
they could share the crazing naked lady on their Facebook.
Faith is making stupid people famous, It's all the rage.
Was the drugs or just the traffic book that drove
ear loose. She was shading in it like Healthy Center
(30:30):
Earth Day suit and the crazy naked lady would knocking themply.
We were watching on the TV as they broadcasted live
Leake breaking New Street out of Houston Town. I will
wonder if they'll taser to get her down. There's a
crazy naked lady. Who crazy naked lady? Just say no,
(30:53):
there's a crazy naked lady. But seriously, folks, drug abuse
and mental health issues are for the lovely ju.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
I don't know if that last. I don't know if
that was a PSA or if that was adding to
the comp I hope it was. It was said in jest.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I know some Michael, there's people with joke, but I
know and there's a lot more people that need to laugh.
It's more funny if if it was told as a joke.
A fellow named Michael Hale, who posts under the name
stunner Aide forty four, you think that was his number
in high school. What he wasn't born than forty four.
(31:43):
The dude looks like he's about thirty eight years old,
maybe younger. No, well, I guess you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I did do it. No, I mean, he could have
been forty four when he did it, but he doesn't
look like he's forty four.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
He's got that look like every white dude that hunts
and fishes about that age. Like his profile picture. He's
got sunglasses, he's got a ball cap on. He's got
kind of a polo style fishing shirt because it breathes.
Probably what's the brand they all wear at Orvis? Probably
at Orbis. His description is Oilers slash Titans. I don't
(32:23):
know anybody that followed the Titans after they left Houston.
I don't know that's we're writing him off for that one.
Oilers Slash Titans, Rockets, Astros, and Mike Leech. I don't
know he might make up for with that Mike Leech
rough he said best. DQ's in Yoakam. A lot of
workers inside, always busy. Food tastes great and still has
that old school.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Feel to it. He likes people. He likes to go
places and watch the people work hard. He likes to
know they're in there working hard. Y'all working hard in.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
There, he's eating his Frinch rush. Yeah, all right, and
I'm gonna watch y'all work hard for a minute
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