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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, it's ramon about independence. Webster defines independence as the
fact or state of being independent, freedom from control, influence, support, aid,
or the like of others. Let us celebrate today Independence Day.
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You no doubt know the stories settlers on New Land,
angry at their tyrannical ruler ruling from far away, an
active defiance, a declaration of independence, fighting a bigger army
with a ragtag squad, a general who was quickly using
his troops to injury, disease, famine, and an uncertainty from
their troops who would wonder if their leader was one
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worth following. And of course you remember the river crossing
in the final battle that won the war and changed
the United States and her young history forever. Nothing I
can say now will give those heroes the proper respect
or those stories their proper contexts. Those words are.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just beyond me.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
How must it have finally felt after losing battles, finally
miraculously winning and becoming your own country, gaining independence, able
to govern your citizens as they see fit and not
by the hand of some distant ruler. Monuments would be
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built so that generations would know these battles. Statues erected
so generations may be reminded of the soldier's greatness. And
a flag, a mighty fla whose existence represented defiance, pride,
and mostly its independence. And oh what a flag, the red,
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the white, the blue, and its lone star, representing the
Republic of Texas. See the United States story of freedom
is a great and powerful story, arguably just as great
and powerful as the story of another band of ragtags
that fought and died for freedom. The general whose tactics
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were doubted until that final victory, except this country would
be Texas. Sam Houston was losing his soldiers, not just
to sickness and injury, but to doubt too. After retreating
past the Colorado River, many troops deserted. Finally, on April
twenty first, the Battle of San Jacino was fought and
won by the Texians in only eighteen minutes. When time
came to bring Texas into the United States, it entered
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as the twenty eighth state in the Union. Given the
US more push west and upsetting Mexico so much that
they declared war on the United States. The US with
Texas now in tow won that war and added an
additional five hundred and twenty five thousand square miles to
the United States territory, including the land that makes up
all or part of present day Arizona in California, in
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Colorado and Nevada, and New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Our
declaration of independence at Washington on the Brazas was declared
on March second, eighteen thirty six, one hundred and fifty
two days after the Battle of Gonzales, only four days
before the fall of the Alamo, and fifty days before
Texas ultimately won her independence at San Jacino, declaring her
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independence and taking her independence in one month and nineteen
days later. Anyone from Texas would expect nothing less from Texas.
Happy Independence Day, Texans. God certainly has blessed us and
those of you not lucky enough to live in Texas.
Bless your hearts for texts.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Th word would never cross Man lifty Austin City, lived.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
The stove.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
If one would be Texas, it made me the man
I am.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So Ramon knows that I love the humor to be found,
some of it unintentional in his family text group. So
he sends me a screenshot this morning, and the first
thing you see, because you're reading sort of backward on
on when when when texts? When text messages come in,
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which is why you know what I hate. You know,
they've got the the heart you can put on or
the haha or the things that you can slap onto
somebody's message. I don't know why that doesn't come at
the end of a message. So if I tend to,
because I voiced a text, I tend to send messages
you know that are kind of diatribes, you know, lecturing
people or explaining some situation, sort of like the show
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I'd go on too long, and then I get a
message that, oh they've responded, and you look and all
you see is no, they haven't. I still see the
message I sent, and so you scroll up to see
that they go ha or a heart. Well, I didn't
need that. Is that is that proof of life? I mean,
is that their acknowledgment that I received it. I don't
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understand that the systems are pretty fail safe at this point.
If I send a text, I assume it got there.
If it doesn't, I get a little you know, xy
thing or whatever. You don't need to tell me you
got my text, because then that just makes too many
text messages for no good reason. I'll assume if I
send it, you got it. Anyway, So he sends me
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this screenshot of the text message that he and his
sisters and his parents are on. And you remember, it
was a screenshot that his dad was looking for the
Viny sausages. He couldn't find the Vienny sausages. Which after
all of that, it turned out they were actually on
the shelf. He just didn't see them. It was awesome.
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So anyway, it was quote, take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
But the way it came up on Ramon's screen is
that's all you saw. Ramone thought, oh, mighty soul, his
sister has sent a Bible verse today, all right, So
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he scrolls up to see, you know what the context was,
take delight in the Lord, and he will give you
the desires of your heart. And when he scrolled up,
the thing that was the desire of her heart that
you should take delight in the lo that he might
give you was bluebell banana fudge, a new flavor. You
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remember the You remember the was it a fudgebomb. What
was it called? That was chocolate on both ends and
banana in the middle. I think that was approximately eighty
three percent of my calories in seventh grade. Oh man,
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are you intending to convey that this is a religious experience? Spiritual?
If you will. It's a good day. People are going
it Friday. No, it's memories of fudgebomb Day. And that's
maybe better than Friday. You know, I hadn't seen people
in a long time. I'm actually looking forward to seeing
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people at three o'clock today. But Bert, I wrote Bert
a nasty note. Last night. He asked me, he said, hey,
if you can get me a orange jumpsuit and crocs
like I wore in jail, i'll wear it. I said,
what's mighty nice of you? Okay, And about three more
times he asked me that. And ye, man, I'm gonna
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tell you. Getting my dad moved into the assistant living facility,
getting him settled in, and all the stress I have
in the worry is he gonna fit in? And so
I just blew up on.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Burton, Burton, come in whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I got no time for you. And then I felt bad,
so I had to post a fight and get it
for him. I had a lot going on the mong
Michael Barry Show. We were talking about Rick Perry, and
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I was saying that if you know Rick Perry, you
cannot help, but like the guy. And that's hard for
people to believe, because when someone is in politics, you
think of them only as the political person you see
broadcast on media. But even Democrats, and he started life
as a Democrat, but that's when a lot of people
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were Democrats. When the party changed in the early eighties,
they changed Phil Graham, who was at least considered a
very conservative Republican, started life as a Democrat, switched to
eighty four to run for powers seat. But anyway, I
was talking about Rick Perry being very charming on a
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personal level, and anybody who knows him would tell you
that you can't help, but like the guy would be
the phrase I would use. And I was talking to
Steve Elkington yesterday, the golfer ELK and it's always fun
to hear stories about the tour and his time on
the tour and tiger stories and read couple's stories and
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all these different stories that he's got. And I had
never asked him about John Day, and I said, I
don't remember if I asked you about daily, but what's
your thought on him? He said, you can't help, but
like the guy. And I said, you know what's funny
is I don't bother to have an emotion toward very
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many public people because you don't know, you don't really
know them, You just know the image that's broadcast. And
I think it's odd to But for some reason, I
really really like John Daly like I would have. I
would love to hang out with him. I would love to,
you know, banter with him. I'd carry the dude's bags
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on the golf course. I just think he's he puts
off good energy. And he said, everything you think you
know about him, every single thing that you expect of him,
is him. He's really that person. Nobody doesn't love John Daly.
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He said, if he beats you in a tournament, you
weren't mad at him. You were happy for John Daly.
If he if he if he shoots you know, three
below you that day, if you know he can out
drive you, he said, if he passes out, you know,
on on the on the seventh, you just wake him
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up and finished around. You don't. You don't care. You're
not mad. You don't go oh daily drunk again, he's fat.
We got this. No matter what he does. You just
love the guy. And that made me happy because I didn't.
I didn't want that veil to be pierced. Let me
check into the mail bag Ramon Jennifer rights Zar. Next
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time you're in San Antonio, try the Hotel Contessa. It's
at the end of the river Walk, nice and quiet.
All the rooms are spacious, and it's beautiful, especially at Christmas.
It's been my favorite place to stay for years. My
husband and I took our son to the Missions in January.
Great family trip. Jennifer Varner Fred writes, used to be
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a nice hotel on the river walk, the Pelasio del Rio.
My wife and I decided to spend our honeymoon in
San anton Many recommended the Pelasio del Rio, so I
called him. Told the agent it was our honeymoon. He
asked if we wanted a room on the street side
or the riverside. How much for the riverside? I asked
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ten dollars more, I said, I'll do it. Turns out
our room was on about the eighty sixth floor. Our
room had a balcony. The only way we could have
even seen the river is if one of us hung
over the balcony while the other held us by the ankles. Marketing,
it's a wonderful thing. Fred Richmond and Willis. His name
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is Fred Richmond, but he's in Willis. That's like George
Dodge who drives a Ford. Russelly Barro loves to say that.
John writes. A few years ago, Rick Trevino was playing
Tumbleweeds in Houston. Did you ever go to THEUS? I
saw David allen Coe at Tumbleweeds. It was in a dark,
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dark time for him. This was a long time ago,
LEVI I good and I went out there. Man, I
bet you this was early two thousands and Tumbleweeds was
it was. It was a I don't want to say
it was a rough crowd, but let's just say there
wasn't anybody wearing a sports coat, and and it was
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an odd venue for music anyway. It was really more
of a bar where he put somebody on a stage
and he goes up on the stage. I don't I
don't remember if he had a band behind him or not,
but he's wearing pink high tops and he'd gotten really,
really fat, and this was long before his RCC show,
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but pink high tops and he's got ear rings that
you know, he loved the ear rings that hang away
down and he's playing his flying v that night, his
guitar and he's hammered and stoned and everything else, and
you're getting the full on David allen Coe experience. And
all he wanted to talk about was Kid Rock. And
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if you know anything about David allen Cole, you know
that he claims Kid Rock as his child and they're buds,
so this father's son, you know whatever. Anyway, that's the
only time I ever been to Tumbleweeds. And anyway, a
few years back, Rick Travino was playing Tumbleweeds in Houston.
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Josh Fuller played that show as well as Rush Creek.
Who sits in Who's drummer? Who sit in? Drummer? Is
my friend? The reason I was there? Who's also Josh's
former drummer DJ. That's the young young man yesterday, thirteen
year old who was deputized. DJ was there in a
tiny Harris County Sheriff's Department uniform and he received his
badge that day. He had a gun belt with a
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toy gun and everything. I thought it was really cool
at that time, but I just assumed he would have
passed by. Now shows what the power of positive thinking
can do. Way to go DJ from John Carter, the professor,
founding member of the RCC. RCC is back on the market,
by the way. So I sold the RCC to Well
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the dirt well the facility anyway, not the business to
Bobby Orr who leased it to the group that does
Prospect Park. And I don't know what went wrong. I
don't I never asked what went wrong because they they've
done very well in some of their other locations. It's
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sort of like a Black Hooters or a Black Twin Peaks,
and the model seems to work. I've looked at their
liquor sales before and they're very, very good at what
they do. I don't know why that didn't work. Yeah, No,
I had no idea. I was gonna go to Kate.
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I guess we have a moment. We should open the
phone lines for a moment. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand The Michael Barry Show see My Bride level, you know,
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talking about Ramon's family text group and my wife years
ago started a family text group of just the four
of us, me, her and our two boys. And my
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wife is not a typical woman. She's not a big textor,
and my kids are not textures. So I thought this
is gonna die on the vines. We but whatever, and
she said, well, when they get older, we'll have them
in the habit At least we're all communicating one way
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or another, because they won't always live under our roof. Well,
that can't happen, but turns out it does, right, So
here we are. It's the best thing she ever did,
the foresight to do that, the foresight to understand that
this is how So every night, whoever goes to bed
first says good night all. My wife will say good
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night boys, love you all, and then she'll give each
one of us a compliment. But occasionally. Last night, Michael
had had a long he'd been up all night the
night before with a project at school, so he was
going to bed and it was like eight o'clock, and
so it was like, good night, all exhausted from the day.
I hope everybody's good whatever, And then we all chime in,
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and I say that because now I don't think I'm
the perfect parent. Far from it. My wife does more
of the parenting than I I do, which seems to
be a theme in my life. Everybody else does all
the work and I get the credit. But in any case, oh,
you didn't ding that. In any case, that's my suggestion
to you if you have, if you have family all
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under one roof, is to establish that connection. That's not
a put every joke that you see all day, it's
you know, be respectful of people's time. But it also
forces you to communicate in a way that you otherwise
would not. Yeah, my dad being an assistant living facility,
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now I can get by there since Monday, we're only
on Thursday, but I'm able to see him at least
twice a day. And that is a treat because he's
not a Texter, and you know, i'd call him every
day during the middle of the day and I just
kind of set my clock by that. I just think
it's healthy to have even if it's a very brief conversation.
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It's healthy to have a proof of life, and it
doesn't have to be a conversation communication every single day.
I think that's healthy. Let's go to Kate. We'll start
into the calls. Kate, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Go ahead, hey, Michael. When you were discussing earlier in
the show about you being our elon, I think it's
a brilliant idea because we need that fiscal responsibility in
all of our governments local, county, state, and federal. And
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I think a forensic audit, which is dieting the eyes
and crossing the t's, is what we need throughout all
of our departments in every county and state because it
will be fiscal responsibility you and everyone else. I know
that we have to live within a budget, a monthly budget,
So why not our governments?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Why not our governments? What do I do right now?
I'm just a homemade her.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
What is your background? Well, I, uh, you're very right.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I volunteer for thank you. I volunteer for the for
our local elections. I do like voting and stuff like that.
My husband's like a presiding judge. I've been an alternate judge,
but you know, it's been kind of getting sticky for
the last couple of months.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And did you go to college?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Pissed off? Did I go to college? I did take
some college? Yes, yes, I was.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Your strongest What was your strongest subject matter?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Strongest subject? Uh, probably saving money.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know what I was about to tell you.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I think I am a tightwad.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I think you would. I think your skill set would
make for a great accountant. I can tell that you
like the ledger to balance. I do.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I do because it's just you know my uh, you know,
my sister Brenda up in South Dakota is where she lives.
She has to work. Uh, she's working the in the
office and remotely right now because my brother in law
is fighting aesopagail cancer. So she has a spreadsheet sheet
copies and paste every single task that that she does,
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you know, within the office. Because management efficiency, you should
do that every week anyway. It should be you know,
a no brainer thing. It should be a habit and
it's a good one. So you know, she reports, Yeah,
she reports back weekly in emails to her manager editor.
She's been there over twenty years. So the job she
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probably does a job of three people. It's the it's
the jack of all trades that is great. That makes
a great employee if they have the willingness to do
other jobs and makes them more valuable. The work ethic
is severely depressed in most of our young people today.
It just seems that way management efficiency is the key.
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It's the key to a successful institution, knowing where every
single dollar is going.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I like the way you think, Kate. I like the
way you think. Thank you for the call, sweetheart. Let
me get some of these other folks on here. Jonathan,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yes, sir, I actually I grew up listening to you
with my father in the truck whenever we were going hunting.
I'm now a little bit older and me and my
brother listen to you every day on the way to work.
And this is a question that's been bothering me for years.
Your intro and I'll take the same song the pump.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, it's called CEC.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Is that Elvis Presley?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
H Yeah, that was the That was well, he didn't
write it. We don't know who wrote it. It's it's
an old American standard, but there's no one attributed to it.
But that was Elvis's intro music. He would come out
to c c ryder, but it was a kind of
a running joke. The band would start cc ryder and
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it was not uncommon for him to spend ten minutes
or more in the back talking to some pretty woman
or some fan or singing gospel or whatever else, and
he wouldn't come on stage, so they'd have to have
to loop the musical intro until he came out. And
then when he came out, the crowd would go would roar,
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and he might walk around and you know, reach down
and touch the hands of the ladies, and he may
do that for another five minutes, and then he would
come out and he would say, oh see see see writer,
and he would start into the song and they would
amp up the energy a little bit more. And then
when he opened when he opened his show in Las Vegas,
it was a lot of pressure because he was going
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to be doing this residency and he had kind of
lost the sixties to movies, which which is disappointing because
none of those movies, well almost none of those movies
are worth watching other than and if you're a nut
for Elvis and you like to see but they're they're
they're trite. Uh, they're they're plug and play there. It's
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a waste of his talents, right, and so they're gonna
we're gonna bring him back to being a great musician.
And performer, which he's the greatest performer of all time,
and they are they are considering what to do and
and the move, Uh what's the guy's name who decides
what he's going to enter to? And he sees two
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thousand and one of Space Odyssey in the theater, which
had just come out, and he makes that. So you
start with that and go into C. C. Rider. And
I always said, as a kid, I don't know what
I'm gonna do on stage, but I'm gonna be on
stage and I'm gonna enter to Elvis's music for Here
we Are? Then ever came back, as is this one
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where Ray Benson recites letter Fast forward and see A.
Sleep at the Wheel did a song where Ray Benson
recites Travis's letter and a listener just reminded me of that.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
They said, remember the Alamo, they said, Sleep at the
Wheel did a version of Remember the Alamo. They said,
thank you for playing Cashes, Johnny Cashes, Remember the Alamo. A.
Sleep at the Wheel did a cover where Ray Benson
recites Travis's letter, Why are you so mad at our listeners?
Would y'all please do me a favor and never ever
ever call the show and say to Ramone when he
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says what's your name? He said, Bob, what do you
want to talk about? And you go, oh, I don't
want to go on the air. Just tell Michael that
for whatever reason, And I've never understood that sets Ramon off,
which means I have to deal with a grumpy Ramon.
Does it upset me, Michael? That's funny? Okay? So here
this is a paradox in my world since it was
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a confession time. So a guy emails in and he
says the subject line John Daily and san Intone. All right,
you have my attention. I've spent an entire day with
John Daly and I have many stories about San Antone
as I am from there, and I have forgotten more
about music than you will ever know. If you have
me on your show, you will not be sorry. The
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paradox is people who think they would be great as
a guest on the show always end up being terrible,
And people who are so shy to call in, you know,
a little old lady with the shake key voice will
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end up being the best guest. And she didn't want
to call in. I just wanted to just say this,
one of this little one little thing and let me off,
and she, like everybody in the audience, just wants to
wrap her up and give her the biggest hug. And
you get the guy who thinks he's going to be
so good because he's so clever, and he bombs. It
just absolutely bombs. And that's the paradox, because the person
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who desperately wants to be on because everybody's going to
think he's great, it ends up being terrible. But if
you can coax, it's usually a little old lady. If
you can get Beverly who's eighty seven years old to
call in and then sheat hell unser sorry, you don't
want to let her go. And I feel the energy
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of all of our show, the people out there listening, engaging.
I feel them leaning in and just wanting to hug
her and love on her and eat her blueberry pie
and hear her tell stories about skinny dipping. You know,
Chance McLean heritage film. One of the things of him
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doing these heritage films is a lot of the people
are much older and they're telling you their life story.
And he'll call me and he'll say, my goodness, I
had this woman today. She's ninety two years old. He said,
it's just like you say, when they tell stories about
their youth, they go back to their youth. And what
transformed before me was a ninety two year old little
withered woman and she was talking about skinny dipping when
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she was seventeen in the river and you know, keeping
her parents from knowing that she was skinny dipping. And
a boy came up and there were three of the
girls and he he, and he said, Michael, it was
crazy because in her mind's eyes, she went back to
that moment and it was so beautiful and we captured it,
and I just yeah, So that's the paradox of the
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of the phone call. Let's see, Jeff, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael. So, I know we're talking
a lot about San Antonio and the Alamo, but I mean,
we just finished up a corporate conference that we had
in San Antonio and I'm leaving out today. We have
three days and three nights there and it's been probably
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fifteen years since I've been to the river Walk and
it has changed quite a bit for the better and
well for the worse. I mean, it's a lot the
same as you know, sixth Street in Austin or I'm
not sure about downtown Dallas or Houston, but good grief,
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the homeless people have just kind of taken over. Yeah,
it's kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting downtown Austin has had that,
this explosion in homelessness. It's part of it is the
manifestation of liberal politics on display the decay because it's built,
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it's crime, it's disease, and it's unsightly. And and the
white liberal mind, and this really is where this comes from.
The white liberal mind is very uncomfortable confronting difficulty, and
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so there it's it's sort of like, you know, they're
sitting in a room going, what's the most perverse thing
we can imagine. Let's talk little boys into chopping their
wieners off and becoming girls, and let's start them as
early as we can. And that's why you see these
women and you know they're they're filming their their two
year old and they go, my son, which you must
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now call my daughter, has decided he's a girl. He
very much identifies as a girl. Your son is still
sucking his thumb and eating his boogers. He has identified
as anything other than hungry or sleepy. That's all he's
learned to adent. He's not even potty trained yet, what
are you talking about? So the white liberal mind cannot
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confront the idea that we do not want people living
in public spaces, and homelessness has always been intellectually, ideologically
a very difficult issue for me, because the libertarian in
me says, public space. Who are we to say you
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can't be on the public space longer than X amount
of time? But intuitively, you understand when you pull up
to an intersection and some guy has basically taken up
residents there and he's just all laid out and he's
passed out, and he's pissed everywhere, and it smells of it,
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and you gets some and you go, Okay, there's got
to be a better way. We've got to figure out
a way, and it's going to confront some unpleasantries to do.
So it just it and that that's not going to
be an easy thing to deal with. Jason and Aiken,
South Carolina right Zarrow. When my son played baseball for
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UIW in San Antono, we would stay on the riverwalk
at the Drury End, the former bank building across from
the San Fernando Cathedral so we could watch the Saga
light show that is displayed at night on the cathedral.
I've never seen you seen it as one of those hotels.
I remember. You know that cheesy riverwalk tour you take
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on that boat. I love that. I would love to
be that riverboat captain one time to do the tour.
I would love that so much. And you get one.
You get some guy that is a you know our lady.
That's the Daughters of the Republic, somebody that really loves
the history. But I remember the story on the hotel
they built in a year. Can you remember this one
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of those hotels, real tall hotels. They built that thing
in a year and it's on the side of the
riverwalk and it goes. I can't remember. Some out there.
We got a smart audience. Somebody can email me and
tell me. But it's staggering that they did in a year. Hell,
we can't get a street repaved in Houston in a year.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, it's ramon about independence. Webster defines independence as the
fact or state of being independent, freedom from control, influence, support, aid,
or the like of others. Let us celebrate today Independence Day.
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You no doubt know the stories settlers on New Land,
angry at their tyrannical ruler ruling from far away, an
active defiance, a declaration of independence, fighting a bigger army
with a ragtag squad, a general who was quickly using
his troops to injury, disease, famine, and an uncertainty from
their troops who would wonder if their leader was one
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worth following. And of course you remember the river crossing
in the final battle that won the war and changed
the United States and her young history forever. Nothing I
can say now will give those heroes the proper respect
or those stories their proper contexts. Those words are.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just beyond me.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
How must it have finally felt after losing battles, finally
miraculously winning and becoming your own country, gaining independence, able
to govern your citizens as they see fit and not
by the hand of some distant ruler. Monuments would be
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built so that generations would know these battles. Statues erected
so generations may be reminded of the soldier's greatness. And
a flag, a mighty fla whose existence represented defiance, pride,
and mostly its independence. And oh what a flag, the red,
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the white, the blue, and its lone star, representing the
Republic of Texas. See the United States story of freedom
is a great and powerful story, arguably just as great
and powerful as the story of another band of ragtags
that fought and died for freedom. The general whose tactics
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were doubted until that final victory, except this country would
be Texas. Sam Houston was losing his soldiers, not just
to sickness and injury, but to doubt too. After retreating
past the Colorado River, many troops deserted. Finally, on April
twenty first, the Battle of San Jacino was fought and
won by the Texians in only eighteen minutes. When time
came to bring Texas into the United States, it entered
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as the twenty eighth state in the Union. Given the
US more push west and upsetting Mexico so much that
they declared war on the United States. The US with
Texas now in tow won that war and added an
additional five hundred and twenty five thousand square miles to
the United States territory, including the land that makes up
all or part of present day Arizona in California, in
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Colorado and Nevada, and New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Our
declaration of independence at Washington on the Brazas was declared
on March second, eighteen thirty six, one hundred and fifty
two days after the Battle of Gonzales, only four days
before the fall of the Alamo, and fifty days before
Texas ultimately won her independence at San Jacino, declaring her
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independence and taking her independence in one month and nineteen
days later. Anyone from Texas would expect nothing less from Texas.
Happy Independence Day, Texans. God certainly has blessed us and
those of you not lucky enough to live in Texas.
Bless your hearts for texts.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Th word would never cross Man lifty Austin City, lived.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
The stove.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
If one would be Texas, it made me the man
I am.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So Ramon knows that I love the humor to be found,
some of it unintentional in his family text group. So
he sends me a screenshot this morning, and the first
thing you see, because you're reading sort of backward on
on when when when texts? When text messages come in,
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which is why you know what I hate. You know,
they've got the the heart you can put on or
the haha or the things that you can slap onto
somebody's message. I don't know why that doesn't come at
the end of a message. So if I tend to,
because I voiced a text, I tend to send messages
you know that are kind of diatribes, you know, lecturing
people or explaining some situation, sort of like the show
(05:20):
I'd go on too long, and then I get a
message that, oh they've responded, and you look and all
you see is no, they haven't. I still see the
message I sent, and so you scroll up to see
that they go ha or a heart. Well, I didn't
need that. Is that is that proof of life? I mean,
is that their acknowledgment that I received it. I don't
(05:41):
understand that the systems are pretty fail safe at this point.
If I send a text, I assume it got there.
If it doesn't, I get a little you know, xy
thing or whatever. You don't need to tell me you
got my text, because then that just makes too many
text messages for no good reason. I'll assume if I
send it, you got it. Anyway, So he sends me
(06:03):
this screenshot of the text message that he and his
sisters and his parents are on. And you remember, it
was a screenshot that his dad was looking for the
Viny sausages. He couldn't find the Vienny sausages. Which after
all of that, it turned out they were actually on
the shelf. He just didn't see them. It was awesome.
(06:24):
So anyway, it was quote, take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
But the way it came up on Ramon's screen is
that's all you saw. Ramone thought, oh, mighty soul, his
sister has sent a Bible verse today, all right, So
(06:44):
he scrolls up to see, you know what the context was,
take delight in the Lord, and he will give you
the desires of your heart. And when he scrolled up,
the thing that was the desire of her heart that
you should take delight in the lo that he might
give you was bluebell banana fudge, a new flavor. You
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remember the You remember the was it a fudgebomb. What
was it called? That was chocolate on both ends and
banana in the middle. I think that was approximately eighty
three percent of my calories in seventh grade. Oh man,
(07:30):
are you intending to convey that this is a religious experience? Spiritual?
If you will. It's a good day. People are going
it Friday. No, it's memories of fudgebomb Day. And that's
maybe better than Friday. You know, I hadn't seen people
in a long time. I'm actually looking forward to seeing
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people at three o'clock today. But Bert, I wrote Bert
a nasty note. Last night. He asked me, he said, hey,
if you can get me a orange jumpsuit and crocs
like I wore in jail, i'll wear it. I said,
what's mighty nice of you? Okay, And about three more
times he asked me that. And ye, man, I'm gonna
(08:11):
tell you. Getting my dad moved into the assistant living facility,
getting him settled in, and all the stress I have
in the worry is he gonna fit in? And so
I just blew up on.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Burton, Burton, come in whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I got no time for you. And then I felt bad,
so I had to post a fight and get it
for him. I had a lot going on the mong
Michael Barry Show. We were talking about Rick Perry, and
(08:45):
I was saying that if you know Rick Perry, you
cannot help, but like the guy. And that's hard for
people to believe, because when someone is in politics, you
think of them only as the political person you see
broadcast on media. But even Democrats, and he started life
as a Democrat, but that's when a lot of people
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were Democrats. When the party changed in the early eighties,
they changed Phil Graham, who was at least considered a
very conservative Republican, started life as a Democrat, switched to
eighty four to run for powers seat. But anyway, I
was talking about Rick Perry being very charming on a
(09:26):
personal level, and anybody who knows him would tell you
that you can't help, but like the guy would be
the phrase I would use. And I was talking to
Steve Elkington yesterday, the golfer ELK and it's always fun
to hear stories about the tour and his time on
the tour and tiger stories and read couple's stories and
(09:48):
all these different stories that he's got. And I had
never asked him about John Day, and I said, I
don't remember if I asked you about daily, but what's
your thought on him? He said, you can't help, but
like the guy. And I said, you know what's funny
is I don't bother to have an emotion toward very
(10:08):
many public people because you don't know, you don't really
know them, You just know the image that's broadcast. And
I think it's odd to But for some reason, I
really really like John Daly like I would have. I
would love to hang out with him. I would love to,
you know, banter with him. I'd carry the dude's bags
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on the golf course. I just think he's he puts
off good energy. And he said, everything you think you
know about him, every single thing that you expect of him,
is him. He's really that person. Nobody doesn't love John Daly.
(10:53):
He said, if he beats you in a tournament, you
weren't mad at him. You were happy for John Daly.
If he if he if he shoots you know, three
below you that day, if you know he can out
drive you, he said, if he passes out, you know,
on on the on the seventh, you just wake him
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up and finished around. You don't. You don't care. You're
not mad. You don't go oh daily drunk again, he's fat.
We got this. No matter what he does. You just
love the guy. And that made me happy because I didn't.
I didn't want that veil to be pierced. Let me
check into the mail bag Ramon Jennifer rights Zar. Next
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time you're in San Antonio, try the Hotel Contessa. It's
at the end of the river Walk, nice and quiet.
All the rooms are spacious, and it's beautiful, especially at Christmas.
It's been my favorite place to stay for years. My
husband and I took our son to the Missions in January.
Great family trip. Jennifer Varner Fred writes, used to be
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a nice hotel on the river walk, the Pelasio del Rio.
My wife and I decided to spend our honeymoon in
San anton Many recommended the Pelasio del Rio, so I
called him. Told the agent it was our honeymoon. He
asked if we wanted a room on the street side
or the riverside. How much for the riverside? I asked
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ten dollars more, I said, I'll do it. Turns out
our room was on about the eighty sixth floor. Our
room had a balcony. The only way we could have
even seen the river is if one of us hung
over the balcony while the other held us by the ankles. Marketing,
it's a wonderful thing. Fred Richmond and Willis. His name
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is Fred Richmond, but he's in Willis. That's like George
Dodge who drives a Ford. Russelly Barro loves to say that.
John writes. A few years ago, Rick Trevino was playing
Tumbleweeds in Houston. Did you ever go to THEUS? I
saw David allen Coe at Tumbleweeds. It was in a dark,
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dark time for him. This was a long time ago,
LEVI I good and I went out there. Man, I
bet you this was early two thousands and Tumbleweeds was
it was. It was a I don't want to say
it was a rough crowd, but let's just say there
wasn't anybody wearing a sports coat, and and it was
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an odd venue for music anyway. It was really more
of a bar where he put somebody on a stage
and he goes up on the stage. I don't I
don't remember if he had a band behind him or not,
but he's wearing pink high tops and he'd gotten really,
really fat, and this was long before his RCC show,
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but pink high tops and he's got ear rings that
you know, he loved the ear rings that hang away
down and he's playing his flying v that night, his
guitar and he's hammered and stoned and everything else, and
you're getting the full on David allen Coe experience. And
all he wanted to talk about was Kid Rock. And
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if you know anything about David allen Cole, you know
that he claims Kid Rock as his child and they're buds,
so this father's son, you know whatever. Anyway, that's the
only time I ever been to Tumbleweeds. And anyway, a
few years back, Rick Travino was playing Tumbleweeds in Houston.
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Josh Fuller played that show as well as Rush Creek.
Who sits in Who's drummer? Who sit in? Drummer? Is
my friend? The reason I was there? Who's also Josh's
former drummer DJ. That's the young young man yesterday, thirteen
year old who was deputized. DJ was there in a
tiny Harris County Sheriff's Department uniform and he received his
badge that day. He had a gun belt with a
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toy gun and everything. I thought it was really cool
at that time, but I just assumed he would have
passed by. Now shows what the power of positive thinking
can do. Way to go DJ from John Carter, the professor,
founding member of the RCC. RCC is back on the market,
by the way. So I sold the RCC to Well
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the dirt well the facility anyway, not the business to
Bobby Orr who leased it to the group that does
Prospect Park. And I don't know what went wrong. I
don't I never asked what went wrong because they they've
done very well in some of their other locations. It's
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sort of like a Black Hooters or a Black Twin Peaks,
and the model seems to work. I've looked at their
liquor sales before and they're very, very good at what
they do. I don't know why that didn't work. Yeah, No,
I had no idea. I was gonna go to Kate.
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I guess we have a moment. We should open the
phone lines for a moment. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand The Michael Barry Show see My Bride level, you know,
(16:28):
talking about Ramon's family text group and my wife years
ago started a family text group of just the four
of us, me, her and our two boys. And my
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wife is not a typical woman. She's not a big textor,
and my kids are not textures. So I thought this
is gonna die on the vines. We but whatever, and
she said, well, when they get older, we'll have them
in the habit At least we're all communicating one way
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or another, because they won't always live under our roof. Well,
that can't happen, but turns out it does, right, So
here we are. It's the best thing she ever did,
the foresight to do that, the foresight to understand that
this is how So every night, whoever goes to bed
first says good night all. My wife will say good
(17:31):
night boys, love you all, and then she'll give each
one of us a compliment. But occasionally. Last night, Michael
had had a long he'd been up all night the
night before with a project at school, so he was
going to bed and it was like eight o'clock, and
so it was like, good night, all exhausted from the day.
I hope everybody's good whatever, And then we all chime in,
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and I say that because now I don't think I'm
the perfect parent. Far from it. My wife does more
of the parenting than I I do, which seems to
be a theme in my life. Everybody else does all
the work and I get the credit. But in any case, oh,
you didn't ding that. In any case, that's my suggestion
to you if you have, if you have family all
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under one roof, is to establish that connection. That's not
a put every joke that you see all day, it's
you know, be respectful of people's time. But it also
forces you to communicate in a way that you otherwise
would not. Yeah, my dad being an assistant living facility,
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now I can get by there since Monday, we're only
on Thursday, but I'm able to see him at least
twice a day. And that is a treat because he's
not a Texter, and you know, i'd call him every
day during the middle of the day and I just
kind of set my clock by that. I just think
it's healthy to have even if it's a very brief conversation.
(19:00):
It's healthy to have a proof of life, and it
doesn't have to be a conversation communication every single day.
I think that's healthy. Let's go to Kate. We'll start
into the calls. Kate, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Go ahead, hey, Michael. When you were discussing earlier in
the show about you being our elon, I think it's
a brilliant idea because we need that fiscal responsibility in
all of our governments local, county, state, and federal. And
(19:34):
I think a forensic audit, which is dieting the eyes
and crossing the t's, is what we need throughout all
of our departments in every county and state because it
will be fiscal responsibility you and everyone else. I know
that we have to live within a budget, a monthly budget,
So why not our governments?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Why not our governments? What do I do right now?
I'm just a homemade her.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
What is your background? Well, I, uh, you're very right.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I volunteer for thank you. I volunteer for the for
our local elections. I do like voting and stuff like that.
My husband's like a presiding judge. I've been an alternate judge,
but you know, it's been kind of getting sticky for
the last couple of months.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And did you go to college?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Pissed off? Did I go to college? I did take
some college? Yes, yes, I was.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Your strongest What was your strongest subject matter?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Strongest subject? Uh, probably saving money.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know what I was about to tell you.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I think I am a tightwad.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I think you would. I think your skill set would
make for a great accountant. I can tell that you
like the ledger to balance. I do.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I do because it's just you know my uh, you know,
my sister Brenda up in South Dakota is where she lives.
She has to work. Uh, she's working the in the
office and remotely right now because my brother in law
is fighting aesopagail cancer. So she has a spreadsheet sheet
copies and paste every single task that that she does,
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you know, within the office. Because management efficiency, you should
do that every week anyway. It should be you know,
a no brainer thing. It should be a habit and
it's a good one. So you know, she reports, Yeah,
she reports back weekly in emails to her manager editor.
She's been there over twenty years. So the job she
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probably does a job of three people. It's the it's
the jack of all trades that is great. That makes
a great employee if they have the willingness to do
other jobs and makes them more valuable. The work ethic
is severely depressed in most of our young people today.
It just seems that way management efficiency is the key.
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It's the key to a successful institution, knowing where every
single dollar is going.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I like the way you think, Kate. I like the
way you think. Thank you for the call, sweetheart. Let
me get some of these other folks on here. Jonathan,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yes, sir, I actually I grew up listening to you
with my father in the truck whenever we were going hunting.
I'm now a little bit older and me and my
brother listen to you every day on the way to work.
And this is a question that's been bothering me for years.
Your intro and I'll take the same song the pump.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, it's called CEC.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Is that Elvis Presley?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
H Yeah, that was the That was well, he didn't
write it. We don't know who wrote it. It's it's
an old American standard, but there's no one attributed to it.
But that was Elvis's intro music. He would come out
to c c ryder, but it was a kind of
a running joke. The band would start cc ryder and
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it was not uncommon for him to spend ten minutes
or more in the back talking to some pretty woman
or some fan or singing gospel or whatever else, and
he wouldn't come on stage, so they'd have to have
to loop the musical intro until he came out. And
then when he came out, the crowd would go would roar,
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and he might walk around and you know, reach down
and touch the hands of the ladies, and he may
do that for another five minutes, and then he would
come out and he would say, oh see see see writer,
and he would start into the song and they would
amp up the energy a little bit more. And then
when he opened when he opened his show in Las Vegas,
it was a lot of pressure because he was going
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to be doing this residency and he had kind of
lost the sixties to movies, which which is disappointing because
none of those movies, well almost none of those movies
are worth watching other than and if you're a nut
for Elvis and you like to see but they're they're
they're trite. Uh, they're they're plug and play there. It's
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a waste of his talents, right, and so they're gonna
we're gonna bring him back to being a great musician.
And performer, which he's the greatest performer of all time,
and they are they are considering what to do and
and the move, Uh what's the guy's name who decides
what he's going to enter to? And he sees two
(24:29):
thousand and one of Space Odyssey in the theater, which
had just come out, and he makes that. So you
start with that and go into C. C. Rider. And
I always said, as a kid, I don't know what
I'm gonna do on stage, but I'm gonna be on
stage and I'm gonna enter to Elvis's music for Here
we Are? Then ever came back, as is this one
(24:58):
where Ray Benson recites letter Fast forward and see A.
Sleep at the Wheel did a song where Ray Benson
recites Travis's letter and a listener just reminded me of that.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
They said, remember the Alamo, they said, Sleep at the
Wheel did a version of Remember the Alamo. They said,
thank you for playing Cashes, Johnny Cashes, Remember the Alamo. A.
Sleep at the Wheel did a cover where Ray Benson
recites Travis's letter, Why are you so mad at our listeners?
Would y'all please do me a favor and never ever
ever call the show and say to Ramone when he
(25:45):
says what's your name? He said, Bob, what do you
want to talk about? And you go, oh, I don't
want to go on the air. Just tell Michael that
for whatever reason, And I've never understood that sets Ramon off,
which means I have to deal with a grumpy Ramon.
Does it upset me, Michael? That's funny? Okay? So here
this is a paradox in my world since it was
(26:07):
a confession time. So a guy emails in and he
says the subject line John Daily and san Intone. All right,
you have my attention. I've spent an entire day with
John Daly and I have many stories about San Antone
as I am from there, and I have forgotten more
about music than you will ever know. If you have
me on your show, you will not be sorry. The
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paradox is people who think they would be great as
a guest on the show always end up being terrible,
And people who are so shy to call in, you know,
a little old lady with the shake key voice will
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end up being the best guest. And she didn't want
to call in. I just wanted to just say this,
one of this little one little thing and let me off,
and she, like everybody in the audience, just wants to
wrap her up and give her the biggest hug. And
you get the guy who thinks he's going to be
so good because he's so clever, and he bombs. It
just absolutely bombs. And that's the paradox, because the person
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who desperately wants to be on because everybody's going to
think he's great, it ends up being terrible. But if
you can coax, it's usually a little old lady. If
you can get Beverly who's eighty seven years old to
call in and then sheat hell unser sorry, you don't
want to let her go. And I feel the energy
(27:35):
of all of our show, the people out there listening, engaging.
I feel them leaning in and just wanting to hug
her and love on her and eat her blueberry pie
and hear her tell stories about skinny dipping. You know,
Chance McLean heritage film. One of the things of him
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doing these heritage films is a lot of the people
are much older and they're telling you their life story.
And he'll call me and he'll say, my goodness, I
had this woman today. She's ninety two years old. He said,
it's just like you say, when they tell stories about
their youth, they go back to their youth. And what
transformed before me was a ninety two year old little
withered woman and she was talking about skinny dipping when
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she was seventeen in the river and you know, keeping
her parents from knowing that she was skinny dipping. And
a boy came up and there were three of the
girls and he he, and he said, Michael, it was
crazy because in her mind's eyes, she went back to
that moment and it was so beautiful and we captured it,
and I just yeah, So that's the paradox of the
(28:43):
of the phone call. Let's see, Jeff, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael. So, I know we're talking
a lot about San Antonio and the Alamo, but I mean,
we just finished up a corporate conference that we had
in San Antonio and I'm leaving out today. We have
three days and three nights there and it's been probably
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fifteen years since I've been to the river Walk and
it has changed quite a bit for the better and
well for the worse. I mean, it's a lot the
same as you know, sixth Street in Austin or I'm
not sure about downtown Dallas or Houston, but good grief,
(29:34):
the homeless people have just kind of taken over. Yeah,
it's kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting downtown Austin has had that,
this explosion in homelessness. It's part of it is the
manifestation of liberal politics on display the decay because it's built,
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it's crime, it's disease, and it's unsightly. And and the
white liberal mind, and this really is where this comes from.
The white liberal mind is very uncomfortable confronting difficulty, and
(30:21):
so there it's it's sort of like, you know, they're
sitting in a room going, what's the most perverse thing
we can imagine. Let's talk little boys into chopping their
wieners off and becoming girls, and let's start them as
early as we can. And that's why you see these
women and you know they're they're filming their their two
year old and they go, my son, which you must
(30:43):
now call my daughter, has decided he's a girl. He
very much identifies as a girl. Your son is still
sucking his thumb and eating his boogers. He has identified
as anything other than hungry or sleepy. That's all he's
learned to adent. He's not even potty trained yet, what
are you talking about? So the white liberal mind cannot
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confront the idea that we do not want people living
in public spaces, and homelessness has always been intellectually, ideologically
a very difficult issue for me, because the libertarian in
me says, public space. Who are we to say you
(31:28):
can't be on the public space longer than X amount
of time? But intuitively, you understand when you pull up
to an intersection and some guy has basically taken up
residents there and he's just all laid out and he's
passed out, and he's pissed everywhere, and it smells of it,
(31:49):
and you gets some and you go, Okay, there's got
to be a better way. We've got to figure out
a way, and it's going to confront some unpleasantries to do.
So it just it and that that's not going to
be an easy thing to deal with. Jason and Aiken,
South Carolina right Zarrow. When my son played baseball for
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UIW in San Antono, we would stay on the riverwalk
at the Drury End, the former bank building across from
the San Fernando Cathedral so we could watch the Saga
light show that is displayed at night on the cathedral.
I've never seen you seen it as one of those hotels.
I remember. You know that cheesy riverwalk tour you take
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on that boat. I love that. I would love to
be that riverboat captain one time to do the tour.
I would love that so much. And you get one.
You get some guy that is a you know our lady.
That's the Daughters of the Republic, somebody that really loves
the history. But I remember the story on the hotel
they built in a year. Can you remember this one
(32:52):
of those hotels, real tall hotels. They built that thing
in a year and it's on the side of the
riverwalk and it goes. I can't remember. Some out there.
We got a smart audience. Somebody can email me and
tell me. But it's staggering that they did in a year. Hell,
we can't get a street repaved in Houston in a year.
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