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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Darry Show is on the air. Hello, babe, we
got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes.
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It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
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Hit it well.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's where we go, riding in the tent, a whopping
and a whooping. Ever living thing it moves within an
inch of its land. Sorry, folks, parks closed the moves out.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
You do for Jesus, make Mountha Berry show.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
For some reason or another, you signed a little toll
on radio.
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There's a meme going around.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's a fat guy laying on the couch, his T
shirt on halfway up his belly. You know he's been
watching TV all day, probably Cheetos and drinking cokes and
switching it over to beers. It says, I'm just waiting
on RFK to make me healthy.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Secretary of State announced Anthony Blinkoln announced quote every dollar
at our disposed, we have at our disposal will be
pushed to Ukraine between now and January twentieth. That's great,
that's great. Our people are dying, can't afford their prescriptions,
or their food or their gas, and you want to
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send more money to Ukraine as one last ditch effort
of an f U boy. And that's something I posted
something yesterday. I got a lot of responses asking if
I talked about this on the air, and I haven't,
But it's kind of consistent with what I say all
the time. Usually when I post something like that, it's
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because somebody has asked me something. And when I take
thirty minutes to answer somebody's question, I feel like, well,
we're in the content creation business. Let me just repeat
that to a broader audience. Somebody might need that, and
everybody else can go, do you want fries with that order? Sir?
Because it's so random, But I posted yesterday and I
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believe this prune your friendship tree. Everyone you went to school,
are related to, or work with is not a friend.
Social media screwed up our use of this term. Focus
on people you deeply love who love you loyalty focus.
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Spend your time and energy on people who are worthy,
prioritize them, Save all your time for the people who matter.
Block or ignore the rest. Years ago, I said, if
you don't know how to use the block function on
your phone, figure it out or ask your grandkids. And
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when you have somebody who calls you, and every time
you're through talking to them, you realize they are not
enriching your life. They're making it worse. They always need something,
they always complain. They want you to listen to all
the problems they create for themselves. They criticize you constantly.
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You don't need them in your life. I told you
again and again and again and again. One of our
problems on our side of the political spectrum is the
combination of naivete and niceness. You've always been told to
be nice. It's overrated. Nice guys finished last. It's true.
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You can be kind, you can be generous, you can
be polite, but you have to stop being nice to
people who don't deserve it. You have to stop letting
people run over you, and you have to stop enabling
people who are parasites sucking the life out of you.
Sometimes those people are family members, sometimes their neighbors. Sometimes
there's somebody you went to school with. Sometimes they're a colleague.
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Stress and negativity is a killer. When you actually study
the things that kill the human body. We're all gonna die,
we're not built to live forever. But when you actually
study the things that kill us, particularly premature. They're mostly
stress related stress and inflammation. Stress is terrible, and people
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cause you stress. People think, for instance, that their job
is stressful. All right, why is your job? This happened
to me a couple days ago. Friend of mine said
he'd been at a dinner meeting that he had to
go to in Dallas and he had to have these meetings.
And he got home and he said, it's you know,
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it was important that I make a good impression and
we get a lot done, have a few glasses when
I get back to my room. I got to get
up and drive back to Houston the next day and
it was ten thirty eleven o'clock and I'd had a
full day and I opened my computer and I had
four hundred emails that were unread. And I said, now
what am I going to do? And he was talking
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about the stress, and I said, it's going to kill you.
This level of stress is literally going to kill you prematurely.
This is what And he has heart problems in his family,
and I said, it is funny because people that don't
live my life don't understand why I do what I do.
You have to get to the point that you start
making decisions to enable you to navigate whatever world you're in.
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If you serve in combat, you have to learn to
make decisions that I've never had to make. If you've
got thirty cars per day that you've got to change
the all on. You've got to make decisions and calculations
that I don't have to make. But I have a
lot of people coming at me, and I don't mind it,
because emails from listeners, for instance, is something I enjoy
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a great deal and I get show prep out of it,
and I get a good sense of what people are
thinking about both the show and what's going on in
the country. But I'm also quite capable of turning it off.
And you have to learn to do that. And I said,
wake up in the morning and do a reset, delete
every email. And he started into the why he couldn't
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do that, and I said, do you want the problem
solved or not? And so he said, well, what if
I missed something? I said, there's a little trick I've learned.
If it's important, they'll email you again. So if you
cut those four hundred emails, a lot of which are
this is the worst an acknowledgment that they received an
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email that you sent I don't know why we need
to acknowledge the system works pretty well, that emails and
text messages go through a thumbs up exclamation. You don't
need all that. Those are things that take part of
your day, and you no longer have any parts of
your day. It's not that that person's a bad person.
It's just that you don't have time for that. You
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can't stop and pick up every nickel along the road
or every stray dog that's Emily's problem, or you know,
give everybody a ride on the way to work because
your commute is now three hours each way. So you
get to the point that you start, you start learning
where you can. You can cut a corner, you can
cut back, you can simplify. And one of the things
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is you don't have to read or reply to every email.
You don't have to read or reply to every phone call.
You don't even have to take every phone call. You
can block it. You don't have to respond to every text,
you don't have to take every meeting. That's something that
people the nice bug gets you, Well, what are you
doing today? I gotta go to this lunch? Well, this
guy trying to sell me insurance. Why are you going
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to lunch with the guy that's on the insurance if
you don't need insurance. Well, he kept bothering me, and
he kept asking, and I kept putting him off. So
you don't know how to say no. You're a terribly
weak person. Other people pray on you. You are the
weak of the herd. Don't tell me you're a nice guy.
You're weak. You've got to be able to make decisions
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for yourself, because now you're gonna spend more time dreading
the lunch than you're gonna spend at lunch. And by
the way, you don't even need insurance.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
In sim.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Simple Man.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
When I did Rocky, if you remember, the first image
was the picture of Jesus. There's a resurrection ac club.
I found a church that had been converted to a
boxing ring, So the image pans down from Jesus onto
Rocky being hit, and at that moment he was a
chosen person. And that's how I began the journey. Something
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was going to happen. This man was going to go
through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Truck.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And then the worst president in the history of our
country took over and look what happened to our country,
probably twenty million people. And you know that's a little
bit old. That chart, that charts a couple of months old.
And if you want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
We are in the presence of a really mythical character.
I love mythology, and this individual does not exist.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
On this planet.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Nobody in the world could have pulled off when he
pulled off, So I'm an auf. George Washington defended his country.
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He had no idea that he was going to change
the world, because without him, you could imagine what the
world would look like. Guess what we got the second
George Washington congratulasues. Please welcome the President of the United States,
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Holy wow, Ramon, I just got an email from a
fellow named Rocky Williams, subject line Republic Boot Challenge Czar.
I'm getting ready to go to Republic Boot Company at
your suggestion, to see if they can provide me with
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a pair of boots that will be comfortable for my
jacked up feet. Now, at this point, I can see
that there's a photo below because there's a link to
a file, and in my mind, I imagine how jacked
up his feet are. I assure you that your mind,
having now seen the picture, does not do justice to
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how jacked up his feet are. They are ratchet, he says.
Both of my little toes curl up on the fourth
toe of each foot, which is true. That pinky toe
is up on that next toe like he's just getting
after it, like he's raping it. That pinky toe is
all up on the next toe on my right foot.
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My second toe was surgically butchered for hammer toe, so
it sits at a weird angle, does it? Ever? Looking
forward to a comfortable pair of boots, Rocky, let me
first say I love the boys at Republic Boot Company.
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From the moment you walk in the door, the smell
of leather. It looks like a place that Jedge roy
Bean would hold. Forth, you might see my buddy Judge
ken Wise over in the corner sipping a bourbon. After hours.
They might have somebody Josh Fuller or Matt. What's Matt's
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last name? Golly no, no, it is a little skinny Matt,
you know what I'm talking about. What's his last name?
I think he spells it with one t too, like
a weirdo. What's his last name, Golee anyway, you'll think
of it in a second. He might be over there in
one of those little pretentious hipster kind of cowboy ish hats,
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maybe a leather jacket, playing on the little stage. Matt Parrish, Yeah,
Matt Parrish. Yeah. Then they got the bar over there,
and they got jackets and boots, and then there's custom
boots you can have made if you don't buy one
off them. They're great guys. We just had our sponsored
party there last week. Everybody loved it. Half to people
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ended up getting fitted for a pair of custom boots
while they were there. Love the place. They do, custom
hats now, all of it. They're great. Love those people,
and it's a great story. He's got him. Chris Conrad.
He's a fifth generation Texan. He worked in Kazakhstan. He's
done now. He took these very, very very dangerous jobs
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as a contractor with Exxon in a war zone. They
were trying to that they were protecting oil assets, and
he took these horrible jobs because he wanted to build
up to be able to renovate the store and make
this store a go. So he didn't get to enjoy
the store that he loves to be in all day long.
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So Fireball, Bill and all the others had to run
it for him. But he's back his recently he back
and he's back for good. And now he could just
be in the store. It's at eleventh in stood of
Wood and it's great. And I say all that to
say this. Those guys can do almost anything, but I
don't think they can help Rocky. I don't think there's
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a pair of boots that this guy could get his
foot down into, you know what I'm saying. I saw
a documentary the other day about this guy and he
was he and his brother were they would go down
into these caves and they would go up in here
and they would explore and yes, speedlunkers, I know that's
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the one word, you know. And he got himself up
in a hole where his body was contorted and they
could not get him out, and to try to get
him out would have to break his back and it
did and he died and all that. And I'm sitting
there and it just seems like if he could get in,
he could get out right, But he couldn't get out.
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He's jammed up in there, and they showed you they
closed the They closed the cave. They closed the might
have been a mind shall anyway, it doesn't matter. They
closed it down. Nobody could enter it again because they
didn't want They couldn't get his body out, so in
honor of him, they did that. When I think about
they showed you a graphic rendering of what how he
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got his body all up in there, which you're thinking,
you dumb ass, But when you look at how like
a snake wiggling up through a that is what I
think it would take for this guy to get his
foot inside a pair of boots. And I'm not even
talking I'm just talking about the upper. I think what
you'd have to do is a is a like a
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t tops on the boots, you know, like a convertible
on the boots where the upper would be velcrode, and
it would it would you know, if you can imagine
on your calf all the way down to your all
the way down to the ball of your foot, you
would you would close it off and then you could
just peel it off, you know what I mean, like
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the like the remember the ruse, remember kangaroo shoes. It'd
be like the little zipper on that you could just
velcrow it and peel it off. And that way, maybe
maybe we could do that with the whole back, the
whole heel of the boot, so that all he'd have
to do, Like I do for my wife. You don't
want her trying to pull in at an angle, right,
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you can line that thing up, set her up for success.
So she's going straight in. It's less likelihood that she's
gonna mess it up. But if she got a whip it,
you know, turn a corner or where it, don't even
do it. So this way, maybe what he could do
is take the whole back of the boot off with
velcrow and then maybe try to get his foot jimmied
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into something with some extra because look like a lumpy
pillow on the top. You're gonna have to have I mean,
you talk about a custom pair of boots, You're gonna
have to put some extra leather where those where that
one toe is up on top of the next toe.
You're gonna have to put all sorts of just extra
leather there because otherwise the whole thing is just gonna
flap right. And then once he if he can get
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his foot all the way in there, I can't promise you.
I don't think they're gonna able to do it, but
this is the only way I can imagine do it.
And then you then once you got him in there,
it'll be like closing the back of the old wood
grain station wagon. You it would. It would be a
swinging door like that. That's all I can imagine. I
just I hate for this guy to take this pair
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of I'm gonna post this to the website. This is
my goodness. That one toe. That's rough. That's rough. Imagine
the first time you meet your wife. You see that.
Just sleep. Russell Wrights. A couple of years ago, you
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got a lot of laughs in mile Ledge on the
story of the fellow selling coon. If I remember correctly,
it was out of a car wash. About a week
after your story, I saw business in Beaumont selling coun.
I beaten myself up every time I drive past it
for not calling at the time. What makes the story
ironic is the location about a half about a quarter
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mile past the Lamar baseball field, on the part of
Highway sixty nine they called Cardinal Drive. Westport Arthur Road
hits the highway coming from Port Acres on that corner.
Since a little store. It's since been improved a bit,
but at the time it was hard to tell if
it was a convenience store, a fish market, or a
bait shop. Whatever it was, it was advertising coon for sale.
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The fact that they were selling coon less than a
quarter mile from a mid major university is ironic itself.
But something else happened at the intersection of sixty nine
in Westport Arthur Road, directly across the store. Across from
the store, a literal stone's throwaway is the site of
the Lucas Gusher. If it was spewing all today, it
would be falling on this store. The closest business to
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the major source of wealth between Houston and Lafayette in
the twentieth century was selling coon meat. Bonus points for
you and your listeners who know what this is. They
also advertised goo on the Marquee under coon. I'm not
sure it's that. I'm not sure it is that odd
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that they were selling You know, I loved that old man,
and I love the idea. That's why that story, That's
why we got so much mileage out of it. So
let me give you the context. I think that was
Jeff McShann's story. I remember correctly. Jeff has bounced around
in government work since then. But Jeff McShann used to
be at Channel eleven and he was a wonderful journalist.
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Jeff McShann is the one who brought us the Elbert
Woods story. He called me one morning, it was about
seven forty five, maybe even seven fifty, and he said, Hey,
I got this old man. He's a marine. His wife
died two years ago, oh two weeks ago. He was
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driving into his uh no, he was driving. He'd driven
to the doctor's office and he comes home and they've
broken into his house, stolen stuff, graffitied everywhere, and he
had this old grandfather's clock and they've spray painted over
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all of it, and they've trashed his house. This old
man and the house is in disrepair. He's eighty two
years old. It's your kind of story, matel I said,
will you do it? He said, I'm doing it for tonight.
But it's your kind of story man, you, I said,
give me his number. So I called him, and Albert
Wood was very old. Hell yeah, And so I started
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talking to him and I said, I'm going to repair
your house. I'm gonna get it done on the air.
I need you to come on the air with me.
And he said, no, I can't come on the air
with you because I got some people from my church
coming and they're coming here to pray with me. And
I said, your prayers are answered, Elbert Wood, You're gonna
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be on my show and we're gonna get your house prepared. No,
I don't believe I can do that. Well. By this time,
we're firing up the intro music. I'm on my cell phone,
so I can't put him on that way. I said, Elbert,
would you got to pick up the phone in two minutes,
I mean from a funny number, because the way our
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system generates the number, it doesn't look right. So he
doesn't answer. He doesn't answer. He doesn't answer, so I'm
telling the story INSTEADY telling the story. Somebody calls him,
tells him pick up the phone. So I think it
was the second segment we had him on. I think
all in the amount of money raised, donated and equipment
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and all that it was all done was in the
realm of four hundred thousand dollars, and we're talking about
a house that was worth less than one hundred thousand dollars.
It was so overbuilt for the neighborhood. Afterwards, I was
worried about it getting broken into again, but it just
galvanized the community. That's where I met Bert Harvey. That's
where I met where I met a lot of people
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that had become friends since then. But that didn't have
anything to do with the coons. So back to the coon.
This little old man, Oh, Jeff McShann. That's I got
carried away with my Jeff mcshon story. So Jeff McShann
had this story of the guy. They had arrested him
and they put him in jail, and he had a
little car wash which was basically a vacant lot in
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somewhere near the Heights. But you know, there's a part
of the Heights. It's an old black part of the Heights,
and I forget what it's called, and I don't know
if they still do, but they used to have some
old ran shackle It looked like it looked like country
black folk from the movie Sounder. But it was in Houston, right,
It was just northeast of the Heights, and it had
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it had what you would expect in small town Mississippi.
It was, you know, ramshackle little homes and you know,
some old fat black guy sitting out front shelling peanuts.
He waved at you as you go buy, and he
might have coon for sale, and he might have some catfish.
And you know, you could pull up a chair and
talk to that guy for five hours and he'd be
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glad to talk to you. But anyway, so this was
what that kind of gave me the feel of do
you have the audio? So so Jeff McShann knew he
had gold on his hands, and he I think he
did multiple interviews with this guy. Here it is last
time you had raccoon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Met Yeah, I got raccoon. Well, police bank me raccoons
for me to clean one for them, and when they
gave me one, I clean one for them. I cook
raccoons from from Mississippi. I eat raccoon, squarees, rabbits, quails, pouts.
I eat that I was raised on for that a Mississippi.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
But they said you were selling it without a permanent
and that.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Was so no, no, colah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The rumor was they were selling drugs out of there,
and they had a they had a game of dominoes
that would go on at all times. I just hate
that I never got to hang out with them. Because
I think it would have been interesting to see because
you know, there were transactions going on all day. Law. Yeah,
and you know that the young black kids in the
area worshiped this guy, mister Johnson, missus Johnson. Uh, would
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you like to buy this bicycle? Where'd you get that bicycle? Boy?
You steal that?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You take that bicycle? Background, I'll give you five dollars.
You take that by You know, he just dispensed wisdom
like the old man at the Michael Show.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Oh, I want to congratulate Michael Berre on interview and
George Farming grill yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
That was good.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Uh, he got a lot of information out of mind
had not know it before and things. And Whatusie was
over here just watering at the mouth.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Hud up, know you was, you was wadding at the mouth.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
You know you ain't hurt the end of that, honey.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They gonna be looping that over and over and every advertisement.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
You remember how they wore out Elba woods.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Oh my god, I was so tired of hearing about
how they did that. Man, bless it's hard.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
But come on, six months later, quit thinking yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Come on, I know that's right.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Oh, Watusi was mocking Michael Berry this morning.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Whychosay come here? Boy? Do your Michael Bear adversation come here?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Right?
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Uh? What is your passion? Go find your passion and
that's what you need to do for anything. It would
always be picking up people yard.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know that's right.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Go and hug yo children and my wife smoking hide.
If you don't think that's funny, I can't be your friend.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oogr who she nailed it? Yr lord ooh.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Batusta got that Shirley q Mount liquor flowing in her
blood stream?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
How right?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
And now back to Michael Beer program.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Skip rights El Casino. You didn't answer what goo was?
It's gasper goo, a bottom feeding fresh water fish. Daniel
writes Zar. My dad's side of the family are all
from the Golden Triangle. I have stopped at that Vietnamese
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own seafood market for years on our way to Sabine
Pass for a day of fishing. My dad and I
have laughed at that sign reading fresh coon for years.
I love your show and listen daily. I'm also a
Coastguard veteran like your dad, and you should tell me
stories and used to tell me story Sir Coastguard doesn't
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get enough recognition for the work and lives we helped
saved save. I was stationed in Astoria, Oregon, where Goonies
was filmed, and I also spent two years in Venice, Louisiana,
southeast of the best fishing in the world. Keep up
the good work, Daniel Garrison. I have been fishing in Venice, Louisiana,
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and it is, in fact some of the best fishing
in the world. That is true. And I will tell
you the guy I went with. It's a story to
tell Ramon. Robert Wagner used to have big mortgage company
in town. I don't know if he still does. He
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was business partners with my friend Jim McGrath's wife, Paulina.
I think it was Robert Wagner was his name. And
Robert Wagner was one of these guys that lived in Houston.
But he's one of these guys like wuld being a
Charlie Robinson song that he would party with the Laredo
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always have the go dip inish mouth. Short fellow, not
very tall, maybe five eight They go Dipney's mouth. But
you know, little guys stand up real tall, right, they
stand up real straight because they got to stretch over
in kind of kept his head cocked back a little bit.
Dipny's mouth. All the money in the world, but country
as all get out, and he embraced it. And a
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kind of guy that probably had three ranches around around
the state. Loved to hunt, love to fish. So I
get invited on this trip by got named Butt homes
in Venice and he's got a houseboat. So we're going
on for the weekend. This is about twenty years ago,
and I can bring ten people with me, so one
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of the so I bring Jim McGrath and I bring
Robert Wagner and we get there and I don't know who.
I don't know if it was Robert's hook or whose
hook it was, but we we're out. So you're on
the houseboat, obviously not fishing off of that, but he's
got these other boats that are tied up, and you're
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out there and we're just slaying it. Oh, we're in
a honey hole and we are having a blast. And
Robert's in another boat for me, if I remember correctly,
and he gets somehow a hook gets gets in his
arm and it's so deep it's in the crook of
his arm. The bend of the elbow and they get
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back to the houseboat later than us. It's dark and
it's all bandaged up because they're trying to keep it
from bleeding. And uh, some people want him to go
to the hospital because it's going to get infected, and
he's gonna, you know whatever, and he is not going
to the hospital. So he decides that what he wants
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is he wants somebody to push it through. He just
is going, We're just gonna go all the way through.
It's a big hook. And so finally it wasn't me.
Somebody steps up and says, you know, all right, I'll
be the guy that pushes it through. I'd almost rather
be the guy hurting than the guy put him to
push that damn thing through, right, And so who he said.
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So he grabs a bottle of jack and downs as
much as he can. He gets himself good and liquored
up to minimize the pain it's going to be. And
we all watched, but it was that kind of watching
where you're watching and you're turning away and you're puckering
up and urner, huh, yeah, it's like to see any
port fiction. And then he starts complaining that it's not
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going fast enough. But I think what he's trying to
do is minimize the damage. Right, Well, everybody's worst fear
was it somehow, some way it he might actually pull
back on it, because it's got those claw hooks that
will I mean, this is a big hook and it's
doing a lot of damage. So after a little while
he gets it pushed through there and it comes out,
(32:04):
and I think they had kept the the line on
there and for whatever reason, and then they used to
cut the line and pulled it out and that was it.
And then apparently that was a great relief to Robert.
But he went out and fished the next day and
just like it was nothing. But on that day the
legend of Robert Wagner was expanded. I'll tell you when
(32:28):
when uh, what's the line from bager Vance when the
truth is better than legend? Print the legend? What was it?
I can't anyway, So that was the legend of Robert Wagner,
mortgage mogul and uh, all around tough guy. That's my Venice,
Louisiana story. It was the point of all that. Jeanne,
(32:50):
you're on to Michael Berry, show what you got?
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Well, good morning, Michael. I'm first off want to say
it's great to be waking up in the It is
just an amazing time to be alive. And you had
a couple of guests say that you've said it Rocky's
introduction yesterday. I mean, it is just the thrill is
here real quick. I do want to say that it's
Lafite's blacksmith's shop. That is the oldest bar in Louisiana
(33:16):
down there at the end of Bourbon Street. The piano
bar I think you were talking about earlier is at
padd O'Brien, but I'm just not I'm not sure that's
just no.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
No, padd O'Brien's. Yeah, I mean I know what Paddle
Brian's is, but the piano bar is Ramo said it's Lafitte.
I remember it being Blacksmith. I was introduced to it
by a fellow named Dwayne Hefley who used to own
the Firehouse Saloon, and he and his wife Sabrina frequented
(33:50):
either Lafitte or Blacksmith, whatever it's called. And I was
at a conference years ago, a radio conference in New Order.
Maybe I was just visiting one because because we're on
a station there wrn O Legendary station and he said, hey, no,
I need to said, you're in New Orleans, won't you
meet us? And he took me down there and the
(34:10):
dueling pianos. I love it.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Darry Show is on the air. Hello, babe, we
got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hit it well.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's where we go, riding in the tent, a whopping
and a whooping. Ever living thing it moves within an
inch of its land. Sorry, folks, parks closed the moves out.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
You do for Jesus, make Mountha Berry show.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
For some reason or another, you signed a little toll
on radio.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
There's a meme going around.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's a fat guy laying on the couch, his T
shirt on halfway up his belly. You know he's been
watching TV all day, probably Cheetos and drinking cokes and
switching it over to beers. It says, I'm just waiting
on RFK to make me healthy.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Secretary of State announced Anthony Blinkoln announced quote every dollar
at our disposed, we have at our disposal will be
pushed to Ukraine between now and January twentieth. That's great,
that's great. Our people are dying, can't afford their prescriptions,
or their food or their gas, and you want to
(02:10):
send more money to Ukraine as one last ditch effort
of an f U boy. And that's something I posted
something yesterday. I got a lot of responses asking if
I talked about this on the air, and I haven't,
But it's kind of consistent with what I say all
the time. Usually when I post something like that, it's
(02:33):
because somebody has asked me something. And when I take
thirty minutes to answer somebody's question, I feel like, well,
we're in the content creation business. Let me just repeat
that to a broader audience. Somebody might need that, and
everybody else can go, do you want fries with that order? Sir?
Because it's so random, But I posted yesterday and I
(02:54):
believe this prune your friendship tree. Everyone you went to school,
are related to, or work with is not a friend.
Social media screwed up our use of this term. Focus
on people you deeply love who love you loyalty focus.
(03:15):
Spend your time and energy on people who are worthy,
prioritize them, Save all your time for the people who matter.
Block or ignore the rest. Years ago, I said, if
you don't know how to use the block function on
your phone, figure it out or ask your grandkids. And
(03:38):
when you have somebody who calls you, and every time
you're through talking to them, you realize they are not
enriching your life. They're making it worse. They always need something,
they always complain. They want you to listen to all
the problems they create for themselves. They criticize you constantly.
(03:59):
You don't need them in your life. I told you
again and again and again and again. One of our
problems on our side of the political spectrum is the
combination of naivete and niceness. You've always been told to
be nice. It's overrated. Nice guys finished last. It's true.
(04:20):
You can be kind, you can be generous, you can
be polite, but you have to stop being nice to
people who don't deserve it. You have to stop letting
people run over you, and you have to stop enabling
people who are parasites sucking the life out of you.
Sometimes those people are family members, sometimes their neighbors. Sometimes
there's somebody you went to school with. Sometimes they're a colleague.
(04:43):
Stress and negativity is a killer. When you actually study
the things that kill the human body. We're all gonna die,
we're not built to live forever. But when you actually
study the things that kill us, particularly premature. They're mostly
stress related stress and inflammation. Stress is terrible, and people
(05:07):
cause you stress. People think, for instance, that their job
is stressful. All right, why is your job? This happened
to me a couple days ago. Friend of mine said
he'd been at a dinner meeting that he had to
go to in Dallas and he had to have these meetings.
And he got home and he said, it's you know,
(05:31):
it was important that I make a good impression and
we get a lot done, have a few glasses when
I get back to my room. I got to get
up and drive back to Houston the next day and
it was ten thirty eleven o'clock and I'd had a
full day and I opened my computer and I had
four hundred emails that were unread. And I said, now
what am I going to do? And he was talking
(05:53):
about the stress, and I said, it's going to kill you.
This level of stress is literally going to kill you prematurely.
This is what And he has heart problems in his family,
and I said, it is funny because people that don't
live my life don't understand why I do what I do.
You have to get to the point that you start
making decisions to enable you to navigate whatever world you're in.
(06:18):
If you serve in combat, you have to learn to
make decisions that I've never had to make. If you've
got thirty cars per day that you've got to change
the all on. You've got to make decisions and calculations
that I don't have to make. But I have a
lot of people coming at me, and I don't mind it,
because emails from listeners, for instance, is something I enjoy
(06:40):
a great deal and I get show prep out of it,
and I get a good sense of what people are
thinking about both the show and what's going on in
the country. But I'm also quite capable of turning it off.
And you have to learn to do that. And I said,
wake up in the morning and do a reset, delete
every email. And he started into the why he couldn't
(07:00):
do that, and I said, do you want the problem
solved or not? And so he said, well, what if
I missed something? I said, there's a little trick I've learned.
If it's important, they'll email you again. So if you
cut those four hundred emails, a lot of which are
this is the worst an acknowledgment that they received an
(07:22):
email that you sent I don't know why we need
to acknowledge the system works pretty well, that emails and
text messages go through a thumbs up exclamation. You don't
need all that. Those are things that take part of
your day, and you no longer have any parts of
your day. It's not that that person's a bad person.
It's just that you don't have time for that. You
(07:44):
can't stop and pick up every nickel along the road
or every stray dog that's Emily's problem, or you know,
give everybody a ride on the way to work because
your commute is now three hours each way. So you
get to the point that you start, you start learning
where you can. You can cut a corner, you can
cut back, you can simplify. And one of the things
(08:04):
is you don't have to read or reply to every email.
You don't have to read or reply to every phone call.
You don't even have to take every phone call. You
can block it. You don't have to respond to every text,
you don't have to take every meeting. That's something that
people the nice bug gets you, Well, what are you
doing today? I gotta go to this lunch? Well, this
guy trying to sell me insurance. Why are you going
(08:26):
to lunch with the guy that's on the insurance if
you don't need insurance. Well, he kept bothering me, and
he kept asking, and I kept putting him off. So
you don't know how to say no. You're a terribly
weak person. Other people pray on you. You are the
weak of the herd. Don't tell me you're a nice guy.
You're weak. You've got to be able to make decisions
(08:46):
for yourself, because now you're gonna spend more time dreading
the lunch than you're gonna spend at lunch. And by
the way, you don't even need insurance.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
In sim.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Simple Man.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
When I did Rocky, if you remember, the first image
was the picture of Jesus. There's a resurrection ac club.
I found a church that had been converted to a
boxing ring, So the image pans down from Jesus onto
Rocky being hit, and at that moment he was a
chosen person. And that's how I began the journey. Something
(09:48):
was going to happen. This man was going to go
through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Truck.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And then the worst president in the history of our
country took over and look what happened to our country,
probably twenty million people. And you know that's a little
bit old. That chart, that charts a couple of months old.
And if you want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
We are in the presence of a really mythical character.
I love mythology, and this individual does not exist.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
On this planet.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Nobody in the world could have pulled off when he
pulled off, So I'm an auf. George Washington defended his country.
(11:09):
He had no idea that he was going to change
the world, because without him, you could imagine what the
world would look like. Guess what we got the second
George Washington congratulasues. Please welcome the President of the United States,
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Holy wow, Ramon, I just got an email from a
fellow named Rocky Williams, subject line Republic Boot Challenge Czar.
I'm getting ready to go to Republic Boot Company at
your suggestion, to see if they can provide me with
(11:53):
a pair of boots that will be comfortable for my
jacked up feet. Now, at this point, I can see
that there's a photo below because there's a link to
a file, and in my mind, I imagine how jacked
up his feet are. I assure you that your mind,
having now seen the picture, does not do justice to
(12:16):
how jacked up his feet are. They are ratchet, he says.
Both of my little toes curl up on the fourth
toe of each foot, which is true. That pinky toe
is up on that next toe like he's just getting
after it, like he's raping it. That pinky toe is
all up on the next toe on my right foot.
(12:43):
My second toe was surgically butchered for hammer toe, so
it sits at a weird angle, does it? Ever? Looking
forward to a comfortable pair of boots, Rocky, let me
first say I love the boys at Republic Boot Company.
(13:05):
From the moment you walk in the door, the smell
of leather. It looks like a place that Jedge roy
Bean would hold. Forth, you might see my buddy Judge
ken Wise over in the corner sipping a bourbon. After hours.
They might have somebody Josh Fuller or Matt. What's Matt's
(13:25):
last name? Golly no, no, it is a little skinny Matt,
you know what I'm talking about. What's his last name?
I think he spells it with one t too, like
a weirdo. What's his last name, Golee anyway, you'll think
of it in a second. He might be over there in
one of those little pretentious hipster kind of cowboy ish hats,
(13:48):
maybe a leather jacket, playing on the little stage. Matt Parrish, Yeah,
Matt Parrish. Yeah. Then they got the bar over there,
and they got jackets and boots, and then there's custom
boots you can have made if you don't buy one
off them. They're great guys. We just had our sponsored
party there last week. Everybody loved it. Half to people
(14:10):
ended up getting fitted for a pair of custom boots
while they were there. Love the place. They do, custom
hats now, all of it. They're great. Love those people,
and it's a great story. He's got him. Chris Conrad.
He's a fifth generation Texan. He worked in Kazakhstan. He's
done now. He took these very, very very dangerous jobs
(14:33):
as a contractor with Exxon in a war zone. They
were trying to that they were protecting oil assets, and
he took these horrible jobs because he wanted to build
up to be able to renovate the store and make
this store a go. So he didn't get to enjoy
the store that he loves to be in all day long.
(14:54):
So Fireball, Bill and all the others had to run
it for him. But he's back his recently he back
and he's back for good. And now he could just
be in the store. It's at eleventh in stood of
Wood and it's great. And I say all that to
say this. Those guys can do almost anything, but I
don't think they can help Rocky. I don't think there's
(15:14):
a pair of boots that this guy could get his
foot down into, you know what I'm saying. I saw
a documentary the other day about this guy and he
was he and his brother were they would go down
into these caves and they would go up in here
and they would explore and yes, speedlunkers, I know that's
(15:35):
the one word, you know. And he got himself up
in a hole where his body was contorted and they
could not get him out, and to try to get
him out would have to break his back and it
did and he died and all that. And I'm sitting
there and it just seems like if he could get in,
he could get out right, But he couldn't get out.
(15:57):
He's jammed up in there, and they showed you they
closed the They closed the cave. They closed the might
have been a mind shall anyway, it doesn't matter. They
closed it down. Nobody could enter it again because they
didn't want They couldn't get his body out, so in
honor of him, they did that. When I think about
they showed you a graphic rendering of what how he
(16:21):
got his body all up in there, which you're thinking,
you dumb ass, But when you look at how like
a snake wiggling up through a that is what I
think it would take for this guy to get his
foot inside a pair of boots. And I'm not even
talking I'm just talking about the upper. I think what
you'd have to do is a is a like a
(16:42):
t tops on the boots, you know, like a convertible
on the boots where the upper would be velcrode, and
it would it would you know, if you can imagine
on your calf all the way down to your all
the way down to the ball of your foot, you
would you would close it off and then you could
just peel it off, you know what I mean, like
(17:04):
the like the remember the ruse, remember kangaroo shoes. It'd
be like the little zipper on that you could just
velcrow it and peel it off. And that way, maybe
maybe we could do that with the whole back, the
whole heel of the boot, so that all he'd have
to do, Like I do for my wife. You don't
want her trying to pull in at an angle, right,
(17:25):
you can line that thing up, set her up for success.
So she's going straight in. It's less likelihood that she's
gonna mess it up. But if she got a whip it,
you know, turn a corner or where it, don't even
do it. So this way, maybe what he could do
is take the whole back of the boot off with
velcrow and then maybe try to get his foot jimmied
(17:46):
into something with some extra because look like a lumpy
pillow on the top. You're gonna have to have I mean,
you talk about a custom pair of boots, You're gonna
have to put some extra leather where those where that
one toe is up on top of the next toe.
You're gonna have to put all sorts of just extra
leather there because otherwise the whole thing is just gonna
flap right. And then once he if he can get
(18:09):
his foot all the way in there, I can't promise you.
I don't think they're gonna able to do it, but
this is the only way I can imagine do it.
And then you then once you got him in there,
it'll be like closing the back of the old wood
grain station wagon. You it would. It would be a
swinging door like that. That's all I can imagine. I
just I hate for this guy to take this pair
(18:30):
of I'm gonna post this to the website. This is
my goodness. That one toe. That's rough. That's rough. Imagine
the first time you meet your wife. You see that.
Just sleep. Russell Wrights. A couple of years ago, you
(18:53):
got a lot of laughs in mile Ledge on the
story of the fellow selling coon. If I remember correctly,
it was out of a car wash. About a week
after your story, I saw business in Beaumont selling coun.
I beaten myself up every time I drive past it
for not calling at the time. What makes the story
ironic is the location about a half about a quarter
(19:15):
mile past the Lamar baseball field, on the part of
Highway sixty nine they called Cardinal Drive. Westport Arthur Road
hits the highway coming from Port Acres on that corner.
Since a little store. It's since been improved a bit,
but at the time it was hard to tell if
it was a convenience store, a fish market, or a
bait shop. Whatever it was, it was advertising coon for sale.
(19:39):
The fact that they were selling coon less than a
quarter mile from a mid major university is ironic itself.
But something else happened at the intersection of sixty nine
in Westport Arthur Road, directly across the store. Across from
the store, a literal stone's throwaway is the site of
the Lucas Gusher. If it was spewing all today, it
would be falling on this store. The closest business to
(20:02):
the major source of wealth between Houston and Lafayette in
the twentieth century was selling coon meat. Bonus points for
you and your listeners who know what this is. They
also advertised goo on the Marquee under coon. I'm not
sure it's that. I'm not sure it is that odd
(20:27):
that they were selling You know, I loved that old man,
and I love the idea. That's why that story, That's
why we got so much mileage out of it. So
let me give you the context. I think that was
Jeff McShann's story. I remember correctly. Jeff has bounced around
in government work since then. But Jeff McShann used to
be at Channel eleven and he was a wonderful journalist.
(20:51):
Jeff McShann is the one who brought us the Elbert
Woods story. He called me one morning, it was about
seven forty five, maybe even seven fifty, and he said, Hey,
I got this old man. He's a marine. His wife
died two years ago, oh two weeks ago. He was
(21:14):
driving into his uh no, he was driving. He'd driven
to the doctor's office and he comes home and they've
broken into his house, stolen stuff, graffitied everywhere, and he
had this old grandfather's clock and they've spray painted over
(21:34):
all of it, and they've trashed his house. This old
man and the house is in disrepair. He's eighty two
years old. It's your kind of story, matel I said,
will you do it? He said, I'm doing it for tonight.
But it's your kind of story man, you, I said,
give me his number. So I called him, and Albert
Wood was very old. Hell yeah, And so I started
(21:56):
talking to him and I said, I'm going to repair
your house. I'm gonna get it done on the air.
I need you to come on the air with me.
And he said, no, I can't come on the air
with you because I got some people from my church
coming and they're coming here to pray with me. And
I said, your prayers are answered, Elbert Wood, You're gonna
(22:16):
be on my show and we're gonna get your house prepared. No,
I don't believe I can do that. Well. By this time,
we're firing up the intro music. I'm on my cell phone,
so I can't put him on that way. I said, Elbert,
would you got to pick up the phone in two minutes,
I mean from a funny number, because the way our
(22:36):
system generates the number, it doesn't look right. So he
doesn't answer. He doesn't answer. He doesn't answer, so I'm
telling the story INSTEADY telling the story. Somebody calls him,
tells him pick up the phone. So I think it
was the second segment we had him on. I think
all in the amount of money raised, donated and equipment
(22:57):
and all that it was all done was in the
realm of four hundred thousand dollars, and we're talking about
a house that was worth less than one hundred thousand dollars.
It was so overbuilt for the neighborhood. Afterwards, I was
worried about it getting broken into again, but it just
galvanized the community. That's where I met Bert Harvey. That's
where I met where I met a lot of people
(23:19):
that had become friends since then. But that didn't have
anything to do with the coons. So back to the coon.
This little old man, Oh, Jeff McShann. That's I got
carried away with my Jeff mcshon story. So Jeff McShann
had this story of the guy. They had arrested him
and they put him in jail, and he had a
little car wash which was basically a vacant lot in
(23:40):
somewhere near the Heights. But you know, there's a part
of the Heights. It's an old black part of the Heights,
and I forget what it's called, and I don't know
if they still do, but they used to have some
old ran shackle It looked like it looked like country
black folk from the movie Sounder. But it was in Houston, right,
It was just northeast of the Heights, and it had
(24:02):
it had what you would expect in small town Mississippi.
It was, you know, ramshackle little homes and you know,
some old fat black guy sitting out front shelling peanuts.
He waved at you as you go buy, and he
might have coon for sale, and he might have some catfish.
And you know, you could pull up a chair and
talk to that guy for five hours and he'd be
(24:23):
glad to talk to you. But anyway, so this was
what that kind of gave me the feel of do
you have the audio? So so Jeff McShann knew he
had gold on his hands, and he I think he
did multiple interviews with this guy. Here it is last
time you had raccoon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Met Yeah, I got raccoon. Well, police bank me raccoons
for me to clean one for them, and when they
gave me one, I clean one for them. I cook
raccoons from from Mississippi. I eat raccoon, squarees, rabbits, quails, pouts.
I eat that I was raised on for that a Mississippi.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
But they said you were selling it without a permanent
and that.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Was so no, no, colah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The rumor was they were selling drugs out of there,
and they had a they had a game of dominoes
that would go on at all times. I just hate
that I never got to hang out with them. Because
I think it would have been interesting to see because
you know, there were transactions going on all day. Law. Yeah,
and you know that the young black kids in the
area worshiped this guy, mister Johnson, missus Johnson. Uh, would
(25:36):
you like to buy this bicycle? Where'd you get that bicycle? Boy?
You steal that?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You take that bicycle? Background, I'll give you five dollars.
You take that by You know, he just dispensed wisdom
like the old man at the Michael Show.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Oh, I want to congratulate Michael Berre on interview and
George Farming grill yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
That was good.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Uh, he got a lot of information out of mind
had not know it before and things. And Whatusie was
over here just watering at the mouth.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Hud up, know you was, you was wadding at the mouth.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
You know you ain't hurt the end of that, honey.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They gonna be looping that over and over and every advertisement.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
You remember how they wore out Elba woods.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Oh my god, I was so tired of hearing about
how they did that. Man, bless it's hard.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
But come on, six months later, quit thinking yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Come on, I know that's right.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Oh, Watusi was mocking Michael Berry this morning.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Whychosay come here? Boy? Do your Michael Bear adversation come here?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Right?
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Uh? What is your passion? Go find your passion and
that's what you need to do for anything. It would
always be picking up people yard.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know that's right.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Go and hug yo children and my wife smoking hide.
If you don't think that's funny, I can't be your friend.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oogr who she nailed it? Yr lord ooh.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Batusta got that Shirley q Mount liquor flowing in her
blood stream?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
How right?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
And now back to Michael Beer program.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Skip rights El Casino. You didn't answer what goo was?
It's gasper goo, a bottom feeding fresh water fish. Daniel
writes Zar. My dad's side of the family are all
from the Golden Triangle. I have stopped at that Vietnamese
(27:36):
own seafood market for years on our way to Sabine
Pass for a day of fishing. My dad and I
have laughed at that sign reading fresh coon for years.
I love your show and listen daily. I'm also a
Coastguard veteran like your dad, and you should tell me
stories and used to tell me story Sir Coastguard doesn't
(27:58):
get enough recognition for the work and lives we helped
saved save. I was stationed in Astoria, Oregon, where Goonies
was filmed, and I also spent two years in Venice, Louisiana,
southeast of the best fishing in the world. Keep up
the good work, Daniel Garrison. I have been fishing in Venice, Louisiana,
(28:18):
and it is, in fact some of the best fishing
in the world. That is true. And I will tell
you the guy I went with. It's a story to
tell Ramon. Robert Wagner used to have big mortgage company
in town. I don't know if he still does. He
(28:40):
was business partners with my friend Jim McGrath's wife, Paulina.
I think it was Robert Wagner was his name. And
Robert Wagner was one of these guys that lived in Houston.
But he's one of these guys like wuld being a
Charlie Robinson song that he would party with the Laredo
(29:02):
always have the go dip inish mouth. Short fellow, not
very tall, maybe five eight They go Dipney's mouth. But
you know, little guys stand up real tall, right, they
stand up real straight because they got to stretch over
in kind of kept his head cocked back a little bit.
Dipny's mouth. All the money in the world, but country
as all get out, and he embraced it. And a
(29:26):
kind of guy that probably had three ranches around around
the state. Loved to hunt, love to fish. So I
get invited on this trip by got named Butt homes
in Venice and he's got a houseboat. So we're going
on for the weekend. This is about twenty years ago,
and I can bring ten people with me, so one
(29:49):
of the so I bring Jim McGrath and I bring
Robert Wagner and we get there and I don't know who.
I don't know if it was Robert's hook or whose
hook it was, but we we're out. So you're on
the houseboat, obviously not fishing off of that, but he's
got these other boats that are tied up, and you're
(30:11):
out there and we're just slaying it. Oh, we're in
a honey hole and we are having a blast. And
Robert's in another boat for me, if I remember correctly,
and he gets somehow a hook gets gets in his
arm and it's so deep it's in the crook of
his arm. The bend of the elbow and they get
(30:33):
back to the houseboat later than us. It's dark and
it's all bandaged up because they're trying to keep it
from bleeding. And uh, some people want him to go
to the hospital because it's going to get infected, and
he's gonna, you know whatever, and he is not going
to the hospital. So he decides that what he wants
(30:54):
is he wants somebody to push it through. He just
is going, We're just gonna go all the way through.
It's a big hook. And so finally it wasn't me.
Somebody steps up and says, you know, all right, I'll
be the guy that pushes it through. I'd almost rather
be the guy hurting than the guy put him to
push that damn thing through, right, And so who he said.
(31:19):
So he grabs a bottle of jack and downs as
much as he can. He gets himself good and liquored
up to minimize the pain it's going to be. And
we all watched, but it was that kind of watching
where you're watching and you're turning away and you're puckering
up and urner, huh, yeah, it's like to see any
port fiction. And then he starts complaining that it's not
(31:43):
going fast enough. But I think what he's trying to
do is minimize the damage. Right, Well, everybody's worst fear
was it somehow, some way it he might actually pull
back on it, because it's got those claw hooks that
will I mean, this is a big hook and it's
doing a lot of damage. So after a little while
he gets it pushed through there and it comes out,
(32:04):
and I think they had kept the the line on
there and for whatever reason, and then they used to
cut the line and pulled it out and that was it.
And then apparently that was a great relief to Robert.
But he went out and fished the next day and
just like it was nothing. But on that day the
legend of Robert Wagner was expanded. I'll tell you when
(32:28):
when uh, what's the line from bager Vance when the
truth is better than legend? Print the legend? What was it?
I can't anyway, So that was the legend of Robert Wagner,
mortgage mogul and uh, all around tough guy. That's my Venice,
Louisiana story. It was the point of all that. Jeanne,
(32:50):
you're on to Michael Berry, show what you got?
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Well, good morning, Michael. I'm first off want to say
it's great to be waking up in the It is
just an amazing time to be alive. And you had
a couple of guests say that you've said it Rocky's
introduction yesterday. I mean, it is just the thrill is
here real quick. I do want to say that it's
Lafite's blacksmith's shop. That is the oldest bar in Louisiana
(33:16):
down there at the end of Bourbon Street. The piano
bar I think you were talking about earlier is at
padd O'Brien, but I'm just not I'm not sure that's
just no.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
No, padd O'Brien's. Yeah, I mean I know what Paddle
Brian's is, but the piano bar is Ramo said it's Lafitte.
I remember it being Blacksmith. I was introduced to it
by a fellow named Dwayne Hefley who used to own
the Firehouse Saloon, and he and his wife Sabrina frequented
(33:50):
either Lafitte or Blacksmith, whatever it's called. And I was
at a conference years ago, a radio conference in New Order.
Maybe I was just visiting one because because we're on
a station there wrn O Legendary station and he said, hey, no,
I need to said, you're in New Orleans, won't you
meet us? And he took me down there and the
(34:10):
dueling pianos. I love it.
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