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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air, the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Sea just because I ask a friend the belt just
be if I'm holding forth at dinner, something I'm something
I'm interested in and my wife will say, oh, who's
(01:06):
Don Williams or anything else, the boys will groan and
say a comedy skitting, Oh show mom. Because they have
a theory that if I'm excited about something and you
show any interest, then then I'm not going to stop
talking about it. So a lady emailed in and said,
(01:31):
I never heard of Jack Clement. Sounds like that's somebody
I need to know. Can you tell me more? I
wish my kids could have heard that. They would have
enjoyed that moment. I said, you know what, let me
not just go off my memory. I went back. Let
me give you an idea what a big deal Jack
Clemt was. So he was the recording engineer for Sun Records.
(01:55):
For Sam Phillips, he recorded the Million Dollar Quarter Tip Uh,
jer Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Johnny Cash, He launched
Charlie Pritte. He he would come to Beaumont and they
(02:15):
would set up a recording studio there and a label
where he did patches by Dicky Lee. He brought in
Alan Reynolds and Bob Bob McDill. Bob McDill, as you remember,
wrote practically everything that Don Williams wrote. He he produced
(02:37):
this song right here for George Jones, who of course
was in Beaumont at that time. He would go on
to produce Let's See, Ray Stevens, Everything is Beautiful, Tom
Paul and the Glazer Brothers. He would write songs that
would be recorded by Johnny Cash, Dolly Pardon, Ray Charles,
(02:59):
Carl Perkins, Bobby Bear, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Jerry Lee, Lewis,
Charlie Pride, Tom Jones, Dicky Lee, Moon Mullikin, Hank Snow,
Garth Brooks, John Prime, bog Hat, Roy Orbison, and Moore. Yeah.
He would also produce Whalen Jennings, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson,
chev Woolley, Louis Armstrong, Frankie Yankovich, Eddie Arnold and Moore.
(03:25):
He kind of did something, did Jack Clement. There's not
a lot of people in music behind the scenes. I mean,
he was a recording ros himself. We just never never
hit it with that Vaughn on the black Line. Question
for you, what did you make in twenty eighteen when
you were leaving? What was your salary?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh, about sixty between sixty five and sixty seven thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Did you get overtime?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right now it's oh yeah, but that's without overtime. But
right now, I think it's about seventy five or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
How much did you hire on a Do you remember
what you first made when you started there?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, I started as a casual in Orange, Texas in
nineteen eighty six. I was getting only five dollars an
hour as a casual. That's a person that just not
on the regular force. And you know, you don't contribute
to retirement or anything.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And what were you doing.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Delivering mail?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh, so you're doing what the other people are. You
just didn't get the benefits.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right, right?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And which post office were you working.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Out of.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Orange Texas at that time?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay? Was that the only one? Because I know where
the post office was, but I don't know if that
was the only one.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, that's the only one in Orange. But then I
moved over to Port Arthur and worked there for about
twenty nine and a half years and went back to Orange.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You've probably delivered the mail to a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I know, probably so, yeah, because I was working around town,
you know at one time. You know, what they call
a technician is a person that has five routes a week,
just work on each carrier's off day, you know, so
(05:36):
they pay him a little bit higher.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh that's the rotator.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Uh yeah, uh huh technician. Like the guy you just
named Cornelius. He probably thought they were gonna blame it
on the on the regular carrier or something. They don't
teach him, you know, how they get caught or anything,
you know, so he didn't he didn't realize, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Probably so I'm that guy that goes and speaks to
the post office guy every day, and so if there's
somebody delivering the mail that's not my usual person, and
I go out there.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Because I just see the vehicle po Yeah, I'll say, oh,
I just want to come out and say hello to
my postman. And I say, oh okay, and I'll say,
uh uh are you filling in today? And it'll be
a person who's on. And that always struck me as
kind of like being the substitute teacher, because you never
get you you don't get your routine down that you
(06:33):
don't seem like you can't get can't get a groove.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh yeah. A lot of people would you know, complain
because you know, they wouldn't get their mailed at the
exact same time. Sometimes it would be earlier than the
regular carrier. Sometimes it would be you know, a lot later.
But uh, yeah, we were speaking about people stealing and
stuff we had during the course of my time. There
maybe three or four people they caught with uh with
(07:01):
the mail at their house, you know, uh, rooms full
of mail, you know, mail all in their trunk and everything. Uh.
And uh I remember one I think it was a girl.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Her boyfriend UH reported her when they you know, ended
up getting into some conflict and uh so she ended
up losing her job like that. But yeah, each one
of them, uh ended up losing their job. But I
don't see why they would bring that stuff home. What
was the point? You know, It was just I don't
think they were using them any cards or anything like that,
(07:36):
but they would have rooms full of mail. And detectives
went over there to one guy house and uh told
the union stood uh things that wasn't related to uh
to the mail what what he found in the fellow's house.
So you know, that was pretty funny though, like like
what kind of stuff, uh, playgirl magazines and uh and.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The guys play girl magazine.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Uh no, that's the kind of it was a guy
you know, but it was a guy magazine. I mean,
you know, we're not guy naked guys, you know in
the magazine.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And yeah, you got a great radio voice, Vaughn.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Oh No, I don't Michael Mary show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Gods forts rock. This song sung by Michael McDonald, written
by Kenny Loggins. What a full beliefs on their list
of qualifications. This is the purest yacht rock song. Meets
(08:53):
every standard of what yacht rock is. They're big on
Michael McDonald from they are big on Michael McDonald. It's
interesting how he goes in and out of you know,
they were the first ones to show the Venn diagram
overlap between Steely Dan and the Doobies and these various
(09:16):
artists and how they're using the same instrumentation, the same artists,
I mean, the same backing vocalists, the same saxophonist, keyboardists,
and anybody who says that, like, you know, Steely Dan
is not yacht rock. And you look at okay, well,
(09:41):
how come they have all the same artists and all
the same musicians and all of these things in common
because they want to be considered something outside of yacht rock.
But you can't let them do that. Ramon, You got
to put the tag on him and not let them
outside of it. All right, Kent at Little Yacht Sales
(10:01):
dot Com? Are you ready to pass judgment?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
All right, Ben, I want you to give the details
and don't sell it. Just give the actual details on
the spec sheet, not including the trailer linked or anything.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Okay, uh, thirty five foot let's leave the little deck
out on the back. And it says got on the title,
but it's not a cabin cruiser and it's not a
center console.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Who made it?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
It?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Mainship manship?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's that the TMU of boats.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, for your years, that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's a little.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, all right?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What would that go for had I had a door?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
What would that go for?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
New uh Brandy today? A thirty five footer wouldn't be gas,
would probably be outboards when we guess inboards. Probably in
the five hundred thousand nights.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh okay, all right, Is that true?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
When they were in boards?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They were in boards?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
How old?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
How old was I? No?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
How old was the boat when you bought it?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Oh? No, it was an eighty eight and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You bought it in what year?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Uh? Two thousand and five?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think, what what did you pay for it?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Oh? You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I would, I bet I would. One thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Come on, well, I don't know. There was another one
identical identical to it going on the pier at SouthShore
Sharbor going for one hundred and forty four thousand, and
I bought mine and I went out there and the
guy was asking for a certain price, and I just
(12:16):
told my wife, I said, I'm going to go out
there and an off from nine thousand dollars for it.
And she said, and I said, maybe we'll meet somewhere
in the middle. And there was nothing wrong with the
boat at in one of the engines I had to
have rebuilt. And she I was walking around in the
front of the bow looking at it, and this boat
(12:37):
was in pristine condition. And I came back there and
she kind of nudged me on the leg with her foot,
like make an offer, and so I told him, I
said nine thousand dollars and he said it's old, and
she's like, he's stupid. He said he would take eight
thousand for it. So yeah, I got it for nine
(12:58):
thousand dollars, but I sold it for way more.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How much you sell it for?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think twenty four or something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Can'ts over there?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Going?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Am I still needed? Must still borrow this conversation.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
So I'm just.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Basically I got I got all my money back, even
the slip seas and stuff like that. So I got
to have a free boat for like three years.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Do you have a boat now? No, just a motor home. Yeah,
so you lost So you sold the boat. You lost
your girl.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Probably because you sold the boat.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's kind of like a country song, isn't it can't
wait till my dog dies? So can't? What do you
what do you think? Ken? Is it considered a yacht
or is it not?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah? Yeah, it's it's something you leave in the water
full time, you know, big enough to stay on.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, what do you consider a yacht? What would be
what would be the checklist to call it a yacht?
Because your website is Little Yacht Sales which means and
I'm looking at the boats and they're all, you know,
thirty five fifty foot on the website? What what what
would you consider? First of all, let's establish the high
water mark. What what is the minimum length or size
(14:24):
or detail that you feel like you need to have
in order to call it a yacht and not go
and not worry that there's gonna be incoming fire.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Oh, I would say something that's got a cabin on
it that you can stay on twenty five feet up? Okay,
you know in power or sale?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Okay, why do you your website little Yacht Sales dot com?
Because everything will last bigger than that.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Yeah, that's true, because that's my last name, and I
was a dealer down here for a lot of years.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You know what, I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
When I went out on my own.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That is funny. Little is not an adjective in this sense.
It is not, Oh, that's funny. How long do people
know you or know of the company? Until I bet
some people buy a boat from you and never know that.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Unless they look at if they look on the website,
they would they would probably would notice.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I'm on the website. I don't notice it.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, then I need to fix the website.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Who is Betty Pope?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Betty Polk is my office manager. I'm just looking at
the fabulous she does. She does an enormous amount of
good stuff for us.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Every one of these guys is the guy that I
would expect to walk up on at a boat launch
at a marina, every single one of them. Josh Johnson,
Steve Greenwell, Sailboat Mike Sebaster, Captain John Grell, except for
Captain Bella Walker. She's kind of outside the normal demography.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
She's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
A license hundred ton captain. Spend the majority of my
life on the water for my childhood sailing the Bahamas.
Also served as a charter yacht captain. Do you charter
boats as well?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
We do not.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
We do not charter. There's plenty of people down in
the area that do, though.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You just uh, you just sell them.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
We sell new and news, power and sail.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Hold on a second, please, Ben, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, Ben, you're up, so can you
(16:45):
hear me?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Hey, Bud, Hey, I just wanted to deterim in on
the mail thing that you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, Ben, are you serious? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Another good thing.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, it has nothing to do with you. We have
these stupid demographic reports and apparently they have increased them
for the year. Make this quick, ramon, real quick. What
is your racer.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Wait age? Almost fifty this month?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Fifty?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm going to be fifty on the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You sound sixty five?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh what?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah? All right? I hate these reports so much as
you do.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We look sixty five too.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What is your height? Weight?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Two twenty six three?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Big boy? Religious affiliation if any Christie just non denominational?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Uh no, I'm affiliated. I just I don't go that often.
So where keen them all?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's j W. Yeah, you didn't want to tell me.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well, I always got the sense that you didn't really
kind of like them, so that's why I was kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I just like to poke at them.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't really know much about them. I just like to
poke it beba. I wouldn't waste my time. Oh I
like it to being upset over it. Uh So do
you really go and you just want to admit it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I haven't been going in a while, so yeah, but
no I do. It's my choice in religions were I mean,
it would be my choice I wouldn't go to like
a Catholic church or anything else. It's just if I
do go, that's where I go. I'm not I'm out
of Jehovah's Witness.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So were you born Jehovah?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Uh yeah, so you were rare stuff?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well no, I was probably about two or three years
old whenever my parents be Kim's ups witness.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Are you marital status.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Single?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Have you ever been married?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah? I talked to you like, well, you probably don't
remember it. I was. I was a guy with the
two cheating wives on the evening.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh, you're the one with not having a yacht?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Did you marry girls that were JW's.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Only one? The other one was not she's Catholic?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Okay? And what do you do for a living again?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Mechanic?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh hail, you're out on the northwest side. Yeah, I've
been tumble in a uh in a fifth wheel.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Motor home.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I sold my house to my son and daughter in law.
I moved into my motorhome. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Don't you have a boat too?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
And I, well, I had a boat. We were arguing
whether it was a yacht or not.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Remember, Yeah, you called it a yacht.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah, well, okay, can I explain something really quick before
we get totally off subject here.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't know what the subject is.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I was saying, well, I was gonna I was calling
in about the mail thing.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh well, that's never really the subject been.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, okay, to be a conversation. Okay, So I was
saying anything over twenty five foot of a yacht. But
that's not what I exactly meant, and I wish I
had explained it better. They the center consoles are center consoles.
The cabin cruisers are cabin cruisers. The youach has a
(20:52):
door to the bedroom, has its own shower, a kitchen,
agg a stove, you know, three TVs on it, stuff
like that. That's what I consider to be a yacht.
Not to mention it says that on the title. So
a center console is not a yacht, it's just a
center console.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, no, I know what a center console is. I've
got a listener named Kent. I don't actually know his
last name, but he has a website called Little Yacht Sales,
and he's one of the guys that I ask about
when I have questions. I asked Kent Little I just
(21:32):
looked it up, and I asked him when I have
boat questions, and I'm gonna ask him. Let's see if
I can find his number here. They don't have the
phone number. You know, Nobody wants you to call him anymore. Ben.
They want you to fill out a form on the website.
Nobody wants you to call him. Well, here it is,
We're going to call him real quick. Two eight one.
I know that three three, four sixty five hundred. I
(21:57):
had to argue with hurts, God help you trying to
get somebody on the phone with hurts. Nobody wants to
answer the phone anymore, nobody. I don't know why people
do business if they can help it with people that
don't want to answer the phone. Everybody wants to used
to it, Ben, you're not old enough to remember because
you're just fifty, but used to you would call and
(22:19):
somebody answer the phone, right, And then they got somebody
that they paid somebody to answer the phone. And then
they figured out, oh no, we're gonna have it where
you call and you go, hello, you have reached you know,
Ben's shop, and for this person wants a phone tree.
So you had to sit there and play the game. Ah, okay,
(22:39):
all right, And then they figured out, well, we've already
got them trained on that. Let's do an answering service
and then we'll pay somebody. And those people don't know.
So you call and go, hey has been there, and
they go, no, but can I take a message? And
you knew right then you're not in ben shop. You
just somebody off six' ten north at a call. Center
(22:59):
and then they figured, out, well look you're getting terrible
service from the person off six', ten north so we'll
just move That. To india so now, you hello This,
is mary HOW can? I happen and This? Is mary
well you're not marry and we know you're. Not married it's.
It's horrible and then they, figured, out, no, no no
we'll just do away with the. Phones altogether you'll just
(23:20):
go in there and fill out. The, thing well nobody
wants to, do that, including me BECAUSE then, I mean
i don't mind an. EMAIL exchange i would actually, prefer
that But but i'm not giving you my cell. Phone,
number ever it won't matter because it. Doesn't ring but
it just drives. Me crazy did You get kent on
the line? We'm on did You?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Get KENT what I called, VERIZON yesterday i said on,
The phone.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh yeah phone companies, no interest they have no interest.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
In. DAY representative i just repeated over, And, over representative.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's awful you got to spend. Ten minutes we're increasingly
being treated, like CATTLE and i really think that this
is part of the mental health issues that our. Society
faces back to one of these Women Are chief Michael,
BERRY man i think that there might.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
BE because i got nothing going on. Down there probably i'd.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Like to be Friends With. Christopher cross can you make?
That happen but there's almost Nobody that i've asked you
to help me become friends with over the years that
we haven't pulled. It off do yourself. A favor there
is a have you Seen The hot? Rock, documentary oh it's,
(24:35):
so good it's. So good IT'S on i, DON'T know i.
NEVER know i Think, it's PARAMOUNT but i. Don't know
everybody Should have prime and everybody Should, have netflix and
if you Have the prime package that picks up a
(24:55):
couple of. THE others I. Think PARAMOUNT and i don't know.
What else it MIGHT. Be hbo MAYBE. It's, HBO anyway
i couldn't. Find it AND then i finally it just.
Popped up. It's wonderful it's only an. HOUR long i
which it was five. Hours long but these guys in
two thousand and five started up a. Web series you
think about it in two thousand, and five it's a very.
Different time and they're the ones that kind of really
(25:17):
popularized the term yacht rock. As such and They Put
steely dan in the yacht rock category and they Call
old boy the lead Singer Of. Steely dan his name just,
escape me and he cussed. Him out he does not
like to be thought of his yacht rock because that's not.
Serious enough but they Tell the christopher cross story and
(25:40):
it's a. TRAGIC story i mean they don't tell it,
in Detail but i'll. Tell you the Dude had song Of,
The year album Of, The year newcomer of, the year
Try the TRIUMVIRATE and i think this Was in it
was in the. Early eighties that didn't happen again for
(26:02):
almost forty Years When billy eilish did it in. Twenty
twenty so you think about that's a. Big deal he
was top of. The, charts man he. Was it he
was the hottest. Thing going AND then mtv hit and
people realized he, was fat and all of, a sudden
boot nobody wanted to Listen To chris. Cross anymore but
(26:22):
the whole, yacht rock you know what is and isn't?
Yacht rock and, they say, you know this artist is
yacht rock and this. Artist isn't now to, the ear
they sound, very similar but they, point out, you know
this is the reason this is, yacht rock and this
is the reason this over here is not, yacht rock
and that it's more than just kind of easy listening
(26:44):
when you think of, radio formats it's more than just.
Easy Listening but i'll bet most of you if you watch,
that documentary you will love every single song that is
that is that is part of. That, documentary anyway we
Can't get Kent At Little yacht sales to pick up
(27:06):
call his. Number again you said it's one of those
where you've got to tell who you are when. You
call that makes. Good sense i've got every filter that
you could possibly get on. My phone i got every
app so, when people so my phone, never rings, never buzzes,
never Notifies but i'll pick it up every so often
just to see if There's something, i've missed and it'll
(27:29):
say you know miss call SPAM and i don't, even
BOTHER but i will TELL you i still GET and
i wish there was a way to. PUNISH them i
still get the political operative. Text, messages hey you know
this issue is coming up and you need to and
they're selling you all those. Political consultants they're. All set
(27:49):
once people have, asked, ME hey i Gave to trump
AND now i get fifty texts again. A year let
me to DAY and, i, Say well trump can't run for.
OFFICE again i hate to, say This but i'm gonna
sit on. The air never give to another. Political. CANDIDATE
never i don't know what else to. Tell you never
give them, Your number never give them, your email, just, ever.
(28:12):
Ever Ever Mary tally bowden. Asked me, SHE said i
got to FIGURE out i don't have good work. Life
balance i'm a. Single mom she's got a, hundred kids
got as many Kids As. Robert reese and, she said
people call and. Text me i'm, gonna text call and
email me all hours of the night. And DAY and
i got to figure out a WAY that i can't
(28:32):
be getting all. These CALLS and, i said what's? Your
fault you give out your? Phone number and, she, said
well IT. Was covid people, were scared people, were dying they,
needed HELP and, i, said well you need to. Tell
them times. Have changed we're NOT in. Covid anymore i'm
not taking. YOUR calls I don't i'm not going to
return calls or text messages or emails outside of. Office
(28:55):
hours simple. As that. That's how that's how you. Stop
that what? Well, not uh of.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Course.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Not uh i'm just saying, everybody else, ben yep, hold
on we're trying to get hint At Little yacht Sales.
Dot com what? Was, it Yeah Little yacht Sales. Dot
com if we can, pick up we're gonna find out
if this is a if this is a yacht.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Or not hey. CALL it i get. THOSE calls i
get those calls too where they always want to buy.
MY house i even get CALLS when i live downtown
Above sam Bucas On. Texas street hey did you know?
They close i'm, just, like yeah send me.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
A check did you know They? CLOSED sambuca.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
KNOW that i just got the email from a friend
of mine last, week, that uh, with regrets we are
closing some did you?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Get it?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Call, him no put them. On there let's SEE what
i want to see what their voicemail.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
SOUNDS like i used to eat dinner there every NIGHT
when i. Live downtown is?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That right they used to have. Good music they'd have kind,
of loungy, jazzy style, Cabaret Style alison krauss kind.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Of music music three hundred and sixty four days, A
year is? That? Right YEAH and i felt like a.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Can't This Is. Michael berry, HOLD on i don't know how. To,
ANSWER no i don't know how to.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Do, this.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Hello this. Is crazy. Don't, Don't, can't, yes sir?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
My.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Man can't how come we couldn't get ahold?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Of?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
You oh i'm?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Not sure why wasn't looking at?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
The?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Phone well WHAT if i wanted to buy?
Speaker 6 (30:52):
A boat i would call.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You, back okay, all right you're on. The air you, know, That,
right okay we're required to tell.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That Okay so I've got ben on. The line he's
a white male two hundred twenty pounds sixty, sixty three
doesn't have a lot going. On downstairs, he's lifelong well
since he Was to. Jehovah's witness. He's single he's a
mechanic and he lives in a, motor home but he had.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
A BOAT what, I said i'm Not.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
A joba's i asked you if you?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
WHAT meetings, I said i just like going to the,
meetings There but. I'm not, you said.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You go To The. Kingdom hall that's A.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Jw, yeah okay, all right, All Right.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So kent we, need you since your Website Is Little
yacht sales, dot com we need you to tell us
whether his boat qualifies as a yacht. Or not ben,
go ahead given.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
The details thirty six foot counting the little deck on.
The back, So.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well i've never heard people describe. Their boat i've heard thirty,
five foot three hundred and Fifty Realm, boston whaler. Cabin
cruiser i've never heard thirty. Six foot if you count,
a trailer just call it what it would, be.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Called, the trailer the little deck on, the, back.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Trailer hitch on. The, back okay, all right so hold on,
one second Thirty six i'm going to plug. This In
while kent is telling us whether it's a yacht. Or
not you have to describe it as it would be
Described On boat Trader Or Little. Yacht sales for, That
Night Michael berry show
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air, the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Sea just because I ask a friend the belt just
be if I'm holding forth at dinner, something I'm something
I'm interested in and my wife will say, oh, who's
(01:06):
Don Williams or anything else, the boys will groan and
say a comedy skitting, Oh show mom. Because they have
a theory that if I'm excited about something and you
show any interest, then then I'm not going to stop
talking about it. So a lady emailed in and said,
(01:31):
I never heard of Jack Clement. Sounds like that's somebody
I need to know. Can you tell me more? I
wish my kids could have heard that. They would have
enjoyed that moment. I said, you know what, let me
not just go off my memory. I went back. Let
me give you an idea what a big deal Jack
Clemt was. So he was the recording engineer for Sun Records.
(01:55):
For Sam Phillips, he recorded the Million Dollar Quarter Tip Uh,
jer Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Johnny Cash, He launched
Charlie Pritte. He he would come to Beaumont and they
(02:15):
would set up a recording studio there and a label
where he did patches by Dicky Lee. He brought in
Alan Reynolds and Bob Bob McDill. Bob McDill, as you remember,
wrote practically everything that Don Williams wrote. He he produced
(02:37):
this song right here for George Jones, who of course
was in Beaumont at that time. He would go on
to produce Let's See, Ray Stevens, Everything is Beautiful, Tom
Paul and the Glazer Brothers. He would write songs that
would be recorded by Johnny Cash, Dolly Pardon, Ray Charles,
(02:59):
Carl Perkins, Bobby Bear, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Jerry Lee, Lewis,
Charlie Pride, Tom Jones, Dicky Lee, Moon Mullikin, Hank Snow,
Garth Brooks, John Prime, bog Hat, Roy Orbison, and Moore. Yeah.
He would also produce Whalen Jennings, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson,
chev Woolley, Louis Armstrong, Frankie Yankovich, Eddie Arnold and Moore.
(03:25):
He kind of did something, did Jack Clement. There's not
a lot of people in music behind the scenes. I mean,
he was a recording ros himself. We just never never
hit it with that Vaughn on the black Line. Question
for you, what did you make in twenty eighteen when
you were leaving? What was your salary?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh, about sixty between sixty five and sixty seven thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Did you get overtime?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right now it's oh yeah, but that's without overtime. But
right now, I think it's about seventy five or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
How much did you hire on a Do you remember
what you first made when you started there?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, I started as a casual in Orange, Texas in
nineteen eighty six. I was getting only five dollars an
hour as a casual. That's a person that just not
on the regular force. And you know, you don't contribute
to retirement or anything.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And what were you doing.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Delivering mail?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh, so you're doing what the other people are. You
just didn't get the benefits.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right, right?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And which post office were you working.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Out of.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Orange Texas at that time?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay? Was that the only one? Because I know where
the post office was, but I don't know if that
was the only one.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, that's the only one in Orange. But then I
moved over to Port Arthur and worked there for about
twenty nine and a half years and went back to Orange.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You've probably delivered the mail to a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I know, probably so, yeah, because I was working around town,
you know at one time. You know, what they call
a technician is a person that has five routes a week,
just work on each carrier's off day, you know, so
(05:36):
they pay him a little bit higher.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh that's the rotator.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Uh yeah, uh huh technician. Like the guy you just
named Cornelius. He probably thought they were gonna blame it
on the on the regular carrier or something. They don't
teach him, you know, how they get caught or anything,
you know, so he didn't he didn't realize, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Probably so I'm that guy that goes and speaks to
the post office guy every day, and so if there's
somebody delivering the mail that's not my usual person, and
I go out there.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Because I just see the vehicle po Yeah, I'll say, oh,
I just want to come out and say hello to
my postman. And I say, oh okay, and I'll say,
uh uh are you filling in today? And it'll be
a person who's on. And that always struck me as
kind of like being the substitute teacher, because you never
get you you don't get your routine down that you
(06:33):
don't seem like you can't get can't get a groove.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh yeah. A lot of people would you know, complain
because you know, they wouldn't get their mailed at the
exact same time. Sometimes it would be earlier than the
regular carrier. Sometimes it would be you know, a lot later.
But uh, yeah, we were speaking about people stealing and
stuff we had during the course of my time. There
maybe three or four people they caught with uh with
(07:01):
the mail at their house, you know, uh, rooms full
of mail, you know, mail all in their trunk and everything. Uh.
And uh I remember one I think it was a girl.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Her boyfriend UH reported her when they you know, ended
up getting into some conflict and uh so she ended
up losing her job like that. But yeah, each one
of them, uh ended up losing their job. But I
don't see why they would bring that stuff home. What
was the point? You know, It was just I don't
think they were using them any cards or anything like that,
(07:36):
but they would have rooms full of mail. And detectives
went over there to one guy house and uh told
the union stood uh things that wasn't related to uh
to the mail what what he found in the fellow's house.
So you know, that was pretty funny though, like like
what kind of stuff, uh, playgirl magazines and uh and.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The guys play girl magazine.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Uh no, that's the kind of it was a guy
you know, but it was a guy magazine. I mean,
you know, we're not guy naked guys, you know in
the magazine.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And yeah, you got a great radio voice, Vaughn.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Oh No, I don't Michael Mary show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Gods forts rock. This song sung by Michael McDonald, written
by Kenny Loggins. What a full beliefs on their list
of qualifications. This is the purest yacht rock song. Meets
(08:53):
every standard of what yacht rock is. They're big on
Michael McDonald from they are big on Michael McDonald. It's
interesting how he goes in and out of you know,
they were the first ones to show the Venn diagram
overlap between Steely Dan and the Doobies and these various
(09:16):
artists and how they're using the same instrumentation, the same artists,
I mean, the same backing vocalists, the same saxophonist, keyboardists,
and anybody who says that, like, you know, Steely Dan
is not yacht rock. And you look at okay, well,
(09:41):
how come they have all the same artists and all
the same musicians and all of these things in common
because they want to be considered something outside of yacht rock.
But you can't let them do that. Ramon, You got
to put the tag on him and not let them
outside of it. All right, Kent at Little Yacht Sales
(10:01):
dot Com? Are you ready to pass judgment?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
All right, Ben, I want you to give the details
and don't sell it. Just give the actual details on
the spec sheet, not including the trailer linked or anything.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Okay, uh, thirty five foot let's leave the little deck
out on the back. And it says got on the title,
but it's not a cabin cruiser and it's not a
center console.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Who made it?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
It?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Mainship manship?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's that the TMU of boats.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, for your years, that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's a little.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, all right?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What would that go for had I had a door?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
What would that go for?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
New uh Brandy today? A thirty five footer wouldn't be gas,
would probably be outboards when we guess inboards. Probably in
the five hundred thousand nights.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh okay, all right, Is that true?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
When they were in boards?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They were in boards?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
How old?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
How old was I? No?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
How old was the boat when you bought it?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Oh? No, it was an eighty eight and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You bought it in what year?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Uh? Two thousand and five?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think, what what did you pay for it?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Oh? You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I would, I bet I would. One thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Come on, well, I don't know. There was another one
identical identical to it going on the pier at SouthShore
Sharbor going for one hundred and forty four thousand, and
I bought mine and I went out there and the
guy was asking for a certain price, and I just
(12:16):
told my wife, I said, I'm going to go out
there and an off from nine thousand dollars for it.
And she said, and I said, maybe we'll meet somewhere
in the middle. And there was nothing wrong with the
boat at in one of the engines I had to
have rebuilt. And she I was walking around in the
front of the bow looking at it, and this boat
(12:37):
was in pristine condition. And I came back there and
she kind of nudged me on the leg with her foot,
like make an offer, and so I told him, I
said nine thousand dollars and he said it's old, and
she's like, he's stupid. He said he would take eight
thousand for it. So yeah, I got it for nine
(12:58):
thousand dollars, but I sold it for way more.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How much you sell it for?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think twenty four or something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Can'ts over there?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Going?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Am I still needed? Must still borrow this conversation.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
So I'm just.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Basically I got I got all my money back, even
the slip seas and stuff like that. So I got
to have a free boat for like three years.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Do you have a boat now? No, just a motor home. Yeah,
so you lost So you sold the boat. You lost
your girl.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Probably because you sold the boat.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's kind of like a country song, isn't it can't
wait till my dog dies? So can't? What do you
what do you think? Ken? Is it considered a yacht
or is it not?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah? Yeah, it's it's something you leave in the water
full time, you know, big enough to stay on.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, what do you consider a yacht? What would be
what would be the checklist to call it a yacht?
Because your website is Little Yacht Sales which means and
I'm looking at the boats and they're all, you know,
thirty five fifty foot on the website? What what what
would you consider? First of all, let's establish the high
water mark. What what is the minimum length or size
(14:24):
or detail that you feel like you need to have
in order to call it a yacht and not go
and not worry that there's gonna be incoming fire.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Oh, I would say something that's got a cabin on
it that you can stay on twenty five feet up? Okay,
you know in power or sale?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Okay, why do you your website little Yacht Sales dot com?
Because everything will last bigger than that.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Yeah, that's true, because that's my last name, and I
was a dealer down here for a lot of years.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You know what, I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
When I went out on my own.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That is funny. Little is not an adjective in this sense.
It is not, Oh, that's funny. How long do people
know you or know of the company? Until I bet
some people buy a boat from you and never know that.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Unless they look at if they look on the website,
they would they would probably would notice.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I'm on the website. I don't notice it.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, then I need to fix the website.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Who is Betty Pope?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Betty Polk is my office manager. I'm just looking at
the fabulous she does. She does an enormous amount of
good stuff for us.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Every one of these guys is the guy that I
would expect to walk up on at a boat launch
at a marina, every single one of them. Josh Johnson,
Steve Greenwell, Sailboat Mike Sebaster, Captain John Grell, except for
Captain Bella Walker. She's kind of outside the normal demography.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
She's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
A license hundred ton captain. Spend the majority of my
life on the water for my childhood sailing the Bahamas.
Also served as a charter yacht captain. Do you charter
boats as well?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
We do not.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
We do not charter. There's plenty of people down in
the area that do, though.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You just uh, you just sell them.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
We sell new and news, power and sail.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Hold on a second, please, Ben, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, Ben, you're up, so can you
(16:45):
hear me?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Hey, Bud, Hey, I just wanted to deterim in on
the mail thing that you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, Ben, are you serious? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Another good thing.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, it has nothing to do with you. We have
these stupid demographic reports and apparently they have increased them
for the year. Make this quick, ramon, real quick. What
is your racer.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Wait age? Almost fifty this month?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Fifty?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm going to be fifty on the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You sound sixty five?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh what?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah? All right? I hate these reports so much as
you do.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We look sixty five too.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What is your height? Weight?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Two twenty six three?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Big boy? Religious affiliation if any Christie just non denominational?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Uh no, I'm affiliated. I just I don't go that often.
So where keen them all?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's j W. Yeah, you didn't want to tell me.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well, I always got the sense that you didn't really
kind of like them, so that's why I was kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I just like to poke at them.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't really know much about them. I just like to
poke it beba. I wouldn't waste my time. Oh I
like it to being upset over it. Uh So do
you really go and you just want to admit it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I haven't been going in a while, so yeah, but
no I do. It's my choice in religions were I mean,
it would be my choice I wouldn't go to like
a Catholic church or anything else. It's just if I
do go, that's where I go. I'm not I'm out
of Jehovah's Witness.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So were you born Jehovah?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Uh yeah, so you were rare stuff?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well no, I was probably about two or three years
old whenever my parents be Kim's ups witness.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Are you marital status.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Single?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Have you ever been married?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah? I talked to you like, well, you probably don't
remember it. I was. I was a guy with the
two cheating wives on the evening.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh, you're the one with not having a yacht?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Did you marry girls that were JW's.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Only one? The other one was not she's Catholic?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Okay? And what do you do for a living again?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Mechanic?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh hail, you're out on the northwest side. Yeah, I've
been tumble in a uh in a fifth wheel.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Motor home.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I sold my house to my son and daughter in law.
I moved into my motorhome. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Don't you have a boat too?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
And I, well, I had a boat. We were arguing
whether it was a yacht or not.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Remember, Yeah, you called it a yacht.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah, well, okay, can I explain something really quick before
we get totally off subject here.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't know what the subject is.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I was saying, well, I was gonna I was calling
in about the mail thing.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh well, that's never really the subject been.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, okay, to be a conversation. Okay, So I was
saying anything over twenty five foot of a yacht. But
that's not what I exactly meant, and I wish I
had explained it better. They the center consoles are center consoles.
The cabin cruisers are cabin cruisers. The youach has a
(20:52):
door to the bedroom, has its own shower, a kitchen,
agg a stove, you know, three TVs on it, stuff
like that. That's what I consider to be a yacht.
Not to mention it says that on the title. So
a center console is not a yacht, it's just a
center console.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, no, I know what a center console is. I've
got a listener named Kent. I don't actually know his
last name, but he has a website called Little Yacht Sales,
and he's one of the guys that I ask about
when I have questions. I asked Kent Little I just
(21:32):
looked it up, and I asked him when I have
boat questions, and I'm gonna ask him. Let's see if
I can find his number here. They don't have the
phone number. You know, Nobody wants you to call him anymore. Ben.
They want you to fill out a form on the website.
Nobody wants you to call him. Well, here it is,
We're going to call him real quick. Two eight one.
I know that three three, four sixty five hundred. I
(21:57):
had to argue with hurts, God help you trying to
get somebody on the phone with hurts. Nobody wants to
answer the phone anymore, nobody. I don't know why people
do business if they can help it with people that
don't want to answer the phone. Everybody wants to used
to it, Ben, you're not old enough to remember because
you're just fifty, but used to you would call and
(22:19):
somebody answer the phone, right, And then they got somebody
that they paid somebody to answer the phone. And then
they figured out, oh no, we're gonna have it where
you call and you go, hello, you have reached you know,
Ben's shop, and for this person wants a phone tree.
So you had to sit there and play the game. Ah, okay,
(22:39):
all right, And then they figured out, well, we've already
got them trained on that. Let's do an answering service
and then we'll pay somebody. And those people don't know.
So you call and go, hey has been there, and
they go, no, but can I take a message? And
you knew right then you're not in ben shop. You
just somebody off six' ten north at a call. Center
(22:59):
and then they figured, out, well look you're getting terrible
service from the person off six', ten north so we'll
just move That. To india so now, you hello This,
is mary HOW can? I happen and This? Is mary
well you're not marry and we know you're. Not married it's.
It's horrible and then they, figured, out, no, no no
we'll just do away with the. Phones altogether you'll just
(23:20):
go in there and fill out. The, thing well nobody
wants to, do that, including me BECAUSE then, I mean
i don't mind an. EMAIL exchange i would actually, prefer
that But but i'm not giving you my cell. Phone,
number ever it won't matter because it. Doesn't ring but
it just drives. Me crazy did You get kent on
the line? We'm on did You?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Get KENT what I called, VERIZON yesterday i said on,
The phone.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh yeah phone companies, no interest they have no interest.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
In. DAY representative i just repeated over, And, over representative.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's awful you got to spend. Ten minutes we're increasingly
being treated, like CATTLE and i really think that this
is part of the mental health issues that our. Society
faces back to one of these Women Are chief Michael,
BERRY man i think that there might.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
BE because i got nothing going on. Down there probably i'd.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Like to be Friends With. Christopher cross can you make?
That happen but there's almost Nobody that i've asked you
to help me become friends with over the years that
we haven't pulled. It off do yourself. A favor there
is a have you Seen The hot? Rock, documentary oh it's,
(24:35):
so good it's. So good IT'S on i, DON'T know i.
NEVER know i Think, it's PARAMOUNT but i. Don't know
everybody Should have prime and everybody Should, have netflix and
if you Have the prime package that picks up a
(24:55):
couple of. THE others I. Think PARAMOUNT and i don't know.
What else it MIGHT. Be hbo MAYBE. It's, HBO anyway
i couldn't. Find it AND then i finally it just.
Popped up. It's wonderful it's only an. HOUR long i
which it was five. Hours long but these guys in
two thousand and five started up a. Web series you
think about it in two thousand, and five it's a very.
Different time and they're the ones that kind of really
(25:17):
popularized the term yacht rock. As such and They Put
steely dan in the yacht rock category and they Call
old boy the lead Singer Of. Steely dan his name just,
escape me and he cussed. Him out he does not
like to be thought of his yacht rock because that's not.
Serious enough but they Tell the christopher cross story and
(25:40):
it's a. TRAGIC story i mean they don't tell it,
in Detail but i'll. Tell you the Dude had song Of,
The year album Of, The year newcomer of, the year
Try the TRIUMVIRATE and i think this Was in it
was in the. Early eighties that didn't happen again for
(26:02):
almost forty Years When billy eilish did it in. Twenty
twenty so you think about that's a. Big deal he
was top of. The, charts man he. Was it he
was the hottest. Thing going AND then mtv hit and
people realized he, was fat and all of, a sudden
boot nobody wanted to Listen To chris. Cross anymore but
(26:22):
the whole, yacht rock you know what is and isn't?
Yacht rock and, they say, you know this artist is
yacht rock and this. Artist isn't now to, the ear
they sound, very similar but they, point out, you know
this is the reason this is, yacht rock and this
is the reason this over here is not, yacht rock
and that it's more than just kind of easy listening
(26:44):
when you think of, radio formats it's more than just.
Easy Listening but i'll bet most of you if you watch,
that documentary you will love every single song that is
that is that is part of. That, documentary anyway we
Can't get Kent At Little yacht sales to pick up
(27:06):
call his. Number again you said it's one of those
where you've got to tell who you are when. You
call that makes. Good sense i've got every filter that
you could possibly get on. My phone i got every
app so, when people so my phone, never rings, never buzzes,
never Notifies but i'll pick it up every so often
just to see if There's something, i've missed and it'll
(27:29):
say you know miss call SPAM and i don't, even
BOTHER but i will TELL you i still GET and
i wish there was a way to. PUNISH them i
still get the political operative. Text, messages hey you know
this issue is coming up and you need to and
they're selling you all those. Political consultants they're. All set
(27:49):
once people have, asked, ME hey i Gave to trump
AND now i get fifty texts again. A year let
me to DAY and, i, Say well trump can't run for.
OFFICE again i hate to, say This but i'm gonna
sit on. The air never give to another. Political. CANDIDATE
never i don't know what else to. Tell you never
give them, Your number never give them, your email, just, ever.
(28:12):
Ever Ever Mary tally bowden. Asked me, SHE said i
got to FIGURE out i don't have good work. Life
balance i'm a. Single mom she's got a, hundred kids
got as many Kids As. Robert reese and, she said
people call and. Text me i'm, gonna text call and
email me all hours of the night. And DAY and
i got to figure out a WAY that i can't
(28:32):
be getting all. These CALLS and, i said what's? Your
fault you give out your? Phone number and, she, said
well IT. Was covid people, were scared people, were dying they,
needed HELP and, i, said well you need to. Tell
them times. Have changed we're NOT in. Covid anymore i'm
not taking. YOUR calls I don't i'm not going to
return calls or text messages or emails outside of. Office
(28:55):
hours simple. As that. That's how that's how you. Stop
that what? Well, not uh of.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Course.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Not uh i'm just saying, everybody else, ben yep, hold
on we're trying to get hint At Little yacht Sales.
Dot com what? Was, it Yeah Little yacht Sales. Dot
com if we can, pick up we're gonna find out
if this is a if this is a yacht.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Or not hey. CALL it i get. THOSE calls i
get those calls too where they always want to buy.
MY house i even get CALLS when i live downtown
Above sam Bucas On. Texas street hey did you know?
They close i'm, just, like yeah send me.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
A check did you know They? CLOSED sambuca.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
KNOW that i just got the email from a friend
of mine last, week, that uh, with regrets we are
closing some did you?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Get it?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Call, him no put them. On there let's SEE what
i want to see what their voicemail.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
SOUNDS like i used to eat dinner there every NIGHT
when i. Live downtown is?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That right they used to have. Good music they'd have kind,
of loungy, jazzy style, Cabaret Style alison krauss kind.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Of music music three hundred and sixty four days, A
year is? That? Right YEAH and i felt like a.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Can't This Is. Michael berry, HOLD on i don't know how. To,
ANSWER no i don't know how to.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Do, this.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Hello this. Is crazy. Don't, Don't, can't, yes sir?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
My.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Man can't how come we couldn't get ahold?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Of?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
You oh i'm?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Not sure why wasn't looking at?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
The?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Phone well WHAT if i wanted to buy?
Speaker 6 (30:52):
A boat i would call.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You, back okay, all right you're on. The air you, know, That,
right okay we're required to tell.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That Okay so I've got ben on. The line he's
a white male two hundred twenty pounds sixty, sixty three
doesn't have a lot going. On downstairs, he's lifelong well
since he Was to. Jehovah's witness. He's single he's a
mechanic and he lives in a, motor home but he had.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
A BOAT what, I said i'm Not.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
A joba's i asked you if you?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
WHAT meetings, I said i just like going to the,
meetings There but. I'm not, you said.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You go To The. Kingdom hall that's A.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Jw, yeah okay, all right, All Right.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So kent we, need you since your Website Is Little
yacht sales, dot com we need you to tell us
whether his boat qualifies as a yacht. Or not ben,
go ahead given.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
The details thirty six foot counting the little deck on.
The back, So.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well i've never heard people describe. Their boat i've heard thirty,
five foot three hundred and Fifty Realm, boston whaler. Cabin
cruiser i've never heard thirty. Six foot if you count,
a trailer just call it what it would, be.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Called, the trailer the little deck on, the, back.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Trailer hitch on. The, back okay, all right so hold on,
one second Thirty six i'm going to plug. This In
while kent is telling us whether it's a yacht. Or
not you have to describe it as it would be
Described On boat Trader Or Little. Yacht sales for, That
Night Michael berry show
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