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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pat Green's brother, John Burgess and his sister in law Julia.
Julia and John Burgess were killed in the Curville floods.
They were in their RV camping. Two of their children
are still missing, and their daughter was unharmed. She was
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at a summer camp nearby. So doesn't that sound like
a wonderful trip? Oh I don't. I don't know the
daughter's name. Let's let's make her Cammy. Oh well, honey,
if Cammy's going to be at summer camp, why don't
we take the RV down to the river. We can
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camp there while she's at camp, and then when she's done,
she comes over, we load her up and head back.
Maybe we even after Fredericksberg a couple of days. Maybe
spend a couple of days in San Antone passed through Austin.
I don't know where they live. I'm assuming the Dallas area.
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That sounds like a great little summer trip, doesn't it.
She's already going to be at camp. We'll just take
the RV. We'll go down and camp next to the river.
Be a heck of a good time. And then the
flood comes. So Pat Green is I guess this is today?
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He will go live from Globe Life Field. He says
he and some friends. Well, Pat's got a lot of
friends in the music scene, especially the Texas country music scene.
It says Pat Green and friends. That's probably because this
was pulled together on short notice, and he's probably texting
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people right now, Hey man, can you come out and
just do a couple of songs for us? And the
Texas Rangers are involved in that, and I guess that's
REV Entertainment. So that will be Wednesday, July sixteenth, Texas
Flutter Relief live stream, six point thirty pm. I don't
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have the link to the live stream, but I suspect
if you go looking for it you'll find it. That'll
be this evening. I did see a link to the
fact that they're raising money, and I know money is
coming in. There is not an audience for that show.
It's a live stream concert, and as you're watching it,
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they're going to make a plea for folks to make
a contribution. And I think that's wonderful, you know, for Pat.
You know, I was proud that for my brother's passing,
I could speak at his funeral and I could tell
the story of who my brother is because that's what
I do. I tell stories, and for Pat I think
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it's probably a healthy part of his grieving over his
brother to be able to be able to do a
concert for his brother. The more and more folks, you know,
the camp stories caught my attention because we had so
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many friends who were friends of folks. My wife just
told me last night some very close friends of ours
were in Scotland. They had one daughter who was a
camp counselor at Mystic and another daughter who was a camper,
and both of them were rescued, but they couldn't, of course,
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get a hold of their family members. Another friend of mine,
his son who is the same age as Michael T,
and their friends they go to u T together. His
girlfriend was a camp counselor. She's from Dallas. She goes missing.
Of course there's no communication systems. The family wakes up
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and they can't get a hold of her, and they're
seeing that there's flooding and they're seeing that Camp Mystic
is hit very hard and they can't get a hold
of her. But they couldn't for a while. So parents
worst nightmare. I mean, can you can you imagine you
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know what I'm of The belief that little girls are
overly dramatic. I think they learned that from their mothers,
and they learn to screech when there's an insect, or
to be angry if they can't get their way and
daddy gives in. And I've never raised girls. Maybe maybe
it's un a I don't know, but I've always thought
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that little girls should not be raised in this manner
because it makes it difficult to find a man who'll
tolerate that when you get older. So if you were
to ask me when someone says my daughter is devastated
over this or that, you know, because the school was
closed for two hours to you know, repave the street
or whatever, I would inwardly my inner monologue would be, yes,
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I'm sure your daughter is devastated over this or that,
because little girls are devastated over everything. I honestly believe
these little girls will be effected when they're seventy five
years old. The survivors will remember this, don't I don't
you have to move on. That's how people made it
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through the Holocaust, That's how they make it through wars,
That's how they make it through being the only survivor
in auto accident with the rest of your family. But
this is legitimately, authentically a deep trauma that you've got
to learn to cope with because it is going to
be with you for the rest of your life. God
blessed those Hilties your life.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's with them. Michael Arry's formal ware.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We have all your formal war needs, from morning suits
to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
A combat veteran put up. He said, I went to
Camp Hope a hardcore alcoholic with no understanding about my
mental health. Suicidal destroyed health issues common story for a
lot of us. I've always been a believer in God
in some extent, but when he actually touched me while
riding a horse during my stay at Camp Hope, my
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life was changed. I wasn't thinking about anything negative, I
wasn't praying. I was just enjoying the scenery. And then
it happened, the Aha movement, the Aha moment. Camp Hope
staff talked about hate, anger, unforgiveness I was holding on
to was gone. Like the sun came out and I
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was alive. At forty years old. I received a brand
new life, one I only dreamed of that now just flows.
I put in hours upon hours of hard work in
a business I co own. I put hours upon hours
in my production company, and I have a biodocumentary streaming
on multiple platforms. And I'm currently working on a fiction
film based on facing past trauma and turning back to God,
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recording music again, and living all. Since graduating the program
on September twenty eight, twenty twenty three, I went from
losing absolutely everything to having all that I need and
a family again. I wish success to every single person
that is trying to change. David Malsby sent me that
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this morning. He said, I hope this brings you a smile. Well,
I can assure you it does. Every morning David Malsby
sends me a Today's Champions, and it's people who in
one way or another have done something for Camp Hope,
and today's was. This weekend, we had the honor of
speaking directly to the Texas American Legion Auxiliary at their
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state meeting in Austin, sharing the mission behind Camp Hope
and the national outreach programs that are changing lives every day.
We told them that what we tell community, every community
we're blessed to visit, our warriors come home with wounds
you can't always see at the PTSD Foundation of America.
We're not just talking about it, We're walking alongside these
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veterans through peer to peer warrior groups across the country
and a life saving residential program right here in Houston
at Camp Hope. Trish Ward, a force for good in
this mission, helped deliver the message loud and clear. Healing
is possible. Big thanks to the American Legion Auxiliary Department
of Texas for the warm welcome and the unwavering support.
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This partnership reminds our veterans they are not forgotten and
never alone. We're saving lives one warrior at a time.
David Maulsby or one of our veterans, goes out and
speaks literally every day, sometimes multiple times, to church groups,
to men's groups, to women's groups, to Republican groups, to
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veterans groups, to charitable groups, you name it. He speaks
to them. If you're an organization that needs speakers on occasion,
I encourage you to bring them. You don't, it's like
a revival. You don't have to pass the hat afterwards.
People want to contribute, they want to participate, They want
to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want
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to feel like they're making a difference. And that's why
there's so many fundraisers that the benefit goes to Camp Hope.
That's want of so many people who have an annual
event this year, our fish fry, our car wash, our
clean up, whatever that is, and they will choose Camp
Hope one year or often for many years. I'm happy
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to afford your email to David Malsby. I'm not the
guy that coordinates it, but I'm happy to forward that
to David Malsby if you're interested in a speaker or
being a part of a fundraiser in any way. And
I do appreciate when I read that letter right there.
I hope a lot of you take pride in the
fact that you're involved to make that happen. I want
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you to listen carefully to this story. It's a Houston
news story. I want you to listen carefully and see
if you notice anything odd about it. The story is
a woman has been detained for questioning. That means she's
probably a suspect after another woman was shot and killed
yesterday morning at an apartment complex in Houston's Third Ward.
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The incident occurred at a residential complex where residents say
a routine morning quickly turned into a terrifying ordeal. Popo
say the bullet was report awardedly fired from the second
floor of a building approximately one hundred yards away. That's
a pretty good shot. Khou has the story.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I want you to listen to this story with a
very very skeptical ear. Put on your Sherlock Holmes hat
or whatever hat it is that you use ironside Matt Locke,
Rockford Files. I want you to listen carefully to this
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story and see what hint, what tip comes out to you.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You say, a woman has been detained for questioning after
allegedly shooting and killing another woman at an apartment complex
in southeast Houston today, and we're hearing from a neighbor
who says one of the bullets from that shooting nearly
struck her. She's sharing her story with Matt Doherty tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You're not safe nowhere, not even in the house.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Poorsha Thompson says, the morning began like any other Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I would have been probably still laying down too, but
I was hungry, so I just got up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I said, let me start our breakfast, and that's.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
What I was doing. So as the breakfast was cooking.
I said, let me go check the weather. I didn't
make it to do that. I forgot about that weather.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Before she could make it to her front door, pieces
of dry wall in her living room pelted her in
the jaw.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was beating me up in the face. Really, it
was beating me up in the face.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Then she heard the gunshots. Incredibly, a bullet had narrowly
missed the top of her head.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
The detectives told me the same thing. They was like,
if you was a tad bit taller, Thank God that
you are short.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The bullet had been fired from the second floor of
the building across the complex, about one hundred yards away.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You see.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It entered through the glass window next door, then through
the wall and intoed Porscha's unit, crossing the living room,
then coming to a stop inside of a wall.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
God left me a for a reason, and he did
it again. Oh my, again and again and again. So yes,
I said, no whipon form against me shall pross And
I'm covered in the blood of Jesus, thank God.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
When the gunfire finally ended, a woman lay dead on
the stairs of the building where the shots were fired.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
She didn't come over here to walk with nobody. She'd
been coming for years.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Neighbors said the woman who was killed was in her seventies.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
She was a nice lady.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
She would always come to the dumps and get the cans.
And I told her, I say, if I was still
drinking beer, you would have a lot of cans. I said,
my brother drink it, but I don't have nowhere to
keep the cans.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And she was real pleasant, very nice lady.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Neighbors say the woman lived in a home nearby and
would drive to their complex and others each week collecting
empty cans and bottles left outside and on the porches
for recycling. They believe this is probably what she was
doing when she was shot. In the third word, I
met Doherty Khou eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
News, I can't help but think for somebody to be
shot from a hundred yards away, that is not your average.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You are listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This is considered the slowest sports day of the year.
So for folks who enjoy a good sporting event, whether
in person or on TV, this is a really, really
down day. The day after the Major League Baseball All
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Star Game, I would ask Jim Mudd his perspective on it.
But just like Chance McClain, who was also employed in
sports radio for many years, they've both gone from making
a living in sports talk to being the least interested
in sports of anybody I know. But I can always
dredge up an old story from past athletes that they
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do enjoy talking about. None of the big four US
sports leagues Baseball, MLB, in NFL, NBA, nor NHL have
competitive games today the day after the Major League Baseball however,
there are still sports on tonight, fourteen major League soccer games.
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For me, I'm not opposed to soccer. Crockett loves soccer.
I recognize a lot of people love soccer because they're
from Mexico or Europe or Africa, but I don't have
a lot of friends that have a crossover between baseball, football, basketball,
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especially maybe some hockey and soccer. There are five WNBA games.
You know that WNBA is expanding three or four teams.
This blows my mind. This blows my mind because I
don't know anybody, not one person. I literally don't know
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one person who watches a WNBA game. And I'm not
saying that as an insult. This is the honest truth.
I don't know anyone.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Used to.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I knew some lesbians and gay guys and they would go,
not many, but they would go. I don't even know
any of them anymore that that go to WNBA games.
And that is not to say that that's all that
supports the NBAWNBA, but that is honestly my experience. I
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don't know anybody who goes. I don't know anybody. I
don't know anybody whose little girl wants to grow up
to be a WNBA player, because they're all beasts. They're mean,
ugly lesbians who are black and hate white people, and
they make that clear. And I don't know anybody who
wants their daughter to have that as a role model.
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I really don't. There is also the Women's Euro quarterfinal
between Norway and Italy. Norway is looking for its first
trophy since nineteen ninety three, while Italy has never won it.
I'm going to hear from Robert Reese. He's the only
person and he's going to say that he loves watching
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those which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm
just telling you, I don't know anybody who watches those things.
It being the day after the All Star break, there
was a nice story that Koonda sent along, and I
really enjoyed it. Having grown up with my kids in
baseball and having been as a kid my dad coaching
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all of my teams. It's a great tradition for me.
Last night, as let's see, this would have been I
guess this would have been Sunday night, right the Home
Run Derby. Seattle Mariner cal Rawley became the first catcher
to win the Home Run Derby with fifty four home
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runs over the three rounds. Very impressive, but as Paul
Harvey would say, you need to know the rest of
the story. Standing on the mound pitching to cal Rawley
as he wins it, the first catcher to do soever
was none other than his pops, Todd Raleigh. You imagine,
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how do you keep it together without balling like a
little baby. You're throwing pitches to your son on It's
one thing. I remember when Brandon Backy got pulled up
to the Astros and he was having that magic second
half of a season. You remember that Jim and his
family came in from Galveston and you could see him.
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They were I think McNair had given him Ian McNair
Drayton had given him seats about fifteen rows up behind
home plate, and they would keep panting to the family
and they were so excited their boy here. He was
pitching for the Astros and he was doing really, really well.
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You're throwing pitches to your son in the home run derby.
I mean, you've been throwing pitches to your little boy.
Before you could throw pitches. You had a t ball
in the backyard and you put the ball on there
and he hit it, and you ran got it and
brought it back. Maybe mom helped shag flies. And then
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and then you got to coach pitch, which was after
dad pitch, which is what you did in the backyard,
and you worked on that stroke again and again and again,
and you got his swing down and you watched him
grow and after every game. And you're chasing high pitches,
you're chasing pitches in the dirt. You need to load faster,
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you need to choke up on two strikes. You're coaching
his kid all the way through. It's only happened once
before where a dad pitched to his son, and that
was twenty eleven when Jose Canoe pitched to his Yankee
slugger son Robinson Canoe. But let's go back to the
Raleigh Boys fathering son. You got dad pitching to the son,
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only the second time it's ever happened. The Sun wins
the home run derby, first time ever that a catcher
has done it. It's a pretty awesome story, Pretty darn
awesome to think of the memory. Imagine mom watching to
the side, Imagine the team tears streaming down. This is
what you've dreamed of, but it never happens for anybody ever. Well,
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let's not forget dad's pitching. Son's hitting brother is catching.
Fifteen year old younger brother, Todd Raleigh Junior is catching
for this whole thing. Not a bad night for the
Raleigh Boys. Cue the audio, mister.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Mud Cal Raleigh, the home run derby champion. You did
it with your father throwing to you. You did it
with your brother behind the plate.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
What does this mean to you?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Ah?
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I mean's the world?
Speaker 9 (21:33):
You know?
Speaker 8 (21:34):
You know I could hit zero home runs and I
would have had just as much fun. So I just
can't believe it. Long, It's unblievable.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Todd Raleigh threw a lot of pitches tonight. You've thrown
a lot of pictures to your son over his career.
How much does this mean to you and why is
this so great for the Raleigh family.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Well, it's just a great accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
And I think that everybody, every dad it's ever had
a kid, this is what they dreamed about.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
And I said, Dad, you kind of dream about it.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
To see it come true for your son is unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Cal you were saying that Tea was giving you some
advice behind the plane.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
What was he saying to you and why was it
the thing that helped propel you to this wind? Honestly,
he was hyping me up. He was firing me up
the whole time.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
I'd hit one good and he'd be like, let's go,
and I don't know, just got me going. And I
think that's why I got in good spurts during the
during the derby, and uh, you know, he was talking,
you know, threw me to my dad, talking about where
he's throwing it.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
So it was a lot of fun. He was, He
was really good and it was an awesome experience.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I made the point that the woman was shot in
the hood and third ward at the apartment complex from
a one hundred yards away.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Somebody said, that's not that big a deal. If you're
using a rifle. Okay, well, I'm three, I haven't lived
in society. I had no idea. I thought that was
the hardest thing. Ever, of course, that's not a hard
shot with a rifle. When is the last time you
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saw a black woman shoot another black woman in the
hood from one hundred yards away? You know she didn't
use a pistol. When is the last time you had
a black on black woman shooting with a rifle? I
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don't recall it ever before. So no, it's not common.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's just it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That is what is so odd about that story. So
I was with couple of friends a few days ago
and I was introduced to a member of the group.
We were traveling to Vegas. And as I walked up
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last one to join the group, and my friend Gary
Peterson pointed to the one guy in the group I
didn't know, and he said, Michael Berry, meet Langston Turner.
And I chuckled, and I said, well, if that doesn't
scream private equity, I don't know what does. Langstone Turner
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sounds to me like a character from Central Casting for
Billionaire Boys Club. I didn't grow up with any Langston Turners.
Now kids today they're named Langston. I don't mean Langston Hughes,
the black author, but for a white man to be
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and probably fifty years old, fifty five, I don't know,
somewhere run there to be named Langston, it just seemed
very hoity toity. So I thought, well, you can't ask
right off, it was too weird. A little while into it,
really liked the guy. So we're having a cigar and
I said, well, how did you take me, responding right
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off the bat with well, if that doesn't scream private equity,
I don't know what does. He said, Oh, I listened
to this show. I expected something like that. I knew
you were gonna, you know, kind of punch me to
see how I would react. I said, well, you did
pretty well, and he said yeah, but I was prepared.
I said, well, now I must ask. What is your
middle name? And he said Wilcox Langston Willcox Turner. Okay,
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and he's a high net worth wealth advisor guy. But
he had done private equity in the oil and gas
space twenty five years ago, so I was pretty proud
I nailed it. And he also had kind of you
know the you remember movies in the eighties where Nicholas
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Cage would be the bad guy. He'd be wearing all black.
You know, I'll stop the world and melt with you
at the end. And the girl's father, you know, would
be on the golf course and the son who's dating
the father's daughter, he would be there and he would
be in his sweater and he was home from Dartmouth,
and he'd have his blue V neck sweater and his
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khakis and maybe he'd have it tied around his nag
and he'd have his his loafers on. And they were
at the club and afterwards did have an honorable palmer
and they would talk about, you know, this young man's
future and where they were going to live, and well
that Langstone looks like that, absolutely looks like that. And
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we were talking about the fact that I could have
pegged what he did from a mile away, which he
was a very very good sport about. And so we
were talking about names over the course of the weekend
and how names convey things to you, unfortunate names or
in his case, a name that you were just you know,
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if you walk into a room and you see this guy,
he's got the hair, kind of got a good solid
head of hair, got it combed to the side, got
the the whole look, and he's got the name to go.
You can't make that up. You could just you just
you can't make that up. Yes, I will invest my
money with you. I don't need to see a prospectus.
I don't need to see your your track record, your wins.
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I'm sure you Just match my money with your money
and I'm happy. So anyway, we got to talk about
names and the like, and I said that that our producer,
our creative director, Jim Mudd's wife, his last name is Mud,
So his name is mud literally, and how does it
happen that he marries a woman named Dusty. What's Dusty's
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maiden name, Davis? So she's Dusty Davis. That's a good
that's a good stage name for a singer or a
baseball player. But anyway, Dusty Davis goes and marries Jim Mudd,
making her And it took me six months of us
working together before I put the first and last name together.
I knew her name was Dusty, that her name is
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Dusty Mudd. When I tell people that, they don't believe me.
My wife in law school had a classmate, very nice,
young lady and her last name was the nickname for
Richard well lo and behold in, which I thought was
so funny because I have a player isle, you know,
sophomore extensive humor. Five years after law school is over,
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we see that young lady and call her by her name,
first and last name. She has changed not just her
last name, but her first name as well, just a
total identity makeover. Well, all of this comes in light
of the fact that it turns out Darryl Kunda, who's
one of our producers, does coon to have a title. Jim,
everybody need everybody, everybody needs a title. Well, he had
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made the point of how funny it is when a
woman marries a guy. I guess he knew somebody who
went through this when a woman marries a guy and
he has a funny name, and she doesn't want to
take that name, so she has to kind of say,
you know, that's not my maiden name is you know Smith?
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I wasn't always born a you know, fill in the blank.
So he came up with a game called the last
Name Shame Game for women who married into terrible last names.
But we have expanded that to coming up call in
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and tell us the name of a person. You're gonna
have to be bold here, can't be afraid you'll hurt
their feelings that you thought yourself like Langston, like I
did with Langston Wilcox Turner. My goodness, that guy should
be a private equity or a money manager. I mean,
that guy's you know, he's got to be from Connecticut, right,
He's got to be from New Hampshire.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
He's got to be a.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Wealthy you know, he's like a real Michael Milkott not
or a bad name or a funny name, or if
you are the person with that name that you've been
embarrassed of, or ladies, if you married from a great
name into a name that you'd rather not have, or
if you had a horrible name and you were saved
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by being married into what you consider a much easier
name than public to say seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three, nine nine nine one
thousand
Pat Green's brother, John Burgess and his sister in law Julia.
Julia and John Burgess were killed in the Curville floods.
They were in their RV camping. Two of their children
are still missing, and their daughter was unharmed. She was
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at a summer camp nearby. So doesn't that sound like
a wonderful trip? Oh I don't. I don't know the
daughter's name. Let's let's make her Cammy. Oh well, honey,
if Cammy's going to be at summer camp, why don't
we take the RV down to the river. We can
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camp there while she's at camp, and then when she's done,
she comes over, we load her up and head back.
Maybe we even after Fredericksberg a couple of days. Maybe
spend a couple of days in San Antone passed through Austin.
I don't know where they live. I'm assuming the Dallas area.
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That sounds like a great little summer trip, doesn't it.
She's already going to be at camp. We'll just take
the RV. We'll go down and camp next to the river.
Be a heck of a good time. And then the
flood comes. So Pat Green is I guess this is today?
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He will go live from Globe Life Field. He says
he and some friends. Well, Pat's got a lot of
friends in the music scene, especially the Texas country music scene.
It says Pat Green and friends. That's probably because this
was pulled together on short notice, and he's probably texting
(01:54):
people right now, Hey man, can you come out and
just do a couple of songs for us? And the
Texas Rangers are involved in that, and I guess that's
REV Entertainment. So that will be Wednesday, July sixteenth, Texas
Flutter Relief live stream, six point thirty pm. I don't
(02:20):
have the link to the live stream, but I suspect
if you go looking for it you'll find it. That'll
be this evening. I did see a link to the
fact that they're raising money, and I know money is
coming in. There is not an audience for that show.
It's a live stream concert, and as you're watching it,
(02:43):
they're going to make a plea for folks to make
a contribution. And I think that's wonderful, you know, for Pat.
You know, I was proud that for my brother's passing,
I could speak at his funeral and I could tell
the story of who my brother is because that's what
I do. I tell stories, and for Pat I think
(03:08):
it's probably a healthy part of his grieving over his
brother to be able to be able to do a
concert for his brother. The more and more folks, you know,
the camp stories caught my attention because we had so
(03:30):
many friends who were friends of folks. My wife just
told me last night some very close friends of ours
were in Scotland. They had one daughter who was a
camp counselor at Mystic and another daughter who was a camper,
and both of them were rescued, but they couldn't, of course,
(03:54):
get a hold of their family members. Another friend of mine,
his son who is the same age as Michael T,
and their friends they go to u T together. His
girlfriend was a camp counselor. She's from Dallas. She goes missing.
Of course there's no communication systems. The family wakes up
(04:19):
and they can't get a hold of her, and they're
seeing that there's flooding and they're seeing that Camp Mystic
is hit very hard and they can't get a hold
of her. But they couldn't for a while. So parents
worst nightmare. I mean, can you can you imagine you
(04:40):
know what I'm of The belief that little girls are
overly dramatic. I think they learned that from their mothers,
and they learn to screech when there's an insect, or
to be angry if they can't get their way and
daddy gives in. And I've never raised girls. Maybe maybe
it's un a I don't know, but I've always thought
(05:02):
that little girls should not be raised in this manner
because it makes it difficult to find a man who'll
tolerate that when you get older. So if you were
to ask me when someone says my daughter is devastated
over this or that, you know, because the school was
closed for two hours to you know, repave the street
or whatever, I would inwardly my inner monologue would be, yes,
(05:27):
I'm sure your daughter is devastated over this or that,
because little girls are devastated over everything. I honestly believe
these little girls will be effected when they're seventy five
years old. The survivors will remember this, don't I don't
you have to move on. That's how people made it
(05:48):
through the Holocaust, That's how they make it through wars,
That's how they make it through being the only survivor
in auto accident with the rest of your family. But
this is legitimately, authentically a deep trauma that you've got
to learn to cope with because it is going to
be with you for the rest of your life. God
blessed those Hilties your life.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's with them. Michael Arry's formal ware.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We have all your formal war needs, from morning suits
to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
A combat veteran put up. He said, I went to
Camp Hope a hardcore alcoholic with no understanding about my
mental health. Suicidal destroyed health issues common story for a
lot of us. I've always been a believer in God
in some extent, but when he actually touched me while
riding a horse during my stay at Camp Hope, my
(06:39):
life was changed. I wasn't thinking about anything negative, I
wasn't praying. I was just enjoying the scenery. And then
it happened, the Aha movement, the Aha moment. Camp Hope
staff talked about hate, anger, unforgiveness I was holding on
to was gone. Like the sun came out and I
(07:01):
was alive. At forty years old. I received a brand
new life, one I only dreamed of that now just flows.
I put in hours upon hours of hard work in
a business I co own. I put hours upon hours
in my production company, and I have a biodocumentary streaming
on multiple platforms. And I'm currently working on a fiction
film based on facing past trauma and turning back to God,
(07:25):
recording music again, and living all. Since graduating the program
on September twenty eight, twenty twenty three, I went from
losing absolutely everything to having all that I need and
a family again. I wish success to every single person
that is trying to change. David Malsby sent me that
(07:46):
this morning. He said, I hope this brings you a smile. Well,
I can assure you it does. Every morning David Malsby
sends me a Today's Champions, and it's people who in
one way or another have done something for Camp Hope,
and today's was. This weekend, we had the honor of
speaking directly to the Texas American Legion Auxiliary at their
(08:08):
state meeting in Austin, sharing the mission behind Camp Hope
and the national outreach programs that are changing lives every day.
We told them that what we tell community, every community
we're blessed to visit, our warriors come home with wounds
you can't always see at the PTSD Foundation of America.
We're not just talking about it, We're walking alongside these
(08:28):
veterans through peer to peer warrior groups across the country
and a life saving residential program right here in Houston
at Camp Hope. Trish Ward, a force for good in
this mission, helped deliver the message loud and clear. Healing
is possible. Big thanks to the American Legion Auxiliary Department
of Texas for the warm welcome and the unwavering support.
(08:50):
This partnership reminds our veterans they are not forgotten and
never alone. We're saving lives one warrior at a time.
David Maulsby or one of our veterans, goes out and
speaks literally every day, sometimes multiple times, to church groups,
to men's groups, to women's groups, to Republican groups, to
(09:13):
veterans groups, to charitable groups, you name it. He speaks
to them. If you're an organization that needs speakers on occasion,
I encourage you to bring them. You don't, it's like
a revival. You don't have to pass the hat afterwards.
People want to contribute, they want to participate, They want
to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want
(09:36):
to feel like they're making a difference. And that's why
there's so many fundraisers that the benefit goes to Camp Hope.
That's want of so many people who have an annual
event this year, our fish fry, our car wash, our
clean up, whatever that is, and they will choose Camp
Hope one year or often for many years. I'm happy
(09:59):
to afford your email to David Malsby. I'm not the
guy that coordinates it, but I'm happy to forward that
to David Malsby if you're interested in a speaker or
being a part of a fundraiser in any way. And
I do appreciate when I read that letter right there.
I hope a lot of you take pride in the
fact that you're involved to make that happen. I want
(10:23):
you to listen carefully to this story. It's a Houston
news story. I want you to listen carefully and see
if you notice anything odd about it. The story is
a woman has been detained for questioning. That means she's
probably a suspect after another woman was shot and killed
yesterday morning at an apartment complex in Houston's Third Ward.
(10:49):
The incident occurred at a residential complex where residents say
a routine morning quickly turned into a terrifying ordeal. Popo
say the bullet was report awardedly fired from the second
floor of a building approximately one hundred yards away. That's
a pretty good shot. Khou has the story.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I want you to listen to this story with a
very very skeptical ear. Put on your Sherlock Holmes hat
or whatever hat it is that you use ironside Matt Locke,
Rockford Files. I want you to listen carefully to this
(11:31):
story and see what hint, what tip comes out to you.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You say, a woman has been detained for questioning after
allegedly shooting and killing another woman at an apartment complex
in southeast Houston today, and we're hearing from a neighbor
who says one of the bullets from that shooting nearly
struck her. She's sharing her story with Matt Doherty tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You're not safe nowhere, not even in the house.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Poorsha Thompson says, the morning began like any other Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I would have been probably still laying down too, but
I was hungry, so I just got up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I said, let me start our breakfast, and that's.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
What I was doing. So as the breakfast was cooking.
I said, let me go check the weather. I didn't
make it to do that. I forgot about that weather.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Before she could make it to her front door, pieces
of dry wall in her living room pelted her in
the jaw.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was beating me up in the face. Really, it
was beating me up in the face.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Then she heard the gunshots. Incredibly, a bullet had narrowly
missed the top of her head.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
The detectives told me the same thing. They was like,
if you was a tad bit taller, Thank God that
you are short.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The bullet had been fired from the second floor of
the building across the complex, about one hundred yards away.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You see.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It entered through the glass window next door, then through
the wall and intoed Porscha's unit, crossing the living room,
then coming to a stop inside of a wall.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
God left me a for a reason, and he did
it again. Oh my, again and again and again. So yes,
I said, no whipon form against me shall pross And
I'm covered in the blood of Jesus, thank God.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
When the gunfire finally ended, a woman lay dead on
the stairs of the building where the shots were fired.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
She didn't come over here to walk with nobody. She'd
been coming for years.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Neighbors said the woman who was killed was in her seventies.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
She was a nice lady.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
She would always come to the dumps and get the cans.
And I told her, I say, if I was still
drinking beer, you would have a lot of cans. I said,
my brother drink it, but I don't have nowhere to
keep the cans.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And she was real pleasant, very nice lady.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Neighbors say the woman lived in a home nearby and
would drive to their complex and others each week collecting
empty cans and bottles left outside and on the porches
for recycling. They believe this is probably what she was
doing when she was shot. In the third word, I
met Doherty Khou eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
News, I can't help but think for somebody to be
shot from a hundred yards away, that is not your average.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You are listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This is considered the slowest sports day of the year.
So for folks who enjoy a good sporting event, whether
in person or on TV, this is a really, really
down day. The day after the Major League Baseball All
(14:40):
Star Game, I would ask Jim Mudd his perspective on it.
But just like Chance McClain, who was also employed in
sports radio for many years, they've both gone from making
a living in sports talk to being the least interested
in sports of anybody I know. But I can always
dredge up an old story from past athletes that they
(15:04):
do enjoy talking about. None of the big four US
sports leagues Baseball, MLB, in NFL, NBA, nor NHL have
competitive games today the day after the Major League Baseball however,
there are still sports on tonight, fourteen major League soccer games.
(15:32):
For me, I'm not opposed to soccer. Crockett loves soccer.
I recognize a lot of people love soccer because they're
from Mexico or Europe or Africa, but I don't have
a lot of friends that have a crossover between baseball, football, basketball,
(15:53):
especially maybe some hockey and soccer. There are five WNBA games.
You know that WNBA is expanding three or four teams.
This blows my mind. This blows my mind because I
don't know anybody, not one person. I literally don't know
(16:16):
one person who watches a WNBA game. And I'm not
saying that as an insult. This is the honest truth.
I don't know anyone.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Used to.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I knew some lesbians and gay guys and they would go,
not many, but they would go. I don't even know
any of them anymore that that go to WNBA games.
And that is not to say that that's all that
supports the NBAWNBA, but that is honestly my experience. I
(16:50):
don't know anybody who goes. I don't know anybody. I
don't know anybody whose little girl wants to grow up
to be a WNBA player, because they're all beasts. They're mean,
ugly lesbians who are black and hate white people, and
they make that clear. And I don't know anybody who
wants their daughter to have that as a role model.
(17:11):
I really don't. There is also the Women's Euro quarterfinal
between Norway and Italy. Norway is looking for its first
trophy since nineteen ninety three, while Italy has never won it.
I'm going to hear from Robert Reese. He's the only
person and he's going to say that he loves watching
(17:34):
those which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm
just telling you, I don't know anybody who watches those things.
It being the day after the All Star break, there
was a nice story that Koonda sent along, and I
really enjoyed it. Having grown up with my kids in
baseball and having been as a kid my dad coaching
(17:55):
all of my teams. It's a great tradition for me.
Last night, as let's see, this would have been I
guess this would have been Sunday night, right the Home
Run Derby. Seattle Mariner cal Rawley became the first catcher
to win the Home Run Derby with fifty four home
(18:19):
runs over the three rounds. Very impressive, but as Paul
Harvey would say, you need to know the rest of
the story. Standing on the mound pitching to cal Rawley
as he wins it, the first catcher to do soever
was none other than his pops, Todd Raleigh. You imagine,
(18:45):
how do you keep it together without balling like a
little baby. You're throwing pitches to your son on It's
one thing. I remember when Brandon Backy got pulled up
to the Astros and he was having that magic second
half of a season. You remember that Jim and his
family came in from Galveston and you could see him.
(19:07):
They were I think McNair had given him Ian McNair
Drayton had given him seats about fifteen rows up behind
home plate, and they would keep panting to the family
and they were so excited their boy here. He was
pitching for the Astros and he was doing really, really well.
(19:29):
You're throwing pitches to your son in the home run derby.
I mean, you've been throwing pitches to your little boy.
Before you could throw pitches. You had a t ball
in the backyard and you put the ball on there
and he hit it, and you ran got it and
brought it back. Maybe mom helped shag flies. And then
(19:51):
and then you got to coach pitch, which was after
dad pitch, which is what you did in the backyard,
and you worked on that stroke again and again and again,
and you got his swing down and you watched him
grow and after every game. And you're chasing high pitches,
you're chasing pitches in the dirt. You need to load faster,
(20:13):
you need to choke up on two strikes. You're coaching
his kid all the way through. It's only happened once
before where a dad pitched to his son, and that
was twenty eleven when Jose Canoe pitched to his Yankee
slugger son Robinson Canoe. But let's go back to the
Raleigh Boys fathering son. You got dad pitching to the son,
(20:40):
only the second time it's ever happened. The Sun wins
the home run derby, first time ever that a catcher
has done it. It's a pretty awesome story, Pretty darn
awesome to think of the memory. Imagine mom watching to
the side, Imagine the team tears streaming down. This is
what you've dreamed of, but it never happens for anybody ever. Well,
(21:01):
let's not forget dad's pitching. Son's hitting brother is catching.
Fifteen year old younger brother, Todd Raleigh Junior is catching
for this whole thing. Not a bad night for the
Raleigh Boys. Cue the audio, mister.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Mud Cal Raleigh, the home run derby champion. You did
it with your father throwing to you. You did it
with your brother behind the plate.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
What does this mean to you?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Ah?
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I mean's the world?
Speaker 9 (21:33):
You know?
Speaker 8 (21:34):
You know I could hit zero home runs and I
would have had just as much fun. So I just
can't believe it. Long, It's unblievable.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Todd Raleigh threw a lot of pitches tonight. You've thrown
a lot of pictures to your son over his career.
How much does this mean to you and why is
this so great for the Raleigh family.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Well, it's just a great accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
And I think that everybody, every dad it's ever had
a kid, this is what they dreamed about.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
And I said, Dad, you kind of dream about it.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
To see it come true for your son is unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Cal you were saying that Tea was giving you some
advice behind the plane.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
What was he saying to you and why was it
the thing that helped propel you to this wind? Honestly,
he was hyping me up. He was firing me up
the whole time.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
I'd hit one good and he'd be like, let's go,
and I don't know, just got me going. And I
think that's why I got in good spurts during the
during the derby, and uh, you know, he was talking,
you know, threw me to my dad, talking about where
he's throwing it.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
So it was a lot of fun. He was, He
was really good and it was an awesome experience.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I made the point that the woman was shot in
the hood and third ward at the apartment complex from
a one hundred yards away.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Somebody said, that's not that big a deal. If you're
using a rifle. Okay, well, I'm three, I haven't lived
in society. I had no idea. I thought that was
the hardest thing. Ever, of course, that's not a hard
shot with a rifle. When is the last time you
(23:22):
saw a black woman shoot another black woman in the
hood from one hundred yards away? You know she didn't
use a pistol. When is the last time you had
a black on black woman shooting with a rifle? I
(23:46):
don't recall it ever before. So no, it's not common.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's just it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That is what is so odd about that story. So
I was with couple of friends a few days ago
and I was introduced to a member of the group.
We were traveling to Vegas. And as I walked up
(24:16):
last one to join the group, and my friend Gary
Peterson pointed to the one guy in the group I
didn't know, and he said, Michael Berry, meet Langston Turner.
And I chuckled, and I said, well, if that doesn't
scream private equity, I don't know what does. Langstone Turner
(24:38):
sounds to me like a character from Central Casting for
Billionaire Boys Club. I didn't grow up with any Langston Turners.
Now kids today they're named Langston. I don't mean Langston Hughes,
the black author, but for a white man to be
(25:00):
and probably fifty years old, fifty five, I don't know,
somewhere run there to be named Langston, it just seemed
very hoity toity. So I thought, well, you can't ask
right off, it was too weird. A little while into it,
really liked the guy. So we're having a cigar and
I said, well, how did you take me, responding right
(25:21):
off the bat with well, if that doesn't scream private equity,
I don't know what does. He said, Oh, I listened
to this show. I expected something like that. I knew
you were gonna, you know, kind of punch me to
see how I would react. I said, well, you did
pretty well, and he said yeah, but I was prepared.
I said, well, now I must ask. What is your
middle name? And he said Wilcox Langston Willcox Turner. Okay,
(25:50):
and he's a high net worth wealth advisor guy. But
he had done private equity in the oil and gas
space twenty five years ago, so I was pretty proud
I nailed it. And he also had kind of you
know the you remember movies in the eighties where Nicholas
(26:11):
Cage would be the bad guy. He'd be wearing all black.
You know, I'll stop the world and melt with you
at the end. And the girl's father, you know, would
be on the golf course and the son who's dating
the father's daughter, he would be there and he would
be in his sweater and he was home from Dartmouth,
and he'd have his blue V neck sweater and his
(26:33):
khakis and maybe he'd have it tied around his nag
and he'd have his his loafers on. And they were
at the club and afterwards did have an honorable palmer
and they would talk about, you know, this young man's
future and where they were going to live, and well
that Langstone looks like that, absolutely looks like that. And
(26:54):
we were talking about the fact that I could have
pegged what he did from a mile away, which he
was a very very good sport about. And so we
were talking about names over the course of the weekend
and how names convey things to you, unfortunate names or
in his case, a name that you were just you know,
(27:16):
if you walk into a room and you see this guy,
he's got the hair, kind of got a good solid
head of hair, got it combed to the side, got
the the whole look, and he's got the name to go.
You can't make that up. You could just you just
you can't make that up. Yes, I will invest my
money with you. I don't need to see a prospectus.
I don't need to see your your track record, your wins.
(27:40):
I'm sure you Just match my money with your money
and I'm happy. So anyway, we got to talk about
names and the like, and I said that that our producer,
our creative director, Jim Mudd's wife, his last name is Mud,
So his name is mud literally, and how does it
happen that he marries a woman named Dusty. What's Dusty's
(28:02):
maiden name, Davis? So she's Dusty Davis. That's a good
that's a good stage name for a singer or a
baseball player. But anyway, Dusty Davis goes and marries Jim Mudd,
making her And it took me six months of us
working together before I put the first and last name together.
I knew her name was Dusty, that her name is
(28:23):
Dusty Mudd. When I tell people that, they don't believe me.
My wife in law school had a classmate, very nice,
young lady and her last name was the nickname for
Richard well lo and behold in, which I thought was
so funny because I have a player isle, you know,
sophomore extensive humor. Five years after law school is over,
(28:47):
we see that young lady and call her by her name,
first and last name. She has changed not just her
last name, but her first name as well, just a
total identity makeover. Well, all of this comes in light
of the fact that it turns out Darryl Kunda, who's
one of our producers, does coon to have a title. Jim,
everybody need everybody, everybody needs a title. Well, he had
(29:12):
made the point of how funny it is when a
woman marries a guy. I guess he knew somebody who
went through this when a woman marries a guy and
he has a funny name, and she doesn't want to
take that name, so she has to kind of say,
you know, that's not my maiden name is you know Smith?
(29:33):
I wasn't always born a you know, fill in the blank.
So he came up with a game called the last
Name Shame Game for women who married into terrible last names.
But we have expanded that to coming up call in
(29:53):
and tell us the name of a person. You're gonna
have to be bold here, can't be afraid you'll hurt
their feelings that you thought yourself like Langston, like I
did with Langston Wilcox Turner. My goodness, that guy should
be a private equity or a money manager. I mean,
that guy's you know, he's got to be from Connecticut, right,
He's got to be from New Hampshire.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
He's got to be a.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Wealthy you know, he's like a real Michael Milkott not
or a bad name or a funny name, or if
you are the person with that name that you've been
embarrassed of, or ladies, if you married from a great
name into a name that you'd rather not have, or
if you had a horrible name and you were saved
(30:35):
by being married into what you consider a much easier
name than public to say seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three, nine nine nine one
thousand
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