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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

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So Michael Very Show is on the air.

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I like to think of Jesus like with John Eagle's
wings and singing lead vocals for Leonyard Skynyrd with like
an angel band.

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And I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk.

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I just swat to sell up another delvent.

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I just want to sell celebrate another.

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He hates these cans, stay.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Away from my can.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
I just want to celebrate, yeah, yeah, another.

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Day live in Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I just swamped to sell celebrate another Damn.

Speaker 7 (01:00):
I want to play first. Mason Saint Louis the guy
at first, Mason who is on first? What he else
you can be for?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm the sunny shining down on me?

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Says?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I just want to celebrate, yeah, yeah, another day living.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Family Field. Now here's your house, Steve.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
Army.

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Okay, okay, all right, okay, that's enough for plum Okay,
a little bit more little all right, all right, Tyalad Feud.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
We've got the world's most powerful leaders from Russia.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's Vladimir Putin from our great us of a our
President Donald J.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Trump Trump Putin. Let's play in the few.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, Top five answers on the board. Name someone in
your country who carries a big stick but hardly ever
says a word, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Easy answer. Guarantee number one.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
My dog verne shepherd dog means faithful, loyal.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
In your American language.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Final answer, show number one.

Speaker 7 (02:09):
Game one.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, there you have it. Putin seems more confident than
the Russian judge. Give it a low score to American gymnasts.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Show us vernay, give me name, address, phone number, next
of kin I fouck easy there, sacle. Let's go to
our president, mister Donald hro somebody in the great he
wants to't ay who carries a big stick but may
never say it word.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Quite frankly, it's the king of ding Ramon Roeblers. Well,
now didn't see that comment.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Show me kayo d.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh Number one answer.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
This is abomination of my country.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Your country have no kings and where is this Dingo?
All time against guten Putin, los us.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Take the walk right here the family, John Hern you're
on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir Michael, good morning.
Thanks and take McCall.

Speaker 8 (03:00):
I'm an eighty three year old Vietnam Navy veteran, and
I think he hit the nail on the head this
morning talking to that young fellow about his mortgage. Dave
Ramsey says, the problem with these with the younger generation,
and not only the younger but the older two, is
instant gratification. We want everything that our parents have, but

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we don't.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Want to wait to get it.

Speaker 8 (03:23):
And I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting more
toys at a big punkin beautiful truck and all that,
but save you money and buy it when you can
afford it. I drive a twenty one year old truck,
my wife drives a twenty one year old car, and
we're just fad.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, yes, sir. What's interesting is I don't think there's
any financial literacy being taught in I don't know. I
don't want to say everybody in some people's homes. I

(04:03):
don't think people are teaching I don't think enough people
are teaching their children financial literacy. I only think the
public school system is teaching it. I don't think secondary
education is teaching it. I think when people I think
young people don't understand the value, the time value of money,

(04:26):
compounding interest, compounding growth. What can be done, you know,
delayed gratification and investment instead.

Speaker 7 (04:38):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
The idea. When I was growing up, you saved your money.
But I don't teach my kids to save their money.
I teach them to invest their money because I've seen
the difference in what it can do. I was running
for city council and there was gentlemen named Dean Kannally.

(05:01):
He had a firm called Kannae Trust. And I've told
this story on the air before, but it's been a while.
And Dean was willing to support me for city council
because Walter Pasively asked him to, and Walter was like
my second father. And but when I went for my meeting,
we went into Kannae Trust this August, you know, mahogany

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paneled walls. I go in the back and I sit down.
He said, I will support you, but only if you
will make a financial plan right now. I was twenty
nine years old. If only I had done everything he
told me at that so what he did was lay

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out the principles of personal finance. At that point when
I was twenty nine years old, and I think back
now how many years it took me to really understand
how much he was helping me with that advice. He
wrote a book called Fundamentals of Financial Literacy or something

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like that, and it was one of those books that
didn't become a bestseller but should have. When I think
back on personal finance and the things that have influenced
me the most, it's rich men, poor man, or was
it rich Dad, poor dad? The millionaire next door? And
I know a lot of finance guys will poo poo
the millionaire next door because it's about self denial and

(06:29):
deferred gratification and you know, inconspicuous living, whereas they like
the conspicuous consumption and the big deals and the home runs.
But you know, you can play small ball and get
to a very good place in your life. My dad
certainly did, and that is simply by not wasting money.

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But doesn't mean you can't live well, doesn't mean you
can't do nice things. We really do live in a
golden era. People's complain has nothing to do with fact.
It's disconnected. I've known many, many, many people who were
fabulously rich and miserable all the time world's gone to hell.

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And I've known there are certain people who they will
complain about. I've seen it.

Speaker 7 (07:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
They'll have three kids and they'll tell, oh, oh, Bob Tom,
he's man, he's causing us nothing but problems. He's failing
in school, not any good, Old Bob Tom, he's nothing.
And then Bob Tom gets an A and he clears
up his grades and he's doing well, and I mean
without missing a beating. They go, well, Susie Little, she's

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over there, she's just well. We didn't hear about her
because but we always needed to have somebody we were
complaining about. And that's how people do. You have no
reason to worry if you were a young person over
the future, if you are taking care of things yourself.
I think there is the idea if there's a day's
ex machina out there that is going to lift all

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the boats, this rising tide going to lift all the boats.
Smart people make money during downturns. Resilient people are going
to be fine. But this idea that you need to
be fearful of the feer does not help it paralyze it.
Just make good decisions and earn more money and save
more money and invest more money. But we were talking

(08:31):
about Ed McMahon. We didn't have edmoncan wed We're talking
about Ed McMahon. A couple of days ago and several
listeners emailed to let me know that Ed McMahon's wife,
Victoria was from Houston, one going so far as to
send the obituary she passed July fifteenth of twenty sixteen.
It said Victoria Valentine McMahon passed away in Los Angeles

(08:54):
after a lengthy battle with pulmonary hypertension. She was born
June seventh, nineteen forty, to Ray and Mary Valentine in Houston, Texas. Vicky,
as she was then called, joined trans Trans Texas Airways
Executive office directly after high school, and later took a
job as special representative ground hostess to the president of

(09:16):
National Airlines in both New Orleans and Houston. While working
for National Airlines out of Houston Hobby Airport, she met
her husband, Ed McMahon, longtime sidekick of Johnny Carson on
The Tonight Show. Victoria and Ed made their home in
Beverly Hills and raised their daughter, Katherine Mary McMahon, who
was born in nineteen eighty five, they were active on

(09:41):
the celebrity circuit and blah blah blah, blah blah. They
divorced in ninety one, but she remained active. She continued
to live in Beverly Hills. So there you go. Lived
off his name, Ramone. Things you say, Uh, let's go
to let's go to Dave.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
Dave.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
You're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 9 (10:04):
How's everything going today?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Good?

Speaker 7 (10:06):
What you got good?

Speaker 9 (10:09):
Talking about the elderly gentleman they called in that his
wife and him both have twenty one year old vehicles. Well,
that puts me back to back when my dad was military,
so everybody would be getting new cars, like in nineteen
seventy three, seventy four.

Speaker 7 (10:28):
So I asked my dad.

Speaker 9 (10:30):
Everybody went around. The guy had Monte Carlo seventy four
Monte Carlo and it was sharp. And so when we
were walking back to the house, I asked my dad,
I said, you know, we've had that car soon when
he came back from Vietnam he bout sixty eight. I said,
when are we going to get a new car? And
he stops and he looks at me and he asked,
He says, does that car have that air conditioning.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
I said, yes, sir.

Speaker 9 (10:54):
He says does his I said yes, sir. He said,
how about a heater?

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Same thing?

Speaker 9 (10:59):
So I said yeah, but his has electric windows in it.
My dad looks at me and says, what are you
too good or too lazy to roll down that window?

Speaker 7 (11:09):
You know.

Speaker 9 (11:09):
I didn't say another word after that, but he says,
I don't have to keep up with anybody. And that
was the life lesson to me that I've had to say.
I have a fifty five bel Air and a ninety
six and Paula that I've had for thirty years because
I don't want the car payments. And it was like,
you know, no, I'm not going to do it because

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this one's still runs and if I maintain it, it'll
last me forever.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Well, you know, I think it depends on the person
and where you are. A new car is one of
the great joys in life, and the new car smell.
I remember nineteen eighty five my parents got a Buick
Park Avenue and boy was that I ate to do.
I mean, that was special. I think it was probably

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the first new vehicle they'd ever owned. And people we
didn't have neighbors close by because we were out in
the country. But the word got out and people riding
bicycles over and walking over and they had to see
this new vehicle and the door would be open and
the ooh and in the awed man.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was a treat.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
You know, none of this stuff is very hard. It's
really not very hard. I think my biggest concern with
a fellow who called in who was so worried, is
this idea that somehow we're living through a bad time.
You're not living through a bad time. The early thirties
were rough, the Carter administration rough. It just depends on

(12:35):
who you are, what you're doing, how much money you're
making and can make and should make and will make,
based on your decisions and your work ethic. When I
was young, I thought that the way you made more
money is you work hard. Is work hard. I'm no
longer of that opinion. There is something to be said
for working hard. If you're a ditch digger, work more hours,

(12:57):
if you're a cop, you work more hours. But for
most people in an increasingly digital world, it is working smart.
It is finding ways to achieve leverage, finding ways to invest,
finding ways to make more money in ways that do

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not necessarily require more of your time or energy, but
may involve your capital. That being said, I just don't
like the idea of the negative approach, because that's what
you've been told by CNN. Well, CNN's got John Bolton
every other night, and his house and office have been raided.
And I hope he ends up in prison. I desperately

(13:40):
hope he ends up in prison or dies of a
heart attack on the way because of the shame. And
don't send me an email saying, my god, that's not
very nice. I'm not nice. Did you just figure that
I'm not nice? I'm vindictive. I hate what those people did.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I hate it.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's evil. Let's go to John John, you're on the
Michael berrigshe.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
Moir, I'm I all with you? Where have the John?
John m oh I was going to talk about Amy Klobash.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Are you the fella that used to call?

Speaker 7 (14:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
What what is going on? Where have you been?

Speaker 7 (14:33):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (14:33):
I've had uh heart not heart transplant of heart valel
transplant COVID in the hut, big fun.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Have you been back to jail?

Speaker 7 (14:48):
Oh? Hell no, that was a one and one alf
kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Where are you living?

Speaker 7 (14:56):
Oh, same place Miami clob the share story.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, right, before we get to that, weren't you living
in didn't Wasn't there some sketchy details on how you
were You were kind of barely holding on there.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Oh yeah, I mean I'm still barely holding on, but
you know, good spirited, and I have a lawyer on
the case, so.

Speaker 7 (15:26):
And my.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Lossuit versus the city for a fortnight in jail. You
you wouldn't believe how little Rat's gonna die is gonna met.
I mean, it's really disheartening.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Because it makes me feel better about my life. Every shortcoming.
I feel like everything that hadn't gone my way, and
then I go, well, it could be worse. Okay, tell
me that am m clovichar story.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Right, good fight, It's the Michael Barry Shows.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
The New York Court of Appeals voided the nearly five
hundred million dollars in punitive penalties against the Trump Organization.
To his credit, seeing In legal analyst Ellie Hoenig has
called out Big Tish and the sham civil trial since
the beginning. Listen to his reaction to the court's decision.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, I'm not wolf.

Speaker 10 (16:41):
I have been skeptical of the attorney General's case for
a long time. I'm on record saying that this is
a huge win for Donald Trump anyway you cut it,
and this is a stinging rebuke to the Attorney General,
Letitia James. The finding here, it's a very long, complicated ruling,
but the bottom line is, while the finding of liability
against Donald Trump can stand for now, at least the

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damages award, which started at three hundred and fifty million
dollars with interest, gets up close to five hundred million dollars,
that is thrown out. And the core reason for that ruling,
according to the judges, is essentially that there was not
enough of a showing here that there were actual victims.
And just to refresh people's memories, this is the civil
fraud lawsuit brought by the Attorney General. The core allegation

(17:25):
is that Donald Trump habitually overvalued his own assets when
he was trying to get bank loans from banks and
other lenders. And essentially the argument that Donald Trump made
below that has now had resonance in the appeals court
is you're talking about very sophisticated quote unquote victims. These
are billion dollar banks that made the loans got repaid

(17:46):
on the loans by Donald Trump with interest and actually
profited to the tune of millions of dollars. So it's
not the typical type of fraud case where you have
somebody stealing money from other people or ripping off unknowing consumers.
So this ruling by the appeals court is monumental. It
was also very unusual in that it took them nearly
a year to reach this decision. As Caitlin Poulantz just said,

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the next step is going to be to go up
to the highest court in the state, the Court of
Appeals in New York State.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
How did President Trump respond, Well, after the hell they
put him through, of course, he wasn't going to sit quietly.
On his truth social account, he posted a picture of
himself up close smiling, I mean a cheshire cat grin
while this played.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
All I do is we you mean?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
No matter what money, my man?

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Every time, everybody go.

Speaker 11 (18:47):
All I do is.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
David, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
simply apply the paint. David, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yes, sorry to bring this up on the open Line Friday,
but just a little pet peep. A lot of us
who we get there disabled veteran plates, and uh, sometimes
it takes a while to get enough to where we
can get the plates you at that disability or higher.

Speaker 11 (19:31):
On then on to this portion of the Michael Base
Show is brought to you by Schlitz Small Liquor, smooth
like Sunday CHOI loud like Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
You can't have the bull crash in on a disabled veteran.
You can't control the bull, David, I'm sorry, can you
start over? The bull crashed?

Speaker 6 (19:53):
Ah, it's fine. You used to drink that when I
was when I was young, but then kind.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
Of moved on to other stuff.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
It's just the airport system changed their policy to where
if you happen to be working at the airport, they
won't allow you to use your privileges anymore. It makes
absolutely no sense because we don't pay anyways. And I
mean it's not a big, big giant thing, but it
is an inconvenience for people who've worked hard to go

(20:21):
through the system. And finally, I'm not a combat that
I'm not some kind of hero or anything, but you know,
we do get injuries while we're in and if it
wasn't for Camp Hope, I was just going there to
donate some food, my old smoke Maga cheese, and I
guess I had an episode or something that I had realized.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
And I used to have the.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Mind frame that if you weren't a combat that you
shouldn't get disabled veteran benefits. And they changed my mind.
They said that's no. If you serve honorably and you
got injured, you need to go through the paperwork and
get it. So a lot of us did, and for
some stupid reason. Of course, it's one of the most

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corrupt parts of the government Harris County is the airport system.
But it's just I just wanted to voice it out there.
I'm sorry saying this on a Friday, all the good
news with Bolton and everything like that, because a lot
of my brothers and sisters got serious injuries and lost
lives because of people like Bolton.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
That is absolutely true. Those warmongers sent our boys into
war that they had no business sending them. They basically
try to take over of this country and want I
literally want to see him in prison. I want to
see Hillary in prison. I want to see Obama in prison.

(21:48):
I want them. I want it all to be known.
I want it all to be revealed. I want people
to see it. Alligator Alcatraz has been so popular as
the deportation facility because we're getting illegals out of this country.
They are here illegally. Alligator Alcatraz has been so popular

(22:12):
that now they are adding more. The latest in Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
You've heard about Alligator Alcatraz. Here in Texas, we love
Lone Star lock up. Now illegal aliens headed to the Midwest.
Get ready for the corn Husker cliff. Oh no, not
another dinner made of corn corn on the cob can
corn corn pudding.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
How much more corn can a man take? This is
pure torture.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
And if anyone thinks of escaping, good luck. Just wait
until one of these jokers want to try and escape
My uncle Bart's farmbacks up to the Cornhusker clink boy.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
I have a surprise for these guys.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Got the old John Deere out and created a corn
maze in the face of our great President Donald J.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
Trump.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
They'll be lucky to get past his hair.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Coming soon, the Pennsylvania Poke, Kansas Cooler, Louisiana lockdown.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
There's a gentleman named Dan Agan, who I guess I
met when he came on our Palm Beach trip or Aspen,
oh as became on an Aspen trip. Nice fellow. He is, uh,
he's a he lives he lives up like an Anderson

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up in that area and he uh, he invested in
land years ago and now he sells off the timber
and it's it's about managing the land as it in
the regrowth and all that, and that's what he does.
And he contacted me about wanting to do a you

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want to start a charity. He's donated every time we
do something. Every time we do something, Saint Jude camp
Pobe always donates. And he's said he and his wife
were starting a charity called we Won't Be Canceled and
we're gonna spend X amount of money. They had hoped
to raise money, but I think he's ended up at

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this point just funding it himself. So a few weeks
ago we got we had a guest on named Douglas Mackie.
Douglas Mackie had made a funny joke on Twitter and
ended up being jailed and it hurt him. They wrote
him a twenty thousand dollars check after they heard him
on our show, which Vanessa Sivaj Ethan Him Victoria White.

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This is the fourth person they've sent twenty thousand dollars
to to support them financially after they spoke out. How
cool is that? You probably know that Cracker Barrel is
going through a rebrand and they've taken away all the
adornment on their sign and they've simplified it with just

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the same color scheme and brown lettering that says Cracker Barrel.
And they have been a topic of many news stories
this week and lots of discussion, And the truth of
the matter is, I think most people feel the way
I do about Cracker Barrel. We like the idea of

(25:18):
Cracker Barrel, but we don't really like the place or
the food. We like knowing it's there. There are certain
things that we like knowing or present, but we don't
ever we don't actually spend our dollars going there. The

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thing about Cracker Barrel to me is that the concept
was supposed to be down home, old South grandma's cooking
comfort food. But if we're completely honest, it's one hundred
percent kitch. It's total and utter kitch. It is marketing.

(26:02):
People sitting around thinking about what we think we miss
about growing up but it's a corporation with no soul,
and it never has had a soul. So I'm seeing

(26:23):
articles written about Crocker Barrel made their name a good
Southern cooking and comfort food. That's not true. If I
want Southern cooking and comfort food, I'm not going to
a national chain for it. That was Grandies. There's a

(26:46):
reason Grandees didn't make it. There's a reason Shones didn't
make it. You can put a sign on the door, remember,
po folks, po folks. All right, so let's say, well,
well we'll put act, we'll we'll drop the G on everything,

(27:06):
put an accent there, talk like Southerners. Let's see, we'll
drink out it. We'll drink out of Mason jars. Why
would we do that. That's old South there, that's old
Oh okay, all right, Mason jars is China having Mason jars.
Get us a bunch of Mason jars. We'll put carpet
on the floor. Okay, yeah, yeah, and we'll we'll just

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play Grandpa Jones on and string Bean on loop the
whole time. That's good. That's good.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
Must see.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Is there a way you can install new doors that creek?
We want them to creak on day one, and uh,
you could go ahead and put a screen on there.
And with the screen, if you could put.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
Up a little.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
What do you call it a spring, so it'll it'll
every time somebody goes out, even if they turn and
close it, it'll then clap three times. Oh that's good,
that's good. Is there a Is there a replica basket
hound where you can put over in the corner, or
maybe a cata hula something like that. What if we

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used to pay some old lady to sit out in
a in a glider on the front porch and uh,
we'll put her in a rocking chair and we give
her a whole mess of purple hole peace. We just
have her sit there and shuck them. That'd be good. Yeah,
that'd be good. What else can we do? Let's see, Uh,

(28:42):
maybe we'll we'll put a car in the next door
neighbors lot and we'll put it up on blocks and
let the grass grow up around it. That's good. That's
very authentic, very authentic. I like that, very authentic, very authentic.
Mm hmmm. And uh, maybe we'll put a replica a
filling station out front. We'll have fella looks like goober

(29:05):
but not there, Cooter, and he'll he'll have a rag
in his overalls back pocket and a white shawl. That's good,
that's good. What brand should we do, Oh, you can
put the old Pegasus or sind Claire, maybe golf, will
do golf.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Okay, do golf.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, we'll do hardwood floors inside.

Speaker 7 (29:26):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
And uh, we'll get some moon pies. Yeah, we'll sell
we'll sell some chotchkeys.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
So before you go in, it'll be just like in
the airport where there's a gift shop to be and
then you'll go into so by the time they go
into the restaurant, they're so overloaded with how old South
historical comfort food back in the day in southern Mississippi,
they'll just be ready to go.

Speaker 10 (29:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, all right, put some moon pies and put a
bunch of stuff that nobody wants, but you kind of
feel like an old Hallmark story. Yes, this is brilliant.
I like this is a concept.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
We can take this around the world. Just this just
cookie cutter. Pick this up and drop it wherever we go,
and we'll sponsor the Grand Old Lopry.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's a great idea.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, yeah, And so every so they weren't ever actually
singing any songs. They'll just keep telling you how good
the grand ole opry is, that grand old lopry. It
sure is good, is it? Well, that is good, ma'amo.
But it ain't half as good as a cracker barrel.
I know, that's right. What you think over, Junior, You

(30:35):
just gonna sit and sleep all day, now, ma You
know I ain't sleeping. I'm just so hungry for some
biscuits and gravy at Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 7 (30:44):
You not.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's it's the whole routine. It's the whole kitch kitch
kitch kitch. Nobody craved anything there. I read an article
six months ago about the slow and sad, tortured death
spiral of Cracker Barrel is before all this stuff was announced,
And the problem was that the Cracker Barrel concept was

(31:14):
sort of the way BUCkies was some time ago, where
it was located on the highway, so it was a
place that you would drive and stop on the highway.
It was not designed as a local restaurant because people
want to go to Bessie and Bubba's, you know, they
want to go to the place that the local people
own and Cracker Barrel was a was what people thought

(31:43):
that kind of place was. It wasn't that kind of place,
it was what people thought that kind of place was.
So everything was designed completely like a Hollywood set for
this type of experience, and some people bought into it.
Some people did and there's nothing wrong with that. If
you you might have enjoyed grandies, that's fine. But the

(32:06):
whole thing was concept. It was selling a concept that
was created. It was not authentic. It was never authentic.
But the article was about how Cracker Barrel was trying
to decide, I mean, we're gonna dump this this place
or what. And the truth of the matter is I
hate their what what they're doing, and I love watching

(32:27):
them because they're DEI stuff. It was a horrible logo.
I thought it was a terrible logo. I don't like
the new one any better. But we're not really losing
anything here, we're winning. Another company is going away. If
you eat at Cracker Barrel, I'm sorry for you. Ri
I P I'll pour one out. But nobody really other

(32:50):
than playing that little that little thing that you hopped
over and you tried to leave it down to one.
Cracker Barrel was a place you ate on the road.
You never went to Cracker Barrel to Cracker Barrel to
eat dinner because you wanted to, because it was local
and it was good. It was a freeway stop like
an old Billups, or a love like a Bucky's, but
not nearly as good. I heard you