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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air. I have all Americans.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
I'm proved to tell you today that I signed.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Legislation without law Russia forever.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We'll get him robbing in five minutes.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
If I get to like it.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
Someone made around. I noticed when you get to dislikeing
someone standing wround for a long name.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Guy's got a lot of pickup. It's got a cop motor,
a four hundred and forty cubic inch plant. It's got
cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. There's a model made
before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas.
What do you say, is that the new bluesmobile or
one thanks a cigarette lighter.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
I sure appreciate it, sir, if you could find it
in your heart to hang him up by his neck
until he was.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
DICKT boy escalated quickly.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I've just explaining to your better head have here that
when we were tunneling out we happen at the main
sewer line.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Dumb luck that, and we followed that busted out of jail.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
No manpop.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
We released her has on our own recognitions.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
One of my all time favorite Americans turns seventy five today,
Big George, two time world heavyweight champion, Olympic gold medalist, inventor, pastor, father, leader, Friend,
George Foreman seventy five today. A life well lived. A
(01:49):
lot of wisdom in that man, and a lot of
it earned the hard way on the streets, from failure,
from getting knocked down, from grief from suffolk ring. Yeah,
we're talking about We're talking about rodeo songs and the like.
Bobby reminds me, I can't seem to find it, but
(02:11):
I'm reminded of the fabulous John Prime song Angel from
Montgomery that has the lyrics make me a poster from
an old radio Bonnie Rae did a good cover of
it as well. Now I had, and now I've managed
to lose it. I had an old rodeo poster from
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the Houston Livestock Show and rodeo here we are from
nineteen eighty three. And by the way, don't y'all go
telling Chris and all the guys over the road, I'll
have to hear from Alicia Jammerson and Dennis Woolford that
I was criticizing the rodeo. I'm not criticizing the Rodeo.
I'm just saying times have changed and I've grown old,
and I'm okay with that. They've got a job to do,
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and their job is to fill that place up for
twenty one days. And I wouldn't want to do it.
I would not want to do it. It's not an
easy thing to do. But here is a nineteen eighty
three Houston livestock show in Rodeo. Here is the list.
You ready to remote? Opening night, Cooling the Gang, second night,
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Mel Tillis. Then this is in a row Merle Haggard,
have mercy. Then Hank Williams Junior. That's a matinee. Then
TG Shepherd and Lacy J. Dalton together, then Eddie Rabbit
and Roseanne Cash nineteen eighty three listen, then Conway Twitty
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and Sylvia. Listen to me. You don't need to pair
anybody with Conway. Conway draw enough to fill that whole
damn place. I'm glad I wasn't around in eighty three.
I'd have had a word with Leroy Schaeffer over that.
Oh you just wanted to put Sylvia in there, just
to give her a shot. Okay, I'm fine with that.
I just don't want anybody thinking you got to pair
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somebody with Conway, and certainly not a woman. Conway draw
more women than all of them. I mean, this is
just doesn't stop. It's an all star. Next is Ricky
Skaggs and Jennie Frickey in one night. Now you do
have to pair them. Ricky Skaggs doesn't have gus one
of those things. Marshall. Dwayne Hefley told me he started
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Firehouse Saloon when he was twenty seven and I asked
him one time, I said, Marshall up. Marshall's his brother
h Dwayne tell me the one artist that you booked
that you had the highest hope for that completely failed
and shocked you and you lost the most money. He said, Michael,
you could ask anybody that's been in this business for
(04:47):
as long as I have, and there will be one
answer that will be the answer for every single one
on them. Joe Diffy Well, lo and behold. Larry Gatlin
was booked for a show that we had and Larry
has a lot of throat problems. He's had a lot
of throat issues over the years, and he had a
(05:07):
throat problem when he was having to go back in
for another procedure, and he said, I'm sorry, I cannot
do the show. I owe you a show. You don't
have to pay me. I love you. I put you
in a pickle. Well it was for a private event
and they had paid for it. And I said, well,
with our budget, we don't have much with you know,
twelve days left before the concert. I will get you
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by the end of the day a list of artists
that you can choose from on your budget that will,
you know, hopefully be a decent draw. And Joe Diffy
was one of them. And they said, oh, Joe Diffey,
he's got a lot. I said, well, let me tell
you something. Nobody ever actually wants to go see Joe
Diffy play. They know all his songs, but they don't
actually want to go see him play. Noah, I will
take Joe Diffie. Well you know what happened from there.
(05:51):
Next was Don Williams, you right cool in the game,
Mail tell Us, Merle Haggard, Hank Junior, TG Shepherd, Lacy
j Dalton, Eddie Rabbit, Roseanne Conway, Sylvia, Ricky Skaggs, Jennie
Fricky actually got Don Williams, then Crystal Gale, then Larry
Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band, then Charlie Pride, and
finish it out. Oh, by the way, finish it out
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with the Oakridge Boys. They didn't do regional Mexican back then. Yes, indeed,
they did not do regional Mexican back then. Man, I
love the rodeo hood you're old of Michael Berry show
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Really disappointed Elvis Presley saying, I've been working on the railroad.
That's coming from a bitter aggie. So I'm old enough
to remember going to the rodeo and I my performance
I got to see, and I actually got to shake
her hand was the Beverly Hillbillies and I got to
shake Granny's hands.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And back in the day, back in the day you
used to kids. I mean, I would dress up. My
dad would get me a new pair of cowboy boots
every year, and I dressed up as a cowboy, have
my cat guns strapped to me and everything, and you know,
everything was fine. Can you see that now? Can you
see kids doing that now?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, And that's that's sad. I mean, I just but
that's how it was back in you know, the lay
back in the days.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's when we were around. Was back in the day,
Jeff in San Antone, you're up, hey, Michael.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I was telling Ramone I was listening to your morning
program on New Year's Eve with it was about Adele
getting run over by her neighbor with a lawnmower, and man,
I just wanted to tell you that was some of
the best radio I haven't heard anything like that. I
was laughing all morning. Man, that was great.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know, it's funny. Adele is one of our greatest
hits calls and you know, if we're out, we'll replay Adele.
And I get more response to Adele than any single
non famous caller or guest, and it's one of two things.
About four fifths of the calls, we'll say, this is awesome.
(08:15):
I couldn't turn it off. She's crazy as a bed bug.
I love it. This is fantastic, boy, It's wonderful. And
then there'll be one fifth of them this isn't right,
you shouldn't do this, and this I just block. You've
got corn Pop was a bad dude the Michel Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And she works in stores and she don't go little
stuff anymore. She likes to get listen to the band.
She likes to make love to her condomn please instead,
(09:03):
they're kind?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
How long.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They got here right on?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Some time?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
How long?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't mean any guns?
Speaker 6 (09:21):
How long?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Just aut of fun? In any ways, George Woman is
seventy six today. My apologies might corrected me on that.
(09:48):
I looked and he was born in forty nine. And
of course, this being twenty twenty four, anything in it
in the nine is going to be a five. And
you just make that fifty and twenty twenty five or
seventy five. That's easy. But it's twenty twenty five, and
it takes me a while to remember that it's twenty
twenty five. I also don't think I'm fifty four. I'm
(10:10):
still fifty three, was itinia? Two months later, I'm still
fifty three, and it's still twenty twenty four. But anyway,
George Foreman turns seventy six today.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
It's a hard thing to live with losing something like
the Championship of the World.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I'd have to fight that fight most nights, and I'd be.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Winning, winning, winning.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Then I get knocked down and by the time I
jumped up, I wake up out of the dream again.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I could not win that fight, not even in my dreams.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
That fight put him through a lot of soul searching
days where he had to deal with making decisions on
who he was.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Fast forward to nineteen ninety four in the moment when
Michael Moore wins the heavyweight championship. Michael Moore is another
fresh faced, brand new heavyweight champion.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
What does he want to do?
Speaker 9 (11:05):
He wants to make money, so he does the same
thing that Holyfield did.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Let's go straight to George.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
That's the way to get the biggest audience. And I'm
sure that Moor, at age twenty six, unbeaten, having just
beaten Evander Holyfield, didn't really believe.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
In his heart that there was going to be that
bigger challenge in fighting George for him.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Land Laptan over the top time, Laura Mack, he's pulling
up again.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Michael mor is working as though his respect for falling decreases.
The brown around, come down the wall credit in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But yeah, he's a forty.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Five year old man.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
The young man's hand, the young man's hand.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Then there's a way goes more.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
He's frowning his back. He may not get up that
maybe he that moment, Wait, don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So Cortos talk the cons.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Over own just clay off, No, what's go walking on?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Ooh, I wanna congratulate Mike Colbert on an interview in
George trumanbrilleh yesterday. That was good.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
He got a lot of information out of him. I
had not knowed before and things and wha. Tusay was
over here just watering it the mount hut up.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
You know you was.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
She was widing at the mouth.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
You know you ain't heard the end of that. Honey.
They gonna be looping that over and over and every advertisement.
You remember how they wore out Elba Woods. Oh my god,
I was so tired of hearing about how they did that. Man,
b this it's hard, but come on six months later,
quit thinking yourself.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Come on, Lord, that's right.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Oh way, Tucy was mocking my Coelberry this morning.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Whychosy come here?
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Do you mind them?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Come here?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
What is your passion? Go find your past? And that's
what you need to do for anything. It would always
be picking up people yard, that's right. Go and hug
yo to try my wife smoking hide. If you don't
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think that's funny, I can't be your friend.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh god, who she nailed it, your lord.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Oh Batusa got that Shirley que out liquor flowing in
her blood stream.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
High rights.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
And now back to Michael Barry program.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Anthony, You're only Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Go ahead, Hey get I.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
How's it going good? What you got?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Just calling in from Houston, Texas. I'm a competitor in
the radio. I'm a bad back riding competitor in the
Houston Rodeo and I have a fund the table beef
business here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So let's start with the bareback riding. Yes, sir? Is
that PRC kind of deal?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
PSCA? Yes, I'm a contestant at the Houston Rodio this year?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Is this first year you've done it?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
This is my eighth time to compete at the Houston Wheah.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Where are you from?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I'm from Australia originally, but Houston is home.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
How long you been here?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I have been in the United States since twenty thirteen.
I came to compete in the Houston Rodeo about seven
years ago, and I met a girl and I married her,
so Houston became home.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Do you consciously stifle your accent because you have less
of an accent that than I suspect you had most
of your life.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Been here a long time. I've lost most of it, honestly.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
What do you think. You know Trump's talking about taking
over Canada, Mexico and Greenland. What do you think of
us taking over Australia because they don't have any guns anyway.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yeah, I think it'd be fine. I think it'd make
Australia great. I think America is the greatest country in
the world, and I think Australia would only be better.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
My idea, you know, Australia started as a penal colony.
My idea is we dump all the BLM Section eight,
the protesters out in the Middleland. That becomes our Siberia. Anybody,
the illegals that come here wouldn't have to argue with
Mexico anymore. You get a one way ticket to Australia
and you can't get out, and we go back to
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the Oglethorpe in Georgia days. We just send them all there,
and then what we can do is we can pluck
the best Australians and we'll bring them here.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Just a thought. That's a selection process is going to
look like, but that might work.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Tell me about your farm to table beef business.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yes, so I've been a full time professional rodeo athlete
for twenty years. So basically, how in a nutshell I
was competing at the Houston Rodeo in twenty twenty. I
made it through to the semifinals, and the day after
I made it through, they canceled the rodeo, got the
rodeo down. Oh, Lena head Auto, so we didn't Yeah,
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so we didn't even get paid. And of course they
after the Houston Rodeo shot down, they shot our whole
rodeo tour down.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
So oh it's made with the goodness of real jello puddies.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
This is Bill Bailey. You know Michael Berry is not
against the law. Sometimes I think he should be. Hey,
he's coming right out.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's the same all too fiddling, get talk.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Where do we take it from here? This is Buffalo
Bill Bailey.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
You better scramble if you want some more Michael Barry,
He's coming right up. It's been the same way for you.
This is Bill Bailey, a page from the past, and
I'm turning it over to the future and in the
near future more Michael Berry show coming right up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Somebody told me.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Hey, keep your eyes on the road wins. This is
Bill Bailey reminding you to be safe and enjoy the
Michael Berry Show. Coming right up here. This is Buffalo
Bill Bailey. You know where else can you drive home
and learn something at the same time. Know what I'm
talking about? More Michael Barry coming right up. This is
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Bill Bailey telling you that even in Pasadena, we get
a big kick out of the Michael Berry Show. More
of it coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And I had Bill Bailey into do an interview about
his life. He was on country radio some of you
will remember for many years and more than a DJ,
he was a personality, part of the community. And then
he was the rodeo announcer at the what we called
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the fat Stock Show back then for many many years
he was the voice man. I mean that was that
distinctive voice. And then he became a constable because who's
going to beat Bill Bailey. Everybody knew and loved Bill Bailey.
And then he worked a side job with what is
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jess Field's company's name, Rosewood Funeral Home, and I think
he was involved with the Chamber of Commerce in Pasadena,
but just a beloved, beloved guy. And anyway, he came
in and we did a. We had a fun, set
down interview and at the end we had him cut
a bunch of a bunch of intros and outros, and
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of course he passed, not not as long after that
as it feels like it should have been, because he
was in such good health. But I think it was.
I think it was kind of a quick deal, like
a heart attack kind of thing or something of that order.
But we were talking about the rodeo and were talking
about Bill Bailey during the break, and there we go, Anthony,
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real quick, Did you send me an email with a
hoof to table beef reference?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Was that you just on the table beef steel? Yes,
a while.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Ago I had, Yeah, yeah, But did you use the
word hoof in there?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Okay, somebody sent me an email a week or so
ago and they made reference to a hoof to table,
some sort of hoof to table reference, and I must
have been on the plane or busy or whatever, so
I didn't get a chance to respond. But my reaction
to that was that does not sound good. That that
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does the word hoof. I don't know. I just think
like even the word cloven hoof, which is a I
don't I just don't think hoof is a is a
term that is appealing to people. I think a hoof
and mouth.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. So who do you supply
your beef to? Anthony Australian Anthony.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Direct to consumer? So it's a direct a direct to consumer.
If I'm the table beef business, I raised the cattle. Basically,
you put down a deposit to reserve a butcher date,
I take the steer to the processor for you oversee
the slaughtering process. We try age all of our beef
and then we custom butcher and vacuum seal it for
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the customer and then bring it to their home in
the Houston area.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Who processes it?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I have to process? Is that I use Going Custom
Processing in Baytown and then my other processor is in Lowland,
Texas cause where the ranch is where we raise the animal.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Lowtown meets Why do you use two separate processors.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Because I have so much business in the Houston area
that one processor can't keep up.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, how do people? Do you have a website?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Yes, sir, I do Thomas Cattleancatering dot com. Is that you?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's me, You're Thomas Anthony Thomas.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
On Anthony Thomases.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
He's got that kind of weird Australian you know, like
just a little different you know what I mean? Do
you qualify for purchasing a share of a steer? I see,
we got a little pop up to start with. Houston's
home for quality farm to table beef and horror, you
need a half a steer? Where is your where is
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your farm that you're raising this?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
So I'm the first generation rancher, so the ranchers in Wymer.
I leased land from family friends of mine. Wimer is
right up by ten about an hour and a half
west of Houston.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, I know where it is.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
And then.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
So in between my professional radio career, I managed and
run this beef business and we've been able to make
a huge impact in Houston for people that want chemical
free beefs that you know, was of a much higher
quality than you can buy from the store.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is this picture on here of you?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
That's me?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What is your background? You got like some Pacific islander
in there? Look kind of like Junior.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Sayout, yeah, I'm a bits and pieces. My My family
migrated to Australia when I was a baby. I was born,
I was raised in Australia, and then I moved to
the United States to pursue a professional rodeo career. I
actually had a rough childhood. I ran away from home
when I was twelve years old to a cattle station
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in the northwest of Australia and learned to take care
of wild horses and wild cattle. That's where I learned
my knowledge for the business. We butchered all of our
own beef on the cattle station. I lived too far
from a town to go to a grocery store, so
we harvested all of our own meat. I was really
good with wild horses, so I kind of fell into rodeo.
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I won ASTRA. I won the Australian world title in
twenty eleven. I watched the eight Seconds movie growing up,
and I've always had a dream after watching that movie
to move to Texas to be a professional rodeo cowboy
and a rancher. And so I just followed my childhood
dreams and God led me here to Houston, Texas, met
my wife here competing at the rodeo, and married her
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and settled down and now we have this direct to
consumer fund the table beef business.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Here is she a white girl.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
She is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Is she at like a barrel racer or what's her deal?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Absolutely not. I went as far away from the rodeo
circus as possible to find my wife.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
But you said you met her at the rodeo.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yep, she was there watching a concert. My wife comes
from Halltsville, Texas. She got an education and moved from
the country to the city for nursing and she made
her home here as well, and that's where I met her,
and we hit it off and we got married. Now
we've got a daughter and another baby on the way.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Do you make any money on this cattle business?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Absolutely you do.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
You make enough you could live on that because you
ain't making your money on the rodeo.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Well, I've made good money on the rodeo and not
for me to be able to wake up every day
and do what I love. It's not a way to
get rich. But this fi on the table be business
is definitely going to be away for me to provide
for my family once I retire this year. I've been
riding professionally for twenty I've been riding professionally for twenty years,
and I'm actually going to retire at my hometown Rodeo
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this year in Houston.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Good for you. So what is your background? You got
some Polynesian in you. Where is the family from?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
No, so so Indian, Malaysian white and then West Indies.
So I'm a what they call a Brendle mixed breed.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
But the West Indies is that black? Yes, it is okay?
And the Indian was the Indian from the West Indies.
Also you can see him.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
So my dad.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Thomas cattle and catering. If nothing else, I'll go there
to see what you look like.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
The Western oil can under myacal living chair.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's a fide.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I love small town, Debra writes, I'm from Howlettsville. Who'd
he marry? Because of course she'll know them. I was
talking earlier about money starting to be spent. I try
to go through and talk to my show sponsors as
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much as I can. A because those are my business partners.
Those are the people that sponsor the show and keep
us on the air. And B Because anytime anyone emails
me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, hey I
need someone to do this. I need someone to do this,
I reach out if forward that email and say, hey,
can you take care of this person, give them the
best possible care, and they always do. But I also
(26:42):
always ask how is business? And you know, it's funny.
For years when I started, when a company would come
to us and say, hey, we want to sponsor the show,
they were used to quote unquote advertising, which was done
for years and years and still done, and I would say, no, no, no,
I don't there's no advertising here. You are supporting my show.
(27:06):
You are sponsoring my show. You need to be comfortable
with what I'm saying and doing. My cause is I
expect you to step up for camp Hope. I expect
you to help our police officers or things I expect
you to do. I expect you to use our other
show sponsors. I expect you to be comfortable with what
I believe in and my values because that's who my
listeners are. And I don't want to find out they
come there and you're telling them to remove their MAGA hat.
(27:30):
Let's understand this is a partnership and you don't advertise,
I endorse you. Well, this is all a very different
model than than people are used to. So I'm talking
to these people constantly, our show sponsors and House Business,
House Business, House business, Well, Bobby Davidson is Percento Technologies.
(27:50):
They're the IT folks. So you know, most companies can't
afford an entire IT department, but Percento Technologies is like
your outsourced it to department that you don't have to
pay as full time employees. You just use the when
you need them, and you hire them to come in
proactively and build out your infrastructure. So it's sort of
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like solving the problem before you ever have it. Anyway,
he said, I am definitely seeing renewed enthusiasm from people
that were not spending money last year. People want their
technology to work. They want cutting edge IT solutions, robust cybersecurity,
seamless cloud services, and they're now ready to invest in
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it because they are optimistic about the future. That's Percento Technologies.
But I'm hearing that everywhere. I'm hearing that in so
many places. By the way, speaking of hearing that, I
got a message from Michael Petrie. Let me see if
I'm find it. Oh, he heard me talking about the
Calf Scramble, and he said, back in the day, I
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did the Calf Scramble to Rodeo. It was Friday, a
Friday night. Randy Travis was the performer, and of course
I caught a calf. I was on the big screen
wrestling with the calf, and the famous rodeo announcer mispronounced
where I was from. He said Marvel instead of Manville,
and I have to admit it still bothers me a
little bit. Anthony the Australian cowboy, from where are you
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from in Australia?
Speaker 6 (29:24):
I'm from the Kimberleys to West Australia, West west, the
far northwest of the country, very far west and as
furthest north as you can go in the cattle country.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So I got all these people emailing when I went
to Thomas Cattle and Caterine. You're right, he don't look
like what I expected. Is the Thomas. The last name Thomas,
is that from one of your relatives that was Indian?
Speaker 6 (29:52):
That's from my I mean, that's my family name, my
father's name.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But the reason I say that is Thomas is a
very common name in a predominantly Hindu nation of India.
In the south of India there is the people are
called Malaiali's and they are Christians. American missionaries went there, yep,
and they took biblical names for their first and last name,
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so they will have as a last name a first
name last name, which is which you don't typically have
here except for except for Thomas, which is a very
common name there. And that's why I'm wondering if that's
the side this came from.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Probably, Hey, how much does that?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Don't give me that? It depends, don't you do it?
How much does a quarter steer cost?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Average price of around fifteen hundred half average price of
around twenty six to fifty.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Just give me the number, not an average price?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Well you can't do that, but yeah, you have to
do it.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's radio. You have to do it. It's we make
the rules here FCC. How about a whole butchered.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Hag night dollars?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I like this guy. See he's coachable. I like this. Yes,
let me see here. You got kids?
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I do?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I have a two and a half year old goo
and one on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What's the girl's name, Ava Rain? Rain?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Rain is in the horses reins.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh my buddy, Sean Welling, the filmmaker. His daughter's name
is Rain. I like that name. That's a very cool name.
One hundred percent chemical free beef. Egit, what what'd you say? Okay, uh,
Texas Born raised him. Yes, my agent. How long are
you dry? Agent?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
These fourteen days? Ample amount of time for good good
Angus genetics.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Don't sell me Anthony Supreme Marbling and Tenderness one hundred
percent chemical free beef, top quality customer service. Are you
personally driving these things to these people? Yes, sir, you
can't make any money. You're gonna have to scale this thing.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Yep, one day I will.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I like Anthony the Australia, the Black, Black Indian, multiple mixed,
multiple identity, Tower of Babylon, Cowboy beef provider. This guy, God,
this guy is a unicorn. There's just there's not a
lot of There's not a lot of there's it's it's
a you pay for the hanging, Michael.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
You'll have to come to the rodeo and watch me
compete for the last time.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
What night are you going to be there?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Super Series four? Mych thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Okay, so the fifteenth will be your last night?
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Yes, I'm well, unless I make the semifinals, which I
plan on, where you're gonna cry at the end. Probably.
I mean, it's been my first live It's all I've
ever done.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I'm not judging you. Is your wife gonna cry?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
I think she cried. T is a joy that I
don't have to go and risk my life anymore to
make a living.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Sometime when i'm I'm gonna come visit you, I'm going
to tell you the story that you know who Clint
Cannon is. He's a legendary PRCA cowboy.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Yeah, he's one of my best friends. I traveled with
Clint for years.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
No, well, then you already know. You know Chad Knock
and the share executive producer has a cousin who is
Ask Chad real quick to tell you the name of
his cousin, because this guy will know him. But Clint
Cannon told me the story that his scrotum had split open,
and he was in the finals and it was a
big payday and he desperately needed this payday and he
had to ride one more time and show to win
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because he was in first place. And of course people
don't know this. They don't have doctors at these events,
but they do have veterinarians because the horses are worth
born than cowboys. So the veterinarian stitched him up with
a fishing string, and he told the story about.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
The regular Saturday night for guys like us.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, he told that story to my boys, and you
should have seen them cringing. Just doubled up, cringing the
way boys do anytime you imagine getting punched in it.
What's his name, the flying Hawaiian? You know, the fly
in Hawaiian? No, sir, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Ty?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
What flying Hawaiian? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
It's Chad's cousin. Anyway, you're awesome. I like you. Thomas
Kaddock and catering dot Com. Ramane just bought a half
steer
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air. I have all Americans.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
I'm proved to tell you today that I signed.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Legislation without law Russia forever.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We'll get him robbing in five minutes.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
If I get to like it.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
Someone made around. I noticed when you get to dislikeing
someone standing wround for a long name.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Guy's got a lot of pickup. It's got a cop motor,
a four hundred and forty cubic inch plant. It's got
cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. There's a model made
before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas.
What do you say, is that the new bluesmobile or
one thanks a cigarette lighter.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
I sure appreciate it, sir, if you could find it
in your heart to hang him up by his neck
until he was.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
DICKT boy escalated quickly.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I've just explaining to your better head have here that
when we were tunneling out we happen at the main
sewer line.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Dumb luck that, and we followed that busted out of jail.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
No manpop.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
We released her has on our own recognitions.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
One of my all time favorite Americans turns seventy five today,
Big George, two time world heavyweight champion, Olympic gold medalist, inventor, pastor, father, leader, Friend,
George Foreman seventy five today. A life well lived. A
(01:49):
lot of wisdom in that man, and a lot of
it earned the hard way on the streets, from failure,
from getting knocked down, from grief from suffolk ring. Yeah,
we're talking about We're talking about rodeo songs and the like.
Bobby reminds me, I can't seem to find it, but
(02:11):
I'm reminded of the fabulous John Prime song Angel from
Montgomery that has the lyrics make me a poster from
an old radio Bonnie Rae did a good cover of
it as well. Now I had, and now I've managed
to lose it. I had an old rodeo poster from
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the Houston Livestock Show and rodeo here we are from
nineteen eighty three. And by the way, don't y'all go
telling Chris and all the guys over the road, I'll
have to hear from Alicia Jammerson and Dennis Woolford that
I was criticizing the rodeo. I'm not criticizing the Rodeo.
I'm just saying times have changed and I've grown old,
and I'm okay with that. They've got a job to do,
(02:53):
and their job is to fill that place up for
twenty one days. And I wouldn't want to do it.
I would not want to do it. It's not an
easy thing to do. But here is a nineteen eighty
three Houston livestock show in Rodeo. Here is the list.
You ready to remote? Opening night, Cooling the Gang, second night,
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Mel Tillis. Then this is in a row Merle Haggard,
have mercy. Then Hank Williams Junior. That's a matinee. Then
TG Shepherd and Lacy J. Dalton together, then Eddie Rabbit
and Roseanne Cash nineteen eighty three listen, then Conway Twitty
(03:41):
and Sylvia. Listen to me. You don't need to pair
anybody with Conway. Conway draw enough to fill that whole
damn place. I'm glad I wasn't around in eighty three.
I'd have had a word with Leroy Schaeffer over that.
Oh you just wanted to put Sylvia in there, just
to give her a shot. Okay, I'm fine with that.
I just don't want anybody thinking you got to pair
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somebody with Conway, and certainly not a woman. Conway draw
more women than all of them. I mean, this is
just doesn't stop. It's an all star. Next is Ricky
Skaggs and Jennie Frickey in one night. Now you do
have to pair them. Ricky Skaggs doesn't have gus one
of those things. Marshall. Dwayne Hefley told me he started
(04:26):
Firehouse Saloon when he was twenty seven and I asked
him one time, I said, Marshall up. Marshall's his brother
h Dwayne tell me the one artist that you booked
that you had the highest hope for that completely failed
and shocked you and you lost the most money. He said, Michael,
you could ask anybody that's been in this business for
(04:47):
as long as I have, and there will be one
answer that will be the answer for every single one
on them. Joe Diffy Well, lo and behold. Larry Gatlin
was booked for a show that we had and Larry
has a lot of throat problems. He's had a lot
of throat issues over the years, and he had a
(05:07):
throat problem when he was having to go back in
for another procedure, and he said, I'm sorry, I cannot
do the show. I owe you a show. You don't
have to pay me. I love you. I put you
in a pickle. Well it was for a private event
and they had paid for it. And I said, well,
with our budget, we don't have much with you know,
twelve days left before the concert. I will get you
(05:28):
by the end of the day a list of artists
that you can choose from on your budget that will,
you know, hopefully be a decent draw. And Joe Diffy
was one of them. And they said, oh, Joe Diffey,
he's got a lot. I said, well, let me tell
you something. Nobody ever actually wants to go see Joe
Diffy play. They know all his songs, but they don't
actually want to go see him play. Noah, I will
take Joe Diffie. Well you know what happened from there.
(05:51):
Next was Don Williams, you right cool in the game,
Mail tell Us, Merle Haggard, Hank Junior, TG Shepherd, Lacy
j Dalton, Eddie Rabbit, Roseanne Conway, Sylvia, Ricky Skaggs, Jennie
Fricky actually got Don Williams, then Crystal Gale, then Larry
Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band, then Charlie Pride, and
finish it out. Oh, by the way, finish it out
(06:13):
with the Oakridge Boys. They didn't do regional Mexican back then. Yes, indeed,
they did not do regional Mexican back then. Man, I
love the rodeo hood you're old of Michael Berry show
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Really disappointed Elvis Presley saying, I've been working on the railroad.
That's coming from a bitter aggie. So I'm old enough
to remember going to the rodeo and I my performance
I got to see, and I actually got to shake
her hand was the Beverly Hillbillies and I got to
shake Granny's hands.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And back in the day, back in the day you
used to kids. I mean, I would dress up. My
dad would get me a new pair of cowboy boots
every year, and I dressed up as a cowboy, have
my cat guns strapped to me and everything, and you know,
everything was fine. Can you see that now? Can you
see kids doing that now?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, And that's that's sad. I mean, I just but
that's how it was back in you know, the lay
back in the days.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's when we were around. Was back in the day,
Jeff in San Antone, you're up, hey, Michael.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I was telling Ramone I was listening to your morning
program on New Year's Eve with it was about Adele
getting run over by her neighbor with a lawnmower, and man,
I just wanted to tell you that was some of
the best radio I haven't heard anything like that. I
was laughing all morning. Man, that was great.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know, it's funny. Adele is one of our greatest
hits calls and you know, if we're out, we'll replay Adele.
And I get more response to Adele than any single
non famous caller or guest, and it's one of two things.
About four fifths of the calls, we'll say, this is awesome.
(08:15):
I couldn't turn it off. She's crazy as a bed bug.
I love it. This is fantastic, boy, It's wonderful. And
then there'll be one fifth of them this isn't right,
you shouldn't do this, and this I just block. You've
got corn Pop was a bad dude the Michel Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And she works in stores and she don't go little
stuff anymore. She likes to get listen to the band.
She likes to make love to her condomn please instead,
(09:03):
they're kind?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
How long.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They got here right on?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Some time?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
How long?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't mean any guns?
Speaker 6 (09:21):
How long?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Just aut of fun? In any ways, George Woman is
seventy six today. My apologies might corrected me on that.
(09:48):
I looked and he was born in forty nine. And
of course, this being twenty twenty four, anything in it
in the nine is going to be a five. And
you just make that fifty and twenty twenty five or
seventy five. That's easy. But it's twenty twenty five, and
it takes me a while to remember that it's twenty
twenty five. I also don't think I'm fifty four. I'm
(10:10):
still fifty three, was itinia? Two months later, I'm still
fifty three, and it's still twenty twenty four. But anyway,
George Foreman turns seventy six today.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
It's a hard thing to live with losing something like
the Championship of the World.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I'd have to fight that fight most nights, and I'd be.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Winning, winning, winning.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Then I get knocked down and by the time I
jumped up, I wake up out of the dream again.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I could not win that fight, not even in my dreams.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
That fight put him through a lot of soul searching
days where he had to deal with making decisions on
who he was.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Fast forward to nineteen ninety four in the moment when
Michael Moore wins the heavyweight championship. Michael Moore is another
fresh faced, brand new heavyweight champion.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
What does he want to do?
Speaker 9 (11:05):
He wants to make money, so he does the same
thing that Holyfield did.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Let's go straight to George.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
That's the way to get the biggest audience. And I'm
sure that Moor, at age twenty six, unbeaten, having just
beaten Evander Holyfield, didn't really believe.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
In his heart that there was going to be that
bigger challenge in fighting George for him.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Land Laptan over the top time, Laura Mack, he's pulling
up again.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Michael mor is working as though his respect for falling decreases.
The brown around, come down the wall credit in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But yeah, he's a forty.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Five year old man.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
The young man's hand, the young man's hand.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Then there's a way goes more.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
He's frowning his back. He may not get up that
maybe he that moment, Wait, don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So Cortos talk the cons.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Over own just clay off, No, what's go walking on?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Ooh, I wanna congratulate Mike Colbert on an interview in
George trumanbrilleh yesterday. That was good.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
He got a lot of information out of him. I
had not knowed before and things and wha. Tusay was
over here just watering it the mount hut up.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
You know you was.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
She was widing at the mouth.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
You know you ain't heard the end of that. Honey.
They gonna be looping that over and over and every advertisement.
You remember how they wore out Elba Woods. Oh my god,
I was so tired of hearing about how they did that. Man,
b this it's hard, but come on six months later,
quit thinking yourself.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Come on, Lord, that's right.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Oh way, Tucy was mocking my Coelberry this morning.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Whychosy come here?
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Do you mind them?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Come here?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
What is your passion? Go find your past? And that's
what you need to do for anything. It would always
be picking up people yard, that's right. Go and hug
yo to try my wife smoking hide. If you don't
(13:26):
think that's funny, I can't be your friend.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh god, who she nailed it, your lord.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Oh Batusa got that Shirley que out liquor flowing in
her blood stream.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
High rights.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
And now back to Michael Barry program.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Anthony, You're only Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Go ahead, Hey get I.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
How's it going good? What you got?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Just calling in from Houston, Texas. I'm a competitor in
the radio. I'm a bad back riding competitor in the
Houston Rodeo and I have a fund the table beef
business here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So let's start with the bareback riding. Yes, sir? Is
that PRC kind of deal?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
PSCA? Yes, I'm a contestant at the Houston Rodio this year?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Is this first year you've done it?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
This is my eighth time to compete at the Houston Wheah.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Where are you from?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I'm from Australia originally, but Houston is home.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
How long you been here?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I have been in the United States since twenty thirteen.
I came to compete in the Houston Rodeo about seven
years ago, and I met a girl and I married her,
so Houston became home.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Do you consciously stifle your accent because you have less
of an accent that than I suspect you had most
of your life.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Been here a long time. I've lost most of it, honestly.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
What do you think. You know Trump's talking about taking
over Canada, Mexico and Greenland. What do you think of
us taking over Australia because they don't have any guns anyway.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yeah, I think it'd be fine. I think it'd make
Australia great. I think America is the greatest country in
the world, and I think Australia would only be better.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
My idea, you know, Australia started as a penal colony.
My idea is we dump all the BLM Section eight,
the protesters out in the Middleland. That becomes our Siberia. Anybody,
the illegals that come here wouldn't have to argue with
Mexico anymore. You get a one way ticket to Australia
and you can't get out, and we go back to
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the Oglethorpe in Georgia days. We just send them all there,
and then what we can do is we can pluck
the best Australians and we'll bring them here.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Just a thought. That's a selection process is going to
look like, but that might work.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Tell me about your farm to table beef business.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yes, so I've been a full time professional rodeo athlete
for twenty years. So basically, how in a nutshell I
was competing at the Houston Rodeo in twenty twenty. I
made it through to the semifinals, and the day after
I made it through, they canceled the rodeo, got the
rodeo down. Oh, Lena head Auto, so we didn't Yeah,
(16:29):
so we didn't even get paid. And of course they
after the Houston Rodeo shot down, they shot our whole
rodeo tour down.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
So oh it's made with the goodness of real jello puddies.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
This is Bill Bailey. You know Michael Berry is not
against the law. Sometimes I think he should be. Hey,
he's coming right out.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's the same all too fiddling, get talk.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Where do we take it from here? This is Buffalo
Bill Bailey.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
You better scramble if you want some more Michael Barry,
He's coming right up. It's been the same way for you.
This is Bill Bailey, a page from the past, and
I'm turning it over to the future and in the
near future more Michael Berry show coming right up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Somebody told me.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Hey, keep your eyes on the road wins. This is
Bill Bailey reminding you to be safe and enjoy the
Michael Berry Show. Coming right up here. This is Buffalo
Bill Bailey. You know where else can you drive home
and learn something at the same time. Know what I'm
talking about? More Michael Barry coming right up. This is
(17:48):
Bill Bailey telling you that even in Pasadena, we get
a big kick out of the Michael Berry Show. More
of it coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And I had Bill Bailey into do an interview about
his life. He was on country radio some of you
will remember for many years and more than a DJ,
he was a personality, part of the community. And then
he was the rodeo announcer at the what we called
(18:22):
the fat Stock Show back then for many many years
he was the voice man. I mean that was that
distinctive voice. And then he became a constable because who's
going to beat Bill Bailey. Everybody knew and loved Bill Bailey.
And then he worked a side job with what is
(18:44):
jess Field's company's name, Rosewood Funeral Home, and I think
he was involved with the Chamber of Commerce in Pasadena,
but just a beloved, beloved guy. And anyway, he came
in and we did a. We had a fun, set
down interview and at the end we had him cut
a bunch of a bunch of intros and outros, and
(19:04):
of course he passed, not not as long after that
as it feels like it should have been, because he
was in such good health. But I think it was.
I think it was kind of a quick deal, like
a heart attack kind of thing or something of that order.
But we were talking about the rodeo and were talking
about Bill Bailey during the break, and there we go, Anthony,
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real quick, Did you send me an email with a
hoof to table beef reference?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Was that you just on the table beef steel? Yes,
a while.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Ago I had, Yeah, yeah, But did you use the
word hoof in there?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Okay, somebody sent me an email a week or so
ago and they made reference to a hoof to table,
some sort of hoof to table reference, and I must
have been on the plane or busy or whatever, so
I didn't get a chance to respond. But my reaction
to that was that does not sound good. That that
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does the word hoof. I don't know. I just think
like even the word cloven hoof, which is a I
don't I just don't think hoof is a is a
term that is appealing to people. I think a hoof
and mouth.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. So who do you supply
your beef to? Anthony Australian Anthony.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Direct to consumer? So it's a direct a direct to consumer.
If I'm the table beef business, I raised the cattle. Basically,
you put down a deposit to reserve a butcher date,
I take the steer to the processor for you oversee
the slaughtering process. We try age all of our beef
and then we custom butcher and vacuum seal it for
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the customer and then bring it to their home in
the Houston area.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Who processes it?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I have to process? Is that I use Going Custom
Processing in Baytown and then my other processor is in Lowland,
Texas cause where the ranch is where we raise the animal.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Lowtown meets Why do you use two separate processors.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Because I have so much business in the Houston area
that one processor can't keep up.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, how do people? Do you have a website?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Yes, sir, I do Thomas Cattleancatering dot com. Is that you?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's me, You're Thomas Anthony Thomas.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
On Anthony Thomases.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
He's got that kind of weird Australian you know, like
just a little different you know what I mean? Do
you qualify for purchasing a share of a steer? I see,
we got a little pop up to start with. Houston's
home for quality farm to table beef and horror, you
need a half a steer? Where is your where is
(22:05):
your farm that you're raising this?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
So I'm the first generation rancher, so the ranchers in Wymer.
I leased land from family friends of mine. Wimer is
right up by ten about an hour and a half
west of Houston.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, I know where it is.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
And then.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
So in between my professional radio career, I managed and
run this beef business and we've been able to make
a huge impact in Houston for people that want chemical
free beefs that you know, was of a much higher
quality than you can buy from the store.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is this picture on here of you?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
That's me?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What is your background? You got like some Pacific islander
in there? Look kind of like Junior.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Sayout, yeah, I'm a bits and pieces. My My family
migrated to Australia when I was a baby. I was born,
I was raised in Australia, and then I moved to
the United States to pursue a professional rodeo career. I
actually had a rough childhood. I ran away from home
when I was twelve years old to a cattle station
(23:12):
in the northwest of Australia and learned to take care
of wild horses and wild cattle. That's where I learned
my knowledge for the business. We butchered all of our
own beef on the cattle station. I lived too far
from a town to go to a grocery store, so
we harvested all of our own meat. I was really
good with wild horses, so I kind of fell into rodeo.
(23:34):
I won ASTRA. I won the Australian world title in
twenty eleven. I watched the eight Seconds movie growing up,
and I've always had a dream after watching that movie
to move to Texas to be a professional rodeo cowboy
and a rancher. And so I just followed my childhood
dreams and God led me here to Houston, Texas, met
my wife here competing at the rodeo, and married her
(23:55):
and settled down and now we have this direct to
consumer fund the table beef business.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Here is she a white girl.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
She is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Is she at like a barrel racer or what's her deal?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Absolutely not. I went as far away from the rodeo
circus as possible to find my wife.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
But you said you met her at the rodeo.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yep, she was there watching a concert. My wife comes
from Halltsville, Texas. She got an education and moved from
the country to the city for nursing and she made
her home here as well, and that's where I met her,
and we hit it off and we got married. Now
we've got a daughter and another baby on the way.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Do you make any money on this cattle business?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Absolutely you do.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
You make enough you could live on that because you
ain't making your money on the rodeo.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Well, I've made good money on the rodeo and not
for me to be able to wake up every day
and do what I love. It's not a way to
get rich. But this fi on the table be business
is definitely going to be away for me to provide
for my family once I retire this year. I've been
riding professionally for twenty I've been riding professionally for twenty years,
and I'm actually going to retire at my hometown Rodeo
(25:12):
this year in Houston.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Good for you. So what is your background? You got
some Polynesian in you. Where is the family from?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
No, so so Indian, Malaysian white and then West Indies.
So I'm a what they call a Brendle mixed breed.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
But the West Indies is that black? Yes, it is okay?
And the Indian was the Indian from the West Indies.
Also you can see him.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
So my dad.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Thomas cattle and catering. If nothing else, I'll go there
to see what you look like.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
The Western oil can under myacal living chair.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's a fide.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I love small town, Debra writes, I'm from Howlettsville. Who'd
he marry? Because of course she'll know them. I was
talking earlier about money starting to be spent. I try
to go through and talk to my show sponsors as
(26:18):
much as I can. A because those are my business partners.
Those are the people that sponsor the show and keep
us on the air. And B Because anytime anyone emails
me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, hey I
need someone to do this. I need someone to do this,
I reach out if forward that email and say, hey,
can you take care of this person, give them the
best possible care, and they always do. But I also
(26:42):
always ask how is business? And you know, it's funny.
For years when I started, when a company would come
to us and say, hey, we want to sponsor the show,
they were used to quote unquote advertising, which was done
for years and years and still done, and I would say, no, no, no,
I don't there's no advertising here. You are supporting my show.
(27:06):
You are sponsoring my show. You need to be comfortable
with what I'm saying and doing. My cause is I
expect you to step up for camp Hope. I expect
you to help our police officers or things I expect
you to do. I expect you to use our other
show sponsors. I expect you to be comfortable with what
I believe in and my values because that's who my
listeners are. And I don't want to find out they
come there and you're telling them to remove their MAGA hat.
(27:30):
Let's understand this is a partnership and you don't advertise,
I endorse you. Well, this is all a very different
model than than people are used to. So I'm talking
to these people constantly, our show sponsors and House Business,
House Business, House business, Well, Bobby Davidson is Percento Technologies.
(27:50):
They're the IT folks. So you know, most companies can't
afford an entire IT department, but Percento Technologies is like
your outsourced it to department that you don't have to
pay as full time employees. You just use the when
you need them, and you hire them to come in
proactively and build out your infrastructure. So it's sort of
(28:10):
like solving the problem before you ever have it. Anyway,
he said, I am definitely seeing renewed enthusiasm from people
that were not spending money last year. People want their
technology to work. They want cutting edge IT solutions, robust cybersecurity,
seamless cloud services, and they're now ready to invest in
(28:32):
it because they are optimistic about the future. That's Percento Technologies.
But I'm hearing that everywhere. I'm hearing that in so
many places. By the way, speaking of hearing that, I
got a message from Michael Petrie. Let me see if
I'm find it. Oh, he heard me talking about the
Calf Scramble, and he said, back in the day, I
(28:53):
did the Calf Scramble to Rodeo. It was Friday, a
Friday night. Randy Travis was the performer, and of course
I caught a calf. I was on the big screen
wrestling with the calf, and the famous rodeo announcer mispronounced
where I was from. He said Marvel instead of Manville,
and I have to admit it still bothers me a
little bit. Anthony the Australian cowboy, from where are you
(29:21):
from in Australia?
Speaker 6 (29:24):
I'm from the Kimberleys to West Australia, West west, the
far northwest of the country, very far west and as
furthest north as you can go in the cattle country.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So I got all these people emailing when I went
to Thomas Cattle and Caterine. You're right, he don't look
like what I expected. Is the Thomas. The last name Thomas,
is that from one of your relatives that was Indian?
Speaker 6 (29:52):
That's from my I mean, that's my family name, my
father's name.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But the reason I say that is Thomas is a
very common name in a predominantly Hindu nation of India.
In the south of India there is the people are
called Malaiali's and they are Christians. American missionaries went there, yep,
and they took biblical names for their first and last name,
(30:21):
so they will have as a last name a first
name last name, which is which you don't typically have
here except for except for Thomas, which is a very
common name there. And that's why I'm wondering if that's
the side this came from.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Probably, Hey, how much does that?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Don't give me that? It depends, don't you do it?
How much does a quarter steer cost?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Average price of around fifteen hundred half average price of
around twenty six to fifty.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Just give me the number, not an average price?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Well you can't do that, but yeah, you have to
do it.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's radio. You have to do it. It's we make
the rules here FCC. How about a whole butchered.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Hag night dollars?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I like this guy. See he's coachable. I like this. Yes,
let me see here. You got kids?
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I do?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I have a two and a half year old goo
and one on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What's the girl's name, Ava Rain? Rain?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Rain is in the horses reins.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh my buddy, Sean Welling, the filmmaker. His daughter's name
is Rain. I like that name. That's a very cool name.
One hundred percent chemical free beef. Egit, what what'd you say? Okay, uh,
Texas Born raised him. Yes, my agent. How long are
you dry? Agent?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
These fourteen days? Ample amount of time for good good
Angus genetics.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Don't sell me Anthony Supreme Marbling and Tenderness one hundred
percent chemical free beef, top quality customer service. Are you
personally driving these things to these people? Yes, sir, you
can't make any money. You're gonna have to scale this thing.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Yep, one day I will.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I like Anthony the Australia, the Black, Black Indian, multiple mixed,
multiple identity, Tower of Babylon, Cowboy beef provider. This guy, God,
this guy is a unicorn. There's just there's not a
lot of There's not a lot of there's it's it's
a you pay for the hanging, Michael.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
You'll have to come to the rodeo and watch me
compete for the last time.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
What night are you going to be there?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Super Series four? Mych thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Okay, so the fifteenth will be your last night?
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Yes, I'm well, unless I make the semifinals, which I
plan on, where you're gonna cry at the end. Probably.
I mean, it's been my first live It's all I've
ever done.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I'm not judging you. Is your wife gonna cry?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
I think she cried. T is a joy that I
don't have to go and risk my life anymore to
make a living.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Sometime when i'm I'm gonna come visit you, I'm going
to tell you the story that you know who Clint
Cannon is. He's a legendary PRCA cowboy.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Yeah, he's one of my best friends. I traveled with
Clint for years.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
No, well, then you already know. You know Chad Knock
and the share executive producer has a cousin who is
Ask Chad real quick to tell you the name of
his cousin, because this guy will know him. But Clint
Cannon told me the story that his scrotum had split open,
and he was in the finals and it was a
big payday and he desperately needed this payday and he
had to ride one more time and show to win
(33:47):
because he was in first place. And of course people
don't know this. They don't have doctors at these events,
but they do have veterinarians because the horses are worth
born than cowboys. So the veterinarian stitched him up with
a fishing string, and he told the story about.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
The regular Saturday night for guys like us.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, he told that story to my boys, and you
should have seen them cringing. Just doubled up, cringing the
way boys do anytime you imagine getting punched in it.
What's his name, the flying Hawaiian? You know, the fly
in Hawaiian? No, sir, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Ty?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
What flying Hawaiian? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
It's Chad's cousin. Anyway, you're awesome. I like you. Thomas
Kaddock and catering dot Com. Ramane just bought a half
steer
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