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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M hm, it's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
So Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I really like I kind of like the John c
Riley Will Ferrell stuff. I thought Talladega Knights was hilarious.
I thought Step Brothers was pretty good. I would describe
Step Brothers as a movie as what I would call
an airplane movie. If I'm on a flight before before
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the iPad, when you when you know, you had a
couple of choices that they had preloaded for you. It
was a kind of movie that I could watch because
it would kill, you know, ninety minutes to two hours.
I wouldn't put it up in the top, but it's
good enough to watch. I realized that some other people.
But you got to realize there are very few movies, songs, sports, figures,
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or anything else post two thousand that I care very
much about. That's on me, not you. But I thought
John c Riley, I think his stuff with Will Ferrell's
pretty funny. The whole Dewey Cox story didn't appeal to
me that much. But Jim Mudd thinks it's hilarious and
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he loves it. Of course, he thinks Van Halen's better
than Leonard Skinnard, So if that gives you something about
his credibility. But it's one of his favorite movies. And
there is a scene he sent me earlier and we
went to the First Break with Lucas Gilkey, our last guest.
There is a scene in there in the movie Walk
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the Dewey Cox story. Dewey Cox has been smell blind
ever since he cut his brother in half with a machete.
And he walks in on his drummer smoking reefer and
what's the guy's name he was on Saturday Night line,
black guy.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Gosh darn, it's.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
A good actor. He's funny actor, kind of always plays
the same character. Anyway, he's cut the clip down, but
it's a pretty funny scene. So this is Dewey Cox,
the lead singer of the band. He walks in on
like in the green room and his drummer is smoking
pot and this is their exchange. Don Cheedle yes, yet,
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what was that movie that Don cheatle was in? Do
you remember? It was real serious movie? No? Not Hotel Rwanda.
That's good, good call. He had a run there of
some serious roles. It's the one in the car where
the car's in a smash and the cops roll up
on it. Do you remember that? Oh man, that was
the big It's one word. It's like pieces or something like.
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I'll find in a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
What.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, it wasn't, iron Man. Just play the clip.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Get out of here, Dewey, What are y'all doing in here?
We're smoking reefer and you don't want no part of it?
You're smoking reefers? Yeah, of course we are. Can't you
smell it? No, Sam, I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Come on, Dewey, join the party.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No, Dewey, you don't want this. Get out of here.
You know what. I don't want no hangover. I can't
get no hangover. It doesn't give you a hangover. Whoa,
I'll get addicted to it or something. It's not habit forming.
Oh okay, well, I don't know. I don't want to
overdose on it. You can't od on it. It's not
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gonna make me want to have sex, is it? It
makes sex even better? Sounds kind of expensive. It's the cheapest.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Drug there is.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hmm. You don't want it? I think I kind of
want it? Okay, but just this once?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Come on in Skuyler Derrington was a survivor of the
camp Mystic flood and she rewrote the lyrics to Hallelujah,
which was was that Leonard Cohen ramon. There's a whole
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documentary about that song and how that song wasn't a
huge hit for him, and then Beck, Jeff Beck kind
of kind of brought it back and all the different
people who have internalized that song to them and what
it meant to them. This is one of several I mean,
there's probably ten I could play of pieces of art
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that came out of the experience of the Kurville floods,
and I've chosen this one. Found out yesterday that one
of them equals friends at college at ut His girlfriend
was a camp counselor at Mystic. She her her cabin
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was swept away. She saved some of the girls out
of there. Some of the other girls perished. She barely survived.
Just every day I find another connection to to what
happened and what just wow, it's it's who little girls
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at camp. Not supposed to happen anyway. This little girl
is a survivor of Camp Mystic, and this was her
tribute to her camp mates and counselors who did not survive.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Skylar Dearish I heard there was a giant flood. We
were washed in Jesus' blood, and you don't really care
for mine and zuya. On July the four, twenty fifth,
the waters and we win a drift, the battleful king
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composing Hallilujah, Halleluyah, halleluyah, hallelujah, halleluyah.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Our faith was song.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You show to slave like only God from up Ubu.
Your prayers and hugs and love overwhelmed us. We cried,
we prayed, We did our share.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You clothe the spat up, brush our hair, and from
our list we drew the halujah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You say the word overcame, but I will never forget.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Their names, no blame, no fault.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Do really, what's it, Julia?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
We are a pap, a misic hurt. We spread his light.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It is love, big word, so holy a brown get Holiluia,
Holly lou Yo, hollelua, Holly lou Yo, hallelluyah.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
We did our best.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
We love to mark a light that shines withiner the dark.
I told his shoot that did it have to fool
up up?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And even though it was long, we stam before a
lot of songs with nothing on her signs.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
But holleluija. That is.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
One of many pieces that comes from the heart of
these kids who I think are just trying to find
some way, somehow to cope, to grieve, to express.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
The Michael Barry Show, simple man.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Ramon, what would you assess in pop culture today? Probably
be higher five years ago. I never watched it, but
I know a lot of people do. Was it called
The Osborne's or Living with the os What was it called? Well, yep?
What is yep? I gave you three options? Huh? Was
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called the Osborne's. I never saw the charm of reality TV,
never saw the charm of it, but apparently they were huge,
and the more dysfunctional they were, the more people loved it.
I get, you know. I hear it said that people
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enjoy watching the dysfunction of others because it makes them
feel good. I don't know. I'm not piling onto that
because I watched True Crime and I'm not sure what
that says about me, But so does everybody else, apparently,
because it's now the number one podcast category. Every woman
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out there has got a true crime podcast and they
got all, you know, eighty percent women listeners. You would
think if you were a woman who is far more
likely to be a victim of violent crime that you
would steer clear of thinking about it. But I don't know.
By the way, it was not Don Cheatle. It was
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Tim Meadows, who was the actor we were thinking about.
But the Don Cheatle movie we were thinking about was Crash.
So listeners always solve these problems, but it's usually by
the time we get to the break that I see it.
On the issue of big pharma and big government, we
turned to Woody Harrelson, who turns sixty four today. Now
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I know what your immediate reaction is. This is what
we do. Oh well, Michael, whatdy Harrison?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know Woody Harrison's crazy, right, Yeah, he's crazy, and
his daddy was crazy. His daddy was a murderer and
had a real weird upbringing. And Woody Harrelson is absolutely, positively,
completely without a doubt nuts. But I'm gonna tell you something,
even a blind squirrel finds a nut just because somebody.
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We do this to diminish people. Oh, Jim Carrey's crazy.
Do you know when Jim Carrey became crazy? Not when
Jim m Carey was out there saying that Hollywood was
controlled by a small elite. Not when Jim Carrey was
talking about the pedophilia of your favorite actors. No, no, no,
he wasn't crazy back then. He wasn't crazy when he
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was doing crazy things. He wasn't crazy until all of
this became popular and people started looking at that and
realizing he was serious about all this. Then he had
to be marginalized. This is Woody Harrelson, who, by the way,
when he spoke out against the COVID clot shot, he
hosted Saturday Night Live, and then he later went on
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to Bill Maher's podcast and all of Hollywood turned on
him because he was calling out the clot shot for
exactly what it was. Here's what he said.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
There's the CDC promoting that we have to do all
of these things right. I don't like profiteering in war,
you know, I think of the billions of dollars that
have gone to big farmer.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But I was getting back to my original point.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
The last people I would trust with my health is
big pharma and big government because neither one of those
strike me as caring.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Entities looking as the perfect redneck hippie. Really, if that
message doesn't mean that you.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Know all about profit exactly about profit, and both sides
saying the profit they've made.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I think they've done a lot of studies about vitamin
D and how important it was when the people at
low levels they were much more.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Vulnerable to COVID.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Why not tell people that can't you make money selling
vitamin D?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Is it that count?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What's the worst that had? That's just it, man. There
was only one thing, you know, I Remac did and.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Got made into a you know, horse tranquilizer.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Uh a horse whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It is it is, but also used by humans.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It used my millions uh high hydroxychloric when got made ridiculous,
and there was only one thing that could work, and
that's the vaccine, right, And so ultimately because of that,
billions of dollars was made.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You know, sometimes we sometimes the establishment diminishes the credibility
of the messenger in order to destroy the message. It's
a very effective tool. We can all think for ourselves.
And I'm going to tell you something. I've known some
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people who were not good people but said some profound things.
Mattress Mac gave a speech and it was filmed and
it was sent to me by a listener. And Mattress
Mac has been very involved with a school called the
Briarwood School. And I've known some people whose names if
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I threw them out, you would recognize them, who went
to the Briarwood School. It's a it's a school in
Briar Forrest and it serves kids with learning disabilities, so dysgraphia, dyslexia, ADHD,
learning all sorts of learning disabilities, developmental disabilities. And it
kind of runs the the the the gamut, I said,
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briar Forest, it's Brookshire is where it's located. And I
heard Matt gives this, give this speech about visiting with
a woman named Yvonne Tuttle, and she's the founder and
I don't know if she's still involved because that's been
a long time. And uh, Ivon Tuttle told I guess
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he's talking to von Tuttler. She told him the story.
But there was a kid named Tracy who went to
the Briarwood School and Tracy was always getting in trouble.
Tracy had a lot of had a lot of trouble
at home. Tracy was struggling through a lot of developmental disabilities.
He couldn't read, couldn't write, so he became a cut up,
which is often the case. His way of coping with
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the fact that he couldn't do the academic work. He
couldn't learn at great or anywhere near it, couldn't express
himself properly. He developed a lot of rage and shame
and anger and dysfunctional behaviors. And so she apparently just
loved Tracy, taught Tracy discipline Tracy. And years later this
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kid comes marching through the hallway and says, ms. Tuttle,
do you remember me? She says, yes, you're Tracy, And
he said, well, I'd go by the name Woody now
I'm Woody Harrelson. Look me up his you know, Michael
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very show enjoy it the phone lines should you have
me to call in seven one three nine one thousand
and seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. So
I've told the story in spurts over the last few
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days of a friend of mine, his son got transferred
to another school. He didn't want to go to the
other school. Son's going into his junior year of high school,
and his son wants to go into the trades just
like his dad. His dad's got an electrical business, small
electrical business, and which his dad before him had and
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his son likes to work. He school does not appeal
to him, and he says, Dad, I don't want to
go to new school. I want to get my high
school degree, my diploma online. I want to go to
work for you. I want to start working for you.
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I want to start doing it now and I'll get
the rest of my degree, my diploma online. So my
buddy said, what do you think about this? I said,
I love it. I know the kid. I know what
kind of kid he is. He's going to end up
owning your business. He's probably going to grow it and
expand it. He's a hard worker. He likes to work.
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So we got to talking about, well, let me rewind.
When I was growing up. My brothers and I liked
to sleep in on Saturday morning, didn't you, And if
we didn't have something going on. When we were younger,
we'd get up, go get our cereal, sit on the
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bean bag, Morris cartoons. But as we got older, those
teenage years, and I've had doctors and I've read about this,
that the brain changes and you require a lot more sleep.
That's why they've had great results with moving the starting
time for school to a later hour. It doesn't make
kids week. It's not true. Doesn't make kids week is
something psychological happening with the hormonal change in kids, especially
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boys in the teenage years, that requires more sleep. It's
a physical fact. And we wanted to sleep in. My
dad wanted us up, and he made that very clear,
so he'd start scrambling eggs and bacon. Who can sleep
through that? And you were expected to get up, eat
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your eggs and your bacon and your biscuits, and start
mowing the yard, washing the cars, doing the tasks around
the house. I never knew a human being growing up
who paid someone else to mow their yard, change their oil,
do the things that a lot of people today, myself included,
pay someone else to do. I don't think less of
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someone for doing that. If you can afford it, and
that's your leisure time, give someone else some money and
let them make a living doing that. I don't look now,
I have friends somebody else mow your lawd I does
that make me a bad person? If it does, that's
your judgment, you know what. And we were talking about
he was talking about his son, and he said, you know,
but it just worries me. You know what, if we
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regret this decision later. What if him not going to college,
you still go to college. You'll have your diploma. A
lot of people go to college, maybe goes to night school.
Maybe he just takes a year off. Maybe in two
years he says, I want to go back to school.
I want to go to college. So we're talking through
all of this, and I said to my friend, I said,
you know you're worried because you're a parent. I'm worried.
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You know, we want the best for our kids. We
second guess ourselves, we want to make good decisions. We
run all of that through our own lives. Everything we
messed up. We want to get right with our kids.
I got that, and so, but we forget what all
we did right in our lives. Well, I said, you
know the thing about your kid, I'm not going to
say his name. Thing about your kid is your kid
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likes to work. He works with you every summer. Do
you know what most kids are doing during the summer.
They're laid up in bed or on the couch. They're gaming,
and there's nothing wrong with it. I'm not here to
judge your kid. If that's what they're doing. Your kid
wants to get up, put his boots and jeans on,
put a ball cap on, and crawl under houses and
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fix people's sewer lines. He wants to trench lines so
people can build an outhouse. And then when y'all are
done working and you come back to the office to
write up your invoices, what does he do. He goes
and tinkers on that old junkie truck. He's got out
there to get it running right. And he's been doing
that since before he was sixteen. The kid has a
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work ethic. Give me a human being with a work
That's why Ramona's not going to make it. Give me
a human being with a work ethic over some kid
that's a nerd in school. I was a nerd in school.
I'm telling you it's overrated. Give me somebody who, when
they're through eating, gets up, takes their plate to the sink,
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washes it off, and puts it back up, whether they're
at home or guest. Give me somebody who does things
and doesn't wait on someone else to do things for them,
and I'll find you a person who'll be happy, maybe rich,
more likely not. And I got we have more listeners
who run a small business that operate like this that
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weren't good students. Maybe didn't. I just found out yesterday
Bert finished the eighth grade. I guarantee you Bert Harvey
makes more than thirty three percent of the people I
graduated law school with and I got scholarships. They were
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in debt. Bert Harvey
makes more than they do. Works. I don't want to
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say works fewer hours. Let me say this. Doesn't feel
the need to pass out drunk every night because he
hates his job like a lot of lawyers do. Oh,
but go to school, be a lawyer. Do well in class.
Make miss Smith happy, make Miss Jones happy. Right back
to her what regurgitate to her what she told you.
Don't be distracted, don't free associate, don't be creative, don't
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imagine what you're gonna fix when you get home. I
heard the story. I rewatched Silicon Cowboys the other day,
the Rod Kenyon story. And compact not just ride. He
wouldn't want me to say that, but he talked about
in high school. He had an old junker car. He
made forty cents an hour. He paid three hundred and
fifty dollars for his car, and he took it apart
and put it back together. And that was when he
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realized that things aren't sacred. They weren't handed to us
from God. They're built by human hands, and you can
take them apart and put them back together. So my boy,
I say to my buddy, if he wants to do
online classes, it's his decisions. His life is sixteen. He's
a hard worker. Let him do it and take him
to work and teach him the business. That's what he
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wants to do. Why not get started? Now, what's the
grand difference between eighteen and sixteen. Well, you're gonna send
him to school. He hates school. You're gonna send him
to have other people approve of him and give him
a letter grade. You didn't raise him for that. Teach
the kid who you know, there was a time before
we had schools, all right, So fast forward. I say
to him last night, what y'all do? He said, Well,
we took your advice. We're gonna My wife said, see,
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you go butting into people's business and somebody's gonna take
you seriously. Well, they're actually very excited about it. And
my wife agreed with me on the advice to give him.
So I said, well, how do you get He said,
he's already signed up for online classes. I said, I
wouldn't even know where to start. He found it. Are
you ready for this? Texas Tech has a program. We
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will link it in our blast. If you're not signed
up for our blast, go to Michael berryshow dot com.
Darryl Kunda writes it every day. It is growing, It's
very good. It's links to what we talk about, memes,
so all the stuff. There is a link to free tuition.
You can literally log on free and get your high
school diploma as a kid and do online education. And
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Texas Tech makes all of this available free. Is this
not the most amazing I'm in this area. This is
the coreme one listens to Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I'm coming home.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I got an email last night. We had been off
the air about forty five minutes, and Michael's home and
me and Michael and Crockett and mom Nandita and I
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got out and went to the restroom. In order to
keep up with the emails, I have to read emails
every free moment and a half. And this woman sent
me a note and she said her husband had died
three months earlier, and she always listened to the morning show,
and he always listened to the evening show. I think
he would go out into his shop or whatever, and
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then they would eat dinner together, and was when they
would eat share about their day, what had happened, and
of course he had passed away. She's sixty seven, he's seventy,
I believe. And she said, I miss that part of
my life because I don't have anyone to tell what
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happened in my day. And she said, so I listen.
I listen to your show, and it makes me think
of him, and I feel like you're talking to me.
And I thought, I mean it just wow, I mean
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talk about a complex that you're doing something important. And
my immediate thought was I've got a fire ramon and
get a really good producer, because this is meaningful to people.
This woman is sitting at her table, listen. And so
she said, I listened to the show five to seven,
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and I feel like you're talking directly to me. So
I come out. My eyes are kind of red. Michael
t always notices. He said, what's happen. I showed it
to him and he goes, whoo, Dad, that's heavy, I said,
you think so he's nineteen. He said, yeah, you're having
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dinner with that woman to replace her husband. I said, yeah,
he goes man. That's talk about giving meaning to life.
I said, that means a lot. You would say that
he goes whoo man. I didn't have the heart to
tell him. Half the time we're just goofing off, but
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it was. It was one of those moments. I sent
it to Herman and I think he got choked up
because he couldn't talk for me. He was verclemped, as
they say, as a result. But that's my way of saying,
if something ever happens to me, don't you ever worry.
I have had a full life, and this show and
my connection to you, my family, my parents, my dear friends.
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All of those are aspects of my life. But the
connection I feel like we have you and me every day,
even if we never meet face to face, is so
important to my very being. You have no idea and
it means the world to me. In the middle of
the afternoon every day I call sponsors, how's your business doing? Oh,
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it's fine, and they don't understand. No, I don't want
to know it's fine either it's up or it's down.
I want to know. If a listener emails me and
says connect me with a sponsor, that gets my highest priority. Hey,
let me connect you to I want to get an
email back that you had a wonderful experience because you
dealt with our sponsors, because they keep us on the air.
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It all kind of works. So that's my sappy, silly
way of saying thank you for that, and thank you
for taking the time and trusting me to share Jackie
as her name. I'm not going to give her last name.
To share your intimate thoughts like that with me by email.
Yes I do read them on I don't respond to
them all, but yes I do read them all. Tell
me you're up. What's up? My man?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Hey, you're talking about kids getting up early. I grew
up starting in the seventh grade. I was thirteen years old.
We'd get up at two o'clock in the morning, my
brother and I. We would drive over to a friend's
dairy and we milk. Started milking at two thirty in
the morning. We'd get through about five point thirty, go
home mom and have breakfast ready. We'd do our homework,
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go to school. We didn't do the afternoon milking because
we had you know, football practice stuff like that. What
was fun was on Friday nights, eight o'clock football game,
and then you had to get up two o'clock next
morning to go milk the cows. So I did that
through my senior year. And my dad tried to talk
us into buying that dairy and I slowly no way.
That was the hardest work, but it paid five dollars
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in milking.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
And hey, now you ain't selling me on that thing.
I grew up in it. That's he wasn't fooling you,
you know. I got to tell you. We started to
show talking about Ozzy Osbourne and the legend of the
stupid thing he did at the Alamo and how that's
rock and roll history. But there's more to that. He
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wasn't proud of having Pete on the cenotaph. He was
ashamed of it, and he spent the rest of his
life trying to make amends. And he went back and
he apologized and he made a donation, and he never
bragged about that. Apparently I've read after that he was embarrassed.
It was a youthful indiscretion. It was something that he
doesn't want to be remembered for. He did a stupid
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thing when he was pass out drunk. A lot of
people do. Doesn't make it okay, it's my alamo or
the cenotaph, but still a cenotaph is a tribute to
those who died there, and that to me is more
important than the physical alama. But further to that point,
I had a classmate named Josh Michelle, and Josh was
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a big boy, so he got stuck at right guard
when we were growing up playing football. Unfortunate because when
you're the big boy, Ramon went through this, you did. Hey,
you're playing offensive line. You will never score a touchdown.
You will never hear your name cheered for. You will
never unless you're on the D line. If you're stuck
on the O line, my goodness, it's a world of hurt.
There's nothing good to come of it. And you'll never
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hear your name called unless unless you're penalized holding her
off sites. And that's just the way it was. But
we used to make fun of Josh Michelle because Josh
will fall asleep in class and it was because they
had a dairy farm and Josh had to get up early.
The rest of us come rolling in cool cats. We
got the you know, we got moose on our hair,
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slick back. You know, we're checking out the chicks. We're
the coolest cat. Josh would come dragging in and he
may still have mud on his work boots or poop
because he had to get up and milk the cows
before school, and he had to get up at the
buck crack of dawn. You know, the whole drill, if
you're familiar with that, And we would make the teachers
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would say Josh, Michelle, and he'd be fall asleep back there,
and we would ridicule that poor boy. And you talk
about your Ozzie talked about your youthful indiscretions. I look
back now, we should have admired Josh for that. But
we were young and stupid. Not the only young and
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stupid opinion I ever had. That's why you shouldn't let
young people like what's that Norwegian girl? Don't take theiron?
They don't even know what they're saying. Good grief. You
shouldn't be able to vote to your twenty five and
I mean it so unless you serve, unless you are
actively serving or have served already. But I look back now,
and I think we were making fun of Josh. Josh
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was already a grown man, and we were children. That
dude was putting in two days, going to school and
sitting in the air conditioning and having some teacher blabber
and not have to chase down a cow or get kicked,
or get poop all over you, or get squirted on,
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or have to lug that milk. What we should have
been doing was treating Josh like the alpha dog that
he was for doing that, But we were too young
and stupid to know that. So there's my regret.
M hm, it's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
So Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I really like I kind of like the John c
Riley Will Ferrell stuff. I thought Talladega Knights was hilarious.
I thought Step Brothers was pretty good. I would describe
Step Brothers as a movie as what I would call
an airplane movie. If I'm on a flight before before
(00:53):
the iPad, when you when you know, you had a
couple of choices that they had preloaded for you. It
was a kind of movie that I could watch because
it would kill, you know, ninety minutes to two hours.
I wouldn't put it up in the top, but it's
good enough to watch. I realized that some other people.
But you got to realize there are very few movies, songs, sports, figures,
(01:15):
or anything else post two thousand that I care very
much about. That's on me, not you. But I thought
John c Riley, I think his stuff with Will Ferrell's
pretty funny. The whole Dewey Cox story didn't appeal to
me that much. But Jim Mudd thinks it's hilarious and
(01:39):
he loves it. Of course, he thinks Van Halen's better
than Leonard Skinnard, So if that gives you something about
his credibility. But it's one of his favorite movies. And
there is a scene he sent me earlier and we
went to the First Break with Lucas Gilkey, our last guest.
There is a scene in there in the movie Walk
(02:00):
the Dewey Cox story. Dewey Cox has been smell blind
ever since he cut his brother in half with a machete.
And he walks in on his drummer smoking reefer and
what's the guy's name he was on Saturday Night line,
black guy.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Gosh darn, it's.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
A good actor. He's funny actor, kind of always plays
the same character. Anyway, he's cut the clip down, but
it's a pretty funny scene. So this is Dewey Cox,
the lead singer of the band. He walks in on
like in the green room and his drummer is smoking
pot and this is their exchange. Don Cheedle yes, yet,
(02:41):
what was that movie that Don cheatle was in? Do
you remember? It was real serious movie? No? Not Hotel Rwanda.
That's good, good call. He had a run there of
some serious roles. It's the one in the car where
the car's in a smash and the cops roll up
on it. Do you remember that? Oh man, that was
the big It's one word. It's like pieces or something like.
(03:05):
I'll find in a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
What.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, it wasn't, iron Man. Just play the clip.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Get out of here, Dewey, What are y'all doing in here?
We're smoking reefer and you don't want no part of it?
You're smoking reefers? Yeah, of course we are. Can't you
smell it? No, Sam, I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Come on, Dewey, join the party.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No, Dewey, you don't want this. Get out of here.
You know what. I don't want no hangover. I can't
get no hangover. It doesn't give you a hangover. Whoa,
I'll get addicted to it or something. It's not habit forming.
Oh okay, well, I don't know. I don't want to
overdose on it. You can't od on it. It's not
(03:50):
gonna make me want to have sex, is it? It
makes sex even better? Sounds kind of expensive. It's the cheapest.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Drug there is.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hmm. You don't want it? I think I kind of
want it? Okay, but just this once?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Come on in Skuyler Derrington was a survivor of the
camp Mystic flood and she rewrote the lyrics to Hallelujah,
which was was that Leonard Cohen ramon. There's a whole
(04:26):
documentary about that song and how that song wasn't a
huge hit for him, and then Beck, Jeff Beck kind
of kind of brought it back and all the different
people who have internalized that song to them and what
it meant to them. This is one of several I mean,
there's probably ten I could play of pieces of art
(04:48):
that came out of the experience of the Kurville floods,
and I've chosen this one. Found out yesterday that one
of them equals friends at college at ut His girlfriend
was a camp counselor at Mystic. She her her cabin
(05:10):
was swept away. She saved some of the girls out
of there. Some of the other girls perished. She barely survived.
Just every day I find another connection to to what
happened and what just wow, it's it's who little girls
(05:32):
at camp. Not supposed to happen anyway. This little girl
is a survivor of Camp Mystic, and this was her
tribute to her camp mates and counselors who did not survive.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Skylar Dearish I heard there was a giant flood. We
were washed in Jesus' blood, and you don't really care
for mine and zuya. On July the four, twenty fifth,
the waters and we win a drift, the battleful king
(06:04):
composing Hallilujah, Halleluyah, halleluyah, hallelujah, halleluyah.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Our faith was song.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You show to slave like only God from up Ubu.
Your prayers and hugs and love overwhelmed us. We cried,
we prayed, We did our share.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You clothe the spat up, brush our hair, and from
our list we drew the halujah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You say the word overcame, but I will never forget.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Their names, no blame, no fault.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Do really, what's it, Julia?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
We are a pap, a misic hurt. We spread his light.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It is love, big word, so holy a brown get Holiluia,
Holly lou Yo, hollelua, Holly lou Yo, hallelluyah.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
We did our best.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
We love to mark a light that shines withiner the dark.
I told his shoot that did it have to fool
up up?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And even though it was long, we stam before a
lot of songs with nothing on her signs.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
But holleluija. That is.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
One of many pieces that comes from the heart of
these kids who I think are just trying to find
some way, somehow to cope, to grieve, to express.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
The Michael Barry Show, simple man.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Ramon, what would you assess in pop culture today? Probably
be higher five years ago. I never watched it, but
I know a lot of people do. Was it called
The Osborne's or Living with the os What was it called? Well, yep?
What is yep? I gave you three options? Huh? Was
(08:57):
called the Osborne's. I never saw the charm of reality TV,
never saw the charm of it, but apparently they were huge,
and the more dysfunctional they were, the more people loved it.
I get, you know. I hear it said that people
(09:18):
enjoy watching the dysfunction of others because it makes them
feel good. I don't know. I'm not piling onto that
because I watched True Crime and I'm not sure what
that says about me, But so does everybody else, apparently,
because it's now the number one podcast category. Every woman
(09:38):
out there has got a true crime podcast and they
got all, you know, eighty percent women listeners. You would
think if you were a woman who is far more
likely to be a victim of violent crime that you
would steer clear of thinking about it. But I don't know.
By the way, it was not Don Cheatle. It was
(10:01):
Tim Meadows, who was the actor we were thinking about.
But the Don Cheatle movie we were thinking about was Crash.
So listeners always solve these problems, but it's usually by
the time we get to the break that I see it.
On the issue of big pharma and big government, we
turned to Woody Harrelson, who turns sixty four today. Now
(10:25):
I know what your immediate reaction is. This is what
we do. Oh well, Michael, whatdy Harrison?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know Woody Harrison's crazy, right, Yeah, he's crazy, and
his daddy was crazy. His daddy was a murderer and
had a real weird upbringing. And Woody Harrelson is absolutely, positively,
completely without a doubt nuts. But I'm gonna tell you something,
even a blind squirrel finds a nut just because somebody.
(10:51):
We do this to diminish people. Oh, Jim Carrey's crazy.
Do you know when Jim Carrey became crazy? Not when
Jim m Carey was out there saying that Hollywood was
controlled by a small elite. Not when Jim Carrey was
talking about the pedophilia of your favorite actors. No, no, no,
he wasn't crazy back then. He wasn't crazy when he
(11:13):
was doing crazy things. He wasn't crazy until all of
this became popular and people started looking at that and
realizing he was serious about all this. Then he had
to be marginalized. This is Woody Harrelson, who, by the way,
when he spoke out against the COVID clot shot, he
hosted Saturday Night Live, and then he later went on
(11:35):
to Bill Maher's podcast and all of Hollywood turned on
him because he was calling out the clot shot for
exactly what it was. Here's what he said.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
There's the CDC promoting that we have to do all
of these things right. I don't like profiteering in war,
you know, I think of the billions of dollars that
have gone to big farmer.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But I was getting back to my original point.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
The last people I would trust with my health is
big pharma and big government because neither one of those
strike me as caring.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Entities looking as the perfect redneck hippie. Really, if that
message doesn't mean that you.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Know all about profit exactly about profit, and both sides
saying the profit they've made.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I think they've done a lot of studies about vitamin
D and how important it was when the people at
low levels they were much more.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Vulnerable to COVID.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Why not tell people that can't you make money selling
vitamin D?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Is it that count?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What's the worst that had? That's just it, man. There
was only one thing, you know, I Remac did and.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Got made into a you know, horse tranquilizer.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Uh a horse whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It is it is, but also used by humans.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It used my millions uh high hydroxychloric when got made ridiculous,
and there was only one thing that could work, and
that's the vaccine, right, And so ultimately because of that,
billions of dollars was made.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You know, sometimes we sometimes the establishment diminishes the credibility
of the messenger in order to destroy the message. It's
a very effective tool. We can all think for ourselves.
And I'm going to tell you something. I've known some
(13:34):
people who were not good people but said some profound things.
Mattress Mac gave a speech and it was filmed and
it was sent to me by a listener. And Mattress
Mac has been very involved with a school called the
Briarwood School. And I've known some people whose names if
(13:56):
I threw them out, you would recognize them, who went
to the Briarwood School. It's a it's a school in
Briar Forrest and it serves kids with learning disabilities, so dysgraphia, dyslexia, ADHD,
learning all sorts of learning disabilities, developmental disabilities. And it
kind of runs the the the the gamut, I said,
(14:21):
briar Forest, it's Brookshire is where it's located. And I
heard Matt gives this, give this speech about visiting with
a woman named Yvonne Tuttle, and she's the founder and
I don't know if she's still involved because that's been
a long time. And uh, Ivon Tuttle told I guess
(14:42):
he's talking to von Tuttler. She told him the story.
But there was a kid named Tracy who went to
the Briarwood School and Tracy was always getting in trouble.
Tracy had a lot of had a lot of trouble
at home. Tracy was struggling through a lot of developmental disabilities.
He couldn't read, couldn't write, so he became a cut up,
which is often the case. His way of coping with
(15:04):
the fact that he couldn't do the academic work. He
couldn't learn at great or anywhere near it, couldn't express
himself properly. He developed a lot of rage and shame
and anger and dysfunctional behaviors. And so she apparently just
loved Tracy, taught Tracy discipline Tracy. And years later this
(15:27):
kid comes marching through the hallway and says, ms. Tuttle,
do you remember me? She says, yes, you're Tracy, And
he said, well, I'd go by the name Woody now
I'm Woody Harrelson. Look me up his you know, Michael
(15:47):
very show enjoy it the phone lines should you have
me to call in seven one three nine one thousand
and seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. So
I've told the story in spurts over the last few
(16:10):
days of a friend of mine, his son got transferred
to another school. He didn't want to go to the
other school. Son's going into his junior year of high school,
and his son wants to go into the trades just
like his dad. His dad's got an electrical business, small
electrical business, and which his dad before him had and
(16:36):
his son likes to work. He school does not appeal
to him, and he says, Dad, I don't want to
go to new school. I want to get my high
school degree, my diploma online. I want to go to
work for you. I want to start working for you.
(16:56):
I want to start doing it now and I'll get
the rest of my degree, my diploma online. So my
buddy said, what do you think about this? I said,
I love it. I know the kid. I know what
kind of kid he is. He's going to end up
owning your business. He's probably going to grow it and
expand it. He's a hard worker. He likes to work.
(17:19):
So we got to talking about, well, let me rewind.
When I was growing up. My brothers and I liked
to sleep in on Saturday morning, didn't you, And if
we didn't have something going on. When we were younger,
we'd get up, go get our cereal, sit on the
(17:40):
bean bag, Morris cartoons. But as we got older, those
teenage years, and I've had doctors and I've read about this,
that the brain changes and you require a lot more sleep.
That's why they've had great results with moving the starting
time for school to a later hour. It doesn't make
kids week. It's not true. Doesn't make kids week is
something psychological happening with the hormonal change in kids, especially
(18:05):
boys in the teenage years, that requires more sleep. It's
a physical fact. And we wanted to sleep in. My
dad wanted us up, and he made that very clear,
so he'd start scrambling eggs and bacon. Who can sleep
through that? And you were expected to get up, eat
(18:26):
your eggs and your bacon and your biscuits, and start
mowing the yard, washing the cars, doing the tasks around
the house. I never knew a human being growing up
who paid someone else to mow their yard, change their oil,
do the things that a lot of people today, myself included,
pay someone else to do. I don't think less of
(18:47):
someone for doing that. If you can afford it, and
that's your leisure time, give someone else some money and
let them make a living doing that. I don't look now,
I have friends somebody else mow your lawd I does
that make me a bad person? If it does, that's
your judgment, you know what. And we were talking about
he was talking about his son, and he said, you know,
but it just worries me. You know what, if we
(19:09):
regret this decision later. What if him not going to college,
you still go to college. You'll have your diploma. A
lot of people go to college, maybe goes to night school.
Maybe he just takes a year off. Maybe in two
years he says, I want to go back to school.
I want to go to college. So we're talking through
all of this, and I said to my friend, I said,
you know you're worried because you're a parent. I'm worried.
(19:30):
You know, we want the best for our kids. We
second guess ourselves, we want to make good decisions. We
run all of that through our own lives. Everything we
messed up. We want to get right with our kids.
I got that, and so, but we forget what all
we did right in our lives. Well, I said, you
know the thing about your kid, I'm not going to
say his name. Thing about your kid is your kid
(19:50):
likes to work. He works with you every summer. Do
you know what most kids are doing during the summer.
They're laid up in bed or on the couch. They're gaming,
and there's nothing wrong with it. I'm not here to
judge your kid. If that's what they're doing. Your kid
wants to get up, put his boots and jeans on,
put a ball cap on, and crawl under houses and
(20:12):
fix people's sewer lines. He wants to trench lines so
people can build an outhouse. And then when y'all are
done working and you come back to the office to
write up your invoices, what does he do. He goes
and tinkers on that old junkie truck. He's got out
there to get it running right. And he's been doing
that since before he was sixteen. The kid has a
(20:33):
work ethic. Give me a human being with a work
That's why Ramona's not going to make it. Give me
a human being with a work ethic over some kid
that's a nerd in school. I was a nerd in school.
I'm telling you it's overrated. Give me somebody who, when
they're through eating, gets up, takes their plate to the sink,
(20:55):
washes it off, and puts it back up, whether they're
at home or guest. Give me somebody who does things
and doesn't wait on someone else to do things for them,
and I'll find you a person who'll be happy, maybe rich,
more likely not. And I got we have more listeners
who run a small business that operate like this that
(21:19):
weren't good students. Maybe didn't. I just found out yesterday
Bert finished the eighth grade. I guarantee you Bert Harvey
makes more than thirty three percent of the people I
graduated law school with and I got scholarships. They were
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in debt. Bert Harvey
makes more than they do. Works. I don't want to
(21:42):
say works fewer hours. Let me say this. Doesn't feel
the need to pass out drunk every night because he
hates his job like a lot of lawyers do. Oh,
but go to school, be a lawyer. Do well in class.
Make miss Smith happy, make Miss Jones happy. Right back
to her what regurgitate to her what she told you.
Don't be distracted, don't free associate, don't be creative, don't
(22:07):
imagine what you're gonna fix when you get home. I
heard the story. I rewatched Silicon Cowboys the other day,
the Rod Kenyon story. And compact not just ride. He
wouldn't want me to say that, but he talked about
in high school. He had an old junker car. He
made forty cents an hour. He paid three hundred and
fifty dollars for his car, and he took it apart
and put it back together. And that was when he
(22:28):
realized that things aren't sacred. They weren't handed to us
from God. They're built by human hands, and you can
take them apart and put them back together. So my boy,
I say to my buddy, if he wants to do
online classes, it's his decisions. His life is sixteen. He's
a hard worker. Let him do it and take him
to work and teach him the business. That's what he
(22:49):
wants to do. Why not get started? Now, what's the
grand difference between eighteen and sixteen. Well, you're gonna send
him to school. He hates school. You're gonna send him
to have other people approve of him and give him
a letter grade. You didn't raise him for that. Teach
the kid who you know, there was a time before
we had schools, all right, So fast forward. I say
to him last night, what y'all do? He said, Well,
we took your advice. We're gonna My wife said, see,
(23:11):
you go butting into people's business and somebody's gonna take
you seriously. Well, they're actually very excited about it. And
my wife agreed with me on the advice to give him.
So I said, well, how do you get He said,
he's already signed up for online classes. I said, I
wouldn't even know where to start. He found it. Are
you ready for this? Texas Tech has a program. We
(23:31):
will link it in our blast. If you're not signed
up for our blast, go to Michael berryshow dot com.
Darryl Kunda writes it every day. It is growing, It's
very good. It's links to what we talk about, memes,
so all the stuff. There is a link to free tuition.
You can literally log on free and get your high
school diploma as a kid and do online education. And
(23:52):
Texas Tech makes all of this available free. Is this
not the most amazing I'm in this area. This is
the coreme one listens to Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I'm coming home.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I got an email last night. We had been off
the air about forty five minutes, and Michael's home and
me and Michael and Crockett and mom Nandita and I
(24:36):
got out and went to the restroom. In order to
keep up with the emails, I have to read emails
every free moment and a half. And this woman sent
me a note and she said her husband had died
three months earlier, and she always listened to the morning show,
and he always listened to the evening show. I think
he would go out into his shop or whatever, and
(24:56):
then they would eat dinner together, and was when they
would eat share about their day, what had happened, and
of course he had passed away. She's sixty seven, he's seventy,
I believe. And she said, I miss that part of
my life because I don't have anyone to tell what
(25:16):
happened in my day. And she said, so I listen.
I listen to your show, and it makes me think
of him, and I feel like you're talking to me.
And I thought, I mean it just wow, I mean
(25:37):
talk about a complex that you're doing something important. And
my immediate thought was I've got a fire ramon and
get a really good producer, because this is meaningful to people.
This woman is sitting at her table, listen. And so
she said, I listened to the show five to seven,
(25:57):
and I feel like you're talking directly to me. So
I come out. My eyes are kind of red. Michael
t always notices. He said, what's happen. I showed it
to him and he goes, whoo, Dad, that's heavy, I said,
you think so he's nineteen. He said, yeah, you're having
(26:18):
dinner with that woman to replace her husband. I said, yeah,
he goes man. That's talk about giving meaning to life.
I said, that means a lot. You would say that
he goes whoo man. I didn't have the heart to
tell him. Half the time we're just goofing off, but
(26:38):
it was. It was one of those moments. I sent
it to Herman and I think he got choked up
because he couldn't talk for me. He was verclemped, as
they say, as a result. But that's my way of saying,
if something ever happens to me, don't you ever worry.
I have had a full life, and this show and
my connection to you, my family, my parents, my dear friends.
(27:03):
All of those are aspects of my life. But the
connection I feel like we have you and me every day,
even if we never meet face to face, is so
important to my very being. You have no idea and
it means the world to me. In the middle of
the afternoon every day I call sponsors, how's your business doing? Oh,
(27:24):
it's fine, and they don't understand. No, I don't want
to know it's fine either it's up or it's down.
I want to know. If a listener emails me and
says connect me with a sponsor, that gets my highest priority. Hey,
let me connect you to I want to get an
email back that you had a wonderful experience because you
dealt with our sponsors, because they keep us on the air.
(27:44):
It all kind of works. So that's my sappy, silly
way of saying thank you for that, and thank you
for taking the time and trusting me to share Jackie
as her name. I'm not going to give her last name.
To share your intimate thoughts like that with me by email.
Yes I do read them on I don't respond to
them all, but yes I do read them all. Tell
me you're up. What's up? My man?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Hey, you're talking about kids getting up early. I grew
up starting in the seventh grade. I was thirteen years old.
We'd get up at two o'clock in the morning, my
brother and I. We would drive over to a friend's
dairy and we milk. Started milking at two thirty in
the morning. We'd get through about five point thirty, go
home mom and have breakfast ready. We'd do our homework,
(28:26):
go to school. We didn't do the afternoon milking because
we had you know, football practice stuff like that. What
was fun was on Friday nights, eight o'clock football game,
and then you had to get up two o'clock next
morning to go milk the cows. So I did that
through my senior year. And my dad tried to talk
us into buying that dairy and I slowly no way.
That was the hardest work, but it paid five dollars
(28:49):
in milking.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
And hey, now you ain't selling me on that thing.
I grew up in it. That's he wasn't fooling you,
you know. I got to tell you. We started to
show talking about Ozzy Osbourne and the legend of the
stupid thing he did at the Alamo and how that's
rock and roll history. But there's more to that. He
(29:11):
wasn't proud of having Pete on the cenotaph. He was
ashamed of it, and he spent the rest of his
life trying to make amends. And he went back and
he apologized and he made a donation, and he never
bragged about that. Apparently I've read after that he was embarrassed.
It was a youthful indiscretion. It was something that he
doesn't want to be remembered for. He did a stupid
(29:31):
thing when he was pass out drunk. A lot of
people do. Doesn't make it okay, it's my alamo or
the cenotaph, but still a cenotaph is a tribute to
those who died there, and that to me is more
important than the physical alama. But further to that point,
I had a classmate named Josh Michelle, and Josh was
(29:51):
a big boy, so he got stuck at right guard
when we were growing up playing football. Unfortunate because when
you're the big boy, Ramon went through this, you did. Hey,
you're playing offensive line. You will never score a touchdown.
You will never hear your name cheered for. You will
never unless you're on the D line. If you're stuck
on the O line, my goodness, it's a world of hurt.
There's nothing good to come of it. And you'll never
(30:14):
hear your name called unless unless you're penalized holding her
off sites. And that's just the way it was. But
we used to make fun of Josh Michelle because Josh
will fall asleep in class and it was because they
had a dairy farm and Josh had to get up early.
The rest of us come rolling in cool cats. We
got the you know, we got moose on our hair,
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slick back. You know, we're checking out the chicks. We're
the coolest cat. Josh would come dragging in and he
may still have mud on his work boots or poop
because he had to get up and milk the cows
before school, and he had to get up at the
buck crack of dawn. You know, the whole drill, if
you're familiar with that, And we would make the teachers
(30:57):
would say Josh, Michelle, and he'd be fall asleep back there,
and we would ridicule that poor boy. And you talk
about your Ozzie talked about your youthful indiscretions. I look
back now, we should have admired Josh for that. But
we were young and stupid. Not the only young and
(31:18):
stupid opinion I ever had. That's why you shouldn't let
young people like what's that Norwegian girl? Don't take theiron?
They don't even know what they're saying. Good grief. You
shouldn't be able to vote to your twenty five and
I mean it so unless you serve, unless you are
actively serving or have served already. But I look back now,
and I think we were making fun of Josh. Josh
(31:42):
was already a grown man, and we were children. That
dude was putting in two days, going to school and
sitting in the air conditioning and having some teacher blabber
and not have to chase down a cow or get kicked,
or get poop all over you, or get squirted on,
(32:05):
or have to lug that milk. What we should have
been doing was treating Josh like the alpha dog that
he was for doing that, But we were too young
and stupid to know that. So there's my regret.
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