February 6, 2026 • 31 mins
From an impromptu Hammond organ story to emotional tributes honoring a legendary professor and a hometown barbecue institution, Michael Berry reflects on the people who quietly change our lives. It’s a reminder that learning, generosity, and character—not fame—are what endure.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I just started to roll the camera.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We stopped singing, man, Oh have a day, Oh have
a day.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
When Jesus war Oh, when you wore watched the Sands, We.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Get out of the.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Time fight. I just picked up a smans of ham
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In Morgan, this doesn't have to be what a beautiful thing.
My friend Morgan Weever that owns the restaurants and Different Concepts,
was moving houses and he had opened a place called
Revival on Heights Boulevard and he would end up doing
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extremely well, but at the time he was struggling and
he was kind of downsizing from the apartment or house
I think they were renting at the time, and he
needed to move everything. And he said, what should I
do with his ham in organ? And he had studied
music at Baylor and Hero. He said, can I just
keep it at your house till we can figure out
where to put it? And I said absolutely. I was
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doing a lot of house parties at the time, so
he brought it to the house and he had a
house party that night or a couple of nights later,
and he played this organ while I think it was
Roger Craigor was there that night. Breathe back, Well, it
was a bunch of people. Anyway, Yes, y'all kuff smer
not reminded Ramone reminded me it was the knight of
y'all coff smirnaw. But anyway, so that organ, you know,
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nobody has a ham and organ at home, or at
least that's what I hear. And so I said, well,
don't you know what, Morgan, You're such a good friend.
Won't you just leave it here? And I have to
worry about it. I'll put a trash bag over it
so it doesn't get dusty. That's the least I do.
You don't need to keep moving that thing. Because he
was very proud of this organ, and people would come in.
I remember Charlie Hager came in and saw it. What
are you doing with the hammin or? I love the
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sound of it, Oh, I just love it. What's the
guy's name? Mazerk guy with the doors that Raymond's there?
He the sounds he made on the keyboard are just
I mean, you think about when he's doing it in
the late sixties, just incredible, And to this day I
still hear him minute, It just it just speaks to me. Wow,
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that's it. Yes, man, they were breaking ground right there.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The thing is you focus so much on his vocals
you don't even notice the mood that's being set by Mansari.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Gosh, we should be find a version where you can
trip out Morse's vocals just because look at it. That's
too By the time he comes in, you're already there.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Right this door.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And that's before you could ai something. They had to
create the rain, They had to create this whole feel.
Oh no, you didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Something that can make you do wrong, make you do right.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's about to happen. I know it's coming. It still
blows my mind everything.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Thank you for.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I want to go back to Joe and his cabin
real quick. But we lost to very wonderful people in
the last few days. Last Friday night, at eight thirty
four pm, my favorite professor, Lawrence Curry passed. His son
Ted and I have gotten to be friends over the
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years because we shared a love for his father. His dad,
Lawrence Curry was a professor at the University of Houston,
not for very long, just fifty four years. He turned
ninety one on wedness, so he was just four days
or so, five days from his ninety first birthday. He
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was an old school teacher in the way that faculty
members are largely and mostly not anymore. He was a
tenured professor, but he wasn't trying to get grants. He
wasn't playing the game. They ended up making him, I think,
the associate dean of the Liberal Arts College at one point.
But he was just admired and revered as a teacher,
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a person who actually taught classes. And he taught classes.
He didn't have one class and then a sabbatical one
class that took every class. He had American History forty
five to sixty, American History sixty to present, Civil War history.
And he was just so good to me. I applied
for a Truman scholarship. I didn't get it, but he
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helped me with my application, helped me put together all
my documents, and just a mentor to me. Wonderful, wonderful man.
And I kept up with him. I graduated college in
ninety three, but I kept up with him up until
he died. Went and visited him in the old Folks
Home and had dinner with him and Patricia, And the
funny thing is is a screaming mad liberal, not an
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angry liberal, not a crazy liberal, but an old school
liberal democrat, kind of the gym high tower kind of liberal,
sort of a progressive populist. And I would talk about
him on the air and friends of his who were
on faculty at the University of Houston say, I heard
Michael Berry talk about you. He must not know your politics,
and he said, no, that's the beauty. He knows mine
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and I know his, and we still love each other.
Why wouldn't we Anyway, Professor Lawrence Gray was a teacher's teacher,
and I am the better because of it. I learned
a lot of history from him. But more importantly, what
did Keiths say, Ramone, education is not Education is not
filling a bucket. It's lighting a fire. And there's this
idea that you get a college degree or a high
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school diploma or whatever it is, and now you've learned everything,
and then people are always disappointed. I didn't learn that
I went to college. I didn't learn that college is
not filling a bucket. It is lighting a fire. It
is a lifelong love of learning. And when you meet
people it's like people who are serial entrepreneurs. When you
meet people who love to learn and are always learning
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new things, those people are happy people. They're not grumpy people.
When you meet someone who says, I don't want to
meet anybody who I don't want to watch a new movie,
I don't want to read a new book, I want
to see a new program, I want to hear a
new song, and none of it's interesting. That's a grumpy person.
Professor Lawrence Cray Pastor, we could go today for every
one of you out there who has changed the life
of another par If you have a teacher who's still alive,
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called him, Professor Carey used to get such a kick
that I would call him and thank him and say, Michael,
that was forever ago. I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
That's the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Carrs Hank taker, this morment This one other person that
we lost in the last week that I would like
to mention, and that is JB. Errington. In the little
community I lived in of mac Lewis, outside of Orange,
it doesn't show up on a map, you'll never see it.
Went to mac Lewis Elementary which doesn't exist anymore. There
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was a JB. Errington Road so named for JB.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
JB.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Arrington. JB sat beside it behind us, about three rows
back over my right shoulder at church every single Sunday.
JB was one hundred years old. You can look up JB.
Arrington JB's Barbecue, and it wasn't but a couple of
years ago that he finally closed down JB's Barbecue. And
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some of you who may never have eaten there, will
remember JB's Barbecue because when you drive through Orange before
before you're technically in the city of Orange, and you're
driving through Orange County. For those of you who know
that area, go along with me. So my coffee, Yeah,
thank you, so nice work with me here. So let's
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go through. We're on ten eastbound. You're headed to Lake
Charles to the Nugget, or maybe you're headed to New
Orleans and you come through Beaumont. You go over, there's
Bethlehem Steel over American Bridge over there to the right.
Come over the bridge. You got the fire training facility
to your left. Come down the bridge. You got the
speed trap there. That's how Rose City makes their money,
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is trapping you. They're bastards about it. But so you
come down up on the right, you got kitchen concepts
or whatever it is. Then you keep going. You're going
to see Voder In about a minute, you'll see main
Street Vider. You see all the fast food restaurants right there.
There used to be a Terry's. I think that's a Shipley's.
Now I could be wrong. There's a dairy Queen. I
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think they got a water Burger invited. Now, anyway, you
keep going a little further to the left is the
Deuiyville cut off. I was born in Deuiyville, do Liville
cut Off. But you don't want to take that yet.
You want to stay and that'll take you up East Texas.
You're gonna stay on ten headed east, and we talked,
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oh yeah, so you're gonna keep going. You're gonna pass
my brother's old house to the left. A little further,
you're gonna pass our house to the right, which about
a mile off the road. Just before you get to
Old First Orange Baptist Church. When you see Old First
Orange Baptist Church on your right, we lived kind of
directly behind there, and that was my home church. Just
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past that, the intersection will be sixty two. If you
took sixty two and turn left, you'd be going north
up East Texas and you'd go up all of our
rivals Buna, Newton, Kirbyville, Holidays at a Warren, all that,
and you could go up East Texas a the way
we used to go to visit my family and Tyler. Anyway,
you stay on ten if you were to exit just
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past there. Now they've changed the exits now. But if
you were to exit just but they didn't have all
that cool stuff. When I was growing up, there was
just a Love's truck stop and you could get baloney
sandwich is about all they had. But now now they
got a water bird, they got all. They got a
waffle house. Oh man, we could have ridden their bike
something had so much cool stuff. We didn't have any money,
but we could have ridden up there and washed the
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dishes for to get to eat there, which is what
we would have done. But anyway, if you were to
exit right there, and I forget where the exit is
on your right, there's a development right there. In my childhood,
doctor Marty Rutledge developed it and it's about I don't
know eight or ten homes, however, minute it's built after
I left, and then just past that next to it,
east of that is a Mueller still building facility. And
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then just past that where the road starts to curve
off to the left, it tend starts to curve off
to the left, or if you go right, you go
into Orange. You know, you got off the feeder. There's
a little in an island dropped there. There's a little
barbecue joint, or was forever called JB's Barbecue. And it
was an institution. And JB would get up and go
in every morning at four o'clock and fire the pits
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up and get them going, get them and he'd put
the ribs on and put the brisket on. And that
was every day. And he did that for a decade.
He did that for longer than I've been alive. And
he shut it down a few years ago, three four
years ago. And he said the reason was he just
he couldn't. They said, well, do you not want to
get up at three thirty and be there at four anymore?
And he said, no, I still get up at that time.
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I just I don't want to start work that early anymore.
Because you know, he'd done it for I don't know,
sixty years. But anyway, in the midst of all this
JB was an AG teacher at Western. I'm sorry, So
there's a lot of people, and I would love to
hear from somebody who knew JB. Errington. Joe Harris, Jojo,
she was Jojo when we were school. Now she did
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Joe and she owns the Farmer's Marchantil with her mama.
Jojo put something up that was really nice about JB. Arrington.
That was the best thing I read. But in any case,
he was a wonderful man. And when I would go
into Orange to visit my parents, he would always come
over and tell me how proud he was of whatever
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I was doing at the time, city council. Well, when
I got my law degree, he was just proud that
I'd gotten my law degree. And then the fact that
I had a real estate company, and then I was
on city council. Should I go through my resume room,
he would always he always knew what was going on
with you. He'd ask my parents at church, so he'd
come up, I'm so proud of you. And then when
I got on the air, that was just off the charts,
just he could not believe it. He listened to me
on the radio every day and it was the greatest
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thing ever. So the likes of JB. Arrington, they don't
pass this way again.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
JB.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Errington and Lawrence Curry rest in peace. Two great men,
two wonderful men that I could only hope to be
more like.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Joe.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You got it real quick. You got a cabin in Tahlequah.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You're, sir, and sorry to hear about your last one.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
No worries.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Hey, listen, one was ninety, one was one hundred. That's
a good run.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'll take it, yes, sir. Yeah, well so, uh, I
don't know if you remember, but uh, a couple of
years back, they were telling some of us that if
you want essential, you know, you couldn't go to work
and all that. And that was about the time when
I when my my buddy Chief Charles moved back. He
moved back home, and and a piece of property came
up available next to him, and uh so, me and
my buddy Cowboy went up there and took a look
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at it. The snow was on the ground, ten acres,
kind of a rundown cabin sitting on the side of
a hill.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Who'd you give for that?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
We'll take it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
We gave, We gave him one eighty Did you finance it?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
No, sir, save save up pennies, man, save up penny
What do you do? I am, uh, well, just a
since I'm a I'm a handyman basically, but I worked
with a lot of commercial clients, a lot of storage facilities.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
You made, you saved one hundred and eighty grand and
you consider yourself a handyman. Yes, sir Ramon, you're in
a rowing business course. You'd have to work and developed
some expert team their minds. There we are the Michael
Barry Show.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Simple man, I'm walking the floor over you. I can't
sleep a wing that is true. I'm hoping and I
pray as my heart breaks riding too walk in the
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floor for you. You laughed me and you want to wave.
You said that you'd be backing.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Just that day.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
You broke in your promising.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You left me here alone. I don't know why you
did there, but I.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Do know that to go on, I'm walking the floor
over you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I can't sleep a wink.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'm hoping and I pray as my heart breaks Roten
to walk in the floor for you. A lot of
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people like to say Hank Senior and father of country
music because they've been told that. The way Ramon does
with certain things, they just repeat it. Just keep like Skinner.
Nobody says that. I didn't nobody. Nobody taught me that
Skinners the greatest rock band of all time?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Why are you laughing at me? That makes you feel good? Okay,
all right? But people love to say, oh Hanks here,
I love Wims. Do you we look? Oh he man,
that's that's where it all begins. Oh Mankilliams Senior man.
And they feel like they have a real knowledge of
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the order jens of country music because they've heard that
and they've repeated it, Which is fine. Okay, name me one,
Ernest Ubson, just one, give me a couple of others
of their contemporaries. I'm not mad at Hank Senior, don't
get me wrong, but it's not like he's the only
guy that was out there crooning away. And you know,
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Bob Wills didn't exist, or Jimmy Rodgers didn't exist, or
Bill Monroe bringing bluegrass into mainstream country without anybody know assent.
Without him, you got no Ricky Skaggs, you got no
Keith Whitley, who started as a bluegrass artist Lefty Frizell,
the early George Jones. I don't know why I get
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so upset about it. It really doesn't matter the end
of the day. Brian, you're at the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Go ahead, Michael Berry, one of my favorite guys.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
There you, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
I was at the fireside chat last night, Brady Van.
You guys set it up perfectly. And look, I think
Steve Toath is walking into a perfect storm. And uh
and I truly believe that this is the year that
old Crenshaw will be primary.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We'll see. I mean, look, it's it's a tough it's
a tough ho to it's a tough road to ho
I'm all in for Toath, but you know, there's a
lot of money coming out of DC that he's in
trouble now. I noticed that when I posted a picture
of me and Steve Toath and and Eddie Gallagher at
the event last night, his campaign staff started, you know,
saying the crowd wasn't big enough, or saying all these
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different things, which is what you do when you're scared.
You're trying to diminish the momentum. You see your opponent
having you're you're you're gunking up the works, and and
that's how you know that they're sitting on internal polling
that's in trouble. The fact is whether Dan Crenshaw wins
or not. I said this last night, and I'll say
it every time, whether John Cornyan wins or not, I don't.
I don't want either one of them to win. I
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don't believe either one of them will win. But I've
been around this process long enough. My three heroes in
life from my childhood have been Robert E. Lee, Jesus
christ In, Davy Crockett.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It doesn't cause me discomfort to lose if I believe
the battle is worthwhile. And that's how I look at everything.
So when people would say to me, when people have
said to me over the years, when I endorsed a
candidate or supported a candidate or a campaign, and you're
gonna lose, Okay, okay, that doesn't I don't. I don't
get involved because I think someone's gonna win. That's a week.
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That's why you never saw me wearing a New England
jersey New England Patriots jersey when they were winning the
Super Bowl, but you saw a lot of people in
Houston who were latter day Patriots fans, because if they're winning,
they support them. But let me say this's about Dan Crenshaw.
I think what Eddie Gallagher revealed on our show yesterday
and what we talked about last night is a darkness
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that surrounds Dan Crenshaw. And you know, Eddie Gallagher and
his wife both said something that maybe losing the election
would mean that Dan would end up in a better
place that he could find some healing. I think that
everybody who has watched the career of Dan Crenshaw, let's
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leave politics aside, everybody who has watched him since he
would elect it to Congress would say he's very angry.
There are allegations that were printed. I don't know if
they're true or not about the drinking in Mexico and
all the problems that you know, whether he was told
he couldn't show up in an event for thirty days.
That may be a lie, I don't know, but it's
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out there rather widely. I know that there are a
number of people with whom I've had conversations that have
talked about his anger. I know that on an open mic,
he said that if he ever catches took Across and
he would kill him. You know, it's one thing to say,
I'd kick his ass. He clearly has some very very
deep seated anger. You saw it when he yelled at
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the little seventeen year old girl at the time hall meeting,
and the crowd just at first they were a gas
You hear them gasping, and then they said, wha, it's
a seventeen year old little girl asking you a question.
When you call Jesus Christ a superman archetype, you should
expect when you come back home to the district where
you don't live, you should come back. You should expect
to come back home to Kingwood and Montgomery County and
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answer for that. Because you're not in DC anymore, you're
not at the parties anymore. And when you have an
amazing track record, you know you're a top five stock
picker in the entirety of Congress, just behind Nancy Pelosi,
you should expect people to ask questions about how you
got so good at being a stock picker. Once you
went to Congress and instead of blowing up at everyone
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and saying.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Well, what are you gonna do.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Just make it so we can't trade stock. They don't
make any money. You know, you look real guilty when
you do that, real guilty when you start sending desist
letters to me and Sean Ryan, because we're not supposed
to be asking questions about whether you're trading stocks on
in that you learn as a congressman. I don't know
if you are or not. But it's a question we
get to ask. It's a question we should ask, and
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you should be able to answer it. And the answer
shouldn't be to drop an f bomb when the free
press asks you the question and say, we haven't had
a cost of living increase in twenty years. Do people
know that can't make any money here, can't make any money?
You make almost two hudred thousand dollars. Ninety percent of
your district would trade places with you tomorrow. You ran
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for this office, you keep running for more of it.
Why are you so angry? What are you so mad about?
Who has pissed you off so badly? Is it that
people dare to question a person who is a public servant.
You're in the wrong business. You are there in people's stead.
You are there as their agent, as there literally as
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their representative. People get to ask questions. If you hire
somebody to go into a meeting and represent you, when
they come out of the meeting, you want to know
what they said because they said it on your behalf.
That's what you're there for. It's nothing personal. I honestly
think that the man is is is in a very
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very dark place. That's what I read of it. This
this extends beyond being questions and the question and beyond politics.
And you know what, in a certain sense, I feel
sad for him. I really actually do, because I liked
the guy. I said, work my ass off to get
him elected, and now and do everything I can to
reverse that and get Steve Toade elected.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
He was one, I said, dog cloudy in this with
the dream at his line, and.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Gotta carry on the back on the black line. You
are next on the Michael Berry Show. What you got sir?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Hey, Hey, Michael.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
You know Dan Chrisshaw has slipped. He's gotten into politics.
He may have been an honest man. I heard you
and interviews with him. You talk about him, you always
say that you know, we thought, but when he got there,
he figured out the inside of part inside.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Of trading the way he can get rich. He flipped.
That's the only reason.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
That is the only reason.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
You know, as the congressman, you don't.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Make a whole lot of money. But when they show him,
just be on our side, and we're going to show
you how to make this money.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And he flipped.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
He changed all everything about him has flipped when he
got inside Congress and he figured out, Hey, this is
how it's done. Let's make some money. Shut up, do
what we told you, just like the Corners, all the
rest of them Democrat Republicans. When they figured that out, Amen,
they go turn coat. And that's what it's happened. Harry.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I don't know that he's inside of trading. I don't
know that. I don't have confirmation of that. I do
know that other people have alleged it. I know that
if you if you search up the subject on YouTube,
you'll see a number of people who've tracked his trades.
I know that Tucker Carlson had a guest who called
him the worst offender or one of the worst offenders
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or whatever. And this is a data analytics guy, which
I am not. And this guy ran the numbers. You
know they've got these They got a Pelosi stock trader,
So sorry, Pelosi stock tracker. Where you can track, you
can trade the same stocks that Pelosi trades because she's
an amazing stock picker. And I think they've got a
Crenshaw stock picker. Now I don't know tracker. I don't
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know if that's if that's the case. I know there
was talk about it, you know, but look, there's a
lot of things on YouTube that may or may not
be true, but it sure is out there a lot.
And you don't know if where there's smoke, there's fire
or people are just saying it. But people have been
saying this long before he had an opponent, and people
have been saying this who are not affiliated with his
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current opponent. It's people who just follow what they consider
to be corruption in public office. One hundred and seventy
four thousand dollars a year is not nothing for a congressman.
I know you're making the point that they want to
make a lot more. But when Rubio got to the
Senate and he was complaining that he was broke after
a couple of years of being in the Senate, my
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point was, hey, look, man, why'd you take a job?
There's a lot of people that would trade one hundred
and seventy four thousand dollars for worth they're making today,
and they work a whole hell of a lot harder
than a congressman. These people think they're the hardest working
people ever. Are you kidding me? Not even clothes. It's
not grueling, grinding work the way so many people do.
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It's the arrogance is shocking.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I said to the crowd last night at Grace Church,
Grace Woodland's, I said, let me ask you this, when
you have truly a representative four hundred the country is
broken into four hundred and thirty five districts, and the
person you send there is your representative. I wonder how
many people who live in the second Congressional District think
to themselves, Yeah, Dan Crenshaw, he could live next door
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to me. When he is in DC, when he was
in the House, he is voting the way I would vote,
acting the way I would act, saying the things I
would say. I don't think a lot of people in
that district would say that we don't need professional politicians,
We don't need people. This isn't a movie where you
cast someone to go up and play the role. We
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need to get back to the idea of the farmer,
like the outlaw Josie Wales who puts his plow down,
and you know Davy Crockett. People that leave the farm
and go in and give their time and then go
back the way George Washington did. They go their surveyors.
They go back to surveying. They're they're running a farm.
They go back to running a farm. They're a doctor,
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they go back to being a doctor. What is it
about Congress that people leave? Not just Dan Crenshaw, people
leave their job. I don't know that Crenshall had a
job when he got elected, for the record, I don't know.
Maybe he did. I didn't know of him having a job.
But so people get these get this job and they
have no money. And let's look at ilan Omar. All
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of a sudden they have a lot of money or
aoc a lot of money. Where's all this money coming from?
What are they doing to make all this money? And
why is it that so many of them are eighty
or ninety years old and they won't leave the place.
What is it about being in Congress that those people
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go there and they can't leave. They just won't leave.
There are professional athletes who retire when they still got
a little gas in the tank and talk about a break.
I mean when you go for being a professional athlete,
the teammates, the camaraderie, the competition, and then you got
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to then what do you do? Go sell insurance, Go
sell cars, go sell all dignified, wonderful positions. But you've
been a professional football player. But they'll leave when they
could still play longer because it's time, because you can't
do something forever. Why can't they leave DC? Why can't
they leave those shops? You ever asked that question? What
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is it about it? What is so intoxicating about it?
What is so powerful about it? What is so rewarding
in whatever way they want to be rewarded? I don't
know something, though, I'll tell you that there's something about it,
there's something real about it. Let me close with the
little admonition that some of you won't like to hear,
(29:14):
and that's okay. We make a little suggestion. You didn't
know who Nancy Guthrie was a week ago. If you
are right now in a tizzy and people were to say, well,
don't ask Samantha her opinion, because she's really upset about that, Samantha,
about the Nancy Guthrie case. I just want you to
(29:35):
understand that your entire focus in life, your emotions, how
you spend your time, is being dictated by a news director.
But Michael, that case is that. Okay, here's what you
don't know. You don't know all the other cases of
people who are missing, compelling cases of little children, of
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elderly people. I hope they find Nancy Guthrie and return
her safely to her family. But is this really worthy
of this much of your attention? And please spare me
the well, we got to hear it, we've got to
have it on TV twenty four to seven because one
of us is going to crack the case. In almost
(30:24):
every case like this, the police already have their prem suspect.
This is all just entertainment for you. When I asked
people to stop watching the school shooting video because the
school shooting is over, well, if that was your child
in there, if that was my child in there, I
would not want the networks making sport of my child's death.
I can damn sure tell you that. Stop thinking that
in some way by rubbernecking at the accident on the
(30:47):
side of the road. You are in any way contributing
to the overall compassion level. But I'm not mad at
you for it. I am suggesting you got one walk
through this world, You got one shot at it. Go
get some fresh. Does the person you spend your life
with no you love him? How about you take the
afternoon off and take him for a chick nick. How
(31:09):
about you go for a walk. How About you go
visit your elderly dad in the old folks home and
just spend two hours watching Baywatch on repeat all afternoon
because that'll make him happy. How About you you go
get your kid out of school for no good reason
and he comes down to the office and mom or dad,
who's normally at work, is there, and you go, what
(31:30):
do you want to do? You wanna go fish? We
wanna go go go ride go karts all afternoon. We're
gonna be dead soon enough, trust me,
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I just started to roll the camera.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We stopped singing, man, Oh have a day, Oh have
a day.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
When Jesus war Oh, when you wore watched the Sands, We.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Get out of the.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Time fight. I just picked up a smans of ham
(01:14):
In Morgan, this doesn't have to be what a beautiful thing.
My friend Morgan Weever that owns the restaurants and Different Concepts,
was moving houses and he had opened a place called
Revival on Heights Boulevard and he would end up doing
(01:35):
extremely well, but at the time he was struggling and
he was kind of downsizing from the apartment or house
I think they were renting at the time, and he
needed to move everything. And he said, what should I
do with his ham in organ? And he had studied
music at Baylor and Hero. He said, can I just
keep it at your house till we can figure out
where to put it? And I said absolutely. I was
(01:56):
doing a lot of house parties at the time, so
he brought it to the house and he had a
house party that night or a couple of nights later,
and he played this organ while I think it was
Roger Craigor was there that night. Breathe back, Well, it
was a bunch of people. Anyway, Yes, y'all kuff smer
not reminded Ramone reminded me it was the knight of
y'all coff smirnaw. But anyway, so that organ, you know,
(02:16):
nobody has a ham and organ at home, or at
least that's what I hear. And so I said, well,
don't you know what, Morgan, You're such a good friend.
Won't you just leave it here? And I have to
worry about it. I'll put a trash bag over it
so it doesn't get dusty. That's the least I do.
You don't need to keep moving that thing. Because he
was very proud of this organ, and people would come in.
I remember Charlie Hager came in and saw it. What
are you doing with the hammin or? I love the
(02:37):
sound of it, Oh, I just love it. What's the
guy's name? Mazerk guy with the doors that Raymond's there?
He the sounds he made on the keyboard are just
I mean, you think about when he's doing it in
the late sixties, just incredible, And to this day I
still hear him minute, It just it just speaks to me. Wow,
(03:01):
that's it. Yes, man, they were breaking ground right there.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The thing is you focus so much on his vocals
you don't even notice the mood that's being set by Mansari.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Gosh, we should be find a version where you can
trip out Morse's vocals just because look at it. That's
too By the time he comes in, you're already there.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Right this door.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And that's before you could ai something. They had to
create the rain, They had to create this whole feel.
Oh no, you didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Something that can make you do wrong, make you do right.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's about to happen. I know it's coming. It still
blows my mind everything.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Thank you for.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I want to go back to Joe and his cabin
real quick. But we lost to very wonderful people in
the last few days. Last Friday night, at eight thirty
four pm, my favorite professor, Lawrence Curry passed. His son
Ted and I have gotten to be friends over the
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years because we shared a love for his father. His dad,
Lawrence Curry was a professor at the University of Houston,
not for very long, just fifty four years. He turned
ninety one on wedness, so he was just four days
or so, five days from his ninety first birthday. He
(05:09):
was an old school teacher in the way that faculty
members are largely and mostly not anymore. He was a
tenured professor, but he wasn't trying to get grants. He
wasn't playing the game. They ended up making him, I think,
the associate dean of the Liberal Arts College at one point.
But he was just admired and revered as a teacher,
(05:31):
a person who actually taught classes. And he taught classes.
He didn't have one class and then a sabbatical one
class that took every class. He had American History forty
five to sixty, American History sixty to present, Civil War history.
And he was just so good to me. I applied
for a Truman scholarship. I didn't get it, but he
(05:51):
helped me with my application, helped me put together all
my documents, and just a mentor to me. Wonderful, wonderful man.
And I kept up with him. I graduated college in
ninety three, but I kept up with him up until
he died. Went and visited him in the old Folks
Home and had dinner with him and Patricia, And the
funny thing is is a screaming mad liberal, not an
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angry liberal, not a crazy liberal, but an old school
liberal democrat, kind of the gym high tower kind of liberal,
sort of a progressive populist. And I would talk about
him on the air and friends of his who were
on faculty at the University of Houston say, I heard
Michael Berry talk about you. He must not know your politics,
and he said, no, that's the beauty. He knows mine
(06:37):
and I know his, and we still love each other.
Why wouldn't we Anyway, Professor Lawrence Gray was a teacher's teacher,
and I am the better because of it. I learned
a lot of history from him. But more importantly, what
did Keiths say, Ramone, education is not Education is not
filling a bucket. It's lighting a fire. And there's this
idea that you get a college degree or a high
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school diploma or whatever it is, and now you've learned everything,
and then people are always disappointed. I didn't learn that
I went to college. I didn't learn that college is
not filling a bucket. It is lighting a fire. It
is a lifelong love of learning. And when you meet
people it's like people who are serial entrepreneurs. When you
meet people who love to learn and are always learning
(07:20):
new things, those people are happy people. They're not grumpy people.
When you meet someone who says, I don't want to
meet anybody who I don't want to watch a new movie,
I don't want to read a new book, I want
to see a new program, I want to hear a
new song, and none of it's interesting. That's a grumpy person.
Professor Lawrence Cray Pastor, we could go today for every
one of you out there who has changed the life
of another par If you have a teacher who's still alive,
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called him, Professor Carey used to get such a kick
that I would call him and thank him and say, Michael,
that was forever ago. I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
That's the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Carrs Hank taker, this morment This one other person that
we lost in the last week that I would like
to mention, and that is JB. Errington. In the little
community I lived in of mac Lewis, outside of Orange,
it doesn't show up on a map, you'll never see it.
Went to mac Lewis Elementary which doesn't exist anymore. There
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was a JB. Errington Road so named for JB.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
JB.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Arrington. JB sat beside it behind us, about three rows
back over my right shoulder at church every single Sunday.
JB was one hundred years old. You can look up JB.
Arrington JB's Barbecue, and it wasn't but a couple of
years ago that he finally closed down JB's Barbecue. And
(08:53):
some of you who may never have eaten there, will
remember JB's Barbecue because when you drive through Orange before
before you're technically in the city of Orange, and you're
driving through Orange County. For those of you who know
that area, go along with me. So my coffee, Yeah,
thank you, so nice work with me here. So let's
(09:14):
go through. We're on ten eastbound. You're headed to Lake
Charles to the Nugget, or maybe you're headed to New
Orleans and you come through Beaumont. You go over, there's
Bethlehem Steel over American Bridge over there to the right.
Come over the bridge. You got the fire training facility
to your left. Come down the bridge. You got the
speed trap there. That's how Rose City makes their money,
(09:36):
is trapping you. They're bastards about it. But so you
come down up on the right, you got kitchen concepts
or whatever it is. Then you keep going. You're going
to see Voder In about a minute, you'll see main
Street Vider. You see all the fast food restaurants right there.
There used to be a Terry's. I think that's a Shipley's.
Now I could be wrong. There's a dairy Queen. I
(09:59):
think they got a water Burger invited. Now, anyway, you
keep going a little further to the left is the
Deuiyville cut off. I was born in Deuiyville, do Liville
cut Off. But you don't want to take that yet.
You want to stay and that'll take you up East Texas.
You're gonna stay on ten headed east, and we talked,
(10:19):
oh yeah, so you're gonna keep going. You're gonna pass
my brother's old house to the left. A little further,
you're gonna pass our house to the right, which about
a mile off the road. Just before you get to
Old First Orange Baptist Church. When you see Old First
Orange Baptist Church on your right, we lived kind of
directly behind there, and that was my home church. Just
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past that, the intersection will be sixty two. If you
took sixty two and turn left, you'd be going north
up East Texas and you'd go up all of our
rivals Buna, Newton, Kirbyville, Holidays at a Warren, all that,
and you could go up East Texas a the way
we used to go to visit my family and Tyler. Anyway,
you stay on ten if you were to exit just
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past there. Now they've changed the exits now. But if
you were to exit just but they didn't have all
that cool stuff. When I was growing up, there was
just a Love's truck stop and you could get baloney
sandwich is about all they had. But now now they
got a water bird, they got all. They got a
waffle house. Oh man, we could have ridden their bike
something had so much cool stuff. We didn't have any money,
but we could have ridden up there and washed the
(11:21):
dishes for to get to eat there, which is what
we would have done. But anyway, if you were to
exit right there, and I forget where the exit is
on your right, there's a development right there. In my childhood,
doctor Marty Rutledge developed it and it's about I don't
know eight or ten homes, however, minute it's built after
I left, and then just past that next to it,
east of that is a Mueller still building facility. And
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then just past that where the road starts to curve
off to the left, it tend starts to curve off
to the left, or if you go right, you go
into Orange. You know, you got off the feeder. There's
a little in an island dropped there. There's a little
barbecue joint, or was forever called JB's Barbecue. And it
was an institution. And JB would get up and go
in every morning at four o'clock and fire the pits
(12:09):
up and get them going, get them and he'd put
the ribs on and put the brisket on. And that
was every day. And he did that for a decade.
He did that for longer than I've been alive. And
he shut it down a few years ago, three four
years ago. And he said the reason was he just
he couldn't. They said, well, do you not want to
get up at three thirty and be there at four anymore?
And he said, no, I still get up at that time.
(12:32):
I just I don't want to start work that early anymore.
Because you know, he'd done it for I don't know,
sixty years. But anyway, in the midst of all this
JB was an AG teacher at Western. I'm sorry, So
there's a lot of people, and I would love to
hear from somebody who knew JB. Errington. Joe Harris, Jojo,
she was Jojo when we were school. Now she did
(12:52):
Joe and she owns the Farmer's Marchantil with her mama.
Jojo put something up that was really nice about JB. Arrington.
That was the best thing I read. But in any case,
he was a wonderful man. And when I would go
into Orange to visit my parents, he would always come
over and tell me how proud he was of whatever
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I was doing at the time, city council. Well, when
I got my law degree, he was just proud that
I'd gotten my law degree. And then the fact that
I had a real estate company, and then I was
on city council. Should I go through my resume room,
he would always he always knew what was going on
with you. He'd ask my parents at church, so he'd
come up, I'm so proud of you. And then when
I got on the air, that was just off the charts,
just he could not believe it. He listened to me
on the radio every day and it was the greatest
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thing ever. So the likes of JB. Arrington, they don't
pass this way again.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
JB.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Errington and Lawrence Curry rest in peace. Two great men,
two wonderful men that I could only hope to be
more like.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Joe.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You got it real quick. You got a cabin in Tahlequah.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You're, sir, and sorry to hear about your last one.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
No worries.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Hey, listen, one was ninety, one was one hundred. That's
a good run.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'll take it, yes, sir. Yeah, well so, uh, I
don't know if you remember, but uh, a couple of
years back, they were telling some of us that if
you want essential, you know, you couldn't go to work
and all that. And that was about the time when
I when my my buddy Chief Charles moved back. He
moved back home, and and a piece of property came
up available next to him, and uh so, me and
my buddy Cowboy went up there and took a look
(14:20):
at it. The snow was on the ground, ten acres,
kind of a rundown cabin sitting on the side of
a hill.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Who'd you give for that?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
We'll take it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
We gave, We gave him one eighty Did you finance it?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
No, sir, save save up pennies, man, save up penny
What do you do? I am, uh, well, just a
since I'm a I'm a handyman basically, but I worked
with a lot of commercial clients, a lot of storage facilities.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
You made, you saved one hundred and eighty grand and
you consider yourself a handyman. Yes, sir Ramon, you're in
a rowing business course. You'd have to work and developed
some expert team their minds. There we are the Michael
Barry Show.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Simple man, I'm walking the floor over you. I can't
sleep a wing that is true. I'm hoping and I
pray as my heart breaks riding too walk in the
(15:20):
floor for you. You laughed me and you want to wave.
You said that you'd be backing.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Just that day.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
You broke in your promising.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You left me here alone. I don't know why you
did there, but I.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Do know that to go on, I'm walking the floor
over you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I can't sleep a wink.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'm hoping and I pray as my heart breaks Roten
to walk in the floor for you. A lot of
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people like to say Hank Senior and father of country
music because they've been told that. The way Ramon does
with certain things, they just repeat it. Just keep like Skinner.
Nobody says that. I didn't nobody. Nobody taught me that
Skinners the greatest rock band of all time?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Why are you laughing at me? That makes you feel good? Okay,
all right? But people love to say, oh Hanks here,
I love Wims. Do you we look? Oh he man,
that's that's where it all begins. Oh Mankilliams Senior man.
And they feel like they have a real knowledge of
(16:59):
the order jens of country music because they've heard that
and they've repeated it, Which is fine. Okay, name me one,
Ernest Ubson, just one, give me a couple of others
of their contemporaries. I'm not mad at Hank Senior, don't
get me wrong, but it's not like he's the only
guy that was out there crooning away. And you know,
(17:22):
Bob Wills didn't exist, or Jimmy Rodgers didn't exist, or
Bill Monroe bringing bluegrass into mainstream country without anybody know assent.
Without him, you got no Ricky Skaggs, you got no
Keith Whitley, who started as a bluegrass artist Lefty Frizell,
the early George Jones. I don't know why I get
(17:43):
so upset about it. It really doesn't matter the end
of the day. Brian, you're at the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Go ahead, Michael Berry, one of my favorite guys.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
There you, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
I was at the fireside chat last night, Brady Van.
You guys set it up perfectly. And look, I think
Steve Toath is walking into a perfect storm. And uh
and I truly believe that this is the year that
old Crenshaw will be primary.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We'll see. I mean, look, it's it's a tough it's
a tough ho to it's a tough road to ho
I'm all in for Toath, but you know, there's a
lot of money coming out of DC that he's in
trouble now. I noticed that when I posted a picture
of me and Steve Toath and and Eddie Gallagher at
the event last night, his campaign staff started, you know,
saying the crowd wasn't big enough, or saying all these
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different things, which is what you do when you're scared.
You're trying to diminish the momentum. You see your opponent
having you're you're you're gunking up the works, and and
that's how you know that they're sitting on internal polling
that's in trouble. The fact is whether Dan Crenshaw wins
or not. I said this last night, and I'll say
it every time, whether John Cornyan wins or not, I don't.
I don't want either one of them to win. I
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don't believe either one of them will win. But I've
been around this process long enough. My three heroes in
life from my childhood have been Robert E. Lee, Jesus
christ In, Davy Crockett.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It doesn't cause me discomfort to lose if I believe
the battle is worthwhile. And that's how I look at everything.
So when people would say to me, when people have
said to me over the years, when I endorsed a
candidate or supported a candidate or a campaign, and you're
gonna lose, Okay, okay, that doesn't I don't. I don't
get involved because I think someone's gonna win. That's a week.
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That's why you never saw me wearing a New England
jersey New England Patriots jersey when they were winning the
Super Bowl, but you saw a lot of people in
Houston who were latter day Patriots fans, because if they're winning,
they support them. But let me say this's about Dan Crenshaw.
I think what Eddie Gallagher revealed on our show yesterday
and what we talked about last night is a darkness
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that surrounds Dan Crenshaw. And you know, Eddie Gallagher and
his wife both said something that maybe losing the election
would mean that Dan would end up in a better
place that he could find some healing. I think that
everybody who has watched the career of Dan Crenshaw, let's
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leave politics aside, everybody who has watched him since he
would elect it to Congress would say he's very angry.
There are allegations that were printed. I don't know if
they're true or not about the drinking in Mexico and
all the problems that you know, whether he was told
he couldn't show up in an event for thirty days.
That may be a lie, I don't know, but it's
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out there rather widely. I know that there are a
number of people with whom I've had conversations that have
talked about his anger. I know that on an open mic,
he said that if he ever catches took Across and
he would kill him. You know, it's one thing to say,
I'd kick his ass. He clearly has some very very
deep seated anger. You saw it when he yelled at
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the little seventeen year old girl at the time hall meeting,
and the crowd just at first they were a gas
You hear them gasping, and then they said, wha, it's
a seventeen year old little girl asking you a question.
When you call Jesus Christ a superman archetype, you should
expect when you come back home to the district where
you don't live, you should come back. You should expect
to come back home to Kingwood and Montgomery County and
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answer for that. Because you're not in DC anymore, you're
not at the parties anymore. And when you have an
amazing track record, you know you're a top five stock
picker in the entirety of Congress, just behind Nancy Pelosi,
you should expect people to ask questions about how you
got so good at being a stock picker. Once you
went to Congress and instead of blowing up at everyone
(21:43):
and saying.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Well, what are you gonna do.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Just make it so we can't trade stock. They don't
make any money. You know, you look real guilty when
you do that, real guilty when you start sending desist
letters to me and Sean Ryan, because we're not supposed
to be asking questions about whether you're trading stocks on
in that you learn as a congressman. I don't know
if you are or not. But it's a question we
get to ask. It's a question we should ask, and
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you should be able to answer it. And the answer
shouldn't be to drop an f bomb when the free
press asks you the question and say, we haven't had
a cost of living increase in twenty years. Do people
know that can't make any money here, can't make any money?
You make almost two hudred thousand dollars. Ninety percent of
your district would trade places with you tomorrow. You ran
(22:27):
for this office, you keep running for more of it.
Why are you so angry? What are you so mad about?
Who has pissed you off so badly? Is it that
people dare to question a person who is a public servant.
You're in the wrong business. You are there in people's stead.
You are there as their agent, as there literally as
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their representative. People get to ask questions. If you hire
somebody to go into a meeting and represent you, when
they come out of the meeting, you want to know
what they said because they said it on your behalf.
That's what you're there for. It's nothing personal. I honestly
think that the man is is is in a very
(23:10):
very dark place. That's what I read of it. This
this extends beyond being questions and the question and beyond politics.
And you know what, in a certain sense, I feel
sad for him. I really actually do, because I liked
the guy. I said, work my ass off to get
him elected, and now and do everything I can to
reverse that and get Steve Toade elected.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
He was one, I said, dog cloudy in this with
the dream at his line, and.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Gotta carry on the back on the black line. You
are next on the Michael Berry Show. What you got sir?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Hey, Hey, Michael.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
You know Dan Chrisshaw has slipped. He's gotten into politics.
He may have been an honest man. I heard you
and interviews with him. You talk about him, you always
say that you know, we thought, but when he got there,
he figured out the inside of part inside.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Of trading the way he can get rich. He flipped.
That's the only reason.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
That is the only reason.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
You know, as the congressman, you don't.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Make a whole lot of money. But when they show him,
just be on our side, and we're going to show
you how to make this money.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And he flipped.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
He changed all everything about him has flipped when he
got inside Congress and he figured out, Hey, this is
how it's done. Let's make some money. Shut up, do
what we told you, just like the Corners, all the
rest of them Democrat Republicans. When they figured that out, Amen,
they go turn coat. And that's what it's happened. Harry.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I don't know that he's inside of trading. I don't
know that. I don't have confirmation of that. I do
know that other people have alleged it. I know that
if you if you search up the subject on YouTube,
you'll see a number of people who've tracked his trades.
I know that Tucker Carlson had a guest who called
him the worst offender or one of the worst offenders
(24:56):
or whatever. And this is a data analytics guy, which
I am not. And this guy ran the numbers. You
know they've got these They got a Pelosi stock trader,
So sorry, Pelosi stock tracker. Where you can track, you
can trade the same stocks that Pelosi trades because she's
an amazing stock picker. And I think they've got a
Crenshaw stock picker. Now I don't know tracker. I don't
(25:17):
know if that's if that's the case. I know there
was talk about it, you know, but look, there's a
lot of things on YouTube that may or may not
be true, but it sure is out there a lot.
And you don't know if where there's smoke, there's fire
or people are just saying it. But people have been
saying this long before he had an opponent, and people
have been saying this who are not affiliated with his
(25:38):
current opponent. It's people who just follow what they consider
to be corruption in public office. One hundred and seventy
four thousand dollars a year is not nothing for a congressman.
I know you're making the point that they want to
make a lot more. But when Rubio got to the
Senate and he was complaining that he was broke after
a couple of years of being in the Senate, my
(25:58):
point was, hey, look, man, why'd you take a job?
There's a lot of people that would trade one hundred
and seventy four thousand dollars for worth they're making today,
and they work a whole hell of a lot harder
than a congressman. These people think they're the hardest working
people ever. Are you kidding me? Not even clothes. It's
not grueling, grinding work the way so many people do.
(26:20):
It's the arrogance is shocking.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I said to the crowd last night at Grace Church,
Grace Woodland's, I said, let me ask you this, when
you have truly a representative four hundred the country is
broken into four hundred and thirty five districts, and the
person you send there is your representative. I wonder how
many people who live in the second Congressional District think
to themselves, Yeah, Dan Crenshaw, he could live next door
(26:45):
to me. When he is in DC, when he was
in the House, he is voting the way I would vote,
acting the way I would act, saying the things I
would say. I don't think a lot of people in
that district would say that we don't need professional politicians,
We don't need people. This isn't a movie where you
cast someone to go up and play the role. We
(27:09):
need to get back to the idea of the farmer,
like the outlaw Josie Wales who puts his plow down,
and you know Davy Crockett. People that leave the farm
and go in and give their time and then go
back the way George Washington did. They go their surveyors.
They go back to surveying. They're they're running a farm.
They go back to running a farm. They're a doctor,
(27:29):
they go back to being a doctor. What is it
about Congress that people leave? Not just Dan Crenshaw, people
leave their job. I don't know that Crenshall had a
job when he got elected, for the record, I don't know.
Maybe he did. I didn't know of him having a job.
But so people get these get this job and they
have no money. And let's look at ilan Omar. All
(27:51):
of a sudden they have a lot of money or
aoc a lot of money. Where's all this money coming from?
What are they doing to make all this money? And
why is it that so many of them are eighty
or ninety years old and they won't leave the place.
What is it about being in Congress that those people
(28:12):
go there and they can't leave. They just won't leave.
There are professional athletes who retire when they still got
a little gas in the tank and talk about a break.
I mean when you go for being a professional athlete,
the teammates, the camaraderie, the competition, and then you got
(28:32):
to then what do you do? Go sell insurance, Go
sell cars, go sell all dignified, wonderful positions. But you've
been a professional football player. But they'll leave when they
could still play longer because it's time, because you can't
do something forever. Why can't they leave DC? Why can't
they leave those shops? You ever asked that question? What
(28:54):
is it about it? What is so intoxicating about it?
What is so powerful about it? What is so rewarding
in whatever way they want to be rewarded? I don't
know something, though, I'll tell you that there's something about it,
there's something real about it. Let me close with the
little admonition that some of you won't like to hear,
(29:14):
and that's okay. We make a little suggestion. You didn't
know who Nancy Guthrie was a week ago. If you
are right now in a tizzy and people were to say, well,
don't ask Samantha her opinion, because she's really upset about that, Samantha,
about the Nancy Guthrie case. I just want you to
(29:35):
understand that your entire focus in life, your emotions, how
you spend your time, is being dictated by a news director.
But Michael, that case is that. Okay, here's what you
don't know. You don't know all the other cases of
people who are missing, compelling cases of little children, of
(29:59):
elderly people. I hope they find Nancy Guthrie and return
her safely to her family. But is this really worthy
of this much of your attention? And please spare me
the well, we got to hear it, we've got to
have it on TV twenty four to seven because one
of us is going to crack the case. In almost
(30:24):
every case like this, the police already have their prem suspect.
This is all just entertainment for you. When I asked
people to stop watching the school shooting video because the
school shooting is over, well, if that was your child
in there, if that was my child in there, I
would not want the networks making sport of my child's death.
I can damn sure tell you that. Stop thinking that
in some way by rubbernecking at the accident on the
(30:47):
side of the road. You are in any way contributing
to the overall compassion level. But I'm not mad at
you for it. I am suggesting you got one walk
through this world, You got one shot at it. Go
get some fresh. Does the person you spend your life
with no you love him? How about you take the
afternoon off and take him for a chick nick. How
(31:09):
about you go for a walk. How About you go
visit your elderly dad in the old folks home and
just spend two hours watching Baywatch on repeat all afternoon
because that'll make him happy. How About you you go
get your kid out of school for no good reason
and he comes down to the office and mom or dad,
who's normally at work, is there, and you go, what
(31:30):
do you want to do? You wanna go fish? We
wanna go go go ride go karts all afternoon. We're
gonna be dead soon enough, trust me,
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