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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Roger Rocher said an email and said, good god, you've
got a lot of listeners if they're all calling and
emailing me and telling me, hey, Michael Berry is talking
about you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But he's saying your name wrong. His name is spelled
d E s r O c h e s obviously
a French name. And the challenge with anything French is
do you give the proper French pronunciation or do you
do it the way we say it here? Right?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He said?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
A good way to think of it is Dr d
er roche r ow sh like ther commissar, but Dr
Roche I like Duroach. I like to tell people they
pronounce their name wrong. That's a charming trait I have
that nobody seems to appreciate quite to the extent I
do du Roche. Should I say it correctly to not
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be an ass or should I say it incorrectly because
it forces people to get aggravated, which forces them to engage,
because that's kind of the old shock jock trick. And
I'm not a shock jock, but sometimes I find getting
something wrong that people know to be it forces them,
you know, it gets their their their wheels spinning. Speaking
(02:00):
of wheel spinning, Ramon, I promised people are wanting to
do the what you did for Senior Skip day. I
want to be clear. It's a lightning round. Okay. That
means you got a few seconds, because God bless them,
there are people out there that go, mon, yeah, you're
on to me. Whoever me is yes, it's you. Yeah,
(02:22):
if you can hear yours, yeah, it's okay, all right,
good morning, Michael. Yeah, so I got I got a
story for you on Senior. Lightning means quick, right to
the point, because remember, we're creating a show, like we're
creating a dish that people are listening to. So if
you and I are having a conversation over beers or
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bourbon and a cigar, you can tell that long stor
But right now we're creating like we're on stage and
we're creating this moment that people are listening to, and
we need pacing for this segment. And the pacing means
I go to you and it's like it's like perfectly choreographed,
except it's not completely impromptu extemporaneous, and you go, I say,
(03:05):
you're up. You boom, and I'm out and on to
the next and it's like, whooh, this sounds tight tight?
How'd they do? They even hears that? But it doesn't
work that way when you start your guitar solo while
I'm doing the opening, Yeah, you get it all right.
Seven one three, nine, nine nine one thousand, seven one
three one thousand, seven one three none one thousand, and
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while we're doing that, ramon, you can fire this real quick,
and then you take the calls seven one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand. Where y'all went for senior skip Day? I
need you to tell me the year you were a
high school senior, So the answer would be, Michael, where'd'all
go for senior skip Day? Nineteen eighty nine or eighty nine? Galliston,
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we didn't have a senior skip day, but that would
be my answer. Rodney and Lena's property tax rate increase
of eight percent they are pushing this. We have got
to get people to fight back against this tax rate
and vote Republican all the way down the ballot, every
single Republican position, district attorney, sheriff, every single Republican position.
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This should get our people out to vote. They did
us a favor. Now we have to get our neighbors. Hey,
do you see Rodney elisis raising the tax him and
Lena hidaugu or raising the taxes.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
What.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, we have to show up and vote for every
Republican to fight. It's just that simple. The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Property owners could soon pay more in property taxes then expected,
in part to a loophole in the Property Tax Relief Act.
The law allows county leaders to raise property taxes if
the disaster has been declared. Harris County saw multiple efer.
Daniel Ramos is the county budget director.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
We can go up to eight percent instead of our
normal three and a half percent. So we are utilizing that.
You know chess today. If you were if you were
in the meeting, you heard from dozens of speakers, all
of who are asking for more services.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Ramas admits, if passed, the county insends on using the
extra dollars across the county, not limiting it to resources
used to recover from declared disasters.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
We have communities that's more serve. They're asking for more
emergency preparedness, they're asking for more law enforcement for reasons
for law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
This is exactly why commission to Tom Ramsey is against.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
The votes because I do not trust the budget office
to spend the money on the disaster. I will not
be supporting the eight percent increase because they're not spending
it on the disaster.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Ramsey believes if this passes and becomes part of the budget,
it will bring unwanted attention to Harris County from lawmakers.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I'll almost guarantee it at the next session. If Harris
County simply uses this money to plug budget holes, then
the state legislature will close that gap in the future,
because if you're not going to spend money on the disaster,
why should we give you more money to spend on
a disaster.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
If Tom Ramsey was not on Harris County Commissioner's Court,
ninety nine percent of what we know of what's going
on down there would not be known. But they can't
take any official act, which these big tax increases on.
They can't do anything that without a vote. And when
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they have to have a vote, then they have to
let him see the information in order to cast a vote.
Otherwise you wouldn't know the raping, pillaging, burning, extortion, embezzlement
that was going on down there. You'd have no idea.
Thank God for Tom Ramsey. Pick up the phone and
call Tom Ramsey, Commissioner Ramsey, God bless you and your
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Crockett Texas accent and your good old fashioned, homespun, honest
to goodness sense, good Christian man, second Baptist prayer group
solid because let me tell you something. When he walks
into those commissioners court meetings, he is hated. And this
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isn't a guy like me that would enjoy that. He
walks in there and goes in there and says, pushes,
pushes his glass. This looks like somebody's papa. He goes
in there and he sits down. And this is an engineer.
Tom rams was a very very prominent engineer in this town.
I say prominent. He would never toot his own horn.
And he sits down at the table with all his
documents and he says, Nope, nope, nope, not doing that,
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not doing that, not doing that, not doing that, And
they hate him. You could cut the air with a knife.
Leslie Brionis, Adrian Garcia, Lena Hidalgo, Rodney Ellis hate him.
My goodness, what that man has done, you know, because
they jerrymandered Jack Cagle off Council. Rodney did that. I
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gotta give Rodney credit. He just basically just said, you're
not on counts, you're not on the Commission's score anymore.
You're gone, and nobody stopped it. The win was the
night was the twenty eighteen straight party the last straight
party ballot voting in twenty eighteen, and people just thought
emmittt would be there forever, and Emmitt was a good administrator.
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I have my disagreements that the Astronome is still I
will go to my grave saying we're still wasting money
on the astrodome because nobody will be bold enough to
stop it, to stop just pouring money into something we're
never going to use again. It's just a little you know,
pump the prime the pump again. What do y'all want
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to do with it? And then here they all go,
weish have make osk Eate Park. They're never going to
do anything. That's just how they keep you the hope
is how they keep you from tearing it down. All right,
it's a lightning round of what you did on Senior
Skip mat. This may be the best one we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Doing how Mike.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, tell me if you think this is irrational or not?
It you? So I had the pecan crusted snapper last
night at Federal American Girl with the duroche duroche? Did
I say it right? What did my boyfriend eat? What
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kind of comment is that? Who's my boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you order food like that, you need to come
out to your dad. Okay, all right, I see, Okay,
you got that okay kind of redneck backwards masculinity that
says I can't have a pecan crusted snapper with my
rose and a croissant. Well, miss, okay, how about this?
(10:02):
Does this help? I had broccolini with it, in fact,
doesn't say manly man? I don't know what does. And
guess what else I did Instead of the mashed potatoes
because that's too feminine, I butchered it up with some
wild rice double order. I was eating late, and I
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dressed up nice. Okay, you're okay. It sounds very gay,
I admit not there's any wrong with that. Not there's
anything wrong with that. I'll get ten emeals today. Michael,
I'm gay. I've been listening to you for ten years,
and every one of my gay friends like, why do
you listen to him, he he's a homophobic. No he's not.
He's a great guy. He sounds fantastic. I bet way
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to like him. And then you go making all them
gay jokes. Well, oaks are healthy, friend jokes are healthy.
But anyway, so oh really, oh really, that's that's where
you're going with this joke. Okay, all right, I see
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what you're doing. Okay, all right, I'm gonna pretend you
didn't say that. So Harvin, the managing partner of du
Roche du Roache, I think I said it right. Du
Roche said completely random thought. But since you like pecan
crusted fish, tree beards on Saturday Nights has a pecan
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crusted telapia, which is delicious thought, you'd like to know.
First of all, it's not completely random. We were just
talking about pecan crusted fish. Oh that's what made me
talk about it. I do love tree beards, but I
don't as a matter of principle, I don't eat telapia
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because it's all Chinese owned. I'm a catfish man, and
I have had people tell me, oh, catfish, that's a
trash fish. Catfish you use HG be salt, salt and
pepper shakers, do you really want to have a conversation
about the Queen's English, or reading the Constitution or knowledge
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of the Canterbury Tales. You can walk around posing because
you say this or that. But catfish, I mean, I
don't want to get too far out there, but I
don't know that there is a more flavorful fish. Now
there's fish. It's all fishy, all nasty, fishy. Oh and
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all that fact is nobody's eating salmon for flavor. You're
eating salmon because it's a very very healthy food and
it is. My wife eats it every day, I'm I'm
knocking and my kids like it, which is weird. Kids
are not supposed to like salmon. When I was growing up,
we called them salmon. We ate salmon patties, and looking
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back now, it was the baloney of salmon. When you'd
come home and Mom would be cooking the salmon patty,
it was a patty that she would hand form like
ground beef, except I don't really know what it was.
There was a lot of lips and a holes. I
can tell you that because there was stuff in there
that was cartilaginous, like there was fish nose. I think
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sometimes the hook would still be up in there, and
but I'm gonna tell you this. You're gonna laugh. You know,
Chad grew up on spam. He don't tell him Spam's
not good. I enjoyed those salmon patties, I really really did.
And my mom would, would you know, skill it everything
was made in the skillet for us, Everything was made
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in the skillet, and she would make that and we
might have that in toast, and it was delicious. I
was happy. All right, it's a lightning round. Would just
go down the list if you'll, if you'll pull them
up for me. What did you do for Saturday? Skip day?
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So give me the year and where you went. Well,
go David Mitchard, Melissa, Michael, d Paula, and then we'll
start back up at the top seven one, three, nine,
one thousand. If you can't get in, keep trying, because
a minute someone's finished, they drop and there you are, David,
You're up.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
My friend's grandfather had a beer store, so we went
and got a bunch of beer and partied all day. David,
how long you been listening to show?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Just recently? I'm in love it and you just came
on mornings on cap Wio.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh, I'm gonna cut you some slack then, because anybody
knows me knows you have to tell where the store
was and what the name of the store was.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, the store was the Dutchman. I'm not gonna tell
you where it was.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Why still have family of life?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And the grandfather got busted for selling the minors?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh what county is it?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Love it county?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, well you give us the name, you know, selling
to miners in a small town. I really don't think
that's really looked down on the way it. I mean,
of all the things you can do, you know, soliciting
a minor, that's a no no, but selling to minors.
I didn't drink till last twenty nine. But I can
tell you my classmates knew where to get booze. We
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all knew. I didn't even drink, and I knew you
go our Joe's, you go where Jasper Superrett and you
can get beer if you're eighteen. And then there were
other places that you know that because I'd be with
my buddies, I just didn't drink it, and they'd go
that guy right there, that'd always be some guy mid
twenties wearing flip flops, you know, hair all down, maybe
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a ball cap on, and you'd go, hey, need you
twenty bucks to get us some beer, and they would
always be able to do it, and that dude wud
be like sometimes it's because the dude wonted twenty bucks,
and sometimes it was like he felt sorry for you,
like I get you what? Well, No, not that kind
of miners. These didn't go down in minds. These were
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under eighteen people. Remind let's go, Richard, you're up. Where
was your Saturday skip day in what year?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Nineteen eighty four? Cyber Street High School, East Beach, Galliston.
We drove down there about it in John Radlin's jacked
up a pickup truck, drink Mickey's Big Mouth all the
way down there, and little Kings and a little bit
MB twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Great call, Richard, Well done, Melissa, what was your senior
skip day? Graduated from alas Pastings and we went to
East Beach in Galveston and had a great time. Is
each beach the gays or the nude people or nude gays?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Back then it was just a place where there weren't
as many cops.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So you just like Pirates Beach, ninety Mile Beach. That
area Pirates is not East Beach, sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
No, I'm sorry West Beach. We're West Coast.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's a whole different show. Okay, all right, let's go
to Michael. Michael D. You're up.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Clown High School, class of seventy seven, West Beach, Galveston, A.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Lot of Galaston folks. Paula, you're up.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Sweetheart, nineteen ninety three, Florence, Montana, and a group of
a stool liquor out of all of our parents liquor
cabinets and went snowboarding.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I got two emails from Montana during the show today,
one from Billings or outside of Billings, one for Bozeman.
And then you call in with a Montana star. There's
only like ten people in Montana, thirty of them now
it's called or emailed the show today, Michael by show.
Speaking of show sponsors, we need a show sponsor who
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does gutters, not like you do ten other things, and
you could add gutters to it. We need a gutter specialist.
I need a gutter specialist at my house, which was
what made me think of it, But then I realized
when gutter requests come in, I don't have somebody to
refer them to, and they do. So if you do
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gutters exclusively, you are Houston owned, Houston operated, owner operated, ethical,
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which means you probably have to have ten employees or
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our folks about being a show sponsor, send me an
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I'm I'm not cold calling people. If somebody wants to
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people wouldn't do it unless they made that money and
then some back. For a certain type of company, it
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He'll call you seven one three nine nine one thousand.
It is a lightning round seven three nine one thousand. See,
sometimes I wonder if my friends are really my friends.
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So my friend the Aggie Plummer Michael Robinson, rode with
me to visit my parents two days ago, and he
made the point that I had eaten rice at dinner
and he had said, you never eat rice, And I said, well,
that's for a reason, because I love rice. And I
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met my wife in nineteen eighty nine, and I grew
up on rice, like rice and rude is great for me,
any kind of gravy type product and rice, that's that's
my sweet spot. Not pasta. I didn't grow up on pasta.
I grew up on rice, rice with everything. And then
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I get with this girl from India and she eats
rice with everything, and South Indians, who are mostly vegetarian,
she's not. But South Indians who are mostly vegetarians will
eat a meal called dall chovol, which is basically literally
rice and beans. The beans are dull, which is a pulse,
and it's kind of it's food for a very poor people,
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but they love it so they come here. They could
be a doctor, they could be making good money. Engineer
tex Ceo. They still eat all choval and so for her,
she can literally eat doll which is a bean that's
made into a paste and rice, and she got me
eating it. So we eat rice with everything, and so
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part of me ballooning up to two forty was I
ate rice with every meal, and I don't even think
about it. Those things become habits. You don't think yourself,
I'm over indulgent. You can't eat rice every day. It's
a heavy start. You can't do it. Can't eat potatoes
every day, can't eat rice every day, you can't eat
pasta every day. Well, hell, I didn't realize I wasn't
consciously getting fat, so I quit eating rice. Cold turkey said,
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no more rice. My wife said, there's no way you'll
be able to live with this, but I did so.
Two nights ago, my buddy goes to Orange with me
to see my parents so I don't have to go
by myself, and we eat rice. And he thought I
hated rice, but in fact I have a rice addiction,
so I hadn't done rice. And then he heard me
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say that I had rice last night, substituted the mashed
tess for rice, and he goes, that's two nights in
a row. You had rice like I needed to hear that.
Let me slide back in and have some rice without
anybody noticing it. All right, it's a lightning round. We'll
go down the list your senior skip day? Mine was
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we didn't have one. We'll go Beth, Brad, Jim, Mike,
Joe down and then back up. Seventy one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand. Beth, what year and where was your senior
skip day? Nineteen eighty General Butler State Park, Carolton, Kentucky.
Right on God's Country. Brad, where was your senior skip day?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Worst senior skip day ever? Hang out with some friends
and that's the rum punch in the morning on September eleventh,
two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh oh man, gosh, dog it, I didn't even think
about that was somebody's you know, all the things that
happened on that day and we forget. Good call, Brad, Jim,
what was your senior skip day?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Nineteen seventy six?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Fingerlakes, New York, Watkins, Glenn and Tagonic Halls with a
kick of beer?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Right on, good call, Thank you. Mike, what was your
senior skip day?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Nineteen seventy three, Amarillo, Texas, Paladera Canyon, beer and rock slides.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Jim. I first went to Paula Duro with my wife
and kids, driving to Colorado years ago, and you know
what my reaction to that place was, Why in the
hell does nobody talk about this? We have the second
biggest canyon behind Grand Canyon, right here in Texas, and
nobody talks about it.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
It's a great fingerskip place.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Well, I would think it would be. I will tell
you my wife and kids and I love it was
like a slice of I wouldn't say Colorado is more
New Mexican. It was like a slice of Santa Fe,
New Mexico. It was just these craggy mountains. It's dry.
I don't like dried, dusty places. It's why the south
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of Arizona doesn't appeal to me. It's why I don't
like Santa Fe as much as I like Aspen. But
this was a glorious It seemed like something that if
somebody had focused the way they did Aspen and the
way they did Santa Fe, you could have made this
something of a tourist attracts. And I mean, I guess
to some extent it is. But I wonder, like I
say that, because we never talked about Paula Duro. We never,
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like I don't remember growing up, I didn't even know
it was there. And then here was this thing that's
like eighty miles wide and one hundred and twenty miles
long or something. I don't remember. I might get to know.
But how come we don't brag on this thing? We
got everything.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
We do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
If as much as Texans loved Texas, if Americans loved
America Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah that's the one. Yeah, what it come in one?
And then.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know, I don't know who made this rule. But
we didn't have Mexicans in Orange. When I say we
didn't have Mexicans, I don't mean we didn't have people
who came from Mexico and clean houses or mode lawns
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or built stuff or worked on cars. I mean we
didn't have what we call Mexicans, like people with the
last name Gomez, my junior high crush and some of
that time girlfriend Christy Daleon until she betrayed me for
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Kent higginbotham seventh grade. I'm still mad about it. You know,
she's a sweetheart. We actually keep up. She's done very well.
She married a professional baseball player, how about that? So
obviously she had a thing for men with baseball prowess.
Sweetheart of a girl. I'm just kidding. But Christy Daleon,
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like we would say she was Mexican. She wasn't Mexican
for like probably ten generations, but man, she was dark
skinned Mexican. So anyway, when I came to Houston in
eighty nine, we would and I went to work at
Papasitos and this was on heavy rotation gypsy kings. I
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didn't know who it was. I thought that was Mexican music.
What did I know? And I can remember, you go
to a you go to a trendy tex mex restaurant
we just called a Mexican restaurants like that back then.
You went to kind of a gringos Papasitos, that kind
of thing. This would be what would play, not the cantina,
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you know, with actual Mexicans in it, but if you
went to a place where white people ate tex mex
restaurant text mex food, this would be playing. And I
thought that's what the Mexicans all listened to. I had
no idea. I love the vibe, though, I think it
has such a great vibe. Genie writes watermelon show and
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reading and bless your heart, trying to follow. Don't blame
you for rules, but I hate rules. Just heard Sureley
say we don't do filthy houses. Listen just to hear her.
And because I first heard you during Harvey we flooded
five feet, just bought the house. And because we moved
to Vider in twenty nineteen, now in conro I ate
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watermelon for the salt, hated the taste, but everyone ate
the watermelon. Summer ritual like fish fry, crankin ice cream,
say and bless your heart and going to church. I'm
making a list. Is that what happened to church? Rituals
are gone? Also thought about books. I have pedicures monthly.
Everyone lined up in chairs looking at their phones. I
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take a book. Senior skip wasn't invented in nineteen seventy.
I lived in Memphis. We came to Houston for senior trip.
Big fat blessings on your mom and dad. Jeanie Barton.
It's kind of the ramblings of a madman, but I
like it. I think she'd be an interesting person, kind
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of interesting uh, staccato style of delivery. But but there's
there's a there's some intriguing depth and texture to her. Come,
let's play a lightning round game. But indeed, I was
literally about to look up and tell you, point to
you to fire it. You anticipated my needs. It's amazing. Uh,
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you don't have to change some music. I'm just gonna
say this quickly. I got a message from Karen Rambin.
Howard Rambin of Moody Rambin Fame, very very very very
very successful real estate firm in this town, big contributors
to Houston. Howard was a listener to the show. He
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and his wife Karen. First time I ever got an email,
said love your show. He didn't tell me who he was, Like,
you know, you would know who I am, even though
I once hired an assistant who used to actually hired
a web director years ago, twenty years ago, who had
worked for him as his personal assistant. And I sent
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back and I said, like the Howard Ramman, and he chuckled,
He goes, nobody knows who I am anymore, I said,
I do. Anyway, So once a year or so, he
or his wife Karen would send me an email that
they were listening. I always got a kick out of that.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I love.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I was talking to Corby robertson the other day and
he said, you know, my dad and I listened to
your show, and we get such a kick out of
it when you talk about the old Houston. Because I'm
not from the Old Houston, but I studied it, and
I said, I got to have your dad on. He
could tell some stories. But I love hearing that the
Jack Blanton's and the d Osburn's and the Jack Trotters,
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and over the years, I would hear that those people listeners,
and I still love it to this day. Louis Welch
but Karen Ramdan sent me a message that she said,
I want to let you know that my sweet Howard
passed away quite unexpectedly on Sunday while we were vacationing
in Florida. As you know, Howard and I and the
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rest of our entire family enjoy your show and have
great respect for you. Please whisper, please whisper God's speed
for Howard, God's speed, Howard, rest in peace. Brother. It
is a lightning round what. I didn't want to go
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too deep into it. I didn't want to go too
deep into it. I just wanted to say it and
be done. And I know if I got too deep
into it wouldn't do a very important lightning round. And
these things are important. Let's start with Tracy. Tracy, what
was your senior skip Day?
Speaker 7 (31:56):
May nineteen ninety one, around like two weeks before her graduation?
But the funny part about it.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Is that is a our classic assist of one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
So I principle come to the skip day party and
run us all back to school.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thank you for the care. You know what a low
by Tracy? She laughs, She laughs, She has a good time.
You can tell she's enjoying herself. She must make other
black people so mad because she just has this this spirit,
this joy, real joy. This isn't like Kamala Han. She
has real joys, a happy person. Let's go to Joe. Joe,
(32:39):
what year and what was your senior skip day?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Go nineteen seventy eight?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Who was a Gleena Park High School, West Beach, Galaston.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
And this soul girl has nickname was ever Ready asked
me for a ride. We got to the beach and
never saw her again.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I thought it was gonna be a good.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Maybe she wasn't ever ready. You know, you think about
the nicknames we gave people, but you are basically you are, basically,
And my problem is I meet people now, or hear
from people you know someone else say, hey, did you
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know old Susie Jones. That's a made up name in
case I accidentally know of Susie Jones. Did you know
old Susie Jones from Rain? She said she knew you,
and your immediate reaction because I go back to being
sixteen years old, is oh, ever ready? And then you go, oh,
I did, very sweet lady. How is she doing? Oh
she's fine. She'd married to my brother. Very very classy lady.
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I hadn't seen her in thirty five years, but think
the world of her now. The older women are going
to get mad. But I'm a fifty three year old dude,
and I was once a sixteen year old dude, and
I did sixteen year old things. We talked about girls,
we said things we weren't to say, We talked bad
about girls, we talked sexually about girls. So don't get
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your your You're just not used to hearing people talk
about things honestly, but that's what we did. And I'm
no different than anybody else, so I don't need Mamma
All telling me I'm a bad person for being honest.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Roger Rocher said an email and said, good god, you've
got a lot of listeners if they're all calling and
emailing me and telling me, hey, Michael Berry is talking
about you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But he's saying your name wrong. His name is spelled
d E s r O c h e s obviously
a French name. And the challenge with anything French is
do you give the proper French pronunciation or do you
do it the way we say it here? Right?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He said?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
A good way to think of it is Dr d
er roche r ow sh like ther commissar, but Dr
Roche I like Duroach. I like to tell people they
pronounce their name wrong. That's a charming trait I have
that nobody seems to appreciate quite to the extent I
do du Roche. Should I say it correctly to not
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be an ass or should I say it incorrectly because
it forces people to get aggravated, which forces them to engage,
because that's kind of the old shock jock trick. And
I'm not a shock jock, but sometimes I find getting
something wrong that people know to be it forces them,
you know, it gets their their their wheels spinning. Speaking
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of wheel spinning, Ramon, I promised people are wanting to
do the what you did for Senior Skip day. I
want to be clear. It's a lightning round. Okay. That
means you got a few seconds, because God bless them,
there are people out there that go, mon, yeah, you're
on to me. Whoever me is yes, it's you. Yeah,
(02:22):
if you can hear yours, yeah, it's okay, all right,
good morning, Michael. Yeah, so I got I got a
story for you on Senior. Lightning means quick, right to
the point, because remember, we're creating a show, like we're
creating a dish that people are listening to. So if
you and I are having a conversation over beers or
(02:43):
bourbon and a cigar, you can tell that long stor
But right now we're creating like we're on stage and
we're creating this moment that people are listening to, and
we need pacing for this segment. And the pacing means
I go to you and it's like it's like perfectly choreographed,
except it's not completely impromptu extemporaneous, and you go, I say,
(03:05):
you're up. You boom, and I'm out and on to
the next and it's like, whooh, this sounds tight tight?
How'd they do? They even hears that? But it doesn't
work that way when you start your guitar solo while
I'm doing the opening, Yeah, you get it all right.
Seven one three, nine, nine nine one thousand, seven one
three one thousand, seven one three none one thousand, and
(03:30):
while we're doing that, ramon, you can fire this real quick,
and then you take the calls seven one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand. Where y'all went for senior skip Day? I
need you to tell me the year you were a
high school senior, So the answer would be, Michael, where'd'all
go for senior skip Day? Nineteen eighty nine or eighty nine? Galliston,
(03:52):
we didn't have a senior skip day, but that would
be my answer. Rodney and Lena's property tax rate increase
of eight percent they are pushing this. We have got
to get people to fight back against this tax rate
and vote Republican all the way down the ballot, every
single Republican position, district attorney, sheriff, every single Republican position.
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This should get our people out to vote. They did
us a favor. Now we have to get our neighbors. Hey,
do you see Rodney elisis raising the tax him and
Lena hidaugu or raising the taxes.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
What.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, we have to show up and vote for every
Republican to fight. It's just that simple. The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Property owners could soon pay more in property taxes then expected,
in part to a loophole in the Property Tax Relief Act.
The law allows county leaders to raise property taxes if
the disaster has been declared. Harris County saw multiple efer.
Daniel Ramos is the county budget director.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
We can go up to eight percent instead of our
normal three and a half percent. So we are utilizing that.
You know chess today. If you were if you were
in the meeting, you heard from dozens of speakers, all
of who are asking for more services.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Ramas admits, if passed, the county insends on using the
extra dollars across the county, not limiting it to resources
used to recover from declared disasters.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
We have communities that's more serve. They're asking for more
emergency preparedness, they're asking for more law enforcement for reasons
for law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
This is exactly why commission to Tom Ramsey is against.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
The votes because I do not trust the budget office
to spend the money on the disaster. I will not
be supporting the eight percent increase because they're not spending
it on the disaster.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Ramsey believes if this passes and becomes part of the budget,
it will bring unwanted attention to Harris County from lawmakers.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I'll almost guarantee it at the next session. If Harris
County simply uses this money to plug budget holes, then
the state legislature will close that gap in the future,
because if you're not going to spend money on the disaster,
why should we give you more money to spend on
a disaster.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
If Tom Ramsey was not on Harris County Commissioner's Court,
ninety nine percent of what we know of what's going
on down there would not be known. But they can't
take any official act, which these big tax increases on.
They can't do anything that without a vote. And when
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they have to have a vote, then they have to
let him see the information in order to cast a vote.
Otherwise you wouldn't know the raping, pillaging, burning, extortion, embezzlement
that was going on down there. You'd have no idea.
Thank God for Tom Ramsey. Pick up the phone and
call Tom Ramsey, Commissioner Ramsey, God bless you and your
(06:50):
Crockett Texas accent and your good old fashioned, homespun, honest
to goodness sense, good Christian man, second Baptist prayer group
solid because let me tell you something. When he walks
into those commissioners court meetings, he is hated. And this
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isn't a guy like me that would enjoy that. He
walks in there and goes in there and says, pushes,
pushes his glass. This looks like somebody's papa. He goes
in there and he sits down. And this is an engineer.
Tom rams was a very very prominent engineer in this town.
I say prominent. He would never toot his own horn.
And he sits down at the table with all his
documents and he says, Nope, nope, nope, not doing that,
(07:34):
not doing that, not doing that, not doing that, And
they hate him. You could cut the air with a knife.
Leslie Brionis, Adrian Garcia, Lena Hidalgo, Rodney Ellis hate him.
My goodness, what that man has done, you know, because
they jerrymandered Jack Cagle off Council. Rodney did that. I
(07:58):
gotta give Rodney credit. He just basically just said, you're
not on counts, you're not on the Commission's score anymore.
You're gone, and nobody stopped it. The win was the
night was the twenty eighteen straight party the last straight
party ballot voting in twenty eighteen, and people just thought
emmittt would be there forever, and Emmitt was a good administrator.
(08:20):
I have my disagreements that the Astronome is still I
will go to my grave saying we're still wasting money
on the astrodome because nobody will be bold enough to
stop it, to stop just pouring money into something we're
never going to use again. It's just a little you know,
pump the prime the pump again. What do y'all want
(08:41):
to do with it? And then here they all go,
weish have make osk Eate Park. They're never going to
do anything. That's just how they keep you the hope
is how they keep you from tearing it down. All right,
it's a lightning round of what you did on Senior
Skip mat. This may be the best one we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Doing how Mike.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, tell me if you think this is irrational or not?
It you? So I had the pecan crusted snapper last
night at Federal American Girl with the duroche duroche? Did
I say it right? What did my boyfriend eat? What
(09:25):
kind of comment is that? Who's my boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you order food like that, you need to come
out to your dad. Okay, all right, I see, Okay,
you got that okay kind of redneck backwards masculinity that
says I can't have a pecan crusted snapper with my
rose and a croissant. Well, miss, okay, how about this?
(10:02):
Does this help? I had broccolini with it, in fact,
doesn't say manly man? I don't know what does. And
guess what else I did Instead of the mashed potatoes
because that's too feminine, I butchered it up with some
wild rice double order. I was eating late, and I
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dressed up nice. Okay, you're okay. It sounds very gay,
I admit not there's any wrong with that. Not there's
anything wrong with that. I'll get ten emeals today. Michael,
I'm gay. I've been listening to you for ten years,
and every one of my gay friends like, why do
you listen to him, he he's a homophobic. No he's not.
He's a great guy. He sounds fantastic. I bet way
(10:53):
to like him. And then you go making all them
gay jokes. Well, oaks are healthy, friend jokes are healthy.
But anyway, so oh really, oh really, that's that's where
you're going with this joke. Okay, all right, I see
(11:13):
what you're doing. Okay, all right, I'm gonna pretend you
didn't say that. So Harvin, the managing partner of du
Roche du Roache, I think I said it right. Du
Roche said completely random thought. But since you like pecan
crusted fish, tree beards on Saturday Nights has a pecan
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crusted telapia, which is delicious thought, you'd like to know.
First of all, it's not completely random. We were just
talking about pecan crusted fish. Oh that's what made me
talk about it. I do love tree beards, but I
don't as a matter of principle, I don't eat telapia
(11:57):
because it's all Chinese owned. I'm a catfish man, and
I have had people tell me, oh, catfish, that's a
trash fish. Catfish you use HG be salt, salt and
pepper shakers, do you really want to have a conversation
about the Queen's English, or reading the Constitution or knowledge
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of the Canterbury Tales. You can walk around posing because
you say this or that. But catfish, I mean, I
don't want to get too far out there, but I
don't know that there is a more flavorful fish. Now
there's fish. It's all fishy, all nasty, fishy. Oh and
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all that fact is nobody's eating salmon for flavor. You're
eating salmon because it's a very very healthy food and
it is. My wife eats it every day, I'm I'm
knocking and my kids like it, which is weird. Kids
are not supposed to like salmon. When I was growing up,
we called them salmon. We ate salmon patties, and looking
(13:04):
back now, it was the baloney of salmon. When you'd
come home and Mom would be cooking the salmon patty,
it was a patty that she would hand form like
ground beef, except I don't really know what it was.
There was a lot of lips and a holes. I
can tell you that because there was stuff in there
that was cartilaginous, like there was fish nose. I think
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sometimes the hook would still be up in there, and
but I'm gonna tell you this. You're gonna laugh. You know,
Chad grew up on spam. He don't tell him Spam's
not good. I enjoyed those salmon patties, I really really did.
And my mom would, would you know, skill it everything
was made in the skillet for us, Everything was made
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in the skillet, and she would make that and we
might have that in toast, and it was delicious. I
was happy. All right, it's a lightning round. Would just
go down the list if you'll, if you'll pull them
up for me. What did you do for Saturday? Skip day?
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So give me the year and where you went. Well,
go David Mitchard, Melissa, Michael, d Paula, and then we'll
start back up at the top seven one, three, nine,
one thousand. If you can't get in, keep trying, because
a minute someone's finished, they drop and there you are, David,
You're up.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
My friend's grandfather had a beer store, so we went
and got a bunch of beer and partied all day. David,
how long you been listening to show?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Just recently? I'm in love it and you just came
on mornings on cap Wio.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh, I'm gonna cut you some slack then, because anybody
knows me knows you have to tell where the store
was and what the name of the store was.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, the store was the Dutchman. I'm not gonna tell
you where it was.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Why still have family of life?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And the grandfather got busted for selling the minors?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh what county is it?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Love it county?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, well you give us the name, you know, selling
to miners in a small town. I really don't think
that's really looked down on the way it. I mean,
of all the things you can do, you know, soliciting
a minor, that's a no no, but selling to minors.
I didn't drink till last twenty nine. But I can
tell you my classmates knew where to get booze. We
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all knew. I didn't even drink, and I knew you
go our Joe's, you go where Jasper Superrett and you
can get beer if you're eighteen. And then there were
other places that you know that because I'd be with
my buddies, I just didn't drink it, and they'd go
that guy right there, that'd always be some guy mid
twenties wearing flip flops, you know, hair all down, maybe
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a ball cap on, and you'd go, hey, need you
twenty bucks to get us some beer, and they would
always be able to do it, and that dude wud
be like sometimes it's because the dude wonted twenty bucks,
and sometimes it was like he felt sorry for you,
like I get you what? Well, No, not that kind
of miners. These didn't go down in minds. These were
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under eighteen people. Remind let's go, Richard, you're up. Where
was your Saturday skip day in what year?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Nineteen eighty four? Cyber Street High School, East Beach, Galliston.
We drove down there about it in John Radlin's jacked
up a pickup truck, drink Mickey's Big Mouth all the
way down there, and little Kings and a little bit
MB twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Great call, Richard, Well done, Melissa, what was your senior
skip day? Graduated from alas Pastings and we went to
East Beach in Galveston and had a great time. Is
each beach the gays or the nude people or nude gays?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Back then it was just a place where there weren't
as many cops.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So you just like Pirates Beach, ninety Mile Beach. That
area Pirates is not East Beach, sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
No, I'm sorry West Beach. We're West Coast.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's a whole different show. Okay, all right, let's go
to Michael. Michael D. You're up.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Clown High School, class of seventy seven, West Beach, Galveston, A.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Lot of Galaston folks. Paula, you're up.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Sweetheart, nineteen ninety three, Florence, Montana, and a group of
a stool liquor out of all of our parents liquor
cabinets and went snowboarding.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I got two emails from Montana during the show today,
one from Billings or outside of Billings, one for Bozeman.
And then you call in with a Montana star. There's
only like ten people in Montana, thirty of them now
it's called or emailed the show today, Michael by show.
Speaking of show sponsors, we need a show sponsor who
(18:18):
does gutters, not like you do ten other things, and
you could add gutters to it. We need a gutter specialist.
I need a gutter specialist at my house, which was
what made me think of it, But then I realized
when gutter requests come in, I don't have somebody to
refer them to, and they do. So if you do
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gutters exclusively, you are Houston owned, Houston operated, owner operated, ethical,
able to handle a certain size, a certain scale of business,
which means you probably have to have ten employees or
more at a minimum. And you want to talk to
(19:07):
our folks about being a show sponsor, send me an
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send me an email going hey, oh, Bob, overt is good.
I'm I'm not cold calling people. If somebody wants to
be a show sponsor, it costs a lot of money,
over one hundred thousand dollars a year, well over. Obviously
people wouldn't do it unless they made that money and
then some back. For a certain type of company, it
(19:30):
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He'll call you seven one three nine nine one thousand.
It is a lightning round seven three nine one thousand. See,
sometimes I wonder if my friends are really my friends.
(20:14):
So my friend the Aggie Plummer Michael Robinson, rode with
me to visit my parents two days ago, and he
made the point that I had eaten rice at dinner
and he had said, you never eat rice, And I said, well,
that's for a reason, because I love rice. And I
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met my wife in nineteen eighty nine, and I grew
up on rice, like rice and rude is great for me,
any kind of gravy type product and rice, that's that's
my sweet spot. Not pasta. I didn't grow up on pasta.
I grew up on rice, rice with everything. And then
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I get with this girl from India and she eats
rice with everything, and South Indians, who are mostly vegetarian,
she's not. But South Indians who are mostly vegetarians will
eat a meal called dall chovol, which is basically literally
rice and beans. The beans are dull, which is a pulse,
and it's kind of it's food for a very poor people,
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but they love it so they come here. They could
be a doctor, they could be making good money. Engineer
tex Ceo. They still eat all choval and so for her,
she can literally eat doll which is a bean that's
made into a paste and rice, and she got me
eating it. So we eat rice with everything, and so
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part of me ballooning up to two forty was I
ate rice with every meal, and I don't even think
about it. Those things become habits. You don't think yourself,
I'm over indulgent. You can't eat rice every day. It's
a heavy start. You can't do it. Can't eat potatoes
every day, can't eat rice every day, you can't eat
pasta every day. Well, hell, I didn't realize I wasn't
consciously getting fat, so I quit eating rice. Cold turkey said,
(22:05):
no more rice. My wife said, there's no way you'll
be able to live with this, but I did so.
Two nights ago, my buddy goes to Orange with me
to see my parents so I don't have to go
by myself, and we eat rice. And he thought I
hated rice, but in fact I have a rice addiction,
so I hadn't done rice. And then he heard me
(22:27):
say that I had rice last night, substituted the mashed
tess for rice, and he goes, that's two nights in
a row. You had rice like I needed to hear that.
Let me slide back in and have some rice without
anybody noticing it. All right, it's a lightning round. We'll
go down the list your senior skip day? Mine was
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we didn't have one. We'll go Beth, Brad, Jim, Mike,
Joe down and then back up. Seventy one, three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand. Beth, what year and where was your senior
skip day? Nineteen eighty General Butler State Park, Carolton, Kentucky.
Right on God's Country. Brad, where was your senior skip day?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Worst senior skip day ever? Hang out with some friends
and that's the rum punch in the morning on September eleventh,
two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh oh man, gosh, dog it, I didn't even think
about that was somebody's you know, all the things that
happened on that day and we forget. Good call, Brad, Jim,
what was your senior skip day?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Nineteen seventy six?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Fingerlakes, New York, Watkins, Glenn and Tagonic Halls with a
kick of beer?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Right on, good call, Thank you. Mike, what was your
senior skip day?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Nineteen seventy three, Amarillo, Texas, Paladera Canyon, beer and rock slides.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Jim. I first went to Paula Duro with my wife
and kids, driving to Colorado years ago, and you know
what my reaction to that place was, Why in the
hell does nobody talk about this? We have the second
biggest canyon behind Grand Canyon, right here in Texas, and
nobody talks about it.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
It's a great fingerskip place.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Well, I would think it would be. I will tell
you my wife and kids and I love it was
like a slice of I wouldn't say Colorado is more
New Mexican. It was like a slice of Santa Fe,
New Mexico. It was just these craggy mountains. It's dry.
I don't like dried, dusty places. It's why the south
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of Arizona doesn't appeal to me. It's why I don't
like Santa Fe as much as I like Aspen. But
this was a glorious It seemed like something that if
somebody had focused the way they did Aspen and the
way they did Santa Fe, you could have made this
something of a tourist attracts. And I mean, I guess
to some extent it is. But I wonder, like I
say that, because we never talked about Paula Duro. We never,
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like I don't remember growing up, I didn't even know
it was there. And then here was this thing that's
like eighty miles wide and one hundred and twenty miles
long or something. I don't remember. I might get to know.
But how come we don't brag on this thing? We
got everything.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
We do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
If as much as Texans loved Texas, if Americans loved
America Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah that's the one. Yeah, what it come in one?
And then.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know, I don't know who made this rule. But
we didn't have Mexicans in Orange. When I say we
didn't have Mexicans, I don't mean we didn't have people
who came from Mexico and clean houses or mode lawns
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or built stuff or worked on cars. I mean we
didn't have what we call Mexicans, like people with the
last name Gomez, my junior high crush and some of
that time girlfriend Christy Daleon until she betrayed me for
(26:34):
Kent higginbotham seventh grade. I'm still mad about it. You know,
she's a sweetheart. We actually keep up. She's done very well.
She married a professional baseball player, how about that? So
obviously she had a thing for men with baseball prowess.
Sweetheart of a girl. I'm just kidding. But Christy Daleon,
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like we would say she was Mexican. She wasn't Mexican
for like probably ten generations, but man, she was dark
skinned Mexican. So anyway, when I came to Houston in
eighty nine, we would and I went to work at
Papasitos and this was on heavy rotation gypsy kings. I
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didn't know who it was. I thought that was Mexican music.
What did I know? And I can remember, you go
to a you go to a trendy tex mex restaurant
we just called a Mexican restaurants like that back then.
You went to kind of a gringos Papasitos, that kind
of thing. This would be what would play, not the cantina,
(27:42):
you know, with actual Mexicans in it, but if you
went to a place where white people ate tex mex
restaurant text mex food, this would be playing. And I
thought that's what the Mexicans all listened to. I had
no idea. I love the vibe, though, I think it
has such a great vibe. Genie writes watermelon show and
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reading and bless your heart, trying to follow. Don't blame
you for rules, but I hate rules. Just heard Sureley
say we don't do filthy houses. Listen just to hear her.
And because I first heard you during Harvey we flooded
five feet, just bought the house. And because we moved
to Vider in twenty nineteen, now in conro I ate
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watermelon for the salt, hated the taste, but everyone ate
the watermelon. Summer ritual like fish fry, crankin ice cream,
say and bless your heart and going to church. I'm
making a list. Is that what happened to church? Rituals
are gone? Also thought about books. I have pedicures monthly.
Everyone lined up in chairs looking at their phones. I
(28:48):
take a book. Senior skip wasn't invented in nineteen seventy.
I lived in Memphis. We came to Houston for senior trip.
Big fat blessings on your mom and dad. Jeanie Barton.
It's kind of the ramblings of a madman, but I
like it. I think she'd be an interesting person, kind
(29:08):
of interesting uh, staccato style of delivery. But but there's
there's a there's some intriguing depth and texture to her. Come,
let's play a lightning round game. But indeed, I was
literally about to look up and tell you, point to
you to fire it. You anticipated my needs. It's amazing. Uh,
(29:36):
you don't have to change some music. I'm just gonna
say this quickly. I got a message from Karen Rambin.
Howard Rambin of Moody Rambin Fame, very very very very
very successful real estate firm in this town, big contributors
to Houston. Howard was a listener to the show. He
(30:00):
and his wife Karen. First time I ever got an email,
said love your show. He didn't tell me who he was, Like,
you know, you would know who I am, even though
I once hired an assistant who used to actually hired
a web director years ago, twenty years ago, who had
worked for him as his personal assistant. And I sent
(30:22):
back and I said, like the Howard Ramman, and he chuckled,
He goes, nobody knows who I am anymore, I said,
I do. Anyway, So once a year or so, he
or his wife Karen would send me an email that
they were listening. I always got a kick out of that.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I love.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I was talking to Corby robertson the other day and
he said, you know, my dad and I listened to
your show, and we get such a kick out of
it when you talk about the old Houston. Because I'm
not from the Old Houston, but I studied it, and
I said, I got to have your dad on. He
could tell some stories. But I love hearing that the
Jack Blanton's and the d Osburn's and the Jack Trotters,
(30:58):
and over the years, I would hear that those people listeners,
and I still love it to this day. Louis Welch
but Karen Ramdan sent me a message that she said,
I want to let you know that my sweet Howard
passed away quite unexpectedly on Sunday while we were vacationing
in Florida. As you know, Howard and I and the
(31:19):
rest of our entire family enjoy your show and have
great respect for you. Please whisper, please whisper God's speed
for Howard, God's speed, Howard, rest in peace. Brother. It
is a lightning round what. I didn't want to go
(31:40):
too deep into it. I didn't want to go too
deep into it. I just wanted to say it and
be done. And I know if I got too deep
into it wouldn't do a very important lightning round. And
these things are important. Let's start with Tracy. Tracy, what
was your senior skip Day?
Speaker 7 (31:56):
May nineteen ninety one, around like two weeks before her graduation?
But the funny part about it.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Is that is a our classic assist of one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
So I principle come to the skip day party and
run us all back to school.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thank you for the care. You know what a low
by Tracy? She laughs, She laughs, She has a good time.
You can tell she's enjoying herself. She must make other
black people so mad because she just has this this spirit,
this joy, real joy. This isn't like Kamala Han. She
has real joys, a happy person. Let's go to Joe. Joe,
(32:39):
what year and what was your senior skip day?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Go nineteen seventy eight?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Who was a Gleena Park High School, West Beach, Galaston.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
And this soul girl has nickname was ever Ready asked
me for a ride. We got to the beach and
never saw her again.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I thought it was gonna be a good.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Maybe she wasn't ever ready. You know, you think about
the nicknames we gave people, but you are basically you are, basically,
And my problem is I meet people now, or hear
from people you know someone else say, hey, did you
(33:21):
know old Susie Jones. That's a made up name in
case I accidentally know of Susie Jones. Did you know
old Susie Jones from Rain? She said she knew you,
and your immediate reaction because I go back to being
sixteen years old, is oh, ever ready? And then you go, oh,
I did, very sweet lady. How is she doing? Oh
she's fine. She'd married to my brother. Very very classy lady.
(33:45):
I hadn't seen her in thirty five years, but think
the world of her now. The older women are going
to get mad. But I'm a fifty three year old dude,
and I was once a sixteen year old dude, and
I did sixteen year old things. We talked about girls,
we said things we weren't to say, We talked bad
about girls, we talked sexually about girls. So don't get
(34:07):
your your You're just not used to hearing people talk
about things honestly, but that's what we did. And I'm
no different than anybody else, so I don't need Mamma
All telling me I'm a bad person for being honest.
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