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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know, it's very few things I just can't stand
hear it about. And that is number one, people pictures
of the ugly baby. Even though Mike Berry said, always
don't tell nobody that the baby is ugly.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
People don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
But number two is when people tell you about to
die if they are. Now mic and Berry will not
shut up about it. For while it was Ramon Ramon
got on there and talked about it. Oh, I'm on
this and that and I've lost seven hundred and eighty
pounds and doctor now even can't do that. I mean,
all this ignace. And Micael Barry can't stop hisself from
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posting pictures of his skinny ass sitting up there, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And you know how skinny people always do.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They take a picture on the from the side with
their hand on their help like, look here, how my
buttocks has went down there.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I ain't got no tumak no more.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I just want to slap the face back into the
stone age. But here what Michael barr do to really
drive me up a damn walk? Of course we know
he on this Intramican faxing and he don't eat for
two and three days in time.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know you're off in my oreo.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He said I'll have that Thursday week.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But he get on hand.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
He put up menus because he go to these damn
high class restaurants from Houston, nobody have ever been to,
nobody ever heard of, and he posts a menu on there.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
All in French are Italian sun, ignorance and everything in there.
You can't even understand what it is.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
My eyes goes directly to the price.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And have you noticed they don't even put a dollar
signed by the price. It just say Cognac de refuse
you do Montaigne dot dot dot twenty plus Fromage Duke
quailed ignorance of Ambrosia as eight.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know what that means. I don't know what
that stuff is.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Give me a damn Wendy Burger, I mean, give me
a baconator. I know what that is.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Exactly how much money I got to bring up that?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Besides that, I'm not getting dressed up, putting on new
wigs to go down to sundamn restaurant where the chair
is probably two damn type for my big ass and
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Be embarrassed because I don't know what I'm aught in.
And the next thing I know, they're gonna bring out
snail eggs, some kind of oyster marinated in money is
and I ain't gonna have it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So Michael Berry, Okay, everybody know you skinny. It make
cute in that truth, But good god, I mighty quit
challenging people to ask them what they're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I ain't having none of it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, no, no, anyway, I'm sorry I got cursed out,
but that made me hungry.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Sues A quick update, Thank you to a phase with
Poona Walla, our friend at Spring Branch Medical Supply for
a five hundred dollars donation. It is the ramone forty
for forty forty days of fasting, which we will hit
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this Friday night. He not wait, he will hit this
Friday night at seven pm, and we are asking you
to support that fast by supporting our veterans at Camp
Hope who are saving the lives of other veterans. It
is a great cost and we're having some fun with
it to spur him on in his final week. Although
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Marcus Latrell sent a fire him up message and he said,
you know, the last week's easy. Oh okay, imagine you
just don't eat for a week. Oh that week's easy.
You're already thirty six days into it. Thank you to
Fazo Punawala at Spring Branch Medical Supply. He is the
medical supplier for my father. Whether it's the shoes that
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are comfortable, because that's important for a diabetic at a
certain age, to the right walker. Let me tell you something.
You don't realize how important a walker is. Like if
you've seen how if you go out to Memorial Park
and you see these women with their strollers. Now you'll
see the women who don't know any better, like their
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first generation immigrants say they're not aware. And then you
see the Tanglewood moms and they got like a souped up
like you're thinking, so you kind of look at the brand.
You know it'll be Alto or Lululemon or some brand
you never heard of. So you go back and you
look it up and you're like, I wonder what that
I bet that thing's three hundred dollars. It'll be thirty
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five hundred dollars. It's got special wheels on it, and
it's got pouches and they can pack, you know, different
kids in there, and the little root raccoon pouch and
a little kangaroo kid pouch, and she's got her waters
in there, and it's got a break on it, and
it's got big wheels so they can jog with it. Oh,
it's it's something else anyway. It is the same thing
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at the Old Folks Home. So my dad had a walker.
We moved him into the Old Folks Home and then
I walked him down to his first meal, which was
a dinner, because we came that afternoon. And you walk
into the dining room and it's all the old people
sitting around, and there's one table the staff calls golden Girls,
and it's about eight ladies. And if you've never heard
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this story, if anybody ever tells you this story, boocket,
because it's one hundred percent true. If you think a
woman going to a bar on ten cent beer night
in Anchorage, Alaska is being looked at, or a brand
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new pretty little boy getting thrown into prison, and they're
all just like scavender hyenas right ready to attack. Let
me tell you something. You walk your then eighty five
year old dad into the dining room at the old
folks home, and you glance over at the table of
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eight women who sit in the corner, and it's like
a small town church. You've got your pew where you sit,
and you don't dare sit there. And I could already
tell that was the vibe of what was going on.
And so they wait. There's lunch at noon and dinner
at five. He takes his breakth his breakfast in his
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he just does cereal for his breakfast. But it was
dinner at five. So it's a Saturday. It doesn't matter,
they don't have week days and all that. But but
at four forty five, they start gathering at the door
to get in. Now the door is not closed because
everybody's on a walter or in a wheelchair, but the
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door is an open passage. But they put a staunchon.
You know how at Studio fifty four or whatever, there's
a you know, the little barricade, the rope, you know,
like the movie theater. They got that, and they're lining
up and a lot of them have caretakers with them.
So they're all lined up and they're ready, and I
don't know what they're lined up and ready for. It's
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not like this is a sellout the seats. There are
enough seats for everybody. But you go in with your
dad and you feel like you're taking your kid to
the first day of kindergarten, right stay of preschool, and
you walk in and you you're scared for your kid.
You know they're all looking around, they don't know where
to go. So we've had a whole role reversal here.
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So I asked the staff, I said, where can we sit?
That's not somebody else's seat, And so we find a
little seat. We sit there and all the ladies. I
glance over and all the ladies are doing like a
parade with why they want to see who the new
guy is kid in town? Yeah, I say yes. So
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thank you to Faso puddle wall off outen you. Why
thank you to our farming ranch realtor Rick Doak five
hundred dollars. I saw a picture of Rick and his
beautiful wife Gail, and I had to scold him with
the email I sent in response, nobody likes their picture
picked apart by people after you posted. But there was
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too much room in between him and that lovely lady,
and I said, Rick, you better snuggle up close on her.
Somebody else will, but I will say this. Gail is
a beautiful woman. They came on our Aspen trip a
couple of years ago, three years ago. I think it
was the first time I met her. But Rick looks
like a million bucks in the picture. Gail is beautiful
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all the time. She just an attracted woman. Rick our
farm in Ranch realtor is if I could get the
immediate results for a show sponsor that we got for
him and Stifel our wealth advisors, and Christine Weaver and
Michael Petru Some people take a few months, some people
take a year or more. If I could get the
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results we've gotten for him, I bet he has sold
I don't want to exaggerate. I bet he's sold fifty
million dollars worth of farming range real estate since starting
with us. Just incredible, just amazing. We had the timing
worked out great and he's good at what he does,
so thank you to him. Brie Jit Bolston along with
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her husband Matthew, and their baby Bailey in Belleville, Texas,
no business to support, just wanted to want to get
behind us five hundred dollars. She sent me a nice
note last week. We'm saying my husband and I have
been listening to you before we were married. We've taken
to heart a lot of what you said, and it's
made our marriage better. It's made us better parents. I said,
what a sweet just out of the blue. Our friend
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Derek Bingham, who, by golly, one way or another, is
going to make a go of Higgins boat rum. So
if you need to buy some rum and you're at
the liquor store, I hope you will pick up a
bottle or three of Higgins boat rum. Derek is from Orange,
He's a great guy. His dad, Lynn Bingham. It all
comes full circle, although I always seem to be on
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the receiving. His dad, Lynn Bingham ran track for Rice.
He was a track star for Right White Boy, by
the way, and he worked for a company called Claren
for Pete Claren, and they each gave me a thousand
dollars to sponsor my trip to Costa Rica, which is
where I learned Spanish. That was where Oscar Aris had
just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and I was writing
for the Bowman Enterprise. But anyway, then I get to
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know his son many years later, and didn't know it
was his son. I knew the guy for a year
they were. He and his beautiful wife were very active
members at RCC. But he has started He played football
tight end for Rice. He has started a liquor company,
which is a tough, tough business. But if anybody can
do it, he's going to do it. Because he's Ramonte.
He's indefatigable. That's that's your that's your Dennis Miller word
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for the day. He is indefatigable. Higgins Boat Room five
hundred dollars. I don't know if he's got five hundred.
He might have taken that from his wife. I don't
know if Higgins Boat Rum's made a penny yet, but
maybe now maybe everybody will go, you know what, I
need to stop my bar and I don't have a
good room. I'm not loyal to a room. Let me
half of them are Cuban. Let me go get a
Higgins boat rum. And the Higgins boat, as you know,
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is the boat that was made out of Louisiana, designed
by mister Higgins who I forget his first name, that
had the walls that would drop down so the guys
could jump out and storm the beach. To Donnie and
Julie rad Lee, thank you for one thousand dollars. Kathleen
Murray for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
H K.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Pitts, he put a go horns in there, Manto, hope
you're okay with that? FO one hundred dollars. Levi Gottlieb,
who owns Refreshed Vending for one eighty. I mentioned Grant
Patterson for one hundred. These are for one hundred. Bobby Crumpley,
Roy Thibodeau, Darryl Hancock, Andy Lahay, Jody Peck, and Lewis
point A. Louis Plainte sends me an email once a week,
whether I like it or not, and all he wants
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is to meet with Dan Pastor. He just wants to
meet Dan Pastorini one time. And I send it to
day and every time, and he's like, I'm afraid he'll
be disappointed. At this point, Jeff Myers five hundred dollars.
Let me see if I can find this. I said,
you have a business you want me to mention and
he said, uh, he said, no, I don't, but here's
what I would like, since you're doing it for Camp Hope,
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I would like in memory of my two cousins who
died in Vietnam. Daniel Myers and Peter dehas I said,
I would be honored to remember your two cousins, Jeff Myers,
so thank you, very very much. So loony Lena, Lena Hidalgo.
This is why you can't ever vote Democrat because they
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put a candidate up knowing that she had spent a
portion of her life in an insane asylum, knowing that
she's nuttyer and squirrel turts, but she was a Hispanic
female immigrant who spoke Spanish and ed Emmett was doing,
by all accounts, a good job. This was twenty eighteen.
Act Blue was pushing the slate. This was the last
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year that you could tell people to vote straight party.
It was the last year of the state of the
straight party ticket, and they did it across the state
trying to get Beto over the finish line. So there
it is. Lena hidalgoes swept in. Nobody even knows who
she is. She's terrible. From day one, she's terrible. She's
cussing at the other Democrats on there. The only one
she doesn't fight with is Rodney because he controls her.
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And even Rodney's done with her, finished with her well.
At one point she goes up missing. Well, the hair
is county judge, which of course is not a judge
on a bench there like the mayor of the county.
Their number one responsibility is emergency preparedness. They are the
official in charge during this. They're the president that they're
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the commander in chief of the military. They're the commander
in chief during emergency preparedness. She's gone dead in the
center of hurricane season, hadn't been seen for well over
two months. And Rodney pulls an al haig, I'm in
charge here, and everybody says, well, why are you in charge? Well,
Lina's getting the help she does so desperately needs. It's
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very brave, because apparently to have a breakdown is very brave.
This is a problem in this country. We've done this
thing where any weakness is a strength. Yes, so and
so has been drunk on the job for fifty eight days.
He's assaulted six women, he hasn't performed a single task,
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and he's stolen money. But he is declared he's an
alcoholic and he's gonna get the help he needs, and
that's brave, and we must support him. No, that's not
how that works. So now loony Lena has come up
with she's got to leave a legacy, right, So now
she wants to give paid mental health leave for twenty
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thousand Harris County employees because everyone needs time off to quote,
clear your mind. Yeah, it's called the weekend. Commissioner Tom
Ramsey responds, as he always does, reasonably, he's the only
voice of reason down there. Sadly, we already provide paid
sick days, vacation time, personal leave. Personal leave is leave
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you burn that you don't need to tell why you're out, holidays,
and other benefits that can be used when needed. Adding
separate paid mental health days would come with a significant
price tag, potentially costing millions of dollars each year in wages, overtime,
and staff and coverage. So today she posts, Hey, we
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got a big storm coming and Waco's underwater, but don't worry.
Harry's County is ready, Our people are ready. What if
our people are just like you, out on crazy leave
for three days and the water's rising and there's nobody
to save them. This is looney, Michael Harry, Oh can
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you play the video for those of you who haven't
seen it. I made a big post on Facebook about
it yesterday. I was talking about the line in the song.
It's one of my favorite. Scott Kirby and Glen Martin
wrote the song as anybody going to San Antonio, and
of course Charlie Pride made it famous when he recorded
it in nineteen seventy, the year of my birth. But
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my mother loved Charlie Pride and it was one of
the eight tracks that she would play at the house
and Charlie Rich Charlie Pride, Mickey Gilly Conway. I'm noticing
a theme there. Anyway, I was, I went down a
rabbit hole and I said, you know, Texas Tornadoes did
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a cover of that. So I'm making my poor wife,
who grew up in India did not grow up on
Texas country musical, American country music, classic country music. She
did see Jethro Toll and Bruce Springstein in concert in India,
which still blows my mind. But I'm showing her the
difference between Charlie Pride's version and Jack Johnson, his manager,
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kind of rewrote the song and rearranged the song, the
chords and the arrangement to suit him better. But then
it was remade by Texas Tornado. So I'm making her
listen to that song, and then I'm making her listen
to Texas Tornadoes version, and I love the Texas Tornadoes.
I mean, can you imagine being in the room with
those four guys the studio or on stage to see
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Freddie Fender Doug's song Augie Flackohum in it? I mean,
my goodness, what a deal. So I went to the
video to show her on the YouTube's and I would
just tell you you'll see the video because it's it
looks like a late sixties, maybe early seventies. I think
it's a Cadillac Eldorado, but I could be wrong, red
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Cadillac that I didn't study it. But it comes over
the bend and it's coming at you and it's on
a wide open looks like maybe a West Texas Highway,
and they start talking about wanting to go to San
Antonio and then they go into this song and then
it shows them jamming. Ramon found the video for me
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so you could hear it, but you got to go
see it for yourself. But I just love this version
of this song.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm tired of being on the road. Man, I want
to be home. I'll tell you what. Talking about going
home I'd like to go back to my mama grocery store.
Sit on the backboard. Yeah, yeah, that's what I missed.
Then you know what I miss what to Midas sending
tone to my lie.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Yeah you're talking about Tom Lasse. Yeah, hey, let's go
come under there. So they're going to San Antonio. You
figure that out.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Well?
Speaker 8 (19:29):
The rain giving up the beam, Mad, it's no let's
call to day here. I am walking down sixty s
when she hadn't done me this way, cleaning under the
table in the roadside bart A, Mad, you wake up dad,
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mother songs seemed to want letting sleeping in your wise
e visit does anybody go into sad? So feed this
minisoda and the basis all out of the row on
the side ovid.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
I never know, I can't.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
This is my mama's grocery store up here, and I
used to work at this place every morning for years.
This is where I met Duck Salmon.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
He's coming in by baseball cards and right across the
streets of washing terry we used to singing there for
everybody's washing clothes.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Weird a whipping down in there to my shirt.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Rocky had the help.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
What a mail fight.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Nowhere the ring.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
See what I was fighting now home, said everybody, go
ahead with sam Ato A phoenix, said Episoda, and the
basis all.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Out of his long side ovid. I'm Nelanda. You remember
when the stay here at the Battle of the Bank. Yeah,
fifty nine man, that's right.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
We shut up?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Why why why the US with people writing.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Let us tackle and welcome us, welcome back. But I'll
be just Aspho said, anybody call it the same at all?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Man. If that don't get you there, I don't know
what will. Texas is so special. I do rise and
people are listening who are not in Texas. But it
really is so special because it's this perfect, seamless amalgamation.
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You've got the German, You've got the check, You've got
the Mexican American over a long period of time and
different influences of the Mexican cultures that came in. And
then you have the what used to be called Chicanos,
the Mexican Americans who set up north of the border
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and have been here, you know since Juan Sagine, and
they had their own culture which was very different. And
then you hit the conjunto which I love, and you
get that style of music, so you feel like a
little South Texas. I don't consider sending tone in South Texas.
I know that people do, but I never did. And
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maybe that's just my own own view of it. But anyway,
thank you to Donald Demmo Texas knife Sharpening for two hundred.
They said I had a record day at the Memorial
Village's farmers market because Jimmy wasn't there. Well, that makes sense.
I met you with Jimmy Pappos. I don't admit to that.
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I don't admit to even knowing who Jimmy Pappas is.
That's his claim to fame, though. I think that's literally
the only thing he ever did as mayor of Bunker
Hill Point Bunker Village Point, was that he did that
farmer's market. Chris and Rosie Fallon of Platinum Environmental just
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got their certification by the State of Texas as a
veteran hub historically utilized business, which means that they are
a service disabled, veteran owned small business doing environmental consulting
and environmental radiation remediation, not radiation ramon remediation. Let's go
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back to this because this is one of those areas
of how you become a third World country. This is
why government doesn't work. This is looney Lena trying to
add yet more vacation days for county employees because it
makes her look like a star who cares that every
time you go to get a sticker for your car,
or every time you need something done that nobody's actually
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working that day. Does anybody ever work around this place?
ABC thirteen with the story.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
After taking a leave of absence for mental health, Harris
County Judge Lena Hidalgo has been vocal about it since
her return.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I'd like to go then to three point twenty two,
which is the mental health policy.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
The latest discussion came Thursday in Commissioner's Corps, where she
explored the idea of creating county worker paid time off
for mental health. She says it's not necessarily for people
with a diagnosed mental condition, but anyone or feels stressed.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Whether you're working with foster kids, whether you're working with
with victims of domestic violence, with the elderly, with veterans,
that stuff is heavy.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
You might need a day just to clear your mind.
The county already offers some mental health days. The Judge's
office says the Sheriff's office receives.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Did you see she sounds unstable? Look, I hope she
gets to help she needs. But you wouldn't have her
quarterback your football team, right, You wouldn't have her lead
a squad into war. You can't have this. This is ridiculous,
this whole You're so brave, You're so crazy, You're so brave.
It's got to stop. On the Michael Berry Show, so,
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I know you've not talked about the issues of the
day to the extent that we should have. Tomorrow, we
will get back to doing that. But there are two
things that are very important that are the reason I
have focused so much on this today. One of them
is Camp Hope. You know I've had more parents, usually moms,
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but sometimes dads send me emails over the years say
I like to make a donation to Camp Hope. I
wish it had been there for my son. And you know,
you think about you're so grateful, your son comes home
for more. Gosh, he made it, survived, and then you
lose him to suicide. Man, you imagine the emotional roller coaster.
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I can't imagine burying a child. I can't even fathom it.
I cannot it's not in the realm of my brains.
I don't want to go there. I don't ever want
to be able to imagine that it's that awful. It's
the depths, but it is that important to me that
we save the lives and that these people are your brothers, sisters.
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There are women who suffer. It's mostly men, but there
are women. These are your nephews and nieces, These are
your sons and daughters. These are your husbands. And you know,
somebody doesn't wear a T shirt that says I'm suicidal,
I'm going to take my life. In three weeks I
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served and I came home emotionally wounded. They don't do that.
They will say things like, yeah, I think so and
So's got PTSD. Some of them will mention the suicides
of others, and they will, from my understanding, begin obsessing
over it. How many of their buddies have taken their
own lives and he's got it's a brotherhood. So they'll
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start getting calls, Hey, remember Jeremy from this, Yeah we
lost him, oh man twenty six years old? And then
two days Hey remember justin yeah bad? Oh?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Hey remember Andy from Yeah? And so they start seeing
this as a natural progression. You know, all my brothers
have done it. Maybe that's what I'm supposed to do.
And you know, all of a sudden, they start having
trouble with their girl. They start having trouble with their health,
very common. They're not getting the support they feel like
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they need from the VA. They're tired of going to
the vay to taking over thirty pills a day to
counteract this, and can't sleep at night, and and and
did it all makes sense? And then you know, you
got July fourth, and then everybody's hoorah America two fifty
and they're it's complicated, and they're worried about the firecrackers
going off because that triggers something in their brain that
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they didn't choose. And then there's that, and there's a
lot of complications and and then some people treat them
like well you also, and so behind their back, and
you know, you send some people talking about you behind
your back, and it's tough. It causes a lot of
problems and over twenty a day take their own life.
And I can tell you this can't hope. It is
unlike anything I've ever seen. I don't call it a
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charity even though you get a charitable deduction on your
taxes for the contribution you make. It is a life
saving space where veterans save the lives of other veterans.
They call one number eight seven seven seven one seven
PTSD and there's a veteran on the other end and
they go into the program at six months and doesn't
cost them a penny because of things like what you're
doing today. So yes, it is very meaningful. If you
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did not get in on the show today and you
would like to make a contribution, email me through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com. Tell me your name and
your business name. I'll get you tomorrow and how much
you would like to donate. I will copy you back.
I will copy David Malsby in an email and you'll
be copied on there in the response and David will
follow up to get your check in. You don't have
to make your contribution before Friday at seven, which is
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the day our forty for forty is that Ramon will
have hit forty days of only water and coffee on
Friday night at seven. And in response to the email,
I get boy, I bet he's gonna feast. No that
people that are worried about whether it's dangerous to fast.
It's not dangerous to fast. He's under medical supervision. He's
had all his numbers checked by the way, his cholesterol,
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every number in his system. He looks like a twelve
year old kid. Is healthy as a horse right now.
It's very healthy for your system. Your system gets rid
of dead sales and cancer sales and all sorts of
awful stuff when you do this. What's dangerous is when
you come off, you have to come off very slowly.
In fact, Marcus Atrel, who's not a you know, y'all
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be safe when you apart from him, sent a word
of encouragement to Ramon and then focused more on if
he needs any help, tell him to call me. I'll
help him come off because it needs to drag out
into about three days to get it done properly and
not hurt yourself. So but I did that because I think,
and I told Ramon yesterday, I said, hey, are you
comfortable with this? Because you know, nobody wants their weight
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talked about and all that, because people can say inappropriate
things on social media, like their buddies with him when
they're not and people can say stupid stuff and This
was a very private thing that I made public and
I said, let's use this for a greater good and
he said, yeah, okay, I'll do it. And I'm grateful
for that. And so that was the forty for forty
to raise forty thousand. I think we are thirty nine
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seven hundred. I know that sounds like a scam. I
admit it. It'd be better if it was twenty nine
thousand and seven. It's thirty nine thousand and seven hundred
as of the break. Just like Ramon started with an
eleven day fast and blew through it, he's going to
blow through. He blew through that and decided forty days,
but we didn't announce it. And here we are, and
so we will continue to raise money. I just won't
talk about it as much and send him a word
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of encouragement because it's not an easy thing to do
forty days with only water and coffee and some assault
in the morning. At Chad's direction. I want to say
a thank you today to all of those folks who contributed.
Chad Andres andrews Land Group two hundred bucks was our
first donor. Ben Barlow Hervey Barlow for five thousand KOI
Kristofil at Pitts and Spits for two thousand and if
you hear a name of a business, cal and thank them,
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do business with these guys. Five thousand dollars from Brandon
Blair Brian Garden's Landscape and Irrigation. Twenty five hundred from
Josh Kasparzik Texas Star Power, Dan Hunsucker. I got to
find out how much his contribution was. I lost the email.
Twenty five hundred from anonymous couple. They know who they are.
I know who they are. Tom Ramsay Our County Commissioner
five thousand, Dan Agan five thousand in Grimes County. Michael
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Claiborne waterf Texas dot Com one thousand, Connie and Billy
the Corey Diamonds five hundred, Fasil Poona Wallace Bring Branch
Medical Supply five hundred, Rick Dope five hundred, Bridget and
Matthew and Bailey in Belleville five hundred. Higgins Vote Rum,
Derek Bingham five hundred dollars, Donnie and Julie Radley one thousand,
Michael Petru petru In Home Fitness one thousand. We started
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it off at five thousand and then thank you to
Lewis Pointe, Jody Peck, Jeff Myers, Andrew, Andy Lahey, Darryl Hancock,
Bobby Crumpley, Roy Thibodeau, Grant Patterson, Levi Gottlieb of Refreshed Vending, H. K. Pitts,
Kathleen Murray, Donald de mel with Texas Knife Sharpening, Amalia
and Joaquin Santa Claus for two hundred and platinum Environmental
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Chris and Rosie Fallon. I've invariably forgotten someone. I will
thank you tomorrow. You people are wonderful. I think we've
hit forty, but we're gonna blow on through because it's
a great cost and at least Ramon knows we care.
Proud of you, buddy,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know, it's very few things I just can't stand
hear it about. And that is number one, people pictures
of the ugly baby. Even though Mike Berry said, always
don't tell nobody that the baby is ugly.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
People don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
But number two is when people tell you about to
die if they are. Now mic and Berry will not
shut up about it. For while it was Ramon Ramon
got on there and talked about it. Oh, I'm on
this and that and I've lost seven hundred and eighty
pounds and doctor now even can't do that. I mean,
all this ignace. And Micael Barry can't stop hisself from
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posting pictures of his skinny ass sitting up there, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And you know how skinny people always do.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They take a picture on the from the side with
their hand on their help like, look here, how my
buttocks has went down there.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I ain't got no tumak no more.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I just want to slap the face back into the
stone age. But here what Michael barr do to really
drive me up a damn walk? Of course we know
he on this Intramican faxing and he don't eat for
two and three days in time.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know you're off in my oreo.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He said I'll have that Thursday week.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But he get on hand.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
He put up menus because he go to these damn
high class restaurants from Houston, nobody have ever been to,
nobody ever heard of, and he posts a menu on there.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
All in French are Italian sun, ignorance and everything in there.
You can't even understand what it is.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
My eyes goes directly to the price.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And have you noticed they don't even put a dollar
signed by the price. It just say Cognac de refuse
you do Montaigne dot dot dot twenty plus Fromage Duke
quailed ignorance of Ambrosia as eight.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know what that means. I don't know what
that stuff is.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Give me a damn Wendy Burger, I mean, give me
a baconator. I know what that is.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Exactly how much money I got to bring up that?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Besides that, I'm not getting dressed up, putting on new
wigs to go down to sundamn restaurant where the chair
is probably two damn type for my big ass and
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Be embarrassed because I don't know what I'm aught in.
And the next thing I know, they're gonna bring out
snail eggs, some kind of oyster marinated in money is
and I ain't gonna have it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So Michael Berry, Okay, everybody know you skinny. It make
cute in that truth, But good god, I mighty quit
challenging people to ask them what they're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I ain't having none of it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, no, no, anyway, I'm sorry I got cursed out,
but that made me hungry.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Sues A quick update, Thank you to a phase with
Poona Walla, our friend at Spring Branch Medical Supply for
a five hundred dollars donation. It is the ramone forty
for forty forty days of fasting, which we will hit
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this Friday night. He not wait, he will hit this
Friday night at seven pm, and we are asking you
to support that fast by supporting our veterans at Camp
Hope who are saving the lives of other veterans. It
is a great cost and we're having some fun with
it to spur him on in his final week. Although
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Marcus Latrell sent a fire him up message and he said,
you know, the last week's easy. Oh okay, imagine you
just don't eat for a week. Oh that week's easy.
You're already thirty six days into it. Thank you to
Fazo Punawala at Spring Branch Medical Supply. He is the
medical supplier for my father. Whether it's the shoes that
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are comfortable, because that's important for a diabetic at a
certain age, to the right walker. Let me tell you something.
You don't realize how important a walker is. Like if
you've seen how if you go out to Memorial Park
and you see these women with their strollers. Now you'll
see the women who don't know any better, like their
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first generation immigrants say they're not aware. And then you
see the Tanglewood moms and they got like a souped up
like you're thinking, so you kind of look at the brand.
You know it'll be Alto or Lululemon or some brand
you never heard of. So you go back and you
look it up and you're like, I wonder what that
I bet that thing's three hundred dollars. It'll be thirty
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five hundred dollars. It's got special wheels on it, and
it's got pouches and they can pack, you know, different
kids in there, and the little root raccoon pouch and
a little kangaroo kid pouch, and she's got her waters
in there, and it's got a break on it, and
it's got big wheels so they can jog with it. Oh,
it's it's something else anyway. It is the same thing
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at the Old Folks Home. So my dad had a walker.
We moved him into the Old Folks Home and then
I walked him down to his first meal, which was
a dinner, because we came that afternoon. And you walk
into the dining room and it's all the old people
sitting around, and there's one table the staff calls golden Girls,
and it's about eight ladies. And if you've never heard
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this story, if anybody ever tells you this story, boocket,
because it's one hundred percent true. If you think a
woman going to a bar on ten cent beer night
in Anchorage, Alaska is being looked at, or a brand
(06:28):
new pretty little boy getting thrown into prison, and they're
all just like scavender hyenas right ready to attack. Let
me tell you something. You walk your then eighty five
year old dad into the dining room at the old
folks home, and you glance over at the table of
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eight women who sit in the corner, and it's like
a small town church. You've got your pew where you sit,
and you don't dare sit there. And I could already
tell that was the vibe of what was going on.
And so they wait. There's lunch at noon and dinner
at five. He takes his breakth his breakfast in his
(07:08):
he just does cereal for his breakfast. But it was
dinner at five. So it's a Saturday. It doesn't matter,
they don't have week days and all that. But but
at four forty five, they start gathering at the door
to get in. Now the door is not closed because
everybody's on a walter or in a wheelchair, but the
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door is an open passage. But they put a staunchon.
You know how at Studio fifty four or whatever, there's
a you know, the little barricade, the rope, you know,
like the movie theater. They got that, and they're lining
up and a lot of them have caretakers with them.
So they're all lined up and they're ready, and I
don't know what they're lined up and ready for. It's
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not like this is a sellout the seats. There are
enough seats for everybody. But you go in with your
dad and you feel like you're taking your kid to
the first day of kindergarten, right stay of preschool, and
you walk in and you you're scared for your kid.
You know they're all looking around, they don't know where
to go. So we've had a whole role reversal here.
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So I asked the staff, I said, where can we sit?
That's not somebody else's seat, And so we find a
little seat. We sit there and all the ladies. I
glance over and all the ladies are doing like a
parade with why they want to see who the new
guy is kid in town? Yeah, I say yes. So
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thank you to Faso puddle wall off outen you. Why
thank you to our farming ranch realtor Rick Doak five
hundred dollars. I saw a picture of Rick and his
beautiful wife Gail, and I had to scold him with
the email I sent in response, nobody likes their picture
picked apart by people after you posted. But there was
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too much room in between him and that lovely lady,
and I said, Rick, you better snuggle up close on her.
Somebody else will, but I will say this. Gail is
a beautiful woman. They came on our Aspen trip a
couple of years ago, three years ago. I think it
was the first time I met her. But Rick looks
like a million bucks in the picture. Gail is beautiful
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all the time. She just an attracted woman. Rick our
farm in Ranch realtor is if I could get the
immediate results for a show sponsor that we got for
him and Stifel our wealth advisors, and Christine Weaver and
Michael Petru Some people take a few months, some people
take a year or more. If I could get the
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results we've gotten for him, I bet he has sold
I don't want to exaggerate. I bet he's sold fifty
million dollars worth of farming range real estate since starting
with us. Just incredible, just amazing. We had the timing
worked out great and he's good at what he does,
so thank you to him. Brie Jit Bolston along with
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her husband Matthew, and their baby Bailey in Belleville, Texas,
no business to support, just wanted to want to get
behind us five hundred dollars. She sent me a nice
note last week. We'm saying my husband and I have
been listening to you before we were married. We've taken
to heart a lot of what you said, and it's
made our marriage better. It's made us better parents. I said,
what a sweet just out of the blue. Our friend
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Derek Bingham, who, by golly, one way or another, is
going to make a go of Higgins boat rum. So
if you need to buy some rum and you're at
the liquor store, I hope you will pick up a
bottle or three of Higgins boat rum. Derek is from Orange,
He's a great guy. His dad, Lynn Bingham. It all
comes full circle, although I always seem to be on
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the receiving. His dad, Lynn Bingham ran track for Rice.
He was a track star for Right White Boy, by
the way, and he worked for a company called Claren
for Pete Claren, and they each gave me a thousand
dollars to sponsor my trip to Costa Rica, which is
where I learned Spanish. That was where Oscar Aris had
just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and I was writing
for the Bowman Enterprise. But anyway, then I get to
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know his son many years later, and didn't know it
was his son. I knew the guy for a year
they were. He and his beautiful wife were very active
members at RCC. But he has started He played football
tight end for Rice. He has started a liquor company,
which is a tough, tough business. But if anybody can
do it, he's going to do it. Because he's Ramonte.
He's indefatigable. That's that's your that's your Dennis Miller word
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for the day. He is indefatigable. Higgins Boat Room five
hundred dollars. I don't know if he's got five hundred.
He might have taken that from his wife. I don't
know if Higgins Boat Rum's made a penny yet, but
maybe now maybe everybody will go, you know what, I
need to stop my bar and I don't have a
good room. I'm not loyal to a room. Let me
half of them are Cuban. Let me go get a
Higgins boat rum. And the Higgins boat, as you know,
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is the boat that was made out of Louisiana, designed
by mister Higgins who I forget his first name, that
had the walls that would drop down so the guys
could jump out and storm the beach. To Donnie and
Julie rad Lee, thank you for one thousand dollars. Kathleen
Murray for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
H K.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Pitts, he put a go horns in there, Manto, hope
you're okay with that? FO one hundred dollars. Levi Gottlieb,
who owns Refreshed Vending for one eighty. I mentioned Grant
Patterson for one hundred. These are for one hundred. Bobby Crumpley,
Roy Thibodeau, Darryl Hancock, Andy Lahay, Jody Peck, and Lewis
point A. Louis Plainte sends me an email once a week,
whether I like it or not, and all he wants
(12:27):
is to meet with Dan Pastor. He just wants to
meet Dan Pastorini one time. And I send it to
day and every time, and he's like, I'm afraid he'll
be disappointed. At this point, Jeff Myers five hundred dollars.
Let me see if I can find this. I said,
you have a business you want me to mention and
he said, uh, he said, no, I don't, but here's
what I would like, since you're doing it for Camp Hope,
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I would like in memory of my two cousins who
died in Vietnam. Daniel Myers and Peter dehas I said,
I would be honored to remember your two cousins, Jeff Myers,
so thank you, very very much. So loony Lena, Lena Hidalgo.
This is why you can't ever vote Democrat because they
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put a candidate up knowing that she had spent a
portion of her life in an insane asylum, knowing that
she's nuttyer and squirrel turts, but she was a Hispanic
female immigrant who spoke Spanish and ed Emmett was doing,
by all accounts, a good job. This was twenty eighteen.
Act Blue was pushing the slate. This was the last
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year that you could tell people to vote straight party.
It was the last year of the state of the
straight party ticket, and they did it across the state
trying to get Beto over the finish line. So there
it is. Lena hidalgoes swept in. Nobody even knows who
she is. She's terrible. From day one, she's terrible. She's
cussing at the other Democrats on there. The only one
she doesn't fight with is Rodney because he controls her.
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And even Rodney's done with her, finished with her well.
At one point she goes up missing. Well, the hair
is county judge, which of course is not a judge
on a bench there like the mayor of the county.
Their number one responsibility is emergency preparedness. They are the
official in charge during this. They're the president that they're
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the commander in chief of the military. They're the commander
in chief during emergency preparedness. She's gone dead in the
center of hurricane season, hadn't been seen for well over
two months. And Rodney pulls an al haig, I'm in
charge here, and everybody says, well, why are you in charge? Well,
Lina's getting the help she does so desperately needs. It's
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very brave, because apparently to have a breakdown is very brave.
This is a problem in this country. We've done this
thing where any weakness is a strength. Yes, so and
so has been drunk on the job for fifty eight days.
He's assaulted six women, he hasn't performed a single task,
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and he's stolen money. But he is declared he's an
alcoholic and he's gonna get the help he needs, and
that's brave, and we must support him. No, that's not
how that works. So now loony Lena has come up
with she's got to leave a legacy, right, So now
she wants to give paid mental health leave for twenty
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thousand Harris County employees because everyone needs time off to quote,
clear your mind. Yeah, it's called the weekend. Commissioner Tom
Ramsey responds, as he always does, reasonably, he's the only
voice of reason down there. Sadly, we already provide paid
sick days, vacation time, personal leave. Personal leave is leave
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you burn that you don't need to tell why you're out, holidays,
and other benefits that can be used when needed. Adding
separate paid mental health days would come with a significant
price tag, potentially costing millions of dollars each year in wages, overtime,
and staff and coverage. So today she posts, Hey, we
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got a big storm coming and Waco's underwater, but don't worry.
Harry's County is ready, Our people are ready. What if
our people are just like you, out on crazy leave
for three days and the water's rising and there's nobody
to save them. This is looney, Michael Harry, Oh can
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you play the video for those of you who haven't
seen it. I made a big post on Facebook about
it yesterday. I was talking about the line in the song.
It's one of my favorite. Scott Kirby and Glen Martin
wrote the song as anybody going to San Antonio, and
of course Charlie Pride made it famous when he recorded
it in nineteen seventy, the year of my birth. But
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my mother loved Charlie Pride and it was one of
the eight tracks that she would play at the house
and Charlie Rich Charlie Pride, Mickey Gilly Conway. I'm noticing
a theme there. Anyway, I was, I went down a
rabbit hole and I said, you know, Texas Tornadoes did
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a cover of that. So I'm making my poor wife,
who grew up in India did not grow up on
Texas country musical, American country music, classic country music. She
did see Jethro Toll and Bruce Springstein in concert in India,
which still blows my mind. But I'm showing her the
difference between Charlie Pride's version and Jack Johnson, his manager,
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kind of rewrote the song and rearranged the song, the
chords and the arrangement to suit him better. But then
it was remade by Texas Tornado. So I'm making her
listen to that song, and then I'm making her listen
to Texas Tornadoes version, and I love the Texas Tornadoes.
I mean, can you imagine being in the room with
those four guys the studio or on stage to see
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Freddie Fender Doug's song Augie Flackohum in it? I mean,
my goodness, what a deal. So I went to the
video to show her on the YouTube's and I would
just tell you you'll see the video because it's it
looks like a late sixties, maybe early seventies. I think
it's a Cadillac Eldorado, but I could be wrong, red
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Cadillac that I didn't study it. But it comes over
the bend and it's coming at you and it's on
a wide open looks like maybe a West Texas Highway,
and they start talking about wanting to go to San
Antonio and then they go into this song and then
it shows them jamming. Ramon found the video for me
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so you could hear it, but you got to go
see it for yourself. But I just love this version
of this song.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm tired of being on the road. Man, I want
to be home. I'll tell you what. Talking about going
home I'd like to go back to my mama grocery store.
Sit on the backboard. Yeah, yeah, that's what I missed.
Then you know what I miss what to Midas sending
tone to my lie.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Yeah you're talking about Tom Lasse. Yeah, hey, let's go
come under there. So they're going to San Antonio. You
figure that out.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Well?
Speaker 8 (19:29):
The rain giving up the beam, Mad, it's no let's
call to day here. I am walking down sixty s
when she hadn't done me this way, cleaning under the
table in the roadside bart A, Mad, you wake up dad,
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mother songs seemed to want letting sleeping in your wise
e visit does anybody go into sad? So feed this
minisoda and the basis all out of the row on
the side ovid.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
I never know, I can't.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
This is my mama's grocery store up here, and I
used to work at this place every morning for years.
This is where I met Duck Salmon.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
He's coming in by baseball cards and right across the
streets of washing terry we used to singing there for
everybody's washing clothes.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Weird a whipping down in there to my shirt.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Rocky had the help.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
What a mail fight.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Nowhere the ring.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
See what I was fighting now home, said everybody, go
ahead with sam Ato A phoenix, said Episoda, and the
basis all.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Out of his long side ovid. I'm Nelanda. You remember
when the stay here at the Battle of the Bank. Yeah,
fifty nine man, that's right.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
We shut up?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Why why why the US with people writing.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Let us tackle and welcome us, welcome back. But I'll
be just Aspho said, anybody call it the same at all?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Man. If that don't get you there, I don't know
what will. Texas is so special. I do rise and
people are listening who are not in Texas. But it
really is so special because it's this perfect, seamless amalgamation.
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You've got the German, You've got the check, You've got
the Mexican American over a long period of time and
different influences of the Mexican cultures that came in. And
then you have the what used to be called Chicanos,
the Mexican Americans who set up north of the border
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and have been here, you know since Juan Sagine, and
they had their own culture which was very different. And
then you hit the conjunto which I love, and you
get that style of music, so you feel like a
little South Texas. I don't consider sending tone in South Texas.
I know that people do, but I never did. And
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maybe that's just my own own view of it. But anyway,
thank you to Donald Demmo Texas knife Sharpening for two hundred.
They said I had a record day at the Memorial
Village's farmers market because Jimmy wasn't there. Well, that makes sense.
I met you with Jimmy Pappos. I don't admit to that.
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I don't admit to even knowing who Jimmy Pappas is.
That's his claim to fame, though. I think that's literally
the only thing he ever did as mayor of Bunker
Hill Point Bunker Village Point, was that he did that
farmer's market. Chris and Rosie Fallon of Platinum Environmental just
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got their certification by the State of Texas as a
veteran hub historically utilized business, which means that they are
a service disabled, veteran owned small business doing environmental consulting
and environmental radiation remediation, not radiation ramon remediation. Let's go
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back to this because this is one of those areas
of how you become a third World country. This is
why government doesn't work. This is looney Lena trying to
add yet more vacation days for county employees because it
makes her look like a star who cares that every
time you go to get a sticker for your car,
or every time you need something done that nobody's actually
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working that day. Does anybody ever work around this place?
ABC thirteen with the story.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
After taking a leave of absence for mental health, Harris
County Judge Lena Hidalgo has been vocal about it since
her return.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I'd like to go then to three point twenty two,
which is the mental health policy.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
The latest discussion came Thursday in Commissioner's Corps, where she
explored the idea of creating county worker paid time off
for mental health. She says it's not necessarily for people
with a diagnosed mental condition, but anyone or feels stressed.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Whether you're working with foster kids, whether you're working with
with victims of domestic violence, with the elderly, with veterans,
that stuff is heavy.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
You might need a day just to clear your mind.
The county already offers some mental health days. The Judge's
office says the Sheriff's office receives.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Did you see she sounds unstable? Look, I hope she
gets to help she needs. But you wouldn't have her
quarterback your football team, right, You wouldn't have her lead
a squad into war. You can't have this. This is ridiculous,
this whole You're so brave, You're so crazy, You're so brave.
It's got to stop. On the Michael Berry Show, so,
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I know you've not talked about the issues of the
day to the extent that we should have. Tomorrow, we
will get back to doing that. But there are two
things that are very important that are the reason I
have focused so much on this today. One of them
is Camp Hope. You know I've had more parents, usually moms,
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but sometimes dads send me emails over the years say
I like to make a donation to Camp Hope. I
wish it had been there for my son. And you know,
you think about you're so grateful, your son comes home
for more. Gosh, he made it, survived, and then you
lose him to suicide. Man, you imagine the emotional roller coaster.
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I can't imagine burying a child. I can't even fathom it.
I cannot it's not in the realm of my brains.
I don't want to go there. I don't ever want
to be able to imagine that it's that awful. It's
the depths, but it is that important to me that
we save the lives and that these people are your brothers, sisters.
(26:34):
There are women who suffer. It's mostly men, but there
are women. These are your nephews and nieces, These are
your sons and daughters. These are your husbands. And you know,
somebody doesn't wear a T shirt that says I'm suicidal,
I'm going to take my life. In three weeks I
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served and I came home emotionally wounded. They don't do that.
They will say things like, yeah, I think so and
So's got PTSD. Some of them will mention the suicides
of others, and they will, from my understanding, begin obsessing
over it. How many of their buddies have taken their
own lives and he's got it's a brotherhood. So they'll
(27:18):
start getting calls, Hey, remember Jeremy from this, Yeah we
lost him, oh man twenty six years old? And then
two days Hey remember justin yeah bad? Oh?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Hey remember Andy from Yeah? And so they start seeing
this as a natural progression. You know, all my brothers
have done it. Maybe that's what I'm supposed to do.
And you know, all of a sudden, they start having
trouble with their girl. They start having trouble with their health,
very common. They're not getting the support they feel like
(27:56):
they need from the VA. They're tired of going to
the vay to taking over thirty pills a day to
counteract this, and can't sleep at night, and and and
did it all makes sense? And then you know, you
got July fourth, and then everybody's hoorah America two fifty
and they're it's complicated, and they're worried about the firecrackers
going off because that triggers something in their brain that
(28:19):
they didn't choose. And then there's that, and there's a
lot of complications and and then some people treat them
like well you also, and so behind their back, and
you know, you send some people talking about you behind
your back, and it's tough. It causes a lot of
problems and over twenty a day take their own life.
And I can tell you this can't hope. It is
unlike anything I've ever seen. I don't call it a
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charity even though you get a charitable deduction on your
taxes for the contribution you make. It is a life
saving space where veterans save the lives of other veterans.
They call one number eight seven seven seven one seven
PTSD and there's a veteran on the other end and
they go into the program at six months and doesn't
cost them a penny because of things like what you're
doing today. So yes, it is very meaningful. If you
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did not get in on the show today and you
would like to make a contribution, email me through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com. Tell me your name and
your business name. I'll get you tomorrow and how much
you would like to donate. I will copy you back.
I will copy David Malsby in an email and you'll
be copied on there in the response and David will
follow up to get your check in. You don't have
to make your contribution before Friday at seven, which is
(29:26):
the day our forty for forty is that Ramon will
have hit forty days of only water and coffee on
Friday night at seven. And in response to the email,
I get boy, I bet he's gonna feast. No that
people that are worried about whether it's dangerous to fast.
It's not dangerous to fast. He's under medical supervision. He's
had all his numbers checked by the way, his cholesterol,
(29:47):
every number in his system. He looks like a twelve
year old kid. Is healthy as a horse right now.
It's very healthy for your system. Your system gets rid
of dead sales and cancer sales and all sorts of
awful stuff when you do this. What's dangerous is when
you come off, you have to come off very slowly.
In fact, Marcus Atrel, who's not a you know, y'all
(30:07):
be safe when you apart from him, sent a word
of encouragement to Ramon and then focused more on if
he needs any help, tell him to call me. I'll
help him come off because it needs to drag out
into about three days to get it done properly and
not hurt yourself. So but I did that because I think,
and I told Ramon yesterday, I said, hey, are you
comfortable with this? Because you know, nobody wants their weight
(30:28):
talked about and all that, because people can say inappropriate
things on social media, like their buddies with him when
they're not and people can say stupid stuff and This
was a very private thing that I made public and
I said, let's use this for a greater good and
he said, yeah, okay, I'll do it. And I'm grateful
for that. And so that was the forty for forty
to raise forty thousand. I think we are thirty nine
(30:52):
seven hundred. I know that sounds like a scam. I
admit it. It'd be better if it was twenty nine
thousand and seven. It's thirty nine thousand and seven hundred
as of the break. Just like Ramon started with an
eleven day fast and blew through it, he's going to
blow through. He blew through that and decided forty days,
but we didn't announce it. And here we are, and
so we will continue to raise money. I just won't
talk about it as much and send him a word
(31:14):
of encouragement because it's not an easy thing to do
forty days with only water and coffee and some assault
in the morning. At Chad's direction. I want to say
a thank you today to all of those folks who contributed.
Chad Andres andrews Land Group two hundred bucks was our
first donor. Ben Barlow Hervey Barlow for five thousand KOI
Kristofil at Pitts and Spits for two thousand and if
you hear a name of a business, cal and thank them,
(31:36):
do business with these guys. Five thousand dollars from Brandon
Blair Brian Garden's Landscape and Irrigation. Twenty five hundred from
Josh Kasparzik Texas Star Power, Dan Hunsucker. I got to
find out how much his contribution was. I lost the email.
Twenty five hundred from anonymous couple. They know who they are.
I know who they are. Tom Ramsay Our County Commissioner
five thousand, Dan Agan five thousand in Grimes County. Michael
(31:57):
Claiborne waterf Texas dot Com one thousand, Connie and Billy
the Corey Diamonds five hundred, Fasil Poona Wallace Bring Branch
Medical Supply five hundred, Rick Dope five hundred, Bridget and
Matthew and Bailey in Belleville five hundred. Higgins Vote Rum,
Derek Bingham five hundred dollars, Donnie and Julie Radley one thousand,
Michael Petru petru In Home Fitness one thousand. We started
(32:20):
it off at five thousand and then thank you to
Lewis Pointe, Jody Peck, Jeff Myers, Andrew, Andy Lahey, Darryl Hancock,
Bobby Crumpley, Roy Thibodeau, Grant Patterson, Levi Gottlieb of Refreshed Vending, H. K. Pitts,
Kathleen Murray, Donald de mel with Texas Knife Sharpening, Amalia
and Joaquin Santa Claus for two hundred and platinum Environmental
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Chris and Rosie Fallon. I've invariably forgotten someone. I will
thank you tomorrow. You people are wonderful. I think we've
hit forty, but we're gonna blow on through because it's
a great cost and at least Ramon knows we care.
Proud of you, buddy,
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