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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. I got
to sit home from school one day with a shiner
on my.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Fighting was against the rooms and it didn't matter or why.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
When Dad got home, I told that story just like
I rehearsed. Then stood there almost trembling, needs waited for
the worst, and he said.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Let me tell you secret about a father's love.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Secret that's mine.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Daddy said.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It was just between us, He said, Daddy's done.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Just love their chill and every now and then.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's a love without in name.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's a love.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Without in name.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
When I became a father, he had another wonderful song
by our friend Aaron Barker from San and Tone now
and now lives in Nashville. He wrote baby Blue, Easy Come,
Easy Go. He wrote a lot of fantastic songs, particularly
(01:43):
for for George Strait. He wrote Hanky Talking Fool for
Doug Supernaw, Easy Come, Easy Go. I'd like to have
that one back. Not enough hours in the night. I
know she still loves me. I still can't make I
can still make Cheyenne Man. He wrote a lot of
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good songs, A lot of good songs. He and what's
the other fella's name? Aaron? And one of them did
the Bluebell song and the other one did a bunch
of other songs. His name escapes me. A funny story.
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I had Aaron Barker in my phone and he was
the first listing in my contacts. It was A A
r o n. And for whatever reason, my phone would
go to contacts, and because that was the first one,
I would pocket dill him. And at one point it
was happening once a day for a week and he'd say, Hey, Michaels,
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everything okay, Aaron, I pocket dolled you again. So I
had to change his name to z A A r
o n. Because it was getting to be embarrassing that
I was that I was doing that. Seven one three, Nan,
you're a big fisherman. You like to fish? Do you
love to fish or you just like to fish? You
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love to take your boys? Are you a fish? Are
you a cane pole, red and white cork? Uh? A fish?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Because to me that's a and you got a picnic
lunch and you know, little kid fishing off the pierce,
poor man's fishing. Uh That I enjoy the heck out
of going out deep sea fishing. I'll be honest with you,
full confession. Man, I gotta I gotta have some dram
I mean, I gotta have a full belly because I
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can get real it can turn real fast, real fast.
That to me is work. That is not uh, that
is not recreation. That is work. But it amazes me
people that love to do that. It's like, you know
a lot of people play golf. There's people that will leave,
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They will do anything to go play Pebble Beach or
Whispering Pines or whatever course that they they pine valley
that they most want to play. It's amazing to me
the passion people have for things or hunting. They want
to hunt this particular thing and take down this particular thing.
These guys that go up in the mountain and bring
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Holmes Williams with them and they kill an elk up
in the mountain and they got a haul of that
thing out. That does not sound to me like a
good time. That is not my idea of a good
time at all. But that's that's their thing. So you
remember Chris Colin was He was the original bartender of
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the RCC and the face of the RCC that people
will most remember like the front of the RCC was Rico,
who was hired to do secure but he ended up
being like more the owner than I was. He was
he was the front. He would escort the little old
ladies in. He knew everybody's name. He would take care
of everybody. He wore a black duster. If you didn't
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know his name, he wore a black duster and a
black hat, and he had a black beard, talk like
cookie monster and boots and everybody loved Rico. Rico Monstriani
just fantastic guy. When you got in, if it was
your second time there, from the moment you walked in
the door till you got over to the bar, which
was a floating bar out in the middle, Chris Colin
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would know your drink already and you'd walk up and
your drink would already be there. That's a cheers feel.
You can't we can't replace that. He was one of
my favorite people that ever worked there because he always
made everybody happy. But what Chris really wanted to do
was finish his shift and go fish. That's his idea
of a good time. So he posted this picture of
himself with this big with this big fish, and I
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had no idea what he lives down like Texas City
or Clear Lake or somewhere frinds would So I just
assumed it was in Galveston. I didn't notice in the back.
I didn't notice the color of the water, and I
didn't notice in the back there's mountains. And because I
was looking at this fish, and I didn't notice that
the fish had like a what do you call that, ramon,
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like a mohawk, whatever you call that on a fish.
Don't make fun of me, I admitted, I don't know
anything about fishing. He's holding this big old fish and
he's leaning back because thing is so big. It's massive fish.
And so I looked down at the comments, and people
are going, rooster fish, Oh, rooster fish. I've always wanted
a rooster fish. How do people know that's a rooster fish?
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I don't know. I did, and so I looked up
rooster fish. You ever heard of a rooster fish? Ramon, Yeah,
well me neither. A rooster fish is a unique species
of marine karranga form fish in the warmer, shallow waters
of the southeastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California out to Peru.
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Rooster fish, or popular sport fish for being strong fighters.
They are also important targets of local, artisanal and subsistence fisheries.
It is the only species in the genus Nemosticus, the family. Well,
you don't need to know all that. That's getting a
little deeper than you probably most need to know. You
know what a kerangiform is. It is a large diverse
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order of ray finned fishes within the clad perkhamorpha. It
is a part of us. You don't need know all
that anyway, that's it's a it's a keranga form for whatever.
For whatever that means, I don't I kind of got
a little too deep off in that. I lost my
call screen. Can you just tell me who we got next?
Just point to them, Sergeant Bennett. You're on the Michael
(07:46):
Berry Show. Welcome to the program, sir.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
How you doing, mister Barry, listen. I wanted to tell
you about to brief about to us three things. One,
I've been listening. I'm a first time caller.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
One, I appreciate you being the father that you are.
I've been listening to you for years and you very
much comment on your kids. You teach your morals, principles
and values very much so next is and I like that.
My dad did me the same way. He said, sons
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are out here and cut the grass.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Sergeant Minute hold On said, I went to you too
late and said, hold on, let's start you on the
next secent.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Hold it's the term anal intercourse on your programs, Michael, if.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's relevant to this story for journalistic purposes. I don't
think Fiona adds to that song. I don't know what
she's doing other than sitting there just being crazy. She's nuts, man,
I mean she's a different different level of nuts, really
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really nuts. Hey, Ramon, tell me something I hate to do.
I forget things. There's stuff that interests me and I
get real into it, and then I forget. Did we
ever get the people from Tinsley's on the show? Tinsley's
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is the fried Chicken from Huntsville. I think the guy's
name was Jay David Tinsley. A woman I used to
know many many years ago. I didn't know her well,
but a lot of my friends did. Her name was
Jill Warren. I don't know whatever happened to Jill Warren.
I think she ran for judge or state rep or something.
But she was a hard Charger. There was a group
of us that all ran together, Ted Cruz, Ken Wise, Me,
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Jim Grace, Jeff Brown, who's now a federal judge. We
all ran around together, and we were all in our
late twenties and very ambitious. And I think she might
have been about what, yeah, just running around. Yeah, So anyway,
she was part of that group. She might have been
a couple of years older, but she was considered like
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a She was going to be somebody huge, And I
don't know whatever happened to her, But I looked it
up and she had created a Tensley's fan club page.
I just saw it in the break, but it hasn't
she hadn't posted on it since twenty fourteen. Apparently she
was a hostess at Tensley's back in the day, and
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so that was her tribute to Tinsley's. But nobody's posted
on there. But I bet you somebody can email me
the name of whoever is the closest in line and
can tell the tensley story. So I think there's still
a Tensley's in Huntsville that is active. I think, but
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I don't know. Maybe somebody can email me. Don't call
because we're doing all Father's Day calls, but if you
would all right, Sergeant Bennett, my apologies I went to
you too late in the segment The floor is yours, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yes, sir, why I was saying that my dad taught
me the same morals that you're teaching your kids, morals,
principles and values. Like I said, I got out there
and cut the grass. Of course I got an allowance,
and then the next thing you know, he's telling me
go next door and volunteer to because the neighbors grass.
(11:16):
Of course they paid me, but I never asked for it, Okay,
and that's good. I want to say happy Father's Day
to you. And also I want to tell you that
I appreciate what you do for the project. Hope you
know PTSD and everything. I appreciate that you're helping my
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fellow brothers, and I appreciate that, sir. I just wanted
to tell you that, and I hope you have a
happy Father's.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Day, Sergeant Bennett. I very much appreciate that. So it's
very kind of you. Let's go to Lovely Rita. Rita,
you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Go ahead, Thank you, my dad. Noble McVeigh was a
master sergeant. He won three bronze stars. He was in
World War Two and Korea and Vietnam. He was an
amazing dad. I loved him with all my heart. And
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one time he went out on maneuvers. And of course,
the day after he left, my brother and I got
into trouble. And Mom always said, wait till your father
gets home. So six weeks later, Daddy gets back, and
I've been living in stark fear for six weeks, and
of course it's time to stand before the judge. I
tell him what I did wrong. He looks at me
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and he said, okay, go outside and play. And I
looked at him and I said what he said, go
outside and play? I said, I'm not in trouble. He said,
there's nothing I can do to you that you haven't
done to yourself for the last six weeks. Go outside
and play. And I said, you mean I did all
that for nothing? And he just laughed.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The weight was the punishment, right. You have an absolutely
lovely voice. Let's go to Kyle. Kyle, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, it's all yours.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Hello Michael. I'd like to wish my father a happy
father's day growing up. He uh, he gave me a
lot of chances to make a lot of mistakes. We
do projects and we get to the very end and
he go, well, do you want me to tell you
where you screwed up? Or do you want to figure
it out? And it's that kind of coaching and mentorship
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that he gave me that allowed me to have the
confidence to start my own business.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, it's it's interesting what kind of business call?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It's a backflow? I do backfloths.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Backflow, like backflow assembly for backflow. It's like plumbing. But
I'm not a plumber.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Okay, So who, yeah, for whom do you do this?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I do it for myself. It's usually cities and municipalities
will send out letters to residents and those residents will
require backflow testing. It's an annual test and then if
I'm lucky enough, they'll reach out to me for the testing.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And how do they know that you're out there? How
do they know that you exist?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
There are lists that the city provides. You have to
be registered with the city or the municipality.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How much does it cost glow down that list?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I charge eighty six to fifty for.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Residential eighty six dollars and fifty cents. Yes, sir, how
many of these do you do?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Oh? I've done up to forty in a day before.
That's my record.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Do you have to go to the house to do it?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Man, there's so many different ways to make a living.
So there's so many questions, so many questions. The more
you know anything about backflowr.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
On, what would you do with the brain if.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Your head on?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Bring it on? Because there is nothing here the Michael
Berry Show man, I could have done without that this morning.
I'll be honest with you, SMI Ramon. You are not
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going to believe this. This is a five dinger. This
is a five dinger. Get your dinger finger stretched out
and ready. This is a five dinger, shameless five dinger,
a very rare five dinger. This is a unicorn five dinger.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
This is rarer than a four leaf clover. Right here.
So remember earlier, a few minutes ago, you played Love
without End Amen, and I said, oh, that was written
by Aaron Barker. And I told Aaron Barker story. And
I was telling the story about two singer songwriters who
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were most famous for the mailbox money they've made as
incredible songwriters. And I couldn't remember the name of the
other one. I said. It started with an a right. Well,
that happened at I don't know, ten ten fifteen, maybe
ten o'clock. Then at ten thirty six I get a
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text from Alan Shamblin, who was the songwriter I couldn't
think of it's a five dinger. Go ahead, just because
you've got the reference to the singer songwriter and his fame.
And then he texted me and yeah, it's it's uh yeah,
Alan Shamblin wrote, he walked on Water Randy Travis, Boy,
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that's a Song's that ever? A song? I Can't Make
You Love Me by Bonnie Ray. I'm not a huge
Bunny Ray song a fan, but whoo The House That
Built Me by Miranda Lambert and her crazy ass. There's
a bunch of them. I'm Just in This Life by
Colin Ray. What I'm for? Pat Green? How they remember you?
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Rascal Flats We were in love? Toby Keith, Poison, George Strait,
I mean this guy, my heart's not a whole tel.
This guy wrote a bunch of great songs. He sent
me a text and said good mornings are. I co
wrote this song with Emily Wise Band and Mark Beeson.
Nate Smith released it three weeks ago. We weren't thinking
of it as a Father's Day song when we wrote it.
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We were just trying to honor our fathers, but I
think it turned out to be one. I hope you
have a happy fall. And I said, dude, this is
so weird. I was just talking about you on the
air about fifteen twenty minutes ago, and he said, whoa.
I listened to your show yesterday, but I haven't listened
to today's show yet, but I will now because he
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listens on podcasts. So how about that? So we have
to play that song now, Ramon, not right this second,
but in a minute. Right, let's go to Bill. Bill,
you are on the Michael Berry Show Father's Day Special,
Take it away. It's all yours, thank you Zar.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
I am a classic war baby. My dad died nine
months after I was born, and my mother was smart
enough to remarry a man who was sterile, loved a family,
and couldn't have a family. And that man was one
year younger than her father. So I grew up with
a grandfather.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
He taught me how to hunt fish, how to grow crops,
how to live life. And unfortunately my mom and he
had a party of ways when I was about thirteen,
and we moved away, and I lost him at a
very very critical time in a young boy's life, because
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during puberty you need a man's help, ye to understand
what the hell is going on with your body. And
I wound up dating girls for their father, and I'm
sure that a lot of them didn't understand why I
was so interested in their father.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Very interesting. Did you understand that at the time or
did you come to understand that later?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Much later, much later? I knew I wanted to talk
to a man, but I didn't know why.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You know, It's like, yess, it's very interesting. We do
things like that. You know, we don't always understand why
we do what we do, and how we end up
in certain relationships, whether they be good or bad, and
the patterns in our lives. It's interesting that you did.
You did understand that you have a great voice, Bill,
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fantastic voice. Are you what are you the Bill that
that was the owner of Bubba's Burgers?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, that's why I remember your voice. You're an engineer,
if I remember.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Well, I was a computer computer guru, man frame guru,
and I sold computer assystem for hospital for twenty seven years.
But more interesting than that is our son, who is
a master motorcycle mechanic, and I would dearly love to
show you and the boys the shop. Uh, but he's
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got teams and.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I will gladly come on that tour and I'll be
interested in it, but I will not bring my sons.
No offense, I am not in favor of anybody. I
love riding motorcycles. In fact, Uh, I talked my brother
into selling his hardy that he was so proud to own,
and I made a financial inducement to get him to
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do that because I did not want to have to
peel him off the pavement. I've known too many people
die in motorcycle accident, says, I'm kind of an old
woman when it comes to that, and I'm unashamed, so
I do everything I can. My oldest son, Michael, went
through a motorcycle phase that I think we're out of. Now.
I think we're out of. But I try to just
keep him as far away from that as I possibly can. Joe,
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You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Yeah, Michael, I'm eighty five years old, as you know,
even though older than you.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
The thing is you don't look at you look about eighties.
So you should be proud.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Yeah, yeah, I am.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I'm very proud.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
You know a lot of memories of my parents. My
mom and dad really were good Christian saints. My dad
we moved us to Deer Park and he was known
as mister deer Park. He passed away in twelve and
I told a story h during his eulogy about when
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I was in college at the Universey Houston. I was
in the PI cap Alpha Frattorney. A bunch of my
Atturney brothers wanted me to go to New Orleans and
they grabbed me and they locked me in the car
and were walking me right taking me to New Orleans
against my will. Well, we got to it ten uh
and I everybody got to go to the bathroom. I
jumped out and ran because I didn't want to go
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to New Orleans with a bunch of drunk frattorney brothers.
I walked from Iten to the Lynchburg Ferry, across the
road down to twenty five, all the way to my parents' house.
I arrived at five point thirty in the morning and
they're like, what are you doing here? And there my
parents were at the breakfast table, reading the Bible and
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reading reading their daily devotional and it was one of
those things where that don't talk about it. They just
lived their life. And their example.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Of Michael Barry said, I couldn't make it out that you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Need to go get my testosterone shot. It's ridiculous. I
think my levels are dipped. Let's start with Billy. Billy,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Take it away.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Okay, mine's a little a little different that my daddy
killed himself when I was ten years old. But I
grew up in Glenna Park.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It was kind of raised by a village of men.
Ah my little league coach Barnon Wieberstein and uh one
of my best friend's father, Mederick Knight. They just just
let me come in to the life. And then when
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I got older at Garner State Park, I met the
Bourn family from Berkshire and Dan Bouren was a wonderful
man and my kids ended up thinking that was their
grandfoot father. But it was when I was about thirty
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eight or thirty five or something. I drove to the
other men that I didn't mention to about five men
around Texas that had retired, and told them what they
had meant to me, and they couldn't understand. They said,
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we didn't do anything. And I thought, Wow, that's the
kind of man I want to be. So that's my story.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Great story, brother, I'm glad you shared that. When a
fellow starts a story with my dad killed hisself when
I was ten years old, it's hard to imagine where
that's going to go, but that was part of the story. Jim,
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Yeah. This is Jim from Huntsville, Alabama, and I called
in a couple of times before Michael. But I had
a great grandfather and a great father. Both of them
were railroad men and working out of a little town
in southwest Missouri. And my grandfather was in World War two.
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I'm sorry, it was in World War One and he
was classified as a wagon master worked on a railroad
there moving things in France. My father was in the
army in World War two. Was just a great man.
But I grew up and I graduated high school in
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sixty six and at that time, when I was in
high school. Of course, the Beatles came to America, and
I played football and basketball, and the rules that our
school was you had to have a bur cut to
play sports because your helmets fit better and you weren't
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always pushing your hair out of your eyes on the
basketball court. And I told my father one day, I said, Dad,
I want to grow my hair out like the Beatles.
And he said, son, you can do that, but your
feet will never fit under my table. And I didn't
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question him at all. He was pretty strict. And he
also was a firm believer that I wore slacks to
high school, no jeans ever went to high school on
my body. So and I appreciate that for him by
him now. And he gave me a good work work ethic.
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I worked all the time I was in college, and
I stayed in college, went to graduate school. And at
the same time, I had four jobs while I was
going to graduate school.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So that is it. That is what good fathers do.
They make us the men we are. They teach us
that work ethic. We didn't just you know, fall from
the sky. We learned that. And kids that don't learn
that grow up differently. Makes a difference. And That is
why we pay tribute to fathers. That is why we
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dedicate this time and energy extolling the virtues of fatherhood.
But the takeaway, and Chris, hold on, I'm we get
to you in just a moment, even if I have
to do it during the break. The takeaway from all
of this is not that fathers used to be great.
That is not the point of this story. The point
of the story is that fatherhood is as relevant, if
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not more, today than it ever has been, and that
while we tear up over our own fathers, many of
whom we've lost, we have to ask ourselves, are we
being that kind of father to our own children today?
You don't stop being a father when your child leaves
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the house. A child needs their father for the entirety
of their lives. A child is watching you for their
entire lives. They're watching you age, They're watching you grow old.
They are continually learning from you. I had a friend
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named Chad Kibbodo. His dad stopped smoking just like that
cold turkey when he walked into the house came home
from work one day, he walked into the house, was
sitting in the living room eating a candy cigarette. He
said what in the world are you doing, they said,
and be like you. And his dad threw his cigarettes
into trash and never smoked again because he didn't want
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his kid, who he realized now wanted to be like dad,
to have that horrible habit. So to restate, the point
is not that fatherhood was once important and beautiful and
grand and it's not anymore. We have the same responsibility
our fathers did, and it's time that we live up
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to that. It's also important that if there are other
young people in your life, or young people in your company,
on your block, at your church, who could use a
bit of a mentor father figure, whether they realize it
or not, that is your responsibility to this earth. God
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puts you in places for a reason. We don't always
know what that reason is. But God puts you in
that place. And if you hear the call, answer it
happy Father's dake.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. I got
to sit home from school one day with a shiner
on my.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Fighting was against the rooms and it didn't matter or why.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
When Dad got home, I told that story just like
I rehearsed. Then stood there almost trembling, needs waited for
the worst, and he said.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Let me tell you secret about a father's love.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Secret that's mine.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Daddy said.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It was just between us, He said, Daddy's done.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Just love their chill and every now and then.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's a love without in name.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's a love.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Without in name.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
When I became a father, he had another wonderful song
by our friend Aaron Barker from San and Tone now
and now lives in Nashville. He wrote baby Blue, Easy Come,
Easy Go. He wrote a lot of fantastic songs, particularly
(01:43):
for for George Strait. He wrote Hanky Talking Fool for
Doug Supernaw, Easy Come, Easy Go. I'd like to have
that one back. Not enough hours in the night. I
know she still loves me. I still can't make I
can still make Cheyenne Man. He wrote a lot of
(02:05):
good songs, A lot of good songs. He and what's
the other fella's name? Aaron? And one of them did
the Bluebell song and the other one did a bunch
of other songs. His name escapes me. A funny story.
(02:26):
I had Aaron Barker in my phone and he was
the first listing in my contacts. It was A A
r o n. And for whatever reason, my phone would
go to contacts, and because that was the first one,
I would pocket dill him. And at one point it
was happening once a day for a week and he'd say, Hey, Michaels,
(02:48):
everything okay, Aaron, I pocket dolled you again. So I
had to change his name to z A A r
o n. Because it was getting to be embarrassing that
I was that I was doing that. Seven one three, Nan,
you're a big fisherman. You like to fish? Do you
love to fish or you just like to fish? You
(03:11):
love to take your boys? Are you a fish? Are
you a cane pole, red and white cork? Uh? A fish?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Because to me that's a and you got a picnic
lunch and you know, little kid fishing off the pierce,
poor man's fishing. Uh That I enjoy the heck out
of going out deep sea fishing. I'll be honest with you,
full confession. Man, I gotta I gotta have some dram
I mean, I gotta have a full belly because I
(03:43):
can get real it can turn real fast, real fast.
That to me is work. That is not uh, that
is not recreation. That is work. But it amazes me
people that love to do that. It's like, you know
a lot of people play golf. There's people that will leave,
(04:07):
They will do anything to go play Pebble Beach or
Whispering Pines or whatever course that they they pine valley
that they most want to play. It's amazing to me
the passion people have for things or hunting. They want
to hunt this particular thing and take down this particular thing.
These guys that go up in the mountain and bring
(04:28):
Holmes Williams with them and they kill an elk up
in the mountain and they got a haul of that
thing out. That does not sound to me like a
good time. That is not my idea of a good
time at all. But that's that's their thing. So you
remember Chris Colin was He was the original bartender of
(04:49):
the RCC and the face of the RCC that people
will most remember like the front of the RCC was Rico,
who was hired to do secure but he ended up
being like more the owner than I was. He was
he was the front. He would escort the little old
ladies in. He knew everybody's name. He would take care
of everybody. He wore a black duster. If you didn't
(05:10):
know his name, he wore a black duster and a
black hat, and he had a black beard, talk like
cookie monster and boots and everybody loved Rico. Rico Monstriani
just fantastic guy. When you got in, if it was
your second time there, from the moment you walked in
the door till you got over to the bar, which
was a floating bar out in the middle, Chris Colin
(05:33):
would know your drink already and you'd walk up and
your drink would already be there. That's a cheers feel.
You can't we can't replace that. He was one of
my favorite people that ever worked there because he always
made everybody happy. But what Chris really wanted to do
was finish his shift and go fish. That's his idea
of a good time. So he posted this picture of
himself with this big with this big fish, and I
(05:56):
had no idea what he lives down like Texas City
or Clear Lake or somewhere frinds would So I just
assumed it was in Galveston. I didn't notice in the back.
I didn't notice the color of the water, and I
didn't notice in the back there's mountains. And because I
was looking at this fish, and I didn't notice that
the fish had like a what do you call that, ramon,
(06:19):
like a mohawk, whatever you call that on a fish.
Don't make fun of me, I admitted, I don't know
anything about fishing. He's holding this big old fish and
he's leaning back because thing is so big. It's massive fish.
And so I looked down at the comments, and people
are going, rooster fish, Oh, rooster fish. I've always wanted
a rooster fish. How do people know that's a rooster fish?
(06:40):
I don't know. I did, and so I looked up
rooster fish. You ever heard of a rooster fish? Ramon, Yeah,
well me neither. A rooster fish is a unique species
of marine karranga form fish in the warmer, shallow waters
of the southeastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California out to Peru.
(07:01):
Rooster fish, or popular sport fish for being strong fighters.
They are also important targets of local, artisanal and subsistence fisheries.
It is the only species in the genus Nemosticus, the family. Well,
you don't need to know all that. That's getting a
little deeper than you probably most need to know. You
know what a kerangiform is. It is a large diverse
(07:24):
order of ray finned fishes within the clad perkhamorpha. It
is a part of us. You don't need know all
that anyway, that's it's a it's a keranga form for whatever.
For whatever that means, I don't I kind of got
a little too deep off in that. I lost my
call screen. Can you just tell me who we got next?
Just point to them, Sergeant Bennett. You're on the Michael
(07:46):
Berry Show. Welcome to the program, sir.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
How you doing, mister Barry, listen. I wanted to tell
you about to brief about to us three things. One,
I've been listening. I'm a first time caller.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
One, I appreciate you being the father that you are.
I've been listening to you for years and you very
much comment on your kids. You teach your morals, principles
and values very much so next is and I like that.
My dad did me the same way. He said, sons
(08:20):
are out here and cut the grass.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Sergeant Minute hold On said, I went to you too
late and said, hold on, let's start you on the
next secent.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Hold it's the term anal intercourse on your programs, Michael, if.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's relevant to this story for journalistic purposes. I don't
think Fiona adds to that song. I don't know what
she's doing other than sitting there just being crazy. She's nuts, man,
I mean she's a different different level of nuts, really
(08:54):
really nuts. Hey, Ramon, tell me something I hate to do.
I forget things. There's stuff that interests me and I
get real into it, and then I forget. Did we
ever get the people from Tinsley's on the show? Tinsley's
(09:14):
is the fried Chicken from Huntsville. I think the guy's
name was Jay David Tinsley. A woman I used to
know many many years ago. I didn't know her well,
but a lot of my friends did. Her name was
Jill Warren. I don't know whatever happened to Jill Warren.
I think she ran for judge or state rep or something.
But she was a hard Charger. There was a group
of us that all ran together, Ted Cruz, Ken Wise, Me,
(09:37):
Jim Grace, Jeff Brown, who's now a federal judge. We
all ran around together, and we were all in our
late twenties and very ambitious. And I think she might
have been about what, yeah, just running around. Yeah, So anyway,
she was part of that group. She might have been
a couple of years older, but she was considered like
(09:59):
a She was going to be somebody huge, And I
don't know whatever happened to her, But I looked it
up and she had created a Tensley's fan club page.
I just saw it in the break, but it hasn't
she hadn't posted on it since twenty fourteen. Apparently she
was a hostess at Tensley's back in the day, and
(10:20):
so that was her tribute to Tinsley's. But nobody's posted
on there. But I bet you somebody can email me
the name of whoever is the closest in line and
can tell the tensley story. So I think there's still
a Tensley's in Huntsville that is active. I think, but
(10:41):
I don't know. Maybe somebody can email me. Don't call
because we're doing all Father's Day calls, but if you
would all right, Sergeant Bennett, my apologies I went to
you too late in the segment The floor is yours, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yes, sir, why I was saying that my dad taught
me the same morals that you're teaching your kids, morals,
principles and values. Like I said, I got out there
and cut the grass. Of course I got an allowance,
and then the next thing you know, he's telling me
go next door and volunteer to because the neighbors grass.
(11:16):
Of course they paid me, but I never asked for it, Okay,
and that's good. I want to say happy Father's Day
to you. And also I want to tell you that
I appreciate what you do for the project. Hope you
know PTSD and everything. I appreciate that you're helping my
(11:40):
fellow brothers, and I appreciate that, sir. I just wanted
to tell you that, and I hope you have a
happy Father's.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Day, Sergeant Bennett. I very much appreciate that. So it's
very kind of you. Let's go to Lovely Rita. Rita,
you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Go ahead, Thank you, my dad. Noble McVeigh was a
master sergeant. He won three bronze stars. He was in
World War Two and Korea and Vietnam. He was an
amazing dad. I loved him with all my heart. And
(12:18):
one time he went out on maneuvers. And of course,
the day after he left, my brother and I got
into trouble. And Mom always said, wait till your father
gets home. So six weeks later, Daddy gets back, and
I've been living in stark fear for six weeks, and
of course it's time to stand before the judge. I
tell him what I did wrong. He looks at me
(12:40):
and he said, okay, go outside and play. And I
looked at him and I said what he said, go
outside and play? I said, I'm not in trouble. He said,
there's nothing I can do to you that you haven't
done to yourself for the last six weeks. Go outside
and play. And I said, you mean I did all
that for nothing? And he just laughed.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The weight was the punishment, right. You have an absolutely
lovely voice. Let's go to Kyle. Kyle, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, it's all yours.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Hello Michael. I'd like to wish my father a happy
father's day growing up. He uh, he gave me a
lot of chances to make a lot of mistakes. We
do projects and we get to the very end and
he go, well, do you want me to tell you
where you screwed up? Or do you want to figure
it out? And it's that kind of coaching and mentorship
(13:40):
that he gave me that allowed me to have the
confidence to start my own business.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, it's it's interesting what kind of business call?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It's a backflow? I do backfloths.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Backflow, like backflow assembly for backflow. It's like plumbing. But
I'm not a plumber.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Okay, So who, yeah, for whom do you do this?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I do it for myself. It's usually cities and municipalities
will send out letters to residents and those residents will
require backflow testing. It's an annual test and then if
I'm lucky enough, they'll reach out to me for the testing.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And how do they know that you're out there? How
do they know that you exist?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
There are lists that the city provides. You have to
be registered with the city or the municipality.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How much does it cost glow down that list?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I charge eighty six to fifty for.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Residential eighty six dollars and fifty cents. Yes, sir, how
many of these do you do?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Oh? I've done up to forty in a day before.
That's my record.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Do you have to go to the house to do it?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Man, there's so many different ways to make a living.
So there's so many questions, so many questions. The more
you know anything about backflowr.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
On, what would you do with the brain if.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Your head on?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Bring it on? Because there is nothing here the Michael
Berry Show man, I could have done without that this morning.
I'll be honest with you, SMI Ramon. You are not
(15:44):
going to believe this. This is a five dinger. This
is a five dinger. Get your dinger finger stretched out
and ready. This is a five dinger, shameless five dinger,
a very rare five dinger. This is a unicorn five dinger.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
This is rarer than a four leaf clover. Right here.
So remember earlier, a few minutes ago, you played Love
without End Amen, and I said, oh, that was written
by Aaron Barker. And I told Aaron Barker story. And
I was telling the story about two singer songwriters who
(16:24):
were most famous for the mailbox money they've made as
incredible songwriters. And I couldn't remember the name of the
other one. I said. It started with an a right. Well,
that happened at I don't know, ten ten fifteen, maybe
ten o'clock. Then at ten thirty six I get a
(16:47):
text from Alan Shamblin, who was the songwriter I couldn't
think of it's a five dinger. Go ahead, just because
you've got the reference to the singer songwriter and his fame.
And then he texted me and yeah, it's it's uh yeah,
Alan Shamblin wrote, he walked on Water Randy Travis, Boy,
(17:11):
that's a Song's that ever? A song? I Can't Make
You Love Me by Bonnie Ray. I'm not a huge
Bunny Ray song a fan, but whoo The House That
Built Me by Miranda Lambert and her crazy ass. There's
a bunch of them. I'm Just in This Life by
Colin Ray. What I'm for? Pat Green? How they remember you?
(17:33):
Rascal Flats We were in love? Toby Keith, Poison, George Strait,
I mean this guy, my heart's not a whole tel.
This guy wrote a bunch of great songs. He sent
me a text and said good mornings are. I co
wrote this song with Emily Wise Band and Mark Beeson.
Nate Smith released it three weeks ago. We weren't thinking
of it as a Father's Day song when we wrote it.
(17:55):
We were just trying to honor our fathers, but I
think it turned out to be one. I hope you
have a happy fall. And I said, dude, this is
so weird. I was just talking about you on the
air about fifteen twenty minutes ago, and he said, whoa.
I listened to your show yesterday, but I haven't listened
to today's show yet, but I will now because he
(18:16):
listens on podcasts. So how about that? So we have
to play that song now, Ramon, not right this second,
but in a minute. Right, let's go to Bill. Bill,
you are on the Michael Berry Show Father's Day Special,
Take it away. It's all yours, thank you Zar.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
I am a classic war baby. My dad died nine
months after I was born, and my mother was smart
enough to remarry a man who was sterile, loved a family,
and couldn't have a family. And that man was one
year younger than her father. So I grew up with
a grandfather.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
He taught me how to hunt fish, how to grow crops,
how to live life. And unfortunately my mom and he
had a party of ways when I was about thirteen,
and we moved away, and I lost him at a
very very critical time in a young boy's life, because
(19:12):
during puberty you need a man's help, ye to understand
what the hell is going on with your body. And
I wound up dating girls for their father, and I'm
sure that a lot of them didn't understand why I
was so interested in their father.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Very interesting. Did you understand that at the time or
did you come to understand that later?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Much later, much later? I knew I wanted to talk
to a man, but I didn't know why.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You know, It's like, yess, it's very interesting. We do
things like that. You know, we don't always understand why
we do what we do, and how we end up
in certain relationships, whether they be good or bad, and
the patterns in our lives. It's interesting that you did.
You did understand that you have a great voice, Bill,
(20:08):
fantastic voice. Are you what are you the Bill that
that was the owner of Bubba's Burgers?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, that's why I remember your voice. You're an engineer,
if I remember.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Well, I was a computer computer guru, man frame guru,
and I sold computer assystem for hospital for twenty seven years.
But more interesting than that is our son, who is
a master motorcycle mechanic, and I would dearly love to
show you and the boys the shop. Uh, but he's
(20:43):
got teams and.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I will gladly come on that tour and I'll be
interested in it, but I will not bring my sons.
No offense, I am not in favor of anybody. I
love riding motorcycles. In fact, Uh, I talked my brother
into selling his hardy that he was so proud to own,
and I made a financial inducement to get him to
(21:08):
do that because I did not want to have to
peel him off the pavement. I've known too many people
die in motorcycle accident, says, I'm kind of an old
woman when it comes to that, and I'm unashamed, so
I do everything I can. My oldest son, Michael, went
through a motorcycle phase that I think we're out of. Now.
I think we're out of. But I try to just
keep him as far away from that as I possibly can. Joe,
(21:31):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Yeah, Michael, I'm eighty five years old, as you know,
even though older than you.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
The thing is you don't look at you look about eighties.
So you should be proud.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Yeah, yeah, I am.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I'm very proud.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
You know a lot of memories of my parents. My
mom and dad really were good Christian saints. My dad
we moved us to Deer Park and he was known
as mister deer Park. He passed away in twelve and
I told a story h during his eulogy about when
(22:10):
I was in college at the Universey Houston. I was
in the PI cap Alpha Frattorney. A bunch of my
Atturney brothers wanted me to go to New Orleans and
they grabbed me and they locked me in the car
and were walking me right taking me to New Orleans
against my will. Well, we got to it ten uh
and I everybody got to go to the bathroom. I
jumped out and ran because I didn't want to go
(22:32):
to New Orleans with a bunch of drunk frattorney brothers.
I walked from Iten to the Lynchburg Ferry, across the
road down to twenty five, all the way to my parents' house.
I arrived at five point thirty in the morning and
they're like, what are you doing here? And there my
parents were at the breakfast table, reading the Bible and
(22:55):
reading reading their daily devotional and it was one of
those things where that don't talk about it. They just
lived their life. And their example.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Of Michael Barry said, I couldn't make it out that you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Need to go get my testosterone shot. It's ridiculous. I
think my levels are dipped. Let's start with Billy. Billy,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Take it away.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Okay, mine's a little a little different that my daddy
killed himself when I was ten years old. But I
grew up in Glenna Park.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It was kind of raised by a village of men.
Ah my little league coach Barnon Wieberstein and uh one
of my best friend's father, Mederick Knight. They just just
let me come in to the life. And then when
(24:03):
I got older at Garner State Park, I met the
Bourn family from Berkshire and Dan Bouren was a wonderful
man and my kids ended up thinking that was their
grandfoot father. But it was when I was about thirty
(24:25):
eight or thirty five or something. I drove to the
other men that I didn't mention to about five men
around Texas that had retired, and told them what they
had meant to me, and they couldn't understand. They said,
(24:47):
we didn't do anything. And I thought, Wow, that's the
kind of man I want to be. So that's my story.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Great story, brother, I'm glad you shared that. When a
fellow starts a story with my dad killed hisself when
I was ten years old, it's hard to imagine where
that's going to go, but that was part of the story. Jim,
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Yeah. This is Jim from Huntsville, Alabama, and I called
in a couple of times before Michael. But I had
a great grandfather and a great father. Both of them
were railroad men and working out of a little town
in southwest Missouri. And my grandfather was in World War two.
(25:44):
I'm sorry, it was in World War One and he
was classified as a wagon master worked on a railroad
there moving things in France. My father was in the
army in World War two. Was just a great man.
But I grew up and I graduated high school in
(26:05):
sixty six and at that time, when I was in
high school. Of course, the Beatles came to America, and
I played football and basketball, and the rules that our
school was you had to have a bur cut to
play sports because your helmets fit better and you weren't
(26:25):
always pushing your hair out of your eyes on the
basketball court. And I told my father one day, I said, Dad,
I want to grow my hair out like the Beatles.
And he said, son, you can do that, but your
feet will never fit under my table. And I didn't
(26:45):
question him at all. He was pretty strict. And he
also was a firm believer that I wore slacks to
high school, no jeans ever went to high school on
my body. So and I appreciate that for him by
him now. And he gave me a good work work ethic.
(27:09):
I worked all the time I was in college, and
I stayed in college, went to graduate school. And at
the same time, I had four jobs while I was
going to graduate school.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So that is it. That is what good fathers do.
They make us the men we are. They teach us
that work ethic. We didn't just you know, fall from
the sky. We learned that. And kids that don't learn
that grow up differently. Makes a difference. And That is
why we pay tribute to fathers. That is why we
(27:44):
dedicate this time and energy extolling the virtues of fatherhood.
But the takeaway, and Chris, hold on, I'm we get
to you in just a moment, even if I have
to do it during the break. The takeaway from all
of this is not that fathers used to be great.
That is not the point of this story. The point
of the story is that fatherhood is as relevant, if
(28:08):
not more, today than it ever has been, and that
while we tear up over our own fathers, many of
whom we've lost, we have to ask ourselves, are we
being that kind of father to our own children today?
You don't stop being a father when your child leaves
(28:31):
the house. A child needs their father for the entirety
of their lives. A child is watching you for their
entire lives. They're watching you age, They're watching you grow old.
They are continually learning from you. I had a friend
(28:52):
named Chad Kibbodo. His dad stopped smoking just like that
cold turkey when he walked into the house came home
from work one day, he walked into the house, was
sitting in the living room eating a candy cigarette. He
said what in the world are you doing, they said,
and be like you. And his dad threw his cigarettes
into trash and never smoked again because he didn't want
(29:13):
his kid, who he realized now wanted to be like dad,
to have that horrible habit. So to restate, the point
is not that fatherhood was once important and beautiful and
grand and it's not anymore. We have the same responsibility
our fathers did, and it's time that we live up
(29:34):
to that. It's also important that if there are other
young people in your life, or young people in your company,
on your block, at your church, who could use a
bit of a mentor father figure, whether they realize it
or not, that is your responsibility to this earth. God
(29:57):
puts you in places for a reason. We don't always
know what that reason is. But God puts you in
that place. And if you hear the call, answer it
happy Father's dake.
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