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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You've heard Turn the Beat Around by Vicki su Robinson,
Heaven on the Seventh Floor, a Freak by Chic Fly,
Robin Fly By, the Silver Connection, and now number five
on the station where the seventies survived KBI L L Y.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
America is on the cosp of a new golden age.
But we will have the courage to seize it. We're
going to take it. We're going to make it a current.
I mean, we're going to bring this into a golden
age like never seen before.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
To win with every single facet. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
You may even get tired of winning, and you'll say, please, please,
it's too much winning. We can't take it anymore, mister President,
It's too much, And I'll say, no.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
It isn't. We have to keep winning.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
We have to win more. We're gonna win more. We're
gonna win so much.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
It's fun to stay it. It's fun to stay it.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And we will restore and renovate our nations once great cities,
making them safe, clean and beautiful again.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
We are Americans. Ambition is our heritage.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Greatness is our birthright.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
But as long as our energies are spent fighting each other,
our destiny will remain out of reach.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And that's not acceptable.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
We must instead take that energy and use it to
realize our country's true potential and write our own thrilling
chapter of the American storry.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
We can do it together. We will unite.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We are going to come together, and success will bring
us together.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's understated. It's the years of war.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Weakness and chaos will be over.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I don't have wars.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I had no wars other than Isis, which I defeated,
but that was a war that was started.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We had no wars.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I could stop wars with a telephone call. Just a
few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We know that, and yet.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise,
and a total renewal of a thing we love very much.
It's called America. We live in a world of miracles.
None of us knows God's plan or where life's adventure
will take us.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A truck carrying Worcestershire sauce crash deputy came upon the scene, said,
what's the situation sheriff responded, it's hard to say. What
do you call a group a female fishermen? Female fishermen? Ramon,
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you know a group of crows, you know a group
of frogs, you know a herd of cattle. What do
you call a group of female fishermen? Hookers? Hookers is
the word because they yeah, yeah. The do you know
the term for when you drink holy water mixed with laxatives?
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True thing? Holy water mixed with laxatives? A religious movement
Muscat references. This morning we had the air, Oh you
were at the doctor. We had Clayton Anderson on and
we asked him how you poop in space? And it
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felt awkward asking and I figured I'd probably get some
people saying, well, were you a stupid question? Did you
turn it off? Or did you listen to the answer,
because people like to listen to the answer because they
are curious, but also take the high road of that
you shouldn't have asked a question. It was on this
day in nineteen fifty eight that Elvis Presley went to
the Memphis Draft Board and entered the United States Army.
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So on this day in nineteen ninety nine, at the
Kosovo War, NATO began attacks of Yugoslavia without United Nations
Security Council approval, making the first time that NATO would
attack a sovereign country. Born on this day in eighteen
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ninety seven Wilhelm Reich, Austrian American psychotherapist and academic who
would die in nineteen fifty seven. He was grandfather to
Wilhelm Reich the Third, commonly known as the Third Reich.
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Oh the emails, Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Why did she jack?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that's not where third rack comes from. Born on
this day in nineteen twenty four, Norman Fell, who you
will remember as mister Roper on the classic Threees Company.
I got news for you, Stanley, you got competition. We
had a peeping tom the other night. You're making that up. No,
I'm not. I saw him plain as anything. He was
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looking in our bedroom window and yawning. You must have
been getting undressed. Such good writing. I think I may
have preferred Norman Fell as mister Roper to Don Notts,
which is saying something, because I love Don k Nots.
I just it's just more of a compliment of Norman
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Fell than anything else. Born on this day in nineteen thirty,
Of course, he died at only fifty in nineteen eighty
the great Steve McQueen. I think my favorite of his
movies was him as Papillon. This is uh. This is
a scene where he's in solitary confinement. The warden wants
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information from him, and he can't remember it. Who gave
you the food? Jesus one, I hadn't I had the name.
Honest to God, I must I must be light, I
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must be light.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Editor.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So maybe get like I'm drying. I'm drying.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I can't remember. Just to God, I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I can't remember. It's not there, mister prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
No, his is nice. He's not there. He's dying. What
a movie. If you have not seen Papillon, go home
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and watch it. Hey, it is cast. Let's open the
phone line in case somebody has something on their mind.
Seven one three, nine nine, nine one.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thousand, Michael Barry show.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
You're waiting after that?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Just saw ride? Just do that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We don't talk enough about Randy Backman. I mean, obviously
Bachman turned Overdrive vto some great music, but a founding
member of the guests who The story goes that Randy
Bachman was a kid when he saw Elvis on stage
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with in the early days with his late fifties, and
Elvis had his acoustic guitar around his neck, and Randy
Bachman determined that he was going to be on stage.
He's going to learn to play. He flew, he's Canadian.
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He flew to see Les Paul play. Buys a ticket
that won't let him in he's too young, so in instead,
he goes and meets Less Paul backstage, helps set up
the show and helps unload it at the end, gets
Less Paul to teach him a lick. I think to
how High the Moon? But I can't remember exactly anyway,
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that song right there let It Ride supposedly comes from
and so on an interview with him, they were they
were driving, and he was a station wagon, a big
station wagon. They didn't have a tour bus at the time,
and they get pinned in by these eighteen wheelers, and
the eighteen wheelers could have let them out if they
wanted to, but they had on their license plate their
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license plate holder said Friendly Manitoba because that's where they're from,
which is Manitoba, which is known as Friendly Manitoba. And
the eighteen wheelers would have gotten on the on the
horn with each other and said, hey, let's see how
friendly friendly Manitoba is. Let's all drop down to about
thirty five and ride for a while. And so it's
time for them to get some gas. And the lead guy,
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who was clearly the one doing his most his best
to keep them from being able to get out from here,
and they need to get to a show. They're driving
to a show, you know, just chock full of this
station wagon with all their gear. So they pull off.
They go into the truck station and Randy Backman starts
yelling at the guy, and the guy you know, he's
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it's getting more and more heated, and Randy Bachman is
worried that he's created a situation where he's gonna have
to punch this guy. But he's lost his mind. And
the dude said, hey, just let it ride, and Randy
Bakman said, as a Canadian, that's not a phrase that
we use. So I didn't know if he was insulting
me or what. So they go back out in the
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station wagon and drive off, and he ponders what that
means and ends up, of course, with a huge hit
on his hand. But if you don't know the song
Taking of Business, which of course he wrote, brings the
Elvis story full circle because Taking Care of Business comes
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out I think in seventy three, so for the last
several years of Elvis's life, in fact, he adopted the
motto taking care of business in a flash. And if
you've ever seen the motto, I've got a chain a
necklace with this that is the TCB inside a lightning bolt,
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and that is designed to represent taking care of business
in a flash, getting it done sort of thing. So
that was Elvis loved that song, and in fact, I
saw an interview with Randy Bockman that Elvis recorded that song,
but it's never to my knowledge, it's never been released.
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And the interview with Randy Bockman was years ago, so
it could have been released since then. And if it
is my friend, the private investigator extraordinary Paul Baker of
Spies Investigations, we'll track it down because he's the knower
of all things Elvis. I bow before his Elvis knowledge,
and I like to think I know a thing or two,
but I'm going to see if he will check and see.
I don't believe Elvis's version of Taking Care of Business
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was ever released but he did record a version of
him and his last band as of his passing is
the TCB band, which stood for taking Care of Business.
When we were in seventh grade, Greig Hobbs, Ben Warneck,
Toby Schultz and I were all Elvis s freaks and
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we went through a TCB phase, so we would greet
each other with TCB. We bought, you know, cheap trinket TCB,
you know, diamond encrusted gold, nugget necklaces of obviously all
of it fake, but we were everything TCB. TCB shaved
into our head by Ellis, a pretty good barber, and
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made it look okay. But anyway, TC was a big
deal to us. And I saw an interview with Randy
Backman where he said that people would tell him, you know,
Elvis did the whole TCB taking care of Business because
of your song. He loved the song so much. And
he said he never knew if that was true or not,
but he didn't want to believe it because then it
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would turn out not to be true and he'd be disappointed.
And he said, then I was watching a documentary and
Priscilla was on there and said that that was or
it might not have been. Priscilla might have been the
woman that was there with him when he died. I
forget her name, but Paul will remember. But they said,
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you know, where did the takeing care of Business come from?
And he said he loved the song taking care of Business.
So here this whole thing came full circle. As a kid,
Randy Backman becomes an artist because he sees Elvis on
TV and wants to be like him. And then at
the end of Elvis's life, he's a fan of Randy
Backman and the song taking Care of Business and go
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so far as to name his band and his you know,
his whole mantra in life around that. How cool is that? Huh? DJ,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, hey, Michael.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Thanks. I was lucky enough to be born in sixty
two and grew up listening to the Guess Who bto
Zz Top Trase Ombrace.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What a great album that was.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
But I had an older brother and older sister, so
I was listening to their music before my time, and
it was just a great time to be a kid.
Sometimes I wish I was ten years older to listening
a little bit more Dwayne Alman, but it was a
good time in music.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know what's crazy, DJ, I'm eight years younger than
you and that's the music I grew up to as well.
It's such a great time in a Erica The Music.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
History Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Over the weekend, a number of testlas were tortured yet
again in an effort allegedly being funded by George Soros.
You know what's amazing. You will see the comment made
that these people who are torching tesla's should be charged
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with domestic terrorism, and so we immediately go, yeah, domestic
terrorism with them. Why are we saying that? Why do
we need to charge them with domestic terrorism?
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Stop and think about this. Why is that a chant?
Why is that something that people feel the need to state.
If a man sees another man in the middle of
the street, that man walks up to him, says, I
don't know you, but I'm about to kill you, pulls
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a gun and shoots him. The other man dies on
the spot unprovoked attack. The man is now dead, turns
around and walks off. We wouldn't say, hey, we should
charge him with anything other than murder, right, because that's
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what it is. So if you watched someone set a
car ablaze. Let's say a woman's mad at her man
because he's shacked up inside with another woman, so she
torches the car. It happens, or reverse the fact pattern.
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No one would say we need to charge them with
domestic terrorism. So why do people need to say that
we should charge someone with domestic terrorism? Because it is
is one theory. This is the collapse of the American
criminal justice system, the fact that we have to try
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to make federal charges, a federal case for what is
clearly a serious crime with serious consequences. You know, good
morning setting a car on fire? Was that you in there? No,
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it wasn't me. You just fire up a new computer.
Sounded like porn. You surfing porn in there? Well, I
mean it just did what I what I imagine porn
sounds like, oh wedn say, good morning? Oh well, I
don't know what's going on in there? But why why
isn't burning a car? I mean, we don't want this
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to happen, right, this this is a serious thing to happen,
So why is it happening? They're they're saying, hey, we're
going after them. They're announcing it, We're gonna have these
tesla protests because We have had a complete collapse in
this country, and too many people have decided, well, you
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can't do anything about it anymore. Arrive on the scene
and shoot them. I'm that serious. Arrive on the scene,
throw the cuffs on them, throw them in the back
of the car, take them to jail, prosecute them in
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the communities that actually care about law and order. Seek
the highest charges possible, which is why they're going for
the federal because then you do day for day. You
ain't getting that early. Send these people to prison, all
of them, raid their offices, Treat them like January sixth,
what they did to the people at January sixth. I mean,
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rough them up, knock the doors down, show up at
their workplace, draw the guns so the kids can see it. Wives, children,
teeth gnashing, crying.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh yes, scare.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
The hell out of them, and follow through. I mean it.
The breakdown of law and order in this country has
happened for so long that it's been normalized. We don't
even think of it as perverse any longer. You shouldn't
need to step up the charges. These people should be
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prosecuted for exactly what they did and spend no less
than ten years in prison period, end of story. We
have got to fix this country, and that means changing
the way things are done in such a manner that
bad people are prosecuted and the book is thrown at them,
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no exceptions, bad people doing bad things. Now, you can't
do that. When you're in the state of Texas and
you're worried about getting thc out of the retail shops.
That is not what anybody is asking for. People are
asking for murderous thugs to be taken off the streets.
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People are asking for, let's go back earlier in the
show Michael fool Webber, what happened to his neighbor? People
are asking that when Ryan Smith stabs in the commission
of a robbery, he's already out for crime. In the
commission of a robbery, stabs the canine multiple times. It's
shocking that this dog survived. He's arrested and Judge Josh
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Haill this is part of the Soro's initiative. They put
the guy back out on the street again where he
murders his father. If he hadn't murdered his father, he
might have murdered our guest or our guest wife, or
any number of other people. This guy was in a
very very bad situation, like a rabbit dog, and he
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was going to kill someone. He just happened to kill
his father, but he could have just killed somebody who
was coming out of the grocery store. You can't prosecute
every crime. You can't imprison every criminal. So you've got
to decide what are you going to use your prison
space on. Some guy that was carrying marijuana back from Colorado,
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back from California. Some guy that's using marijuana because he
has chronic back pain or PTSD for war, You're gonna
go after him. You're gonna spend resources. You ever been
down to a court I encourage every one of you.
Make it a field trip. Go down. Just go down
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to the courthouse. Need to go down in the morning,
early eight o'clock, will do nine o'clock. I don't know
what time it opens. I think eight. But go down,
go through the magnetometer, look around at the people there.
Go through and just walk the halls and look in
a couple of the courtrooms. That is the whole world.
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You can't imagine. You only see these people out on
the streets. That is a whole world. You'll be shocked
how many law enforcement, how many staffers, how many lawyers.
It is a whole industry. And if you start, you
remember the days'll do that. What youre doing into court?
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What are you doing at the courthouse? What's you doing
at the courthouse. I think it was a girl who
did that, and she had come down here from like Indiana.
And I don't remember what station she was on. Maybe
it was Mixed ninety six, I can't remember. But the
story I was told by somebody in the radio business
was that she had been brought down here for the
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sole purpose of bringing that bet with her. And I
heard it. I mean I never heard it live, but
people would send it to me, and all I could
think was, damn, why didn't we think of that? Can
you imagine how good producer Kenny would be on what
you Do at the Courthouse? I mean, the most cringe
worthy questions and the most cringe worthy answers, and he
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is fearless. I mean, Kenny is somewhere on the spectrum.
He doesn't know fear. He doesn't know he's supposed to
know fear. It's almost beautiful. I just worry that he'll
get stabbed or shot. But in any case, yeah, put
those Tesla people Away for life, the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Spending the time you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
See Skinner. It is my favorite pin And I would
argue the greatest American bandill but find you. You're welcome
to have your own favorite. I would not say the
guess Who are my favorite, man, but I would have
to say that there's no more rock song than this.
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I mean, there are songs that might be as rock,
but if you're talking about a quintessentially rock thought this.
So in nineteen sixty four, the Who were Fourth Roger Daltrey,
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Pete Townsend, Keith Moon, Thunderfingers, and I mean, what a
contribution The Who, right, the Marshall Stack, you got the synthesizers,
you've got rock operas. The Who are legendary, I mean
absolutely legendary. The following year, the Guess who is founded
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a Canadian band, completely separate band. And I don't know
that everybody understands that, but a completely separate band. And
that's Randy Bockman's first band. He would go on to
found Backman, Turner, Overdrive, They had no time, these Eyes
and the aforementioned American woman. And I tell you all
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that to tell you this. The Guess who is not
in the rock and roll Hall of Fame that how
are you going to have a rock and roll Hall
of Fame where you've got people Let's be honest, I'll
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speak in euphemus were inducted for the sake of demographics
and not contribution. Now, to be clear, should Little Richard
be in there? Yes, Little Richard's influence is profound. Should
James Brown, Yes, James Brown's influence is profound. You've got
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some folks in the rock and roll Hall of Fame
that I would argue La Sheik, Yeah, I would say, yes, Uh,
Lasik is interesting because that's kind of a cross between
pop and rock. But I would say because of now'll
influence alone, Yeah, because of his body of work, I'd
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put Lashk in there. Yeah. But there are folks in
the rock and roll Hall of Fame that when you
see the name, you think to yourself, that's not even
rock and roll much less good, and a hall of
Fame should be the best of the best. I like
to do a Hall of Fame just to keep people out.
The whole purpose to keep people out. What Oscar Wilde say,
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I wouldn't join any club that would have me. I
mean that'd be the fun. They pissed me off so
bad by not putting hat Junior in there, and I
began my one man campaign and I do happen to
have some very well placed friends at the Country Music
Hall of Fame. I'm not saying I was the sole reason,
but I know for a fact I was part of
I was part of the movement or part of the
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reason they chosen. Did I get a call from boseephas no? No,
But that's all right. It's not about me, Ramon. We
just chugging along doing what we're doing, doing what we're doing.
How about the University of Houston cougars with another win.
Although I'll tell you what, that one got real scary
for a minute there. That one got very very scary.
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That reached the point of discomfort, to be certain, Ramon,
should we go eat bad food today? My wife is
in India for ten days and what are we at Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
We're on day three and I am not doing well.
I have reached that stage in life, fellas. I hope
you all get there where you rely on your wife
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or the stability of the home. I had to get
up this morning I had to feed George, who the
struggle is real. I had to get up feed George.
I had to get Crockett out of bed and make
sure he was out of bed before I left, because
there's no backup. I always go in, I rub his feet,
We talk about what we're doing, We talk about his day.
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You know, what test does he have, what's going on,
what's he reading, what's he listening to? And that's our
little time. And by the way, everybody needs a foot
rub foot rubs are a good thing. And I'm not
talking out like in pulp fiction, you know where it's
just just you know, I've rubbed my kid's feet since
they were a little bitty that's walk in to wake,
come up and rub their feet. I'd like to think
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when they're older that you know, they tell their wives, Hey,
could you just rub my feet? It's a nice thing.
My wife, I've rubbed her feet. She was a marathon runner,
so her fee would always hurt for years and years
and years. Anyway, So I had to feed George, and
I had to put George out and to make sure
she did her business, and then I had to get
Crockett up and make sure he was up and that's
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not easy. Crockett and I went to the Rockets game
last night and had one heck of a good time.
The team didn't win. I'm always amazed. This is kind
of a season ticket holder, you know, super duper fan
kind of comment where you say, yeah, I enjoyed myself
at the Rockets last Come, oh they didn't win. You
think I give a damn? Do you honestly think I
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give a damn? Would I like them to win?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Their second behind OKC right now, which is nice that
just meet more people are there. It's I don't ever forget.
Maybe this is why I have a healthy relationship with sports.
I don't ever forget. This is entertainment. This is guys
with a basketball with a ball, and the rules are
you got two hoops down here, and here's how you
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can advance the ball, and here's how you defend the ball,
just like in any other sport. And it's no different
than if they put some more seats and put a
stage and somebody saying, or they put a ring in
somebody box. It's entertainment. And I got to tell you
it's easy to forget how much entertainment an NBA basketball
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game is It is easy to forget how much I
enjoy hearing the squeak of the sneakers on the hardwoods.
It's it's a good sound, it's wholesome. I enjoyed. It
takes me back to the basketball gym at Orangefield that
didn't have much air conditioning, so they just opened the
big windows and keep the natural draft going. It was
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a raggedy old place, but it's special memories, I mean
special place anyway. So I got to do all that.
I got to make my own tea, although Emily was
kind enough. My wife taught her how to make the
tea so that these first couple of days I wouldn't
have to do that. Guy's too much. I mean, I've
already done so much ramon before, you know, like the
US Army, before most people even get up. So that's
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what we should do. We should go and we should
eat a big I'm going to eat a midday meal.
I'm on prednizone and it makes me hungry. My one
meal a day fell apart since I started this a
few days ago, and I don't like it. I like
this my one meal. I can't make it anymore. By
the way, I have not read the emails. I know
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there are a bunch of people who asked I'm going
to pull them out of a hat because we're oversubscribed.
We had two seats left. A friend of mine who
makes very very delicious text macs put together a trip
and saved back two couples that could buy in. And
it's September twelfth through the fourteenth. It's the last show
the Eagles performed supposedly at the Sphere in Las Vegas,
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and we're flying up on a G four. It's a
trip of a lifetime for a couple, or it could
be two individuals. I know that I have received some support.
I put it on Facebook. I committed that I would
say at one time on the air, and by noon
today I will put the names of those who have
requested to be on the trip in a bucket and
I will draw them out so I don't hurt anybody's feelings.
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Because we got Connie and Billy, I got some good
friends on that. So if you have not submitted your name,
do so by noon today.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You've heard Turn the Beat Around by Vicki su Robinson,
Heaven on the Seventh Floor, a Freak by Chic Fly,
Robin Fly By, the Silver Connection, and now number five
on the station where the seventies survived KBI L L Y.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
America is on the cosp of a new golden age.
But we will have the courage to seize it. We're
going to take it. We're going to make it a current.
I mean, we're going to bring this into a golden
age like never seen before.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
To win with every single facet. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
You may even get tired of winning, and you'll say, please, please,
it's too much winning. We can't take it anymore, mister President,
It's too much, And I'll say, no.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
It isn't. We have to keep winning.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
We have to win more. We're gonna win more. We're
gonna win so much.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
It's fun to stay it. It's fun to stay it.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And we will restore and renovate our nations once great cities,
making them safe, clean and beautiful again.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
We are Americans. Ambition is our heritage.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Greatness is our birthright.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
But as long as our energies are spent fighting each other,
our destiny will remain out of reach.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And that's not acceptable.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
We must instead take that energy and use it to
realize our country's true potential and write our own thrilling
chapter of the American storry.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
We can do it together. We will unite.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We are going to come together, and success will bring
us together.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's understated. It's the years of war.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Weakness and chaos will be over.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I don't have wars.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I had no wars other than Isis, which I defeated,
but that was a war that was started.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We had no wars.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I could stop wars with a telephone call. Just a
few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We know that, and yet.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise,
and a total renewal of a thing we love very much.
It's called America. We live in a world of miracles.
None of us knows God's plan or where life's adventure
will take us.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A truck carrying Worcestershire sauce crash deputy came upon the scene, said,
what's the situation sheriff responded, it's hard to say. What
do you call a group a female fishermen? Female fishermen? Ramon,
(04:04):
you know a group of crows, you know a group
of frogs, you know a herd of cattle. What do
you call a group of female fishermen? Hookers? Hookers is
the word because they yeah, yeah. The do you know
the term for when you drink holy water mixed with laxatives?
(04:29):
True thing? Holy water mixed with laxatives? A religious movement
Muscat references. This morning we had the air, Oh you
were at the doctor. We had Clayton Anderson on and
we asked him how you poop in space? And it
(04:51):
felt awkward asking and I figured I'd probably get some
people saying, well, were you a stupid question? Did you
turn it off? Or did you listen to the answer,
because people like to listen to the answer because they
are curious, but also take the high road of that
you shouldn't have asked a question. It was on this
day in nineteen fifty eight that Elvis Presley went to
the Memphis Draft Board and entered the United States Army.
(05:14):
So on this day in nineteen ninety nine, at the
Kosovo War, NATO began attacks of Yugoslavia without United Nations
Security Council approval, making the first time that NATO would
attack a sovereign country. Born on this day in eighteen
(05:36):
ninety seven Wilhelm Reich, Austrian American psychotherapist and academic who
would die in nineteen fifty seven. He was grandfather to
Wilhelm Reich the Third, commonly known as the Third Reich.
(05:57):
Oh the emails, Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Why did she jack?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that's not where third rack comes from. Born on
this day in nineteen twenty four, Norman Fell, who you
will remember as mister Roper on the classic Threees Company.
I got news for you, Stanley, you got competition. We
had a peeping tom the other night. You're making that up. No,
I'm not. I saw him plain as anything. He was
(06:22):
looking in our bedroom window and yawning. You must have
been getting undressed. Such good writing. I think I may
have preferred Norman Fell as mister Roper to Don Notts,
which is saying something, because I love Don k Nots.
I just it's just more of a compliment of Norman
(06:42):
Fell than anything else. Born on this day in nineteen thirty,
Of course, he died at only fifty in nineteen eighty
the great Steve McQueen. I think my favorite of his
movies was him as Papillon. This is uh. This is
a scene where he's in solitary confinement. The warden wants
(07:02):
information from him, and he can't remember it. Who gave
you the food? Jesus one, I hadn't I had the name.
Honest to God, I must I must be light, I
(07:28):
must be light.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Editor.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So maybe get like I'm drying. I'm drying.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I can't remember. Just to God, I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I can't remember. It's not there, mister prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
No, his is nice. He's not there. He's dying. What
a movie. If you have not seen Papillon, go home
(08:13):
and watch it. Hey, it is cast. Let's open the
phone line in case somebody has something on their mind.
Seven one three, nine nine, nine one.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thousand, Michael Barry show.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
You're waiting after that?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Just saw ride? Just do that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We don't talk enough about Randy Backman. I mean, obviously
Bachman turned Overdrive vto some great music, but a founding
member of the guests who The story goes that Randy
Bachman was a kid when he saw Elvis on stage
(09:30):
with in the early days with his late fifties, and
Elvis had his acoustic guitar around his neck, and Randy
Bachman determined that he was going to be on stage.
He's going to learn to play. He flew, he's Canadian.
(09:51):
He flew to see Les Paul play. Buys a ticket
that won't let him in he's too young, so in instead,
he goes and meets Less Paul backstage, helps set up
the show and helps unload it at the end, gets
Less Paul to teach him a lick. I think to
how High the Moon? But I can't remember exactly anyway,
(10:12):
that song right there let It Ride supposedly comes from
and so on an interview with him, they were they
were driving, and he was a station wagon, a big
station wagon. They didn't have a tour bus at the time,
and they get pinned in by these eighteen wheelers, and
the eighteen wheelers could have let them out if they
wanted to, but they had on their license plate their
(10:38):
license plate holder said Friendly Manitoba because that's where they're from,
which is Manitoba, which is known as Friendly Manitoba. And
the eighteen wheelers would have gotten on the on the
horn with each other and said, hey, let's see how
friendly friendly Manitoba is. Let's all drop down to about
thirty five and ride for a while. And so it's
time for them to get some gas. And the lead guy,
(11:00):
who was clearly the one doing his most his best
to keep them from being able to get out from here,
and they need to get to a show. They're driving
to a show, you know, just chock full of this
station wagon with all their gear. So they pull off.
They go into the truck station and Randy Backman starts
yelling at the guy, and the guy you know, he's
(11:24):
it's getting more and more heated, and Randy Bachman is
worried that he's created a situation where he's gonna have
to punch this guy. But he's lost his mind. And
the dude said, hey, just let it ride, and Randy
Bakman said, as a Canadian, that's not a phrase that
we use. So I didn't know if he was insulting
me or what. So they go back out in the
(11:46):
station wagon and drive off, and he ponders what that
means and ends up, of course, with a huge hit
on his hand. But if you don't know the song
Taking of Business, which of course he wrote, brings the
Elvis story full circle because Taking Care of Business comes
(12:07):
out I think in seventy three, so for the last
several years of Elvis's life, in fact, he adopted the
motto taking care of business in a flash. And if
you've ever seen the motto, I've got a chain a
necklace with this that is the TCB inside a lightning bolt,
(12:29):
and that is designed to represent taking care of business
in a flash, getting it done sort of thing. So
that was Elvis loved that song, and in fact, I
saw an interview with Randy Bockman that Elvis recorded that song,
but it's never to my knowledge, it's never been released.
(12:50):
And the interview with Randy Bockman was years ago, so
it could have been released since then. And if it
is my friend, the private investigator extraordinary Paul Baker of
Spies Investigations, we'll track it down because he's the knower
of all things Elvis. I bow before his Elvis knowledge,
and I like to think I know a thing or two,
but I'm going to see if he will check and see.
I don't believe Elvis's version of Taking Care of Business
(13:12):
was ever released but he did record a version of
him and his last band as of his passing is
the TCB band, which stood for taking Care of Business.
When we were in seventh grade, Greig Hobbs, Ben Warneck,
Toby Schultz and I were all Elvis s freaks and
(13:34):
we went through a TCB phase, so we would greet
each other with TCB. We bought, you know, cheap trinket TCB,
you know, diamond encrusted gold, nugget necklaces of obviously all
of it fake, but we were everything TCB. TCB shaved
into our head by Ellis, a pretty good barber, and
(13:57):
made it look okay. But anyway, TC was a big
deal to us. And I saw an interview with Randy
Backman where he said that people would tell him, you know,
Elvis did the whole TCB taking care of Business because
of your song. He loved the song so much. And
he said he never knew if that was true or not,
but he didn't want to believe it because then it
(14:18):
would turn out not to be true and he'd be disappointed.
And he said, then I was watching a documentary and
Priscilla was on there and said that that was or
it might not have been. Priscilla might have been the
woman that was there with him when he died. I
forget her name, but Paul will remember. But they said,
(14:40):
you know, where did the takeing care of Business come from?
And he said he loved the song taking care of Business.
So here this whole thing came full circle. As a kid,
Randy Backman becomes an artist because he sees Elvis on
TV and wants to be like him. And then at
the end of Elvis's life, he's a fan of Randy
Backman and the song taking Care of Business and go
(15:02):
so far as to name his band and his you know,
his whole mantra in life around that. How cool is that? Huh? DJ,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, hey, Michael.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Thanks. I was lucky enough to be born in sixty
two and grew up listening to the Guess Who bto
Zz Top Trase Ombrace.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What a great album that was.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
But I had an older brother and older sister, so
I was listening to their music before my time, and
it was just a great time to be a kid.
Sometimes I wish I was ten years older to listening
a little bit more Dwayne Alman, but it was a
good time in music.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know what's crazy, DJ, I'm eight years younger than
you and that's the music I grew up to as well.
It's such a great time in a Erica The Music.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
History Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Over the weekend, a number of testlas were tortured yet
again in an effort allegedly being funded by George Soros.
You know what's amazing. You will see the comment made
that these people who are torching tesla's should be charged
(16:44):
with domestic terrorism, and so we immediately go, yeah, domestic
terrorism with them. Why are we saying that? Why do
we need to charge them with domestic terrorism?
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Stop and think about this. Why is that a chant?
Why is that something that people feel the need to state.
If a man sees another man in the middle of
the street, that man walks up to him, says, I
don't know you, but I'm about to kill you, pulls
(17:25):
a gun and shoots him. The other man dies on
the spot unprovoked attack. The man is now dead, turns
around and walks off. We wouldn't say, hey, we should
charge him with anything other than murder, right, because that's
(17:48):
what it is. So if you watched someone set a
car ablaze. Let's say a woman's mad at her man
because he's shacked up inside with another woman, so she
torches the car. It happens, or reverse the fact pattern.
(18:12):
No one would say we need to charge them with
domestic terrorism. So why do people need to say that
we should charge someone with domestic terrorism? Because it is
is one theory. This is the collapse of the American
criminal justice system, the fact that we have to try
(18:36):
to make federal charges, a federal case for what is
clearly a serious crime with serious consequences. You know, good
morning setting a car on fire? Was that you in there? No,
(18:58):
it wasn't me. You just fire up a new computer.
Sounded like porn. You surfing porn in there? Well, I
mean it just did what I what I imagine porn
sounds like, oh wedn say, good morning? Oh well, I
don't know what's going on in there? But why why
isn't burning a car? I mean, we don't want this
(19:19):
to happen, right, this this is a serious thing to happen,
So why is it happening? They're they're saying, hey, we're
going after them. They're announcing it, We're gonna have these
tesla protests because We have had a complete collapse in
this country, and too many people have decided, well, you
(19:41):
can't do anything about it anymore. Arrive on the scene
and shoot them. I'm that serious. Arrive on the scene,
throw the cuffs on them, throw them in the back
of the car, take them to jail, prosecute them in
(20:02):
the communities that actually care about law and order. Seek
the highest charges possible, which is why they're going for
the federal because then you do day for day. You
ain't getting that early. Send these people to prison, all
of them, raid their offices, Treat them like January sixth,
what they did to the people at January sixth. I mean,
(20:24):
rough them up, knock the doors down, show up at
their workplace, draw the guns so the kids can see it. Wives, children,
teeth gnashing, crying.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh yes, scare.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
The hell out of them, and follow through. I mean it.
The breakdown of law and order in this country has
happened for so long that it's been normalized. We don't
even think of it as perverse any longer. You shouldn't
need to step up the charges. These people should be
(20:57):
prosecuted for exactly what they did and spend no less
than ten years in prison period, end of story. We
have got to fix this country, and that means changing
the way things are done in such a manner that
bad people are prosecuted and the book is thrown at them,
(21:23):
no exceptions, bad people doing bad things. Now, you can't
do that. When you're in the state of Texas and
you're worried about getting thc out of the retail shops.
That is not what anybody is asking for. People are
asking for murderous thugs to be taken off the streets.
(21:45):
People are asking for, let's go back earlier in the
show Michael fool Webber, what happened to his neighbor? People
are asking that when Ryan Smith stabs in the commission
of a robbery, he's already out for crime. In the
commission of a robbery, stabs the canine multiple times. It's
shocking that this dog survived. He's arrested and Judge Josh
(22:10):
Haill this is part of the Soro's initiative. They put
the guy back out on the street again where he
murders his father. If he hadn't murdered his father, he
might have murdered our guest or our guest wife, or
any number of other people. This guy was in a
very very bad situation, like a rabbit dog, and he
(22:30):
was going to kill someone. He just happened to kill
his father, but he could have just killed somebody who
was coming out of the grocery store. You can't prosecute
every crime. You can't imprison every criminal. So you've got
to decide what are you going to use your prison
space on. Some guy that was carrying marijuana back from Colorado,
(22:55):
back from California. Some guy that's using marijuana because he
has chronic back pain or PTSD for war, You're gonna
go after him. You're gonna spend resources. You ever been
down to a court I encourage every one of you.
Make it a field trip. Go down. Just go down
(23:19):
to the courthouse. Need to go down in the morning,
early eight o'clock, will do nine o'clock. I don't know
what time it opens. I think eight. But go down,
go through the magnetometer, look around at the people there.
Go through and just walk the halls and look in
a couple of the courtrooms. That is the whole world.
(23:39):
You can't imagine. You only see these people out on
the streets. That is a whole world. You'll be shocked
how many law enforcement, how many staffers, how many lawyers.
It is a whole industry. And if you start, you
remember the days'll do that. What youre doing into court?
(24:01):
What are you doing at the courthouse? What's you doing
at the courthouse. I think it was a girl who
did that, and she had come down here from like Indiana.
And I don't remember what station she was on. Maybe
it was Mixed ninety six, I can't remember. But the
story I was told by somebody in the radio business
was that she had been brought down here for the
(24:22):
sole purpose of bringing that bet with her. And I
heard it. I mean I never heard it live, but
people would send it to me, and all I could
think was, damn, why didn't we think of that? Can
you imagine how good producer Kenny would be on what
you Do at the Courthouse? I mean, the most cringe
worthy questions and the most cringe worthy answers, and he
(24:42):
is fearless. I mean, Kenny is somewhere on the spectrum.
He doesn't know fear. He doesn't know he's supposed to
know fear. It's almost beautiful. I just worry that he'll
get stabbed or shot. But in any case, yeah, put
those Tesla people Away for life, the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Spending the time you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
See Skinner. It is my favorite pin And I would
argue the greatest American bandill but find you. You're welcome
to have your own favorite. I would not say the
guess Who are my favorite, man, but I would have
to say that there's no more rock song than this.
(25:32):
I mean, there are songs that might be as rock,
but if you're talking about a quintessentially rock thought this.
So in nineteen sixty four, the Who were Fourth Roger Daltrey,
(25:54):
Pete Townsend, Keith Moon, Thunderfingers, and I mean, what a
contribution The Who, right, the Marshall Stack, you got the synthesizers,
you've got rock operas. The Who are legendary, I mean
absolutely legendary. The following year, the Guess who is founded
(26:22):
a Canadian band, completely separate band. And I don't know
that everybody understands that, but a completely separate band. And
that's Randy Bockman's first band. He would go on to
found Backman, Turner, Overdrive, They had no time, these Eyes
and the aforementioned American woman. And I tell you all
(26:42):
that to tell you this. The Guess who is not
in the rock and roll Hall of Fame that how
are you going to have a rock and roll Hall
of Fame where you've got people Let's be honest, I'll
(27:03):
speak in euphemus were inducted for the sake of demographics
and not contribution. Now, to be clear, should Little Richard
be in there? Yes, Little Richard's influence is profound. Should
James Brown, Yes, James Brown's influence is profound. You've got
(27:27):
some folks in the rock and roll Hall of Fame
that I would argue La Sheik, Yeah, I would say, yes, Uh,
Lasik is interesting because that's kind of a cross between
pop and rock. But I would say because of now'll
influence alone, Yeah, because of his body of work, I'd
(27:47):
put Lashk in there. Yeah. But there are folks in
the rock and roll Hall of Fame that when you
see the name, you think to yourself, that's not even
rock and roll much less good, and a hall of
Fame should be the best of the best. I like
to do a Hall of Fame just to keep people out.
The whole purpose to keep people out. What Oscar Wilde say,
(28:08):
I wouldn't join any club that would have me. I
mean that'd be the fun. They pissed me off so
bad by not putting hat Junior in there, and I
began my one man campaign and I do happen to
have some very well placed friends at the Country Music
Hall of Fame. I'm not saying I was the sole reason,
but I know for a fact I was part of
I was part of the movement or part of the
(28:30):
reason they chosen. Did I get a call from boseephas no? No,
But that's all right. It's not about me, Ramon. We
just chugging along doing what we're doing, doing what we're doing.
How about the University of Houston cougars with another win.
Although I'll tell you what, that one got real scary
for a minute there. That one got very very scary.
(28:53):
That reached the point of discomfort, to be certain, Ramon,
should we go eat bad food today? My wife is
in India for ten days and what are we at Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
We're on day three and I am not doing well.
I have reached that stage in life, fellas. I hope
you all get there where you rely on your wife
(29:19):
or the stability of the home. I had to get
up this morning I had to feed George, who the
struggle is real. I had to get up feed George.
I had to get Crockett out of bed and make
sure he was out of bed before I left, because
there's no backup. I always go in, I rub his feet,
We talk about what we're doing, We talk about his day.
(29:39):
You know, what test does he have, what's going on,
what's he reading, what's he listening to? And that's our
little time. And by the way, everybody needs a foot
rub foot rubs are a good thing. And I'm not
talking out like in pulp fiction, you know where it's
just just you know, I've rubbed my kid's feet since
they were a little bitty that's walk in to wake,
come up and rub their feet. I'd like to think
(29:59):
when they're older that you know, they tell their wives, Hey,
could you just rub my feet? It's a nice thing.
My wife, I've rubbed her feet. She was a marathon runner,
so her fee would always hurt for years and years
and years. Anyway, So I had to feed George, and
I had to put George out and to make sure
she did her business, and then I had to get
Crockett up and make sure he was up and that's
(30:20):
not easy. Crockett and I went to the Rockets game
last night and had one heck of a good time.
The team didn't win. I'm always amazed. This is kind
of a season ticket holder, you know, super duper fan
kind of comment where you say, yeah, I enjoyed myself
at the Rockets last Come, oh they didn't win. You
think I give a damn? Do you honestly think I
(30:40):
give a damn? Would I like them to win?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Their second behind OKC right now, which is nice that
just meet more people are there. It's I don't ever forget.
Maybe this is why I have a healthy relationship with sports.
I don't ever forget. This is entertainment. This is guys
with a basketball with a ball, and the rules are
you got two hoops down here, and here's how you
(31:03):
can advance the ball, and here's how you defend the ball,
just like in any other sport. And it's no different
than if they put some more seats and put a
stage and somebody saying, or they put a ring in
somebody box. It's entertainment. And I got to tell you
it's easy to forget how much entertainment an NBA basketball
(31:24):
game is It is easy to forget how much I
enjoy hearing the squeak of the sneakers on the hardwoods.
It's it's a good sound, it's wholesome. I enjoyed. It
takes me back to the basketball gym at Orangefield that
didn't have much air conditioning, so they just opened the
big windows and keep the natural draft going. It was
(31:46):
a raggedy old place, but it's special memories, I mean
special place anyway. So I got to do all that.
I got to make my own tea, although Emily was
kind enough. My wife taught her how to make the
tea so that these first couple of days I wouldn't
have to do that. Guy's too much. I mean, I've
already done so much ramon before, you know, like the
US Army, before most people even get up. So that's
(32:07):
what we should do. We should go and we should
eat a big I'm going to eat a midday meal.
I'm on prednizone and it makes me hungry. My one
meal a day fell apart since I started this a
few days ago, and I don't like it. I like
this my one meal. I can't make it anymore. By
the way, I have not read the emails. I know
(32:27):
there are a bunch of people who asked I'm going
to pull them out of a hat because we're oversubscribed.
We had two seats left. A friend of mine who
makes very very delicious text macs put together a trip
and saved back two couples that could buy in. And
it's September twelfth through the fourteenth. It's the last show
the Eagles performed supposedly at the Sphere in Las Vegas,
(32:50):
and we're flying up on a G four. It's a
trip of a lifetime for a couple, or it could
be two individuals. I know that I have received some support.
I put it on Facebook. I committed that I would
say at one time on the air, and by noon
today I will put the names of those who have
requested to be on the trip in a bucket and
I will draw them out so I don't hurt anybody's feelings.
(33:12):
Because we got Connie and Billy, I got some good
friends on that. So if you have not submitted your name,
do so by noon today.
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