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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Lock and load. The Michael Berry Show
is on the air. You know, sometimes someone will say, hey,
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you need to point out the awful things that Lena
Hidalgo has done as county judge. And I just kind
of go, you don't listen to the show? I listen
when I can. For a... Years I have obsessed on
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this crazy woman. We have a vault that had to
expand space so that it could accommodate all the comedy
bits we have made ridiculing this woman. I think half
the committee chairman of the rodeo have emailed me or
texted me thanking me for pointing out what she did,
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acting like a petulant little brat and then threatening me
the rodeo on the arena floor. Or you should point
out how bad Sheila Jackson Lee is when she was alive.
And I think, well, that's kind of how I feel
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about Ken Paxton. The record of what James Tallarico has done,
which is very clear, trying to take away your guns,
fighting hard to make sure little children will be butchered.
Their entire reproductive system removed. That's irreversible. When they're too
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young to know how they're going to wear their hair
for life, when they're too young to get a tattoo,
buy cigarettes, buy drinks, vote, shoot a gun, serve in,
they're too young to drive. And yet he wants to
make sure. And I'm going to tell you, I'll just
say it. I sense, I don't know this, I sense
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there is something very, very sinister with the depth of
interest he has in the subject. I will say that
for today. I sense there is something very, very dark
about it. So there's Tallarico. He's got a clear record.
All the things he's done. But they're not presenting that
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to you. They're putting him in a truck with a
cowboy hat, and there's his papa. Here's me and papa
out front. I guarantee you he hates everything about his papa.
There's almost a comedy bit about white suburban kids who
grew up in middle America and go off to college
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and they're in their group discussion and their contribution to
their white guilt is how awful their parents are and
their grandparents. Barack Obama stoked that. by saying at Thanksgiving,
go home and lecture your grandparents on their racism. Oh,
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you mean while Mamaw is serving you the dressing that
she has slaved over and your favorite dish, your favorite
nanner pudding? that only Memaw can make? You mean while
you're eating that in her living room and she contributed
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$ 10 a week since the day you were born to
your college fund and it's helped pay for you to
go to college and you're to go home and lecture her?
That's pretty sick stuff, but it comes from a very
dark place. This is Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. This
is Cloward Piven and how you destroy a country from within.
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One generation, they said. One generation from destroying the country
if you can own the kids. There's Tallarico's record. Do
you have any idea what Ken Paxton's record is? Record.
Do you know he defeated Metta in court because of
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the sick and illegal things they were doing? to suck
your children into a very dark world, some of whom
we'll never get out of? Billions of dollars. Widely acclaimed
as the best attorney general in the country. That is
the lawyer for the people. And the best we've ever had,
by the way. Better than John Cornyn, better than Greg Abbott.
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There's no doubt in my mind. His record proves it.
The things he has done, the record he has accomplished,
going after, what's the one that did a podcast on him?
The pharmaceutical company that had people hooked on OxyContin. Went
after them, won billions of dollars, billions of dollars, millions
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of dollars for Texans when Google defied their policies and
the law against you. Has gone after big pharma. And
I'm going to tell you something. When you make enemies
against major corporations who are taking advantage of Texans, they
work very hard to keep you from getting in the U.S. Senate.
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And Talafrico will be a good little boy for them.
Make no mistake about that. One of the things Ken
Paxton has done, one of the things that is very
important to him is that the scammers you deal with
be Punished. That there be real consequences for scammers. You
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never hear anybody else talk about it. Last week, I
got an email, supposedly from AT & T. Looks just
like AT & T. The only good news is we
got that exact same email. So I forwarded it to
my controller and I forwarded it to my wife. And
my wife immediately spotted it and she said, don't anybody
open this. It's the same email we got last year.
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It was from a cell phone company. And our cell
phone was about to be cut off. And I swear
to you, I believed it. Here I am again, right?
They do this with impunity. And not just from Nigeria
or India, or the Philippines, which has become a hot
spot for that, or, I can't remember, Hungary. But they're
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doing it on American soil. Here is, and Ken Paxton,
is committed to and has already worked toward, this isn't
something somebody wrote for him, dealing with this. It's affecting
every single American family. The Associated Press had this story
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They use a variety of these cognitive and psychological manipulation techniques.
When we're thinking about these particular types of frauds, they
are so complex. They are not something that is easily identifiable.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Nearly every American says they've been targeted by scammers, according
to an AP Newark poll. An investigation with Frontline, based
on interviews with dozens of scam victims, cybersecurity experts and
law enforcement officials, showed that anti-scam efforts in the United
States have almost entirely failed victims. In some cases, victims
lose more money through additional scams while trying to recover
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their losses. Others can face higher tax bills if they
withdraw from pre-tax retirement accounts to pay scammers. According to
an analysis of available Federal Trade Commission data, nearly 50,000
Americans reported losing a total of $ 1. 3 billion to romance
scams in 2020.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Ken Paxton will work to end this nonsense. Allow me
to introduce myself. My name is Mr.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Michael Perry, genius.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I was delighted to see University of Houston enter the field,
the players entering behind the red slab, and my friend
Paul Walls sitting sideways playing. That was a treat to witness.
The highlight of the UH game, the best tackle to
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come out of it was not actually wearing a UH uniform,
but a UHPD uniform. I believe his name would be
Lance Johnson. And When an idiot jumped out on the
field and ran out to the middle, Lance Johnson executed
a form tackle that Mike Singletary would have been impressed with.
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I mean, it was J.J. Watt open field smash mouth
football tackle. I have asked to speak to him. In fact,
his Facebook page says he's a Harris County deputy. And so...
I called. Ed Gonzalez said, yep, you can absolutely talk
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to him. But he just left. He's actually now at
the University of Houston Police Department, which is a full-fledged
police department. By the way, Houston Chronicle, he's not a
security guard. If they'd known he was an officer, wearing
a badge and a gun, licensed peace officer in the
state of Texas, they wouldn't have said a word nice
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about him. They would have called it, you know, police
misconduct or whatever. So they didn't want you to know
he's a police officer. He is. He's a longtime police officer.
He went to Sterling High School. And I have offered,
I have put the word out to some folks to
get to him that I will represent him in his
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NIL deal. Because I can see, first of all, who
remembers Mattress Mac and Carrie Strug? Remember Carrie Strug lands
it on that sprained ankle and wins gold for America?
My law school classmate Paul Strug is her cousin. And
we all had questions. I mean, we all wanted to know.
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And she's just the sweetest, little shyest, apparently, little thing.
But Mac had her brought in on one of his
recliners into the big event. Mac is a showman. We
could have Officer Johnson maybe tackle high prices. And you
know what he could tackle? Back, back, back order slips, Ramon. Back, back,
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back orders. That'd be perfect. Right there on the showroom
floor at Gallery Furniture. Or, I was thinking my new
best friend, it was not my new best friend, that's
Greg Swindell, but my new friend, Bill Dance, we'd do
a spot with him for the Dancing Eel Tackle, and
so Bill Dance will say, I'm as happy as a
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rabbit and lettuce patch. That's unrelated, he just said that
and I loved it. And he'll say, when you need
really good tackle, and then there would be that, you
slip that footage in there, boom! And no, not that
kind of tackle. This kind of tackle. Dancing eel every time. Now,
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how good would that be? And I think Bill Dance,
I don't know if he still has Walmart behind him.
That's two NIL deals, and I ain't even started anything.
I mean, I could get an orthopedic surgeon because at
some point he's going to blow his knee and his shoulder.
I mean, we could make something work here. Anyway, they
don't want me to talk to him. I think they're
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missing a great opportunity. I spoke about UH, Texas A & M.
They had their minute to do their story, and they
used Lyle Lovett to tell the story. If you saw
the game, you saw it. And 1979 grad, they played
this song, Let's Work Together. And it was about community
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spirit and contributing. I thought it was a very, very
nice message, a great way, a great opportunity to use
the message, to not just say we're great, we're great,
we're great, but kind of what we reflect. And I
love honoring Lyle Lovett in that way, who, in my opinion,
is as good as it gets, as decent. He's up
there with R.C. Slocum for me. But when we talk
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about working together... When you talk about doing the right thing,
some of you will remember Misty Gay. Many of you,
if you ever came to the RCC, you remember Misty Gay.
Misty was our director of events, but she was so
much more than that. Beautiful woman. She always wore skin-tight
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blue jeans and tucked in custom boots with lots of
flowery stuff and all that sort of stuff. Perfect posture
and always in charge. We had a manager named Kim
Naquin who came in with her. Before that, it was
Lauren Thornton Cole. Same personality, strong personalities. It was all
women running that place, and that's how I would have it.
They're great at what they do. Well, Misty's– any of
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you who came to the RCC, you know Misty Gay.
She's a perfectionist, just like her husband, Jesse, who owned
and ran a residential renovation and construction company. Over the weekend,
about 6 o'clock in the early evening, so it's cooled
off a little, Jesse, who was a fitness buff, went
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out for an hour-long run, and he didn't make it home.
Misty called his phone, and a deputy picked up. And
he had passed. They think it's probably an aneurysm. They
don't know yet. But the crazy thing about that is
how fit and healthy he was. And 52 years old.
It's just not right. It's not fair. But I want
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to tell you something. When you talk about let's work together,
you talk about R.C. Slocum and doing the right thing.
This is an example. Jesse was married before to a
wonderful woman named Brooke Weir. And Brooke is now married
to Jason Weir. And they had twin boys together. Taylor
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John Gay, who was in the Army, he's at, well,
I don't think you're supposed to tell where they are.
He's in the Army, and his twin brother Jackson, who's
at University of Texas at San Antone right now. So
they're born October 4th, 2006. They'll be 20 years old shortly.
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Misty's best friend in the world, to help her through this,
is the mother of those boys, Jesse's ex-wife. If that
is not an example of what should be done, Jesse's
rule when he married Misty was, I keep my kids together,
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we will be good to my ex-wife, my kids will
see respect to their mother. That is the person, she's
over there today. I checked on Misty this morning. She said,
Brooke's here with me. Her husband's ex-wife, the mother of
the kids that Misty helped raise also. That's how it's
supposed to happen. So yes, this is a horrible story
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about a death. But what a tribute to him. This
is how you're supposed to do it. We should all
learn from him. Rest in peace, Jesse Jack Gage. It
sounds like this. The Michael Berry Show. That tone indicates
everything is ready for your call. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
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You know, I'm aware that not everybody's a rap fan,
and some people will hear a rap beat and think, oh,
that's the end of the world. But I'm going to
tell you this. When you got a guy that is rapping...
who was asked in a podcast two weeks ago, I'm
talking about Paul Wall, how come you never use the N-word?
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And he said, that word exists to wound and hurt.
It's a different word. It means different things to different people.
I don't need to use it, so I don't. Other
people can do what they want to do. How come
you don't cuss? This is a guy whose mother is
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in hospice and who honors his mother by the words
that he uses. I think there's something to be said
for that. But whatever somebody thinks of rap music, and
I'll be honest, some of it is misogynistic, pro-violence, anti-cop, anti-order, decency.
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There's no doubt about that. But there's also Christian rap.
My first concert I went to, rock concert of any sort,
real concert outside the church, was Petra. I loved Christian rock.
I grew up on Amy Grant when she couldn't decide
if she was going to be a Christian singer or
a mainstream singer. Striper, all of it. And I love it.
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I believe you connect with people where they are, and
that's not always where I am or you are. But
when a guy has been in the rap game and
has been married for 21 years to his wife, Crystal,
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if that doesn't mean something, when after 21 years of marriage,
two children together, and you are all over the Internet,
you're the hottest thing out there, And you're singing songs
about 21 years of marriage. It's only you and me.
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It's us here together. I don't care what you say.
If you're going to reform society, you're going to have
to have R.C. Slocum coach up some boys that frankly
would probably scare you if they were walking up to
your car at 10 o'clock at night and you didn't
know who they were. You're going to have to have
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him be the father they never had while wearing a
whistle around his neck and a shirt that says coach. Ramone,
they don't actually wear shirts that say coach. I know.
You don't have to tell me, okay? Texas City stingery.
State champs 97-99, which is interesting because you weren't there then.
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If you're going to solve.
The problems of society, it's not always going to be storybook. R.C.
Slocum is going to go in and pull some kids
out of what we used to call the ghetto or
Section 8. And Riverside that we grew up in, that's
what that was. That was public housing. And I didn't
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grow up my first few years knowing anybody other than
people that lived in Riverside. And we were so happy
to get out when I was eight years old and
move out to Mack Lewis. We couldn't wait. But it's
also going to be Misty and Jesse Gay and Brooke
Weir and Jason Weir and a couple that for whatever reason,
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and I don't know and I don't need to know,
don't stay married because that's not working, but do have
two kids together and say, we're going to go off
on our own. And then when they find people that
they're better suited for, This is not the storybook we planned.
But we're going to make it work for these kids.
And they've raised great young men. And we're going to
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vacation together. I don't expect everybody to do that. But
that's how you do things. That's bigger than anything else.
That's the school teacher who takes a real interest in
a kid and helps him become not a failing student,
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but a passing student, understand that, yeah, you can function
in society. I think of the mentors I had in
my life and how I would never be where I
am but for them. And I was great. I had
a nuclear family, a mom and a dad. I had
big brothers who helped raise me. I had teachers who
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told me I could be anything I wanted to be.
And they didn't say it like pie in the sky.
They said it like looking me dead in the eye.
If there wasn't a book that I had that I wanted,
they'd go get it for me because I was a
little Texas history nerd. And I'm good with that. Professors,
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law school professors, Don Brodsky, my first boss in the law.
And what a shame, I feel bad. What a shame
I have turned out to be for him because he
and his wife are very prominent Democrats and wonderful people.
But obviously we don't share the same politics, and that's okay.
But I just think we should be looking for things
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to applaud rather than looking for things to be down on.
I'm not trying to get you to become a Paul
Wall fan. I'm trying to tell you there's good things
being done wearing packaging you might not appreciate. that doesn't mean, Ramon,
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I won't get you a grill if you act right,
but it is to say that, you know, Chad has
all new teeth. Remember he busted out all his teeth
in a surfing accident? We could probably have diamonds encrusted
on there if you wanted to. That is to say
that there is beauty in places we don't maybe see it,
and there is commendable behavior in our neighborhoods, in our household,
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in our schools, in our churches, You know, it makes
the news when a cop does wrong. But what about
all the cops who do wonderful things? What about all
the firefighters who stay back at the scene after something
went wrong? and help look for something or get the
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cat out of the tree, the old kind of cliche,
but it's true. We print every printable picture. And if
you don't like them, we'll reprint them or refund your money,
no matter whose fault it is. The Michael Berry Show.
Because at Photomat, your photo matters. You know, I used
to like this song until it was played so loud
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that my tinnitus is ringing right now. so bad I
still can't hear myself think. So we went to the
UT football game with the boys this weekend. It was
Crockett's first game, not his first game at Darryl K. Royal,
but his first game as a student at the University
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of Texas. And he is... He didn't have to work
with his fraternity so he could come and be with
mom and dad and his brother. And so they both
chose to spend time with us instead of their fraternity,
which we thought was pretty nice. And it was, I
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think it was 294 degrees or something. It was really hot.
Hot as Hades. And one quick little point. We were
sitting literally... five or 10 feet from where Eli Manning fell.
And if you know the little controversy about Eli Manning
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being quote unquote tripped, there's a lot of different versions
of what's going on. I'll tell you what happened that
nobody wants to tell you. There was a young woman photographer,
an official photographer. I don't know if she worked for
the university or if she worked for one of the networks.
And she was in the tunnel, to the side of
the tunnel, and As the players were getting ready to
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come out, they shot smoke up or whatever that liquid nitrogen,
whatever it is, Uncle Jerry would know. And that's what
creates that awesome image when they come out of the
tunnel onto the field. It's great, right? Eli, I mean
not Eli, Arch Manning was the quarterback of the Longhorns,
was not the first person to drop. There was a
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player before him, but we were in the middle of
the smoke, so I couldn't see who it was, but
it was bam. It was a thud. The way that
drop occurred, that's not stumbling. That's not someone pulling you.
That is you're not even prepared, and you hit solid
on the ground. That player gets up, and I thought, man,
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how embarrassing. You're all psyched up, and you're running out
on the field, and you bust your ass. And about
a second later, because he couldn't see what was ahead
of him either, Arch Manning drops. I didn't know it
was Arch at the time. And then he goes out.
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And I said to my wife, without stopping looking, because
I wanted to see if anybody else, I said, there's
a rip in the carpet. And she said, no, that
guy grabbed him. I said, no, there's a rip in
the carpet. Eli is not going, I better not hear,
I mean, not Eli. Arch is not going down with
a guy kind of grabbing his arm. You... It wasn't
even an arm tackle. It was just kind of a
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touching on the arm to tell him you're great. And
even if he grabbed him, that wouldn't drop you the
way he fell immediately headfirst. I said, no, there's something
down there. There's a rip in the carpet. There's a
great separation. There's something. So a few seconds later, the
players are out. The smoke has cleared. And there is
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a woman who looks like she has just been through war.
She's still holding her camera, and the camera has the base,
the tripod with it. She's clearly official because she's got
a media pass around her, and her face is blood red.
My guess is she's half Asian, half white. She could
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be full Asian, or she could be mixed Mexican. I
don't know. She's not very tall. She's about 5'6, 5'7.
And maybe it was her first game. Maybe she leaned forward.
I'm not trying to put blame on anybody. Everybody's fine.
I'm just telling you what happened. There is the story
that somebody tripped Arch, and that is not true. What
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happened was she went down for whatever reason. When they
got her up, to their credit, the event staff surrounded her.
She wanted to go back to work. She was clearly
in shock. Those guys are big, right? And they're falling
on top of her. And they brought her, and they
took a doctor with her, and they went out to
make sure she was fine. I only say that because
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it's irritating me that sports sites that weren't there are
reporting something that is not true. But boy, would that
have been awkward if Arch got hurt. But here was
the point of my story. Didn't mean to go on now.
So it's already hot as Hades, which is fine. I'm old.
I got it. The noise. Now, I know, I fully
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understand how I sound. saying this, okay, I do, and
you're welcome to say, okay, Pawpaw, okay, Boomer, and that's
perfectly fine. I sent an email to Elie Poroseff, Dr. Elie,
that owns Memorial Hearing, and I said, I'm not joking.
How much would it cost to open some more clinics
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in other markets? I want to invest in, if not own,
a hearing clinic. I'm not joking. I'm dead serious. Reed
Ryan has hearing aids, and he's had hearing aids from
a young age. You don't know it because they're the
best you can get. It's what Memorial Hearing does. They're
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the best you can get. You can't see them unless
you know what you're looking for. I've had hearing loss
since I was a kid, and I've had hearing loss
ever since, and I'm very protective of my hearing. So
I actually wear, laugh if you want, if I don't
have my professional hearing aids with me, my hearing protection
with me, I moisten toilet paper and fill my ear.
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It's worth it. I don't care what anybody thinks. It
fits better than anything else. It works. Anyway, they played
that song and everything else. And then that damnable cannon.
And we ended up near that damn cannon, which they
fire at every kickoff, which is after every score, at
every score, at every field goal, at the end of
every quarter. So they must have fired the cannon. It
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felt like approximately 912 times. My tinnitus was ringing. So
I saw some people there and I said, oh, man, I.
My head is ringing from that game. And, you know,
when we were little, getting your bell rung in football,
all that was fine. We now know, well, it's a
little not so fine, right? It might be CTE. You know,
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you see, I don't know if you've seen Brett Favre lately.
He's not in a good way. But I'm just going
to just posit this right now. I don't want to
ruin your game day experience so I won't be inside
the stadium. But it strikes me. Having lost a lot
of my hearing and making my living with hearing and
watching Rush almost lose his career until he got his
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cochlear implants. So go to memorialhearing.com. Go to Dr. Ellie
and her team. Get a baseline of your hearing so
you can see if you've lost any. Cover your ears.
Protect your ears. They are the same way you would
your eyes, your heart, your skin. I see people... slathering
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lotion on their arms while they're ruining their hearing. That's
the one you ought to be protecting. Ramone, good show today.
I don't know what you did, but good show. R.C. Slocum,
Life Lessons, Paul Wall, Misty Gay, Jesse Jack Gay, rest
in peace. Yeah, I feel pretty good about it, to
be honest with you.
It's that time. Lock and load. The Michael Berry Show
is on the air. You know, sometimes someone will say, hey,
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you need to point out the awful things that Lena
Hidalgo has done as county judge. And I just kind
of go, you don't listen to the show? I listen
when I can. For a... Years I have obsessed on
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this crazy woman. We have a vault that had to
expand space so that it could accommodate all the comedy
bits we have made ridiculing this woman. I think half
the committee chairman of the rodeo have emailed me or
texted me thanking me for pointing out what she did,
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acting like a petulant little brat and then threatening me
the rodeo on the arena floor. Or you should point
out how bad Sheila Jackson Lee is when she was alive.
And I think, well, that's kind of how I feel
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about Ken Paxton. The record of what James Tallarico has done,
which is very clear, trying to take away your guns,
fighting hard to make sure little children will be butchered.
Their entire reproductive system removed. That's irreversible. When they're too
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young to know how they're going to wear their hair
for life, when they're too young to get a tattoo,
buy cigarettes, buy drinks, vote, shoot a gun, serve in,
they're too young to drive. And yet he wants to
make sure. And I'm going to tell you, I'll just
say it. I sense, I don't know this, I sense
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there is something very, very sinister with the depth of
interest he has in the subject. I will say that
for today. I sense there is something very, very dark
about it. So there's Tallarico. He's got a clear record.
All the things he's done. But they're not presenting that
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to you. They're putting him in a truck with a
cowboy hat, and there's his papa. Here's me and papa
out front. I guarantee you he hates everything about his papa.
There's almost a comedy bit about white suburban kids who
grew up in middle America and go off to college
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and they're in their group discussion and their contribution to
their white guilt is how awful their parents are and
their grandparents. Barack Obama stoked that. by saying at Thanksgiving,
go home and lecture your grandparents on their racism. Oh,
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you mean while Mamaw is serving you the dressing that
she has slaved over and your favorite dish, your favorite
nanner pudding? that only Memaw can make? You mean while
you're eating that in her living room and she contributed
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$ 10 a week since the day you were born to
your college fund and it's helped pay for you to
go to college and you're to go home and lecture her?
That's pretty sick stuff, but it comes from a very
dark place. This is Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. This
is Cloward Piven and how you destroy a country from within.
(04:27):
One generation, they said. One generation from destroying the country
if you can own the kids. There's Tallarico's record. Do
you have any idea what Ken Paxton's record is? Record.
Do you know he defeated Metta in court because of
(04:48):
the sick and illegal things they were doing? to suck
your children into a very dark world, some of whom
we'll never get out of? Billions of dollars. Widely acclaimed
as the best attorney general in the country. That is
the lawyer for the people. And the best we've ever had,
by the way. Better than John Cornyn, better than Greg Abbott.
(05:12):
There's no doubt in my mind. His record proves it.
The things he has done, the record he has accomplished,
going after, what's the one that did a podcast on him?
The pharmaceutical company that had people hooked on OxyContin. Went
after them, won billions of dollars, billions of dollars, millions
(05:36):
of dollars for Texans when Google defied their policies and
the law against you. Has gone after big pharma. And
I'm going to tell you something. When you make enemies
against major corporations who are taking advantage of Texans, they
work very hard to keep you from getting in the U.S. Senate.
(06:00):
And Talafrico will be a good little boy for them.
Make no mistake about that. One of the things Ken
Paxton has done, one of the things that is very
important to him is that the scammers you deal with
be Punished. That there be real consequences for scammers. You
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never hear anybody else talk about it. Last week, I
got an email, supposedly from AT & T. Looks just
like AT & T. The only good news is we
got that exact same email. So I forwarded it to
my controller and I forwarded it to my wife. And
my wife immediately spotted it and she said, don't anybody
open this. It's the same email we got last year.
(06:47):
It was from a cell phone company. And our cell
phone was about to be cut off. And I swear
to you, I believed it. Here I am again, right?
They do this with impunity. And not just from Nigeria
or India, or the Philippines, which has become a hot
spot for that, or, I can't remember, Hungary. But they're
(07:10):
doing it on American soil. Here is, and Ken Paxton,
is committed to and has already worked toward, this isn't
something somebody wrote for him, dealing with this. It's affecting
every single American family. The Associated Press had this story
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They use a variety of these cognitive and psychological manipulation techniques.
When we're thinking about these particular types of frauds, they
are so complex. They are not something that is easily identifiable.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Nearly every American says they've been targeted by scammers, according
to an AP Newark poll. An investigation with Frontline, based
on interviews with dozens of scam victims, cybersecurity experts and
law enforcement officials, showed that anti-scam efforts in the United
States have almost entirely failed victims. In some cases, victims
lose more money through additional scams while trying to recover
(08:07):
their losses. Others can face higher tax bills if they
withdraw from pre-tax retirement accounts to pay scammers. According to
an analysis of available Federal Trade Commission data, nearly 50,000
Americans reported losing a total of $ 1. 3 billion to romance
scams in 2020.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Ken Paxton will work to end this nonsense. Allow me
to introduce myself. My name is Mr.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Michael Perry, genius.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I was delighted to see University of Houston enter the field,
the players entering behind the red slab, and my friend
Paul Walls sitting sideways playing. That was a treat to witness.
The highlight of the UH game, the best tackle to
(09:00):
come out of it was not actually wearing a UH uniform,
but a UHPD uniform. I believe his name would be
Lance Johnson. And When an idiot jumped out on the
field and ran out to the middle, Lance Johnson executed
a form tackle that Mike Singletary would have been impressed with.
(09:24):
I mean, it was J.J. Watt open field smash mouth
football tackle. I have asked to speak to him. In fact,
his Facebook page says he's a Harris County deputy. And so...
I called. Ed Gonzalez said, yep, you can absolutely talk
(09:46):
to him. But he just left. He's actually now at
the University of Houston Police Department, which is a full-fledged
police department. By the way, Houston Chronicle, he's not a
security guard. If they'd known he was an officer, wearing
a badge and a gun, licensed peace officer in the
state of Texas, they wouldn't have said a word nice
(10:06):
about him. They would have called it, you know, police
misconduct or whatever. So they didn't want you to know
he's a police officer. He is. He's a longtime police officer.
He went to Sterling High School. And I have offered,
I have put the word out to some folks to
get to him that I will represent him in his
(10:26):
NIL deal. Because I can see, first of all, who
remembers Mattress Mac and Carrie Strug? Remember Carrie Strug lands
it on that sprained ankle and wins gold for America?
My law school classmate Paul Strug is her cousin. And
we all had questions. I mean, we all wanted to know.
(10:49):
And she's just the sweetest, little shyest, apparently, little thing.
But Mac had her brought in on one of his
recliners into the big event. Mac is a showman. We
could have Officer Johnson maybe tackle high prices. And you
know what he could tackle? Back, back, back order slips, Ramon. Back, back,
(11:10):
back orders. That'd be perfect. Right there on the showroom
floor at Gallery Furniture. Or, I was thinking my new
best friend, it was not my new best friend, that's
Greg Swindell, but my new friend, Bill Dance, we'd do
a spot with him for the Dancing Eel Tackle, and
so Bill Dance will say, I'm as happy as a
(11:32):
rabbit and lettuce patch. That's unrelated, he just said that
and I loved it. And he'll say, when you need
really good tackle, and then there would be that, you
slip that footage in there, boom! And no, not that
kind of tackle. This kind of tackle. Dancing eel every time. Now,
(11:53):
how good would that be? And I think Bill Dance,
I don't know if he still has Walmart behind him.
That's two NIL deals, and I ain't even started anything.
I mean, I could get an orthopedic surgeon because at
some point he's going to blow his knee and his shoulder.
I mean, we could make something work here. Anyway, they
don't want me to talk to him. I think they're
(12:15):
missing a great opportunity. I spoke about UH, Texas A & M.
They had their minute to do their story, and they
used Lyle Lovett to tell the story. If you saw
the game, you saw it. And 1979 grad, they played
this song, Let's Work Together. And it was about community
(12:39):
spirit and contributing. I thought it was a very, very
nice message, a great way, a great opportunity to use
the message, to not just say we're great, we're great,
we're great, but kind of what we reflect. And I
love honoring Lyle Lovett in that way, who, in my opinion,
is as good as it gets, as decent. He's up
there with R.C. Slocum for me. But when we talk
(13:01):
about working together... When you talk about doing the right thing,
some of you will remember Misty Gay. Many of you,
if you ever came to the RCC, you remember Misty Gay.
Misty was our director of events, but she was so
much more than that. Beautiful woman. She always wore skin-tight
(13:26):
blue jeans and tucked in custom boots with lots of
flowery stuff and all that sort of stuff. Perfect posture
and always in charge. We had a manager named Kim
Naquin who came in with her. Before that, it was
Lauren Thornton Cole. Same personality, strong personalities. It was all
women running that place, and that's how I would have it.
They're great at what they do. Well, Misty's– any of
(13:51):
you who came to the RCC, you know Misty Gay.
She's a perfectionist, just like her husband, Jesse, who owned
and ran a residential renovation and construction company. Over the weekend,
about 6 o'clock in the early evening, so it's cooled
off a little, Jesse, who was a fitness buff, went
(14:12):
out for an hour-long run, and he didn't make it home.
Misty called his phone, and a deputy picked up. And
he had passed. They think it's probably an aneurysm. They
don't know yet. But the crazy thing about that is
how fit and healthy he was. And 52 years old.
It's just not right. It's not fair. But I want
(14:35):
to tell you something. When you talk about let's work together,
you talk about R.C. Slocum and doing the right thing.
This is an example. Jesse was married before to a
wonderful woman named Brooke Weir. And Brooke is now married
to Jason Weir. And they had twin boys together. Taylor
(14:55):
John Gay, who was in the Army, he's at, well,
I don't think you're supposed to tell where they are.
He's in the Army, and his twin brother Jackson, who's
at University of Texas at San Antone right now. So
they're born October 4th, 2006. They'll be 20 years old shortly.
(15:16):
Misty's best friend in the world, to help her through this,
is the mother of those boys, Jesse's ex-wife. If that
is not an example of what should be done, Jesse's
rule when he married Misty was, I keep my kids together,
(15:41):
we will be good to my ex-wife, my kids will
see respect to their mother. That is the person, she's
over there today. I checked on Misty this morning. She said,
Brooke's here with me. Her husband's ex-wife, the mother of
the kids that Misty helped raise also. That's how it's
supposed to happen. So yes, this is a horrible story
(16:03):
about a death. But what a tribute to him. This
is how you're supposed to do it. We should all
learn from him. Rest in peace, Jesse Jack Gage. It
sounds like this. The Michael Berry Show. That tone indicates
everything is ready for your call. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
(16:24):
You know, I'm aware that not everybody's a rap fan,
and some people will hear a rap beat and think, oh,
that's the end of the world. But I'm going to
tell you this. When you got a guy that is rapping...
who was asked in a podcast two weeks ago, I'm
talking about Paul Wall, how come you never use the N-word?
(16:50):
And he said, that word exists to wound and hurt.
It's a different word. It means different things to different people.
I don't need to use it, so I don't. Other
people can do what they want to do. How come
you don't cuss? This is a guy whose mother is
(17:12):
in hospice and who honors his mother by the words
that he uses. I think there's something to be said
for that. But whatever somebody thinks of rap music, and
I'll be honest, some of it is misogynistic, pro-violence, anti-cop, anti-order, decency.
(17:36):
There's no doubt about that. But there's also Christian rap.
My first concert I went to, rock concert of any sort,
real concert outside the church, was Petra. I loved Christian rock.
I grew up on Amy Grant when she couldn't decide
if she was going to be a Christian singer or
a mainstream singer. Striper, all of it. And I love it.
(18:02):
I believe you connect with people where they are, and
that's not always where I am or you are. But
when a guy has been in the rap game and
has been married for 21 years to his wife, Crystal,
(18:23):
if that doesn't mean something, when after 21 years of marriage,
two children together, and you are all over the Internet,
you're the hottest thing out there, And you're singing songs
about 21 years of marriage. It's only you and me.
(18:49):
It's us here together. I don't care what you say.
If you're going to reform society, you're going to have
to have R.C. Slocum coach up some boys that frankly
would probably scare you if they were walking up to
your car at 10 o'clock at night and you didn't
know who they were. You're going to have to have
(19:11):
him be the father they never had while wearing a
whistle around his neck and a shirt that says coach. Ramone,
they don't actually wear shirts that say coach. I know.
You don't have to tell me, okay? Texas City stingery.
State champs 97-99, which is interesting because you weren't there then.
(19:35):
If you're going to solve.
The problems of society, it's not always going to be storybook. R.C.
Slocum is going to go in and pull some kids
out of what we used to call the ghetto or
Section 8. And Riverside that we grew up in, that's
what that was. That was public housing. And I didn't
(19:59):
grow up my first few years knowing anybody other than
people that lived in Riverside. And we were so happy
to get out when I was eight years old and
move out to Mack Lewis. We couldn't wait. But it's
also going to be Misty and Jesse Gay and Brooke
Weir and Jason Weir and a couple that for whatever reason,
(20:23):
and I don't know and I don't need to know,
don't stay married because that's not working, but do have
two kids together and say, we're going to go off
on our own. And then when they find people that
they're better suited for, This is not the storybook we planned.
But we're going to make it work for these kids.
And they've raised great young men. And we're going to
(20:46):
vacation together. I don't expect everybody to do that. But
that's how you do things. That's bigger than anything else.
That's the school teacher who takes a real interest in
a kid and helps him become not a failing student,
(21:08):
but a passing student, understand that, yeah, you can function
in society. I think of the mentors I had in
my life and how I would never be where I
am but for them. And I was great. I had
a nuclear family, a mom and a dad. I had
big brothers who helped raise me. I had teachers who
(21:28):
told me I could be anything I wanted to be.
And they didn't say it like pie in the sky.
They said it like looking me dead in the eye.
If there wasn't a book that I had that I wanted,
they'd go get it for me because I was a
little Texas history nerd. And I'm good with that. Professors,
(21:50):
law school professors, Don Brodsky, my first boss in the law.
And what a shame, I feel bad. What a shame
I have turned out to be for him because he
and his wife are very prominent Democrats and wonderful people.
But obviously we don't share the same politics, and that's okay.
But I just think we should be looking for things
(22:14):
to applaud rather than looking for things to be down on.
I'm not trying to get you to become a Paul
Wall fan. I'm trying to tell you there's good things
being done wearing packaging you might not appreciate. that doesn't mean, Ramon,
(22:37):
I won't get you a grill if you act right,
but it is to say that, you know, Chad has
all new teeth. Remember he busted out all his teeth
in a surfing accident? We could probably have diamonds encrusted
on there if you wanted to. That is to say
that there is beauty in places we don't maybe see it,
and there is commendable behavior in our neighborhoods, in our household,
(23:02):
in our schools, in our churches, You know, it makes
the news when a cop does wrong. But what about
all the cops who do wonderful things? What about all
the firefighters who stay back at the scene after something
went wrong? and help look for something or get the
(23:23):
cat out of the tree, the old kind of cliche,
but it's true. We print every printable picture. And if
you don't like them, we'll reprint them or refund your money,
no matter whose fault it is. The Michael Berry Show.
Because at Photomat, your photo matters. You know, I used
to like this song until it was played so loud
(23:45):
that my tinnitus is ringing right now. so bad I
still can't hear myself think. So we went to the
UT football game with the boys this weekend. It was
Crockett's first game, not his first game at Darryl K. Royal,
but his first game as a student at the University
(24:09):
of Texas. And he is... He didn't have to work
with his fraternity so he could come and be with
mom and dad and his brother. And so they both
chose to spend time with us instead of their fraternity,
which we thought was pretty nice. And it was, I
(24:31):
think it was 294 degrees or something. It was really hot.
Hot as Hades. And one quick little point. We were
sitting literally... five or 10 feet from where Eli Manning fell.
And if you know the little controversy about Eli Manning
(24:52):
being quote unquote tripped, there's a lot of different versions
of what's going on. I'll tell you what happened that
nobody wants to tell you. There was a young woman photographer,
an official photographer. I don't know if she worked for
the university or if she worked for one of the networks.
And she was in the tunnel, to the side of
the tunnel, and As the players were getting ready to
(25:16):
come out, they shot smoke up or whatever that liquid nitrogen,
whatever it is, Uncle Jerry would know. And that's what
creates that awesome image when they come out of the
tunnel onto the field. It's great, right? Eli, I mean
not Eli, Arch Manning was the quarterback of the Longhorns,
was not the first person to drop. There was a
(25:38):
player before him, but we were in the middle of
the smoke, so I couldn't see who it was, but
it was bam. It was a thud. The way that
drop occurred, that's not stumbling. That's not someone pulling you.
That is you're not even prepared, and you hit solid
on the ground. That player gets up, and I thought, man,
(26:02):
how embarrassing. You're all psyched up, and you're running out
on the field, and you bust your ass. And about
a second later, because he couldn't see what was ahead
of him either, Arch Manning drops. I didn't know it
was Arch at the time. And then he goes out.
(26:23):
And I said to my wife, without stopping looking, because
I wanted to see if anybody else, I said, there's
a rip in the carpet. And she said, no, that
guy grabbed him. I said, no, there's a rip in
the carpet. Eli is not going, I better not hear,
I mean, not Eli. Arch is not going down with
a guy kind of grabbing his arm. You... It wasn't
even an arm tackle. It was just kind of a
(26:44):
touching on the arm to tell him you're great. And
even if he grabbed him, that wouldn't drop you the
way he fell immediately headfirst. I said, no, there's something
down there. There's a rip in the carpet. There's a
great separation. There's something. So a few seconds later, the
players are out. The smoke has cleared. And there is
(27:06):
a woman who looks like she has just been through war.
She's still holding her camera, and the camera has the base,
the tripod with it. She's clearly official because she's got
a media pass around her, and her face is blood red.
My guess is she's half Asian, half white. She could
(27:29):
be full Asian, or she could be mixed Mexican. I
don't know. She's not very tall. She's about 5'6, 5'7.
And maybe it was her first game. Maybe she leaned forward.
I'm not trying to put blame on anybody. Everybody's fine.
I'm just telling you what happened. There is the story
that somebody tripped Arch, and that is not true. What
(27:52):
happened was she went down for whatever reason. When they
got her up, to their credit, the event staff surrounded her.
She wanted to go back to work. She was clearly
in shock. Those guys are big, right? And they're falling
on top of her. And they brought her, and they
took a doctor with her, and they went out to
make sure she was fine. I only say that because
(28:13):
it's irritating me that sports sites that weren't there are
reporting something that is not true. But boy, would that
have been awkward if Arch got hurt. But here was
the point of my story. Didn't mean to go on now.
So it's already hot as Hades, which is fine. I'm old.
I got it. The noise. Now, I know, I fully
(28:34):
understand how I sound. saying this, okay, I do, and
you're welcome to say, okay, Pawpaw, okay, Boomer, and that's
perfectly fine. I sent an email to Elie Poroseff, Dr. Elie,
that owns Memorial Hearing, and I said, I'm not joking.
How much would it cost to open some more clinics
(28:57):
in other markets? I want to invest in, if not own,
a hearing clinic. I'm not joking. I'm dead serious. Reed
Ryan has hearing aids, and he's had hearing aids from
a young age. You don't know it because they're the
best you can get. It's what Memorial Hearing does. They're
(29:18):
the best you can get. You can't see them unless
you know what you're looking for. I've had hearing loss
since I was a kid, and I've had hearing loss
ever since, and I'm very protective of my hearing. So
I actually wear, laugh if you want, if I don't
have my professional hearing aids with me, my hearing protection
with me, I moisten toilet paper and fill my ear.
(29:40):
It's worth it. I don't care what anybody thinks. It
fits better than anything else. It works. Anyway, they played
that song and everything else. And then that damnable cannon.
And we ended up near that damn cannon, which they
fire at every kickoff, which is after every score, at
every score, at every field goal, at the end of
every quarter. So they must have fired the cannon. It
(30:04):
felt like approximately 912 times. My tinnitus was ringing. So
I saw some people there and I said, oh, man, I.
My head is ringing from that game. And, you know,
when we were little, getting your bell rung in football,
all that was fine. We now know, well, it's a
little not so fine, right? It might be CTE. You know,
(30:24):
you see, I don't know if you've seen Brett Favre lately.
He's not in a good way. But I'm just going
to just posit this right now. I don't want to
ruin your game day experience so I won't be inside
the stadium. But it strikes me. Having lost a lot
of my hearing and making my living with hearing and
watching Rush almost lose his career until he got his
(30:47):
cochlear implants. So go to memorialhearing.com. Go to Dr. Ellie
and her team. Get a baseline of your hearing so
you can see if you've lost any. Cover your ears.
Protect your ears. They are the same way you would
your eyes, your heart, your skin. I see people... slathering
(31:09):
lotion on their arms while they're ruining their hearing. That's
the one you ought to be protecting. Ramone, good show today.
I don't know what you did, but good show. R.C. Slocum,
Life Lessons, Paul Wall, Misty Gay, Jesse Jack Gay, rest
in peace. Yeah, I feel pretty good about it, to
be honest with you.
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