July 10, 2026 • 32 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Dairy Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hello, Bay, we got a full tank of gas, half
a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hit it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's where we go, riding into turn a waften in
a wolf.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ever living thing moves within each of its last.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sorry, folk parks closed, the moves out front track.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hold you old for Jesus and make loud the Berry show.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
The bag.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
For some reason or another, you signed a little call
out radio.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
To the phone lines.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
We go seven one thousand. Let's start with James Europe Jeeves.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Hey, Michael, I hope all is well.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I'm the mariner that works in California. I want to
let you know spreading good word. The guys do have
to get up earlier in the morning at work though,
because I'm a mariner. Like I said, look, I send
you an email. Yes, sir, I sent you an email
earlier this week, and I told you I was going
to call. I just I want to point out something
that a lot of people are complaining about that I'm missing.
I walk out my front door every day. I see merchants,
(01:47):
full parking lots, car dealerships selling cars. Stores are full.
Rarely now on a Friday and Saturday night is there
an empty restaurant anywhere. But we're being told by Democrats,
and they're that Americans are broke, Americans can't afford to
do anything. And I know steak dinners costs a lot
more at a stakehouse than they do cooking at home.
(02:09):
So I think a lot of people need to realize this,
that they're being lied to as usual by the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Right, I remember your email now, thanks for the call.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I think.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
What happens is.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
It would surprise people to know how little of what
you're fed from the media, how little of it is organic,
and how almost all of it is part of a
plan that very smart people working for very rich and
powerful people actually create themes and then they shoehorn every story.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Into that theme.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
And one of them is that Americans don't have any money.
Things cost too much, Americans don't have any money, Americans
are struggling, Americans are uncertain, they're uneasy, they're unhappy.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That is what you create.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
As a mindset going into an election to get people
to vote against whoever is in power, And a lot
of people will come to that conclusion without realizing that
they were actually guarded in that direction. They are guided
in that direction, and they never they think they came
(03:37):
to that conclusion themselves. The everything costs too much mindset.
That one is very pervasive now and very popular. And
the way it because what you want to do is
you want to appeal to an emotion a sentiment that
(03:59):
already exist, because your audience is more receptive to it.
Everyone believes that they should own more things and pay
less for it. And so there is this desire to
own a lot of things, have a lot of things,
have experiences constantly, but they shouldn't cost very much. And
(04:24):
and so you know, you hear this, You know it
shouldn't cost this much to do this, and it shouldn't
cost this much to do this. And my parents' generation,
but nobody ever stops to think. And when we were kids,
we didn't eat out. My parents didn't go out to dinner. Ever,
when we did go out to dinner, it was a really, really,
(04:48):
really big deal. And when we went out, we didn't
you didn't order dessert. No, we can go home and
eat something. You didn't order appetizers. That's fancy people.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You don't do that you. You didn't. You didn't order the
way we do now. You didn't. You didn't eat out
all the time. You didn't. We didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Our our idea of a vacation was we loaded up
the station wagon and drove to Houston, and we stayed
in the little Holiday Inn or whatever the little hotel was,
and we stole the towels, and we couldn't wait to
jump in the little cocktail pool right in front. You know,
you drive up in the motor court and you know,
we're begging my mom to go get in the pool
(05:30):
before my dad's even checked us in. And we would
get up Saturday morning, drive to Houston, go straight to
Astro World, spend the day at Astra World, go to
the Astros game, stay the night, and get up Sunday
and come home.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You didn't, you limited the number of room.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
People live large now, And what's amazing to me is
that as they're living large, they're complaining about how bad
things are in America, but they're spending more money than
their parents' grandparents ever did. And they're spending more money
(06:10):
themselves today than they themselves did not so long ago.
Because they do so many things, They go to so
many places. They have so many experiences, they have so
many subscriptions. They buy cars, they upsize their house, they renovate,
they do which is great. I think that's wonderful and
(06:33):
enjoy it. But when they're told that things cost too much,
they're only too happy to repeat that line.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Was it Patrick who was a pe?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I had a pee in my head As the next caller, Pete, yes, Pete, Pete,
You're only Michael Berry show go.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Ahead, Hey Michael, Hey, I want to say my career
took a different turn. I started out as a young
engineer and I kind of got recruited by DoD because
the skill that I had, and I worked for the
Trident program for twenty years as a civilian. Started off
(07:12):
in shipyard, getting the boats underway, go putting them through there.
You know, they're what they call the waffat, which is there.
You know, they're diving, they're checking of their weapons and
all that stuff. And then I got put at the
King's Day which is the sub base on the East coast,
and I worked for twenty years with these guys, and
(07:34):
I was envious to them. I worked with the smartest
of the smartest because top tens are saying go to nukes.
And I got to say the guys that I worked with,
the guys that I still.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Keep up with.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I mean, these guys are making large runey and I
was fortunate enough to be able to be with them
as a civilian. But still, you know, on the boats,
riding the boats, doing what I had to do just
as a civilian, and keeping up with these guys training them.
(08:11):
And like I say, I was very envious of a
lot of the guys I worked with, whether it was
a Heat three or all of the junior officers. It's
a great and needs a great programs.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The King of Teams.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Continues on The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
It is over line Friday, seven nine one thousand. Let's
start with Melanie. You are up, sweetheart, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Michael, good morning. I just want to talk to you
about you know, you talked earlier this week about cursive
writing and stuff like that, and I think it's important
that the kids learn how to not only write, but
recursive writing for their for their history. And I'm not
talking about the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights.
I'm talking about their family history. And I'll get an example.
(09:01):
My father in law passed away in January, and as
we're going through as things, I found journals written by
his mother in cursive writing every time she traveled, So
when she'd go to California or she'd go to Oregon
or Washington to see family and friends, she wrote every
day on the road trip on what they did that day,
(09:23):
what they saw that day, and next c And I
think it's important to learn that skill so they could
learn their history.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Yeah, you know, Melanie, I really don't know what happened
on this whole cursive thing. Somewhere around ten twelve years ago,
I started hearing from people, mostly women, talking about kids
not knowing cursive, and it was the first I had
heard of it. And so I come home that day
(09:54):
and we talked about it at dinner as a family,
and I mentioned it on the air, and I started
hearing and somewhere along the way, and I don't know
when this happened. I graduated high school in eighty nine
and we didn't print anything.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Everything was cursive.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
That was I just assumed cursive was how everybody wrote
all the time. And somewhere between graduating high school and
about twenty ten, something changed in the schools and for
whatever reason, they stopped teaching that. I don't I guess
they replaced it with you know, if you're a boy,
you want to be a girl.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I just I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I I don't know what the logic was, how it
passed without me knowing it. It was just all of
a sudden, it was everywhere that this was an issue,
and it just crazy. It is an issue. I'm not
saying it's not, but it just really surprised me. Melanie,
how old are you?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I am fifty two?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Okay, so I'm fifty five and in my high school class,
at my school and surrounding schools, Melanie. I don't know
many Melanies that are, say, more than ten years above me,
And I don't know many, if any Melaniees that are
ten years or more below me. But it's one of
(11:10):
those names that for a little sliver of time that
you know. So I was born in seventies, so somewhere
around sixty nine to seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Three or so.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Melanie was one of those names. And I don't know
if it was a character in a movie. I don't
know if it was a singer, but it was a
really popular name. I think of it as being a
really popular name in the mid to late eighties. But
of course there's a lag when those babies were when
they were born and named and then they become But
(11:44):
of that era, there was Jennifer, Julie, Amy, Lisa. Melanie
was a big one. I mean a really really big one.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
So it really is because when I was in high
school in Hitchcock there were three of us in the
same class.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
How many peoples?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
My graduating class in ninety one was sixty nine?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Oh wow at Hdgecock High School. Yes, and then where'd
you go from there?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I went to the Art Institute of Houston. Oh really,
you got my photography in business?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
How about that? And then from there.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
We've talked before. I'm an insurance inspector, so I inspected
the RCC right during COVID.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Oh interesting, okay, And are you do you do that independently?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I do?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
So I represent about one hundred different insurance companies.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
And how did any one time.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I sold insurance? And I was on the verge of
career suicide And so I had my resume out there
and somebody called me and we talked and they're like,
you know, you're going to be independent? So you'll be
able to work the hours you want and go when
you want to go. And I'm like, you know what,
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
So you wake up and how does the order come in?
You get an email from them saying, hey, inspect this building.
Here's the name and phone number of the people.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I get a list of orders that come in. They
could be commercial properties, residential properties at farms, and stuff
like that, and they'll give me a deadline when those
inspections have to be done. And some require appointments and
others don't require appointments, And so I schedule the appointments
that I can in the morning and then everything else
is in the afternoon, except during the summer because I'm
(13:36):
out of the field by one o'clock it's way too hot.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And so how much do you.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
It depends on the inspection and then the insurance company.
The average if I were to wreak it down hourly
and make about forty three dollars.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
An hour, okay, and so dependent. So you know that's
not for everybody, because some people have given that level
of freedom, would would find excuses not to work on
this or that.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But if you're a self starter and don't need to.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Be around other people to gossip or hang out, and
you can get your work done. That level of freedom,
I would think that would be really cool.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I do like it because when I started doing this,
I still had for children in school. So if I
had sick kids or the weather was really really bad,
I don't have to go to work. I got other
stuff I can do. I can make phone calls and
type up paperwork, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Are you a single, No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Any time my husband works.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Go ahead, I'm start sweet heart.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah no, no, my husband he works. He works for
the school district in Texas City. He's a janitor there.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So you know, so you probably make more than he does.
I do, and he's fine.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I'm the breadwinner and he's okay with that.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah, how much?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Because at one time he made more money than I did.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
How much do you make in a year on average?
Not your best year, not your worst year.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Oh, my average year is about fifty thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay. And and you're not killing yourself, you know you're not.
You're not.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You're not working over time, you're not working the evenings,
you're not working weekends.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Nope, nope. And people will go, well, can you come
out on the weekend. I'm like, Nope, that's my time
off with my family. I don't do weekends.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And by the way, the person who is your client
is I guess the insurance company and the person you're
dealing with. You got all the leverage because they desperately
need you to do the inspection so they can get
the deal done.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yep, yep yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I uh, you know, I have somebody I report to
you to make sure the reports are turned in and
that the reports are accurate and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
But uh, I, what are.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You typically inspecting? Four?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Insurability of the property. So if it's the residential home,
is the home and good insurable shape? Is there already
damage going on with the roof, you know, the exterior walls?
Is there any risks on the property, you know, such
as an unces swimming pool or trampoline without a net,
or there any dogs on the property. I'll gather square
footage information because I have to get a footprint of
(16:08):
the building. If it's about.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
How people make a living like this is not something
one would think about as a job, but it is
a job, and you're not the only one during the show,
and it's an interesting lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It just fascinates me.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You might have solved our Melanie questions. You got Melanie
the singer one name only because her last name is
Softka call.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
She hit at Woodstock and then she.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Releases this song in seventy one, so, and she had
a hit where it's Ruby Tuesday by the Stones in
seventy so about sixty nine she performed at Woodstock and
(17:00):
so sixty nine ish seventy she's making it big. She's
at the time twenty three, so you probably a lot
of young women were listening to her and.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
They're naming their daughter's Melanie. So there's there's our Melanie.
By the way, Melanie who called in? Can you send
me an email?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I had several people who wanted to contact you, who
have work that they would like to hire you on.
And there are people I know, so I'm going to
send you to any weirdos. If you will email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, I'll just connect.
I'll just forward your email to them directly. Who was next, Jim?
Sorry I forgot who Robert? What about Dwayne? Is Dwayne
(17:45):
White or black?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Black line always goes first, Dwayne on the black car.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Go ahead. Hey, I'm Caucasian.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh you are, Okay, never mind, we'll come back. I'm good.
You got Dwayne.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Hey, you listen.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Brother. I spoke to you a while back. I'm the
one that worked for the city of hunts Down in Alabama.
Last conversation we had was four days work weeks hours
and I was calling you talking about jobs that I
want to send you an email by the injury I
had at the job, and I thought you might be
interested in it because it really messed me up pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Sure, I'm fifty one years old talking about jobs. I've
done a long hall truck driver for most of my life,
work for the county, now work for the city. January
sixth I had an accident. I got hit with a
roll off door landfill and it broke my right leg.
It broke my neck, It fractured my skull, split my
(18:42):
back in half. Yeah, but I almost seeing you some
pictures of it, I said you, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Of course I got to see that. Well, let me start.
Let's slow down. On the leg.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Did it break above or below the knee?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Right? Exactly below the knee?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Okay, so Tibby a fibulum kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yes, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I think just one of them.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I believe I have. I'm still having a little difficulty,
but I went back to work a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Okay, well, going to get into these injuries. So so, yes,
did you have that. Did you get the leg fixed?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yes, they put some stuff in there, uh, complaints and stuff,
you know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Okay, all right, how about that. I have the neck.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The neck they did not do surgery, but it brought
it fractured a ce one where it swivels. Uh.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
So I walking around with one of those braces on
like from the seventies.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It says, I'm want to sue you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I still got the neck brace. Yeah, I figured
all the equipment, you know. I mean it was pretty bad.
You know. I was paralyzed for thirty minutes before they
moved me. I couldn't move. It hit me directly in
my spine. It put ten staples in the back of
my skull, and uh it it swept me out. It
knocked me thirty feet. So it basically the door came down.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
One of them contained your doors like on a construction site. Sure,
when of them big Okay, that's what it was. It
was up in the air and it came loose, and
when it came down, it hit me directly in the back.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
So it swepped me.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It hit me like a golf bar if you teed
off a golf ball. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
From what height?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
From what height was it dropped?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Uh, twenty feet? I guess maybe? Oh wow, the tip
of it came down about twenty thirty feet. So when
it came down, it weighs like two thousand pounds. And
you were at work, Yes, I was fishing open up
my door. I was a boom operator at the time,
and I think I talked to you, So I talked
to you a couple of times about that. So I
(20:48):
was a boom operator and I was fishing open up
my door and you know, unloaded my lope. And this
was an individual company. It wasn't a city truck. It
was an individual company. And that's another thing too, that's
another issue. You know, I've got a lawsuit on them,
and they already also they've already committed fault. By the way, Michael,
I know you're a lawyer. I think that means something,
(21:09):
don't you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Well, it depends, but yeah, so yeah, so you are
you have sued them?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I am suing them. Yes, I'm suing that company, yes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Saying has the lawsuit been filed?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, this it has, just it has how long ago? Uh?
Filed in January?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And have they made a settlement offer?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well? No, no, they filed a little bit later than January.
That's when I called them in January right after that.
They're not yet, but they will.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I think the workman's comp deal is going to settle out,
is what I understand is what they told me, and
then the third party injury is going to pay, you know,
as far as I as far as I.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Yeah, interesting, did you have to pay anything out of
pocket for any of your medical.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I had paid some like for medicine and stuff, but
they but they got files of it. That'll all be
took in care of my understanding.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
No, No, I was just I was really more than anything.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Just. But to Henry itself was interesting because I mean,
I never felt like that in my life. But when
you know what you're about to die, because I honestly
I thought I was dead, but I'm laying there and
my whole head and neck was purple, they said when
they got to me. So I wrote down your email.
(22:25):
I didn't have it, and I wrote it down because
I heard you just want to go. And I think
you spelled your name just like my dad's little name,
Michael a L.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, that's ninety nine point nine percent of people do.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, my dad's name is Robert Michael. My name is
Robert Dwayne, and I go by my middle name.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
How do you spell your Dwayne?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Interesting d E W A, y A and e. Oh
that the black version of the of the of the
red neck version.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's the black version. Oh well, it could be a
couple of different ways. Well, but that's my d one
d Wayne.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's right. They call me d Wayne, but mostly work
called me Robert or a little rob because I'm about like
five foot six. I used to weigh one hundred and
sixty pound when that accident happened. Now weigh about one
thirty seven. I went to the yes say because I
lost a lot of weight, I still have a lot
of problem. They gonna have to do another MRI on
me because of the hill. Is like, something's wrong. You know,
(23:22):
they're white injuries.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You know most people gain right now after an injury
like that, they get laid up, taking biking in and
eating pizza all.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Day Hawaiian chatting ashe Aloha bro Ha The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you know what? Technology?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Companies started as a grocery trading store in nineteen thirty eight.
Samsung founded by Lee Bung Choul in Daigu, Korea in
nineteen thirty eight. Originally not an electronic store at all.
They've traded groceries and locally produced goods like dried fish,
(24:03):
noodles and vegetables. The name Samsung means three stars in Korean,
symbolizing something large, lasting and powerful. Robert, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Sir Albert, You'll be up next.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Michael Berry. Are you today? I would like to talk
about you're talking to the people about the different branches
of the service. Something never gets mentioned, and it's the
smallest branch of service as a US Coast Guard, and
the advantage in the Coast Guard. Well, if you're if
you're in the Navy and you're gunnery sergeant or something,
you're going to be doing the same thing all your
(24:40):
career and there's really no transfer in the career path.
With the Coast Guard they have they're part of the
department homeland security with the under the Navy and wartime,
and they have eleven different missions they have to perform.
So every day you go on that boat, you'll either
be pollution control or migrant interdiction, or law enforcement, marine boarding,
(25:02):
search and rescue. For a young person, it's a great job.
First of all, there's two hundred and forty four boat
stations in the United States and twenty six air stations. Wow,
and as far as the air stations will come, the
aviation side is concerned. The Course Guard has the highest
number of female aviators per capita and they have to
go through Naval Flight Officer School at the US Navy.
(25:25):
But I've been affiliated with the Coastguard of the Civilians
since nineteen eighty eight eighty nine, and I've seen them
work and they're for a young person, it's a great career.
An example is if you want to be a flight
mechanic on the helicopter's okay, you'll be a mechanic. You'll
do the fly, the maintenance and all. But when that
(25:47):
thing goes out on a rescue mission or whatever, you're
the you'll be the operator, the horse operator and take
care of the flight, the rescue swimmer and things like that.
I want to say the only mission we won't do
down here is the ice patrol, thank god. But it's
a great career for young people. And it's not like
a traditional military service. It isn't the They're not as
(26:12):
anal so to speak, as some other services are.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
It's more like, how are you affiliated with them? In
what capacity?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
I am a auxiliary aviator. I'm a volunteer civil pilot,
and I fly an aircraft. That's my own aircraft which
has been signed off by the Coast Guard with either
a Coast Guard crewman or another auxiliary called Coast Guard Auxiliarists,
and we patrol the Euston area of operation. We cover
from Matta Gorda to White Lake, Louisiana. We got seven
(26:41):
major ports for two hundred miles of inland waterways, three
national strategic fuel reserves, and all that infrastructure we got
to help keep an eye on. And it's by the
auxiliary aviator. We use light planes, so we can't do
missions that require hover but it leaves the Coast Guard
helicopter crew so they can do the rest.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What is your plane is? What exactly is your plane?
Speaker 7 (27:05):
I've got a pipe for Cherokee it's been up. It's
a small, four seat, single engine aircraft. But when it
comes to the other missions of the communications center for
the entire regions in Ellington Field, along with the Coast
Guard air station, there's marine environmental protection missions that could
parley into later missions in the private sector. So the
(27:28):
coast Guards look them up. Eleven tour missions of the
Coast Guard. They're not Oh, my.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Dad was in the Coast Guard.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
My dad is the biggest Coast Guard proponent you'll ever meet.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
The Coast Guard does not get their due. It's it's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I remember a Coast Guard rescue swimmer a few years
ago that was.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The baddest dude ever.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
And people did not realize that the training those guys
go through.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
What is your day job?
Speaker 7 (27:50):
I'm retired now. I was a Houston firefighter for thirty
seven and a half years.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I had you paged.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Twenty seventeen when they were messing with the pension and
I was an arts investment at that time. During this
whole time, I've been volunteering on the moment time off
with the Coast Guard because because.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Why did you pay for that plane?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I believe it or not A bad four eighty nine
hundred dollars for it now seventy two thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Do you maintain it yourself?
Speaker 7 (28:22):
I have a gentleman that is a works with me,
that is an airframe, a powerplane guy that does the
maintenance on.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
And how often is that plane going in the air
to patrol the coast with the coast Guard?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
How often do you do that?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
When I was extremely active, I would go up once
or twice a week at least maybe a scheduled mission.
And that's been That was before COVID hit And I
used to live right next to Alington, so I was
more available. But then they have pop up missions. We'll
call you, you know, got to miss an overall of uh,
you know, Sabine River or something like that. They would
(28:59):
pop up and we we'd fly. And when we had
these long rescues, they're looking for a long period of time,
they would be staggering the helicopters and the auxiliary aircraft
back and forth.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
How many would they have in this Houston to Louisiana
region that you're in, And you.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Said, Louisiana is probably twelve thirteen aircraft scart?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You know, are y'all liking a club y'all are all buddies.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Well, we're friends. I mean we were. We enjoyed. We
we like the mission, we like the camaraderie. I'm affiliated
out of one of the groups at the Coast Guard
air station.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Good for you. That's cool, very cool.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
And I almost went in the Coast Guard out of
high school in nineteen seventy six, but this friend of
mine said, hey, you need to go to EMP school
and then it was from that point on it was
public safety.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
So anyway, I had a scratch the itch with what
you're doing. And I think that's cool you're doing that.
I think that I think that's neat is. It's a
lot you to stay involved. It's allowed. It's given you
the sense that you're contributing your serving. I think that's fantastic.
Great call, Albert, you will be our last car, Yes, sir,
(30:13):
go ahead.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
More And Michael, yes, sir, I'm one of your veterans
up north from a helicopter mechanics. Actually the dumb my
question I have a question about in reference to I
got a parking ticket in my driveway for obstructing a sidewalk.
When does the City of Houston preempt your property right values?
Are ability to park in your driveway. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Okay, so let me make sure I understand that they're
claiming you obstructed the sidewalk as part of your driveway, correct, Yes,
so where the sidewalk crosses your driveway correct?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Well I have some pretty strong opinions on private property rights.
But from a pure legal perspective, that is, you know
that that's that is a public property band that goes
across there.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Now it would feel like it's.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yours because the moment you pull in off the street,
you're on your own You're on your own property.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I mean that that's pretty much always been the case.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I've just never known much of of of people of
of an officer ticketing.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Ticket.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, that I don't know.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I suspect that one of the neighbors that walks the
neighborhood on that sidewalk.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
Well, there's there are six other people that actually got
the same parking ticket on this on this road.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, that's a complaint.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
I don't believe an officer of their own volition is
going to go around writ and tickets like that.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I just I just don't believe
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Dairy Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hello, Bay, we got a full tank of gas, half
a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hit it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's where we go, riding into turn a waften in
a wolf.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ever living thing moves within each of its last.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sorry, folk parks closed, the moves out front track.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hold you old for Jesus and make loud the Berry show.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
The bag.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
For some reason or another, you signed a little call
out radio.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
To the phone lines.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
We go seven one thousand. Let's start with James Europe Jeeves.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Hey, Michael, I hope all is well.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I'm the mariner that works in California. I want to
let you know spreading good word. The guys do have
to get up earlier in the morning at work though,
because I'm a mariner. Like I said, look, I send
you an email. Yes, sir, I sent you an email
earlier this week, and I told you I was going
to call. I just I want to point out something
that a lot of people are complaining about that I'm missing.
I walk out my front door every day. I see merchants,
(01:47):
full parking lots, car dealerships selling cars. Stores are full.
Rarely now on a Friday and Saturday night is there
an empty restaurant anywhere. But we're being told by Democrats,
and they're that Americans are broke, Americans can't afford to
do anything. And I know steak dinners costs a lot
more at a stakehouse than they do cooking at home.
(02:09):
So I think a lot of people need to realize this,
that they're being lied to as usual by the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Right, I remember your email now, thanks for the call.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I think.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
What happens is.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
It would surprise people to know how little of what
you're fed from the media, how little of it is organic,
and how almost all of it is part of a
plan that very smart people working for very rich and
powerful people actually create themes and then they shoehorn every story.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Into that theme.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
And one of them is that Americans don't have any money.
Things cost too much, Americans don't have any money, Americans
are struggling, Americans are uncertain, they're uneasy, they're unhappy.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That is what you create.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
As a mindset going into an election to get people
to vote against whoever is in power, And a lot
of people will come to that conclusion without realizing that
they were actually guarded in that direction. They are guided
in that direction, and they never they think they came
(03:37):
to that conclusion themselves. The everything costs too much mindset.
That one is very pervasive now and very popular. And
the way it because what you want to do is
you want to appeal to an emotion a sentiment that
(03:59):
already exist, because your audience is more receptive to it.
Everyone believes that they should own more things and pay
less for it. And so there is this desire to
own a lot of things, have a lot of things,
have experiences constantly, but they shouldn't cost very much. And
(04:24):
and so you know, you hear this, You know it
shouldn't cost this much to do this, and it shouldn't
cost this much to do this. And my parents' generation,
but nobody ever stops to think. And when we were kids,
we didn't eat out. My parents didn't go out to dinner. Ever,
when we did go out to dinner, it was a really, really,
(04:48):
really big deal. And when we went out, we didn't
you didn't order dessert. No, we can go home and
eat something. You didn't order appetizers. That's fancy people.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You don't do that you. You didn't. You didn't order the
way we do now. You didn't. You didn't eat out
all the time. You didn't. We didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Our our idea of a vacation was we loaded up
the station wagon and drove to Houston, and we stayed
in the little Holiday Inn or whatever the little hotel was,
and we stole the towels, and we couldn't wait to
jump in the little cocktail pool right in front. You know,
you drive up in the motor court and you know,
we're begging my mom to go get in the pool
(05:30):
before my dad's even checked us in. And we would
get up Saturday morning, drive to Houston, go straight to
Astro World, spend the day at Astra World, go to
the Astros game, stay the night, and get up Sunday
and come home.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You didn't, you limited the number of room.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
People live large now, And what's amazing to me is
that as they're living large, they're complaining about how bad
things are in America, but they're spending more money than
their parents' grandparents ever did. And they're spending more money
(06:10):
themselves today than they themselves did not so long ago.
Because they do so many things, They go to so
many places. They have so many experiences, they have so
many subscriptions. They buy cars, they upsize their house, they renovate,
they do which is great. I think that's wonderful and
(06:33):
enjoy it. But when they're told that things cost too much,
they're only too happy to repeat that line.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Was it Patrick who was a pe?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I had a pee in my head As the next caller, Pete, yes, Pete, Pete,
You're only Michael Berry show go.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Ahead, Hey Michael, Hey, I want to say my career
took a different turn. I started out as a young
engineer and I kind of got recruited by DoD because
the skill that I had, and I worked for the
Trident program for twenty years as a civilian. Started off
(07:12):
in shipyard, getting the boats underway, go putting them through there.
You know, they're what they call the waffat, which is there.
You know, they're diving, they're checking of their weapons and
all that stuff. And then I got put at the
King's Day which is the sub base on the East coast,
and I worked for twenty years with these guys, and
(07:34):
I was envious to them. I worked with the smartest
of the smartest because top tens are saying go to nukes.
And I got to say the guys that I worked with,
the guys that I still.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Keep up with.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I mean, these guys are making large runey and I
was fortunate enough to be able to be with them
as a civilian. But still, you know, on the boats,
riding the boats, doing what I had to do just
as a civilian, and keeping up with these guys training them.
(08:11):
And like I say, I was very envious of a
lot of the guys I worked with, whether it was
a Heat three or all of the junior officers. It's
a great and needs a great programs.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The King of Teams.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Continues on The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
It is over line Friday, seven nine one thousand. Let's
start with Melanie. You are up, sweetheart, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Michael, good morning. I just want to talk to you
about you know, you talked earlier this week about cursive
writing and stuff like that, and I think it's important
that the kids learn how to not only write, but
recursive writing for their for their history. And I'm not
talking about the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights.
I'm talking about their family history. And I'll get an example.
(09:01):
My father in law passed away in January, and as
we're going through as things, I found journals written by
his mother in cursive writing every time she traveled, So
when she'd go to California or she'd go to Oregon
or Washington to see family and friends, she wrote every
day on the road trip on what they did that day,
(09:23):
what they saw that day, and next c And I
think it's important to learn that skill so they could
learn their history.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Yeah, you know, Melanie, I really don't know what happened
on this whole cursive thing. Somewhere around ten twelve years ago,
I started hearing from people, mostly women, talking about kids
not knowing cursive, and it was the first I had
heard of it. And so I come home that day
(09:54):
and we talked about it at dinner as a family,
and I mentioned it on the air, and I started
hearing and somewhere along the way, and I don't know
when this happened. I graduated high school in eighty nine
and we didn't print anything.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Everything was cursive.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
That was I just assumed cursive was how everybody wrote
all the time. And somewhere between graduating high school and
about twenty ten, something changed in the schools and for
whatever reason, they stopped teaching that. I don't I guess
they replaced it with you know, if you're a boy,
you want to be a girl.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I just I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I I don't know what the logic was, how it
passed without me knowing it. It was just all of
a sudden, it was everywhere that this was an issue,
and it just crazy. It is an issue. I'm not
saying it's not, but it just really surprised me. Melanie,
how old are you?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I am fifty two?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Okay, so I'm fifty five and in my high school class,
at my school and surrounding schools, Melanie. I don't know
many Melanies that are, say, more than ten years above me,
And I don't know many, if any Melaniees that are
ten years or more below me. But it's one of
(11:10):
those names that for a little sliver of time that
you know. So I was born in seventies, so somewhere
around sixty nine to seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Three or so.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Melanie was one of those names. And I don't know
if it was a character in a movie. I don't
know if it was a singer, but it was a
really popular name. I think of it as being a
really popular name in the mid to late eighties. But
of course there's a lag when those babies were when
they were born and named and then they become But
(11:44):
of that era, there was Jennifer, Julie, Amy, Lisa. Melanie
was a big one. I mean a really really big one.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
So it really is because when I was in high
school in Hitchcock there were three of us in the
same class.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
How many peoples?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
My graduating class in ninety one was sixty nine?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Oh wow at Hdgecock High School. Yes, and then where'd
you go from there?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I went to the Art Institute of Houston. Oh really,
you got my photography in business?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
How about that? And then from there.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
We've talked before. I'm an insurance inspector, so I inspected
the RCC right during COVID.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Oh interesting, okay, And are you do you do that independently?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I do?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
So I represent about one hundred different insurance companies.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
And how did any one time.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I sold insurance? And I was on the verge of
career suicide And so I had my resume out there
and somebody called me and we talked and they're like,
you know, you're going to be independent? So you'll be
able to work the hours you want and go when
you want to go. And I'm like, you know what,
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
So you wake up and how does the order come in?
You get an email from them saying, hey, inspect this building.
Here's the name and phone number of the people.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I get a list of orders that come in. They
could be commercial properties, residential properties at farms, and stuff
like that, and they'll give me a deadline when those
inspections have to be done. And some require appointments and
others don't require appointments, And so I schedule the appointments
that I can in the morning and then everything else
is in the afternoon, except during the summer because I'm
(13:36):
out of the field by one o'clock it's way too hot.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And so how much do you.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
It depends on the inspection and then the insurance company.
The average if I were to wreak it down hourly
and make about forty three dollars.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
An hour, okay, and so dependent. So you know that's
not for everybody, because some people have given that level
of freedom, would would find excuses not to work on
this or that.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But if you're a self starter and don't need to.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Be around other people to gossip or hang out, and
you can get your work done. That level of freedom,
I would think that would be really cool.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I do like it because when I started doing this,
I still had for children in school. So if I
had sick kids or the weather was really really bad,
I don't have to go to work. I got other
stuff I can do. I can make phone calls and
type up paperwork, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Are you a single, No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Any time my husband works.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Go ahead, I'm start sweet heart.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah no, no, my husband he works. He works for
the school district in Texas City. He's a janitor there.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So you know, so you probably make more than he does.
I do, and he's fine.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I'm the breadwinner and he's okay with that.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah, how much?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Because at one time he made more money than I did.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
How much do you make in a year on average?
Not your best year, not your worst year.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Oh, my average year is about fifty thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay. And and you're not killing yourself, you know you're not.
You're not.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You're not working over time, you're not working the evenings,
you're not working weekends.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Nope, nope. And people will go, well, can you come
out on the weekend. I'm like, Nope, that's my time
off with my family. I don't do weekends.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And by the way, the person who is your client
is I guess the insurance company and the person you're
dealing with. You got all the leverage because they desperately
need you to do the inspection so they can get
the deal done.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yep, yep yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I uh, you know, I have somebody I report to
you to make sure the reports are turned in and
that the reports are accurate and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
But uh, I, what are.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You typically inspecting? Four?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Insurability of the property. So if it's the residential home,
is the home and good insurable shape? Is there already
damage going on with the roof, you know, the exterior walls?
Is there any risks on the property, you know, such
as an unces swimming pool or trampoline without a net,
or there any dogs on the property. I'll gather square
footage information because I have to get a footprint of
(16:08):
the building. If it's about.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
How people make a living like this is not something
one would think about as a job, but it is
a job, and you're not the only one during the show,
and it's an interesting lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It just fascinates me.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You might have solved our Melanie questions. You got Melanie
the singer one name only because her last name is
Softka call.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
She hit at Woodstock and then she.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Releases this song in seventy one, so, and she had
a hit where it's Ruby Tuesday by the Stones in
seventy so about sixty nine she performed at Woodstock and
(17:00):
so sixty nine ish seventy she's making it big. She's
at the time twenty three, so you probably a lot
of young women were listening to her and.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
They're naming their daughter's Melanie. So there's there's our Melanie.
By the way, Melanie who called in? Can you send
me an email?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I had several people who wanted to contact you, who
have work that they would like to hire you on.
And there are people I know, so I'm going to
send you to any weirdos. If you will email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, I'll just connect.
I'll just forward your email to them directly. Who was next, Jim?
Sorry I forgot who Robert? What about Dwayne? Is Dwayne
(17:45):
White or black?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Black line always goes first, Dwayne on the black car.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Go ahead. Hey, I'm Caucasian.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh you are, Okay, never mind, we'll come back. I'm good.
You got Dwayne.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Hey, you listen.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Brother. I spoke to you a while back. I'm the
one that worked for the city of hunts Down in Alabama.
Last conversation we had was four days work weeks hours
and I was calling you talking about jobs that I
want to send you an email by the injury I
had at the job, and I thought you might be
interested in it because it really messed me up pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Sure, I'm fifty one years old talking about jobs. I've
done a long hall truck driver for most of my life,
work for the county, now work for the city. January
sixth I had an accident. I got hit with a
roll off door landfill and it broke my right leg.
It broke my neck, It fractured my skull, split my
(18:42):
back in half. Yeah, but I almost seeing you some
pictures of it, I said you, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Of course I got to see that. Well, let me start.
Let's slow down. On the leg.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Did it break above or below the knee?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Right? Exactly below the knee?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Okay, so Tibby a fibulum kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yes, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I think just one of them.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I believe I have. I'm still having a little difficulty,
but I went back to work a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Okay, well, going to get into these injuries. So so, yes,
did you have that. Did you get the leg fixed?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yes, they put some stuff in there, uh, complaints and stuff,
you know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Okay, all right, how about that. I have the neck.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The neck they did not do surgery, but it brought
it fractured a ce one where it swivels. Uh.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
So I walking around with one of those braces on
like from the seventies.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It says, I'm want to sue you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I still got the neck brace. Yeah, I figured
all the equipment, you know. I mean it was pretty bad.
You know. I was paralyzed for thirty minutes before they
moved me. I couldn't move. It hit me directly in
my spine. It put ten staples in the back of
my skull, and uh it it swept me out. It
knocked me thirty feet. So it basically the door came down.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
One of them contained your doors like on a construction site. Sure,
when of them big Okay, that's what it was. It
was up in the air and it came loose, and
when it came down, it hit me directly in the back.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
So it swepped me.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It hit me like a golf bar if you teed
off a golf ball. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
From what height?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
From what height was it dropped?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Uh, twenty feet? I guess maybe? Oh wow, the tip
of it came down about twenty thirty feet. So when
it came down, it weighs like two thousand pounds. And
you were at work, Yes, I was fishing open up
my door. I was a boom operator at the time,
and I think I talked to you, So I talked
to you a couple of times about that. So I
(20:48):
was a boom operator and I was fishing open up
my door and you know, unloaded my lope. And this
was an individual company. It wasn't a city truck. It
was an individual company. And that's another thing too, that's
another issue. You know, I've got a lawsuit on them,
and they already also they've already committed fault. By the way, Michael,
I know you're a lawyer. I think that means something,
(21:09):
don't you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Well, it depends, but yeah, so yeah, so you are
you have sued them?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I am suing them. Yes, I'm suing that company, yes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Saying has the lawsuit been filed?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, this it has, just it has how long ago? Uh?
Filed in January?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And have they made a settlement offer?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well? No, no, they filed a little bit later than January.
That's when I called them in January right after that.
They're not yet, but they will.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I think the workman's comp deal is going to settle out,
is what I understand is what they told me, and
then the third party injury is going to pay, you know,
as far as I as far as I.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Yeah, interesting, did you have to pay anything out of
pocket for any of your medical.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I had paid some like for medicine and stuff, but
they but they got files of it. That'll all be
took in care of my understanding.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
No, No, I was just I was really more than anything.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Just. But to Henry itself was interesting because I mean,
I never felt like that in my life. But when
you know what you're about to die, because I honestly
I thought I was dead, but I'm laying there and
my whole head and neck was purple, they said when
they got to me. So I wrote down your email.
(22:25):
I didn't have it, and I wrote it down because
I heard you just want to go. And I think
you spelled your name just like my dad's little name,
Michael a L.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, that's ninety nine point nine percent of people do.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, my dad's name is Robert Michael. My name is
Robert Dwayne, and I go by my middle name.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
How do you spell your Dwayne?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Interesting d E W A, y A and e. Oh
that the black version of the of the of the
red neck version.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's the black version. Oh well, it could be a
couple of different ways. Well, but that's my d one
d Wayne.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's right. They call me d Wayne, but mostly work
called me Robert or a little rob because I'm about like
five foot six. I used to weigh one hundred and
sixty pound when that accident happened. Now weigh about one
thirty seven. I went to the yes say because I
lost a lot of weight, I still have a lot
of problem. They gonna have to do another MRI on
me because of the hill. Is like, something's wrong. You know,
(23:22):
they're white injuries.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You know most people gain right now after an injury
like that, they get laid up, taking biking in and
eating pizza all.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Day Hawaiian chatting ashe Aloha bro Ha The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you know what? Technology?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Companies started as a grocery trading store in nineteen thirty eight.
Samsung founded by Lee Bung Choul in Daigu, Korea in
nineteen thirty eight. Originally not an electronic store at all.
They've traded groceries and locally produced goods like dried fish,
(24:03):
noodles and vegetables. The name Samsung means three stars in Korean,
symbolizing something large, lasting and powerful. Robert, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Sir Albert, You'll be up next.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Michael Berry. Are you today? I would like to talk
about you're talking to the people about the different branches
of the service. Something never gets mentioned, and it's the
smallest branch of service as a US Coast Guard, and
the advantage in the Coast Guard. Well, if you're if
you're in the Navy and you're gunnery sergeant or something,
you're going to be doing the same thing all your
(24:40):
career and there's really no transfer in the career path.
With the Coast Guard they have they're part of the
department homeland security with the under the Navy and wartime,
and they have eleven different missions they have to perform.
So every day you go on that boat, you'll either
be pollution control or migrant interdiction, or law enforcement, marine boarding,
(25:02):
search and rescue. For a young person, it's a great job.
First of all, there's two hundred and forty four boat
stations in the United States and twenty six air stations. Wow,
and as far as the air stations will come, the
aviation side is concerned. The Course Guard has the highest
number of female aviators per capita and they have to
go through Naval Flight Officer School at the US Navy.
(25:25):
But I've been affiliated with the Coastguard of the Civilians
since nineteen eighty eight eighty nine, and I've seen them
work and they're for a young person, it's a great career.
An example is if you want to be a flight
mechanic on the helicopter's okay, you'll be a mechanic. You'll
do the fly, the maintenance and all. But when that
(25:47):
thing goes out on a rescue mission or whatever, you're
the you'll be the operator, the horse operator and take
care of the flight, the rescue swimmer and things like that.
I want to say the only mission we won't do
down here is the ice patrol, thank god. But it's
a great career for young people. And it's not like
a traditional military service. It isn't the They're not as
(26:12):
anal so to speak, as some other services are.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
It's more like, how are you affiliated with them? In
what capacity?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
I am a auxiliary aviator. I'm a volunteer civil pilot,
and I fly an aircraft. That's my own aircraft which
has been signed off by the Coast Guard with either
a Coast Guard crewman or another auxiliary called Coast Guard Auxiliarists,
and we patrol the Euston area of operation. We cover
from Matta Gorda to White Lake, Louisiana. We got seven
(26:41):
major ports for two hundred miles of inland waterways, three
national strategic fuel reserves, and all that infrastructure we got
to help keep an eye on. And it's by the
auxiliary aviator. We use light planes, so we can't do
missions that require hover but it leaves the Coast Guard
helicopter crew so they can do the rest.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What is your plane is? What exactly is your plane?
Speaker 7 (27:05):
I've got a pipe for Cherokee it's been up. It's
a small, four seat, single engine aircraft. But when it
comes to the other missions of the communications center for
the entire regions in Ellington Field, along with the Coast
Guard air station, there's marine environmental protection missions that could
parley into later missions in the private sector. So the
(27:28):
coast Guards look them up. Eleven tour missions of the
Coast Guard. They're not Oh, my.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Dad was in the Coast Guard.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
My dad is the biggest Coast Guard proponent you'll ever meet.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
The Coast Guard does not get their due. It's it's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I remember a Coast Guard rescue swimmer a few years
ago that was.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The baddest dude ever.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
And people did not realize that the training those guys
go through.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
What is your day job?
Speaker 7 (27:50):
I'm retired now. I was a Houston firefighter for thirty
seven and a half years.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I had you paged.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Twenty seventeen when they were messing with the pension and
I was an arts investment at that time. During this
whole time, I've been volunteering on the moment time off
with the Coast Guard because because.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Why did you pay for that plane?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I believe it or not A bad four eighty nine
hundred dollars for it now seventy two thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Do you maintain it yourself?
Speaker 7 (28:22):
I have a gentleman that is a works with me,
that is an airframe, a powerplane guy that does the
maintenance on.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
And how often is that plane going in the air
to patrol the coast with the coast Guard?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
How often do you do that?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
When I was extremely active, I would go up once
or twice a week at least maybe a scheduled mission.
And that's been That was before COVID hit And I
used to live right next to Alington, so I was
more available. But then they have pop up missions. We'll
call you, you know, got to miss an overall of uh,
you know, Sabine River or something like that. They would
(28:59):
pop up and we we'd fly. And when we had
these long rescues, they're looking for a long period of time,
they would be staggering the helicopters and the auxiliary aircraft
back and forth.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
How many would they have in this Houston to Louisiana
region that you're in, And you.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Said, Louisiana is probably twelve thirteen aircraft scart?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You know, are y'all liking a club y'all are all buddies.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Well, we're friends. I mean we were. We enjoyed. We
we like the mission, we like the camaraderie. I'm affiliated
out of one of the groups at the Coast Guard
air station.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Good for you. That's cool, very cool.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
And I almost went in the Coast Guard out of
high school in nineteen seventy six, but this friend of
mine said, hey, you need to go to EMP school
and then it was from that point on it was
public safety.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
So anyway, I had a scratch the itch with what
you're doing. And I think that's cool you're doing that.
I think that I think that's neat is. It's a
lot you to stay involved. It's allowed. It's given you
the sense that you're contributing your serving. I think that's fantastic.
Great call, Albert, you will be our last car, Yes, sir,
(30:13):
go ahead.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
More And Michael, yes, sir, I'm one of your veterans
up north from a helicopter mechanics. Actually the dumb my
question I have a question about in reference to I
got a parking ticket in my driveway for obstructing a sidewalk.
When does the City of Houston preempt your property right values?
Are ability to park in your driveway. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Okay, so let me make sure I understand that they're
claiming you obstructed the sidewalk as part of your driveway, correct, Yes,
so where the sidewalk crosses your driveway correct?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Well I have some pretty strong opinions on private property rights.
But from a pure legal perspective, that is, you know
that that's that is a public property band that goes
across there.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Now it would feel like it's.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yours because the moment you pull in off the street,
you're on your own You're on your own property.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I mean that that's pretty much always been the case.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I've just never known much of of of people of
of an officer ticketing.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Ticket.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, that I don't know.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I suspect that one of the neighbors that walks the
neighborhood on that sidewalk.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
Well, there's there are six other people that actually got
the same parking ticket on this on this road.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, that's a complaint.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
I don't believe an officer of their own volition is
going to go around writ and tickets like that.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I just I just don't believe
Popular Podcasts
Betrayal Weekly
Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com