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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To the phone lines we go. We will keep one
phone line open. Do that top line, Jim for a
person who is eighty plus. If you are eighty plus,
you will be moved to the front of the line
as soon as you call. You just say I'm over
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eighty when Jim picks up. Extra credit if you're over
eighty and a lady. But it doesn't have to be
seven to one three sorry, seven one three nine nine
nine one zero zero zero seven one three nine nine
nine one zero zero zero. All right, we'll get to
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those calls when they come in. We can have more
than one, uh senior on, but we'll start there. Don
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thanks, Michael, good to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm sorry, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Only sixty nine, so oh you'll you'll get one, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I wanted to talk about how we keep from getting
the field watered down when we start trying to run
against Dan Crenshaw.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I've seen three names out there already, guys that are
thinking about it. I think maybe one lady.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
But you know what happens is we get so many
and then it waters down the vote and.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He winds up still getting back in.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
How do we keep that from happening.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Okay, it's a good question. But let me tell you
how this works. If you go one on one. Okay,
first of all, let's say you could pick your ideal Canada,
pick your fighter. You pick your fighter, and that guy
goes up against him and you get one shot, and
that's on the first day of the vote, all right. Now,
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the alternate is you have more than one challenger, in
which case you increase the likelihood that there's a runoff.
If you're one on one, one or the other is
going to win.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Now, the theory go that if you're one on one,
there's going to be the Crenshaw supporter or the people
who just recognize his name that will account for a
big percentage of his voters. That's why he's hard to
beat in the first round. The first round of voting
will be voting on the big issues of you know,
who's going to be the Speaker of the House, who's
going to be the Senate majority leader. We're going to
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show up as Republicans and they're going to go down
and Crenshaw might be the third, fourth, fifth. You know,
they're not going to be thinking immediately about that race,
and they recognize his name, and I don't care who
your challenger is. They're not going to recognize your challenger's name. Now,
people get mad at me for stating the truth, but
this is the case. Nobody's going to know the challenger
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except the people like you that are going to be
very focused, and they're going to be aware of Jamison
Ellis or Gunther Egleman or whoever that person is. Okay,
So if you can push them into a runoff, you
got a shot. Because the people who show back up
for a runoff are not your just average report Republican voter.
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You got people who show up and vote Republican because
they don't like the Democrats. And those people are going
to vote Bush, Romney, McCain, Crenshaw. They just Republicans better
than Democrat. We show up and vote, we recognize Crenshaw,
We move on down the road. We're not going to
spend a lot of all the time. They're not real
hardcore issues voters. They're a traditional party voter. Now you
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got to get Now, those people don't show up to
a runoff, So you got to get past that first
round and get Crenshaw or any other incumbent into a runoff.
In their own primary. Now, when that happens, you reduce
dramatically the number of voters that are going to be
showing up. And they tend to be hardcore voters. Crenshaw's
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greatest vulnerability is to oh it is to know is
to hardcore base voters, because he hates them and everybody
knows it. Now. So now let's say you got five
thousand of these voters. That might be enough. I got
to look at the aggregate numbers. You can beat him
then in the runoff. So it's a two pronged strategy.
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It's kind of like managing your pitch count for your
little league pitchers that you know you don't always throw
your ace at the first game because you might want
to hold him back for the pitch count. All right,
So that's number one. If you could choose your perfect
one candidate, that's probably still not as good a strategy
as having multiple challengers. But there's a second problem. And
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the Bass says this to me all the time, Hey,
we don't need a bunch of people running against Crenshaw.
We got to pick one, all right, Well, who's going
to pick the one? Well, we need to pick the
one that's going to be strongest and best, and I
don't like him or don't like her and don't like
this one. Okay, well, we have a process for doing that.
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It's called the ballot box. You know, you can't criticize
Kamala Harris or the You can't criticize the Democrat Party
for hand picking Aamala Harris and secretly hope we can
handpick Dan Crenshaw's challenger. Because who's going to do the handpicking.
Is it going to be the local party? Is it
gonna be the biggest donor. Because you start doing that
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and you pick, let's say you got three good candidates
or three candidates that have a chance, and you go,
you know what, we're just gonna agree on candidate A,
so we got a better shot. Well, all the supporters
of B and C, they don't fall in line and go, well,
I want to B or C and not A. But
since y'all picked A, I'll vote for A. You know
what they do, they stay home or worse, they vote
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for Crenshaw to punish you. They're gonna punish you because
you didn't let them choose. We all have this idea
of how we're gonna get the best candidate to run,
but somebody would then have to choose who that best
candidate is. And whoever that person is is not fully
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rep presentative of the base. You mean, like everybody I know.
Well that's not everybody, is it. Everybody you know might
not be for candidate A, B or C. But we
do have a process where all the voters get to
pick who that challenger is going to be. And that's
called the Republican primary on primary day. So there's two
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things at play. There's a process question of integrity, and
then there's the actual strategic question. And this is where
I go back and I give you a great example.
It was twenty twelve and Ted Cruz is running against
David Dewhurst. Dewhurst had never been beaten, He'd sprinkled money
all over the state, he had perfect name ID, as
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high as you could ask for, and Ted Cruz was
at two percent name ID not support name ID, and
I knew we could win. It was an uphill battle,
but we could win, but we couldn't beat him in
the first round. Well, it turns out we did beat
him in the first round. We had like forty percent
and he had thirty six. We needed all those other
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people to split the vote and get into a runoff
and win against heavily favored, well funded candidates.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
No, I won't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's too much for mont. She won't go that far.
That was so funny. Laurie was sweet enough to take
the time to write an email as follows, It's a
glorious Friday after adoption Thursday, Zar, It's not the time
of year for your adoption special yet. I know that's
in November, but I wanted to share something. Yesterday, my
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son's adoption by my husband was finally made legal. When
my son asked four years ago for my husband to
adopt him, it was sad having to explain why he
had to wait. We had to wait until my son
turned eighteen so it could be his choice. My son
also chose to take my husband's last name. Blood doesn't
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make a family imperfect. People doing their level best, showing
up for their children, pushing them to achieve more, being
present for the highs and the lows. That is family.
We've been a family for fifteen years, but now we
all share the same last name. Who strong. Nothing out
of the ordinary special about this adoption that is newsworthy,
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But for our family, it's the story of a lifetime.
Thanks for letting me share. By the way, Jim Mudd
has played some great bump music this week. Have a
blessed Friday. Well, thank you, Laurie. What a wonderful message.
We have an embarrassment of riches. We have over three
callers over the age of eighty, and they're all ladies
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on command. Our lady brigade has showed up. MAXI, you're
on the Michael Berry Show, Sweetheart. Go ahead, Hi.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I'm Michael, I'm my bestie and the family. Congratulations to
Laurie and her adoption proceeding. Yes, and I send the
email when I turned to eighty. It was the week
after you said if you're eighty, call right now. If
you just turned eighty, call right now. And I said,
my birthday is the same as your dad. He was
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born five years earlier than me. Oh well, okay, So anyway,
my high school class is turning eighty this year.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And what's your high school?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
And the end of last Stroud, Oklahoma. I was there.
The town is all of three thousand, halfway between Tulsa
and Olklahoma City on the Turner Turnpike.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Maxie, thank you for calling, sweetheart. I appreciate that. What
a great call. That's Maxie from Stroud, Oklahoma. Let's go
to Rosemary. Rosemary, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
This is my day off from work. I'm almost eighty
seven and I love your show on my way to work.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So hello, Okay, you do realize the bomb effect of
my day off I work. I'm eighty seven. I love that.
What do you have you called before?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I sent you an email, maybe a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I've never talked with you.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And what do you do?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yes, I work for a commercial real estate company. We
build shopping centers, we build warehouses. I've been with them
since nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Oh so you're just getting.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Started Boss's hockey. Oh you better believe it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You better believe it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I live in Katie. I work in the West Chase area.
Takes about an hour to get to work. Our home
and I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And what do you do for them?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Everything?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I we do so much. We have so many tenants.
I take getting all of the red checks a post
him up.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We do.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I reconcile about sixty two bank accounts every month.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh my, how alone? Who is this company?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's called Milestone Properties, Inc.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And I would love to.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Be a boss.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Our boss is in his mid sixties and I've known
him since he was right out of college because his
father had hired me all those years ago. So he
just thinks he's the boss.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, he just thinks he is. I would love for
you the next day you're in to say to him,
I got shoes older than you. I would love to
be I would love to be in the boss's office
when some young whipper snapper comes walking in and says, hey, boss,
you got a minute listen. I don't know how else
to say this, but I asked Rosemary to do something
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and she said I could do it myself. That I didn't.
You know, she wasn't my slave or you know, somebody
coming in to complain to the boss about you and
somebody having to go. Dude, she's eighty seven. She's always right.
You can't get one over on her. I love that
so much, Rosemary, God bless you. Are you married?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, maybe three times, but not now. And there's not
going to be a four, believe me, no four.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So we're having fun. I'm going to address something that's
a serious matter. And I don't know how much you
experience this because you don't experience it until you go
into assisted living. And now they have a whole assisted
living category called memory care, which you may or may
not know about. So there is something every day is
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a learning experience for me, and I try to view
everything as you know. When my son was in the
hospital with rabdomyolysis because he overheated it in football, I
learned everything I could about it, and it turns out
very common kids can die from it at football practice.
It's a common deal. When you learn about when something
happens to you, it's an opportunity to learn. So I
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have been studying senior care with regard to my dad
and now generally as a sector of the economy is
what are the challenges? And there's something nobody prepared me for,
and that is we know that Joe Biden had dementia,
and I think one of the things we had to
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be careful was was not to make fun of him
for that. It can be a funny laugh, but sometimes
we laugh at things because they're troubling. It was disturbing
that everyone knew he had problems, and so being around
this more and more, and my wife and I visited
i think every assistant living center in the Greater Houston
area because we wanted what was perfect for my dad
since my mom passed September nineteenth, And I was not
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aware of the fact I've always thought about the body
breaking down. You know, you've got the primary systems, which
is the heart first, and then you've got the lungs,
and then you've got you know, the various component parts
delivering the kidney and these sorts of things. I think
what I was not aware of, Rosemary, is how many
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people have a mental decline, starting in some cases in
their seventies, and now have tags to attach to them.
But I now realize it's been around a long time,
whether it's Alzheimer's or dementia or now they have so
many different terms. I will tell you are very fortunate
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at eighty seven. It's clear to me you have no
memory loss. But being around this a lot, I find
it heartbreaking and I want to be sensitive to it.
But you know, the body breaking down scares me a
lot less than the mind. How about that? And you
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sound like I don't know what your physical state is,
but you sound like you got the snap of a
twenty year old. God bless you. The proceedings the Court
of Impeachment is hereby dissolved, mister Michael Berry. Well, not
about desert wraps are all up. You got a message
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from a friend of mine that his best friend of
the or his sidekick for the last eleven years twenty
four to seven passed away a couple of days ago,
and that he is just absolutely knocked out from all
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of this. It was his beloved dog and my friend
and I seem to have a lot of friends like
this is one of those guys that if you didn't know,
you'd think he's the grumpiest person in the world. But
he's actually heart of gold, but wouldn't want anybody to
know it. And he's one of those people who has
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nothing nice to say about anybody to their face, but
do anything in the world for them behind their back.
But his dog, oh, his dog got all the love
his dog since his daughter's left and went out of
the house. The dog got all the dog could do
no wrong. You know, you can get so attached to
those darn things. So for those of you out there
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who've recently lost your four footed loved one. My heart
goes out to you. I know it is tough. Another
friend of mine's kid got locked up. I've seen all
my friends who be getting sent into the calaboose of late.
His son got locked up sixteen years old. Dwi, you
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know your mind's going crazy. And honestly, I told this buddy,
I hadn't talked to this buddy in probably a year,
but you love him. He's still your friend. And I know,
I know all his kids, And I said, we're going
to get through this. This has got to be a
learning experience. It's not how you, it's not how you
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you want it to be. But you know, this is
a challenge. It's a mistake. There's no way around it.
It's a mistake. But we're going to get through this.
It's what we do. It's going to be a learning lesson.
It might be some butt swatting in the meantime. All right,
let's go to Mary, who is eighty eight years young. Hello, sweetheart,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hello Michael, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What is your birthday?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
What day of the year, November fourteen, nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm four days older than you. I'm November ten, nineteen
thirty six. So you were graduating high school when World
War two was going and blowing. No, you weren't thirty six?
Are you were graduating second grade? Second grade? I'm sorry,
my mathrong.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You have a great voice. Have I ever told you
should do radio?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Oh? My goodness?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, but thank you?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, you got a little you got a little uh
it's a little deeper, a little more, a little more
base on a female kind of share or Stevie Nicks.
There might be a future for you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Not not when I'm almost eighty nine?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Why that? That would be the show eighty nine and
holding holding everything I can. If you were to do
a show, Mary, and it was about a subject of
great interest to you, it could be most anything. What
would that be?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh, Bible stories?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And what would be what would be your lead Bible story?
First podcast episode? What would it be?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh my goodness, Michael.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, just one that you maybe later you'll think of
another when you like better, but just one that you
really always go back to, you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well. I think the story of Jesus he League, the
sight of a man blind from birth, and the Pharisees
really took exception to that.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know, I see modern day application to that. You
don't marry, what would be what we'll do? I'm a matchmaker,
although my wife says I'm terrible at this, But this
was not a romantic match. This is a biblical teaching match.
We'll put you and David Klingler that teach me the Bible,
and we'll put y'all together on a podcast. Now how
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much fun would that be?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh my goodness, Michael, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, the quarterback. And that it's soon to be eighty nine.
Well it's not. You won't be eighty nine until till November,
So we do November. Yeah, we'll just have to be
eighty eight for now. But that would be nice and
then y'all could go back and forth and do a
little conversation about you know, each week would be a
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different Bible story.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh, but he's a Bible scholar. I'm not a Bible scholar.
I am. I'm a retired nurse.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Actually, well, I could see that you sound like a
strong woman. I could see you large and in charge
in the in the hospital. But I think David would
be the first one to tell you that he doesn't
want to be elevated above any other man, and he
would not want to be elevated above you based on
the fact of his study. I think he would want
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that to be very equal. I'll talk to him and see,
but I don't think him being a quote unquote Bible
scholar will matter. Okay, okay, now it's always people don't
like to talk about money. But do you have a
basic you know, minimum level you're going to need to
get paid for this thing?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No, okay, I don't need money.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You don't need any money, Okay, all right. How long
has it been since you were a nurse?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh my goodness, Michael. I worked from the time I
was early on until I was seventy five.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh well, okay, and what made you retire?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah? I was.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
My last job was I was teaching. I was adjunct
faculty at Lone Star College in the Woodlands campus. And
I said to myself, you better stop doing this because
pretty soudent, the students are going to figure out how
old you are in your loose credibility. So I quit
working when I was seventy five.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And then what did you do? Did you take up
a hobby? Did you take up gardening or knitting, or
dominoes or working out, did.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You well, yes, yes, in a way. I make quilts
mostly for charity, so I just continued taking care of
my I've been and making quelts.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Is your husband still alive, No.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He passed away a little over a year ago.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know, so you're a young woman compared to him.
Not really, you know, you really see love. Love is
depicted in film, as in literature, as picking posies and
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presenting them in a bouquet and you know, will you
go steady with me sort of thing. But real love
is the sickness, not the health. And nursing someone until
their passing is the greatest love I have ever witnessed.
And it is man not everybody's cut out for it.
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You know. I've seen cases where people, in fact, I've
known people to do this, where they walk out on
their lover who can tracts a terminal disease because they
don't want to be there till the end. But to
stay there and lovingly care for a person until their
final day, Boy, that is an act of love greater
than anything else. My goodness alive, That's the sort of
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things that I wouldn't have understood some years ago, but
you watch it with your own eyes and it changes everything.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yes, I think that's by all the true.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Mary. I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, I'm glad I did too.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, you call anytime. Coming up. We've got Nancy. She's
only eighty three, Mary, look at her trying to act
like she's got the age you do. Mary's eighty three.
Ed is eighty one. Scott he's probably only forty or so.
And Larry's got to be at least sixty, because you don't.
They just stopped naming people Larry at a certain age.
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They just cut it off.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I'm going to do it about a minute each with
each person so I can get everybody on before the
show is over. Nancy, Welcome to the program, sweetheart. I
see you're eighty three.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Welcome. Hi, Michael, Yes I am, And I love it
when you talk about Orange, Texas. I grew up in
Fort Nache's and graduated Port Nache's Growth High School, and
the girls from Lamar Tech and US we used to
drive over I think it was the pig stand over
there in Orange and visit with people over there.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, a long time ago, you know, the.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Last pigstand I ate at was the one. The last
one I think we had in this region was on
Washington on Washington Avenue in Houston.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Where do you live now, Oh, I'm in Conrod, Texas now, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So I think that's the last one. But there was
one in Beaumont. But I loved the old Pigstand And
we've had this conversation before. It was such a great
concept for its time, and there's a lot of reasons
that are that are offered. I've asked this question before,
but it's hard to answer. The old fashioned diner kind
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of went away, and I think there's probably some reasons
for that. But Pigstan was so much more than just
a diner. I thought it was just fantastic. And yeah,
my P and G connection was I used to go
to baseball camp over at P and G. They had
a coach by that thing. It was Coach Bradshaw. It
was a great program and we used to go growing
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up over to We went to Parkdale Mall because that's
where you'd go chase the girls when you were in
middle school.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
But occasionally there's a bowling alley across the street that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Occasionally we would go over to Central mall and that
was the carpeted mall. Oh okay, so there you have it.
Let's see, you're probably a couple of years older than them.
But I think Wade Phillip's wife, Laurie went to P
and G.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
And also it did the other Yes, I think it
was Needlan. I think it was Nederland. No, okay, we'll
go back to Fortnite. Just sounds wonderful to me.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, no, no, you may know from firsthand experience, but
I believe Laurie is a P and G graduate, and
I think they are a P and G family. I'm
almost positive on that because they were close to a
friend of my brothers named Jeff the Jet. Was it
Jeff the Jet bers run and he was like a
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football legend from there, and Jeff the Jet still still
could whip half a bar room at any given time.
Jeff the Jet's daughter married my brother's best friend. And now,
for the life of me, I swear I need memory care.
I don't remember things like I did. What I'm gonna
remember his name in the second I stopped talking about it.
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But anyway, thank you, thank you for going. I know,
but it bothers me. It bothers me beca because that
was always my superpower is I could recall things quickly.
And I'm talking right now, which is why I can't
think of his dad gum name anyway. Ed is eighty one.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Good morning, sir. I'm up from Corpus Christi and Brenham
to attend the Teach Me the Bible conference that starts
this evening. But I just wanted to tell you this
is such an honor for me. I ran over to
Purview I'm a graduate there in nineteen sixty five and
to look around in engineering and just to say thank you,
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thank you so much for what you do. Your marketing
mind is outrageous. I've been in business most of my life,
but thank you so much for what you do. And
I just wanted to encourage any person in America and
especially the black people. Hey, it is the man's problem.
It's the guy that you see every morning. You can
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do anything in this country anything.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
You know what your problem is?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Ed? No, yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You were clearly raised in a time and by parents
and grandparents and teachers who told you to be stronger, better,
work harder, be successful, and don't make excuses. I wish
everybody was raised the way you were, because they would
all end up so much more successful and happier. I
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have a friend named Marvin, Marvin Harrison. I'm sorry, Marvin Hamilton.
Marvin Harrison was the wide receiver, but Marvin Hamilton, and
he just called me a few weeks back. He wanted
to get a new car, and so I called Mike
Batchets out at lone Star Chevrolet and I said, Mike,
I'm gonna send you a lot of business, but there's
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very few people I'm gonna say to you. I don't
care if you got to lose money. This is gonna
be the deal. This make or break in our relationship.
I need you to really And he did end up
losing money on the deal. I know for a fact.
I saw all the details. I'm not an idiot. And
I said, this is the one time I'm going to
ask you for the best deal you've ever made anybody.
And it was Marvin ninety years old. Mind you. I
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met Marvin twenty five years ago. I was just getting
into local politics and Marvin was a retired postmaster, had
never gone to college, and he owned a little car
wash over an all meetup and his son, Merrek, ended
up going to work for me at city Hall. His
other son is a sheriff's deputy. His daughter has been
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a teacher, a banker. The whole family, they're all very successful,
and Marvin is the most conservative fellow you'll ever meet.
When it comes to you got to work hard, you
got to be penalized if you know, you have to
be consequences. And he says, it was just a different times.
We weren't raised to make excuses, and when you make excuses,
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it's to so off bigotry of low expectations. So I
love your message, ed, thank you for calling my man.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yes, sir, thank you, and.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Good luck at the Teach Me Thebible dot com. They're
having their Bible conference this weekend. It was I understand
some of you might have been priced out of it.
It's a very expensive conference. It was twenty nine dollars
and now they've decided the last minute, you know what,
for the last few stragglers, we're not even going to
charge you that because it's not a money making scheme.
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It is an opportunity for people. You know what I
love about what David Klingler is doing with this thing
is the idea of you know, Originally there was the
concept that the Bible was not for the common man
to read. It would be received and translated by a cleric.
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And the big change with the Gutenberg press was now
the Bible could be printed and everyone could read it,
and as it should be. There shouldn't be someone standing
between you and God. And I think Christ's message was always,
whether they be Sadducees or Pharisees or whoever that might be,
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there should be nobody in between you and God, not
a preacher, not a priest, not anyone else. And I
love that Klingler and these guys their their whole thing
is let's get into this thing. Let's dig into this Bible,
let's read it, let's understand it for ourselves. What a
wonderful thing. It's been a great week, folks. I've really
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enjoyed your commentary. I look forward to our evening program.
If you can't make it, there's always a podcast, a
wonderful Saturday podcast for you tomorrow, Howard Lutnick. And can
we possibly ever do away with the irs? And finally,
you can always email me whatever your opinions of the
show or story of your life. I love reading them
all through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. Michael
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Berryshow dot com. Ramone will be off suspension and back
on Monday. Wonderful job this week by our creative director,
Jim Muddin
To the phone lines we go. We will keep one
phone line open. Do that top line, Jim for a
person who is eighty plus. If you are eighty plus,
you will be moved to the front of the line
as soon as you call. You just say I'm over
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eighty when Jim picks up. Extra credit if you're over
eighty and a lady. But it doesn't have to be
seven to one three sorry, seven one three nine nine
nine one zero zero zero seven one three nine nine
nine one zero zero zero. All right, we'll get to
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those calls when they come in. We can have more
than one, uh senior on, but we'll start there. Don
you're up, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thanks, Michael, good to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm sorry, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Only sixty nine, so oh you'll you'll get one, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I wanted to talk about how we keep from getting
the field watered down when we start trying to run
against Dan Crenshaw.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I've seen three names out there already, guys that are
thinking about it. I think maybe one lady.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
But you know what happens is we get so many
and then it waters down the vote and.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He winds up still getting back in.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
How do we keep that from happening.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Okay, it's a good question. But let me tell you
how this works. If you go one on one. Okay,
first of all, let's say you could pick your ideal Canada,
pick your fighter. You pick your fighter, and that guy
goes up against him and you get one shot, and
that's on the first day of the vote, all right. Now,
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the alternate is you have more than one challenger, in
which case you increase the likelihood that there's a runoff.
If you're one on one, one or the other is
going to win.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Now, the theory go that if you're one on one,
there's going to be the Crenshaw supporter or the people
who just recognize his name that will account for a
big percentage of his voters. That's why he's hard to
beat in the first round. The first round of voting
will be voting on the big issues of you know,
who's going to be the Speaker of the House, who's
going to be the Senate majority leader. We're going to
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show up as Republicans and they're going to go down
and Crenshaw might be the third, fourth, fifth. You know,
they're not going to be thinking immediately about that race,
and they recognize his name, and I don't care who
your challenger is. They're not going to recognize your challenger's name. Now,
people get mad at me for stating the truth, but
this is the case. Nobody's going to know the challenger
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except the people like you that are going to be
very focused, and they're going to be aware of Jamison
Ellis or Gunther Egleman or whoever that person is. Okay,
So if you can push them into a runoff, you
got a shot. Because the people who show back up
for a runoff are not your just average report Republican voter.
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You got people who show up and vote Republican because
they don't like the Democrats. And those people are going
to vote Bush, Romney, McCain, Crenshaw. They just Republicans better
than Democrat. We show up and vote, we recognize Crenshaw,
We move on down the road. We're not going to
spend a lot of all the time. They're not real
hardcore issues voters. They're a traditional party voter. Now you
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got to get Now, those people don't show up to
a runoff, So you got to get past that first
round and get Crenshaw or any other incumbent into a runoff.
In their own primary. Now, when that happens, you reduce
dramatically the number of voters that are going to be
showing up. And they tend to be hardcore voters. Crenshaw's
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greatest vulnerability is to oh it is to know is
to hardcore base voters, because he hates them and everybody
knows it. Now. So now let's say you got five
thousand of these voters. That might be enough. I got
to look at the aggregate numbers. You can beat him
then in the runoff. So it's a two pronged strategy.
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It's kind of like managing your pitch count for your
little league pitchers that you know you don't always throw
your ace at the first game because you might want
to hold him back for the pitch count. All right,
So that's number one. If you could choose your perfect
one candidate, that's probably still not as good a strategy
as having multiple challengers. But there's a second problem. And
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the Bass says this to me all the time, Hey,
we don't need a bunch of people running against Crenshaw.
We got to pick one, all right, Well, who's going
to pick the one? Well, we need to pick the
one that's going to be strongest and best, and I
don't like him or don't like her and don't like
this one. Okay, well, we have a process for doing that.
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It's called the ballot box. You know, you can't criticize
Kamala Harris or the You can't criticize the Democrat Party
for hand picking Aamala Harris and secretly hope we can
handpick Dan Crenshaw's challenger. Because who's going to do the handpicking.
Is it going to be the local party? Is it
gonna be the biggest donor. Because you start doing that
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and you pick, let's say you got three good candidates
or three candidates that have a chance, and you go,
you know what, we're just gonna agree on candidate A,
so we got a better shot. Well, all the supporters
of B and C, they don't fall in line and go, well,
I want to B or C and not A. But
since y'all picked A, I'll vote for A. You know
what they do, they stay home or worse, they vote
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for Crenshaw to punish you. They're gonna punish you because
you didn't let them choose. We all have this idea
of how we're gonna get the best candidate to run,
but somebody would then have to choose who that best
candidate is. And whoever that person is is not fully
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rep presentative of the base. You mean, like everybody I know.
Well that's not everybody, is it. Everybody you know might
not be for candidate A, B or C. But we
do have a process where all the voters get to
pick who that challenger is going to be. And that's
called the Republican primary on primary day. So there's two
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things at play. There's a process question of integrity, and
then there's the actual strategic question. And this is where
I go back and I give you a great example.
It was twenty twelve and Ted Cruz is running against
David Dewhurst. Dewhurst had never been beaten, He'd sprinkled money
all over the state, he had perfect name ID, as
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high as you could ask for, and Ted Cruz was
at two percent name ID not support name ID, and
I knew we could win. It was an uphill battle,
but we could win, but we couldn't beat him in
the first round. Well, it turns out we did beat
him in the first round. We had like forty percent
and he had thirty six. We needed all those other
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people to split the vote and get into a runoff
and win against heavily favored, well funded candidates.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
No, I won't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's too much for mont. She won't go that far.
That was so funny. Laurie was sweet enough to take
the time to write an email as follows, It's a
glorious Friday after adoption Thursday, Zar, It's not the time
of year for your adoption special yet. I know that's
in November, but I wanted to share something. Yesterday, my
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son's adoption by my husband was finally made legal. When
my son asked four years ago for my husband to
adopt him, it was sad having to explain why he
had to wait. We had to wait until my son
turned eighteen so it could be his choice. My son
also chose to take my husband's last name. Blood doesn't
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make a family imperfect. People doing their level best, showing
up for their children, pushing them to achieve more, being
present for the highs and the lows. That is family.
We've been a family for fifteen years, but now we
all share the same last name. Who strong. Nothing out
of the ordinary special about this adoption that is newsworthy,
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But for our family, it's the story of a lifetime.
Thanks for letting me share. By the way, Jim Mudd
has played some great bump music this week. Have a
blessed Friday. Well, thank you, Laurie. What a wonderful message.
We have an embarrassment of riches. We have over three
callers over the age of eighty, and they're all ladies
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on command. Our lady brigade has showed up. MAXI, you're
on the Michael Berry Show, Sweetheart. Go ahead, Hi.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I'm Michael, I'm my bestie and the family. Congratulations to
Laurie and her adoption proceeding. Yes, and I send the
email when I turned to eighty. It was the week
after you said if you're eighty, call right now. If
you just turned eighty, call right now. And I said,
my birthday is the same as your dad. He was
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born five years earlier than me. Oh well, okay, So anyway,
my high school class is turning eighty this year.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And what's your high school?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
And the end of last Stroud, Oklahoma. I was there.
The town is all of three thousand, halfway between Tulsa
and Olklahoma City on the Turner Turnpike.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Maxie, thank you for calling, sweetheart. I appreciate that. What
a great call. That's Maxie from Stroud, Oklahoma. Let's go
to Rosemary. Rosemary, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
This is my day off from work. I'm almost eighty
seven and I love your show on my way to work.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So hello, Okay, you do realize the bomb effect of
my day off I work. I'm eighty seven. I love that.
What do you have you called before?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I sent you an email, maybe a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I've never talked with you.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And what do you do?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yes, I work for a commercial real estate company. We
build shopping centers, we build warehouses. I've been with them
since nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Oh so you're just getting.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Started Boss's hockey. Oh you better believe it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You better believe it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I live in Katie. I work in the West Chase area.
Takes about an hour to get to work. Our home
and I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And what do you do for them?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Everything?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I we do so much. We have so many tenants.
I take getting all of the red checks a post
him up.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We do.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I reconcile about sixty two bank accounts every month.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh my, how alone? Who is this company?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's called Milestone Properties, Inc.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And I would love to.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Be a boss.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Our boss is in his mid sixties and I've known
him since he was right out of college because his
father had hired me all those years ago. So he
just thinks he's the boss.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, he just thinks he is. I would love for
you the next day you're in to say to him,
I got shoes older than you. I would love to
be I would love to be in the boss's office
when some young whipper snapper comes walking in and says, hey, boss,
you got a minute listen. I don't know how else
to say this, but I asked Rosemary to do something
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and she said I could do it myself. That I didn't.
You know, she wasn't my slave or you know, somebody
coming in to complain to the boss about you and
somebody having to go. Dude, she's eighty seven. She's always right.
You can't get one over on her. I love that
so much, Rosemary, God bless you. Are you married?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, maybe three times, but not now. And there's not
going to be a four, believe me, no four.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So we're having fun. I'm going to address something that's
a serious matter. And I don't know how much you
experience this because you don't experience it until you go
into assisted living. And now they have a whole assisted
living category called memory care, which you may or may
not know about. So there is something every day is
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a learning experience for me, and I try to view
everything as you know. When my son was in the
hospital with rabdomyolysis because he overheated it in football, I
learned everything I could about it, and it turns out
very common kids can die from it at football practice.
It's a common deal. When you learn about when something
happens to you, it's an opportunity to learn. So I
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have been studying senior care with regard to my dad
and now generally as a sector of the economy is
what are the challenges? And there's something nobody prepared me for,
and that is we know that Joe Biden had dementia,
and I think one of the things we had to
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be careful was was not to make fun of him
for that. It can be a funny laugh, but sometimes
we laugh at things because they're troubling. It was disturbing
that everyone knew he had problems, and so being around
this more and more, and my wife and I visited
i think every assistant living center in the Greater Houston
area because we wanted what was perfect for my dad
since my mom passed September nineteenth, And I was not
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aware of the fact I've always thought about the body
breaking down. You know, you've got the primary systems, which
is the heart first, and then you've got the lungs,
and then you've got you know, the various component parts
delivering the kidney and these sorts of things. I think
what I was not aware of, Rosemary, is how many
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people have a mental decline, starting in some cases in
their seventies, and now have tags to attach to them.
But I now realize it's been around a long time,
whether it's Alzheimer's or dementia or now they have so
many different terms. I will tell you are very fortunate
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at eighty seven. It's clear to me you have no
memory loss. But being around this a lot, I find
it heartbreaking and I want to be sensitive to it.
But you know, the body breaking down scares me a
lot less than the mind. How about that? And you
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sound like I don't know what your physical state is,
but you sound like you got the snap of a
twenty year old. God bless you. The proceedings the Court
of Impeachment is hereby dissolved, mister Michael Berry. Well, not
about desert wraps are all up. You got a message
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from a friend of mine that his best friend of
the or his sidekick for the last eleven years twenty
four to seven passed away a couple of days ago,
and that he is just absolutely knocked out from all
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of this. It was his beloved dog and my friend
and I seem to have a lot of friends like
this is one of those guys that if you didn't know,
you'd think he's the grumpiest person in the world. But
he's actually heart of gold, but wouldn't want anybody to
know it. And he's one of those people who has
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nothing nice to say about anybody to their face, but
do anything in the world for them behind their back.
But his dog, oh, his dog got all the love
his dog since his daughter's left and went out of
the house. The dog got all the dog could do
no wrong. You know, you can get so attached to
those darn things. So for those of you out there
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who've recently lost your four footed loved one. My heart
goes out to you. I know it is tough. Another
friend of mine's kid got locked up. I've seen all
my friends who be getting sent into the calaboose of late.
His son got locked up sixteen years old. Dwi, you
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know your mind's going crazy. And honestly, I told this buddy,
I hadn't talked to this buddy in probably a year,
but you love him. He's still your friend. And I know,
I know all his kids, And I said, we're going
to get through this. This has got to be a
learning experience. It's not how you, it's not how you
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you want it to be. But you know, this is
a challenge. It's a mistake. There's no way around it.
It's a mistake. But we're going to get through this.
It's what we do. It's going to be a learning lesson.
It might be some butt swatting in the meantime. All right,
let's go to Mary, who is eighty eight years young. Hello, sweetheart,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hello Michael, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What is your birthday?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
What day of the year, November fourteen, nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm four days older than you. I'm November ten, nineteen
thirty six. So you were graduating high school when World
War two was going and blowing. No, you weren't thirty six?
Are you were graduating second grade? Second grade? I'm sorry,
my mathrong.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You have a great voice. Have I ever told you
should do radio?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Oh? My goodness?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, but thank you?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, you got a little you got a little uh
it's a little deeper, a little more, a little more
base on a female kind of share or Stevie Nicks.
There might be a future for you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Not not when I'm almost eighty nine?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Why that? That would be the show eighty nine and
holding holding everything I can. If you were to do
a show, Mary, and it was about a subject of
great interest to you, it could be most anything. What
would that be?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh, Bible stories?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And what would be what would be your lead Bible story?
First podcast episode? What would it be?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh my goodness, Michael.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, just one that you maybe later you'll think of
another when you like better, but just one that you
really always go back to, you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well. I think the story of Jesus he League, the
sight of a man blind from birth, and the Pharisees
really took exception to that.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know, I see modern day application to that. You
don't marry, what would be what we'll do? I'm a matchmaker,
although my wife says I'm terrible at this, But this
was not a romantic match. This is a biblical teaching match.
We'll put you and David Klingler that teach me the Bible,
and we'll put y'all together on a podcast. Now how
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much fun would that be?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh my goodness, Michael, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, the quarterback. And that it's soon to be eighty nine.
Well it's not. You won't be eighty nine until till November,
So we do November. Yeah, we'll just have to be
eighty eight for now. But that would be nice and
then y'all could go back and forth and do a
little conversation about you know, each week would be a
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different Bible story.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh, but he's a Bible scholar. I'm not a Bible scholar.
I am. I'm a retired nurse.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Actually, well, I could see that you sound like a
strong woman. I could see you large and in charge
in the in the hospital. But I think David would
be the first one to tell you that he doesn't
want to be elevated above any other man, and he
would not want to be elevated above you based on
the fact of his study. I think he would want
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that to be very equal. I'll talk to him and see,
but I don't think him being a quote unquote Bible
scholar will matter. Okay, okay, now it's always people don't
like to talk about money. But do you have a
basic you know, minimum level you're going to need to
get paid for this thing?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No, okay, I don't need money.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You don't need any money, Okay, all right. How long
has it been since you were a nurse?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh my goodness, Michael. I worked from the time I
was early on until I was seventy five.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh well, okay, and what made you retire?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah? I was.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
My last job was I was teaching. I was adjunct
faculty at Lone Star College in the Woodlands campus. And
I said to myself, you better stop doing this because
pretty soudent, the students are going to figure out how
old you are in your loose credibility. So I quit
working when I was seventy five.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And then what did you do? Did you take up
a hobby? Did you take up gardening or knitting, or
dominoes or working out, did.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You well, yes, yes, in a way. I make quilts
mostly for charity, so I just continued taking care of
my I've been and making quelts.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Is your husband still alive, No.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He passed away a little over a year ago.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know, so you're a young woman compared to him.
Not really, you know, you really see love. Love is
depicted in film, as in literature, as picking posies and
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presenting them in a bouquet and you know, will you
go steady with me sort of thing. But real love
is the sickness, not the health. And nursing someone until
their passing is the greatest love I have ever witnessed.
And it is man not everybody's cut out for it.
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You know. I've seen cases where people, in fact, I've
known people to do this, where they walk out on
their lover who can tracts a terminal disease because they
don't want to be there till the end. But to
stay there and lovingly care for a person until their
final day, Boy, that is an act of love greater
than anything else. My goodness alive, That's the sort of
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things that I wouldn't have understood some years ago, but
you watch it with your own eyes and it changes everything.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yes, I think that's by all the true.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Mary. I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, I'm glad I did too.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, you call anytime. Coming up. We've got Nancy. She's
only eighty three, Mary, look at her trying to act
like she's got the age you do. Mary's eighty three.
Ed is eighty one. Scott he's probably only forty or so.
And Larry's got to be at least sixty, because you don't.
They just stopped naming people Larry at a certain age.
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They just cut it off.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I'm going to do it about a minute each with
each person so I can get everybody on before the
show is over. Nancy, Welcome to the program, sweetheart. I
see you're eighty three.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Welcome. Hi, Michael, Yes I am, And I love it
when you talk about Orange, Texas. I grew up in
Fort Nache's and graduated Port Nache's Growth High School, and
the girls from Lamar Tech and US we used to
drive over I think it was the pig stand over
there in Orange and visit with people over there.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, a long time ago, you know, the.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Last pigstand I ate at was the one. The last
one I think we had in this region was on
Washington on Washington Avenue in Houston.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Where do you live now, Oh, I'm in Conrod, Texas now, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So I think that's the last one. But there was
one in Beaumont. But I loved the old Pigstand And
we've had this conversation before. It was such a great
concept for its time, and there's a lot of reasons
that are that are offered. I've asked this question before,
but it's hard to answer. The old fashioned diner kind
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of went away, and I think there's probably some reasons
for that. But Pigstan was so much more than just
a diner. I thought it was just fantastic. And yeah,
my P and G connection was I used to go
to baseball camp over at P and G. They had
a coach by that thing. It was Coach Bradshaw. It
was a great program and we used to go growing
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up over to We went to Parkdale Mall because that's
where you'd go chase the girls when you were in
middle school.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
But occasionally there's a bowling alley across the street that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Occasionally we would go over to Central mall and that
was the carpeted mall. Oh okay, so there you have it.
Let's see, you're probably a couple of years older than them.
But I think Wade Phillip's wife, Laurie went to P
and G.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
And also it did the other Yes, I think it
was Needlan. I think it was Nederland. No, okay, we'll
go back to Fortnite. Just sounds wonderful to me.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, no, no, you may know from firsthand experience, but
I believe Laurie is a P and G graduate, and
I think they are a P and G family. I'm
almost positive on that because they were close to a
friend of my brothers named Jeff the Jet. Was it
Jeff the Jet bers run and he was like a
(26:32):
football legend from there, and Jeff the Jet still still
could whip half a bar room at any given time.
Jeff the Jet's daughter married my brother's best friend. And now,
for the life of me, I swear I need memory care.
I don't remember things like I did. What I'm gonna
remember his name in the second I stopped talking about it.
(26:53):
But anyway, thank you, thank you for going. I know,
but it bothers me. It bothers me beca because that
was always my superpower is I could recall things quickly.
And I'm talking right now, which is why I can't
think of his dad gum name anyway. Ed is eighty one.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Good morning, sir. I'm up from Corpus Christi and Brenham
to attend the Teach Me the Bible conference that starts
this evening. But I just wanted to tell you this
is such an honor for me. I ran over to
Purview I'm a graduate there in nineteen sixty five and
to look around in engineering and just to say thank you,
(27:38):
thank you so much for what you do. Your marketing
mind is outrageous. I've been in business most of my life,
but thank you so much for what you do. And
I just wanted to encourage any person in America and
especially the black people. Hey, it is the man's problem.
It's the guy that you see every morning. You can
(27:59):
do anything in this country anything.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
You know what your problem is?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Ed? No, yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You were clearly raised in a time and by parents
and grandparents and teachers who told you to be stronger, better,
work harder, be successful, and don't make excuses. I wish
everybody was raised the way you were, because they would
all end up so much more successful and happier. I
(28:34):
have a friend named Marvin, Marvin Harrison. I'm sorry, Marvin Hamilton.
Marvin Harrison was the wide receiver, but Marvin Hamilton, and
he just called me a few weeks back. He wanted
to get a new car, and so I called Mike
Batchets out at lone Star Chevrolet and I said, Mike,
I'm gonna send you a lot of business, but there's
(28:55):
very few people I'm gonna say to you. I don't
care if you got to lose money. This is gonna
be the deal. This make or break in our relationship.
I need you to really And he did end up
losing money on the deal. I know for a fact.
I saw all the details. I'm not an idiot. And
I said, this is the one time I'm going to
ask you for the best deal you've ever made anybody.
And it was Marvin ninety years old. Mind you. I
(29:16):
met Marvin twenty five years ago. I was just getting
into local politics and Marvin was a retired postmaster, had
never gone to college, and he owned a little car
wash over an all meetup and his son, Merrek, ended
up going to work for me at city Hall. His
other son is a sheriff's deputy. His daughter has been
(29:38):
a teacher, a banker. The whole family, they're all very successful,
and Marvin is the most conservative fellow you'll ever meet.
When it comes to you got to work hard, you
got to be penalized if you know, you have to
be consequences. And he says, it was just a different times.
We weren't raised to make excuses, and when you make excuses,
(29:59):
it's to so off bigotry of low expectations. So I
love your message, ed, thank you for calling my man.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yes, sir, thank you, and.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Good luck at the Teach Me Thebible dot com. They're
having their Bible conference this weekend. It was I understand
some of you might have been priced out of it.
It's a very expensive conference. It was twenty nine dollars
and now they've decided the last minute, you know what,
for the last few stragglers, we're not even going to
charge you that because it's not a money making scheme.
(30:30):
It is an opportunity for people. You know what I
love about what David Klingler is doing with this thing
is the idea of you know, Originally there was the
concept that the Bible was not for the common man
to read. It would be received and translated by a cleric.
(30:52):
And the big change with the Gutenberg press was now
the Bible could be printed and everyone could read it,
and as it should be. There shouldn't be someone standing
between you and God. And I think Christ's message was always,
whether they be Sadducees or Pharisees or whoever that might be,
(31:15):
there should be nobody in between you and God, not
a preacher, not a priest, not anyone else. And I
love that Klingler and these guys their their whole thing
is let's get into this thing. Let's dig into this Bible,
let's read it, let's understand it for ourselves. What a
wonderful thing. It's been a great week, folks. I've really
(31:39):
enjoyed your commentary. I look forward to our evening program.
If you can't make it, there's always a podcast, a
wonderful Saturday podcast for you tomorrow, Howard Lutnick. And can
we possibly ever do away with the irs? And finally,
you can always email me whatever your opinions of the
show or story of your life. I love reading them
all through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. Michael
(32:03):
Berryshow dot com. Ramone will be off suspension and back
on Monday. Wonderful job this week by our creative director,
Jim Muddin
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