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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, where did we go days when the rains came
down the hollow?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Playing a new Dame, lapping and around and skipping ahead
and jumping.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Bring that down just a little and they want you
to bring it up again in a minute. Let me
just make the point.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
So I was talking earlier in the show, if you
just tuned in about Bonnie Tyler died yesterday, total eclipse
of the heart and it's a heartache. And I said,
here's a woman who if you were doing auditions for
a Broadway musical, most every voice talent, a voice talent
(01:18):
director would say absolutely not on her. She sounds like
she just smoked a pack of Virginia Slims before she
walked in.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Here.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That's a raspy smoker's voice. We don't want any part
of it. So I was making the point about people
who are unconventional in their skill set. If you're a
tennis fan, you know that John McEnroe had I'm trying
to think of anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Who would be more this would be more true of he.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Had the most unconventional strokes, both his forehand and backhand,
and if you ever watched McEnroe play, he wasn't a banger.
He wasn't Kenny Rosewaller, Yvon Lindall. He didn't stay back
at the lie. He was at the net, closing points
every single point. And that's why he couldn't win the
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French Open. The court was too slow. That's why he
was so much stronger at Wimbledon, and then not quite
as good, but still strong at US Open to hard courts.
But his strokes themselves, if you were to if you
were to take a video of them, you would say,
kids don't hit the ball like this. He also strung
his net. He's also strung his His racket very loose,
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the loosest at that time. It was the loosest anybody
had ever. He also played with a dunlop, which was
an odd racket. And even John McEnroe, the greatest player
in the world, the most popular player in the world
at that time, we're talking eighty eighty one eighty two
when when he and Boorg play and you know, arguably
the greatest tennis match of all time, they still couldn't
sell the racket because the racket was awful. So he
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has an unconventional racket strung unconventionally, which makes a big deal,
big difference using unconventional strokes and playing unconventionally, that is,
yelling at the ref every time. Kind of a precursor
to Trump in the media, if you think about it,
which I hadn't before. But anyway, I was talking about
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people who who you wouldn't expect them to have succeeded
in their chosen field because they're not what would be
considered traditionally good at that thing. And we're talking about
mugsy bogues and spudweb or Jim said jose L Tuvey,
great example, five six smacking two hundred sixty five home
(03:39):
runs in his career. Craig Bennon, who I don't know,
sent an email and it's been bothering me for an hour.
When it came in an hour ago, he said. Van
Morrison had a bad voice. Brown Eyed Girls a top
ten song of all time generationally least, I don't know
(04:01):
what that means. What do you think generations generationally released means?
Jim may neither. I never understand when somebody knows I
only have a few seconds to read their email, why
they're so cryptic? Why not, you know, like, go ahead
and put the articles in there and and conjunctions and
(04:24):
make it easy to read. But whatever, enough of me complaining,
but under the subject line ugly voice. So I delete
my emails as they come in so I can I
can make sure I read everything, and once they're deleted,
I don't have to read through them again.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But that's been bothering me. Bring that up. I think
he has a pretty voice.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Chlan sometime overcomes thinking by it. Make a love with
the greens behind state mother, my brin girl.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Now, once you mention it, Yeah, it's not as pretty
as I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
But I.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Still think it's a pretty voice, don't you. Yeah, in
the mystics, beautiful Tupelo Honey's beautiful. I'll tell you who
doesn't have a beautiful voice. But I could listen to
him sing all day is uh Wayne Toops? I could
listen to tups all day long. I love love Toops.
(05:34):
My friend Rachel Palmer Hooper writes, you're talking about Keish
makes me think about tea rooms, which seemed to be
a thing of the past. I absolutely love tea time
with tiny sandwiches and girl food like Keish's. I attended
a baby shower a few weeks ago and they had
the very best kish, which was clearly homemade. There are
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two things to consider with Keish, the crust and the filling.
Forget it if the crust is not homemade and fresh.
Regarding the filling, the question is whether to include meat.
My preference is eggs, cheese and bacon. Keish Lorraine. Is
that what Keish Lorraine is? Because a lot of people
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were commenting on Keish Lorraine on my Keish conversation on Facebook,
I didn't know what Keish Lorraine was.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Eggs, cheese and bacon.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
That's like a takito, except instead of the tortilla, you
got a crust.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Seen. I cal listen the tupe sing all day long.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And vern and the more busted his voice gets, the
older he gets, the more I like it. I've said
it before, I'm gonna say it again. There is something
unh unhealthy about people who criticize musicians as they age
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and continue to perform. Got it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Every day I'll get an email from somebody. Oh, here's
old Rod Stewart out there. He's still flinging. He can't
hardly breathe.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You ever been to Colorado do you remember the twenty
twelve debates. There were three of them. The middle debate,
Romney owned Barack Obama. Not because Romney's a good debater.
He was terrible. He was a milk toast. He was
the Bush coalition or the Bush community candidate for twenty
twelve because they didn't have Jeb Bush ready yet to
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put an exclamation mark behind him. And he was sadly
better than John McCain and O eight. But Romney just
trounced Obama. And the reason was Obama had flown into
Vegas and they brought him into Denver the morning of.
It's called the Mile High City for a reason. It's
fifty two hundred feet above sea level. If you spend
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your life at sea level, which I have and most
of us have, and you fly into Colorado or Mexico City,
this was the discussion with the World Cup. You get
in there and you're gasping for air, you cannot breathe,
and they're making fun of Roger he needs to hang
it up.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Why does he need to hang it out? He's still
selling out.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If people want to go see him play, why are
you so because you're uncomfortable with people getting old it's
not about Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Stop that.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
So dub Miller sent me a message during the break
and said, generationally released means a song that gets released
to each new generation and takes on its own fan base,
separate and aside from when the song was at its
original peak, which is an interesting concept there are you know,
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Tony Bennett had a whole fan base there his last
couple of years where he would tour with like Jill
Scott or.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Somebody, don't know who, well, maybe it was Lauren Hill.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
He would he would tour with like Black R and
B singers or soul bands, I don't know. It might
have been The Roots or or day Less Soul or somebody,
and then it would that have him play and it
was almost like this, it was just everybody embraced him.
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He was in his eighties and so in a sense,
Tony Bennett was bigger in his eighties than he ever
had been in his career. And it was this resurgence
because it was kind of cool. And then people start
hearing these songs and going, wow, there's a thing on
YouTube or TikTok or one of these things. Because people
send them to me and they'll take a young black person,
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you know, seventeen, eighteen, twenty years old, and they will
play them like an Elvis song from sixty eight or
Skinner or whatever else, and then they show you their
reaction and they're just blown away because they didn't know
about this type of music. They didn't know about this song,
they didn't know these details. It's always fascinating, but I
(10:21):
had a rare moment. My wife is not a big
music fan, and she will listen when I will wax extensive,
maybe exhaustive about a particular song that I will play,
and I want her to understand, you know that here's the.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Way that beat is played.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's what makes that song ska is. You know, they're
hitting the down notes. And so I just learned that
this is what made ska, and this is what made
rock steady music, and this is what this was what
kind of identified reggae, and this is considered the first
reggae song, whether it is or not.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But she doesn't really like she doesn't live for music,
and so.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I just thought, hey, what I asked her, what is
a song that our kids enjoy that they would consider
kind of dad's music, but they really enjoy it that
young people today do And I mentioned the generationally released
and she said, oh, sweet Caroline, and I thought, that's
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probably the quintessential case of a generationally released song. I
don't know that there is a better example of a
generationally released song that just each generation. It made me
very happy. Michael Petru, my trainer, at his daughter El's
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wedding a couple of years ago. At the end of
the wedding, sorry, at the end of the dinner afterwards,
there was the menu and you know, thanks to this
person and thinks he's the one page one page sheet.
(12:11):
And at the end she stood up and she said,
we'd like to do something bonding for all of us.
And so what we decided was we took one of
our favorite songs and we'd like to ask you to
sing along. She flipped it over, or she said, flip
over your menu, and it was the words to take
Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver, which I couldn't help,
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my wife pointed out as we were driving home. I
couldn't help but glare through the crowd and think to myself,
did somebody need to read the lyrics to take Me
Home Country Roads that they didn't know them already? What
kind How did you arrive at this moment in your
life and not know every word to that anthem of
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what were you doing that was so important that you
didn't memorize these lyrics and we all sing along.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It was so pretty? What I just suck?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So many things at weddings are playing by Bridezilla or
her mom or some god awful wedding consultant who's trying
to recreate Princess Diana and Prince Charles or something, and
there's oh, this is the trend now. I always hate
when women say that this is the trend. That's what
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they're doing now, this is what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Who is they? Why are you doing something because somebody
else first did it? I'm gonna I just can't imagine
that being the reason you do much of anything, and
certainly not the moment going back from the beginning of mankind,
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as this is as important as birth and death. You
are joining two individuals in a lifetime commitment.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That will usually result in the reproduction of our species,
the continuation of our values, the joining of the families
into one.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The blessing by the community.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
And you're going to tell me that the rights and
rituals and things that are going to happen, are going
to be based on what people are doing on TikTok. Now,
how weird is that going to be in twenty years? Yeah,
we did this dumb thing because that was the rage.
Then that'd be like having to wear my hair in
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wings my entire life, because I did so in sixth grade.
And did I ever? And I sprayed them down with
that trace of may or whatever. I was putting a
hole in the ozone, two cans of it. My wings, man,
my wings were there. They were not moving, And when
I get board in class, I'd reach up there and
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kind of play with them because they were They were
like a stick and if you you could mess with
them a little and break it, but you don't break
too much or your wing would fall and then you'd
have a you'd have a broken wing.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And you don't want a broken wing. You want of
those wings.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
The big loop up front, go back towards the back,
like leaf, Garrett.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's the look right there. That was the look, and
I nailed it. Michael's brain, one of them to your ears.
This is the Michael Ferry show. Petru told me this
morning and he had signed up a woman. She told
him what she had used five of our show sponsors
(15:45):
over the course of the last year. How cool is that.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I can't remember what all they were, Generator, Supercenter, Serve
of Pro Painters, Garage, door Doctor. He was the fifth,
so he was four. I can't remember who the other
one was, but that was pretty cool. And then I
just got a message from Angus Davis at Texas State Reynolds,
the heavy equipment folks, and they just landed a big account.
(16:12):
The guy called in and said, Michael Barry talks about you.
Michael Barry says you're great. We want to hire you.
And it's apparently a very sizable account that he has
been wanting, as he said, chasing for a long time.
And he didn't have to call this guy. This guy
called him. Whatever you do, it should work, and if
(16:38):
it doesn't work for the customer, not for you as
a business. If it does not work for the customer,
you should study what does work and make it work.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It is just as simple as that. I call them
love letters. It's just a little phrase I use.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
But I got a love letter from a woman this
morning about Christine Weaver had gone to there to this
lady in her husband's house, last night and sat on
the back.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Porch which they need to go inside? Is hot out there?
You got mosquitos? Jim, Oh, you have a service?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Oh latie da oh blad o bla. We fancy we
have a service. So does that mean that you don't
have a mosquito problem? Oh well, okay, must be nice. Okay,
I have a service too, but I still have to
get out at various places where I don't have a service,
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and I miss the old I miss what did uh?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
What'd our man say? Uh? Telephone roll road?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Damn it?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
What's his name that wrote telephone road? Not McDowell? Shoot?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Remember he in the song telephone Road he talks about
walking behind a riding your bike behind the mosquito truck
to get the mosquito juice on you.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Anyway, what's that?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Not Steve Earl, but he's in the Steve Earl. Uh stee.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
If you're looking at up, Steve Earl probably covered it.
Uh it's gosh.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He played a show for us at the RCCEE. He
he actually spent the whole day with me. He did
the morning show, he did the evening show. In between
we went and I watched him do his soundcheck, which
is my favorite. I'd rather see somebody do their soundcheck
than see him do a show.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Crawl. Rodney Crowell, Rodney Crowll, I think that's it. Yeah,
Rodney Crowell.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Anyway, he talks about in the song Telephone Road, riding
your bike on Telephone Road in Houston on the southeast
side behind the mosquito truck, so you could you could
breathe in the vapors and get the the you know,
the funny feeling from it. And I loved that smell
of the mosquita truck. There was a there was a
post the other day that somebody put up that said, hey,
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there was a plane that flew over my house. I
think it was on the west side of Houston planing.
It flew over my house. It was flying real low
and it was smoking, and I kept waiting for the crash,
but I never heard it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I'm assuming if.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It was smoking that bad, maybe they landed it okay,
but it was in bad shape. And he told where
he was and then people started going on and going no, no, no, no,
that's the mosquito plane. They're dropping juice out of there
to kill the mosquitoes. But anyway, so this woman said,
just like you told us, Christine Weaver made a house call.
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She came to our house and we have a complicated arrangement.
I'm not going to get into the whole thing. But
she and her husband each had children before. They have
a family business. Very common situation, family business. The original will,
which is the most simplified way that you plan your
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estate when I die. You know, Ghost and Nandida and
twenty five gost Michael t and twenty five goes to Crockett.
That's a very simple will. Well, most people, your estate
as you get older is more and more complicated, especially.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If you have assets.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You got a lake home, you got a Galveston beach home,
you got, you got a place out in Brenham or
Belleville or Chapel Hill, you got a business, you got.
It's not uncommon to have several million dollars in stock
from even if you don't own a business from. There's
police officers that have two million dollars in their drop
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account that they just they spent thirty years on and
the city matched it, and they they threw everything they
had in there. They didn't have to go through a divorce.
When people ask me, you know how would you what's
your advice for having the most amount of money when
you're older in life? No joke, I say, don't get divorced.
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That will be the thing that will cut you in half.
My buddy Larry Hoffman, who I'm still mad at, he
died on my birthday last year, just out of nowhere,
just dies. Has this beautiful place out in cat Spring,
and I've just been with him a couple days before.
He wasn't a cigar guy, though he'd smoking with me,
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but he smoked those trashy cigarettes. My wife says, why
do you refer to cigarettes as trashy and you smoke
cigars every day. I don't make the rules. Cigarettes are trashy,
cigars are classy. I don't make the rules. You know,
a lot of guys like blondes. Not my thing, but
throughout the world, white blonde women are, for most cultures,
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considered the most glorious thing in the world. I didn't
make that rule. It's not even my thing. But that
is again. I'm just a rule observer, a rule commentator. Anyway,
So Larry and I had a conversation one day, which
is where I got that theory. He said, Michael, do
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you realize how much money i'd have if I hadn't
been divorced several times and I said, no, I know
how much money you got now it's a lot. Then
he said, yeah, imagine cutting it in half three different times. Well,
you just pick any amount of money. Okay, let's say,
let's pick a million dollars. You cut a million dollars
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and a half. You got five hundred. You cut it
and a half again, you got two fifty. You cut
it and half again, you got one twenty five. You
went from having a million bucks to one twenty five,
and there's a lot more.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It ages you, It stresses you the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I find it odd that parents obsess over where their
kid's going to go to college, as if that's going
to be the most important thing in their life. It
is not not even a big five whether they go
to college. It's not even that important. It's not I
can point to you to so many examples of people
that are what you'd consider successful financially, professionally satisfaction level
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that didn't go to college. Lots and lots of people
now they spend their whole life worried about it. I
got friends that didn't go to college and make plenty
of money, and they have a hang up about it.
Good grief, get over it, go to college for a
semester and realize it's just one big toga party.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's way overrated. Life is what is important.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
But anyway, it strikes me as interesting that parents will
talk to their kid about where they're gonna go to college,
what team they're gonna root for, but not who they're
gonna marry. That's gonna be way, that's gonna be the
most important thing to your life's success professional and personally
in your life, and it's almost never discussed. So I
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got an email from my friend, the angie plumber, Michael Robinson,
and he said, as long as you're on the subject
of rules, and I wasn't. I'd moved way past it.
Keish is not fit to eat. So I sent him
a gift of a dude whose eyes are bugging out, like,
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You said that.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I wasn't really surprised. I figured that would be his opinion.
He said, you agree, I know you do. You also
agree that pie is dessert and I don't want it
in any savory iteration for any reason or ever again,
which was a playback on the Jimmy Dean sausage. You agree,
you know you do? You also agree that pie is dessert.
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I guess he's saying that keish is pie. I don't
want it in any savory iteration for any reason or ever. Again, Yeah,
I'm not sure why there's this masculinity thing associated with keish.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I'm not a keish eater. I want to be clear
on that. Right.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
This is not my heill to die on. But I
am interested when people arbitrarily decide that things are gay.
We should just ask gay Dave. But gay Dave says
everything is gay anyway, so he's not even.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
A good judge of anything.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh you what Gay Dave told me, Jim He said
he's had I guess people figured out who he was.
I don't know how that happens, and they wanted him
to approach me by email. He said, I never met
the guy.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It was not true. I met him at an event
at twenty nine twenty. But he said.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
That they approached him and said we want to have
a gay meetup, like he does those meetups. I've not
actually done the meetup. I've just talked about doing a
meetup for single people. He said that they are all
hitting him up, going, hey, we want to gay meet
up Michael Barry Show listeners, and gay Dave had the
good sens to go, no, he's not going.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
That'd be weird and he'd get nothing but criticism. And
so what oh we called it gay Loave. Good call, Jim,
maybe you could run it. But anyway, so there's apparently
a bunch of gay dudes out there that are single
are just wanting to mess around, and they want to
mess around with other Michael.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Berry Show listeners.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So I said, gay Dave, why do they want to
be with other Michael Berry Show listeners, like gay there's
so many gay dudes out there, y'all just gather, you know,
and be gay together. And he said no, because there's
a lot of gay dudes that have bad politics and
they don't want to be around those people. They want
to be around other homos with good politics. I said, okay,
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I guess, but you're not trying to meet a life
partner right in this like a hook up thing, and
he said no, they can hook up wherever they want,
whenever they want. They want like friends with benefits, but
people that they can talk about the show and talk
about issues, and I said, this is weird. I'm gonna
have to disengage from this conversation gay Dave, because this
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is surprising and in some way disturbing. I can't figure
out why. But the other thing is I'm all for
calling stuff gay. Doug Stanhope does this bit where he
says this, this, and this are gay, and then he goes,
don't get me wrong, I like homosexuals. I like using
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the word gay for meaning stupid. And by the way,
gay people do it too. So if you're gay or
you're gay adjacent and you want to get upset about it,
get up and leave now, because I use the word
gay all the time and so do gay people, which
is true as a matter of fact. So anyway, I
don't understand why keish has to be gay. Is it
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where it's served, because like Rachel said, she likes it
at the tea room, and the tea room is is
kind of prissy, right, There's no doubt it's kind of
a feminine place for women to meet in the after
women that don't drink rose and play magen. You know,
maybe older women they go and get their hair done
and sit under the blower, and they wear their nicest
stuff and they go and they meet with each other
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at the tea room. Okay, all right, I get it.
And there's a certain decore that the tea room has to.
I think there's still one in bel Air. I remember
driving past one, or maybe somebody email me that there
was one.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But I just I'm still.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Struggling with why Keish has to be gay. First of all,
it's got a French name, so that gives it kind
of you know, pepe le peu, you know, uh, feminine tendencies.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I suppose.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Secondly, where it's served that probably has something to do
with it.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You know, the only time I've ever been tempted to
eat Keish, if I'm completely honest. At La Madeline, we
used to live across the street from La Madeline, and
I was on a diet. I was up to two
forty I'm one eighty now, I'm down my lowest in years.
And we would walk over to the La Madeline and
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I was trying to figure out intermittent fasting works for me.
I can lose weight, I can stay where I want
to be and still eat like a king. Just warm
me on the day. So anyway, we would go there
almost every day. Michael t there was a dish he liked.
I liked their fat free caesar salad and I would
with grilled chicken on the top. And they had a
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tomato basil soup that was, Man, was it ever good?
I don't like my tomato basil soup, Jim. If you're
wondering to be like gruel, like real thin like the English,
do I like it more French Italian to have some
like some chunk to it, you know what I mean,
more like ragout.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
So we would go there and I would eat that
every day, that and a nice tea. And I couldn't
understand why I wasn't losing weight.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
So I went one day and I said, you know,
some days I don't feel like walking over here, so
I'll just get me.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
A bottle what would you call?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I guess a bottle like we ate raggougrown would be
that size of bottle of the glass jar a jar
of it, and I spun it around. I wish I
hadn't because I've never eaten it. Since it was like
approximately five million grams of carbs or fat or whatever
it was in it. I think at the time, I
was trying to do fat free, and I remember looking
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at it and going, you are evil, Tomato Basil. You
are not the answer to my problems. You are evil
in the worst kind of way. And I had no
idea none. I thought I was doing so well. I'd
eat my fat free dressing on my Caesar salad and
my soup, and I thought, ma'am, I'm just give me
a little time, I'm gonna lose some weight. I didn't
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lose any weight, not even a little bit. I wanted
to get something in before we closed the show. A
guy sent me an email about a guy by the
name of doctor Boring, and he was living in Calcushoe Parish,
somewhere outside of Lake Charles, and he jumped off the bridge,
the ien bridge you take when you go to Baton
Rouge and Orleans. And his kids said that they did.
(31:00):
He was a prominent eye doctor, beloved, but he got
Tonightus during COVID, and that tonight Iss was so unbearable
that he took his own life. And then I got
to thinking, you know, Kent Taylor, the guy that founded
Texas Roadhouse, was worth six hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Now you know They say money can't buy you.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you
stuff that can give you happiness. You know, a yacht,
a private plane, a house somewhere that you know I
don't have to sweat in or get mosquito bit and
good food, you know, nice stuff right, solve a lot
of problems. And he took his own life, and I
(31:40):
knew it was because Tonight's So I went back about
an hour ago and I started reading about it. I
didn't realize he got tonightus from COVID. Also, so here
we have the Chinese who were continuing to import their
trash products cheaply made. We're now worried that they're stealing
our AI through counterfeit efforts. They sent us COVID. You
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still got fauci who Hadn't you think about how many
lives were ruined.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Businesses, clothes that have never opened up. Our country has
never recovered from COVID
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, where did we go days when the rains came
down the hollow?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Playing a new Dame, lapping and around and skipping ahead
and jumping.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Bring that down just a little and they want you
to bring it up again in a minute. Let me
just make the point.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
So I was talking earlier in the show, if you
just tuned in about Bonnie Tyler died yesterday, total eclipse
of the heart and it's a heartache. And I said,
here's a woman who if you were doing auditions for
a Broadway musical, most every voice talent, a voice talent
(01:18):
director would say absolutely not on her. She sounds like
she just smoked a pack of Virginia Slims before she
walked in.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Here.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That's a raspy smoker's voice. We don't want any part
of it. So I was making the point about people
who are unconventional in their skill set. If you're a
tennis fan, you know that John McEnroe had I'm trying
to think of anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Who would be more this would be more true of he.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Had the most unconventional strokes, both his forehand and backhand,
and if you ever watched McEnroe play, he wasn't a banger.
He wasn't Kenny Rosewaller, Yvon Lindall. He didn't stay back
at the lie. He was at the net, closing points
every single point. And that's why he couldn't win the
(02:09):
French Open. The court was too slow. That's why he
was so much stronger at Wimbledon, and then not quite
as good, but still strong at US Open to hard courts.
But his strokes themselves, if you were to if you
were to take a video of them, you would say,
kids don't hit the ball like this. He also strung
his net. He's also strung his His racket very loose,
(02:33):
the loosest at that time. It was the loosest anybody
had ever. He also played with a dunlop, which was
an odd racket. And even John McEnroe, the greatest player
in the world, the most popular player in the world
at that time, we're talking eighty eighty one eighty two
when when he and Boorg play and you know, arguably
the greatest tennis match of all time, they still couldn't
sell the racket because the racket was awful. So he
(02:55):
has an unconventional racket strung unconventionally, which makes a big deal,
big difference using unconventional strokes and playing unconventionally, that is,
yelling at the ref every time. Kind of a precursor
to Trump in the media, if you think about it,
which I hadn't before. But anyway, I was talking about
(03:16):
people who who you wouldn't expect them to have succeeded
in their chosen field because they're not what would be
considered traditionally good at that thing. And we're talking about
mugsy bogues and spudweb or Jim said jose L Tuvey,
great example, five six smacking two hundred sixty five home
(03:39):
runs in his career. Craig Bennon, who I don't know,
sent an email and it's been bothering me for an hour.
When it came in an hour ago, he said. Van
Morrison had a bad voice. Brown Eyed Girls a top
ten song of all time generationally least, I don't know
(04:01):
what that means. What do you think generations generationally released means?
Jim may neither. I never understand when somebody knows I
only have a few seconds to read their email, why
they're so cryptic? Why not, you know, like, go ahead
and put the articles in there and and conjunctions and
(04:24):
make it easy to read. But whatever, enough of me complaining,
but under the subject line ugly voice. So I delete
my emails as they come in so I can I
can make sure I read everything, and once they're deleted,
I don't have to read through them again.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But that's been bothering me. Bring that up. I think
he has a pretty voice.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Chlan sometime overcomes thinking by it. Make a love with
the greens behind state mother, my brin girl.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Now, once you mention it, Yeah, it's not as pretty
as I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
But I.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Still think it's a pretty voice, don't you. Yeah, in
the mystics, beautiful Tupelo Honey's beautiful. I'll tell you who
doesn't have a beautiful voice. But I could listen to
him sing all day is uh Wayne Toops? I could
listen to tups all day long. I love love Toops.
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My friend Rachel Palmer Hooper writes, you're talking about Keish
makes me think about tea rooms, which seemed to be
a thing of the past. I absolutely love tea time
with tiny sandwiches and girl food like Keish's. I attended
a baby shower a few weeks ago and they had
the very best kish, which was clearly homemade. There are
(05:55):
two things to consider with Keish, the crust and the filling.
Forget it if the crust is not homemade and fresh.
Regarding the filling, the question is whether to include meat.
My preference is eggs, cheese and bacon. Keish Lorraine. Is
that what Keish Lorraine is? Because a lot of people
(06:18):
were commenting on Keish Lorraine on my Keish conversation on Facebook,
I didn't know what Keish Lorraine was.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Eggs, cheese and bacon.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
That's like a takito, except instead of the tortilla, you
got a crust.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Seen. I cal listen the tupe sing all day long.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And vern and the more busted his voice gets, the
older he gets, the more I like it. I've said
it before, I'm gonna say it again. There is something
unh unhealthy about people who criticize musicians as they age
(07:08):
and continue to perform. Got it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Every day I'll get an email from somebody. Oh, here's
old Rod Stewart out there. He's still flinging. He can't
hardly breathe.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You ever been to Colorado do you remember the twenty
twelve debates. There were three of them. The middle debate,
Romney owned Barack Obama. Not because Romney's a good debater.
He was terrible. He was a milk toast. He was
the Bush coalition or the Bush community candidate for twenty
twelve because they didn't have Jeb Bush ready yet to
(07:39):
put an exclamation mark behind him. And he was sadly
better than John McCain and O eight. But Romney just
trounced Obama. And the reason was Obama had flown into
Vegas and they brought him into Denver the morning of.
It's called the Mile High City for a reason. It's
fifty two hundred feet above sea level. If you spend
(08:00):
your life at sea level, which I have and most
of us have, and you fly into Colorado or Mexico City,
this was the discussion with the World Cup. You get
in there and you're gasping for air, you cannot breathe,
and they're making fun of Roger he needs to hang
it up.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Why does he need to hang it out? He's still
selling out.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If people want to go see him play, why are
you so because you're uncomfortable with people getting old it's
not about Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Stop that.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
So dub Miller sent me a message during the break
and said, generationally released means a song that gets released
to each new generation and takes on its own fan base,
separate and aside from when the song was at its
original peak, which is an interesting concept there are you know,
(09:00):
Tony Bennett had a whole fan base there his last
couple of years where he would tour with like Jill
Scott or.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Somebody, don't know who, well, maybe it was Lauren Hill.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
He would he would tour with like Black R and
B singers or soul bands, I don't know. It might
have been The Roots or or day Less Soul or somebody,
and then it would that have him play and it
was almost like this, it was just everybody embraced him.
(09:35):
He was in his eighties and so in a sense,
Tony Bennett was bigger in his eighties than he ever
had been in his career. And it was this resurgence
because it was kind of cool. And then people start
hearing these songs and going, wow, there's a thing on
YouTube or TikTok or one of these things. Because people
send them to me and they'll take a young black person,
(09:59):
you know, seventeen, eighteen, twenty years old, and they will
play them like an Elvis song from sixty eight or
Skinner or whatever else, and then they show you their
reaction and they're just blown away because they didn't know
about this type of music. They didn't know about this song,
they didn't know these details. It's always fascinating, but I
(10:21):
had a rare moment. My wife is not a big
music fan, and she will listen when I will wax extensive,
maybe exhaustive about a particular song that I will play,
and I want her to understand, you know that here's the.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Way that beat is played.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's what makes that song ska is. You know, they're
hitting the down notes. And so I just learned that
this is what made ska, and this is what made
rock steady music, and this is what this was what
kind of identified reggae, and this is considered the first
reggae song, whether it is or not.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But she doesn't really like she doesn't live for music,
and so.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I just thought, hey, what I asked her, what is
a song that our kids enjoy that they would consider
kind of dad's music, but they really enjoy it that
young people today do And I mentioned the generationally released
and she said, oh, sweet Caroline, and I thought, that's
(11:26):
probably the quintessential case of a generationally released song. I
don't know that there is a better example of a
generationally released song that just each generation. It made me
very happy. Michael Petru, my trainer, at his daughter El's
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wedding a couple of years ago. At the end of
the wedding, sorry, at the end of the dinner afterwards,
there was the menu and you know, thanks to this
person and thinks he's the one page one page sheet.
(12:11):
And at the end she stood up and she said,
we'd like to do something bonding for all of us.
And so what we decided was we took one of
our favorite songs and we'd like to ask you to
sing along. She flipped it over, or she said, flip
over your menu, and it was the words to take
Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver, which I couldn't help,
(12:34):
my wife pointed out as we were driving home. I
couldn't help but glare through the crowd and think to myself,
did somebody need to read the lyrics to take Me
Home Country Roads that they didn't know them already? What
kind How did you arrive at this moment in your
life and not know every word to that anthem of
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what were you doing that was so important that you
didn't memorize these lyrics and we all sing along.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It was so pretty? What I just suck?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So many things at weddings are playing by Bridezilla or
her mom or some god awful wedding consultant who's trying
to recreate Princess Diana and Prince Charles or something, and
there's oh, this is the trend now. I always hate
when women say that this is the trend. That's what
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they're doing now, this is what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Who is they? Why are you doing something because somebody
else first did it? I'm gonna I just can't imagine
that being the reason you do much of anything, and
certainly not the moment going back from the beginning of mankind,
(13:52):
as this is as important as birth and death. You
are joining two individuals in a lifetime commitment.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That will usually result in the reproduction of our species,
the continuation of our values, the joining of the families
into one.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The blessing by the community.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
And you're going to tell me that the rights and
rituals and things that are going to happen, are going
to be based on what people are doing on TikTok. Now,
how weird is that going to be in twenty years? Yeah,
we did this dumb thing because that was the rage.
Then that'd be like having to wear my hair in
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wings my entire life, because I did so in sixth grade.
And did I ever? And I sprayed them down with
that trace of may or whatever. I was putting a
hole in the ozone, two cans of it. My wings, man,
my wings were there. They were not moving, And when
I get board in class, I'd reach up there and
(15:03):
kind of play with them because they were They were
like a stick and if you you could mess with
them a little and break it, but you don't break
too much or your wing would fall and then you'd
have a you'd have a broken wing.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And you don't want a broken wing. You want of
those wings.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
The big loop up front, go back towards the back,
like leaf, Garrett.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's the look right there. That was the look, and
I nailed it. Michael's brain, one of them to your ears.
This is the Michael Ferry show. Petru told me this
morning and he had signed up a woman. She told
him what she had used five of our show sponsors
(15:45):
over the course of the last year. How cool is that.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I can't remember what all they were, Generator, Supercenter, Serve
of Pro Painters, Garage, door Doctor. He was the fifth,
so he was four. I can't remember who the other
one was, but that was pretty cool. And then I
just got a message from Angus Davis at Texas State Reynolds,
the heavy equipment folks, and they just landed a big account.
(16:12):
The guy called in and said, Michael Barry talks about you.
Michael Barry says you're great. We want to hire you.
And it's apparently a very sizable account that he has
been wanting, as he said, chasing for a long time.
And he didn't have to call this guy. This guy
called him. Whatever you do, it should work, and if
(16:38):
it doesn't work for the customer, not for you as
a business. If it does not work for the customer,
you should study what does work and make it work.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It is just as simple as that. I call them
love letters. It's just a little phrase I use.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
But I got a love letter from a woman this
morning about Christine Weaver had gone to there to this
lady in her husband's house, last night and sat on
the back.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Porch which they need to go inside? Is hot out there?
You got mosquitos? Jim, Oh, you have a service?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Oh latie da oh blad o bla. We fancy we
have a service. So does that mean that you don't
have a mosquito problem? Oh well, okay, must be nice. Okay,
I have a service too, but I still have to
get out at various places where I don't have a service,
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and I miss the old I miss what did uh?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
What'd our man say? Uh? Telephone roll road?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Damn it?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
What's his name that wrote telephone road? Not McDowell? Shoot?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Remember he in the song telephone Road he talks about
walking behind a riding your bike behind the mosquito truck
to get the mosquito juice on you.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Anyway, what's that?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Not Steve Earl, but he's in the Steve Earl. Uh stee.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
If you're looking at up, Steve Earl probably covered it.
Uh it's gosh.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He played a show for us at the RCCEE. He
he actually spent the whole day with me. He did
the morning show, he did the evening show. In between
we went and I watched him do his soundcheck, which
is my favorite. I'd rather see somebody do their soundcheck
than see him do a show.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Crawl. Rodney Crowell, Rodney Crowll, I think that's it. Yeah,
Rodney Crowell.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Anyway, he talks about in the song Telephone Road, riding
your bike on Telephone Road in Houston on the southeast
side behind the mosquito truck, so you could you could
breathe in the vapors and get the the you know,
the funny feeling from it. And I loved that smell
of the mosquita truck. There was a there was a
post the other day that somebody put up that said, hey,
(18:58):
there was a plane that flew over my house. I
think it was on the west side of Houston planing.
It flew over my house. It was flying real low
and it was smoking, and I kept waiting for the crash,
but I never heard it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I'm assuming if.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It was smoking that bad, maybe they landed it okay,
but it was in bad shape. And he told where
he was and then people started going on and going no, no, no, no,
that's the mosquito plane. They're dropping juice out of there
to kill the mosquitoes. But anyway, so this woman said,
just like you told us, Christine Weaver made a house call.
(19:35):
She came to our house and we have a complicated arrangement.
I'm not going to get into the whole thing. But
she and her husband each had children before. They have
a family business. Very common situation, family business. The original will,
which is the most simplified way that you plan your
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estate when I die. You know, Ghost and Nandida and
twenty five gost Michael t and twenty five goes to Crockett.
That's a very simple will. Well, most people, your estate
as you get older is more and more complicated, especially.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If you have assets.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You got a lake home, you got a Galveston beach home,
you got, you got a place out in Brenham or
Belleville or Chapel Hill, you got a business, you got.
It's not uncommon to have several million dollars in stock
from even if you don't own a business from. There's
police officers that have two million dollars in their drop
(20:38):
account that they just they spent thirty years on and
the city matched it, and they they threw everything they
had in there. They didn't have to go through a divorce.
When people ask me, you know how would you what's
your advice for having the most amount of money when
you're older in life? No joke, I say, don't get divorced.
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That will be the thing that will cut you in half.
My buddy Larry Hoffman, who I'm still mad at, he
died on my birthday last year, just out of nowhere,
just dies. Has this beautiful place out in cat Spring,
and I've just been with him a couple days before.
He wasn't a cigar guy, though he'd smoking with me,
(21:26):
but he smoked those trashy cigarettes. My wife says, why
do you refer to cigarettes as trashy and you smoke
cigars every day. I don't make the rules. Cigarettes are trashy,
cigars are classy. I don't make the rules. You know,
a lot of guys like blondes. Not my thing, but
throughout the world, white blonde women are, for most cultures,
(21:48):
considered the most glorious thing in the world. I didn't
make that rule. It's not even my thing. But that
is again. I'm just a rule observer, a rule commentator. Anyway,
So Larry and I had a conversation one day, which
is where I got that theory. He said, Michael, do
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you realize how much money i'd have if I hadn't
been divorced several times and I said, no, I know
how much money you got now it's a lot. Then
he said, yeah, imagine cutting it in half three different times. Well,
you just pick any amount of money. Okay, let's say,
let's pick a million dollars. You cut a million dollars
(22:31):
and a half. You got five hundred. You cut it
and a half again, you got two fifty. You cut
it and half again, you got one twenty five. You
went from having a million bucks to one twenty five,
and there's a lot more.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It ages you, It stresses you the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I find it odd that parents obsess over where their
kid's going to go to college, as if that's going
to be the most important thing in their life. It
is not not even a big five whether they go
to college. It's not even that important. It's not I
can point to you to so many examples of people
that are what you'd consider successful financially, professionally satisfaction level
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that didn't go to college. Lots and lots of people
now they spend their whole life worried about it. I
got friends that didn't go to college and make plenty
of money, and they have a hang up about it.
Good grief, get over it, go to college for a
semester and realize it's just one big toga party.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's way overrated. Life is what is important.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
But anyway, it strikes me as interesting that parents will
talk to their kid about where they're gonna go to college,
what team they're gonna root for, but not who they're
gonna marry. That's gonna be way, that's gonna be the
most important thing to your life's success professional and personally
in your life, and it's almost never discussed. So I
(23:50):
got an email from my friend, the angie plumber, Michael Robinson,
and he said, as long as you're on the subject
of rules, and I wasn't. I'd moved way past it.
Keish is not fit to eat. So I sent him
a gift of a dude whose eyes are bugging out, like,
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You said that.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I wasn't really surprised. I figured that would be his opinion.
He said, you agree, I know you do. You also
agree that pie is dessert and I don't want it
in any savory iteration for any reason or ever again,
which was a playback on the Jimmy Dean sausage. You agree,
you know you do? You also agree that pie is dessert.
(24:31):
I guess he's saying that keish is pie. I don't
want it in any savory iteration for any reason or ever. Again, Yeah,
I'm not sure why there's this masculinity thing associated with keish.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I'm not a keish eater. I want to be clear
on that. Right.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
This is not my heill to die on. But I
am interested when people arbitrarily decide that things are gay.
We should just ask gay Dave. But gay Dave says
everything is gay anyway, so he's not even.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
A good judge of anything.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh you what Gay Dave told me, Jim He said
he's had I guess people figured out who he was.
I don't know how that happens, and they wanted him
to approach me by email. He said, I never met
the guy.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It was not true. I met him at an event
at twenty nine twenty. But he said.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
That they approached him and said we want to have
a gay meetup, like he does those meetups. I've not
actually done the meetup. I've just talked about doing a
meetup for single people. He said that they are all
hitting him up, going, hey, we want to gay meet
up Michael Barry Show listeners, and gay Dave had the
good sens to go, no, he's not going.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
That'd be weird and he'd get nothing but criticism. And
so what oh we called it gay Loave. Good call, Jim,
maybe you could run it. But anyway, so there's apparently
a bunch of gay dudes out there that are single
are just wanting to mess around, and they want to
mess around with other Michael.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Berry Show listeners.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So I said, gay Dave, why do they want to
be with other Michael Berry Show listeners, like gay there's
so many gay dudes out there, y'all just gather, you know,
and be gay together. And he said no, because there's
a lot of gay dudes that have bad politics and
they don't want to be around those people. They want
to be around other homos with good politics. I said, okay,
(26:32):
I guess, but you're not trying to meet a life
partner right in this like a hook up thing, and
he said no, they can hook up wherever they want,
whenever they want. They want like friends with benefits, but
people that they can talk about the show and talk
about issues, and I said, this is weird. I'm gonna
have to disengage from this conversation gay Dave, because this
(26:56):
is surprising and in some way disturbing. I can't figure
out why. But the other thing is I'm all for
calling stuff gay. Doug Stanhope does this bit where he
says this, this, and this are gay, and then he goes,
don't get me wrong, I like homosexuals. I like using
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the word gay for meaning stupid. And by the way,
gay people do it too. So if you're gay or
you're gay adjacent and you want to get upset about it,
get up and leave now, because I use the word
gay all the time and so do gay people, which
is true as a matter of fact. So anyway, I
don't understand why keish has to be gay. Is it
(27:39):
where it's served, because like Rachel said, she likes it
at the tea room, and the tea room is is
kind of prissy, right, There's no doubt it's kind of
a feminine place for women to meet in the after
women that don't drink rose and play magen. You know,
maybe older women they go and get their hair done
and sit under the blower, and they wear their nicest
stuff and they go and they meet with each other
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at the tea room. Okay, all right, I get it.
And there's a certain decore that the tea room has to.
I think there's still one in bel Air. I remember
driving past one, or maybe somebody email me that there
was one.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But I just I'm still.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Struggling with why Keish has to be gay. First of all,
it's got a French name, so that gives it kind
of you know, pepe le peu, you know, uh, feminine tendencies.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I suppose.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Secondly, where it's served that probably has something to do
with it.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You know, the only time I've ever been tempted to
eat Keish, if I'm completely honest. At La Madeline, we
used to live across the street from La Madeline, and
I was on a diet. I was up to two
forty I'm one eighty now, I'm down my lowest in years.
And we would walk over to the La Madeline and
(29:00):
I was trying to figure out intermittent fasting works for me.
I can lose weight, I can stay where I want
to be and still eat like a king. Just warm
me on the day. So anyway, we would go there
almost every day. Michael t there was a dish he liked.
I liked their fat free caesar salad and I would
with grilled chicken on the top. And they had a
(29:24):
tomato basil soup that was, Man, was it ever good?
I don't like my tomato basil soup, Jim. If you're
wondering to be like gruel, like real thin like the English,
do I like it more French Italian to have some
like some chunk to it, you know what I mean,
more like ragout.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
So we would go there and I would eat that
every day, that and a nice tea. And I couldn't
understand why I wasn't losing weight.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
So I went one day and I said, you know,
some days I don't feel like walking over here, so
I'll just get me.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
A bottle what would you call?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I guess a bottle like we ate raggougrown would be
that size of bottle of the glass jar a jar
of it, and I spun it around. I wish I
hadn't because I've never eaten it. Since it was like
approximately five million grams of carbs or fat or whatever
it was in it. I think at the time, I
was trying to do fat free, and I remember looking
(30:19):
at it and going, you are evil, Tomato Basil. You
are not the answer to my problems. You are evil
in the worst kind of way. And I had no
idea none. I thought I was doing so well. I'd
eat my fat free dressing on my Caesar salad and
my soup, and I thought, ma'am, I'm just give me
a little time, I'm gonna lose some weight. I didn't
(30:39):
lose any weight, not even a little bit. I wanted
to get something in before we closed the show. A
guy sent me an email about a guy by the
name of doctor Boring, and he was living in Calcushoe Parish,
somewhere outside of Lake Charles, and he jumped off the bridge,
the ien bridge you take when you go to Baton
Rouge and Orleans. And his kids said that they did.
(31:00):
He was a prominent eye doctor, beloved, but he got
Tonightus during COVID, and that tonight Iss was so unbearable
that he took his own life. And then I got
to thinking, you know, Kent Taylor, the guy that founded
Texas Roadhouse, was worth six hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Now you know They say money can't buy you.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you
stuff that can give you happiness. You know, a yacht,
a private plane, a house somewhere that you know I
don't have to sweat in or get mosquito bit and
good food, you know, nice stuff right, solve a lot
of problems. And he took his own life, and I
(31:40):
knew it was because Tonight's So I went back about
an hour ago and I started reading about it. I
didn't realize he got tonightus from COVID. Also, so here
we have the Chinese who were continuing to import their
trash products cheaply made. We're now worried that they're stealing
our AI through counterfeit efforts. They sent us COVID. You
(32:08):
still got fauci who Hadn't you think about how many
lives were ruined.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Businesses, clothes that have never opened up. Our country has
never recovered from COVID
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