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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Bubba and Tody Smith, both from Beaumont. Thank you, Steve Percomb.
Steve Percrim is our fact checker today. He knows all
things Beaumont. I'm surprised I haven't received a hate mail
from Eddie yet, because he hates when we talk about
things unless it's New Orleans. He hates stuff like this.
Do you have that song from Paul Noiola? I told
Paul Noyola, who came on the Palm Beach trip, that
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I wanted him to do a Michael Berry Show song.
He said, what do you want to I said, just
whatever you want to do, just have some fun with it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do you have it?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You haven't heard it? I sent it to you, all right,
I'll play it for you a minute, Joel, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Early nineteen sixties Texas City Byron and Dren Calvert and
Charlie dupri They were ahead of my brother in school,
but they all wound up playing College Fall of Texas,
and I think the Talbert brothers did go pro at
some point, maybe for the cow Boys and the Redskins.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, we were talking about Little Joe Washington yesterday and
oh you know what it is? Set the player from
seventy two wasn't Wooster. Wooster was the sixties. It was
Little Joe Washington's who it was from Lincoln High School.
His dad was the coach there. Remember Little Joe Washington,
that's before your time. He was a slot back for
the Redskins. He was a superstar in the NFL, but
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he was something above that. I don't know what's above superstar,
but that's what he was at Lincoln High School. Holy smokes.
You got to realize when they first integrated the schools,
black schools played black schools and white schools played white schools,
and you did not mix them when you first had
the white schools played in the black schools. And then
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the integration, that was a sea change in sports. And
as a little white kid growing up in Orange, Texas,
I knew it now. My eye were bulging watching sports
transform before my very eyes. And today to have such
an observation would be considered racist, but it wasn't. I
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was just a little kid growing up and I remember
going into the locker room with my Papaw and he
drove the school bus for different high schools around the area.
And it was the last ball game that Hebert ever played,
and so he would you know, go in there and
talk to the coach, and the coach would tell him,
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you know, bring the bus around at this time or whatever.
It was an all black team, right, I must have.
It must have been about seventy five, seventy sits about
five years old. And I went walking in that locker
room at about five years old, and uh, yeah, that
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was a shock. A little five year old Michael had
never been in a grown up locker room. And when
you're five years old, eighteen year old young men are
grown ups. You know what I'm saying. It was a shocker.
It was a shocker. Jay, who you're up?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Hey, Michael, what you got?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I was gonna second that story with Marcus Dupree. Willie
Morris wrote a book about him called Courting of Marcus
Dupree and pretty fascinating. Goes more depth about how he
got taken advantage of by kind of family friend who
turned into his agent and gave him some terrible information.
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But it was Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is well, ah, that's it, Philadelphisissippi called Jaho. Jay lives
in Uh where do you live outside of Austin.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
We're in New Bronfels, now New Bronfels.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I was at a a John Evans concert.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
With Willie.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Braun at Polyester Wednesday in Austin about ten years ago,
and Jay, who came strolling up, said, I'm not going
to bother you, but I know who you are. I'm
a big listener. His wife works at that boot company
on Lamar that has that big boot out front. M Anyway,
that Marcus du Pree story, there was something about that
that I was going to share. That's a good that's
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a good thirty for thirty if you hadn't seen it, George,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yeah, Hi listened, George and Houston. I was born and
raised in southern California, and I went to a Catholic
high school who for Sarah High School. And they had
a picture there that had about six or three one
hundred and eighty pounds as all his right arm, and
that dude could troll like you couldn't believe. Is Tom
Pavela was his name, Tom Tom Pavela. And the thing
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is he got leukemia. Man, he didn't make it out
of high school.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh man, what year did he come out?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Fifty seven? Fifty seven was a year he would have
graduated five seven, five seven that's correct.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, okay, because if it was sixty seven, Pastorini would
know him because he was he went to Santa Clara University,
but he was all American. This all American that coming
out of high school. Kathy, what you got?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
How about Norman Bulash?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
She graduated from Lamark High School in sixty five when
Lamark went to Stay and he started playing for the Baltimore.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Coach with Johnny Unitus.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
He was running back that in seventy one, Norman Bulache
was MVP at.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
The Super Bowls of the Baltimore Coach.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Built Aby show.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Bill, you're up.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Yeah, I've got a few of them, but the main
one I called about was Stephenville High School nineteen ninety two,
Brandon Stewart.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let me tell you something, Arn't Briles is the It
is after bum Phillips, the best coach to ever coach
high school and college and have the level of success
he did. There's nobody that ever did that, and Bum's
numbers don't even hold up to that.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
Yeah. At that time, I was living in Joshuay, Texas,
and we played him and we did an onside kick
to start the game and then kicked like a fifty
yard field goal and we were up three to nothing,
and I think they ended up beating us like fifty
eight to three. And then I've got the Ald Timer
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that I knew when I was growing up. I was
just a kid at the time. But Kenneth Hall, because
I'm from sugar Land and he was unbelievable. All the
stories about him.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Well, I will fight anybody over the Art Brow story.
I know they ran him out from Baylor, and I
know some bad things happened, but I will tell you this,
as a coach, maybe maybe he was running thug you
like Miami did for all those years. But as a
coach in high school, you look at what Stephenville did
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during his years of coaching there. I mean, they ran
up numbers like Westlake, but he didn't have nearly the talent.
And then he went to the University of Houston and
he was the original of those you when the when
UH made its big turnaround and had a series of
great coaches come through there, Art Briles, Kevin Sumlan, what
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was old goober head that would kiss the players on
them mouth Herman, Yeah, that bad guy. What was his
I can't remember his first name? And now I don't
even want to remember his name, Tom Herman. Yeah, thanks,
went to UT and just flubbed it. Oh Man, you
know I I'm not gonna say it anyway. So Art
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Briles was a winner at Stephenville. He was a winner.
He was legendary at Stephenville. And then to go to
college at University of Houston and make that program into
a dominant program like it had not been for over
a decade, and then go to Baylor. Baylor was vying
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for a national championship. The two best teams in college
football out of the state of Texas for about a
five year period were TCU and Baylor, not ut In
A and M. And for you to attract that kind
of talent, you've got to You can't recruit against UT
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and A and M. You got to be a better coach.
That was when RG three came through there. Those Baylor
teams were some kind of fun to watch. Larry what
you got.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Got?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Lynn Herford for Conroe in nineteen seventy three to seventy five,
and then Rock cart Right Conroe in ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Somebody else said, brock cart Right, where did he go?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Conroe?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Where'd he go to college?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You go? Yeah? He ended up he went to Tyler
Junior College in k State. Many played special teams for
the Redskins for a few years.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Oh, I'm glad you brought up Conroe. Have you been
to the Honor Cafe?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, sir, I have.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Let me just tell you a real quick story. I've
been meaning to tell this. So both the Latreil boys,
Morgan and Marcus separately, had been telling me, hey man,
you have got to come out with You have got
to come out to Conroe to this place called the
Honor Cafe. Oh my goodness, you are going to be
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blown away. It's his big fat marine. He's big, and
I don't mean just fat, like he's got a big
old belly like his forearms, or like big ol' hunks
of meat. Right. This guy has created as a living
museum to veterans people in Conroe. They only do breakfast
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and lunch and I think dinner on Friday. People in
Conroe go in there, and if you if you're a
gold star parent you lost your son in a line
of duty, you can bring anything you want from your
kid and put it on the wall. You are walking
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around and looking at a living museum for young men
all the way up. I went in the middle. I
went in between the two shows, and it just blew
me away. The food's phenomenal. The food's phenomenal, but a
lot of people can make phenomenal food. The concept. They
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got a lending library, all these he looks about different battles.
I always wanted to do a lending library at the RCC.
They got a lending library of thousands of volumes. They've
got all these tributes to veterans. They got stuff I've
never seen in my life from every conflict, but mostly
it's veterans that are in there eating. I hope everyone
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who is married to a veteran, has a child who's
a veteran, a parent who's a veteran or is a veteran,
will go by and support this guy. His name is
Chris Sadler. You can't miss him.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Got a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He looks like a marine. He looks like a guy
that was in the Marines ten fifteen years ago. He's
a big, old, fat guy that can outrun you and
beat your ass and will do it in a second.
Or he'll give you a free steak because you served
in Iraq or something. I don't know. I didn't say.
That's not the deal. But go check this place house
called the Honor Cafe. It's in Conroe. Conroe has a
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quaint little downtown. You ever seen the Conrae downtown. It's
a nice little downtown. It's about a It's a couple
of blocks down the street. Whatever that street is, Main Street?
Something street? Peep, Piccadillo? What Pacific?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Pacific is so?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
What it is?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, it's it's just about three blocks from the from
the city Hall. And if everybody in the in North
Houston knows about this place and goes there for breakfast
and lunch, he'll make it. He's been at it for.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
A few years.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's a struggle. The restaurant business is a struggle. We
need a place like this. So before you go to
some national franchise, his prices are not bad. Before you
go to some national franchise, go over to the Honor
Cafe and ask for Chris Sadlery. I love what this
guy's doing.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
With his finger on the pulse.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
The King of Team continues on The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
September eleventh, two thousand and one, Twin Towers came down and.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Let's roll. Took a plane out of the.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Air and crashed it to avoid further damage. The Pentagon
was severely hit and some young men on that day
determined that they were going to go punish the.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
People who had did that, who had done this to us.
On June twenty eighth, two thousand and five, Operation Red
Wings with an S on the end was undertaken, also
known as the Battle of Abbasghar, in the Kunar province
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of Afghanistan, on the slopes of a mountain called saw
Tolo Tsar, about twenty miles west of Asadabad, four Navy
seals repelled quickly out of a shin helicopter called fast.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Roping, and shortly thereafter some goat herders stumbled upon those
four men. Their names were Danny Deets, Michael Murphy, Matthew Axelson,
and a young man from Willis named Marcus Latrell. As
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you know if you've read the book and or seen
the movie. A firefight ensued. Three of the four were killed.
Marcus Latrell dragged himself, it is estimated, somewhere between five
and seven miles until he was taken in by Afghan
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villagers and eventually rescued and removed from the situation. He
is a very consistent diary writer, and he reduced to
writing what happened. Had he not, we wouldn't know about
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the heroism, the suffering, the sacrifice of that moment.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Today's a good day.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
If you haven't in a while seen Loan Survivor, to
go back and watch it. I got to tell you
I'd heard stories from Marcus and some of the other
seals he's introduced me to about seal training and what
they go through. But it's the movie does a fantastic job,
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and of course Marcus was involved, as was his brother Morgan,
in the making of that movie and making it as
realistic as possible, and that you partially die in the process.
It's part of understanding your limits in becoming a Navy
seal and becoming a frogman. One of my favorite scenes,
in one of the happier scenes, is where they have
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to remember the seal creed. You remember that.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Been around the world twice, talk to everyone once, seen
two wheels in the three World Fares, and now even
know a man in Thailand with a wooden push more peter,
more sweeter, and more completer than any other Peter pusher around.
I'm a hard body, hairy chested, root and toot and
shooting Paris, shooting, demolition, double cap crimping frog man. There
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ain't nothing I can't do. No sky too high, no
sea too rough, no too tough. Thearn a lot of
lessons in my life. Never shoot a large calval man
with a small caliber bullet. We'll drop all kinds of trucks.
Two buys, four byes, six buys. Those big motherfuckers at
bend and go when you step on the brakes. Anything
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in life worth doing is worth overdoing moderations for cowards.
I'm a lover, I'm a fighter. I'm a U d
tem ab seal diver a wine, dine each of twine,
then sneak out the back door when you're feeling is
the So if you're feeling froggy, then you better jump
because this fog Man's been there, done that, and it's
going back from Mark. Cheers boys.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
At the end of the movie, there is a scene
where Marcus Atrell is being lifted out of that Afghan village,
and I got to say, Marky Mark did a phenomenal
job becoming Marcus Latrell. And I think Marcus and Morgan's
role in that movie throughout the process. They're actually in
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the movie. If you've seen it, you know that. But
the book was so detailed and the movie maker was
so determined to get it right, and Marky Mark puts
so much effort into paying tribute to those guys properly.
But it's still, to this day, seventeen years later, that
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last scene where he's quoting, where he's telling his story
but it actually comes from the diary, still gets me.
Every time.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
I died up on that mountain. There is no question
a part of me will ever be up on that
mountain dead, as my brothers died. But there is a
part of me that lived because of my brothers. Because
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of them, I am still alive and I can never forget.
But no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets,
or how far you fall, you are never out of
the fight.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And I think about how many men have come through
the doors of Camp Hope suffering the wounds mentors of
PTSD who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Joe Biden
leaves eighty billion dollars worth of assets and lets thirteen
of our service members die. How dishonorable and disgusting.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Hello everyone, this is your Action News reporter with all
the news. It is news across the nation. On the
scene at the supermarket. There seems to have been some
disturbance here. Pardon me, sir, did you see what happened?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Y idea.
Speaker 12 (19:27):
I stand over by the maters, and here it comes,
running through the pole. Be still the fruits and vegetables neck.
It is a jaybird. And I hollered over Deathel. I said,
don't look Athod, it's too late. She'd already been in
the Saints. He come boo go, and he ain't wearing
no glow.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
They call in the street, fastest thing on two kes.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He just as proud as he can be. He gonna
give us saty. Oh, yes, they call him the street.
He likes so of his was he If there's an
audience who be found to be streaking it around getting
by the butet Pettigue.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Listed your action music order once again, and we're here
at the gas station. Pardon me, sir, did you see
what happened?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (20:22):
Indeed, I've just been here getting my car jack. He
disappeared down the pack, come streaking around the grease right curve,
didn't have nothing on but a smile. I looked and
learned Ethel getting a cold right my heart O.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
W can't talk.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
It's kool acause he already been moved. What Rock turned
from shop saw? He will yas they.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Call in the street.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
He likes turney out of the teek. He's always making
the news red just because in a minute Ethel's gonna
join in.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
And that's white reporter in the boot at the gym
covering the disturbance at the basketball playoff. Pardon me, sir,
did you see what happened?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (21:16):
See, hey, Tim, I was going down there, get Ethel
of snow color here come let out the cheek seats
ripple right down in the middle.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Of the court.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Didn't have on nothing but a head, reade the hook
shot and got out for the concession.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Stad I hollered up at that, but I said, don't
my hairple cool?
Speaker 12 (21:35):
She already gotta preach up grand stack Rock dirty from
the hole?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
What said colin the streets?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Steak?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Can't you just pilos heat ginger?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What do you take gutting endemy? He gonna give us
hip game? Where you got that? So see, that's the
part I can't abide, is Ethel joining in on the
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streaking herself. It was on this day in nineteen seventy
four that Ray Stevens released The Streak. I was too
young to remember streaking as a phenomenon, but I go
back and look at a lot of primary coverage footage
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of sporting events and I have to tell you I
find it hilarious. It was such a phenomenon at the
time that when Ray Stevens released The Street, there were
already fifteen other songs about streaking, and there would end
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up being over forty. How far did did Ray Stevens
come in his career?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
What a dear?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
He wasn't bad, so I had he wrote and recorded
this what Johnny Cash ended up making finish?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Christos Stoperson.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
I'm sorry Christopersons find my cleanness.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You gotta remember Misty was such a big hit.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That was his You know that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Ray Stevens realized he wasn't gonna make it as a
he wasn't going to compete with Misty was a big
hit for him, but that was a crowded space. He
started doing these novelty concept songs and he absolutely killed it.
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He bought up half a Nashville. I took a tour
with him, it was like on that, on that, on
that own that he owns the building that I Heart
is in, and it's a three story building next door
to his building. Both of them are on hard corners
next door to his building, which has a recording studio
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in it people rent out. Ray Stevens has made more
money in music than almost anybody you can imagine, because
unlike the artist who's mostly just getting paid an appearance
fee to show up at a concert, and Ray Stevens
owned the front end, the back end, the recording studio,
the publishing rights, all the mailbox money. That guy is
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such a phenomenal businessman in much the same way Oprah is.
But he was ahead of his time. Bill, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
I was a dad, got a transfer from Norfolk, Virginia
to Houston. We bought a house on nineteen sixty and
the Champions Forest. It was greenwood forest, but helped people
realize where it was and there was two stop lights
between there and forty five Well Kirkandal Studenter and I
remember in seventy three, so I guess I was twelve.
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We got some friends and I think there may have
been a small amount of Boons Farm involved. Anyway, shed
the clothes and started streaking down in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
It was very very.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Popular at the time.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
How old were you, I think twelve.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I mean, I look, I don't know, and we all
deal with moving differently. I think that's very traumatic for
kids when you move them. And I was trying to
make new friends and experimented with a couple other things
in sixth grade. But I remember I remember streaking, and
I just thought I was crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It was.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
It was a night, my man, it was a night.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
You know.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I'm not that proud.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I love that Ray Stephen song.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It was just so much fun.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
But anyway, that's my streaking story.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's a good story.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
H I don't know about want my kids doing it,
but it was fun back then. That was as as
belligerent and wild as we got. I think we wrapped
a few houses with toilet paper, but that was about it.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I got to tell you. When I see a guy
go down on the field and start running and the
security guards try to catch him, I think these guys
must be coked up or at least amphetamined up. Yea,
and it's like they have superhumans. It's I guess the
adrenaline is pumping, and the security guard but I will,
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I will watch and root for them like you cannot imagine.
And then when they're caught, they're absolutely gassed, right, they
are exhausted and they're caught, and now the fun is over.
But you can tell it is a thrill ride like
nothing else when they get out on a field and
start running and the cops are con afterb and it's
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embarrassing for the cops or the security guards because they're
usually in terrible, terrible shape. And watch the smile on
the person's face.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I just I find that I find that must watch.
I cannot and if I'm at an event. I don't
go to sporting events anymore, but I used to, and
when I would, i'd.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Root for that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And if you know, it's when you least expect it, right,
it's always in the middle of an inning, when you
least expecting that guy he goes out there and he's
sprinting at full speed and he's button nagging, or even
if he's not buttonagging, it's just hilarious.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
God, we're going, We're going streaking the quad gium on
every day.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Come on, Snoop super.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Noololing, bring your green hand, let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Do you remember when the ladies are driving down the
street and they look at this fat guy, he's streaking,
and they realize it's her husband.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Ye
Bubba and Tody Smith, both from Beaumont. Thank you, Steve Percomb.
Steve Percrim is our fact checker today. He knows all
things Beaumont. I'm surprised I haven't received a hate mail
from Eddie yet, because he hates when we talk about
things unless it's New Orleans. He hates stuff like this.
Do you have that song from Paul Noiola? I told
Paul Noyola, who came on the Palm Beach trip, that
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I wanted him to do a Michael Berry Show song.
He said, what do you want to I said, just
whatever you want to do, just have some fun with it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do you have it?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You haven't heard it? I sent it to you, all right,
I'll play it for you a minute, Joel, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Early nineteen sixties Texas City Byron and Dren Calvert and
Charlie dupri They were ahead of my brother in school,
but they all wound up playing College Fall of Texas,
and I think the Talbert brothers did go pro at
some point, maybe for the cow Boys and the Redskins.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, we were talking about Little Joe Washington yesterday and
oh you know what it is? Set the player from
seventy two wasn't Wooster. Wooster was the sixties. It was
Little Joe Washington's who it was from Lincoln High School.
His dad was the coach there. Remember Little Joe Washington,
that's before your time. He was a slot back for
the Redskins. He was a superstar in the NFL, but
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he was something above that. I don't know what's above superstar,
but that's what he was at Lincoln High School. Holy smokes.
You got to realize when they first integrated the schools,
black schools played black schools and white schools played white schools,
and you did not mix them when you first had
the white schools played in the black schools. And then
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the integration, that was a sea change in sports. And
as a little white kid growing up in Orange, Texas,
I knew it now. My eye were bulging watching sports
transform before my very eyes. And today to have such
an observation would be considered racist, but it wasn't. I
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was just a little kid growing up and I remember
going into the locker room with my Papaw and he
drove the school bus for different high schools around the area.
And it was the last ball game that Hebert ever played,
and so he would you know, go in there and
talk to the coach, and the coach would tell him,
(02:31):
you know, bring the bus around at this time or whatever.
It was an all black team, right, I must have.
It must have been about seventy five, seventy sits about
five years old. And I went walking in that locker
room at about five years old, and uh, yeah, that
(02:52):
was a shock. A little five year old Michael had
never been in a grown up locker room. And when
you're five years old, eighteen year old young men are
grown ups. You know what I'm saying. It was a shocker.
It was a shocker. Jay, who you're up?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Hey, Michael, what you got?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I was gonna second that story with Marcus Dupree. Willie
Morris wrote a book about him called Courting of Marcus
Dupree and pretty fascinating. Goes more depth about how he
got taken advantage of by kind of family friend who
turned into his agent and gave him some terrible information.
(03:34):
But it was Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is well, ah, that's it, Philadelphisissippi called Jaho. Jay lives
in Uh where do you live outside of Austin.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
We're in New Bronfels, now New Bronfels.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I was at a a John Evans concert.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
With Willie.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Braun at Polyester Wednesday in Austin about ten years ago,
and Jay, who came strolling up, said, I'm not going
to bother you, but I know who you are. I'm
a big listener. His wife works at that boot company
on Lamar that has that big boot out front. M Anyway,
that Marcus du Pree story, there was something about that
that I was going to share. That's a good that's
(04:16):
a good thirty for thirty if you hadn't seen it, George,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yeah, Hi listened, George and Houston. I was born and
raised in southern California, and I went to a Catholic
high school who for Sarah High School. And they had
a picture there that had about six or three one
hundred and eighty pounds as all his right arm, and
that dude could troll like you couldn't believe. Is Tom
Pavela was his name, Tom Tom Pavela. And the thing
(04:41):
is he got leukemia. Man, he didn't make it out
of high school.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh man, what year did he come out?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Fifty seven? Fifty seven was a year he would have
graduated five seven, five seven that's correct.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, okay, because if it was sixty seven, Pastorini would
know him because he was he went to Santa Clara University,
but he was all American. This all American that coming
out of high school. Kathy, what you got?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
How about Norman Bulash?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
She graduated from Lamark High School in sixty five when
Lamark went to Stay and he started playing for the Baltimore.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Coach with Johnny Unitus.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
He was running back that in seventy one, Norman Bulache
was MVP at.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
The Super Bowls of the Baltimore Coach.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Built Aby show.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Bill, you're up.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Yeah, I've got a few of them, but the main
one I called about was Stephenville High School nineteen ninety two,
Brandon Stewart.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let me tell you something, Arn't Briles is the It
is after bum Phillips, the best coach to ever coach
high school and college and have the level of success
he did. There's nobody that ever did that, and Bum's
numbers don't even hold up to that.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
Yeah. At that time, I was living in Joshuay, Texas,
and we played him and we did an onside kick
to start the game and then kicked like a fifty
yard field goal and we were up three to nothing,
and I think they ended up beating us like fifty
eight to three. And then I've got the Ald Timer
(06:36):
that I knew when I was growing up. I was
just a kid at the time. But Kenneth Hall, because
I'm from sugar Land and he was unbelievable. All the
stories about him.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Well, I will fight anybody over the Art Brow story.
I know they ran him out from Baylor, and I
know some bad things happened, but I will tell you this,
as a coach, maybe maybe he was running thug you
like Miami did for all those years. But as a
coach in high school, you look at what Stephenville did
(07:15):
during his years of coaching there. I mean, they ran
up numbers like Westlake, but he didn't have nearly the talent.
And then he went to the University of Houston and
he was the original of those you when the when
UH made its big turnaround and had a series of
great coaches come through there, Art Briles, Kevin Sumlan, what
(07:36):
was old goober head that would kiss the players on
them mouth Herman, Yeah, that bad guy. What was his
I can't remember his first name? And now I don't
even want to remember his name, Tom Herman. Yeah, thanks,
went to UT and just flubbed it. Oh Man, you
know I I'm not gonna say it anyway. So Art
(08:06):
Briles was a winner at Stephenville. He was a winner.
He was legendary at Stephenville. And then to go to
college at University of Houston and make that program into
a dominant program like it had not been for over
a decade, and then go to Baylor. Baylor was vying
(08:27):
for a national championship. The two best teams in college
football out of the state of Texas for about a
five year period were TCU and Baylor, not ut In
A and M. And for you to attract that kind
of talent, you've got to You can't recruit against UT
(08:48):
and A and M. You got to be a better coach.
That was when RG three came through there. Those Baylor
teams were some kind of fun to watch. Larry what
you got.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Got?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Lynn Herford for Conroe in nineteen seventy three to seventy five,
and then Rock cart Right Conroe in ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Somebody else said, brock cart Right, where did he go?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Conroe?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Where'd he go to college?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You go? Yeah? He ended up he went to Tyler
Junior College in k State. Many played special teams for
the Redskins for a few years.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Oh, I'm glad you brought up Conroe. Have you been
to the Honor Cafe?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, sir, I have.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Let me just tell you a real quick story. I've
been meaning to tell this. So both the Latreil boys,
Morgan and Marcus separately, had been telling me, hey man,
you have got to come out with You have got
to come out to Conroe to this place called the
Honor Cafe. Oh my goodness, you are going to be
(09:49):
blown away. It's his big fat marine. He's big, and
I don't mean just fat, like he's got a big
old belly like his forearms, or like big ol' hunks
of meat. Right. This guy has created as a living
museum to veterans people in Conroe. They only do breakfast
(10:15):
and lunch and I think dinner on Friday. People in
Conroe go in there, and if you if you're a
gold star parent you lost your son in a line
of duty, you can bring anything you want from your
kid and put it on the wall. You are walking
(10:37):
around and looking at a living museum for young men
all the way up. I went in the middle. I
went in between the two shows, and it just blew
me away. The food's phenomenal. The food's phenomenal, but a
lot of people can make phenomenal food. The concept. They
(10:57):
got a lending library, all these he looks about different battles.
I always wanted to do a lending library at the RCC.
They got a lending library of thousands of volumes. They've
got all these tributes to veterans. They got stuff I've
never seen in my life from every conflict, but mostly
it's veterans that are in there eating. I hope everyone
(11:21):
who is married to a veteran, has a child who's
a veteran, a parent who's a veteran or is a veteran,
will go by and support this guy. His name is
Chris Sadler. You can't miss him.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Got a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He looks like a marine. He looks like a guy
that was in the Marines ten fifteen years ago. He's
a big, old, fat guy that can outrun you and
beat your ass and will do it in a second.
Or he'll give you a free steak because you served
in Iraq or something. I don't know. I didn't say.
That's not the deal. But go check this place house
called the Honor Cafe. It's in Conroe. Conroe has a
(11:58):
quaint little downtown. You ever seen the Conrae downtown. It's
a nice little downtown. It's about a It's a couple
of blocks down the street. Whatever that street is, Main Street?
Something street? Peep, Piccadillo? What Pacific?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Pacific is so?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
What it is?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, it's it's just about three blocks from the from
the city Hall. And if everybody in the in North
Houston knows about this place and goes there for breakfast
and lunch, he'll make it. He's been at it for.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
A few years.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's a struggle. The restaurant business is a struggle. We
need a place like this. So before you go to
some national franchise, his prices are not bad. Before you
go to some national franchise, go over to the Honor
Cafe and ask for Chris Sadlery. I love what this
guy's doing.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
With his finger on the pulse.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
The King of Team continues on The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
September eleventh, two thousand and one, Twin Towers came down and.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Let's roll. Took a plane out of the.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Air and crashed it to avoid further damage. The Pentagon
was severely hit and some young men on that day
determined that they were going to go punish the.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
People who had did that, who had done this to us.
On June twenty eighth, two thousand and five, Operation Red
Wings with an S on the end was undertaken, also
known as the Battle of Abbasghar, in the Kunar province
(13:42):
of Afghanistan, on the slopes of a mountain called saw
Tolo Tsar, about twenty miles west of Asadabad, four Navy
seals repelled quickly out of a shin helicopter called fast.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Roping, and shortly thereafter some goat herders stumbled upon those
four men. Their names were Danny Deets, Michael Murphy, Matthew Axelson,
and a young man from Willis named Marcus Latrell. As
(14:26):
you know if you've read the book and or seen
the movie. A firefight ensued. Three of the four were killed.
Marcus Latrell dragged himself, it is estimated, somewhere between five
and seven miles until he was taken in by Afghan
(14:47):
villagers and eventually rescued and removed from the situation. He
is a very consistent diary writer, and he reduced to
writing what happened. Had he not, we wouldn't know about
(15:09):
the heroism, the suffering, the sacrifice of that moment.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Today's a good day.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
If you haven't in a while seen Loan Survivor, to
go back and watch it. I got to tell you
I'd heard stories from Marcus and some of the other
seals he's introduced me to about seal training and what
they go through. But it's the movie does a fantastic job,
(15:35):
and of course Marcus was involved, as was his brother Morgan,
in the making of that movie and making it as
realistic as possible, and that you partially die in the process.
It's part of understanding your limits in becoming a Navy
seal and becoming a frogman. One of my favorite scenes,
in one of the happier scenes, is where they have
(15:56):
to remember the seal creed. You remember that.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Been around the world twice, talk to everyone once, seen
two wheels in the three World Fares, and now even
know a man in Thailand with a wooden push more peter,
more sweeter, and more completer than any other Peter pusher around.
I'm a hard body, hairy chested, root and toot and
shooting Paris, shooting, demolition, double cap crimping frog man. There
(16:25):
ain't nothing I can't do. No sky too high, no
sea too rough, no too tough. Thearn a lot of
lessons in my life. Never shoot a large calval man
with a small caliber bullet. We'll drop all kinds of trucks.
Two buys, four byes, six buys. Those big motherfuckers at
bend and go when you step on the brakes. Anything
(16:48):
in life worth doing is worth overdoing moderations for cowards.
I'm a lover, I'm a fighter. I'm a U d
tem ab seal diver a wine, dine each of twine,
then sneak out the back door when you're feeling is
the So if you're feeling froggy, then you better jump
because this fog Man's been there, done that, and it's
going back from Mark. Cheers boys.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
At the end of the movie, there is a scene
where Marcus Atrell is being lifted out of that Afghan village,
and I got to say, Marky Mark did a phenomenal
job becoming Marcus Latrell. And I think Marcus and Morgan's
role in that movie throughout the process. They're actually in
(17:32):
the movie. If you've seen it, you know that. But
the book was so detailed and the movie maker was
so determined to get it right, and Marky Mark puts
so much effort into paying tribute to those guys properly.
But it's still, to this day, seventeen years later, that
(17:54):
last scene where he's quoting, where he's telling his story
but it actually comes from the diary, still gets me.
Every time.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
I died up on that mountain. There is no question
a part of me will ever be up on that
mountain dead, as my brothers died. But there is a
part of me that lived because of my brothers. Because
(18:28):
of them, I am still alive and I can never forget.
But no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets,
or how far you fall, you are never out of
the fight.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And I think about how many men have come through
the doors of Camp Hope suffering the wounds mentors of
PTSD who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Joe Biden
leaves eighty billion dollars worth of assets and lets thirteen
of our service members die. How dishonorable and disgusting.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Hello everyone, this is your Action News reporter with all
the news. It is news across the nation. On the
scene at the supermarket. There seems to have been some
disturbance here. Pardon me, sir, did you see what happened?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Y idea.
Speaker 12 (19:27):
I stand over by the maters, and here it comes,
running through the pole. Be still the fruits and vegetables neck.
It is a jaybird. And I hollered over Deathel. I said,
don't look Athod, it's too late. She'd already been in
the Saints. He come boo go, and he ain't wearing
no glow.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
They call in the street, fastest thing on two kes.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He just as proud as he can be. He gonna
give us saty. Oh, yes, they call him the street.
He likes so of his was he If there's an
audience who be found to be streaking it around getting
by the butet Pettigue.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Listed your action music order once again, and we're here
at the gas station. Pardon me, sir, did you see
what happened?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (20:22):
Indeed, I've just been here getting my car jack. He
disappeared down the pack, come streaking around the grease right curve,
didn't have nothing on but a smile. I looked and
learned Ethel getting a cold right my heart O.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
W can't talk.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
It's kool acause he already been moved. What Rock turned
from shop saw? He will yas they.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Call in the street.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
He likes turney out of the teek. He's always making
the news red just because in a minute Ethel's gonna
join in.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
And that's white reporter in the boot at the gym
covering the disturbance at the basketball playoff. Pardon me, sir,
did you see what happened?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (21:16):
See, hey, Tim, I was going down there, get Ethel
of snow color here come let out the cheek seats
ripple right down in the middle.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Of the court.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Didn't have on nothing but a head, reade the hook
shot and got out for the concession.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Stad I hollered up at that, but I said, don't
my hairple cool?
Speaker 12 (21:35):
She already gotta preach up grand stack Rock dirty from
the hole?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
What said colin the streets?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Steak?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Can't you just pilos heat ginger?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What do you take gutting endemy? He gonna give us
hip game? Where you got that? So see, that's the
part I can't abide, is Ethel joining in on the
(22:17):
streaking herself. It was on this day in nineteen seventy
four that Ray Stevens released The Streak. I was too
young to remember streaking as a phenomenon, but I go
back and look at a lot of primary coverage footage
(22:37):
of sporting events and I have to tell you I
find it hilarious. It was such a phenomenon at the
time that when Ray Stevens released The Street, there were
already fifteen other songs about streaking, and there would end
(22:59):
up being over forty. How far did did Ray Stevens
come in his career?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
What a dear?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
He wasn't bad, so I had he wrote and recorded
this what Johnny Cash ended up making finish?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Christos Stoperson.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
I'm sorry Christopersons find my cleanness.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You gotta remember Misty was such a big hit.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That was his You know that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Ray Stevens realized he wasn't gonna make it as a
he wasn't going to compete with Misty was a big
hit for him, but that was a crowded space. He
started doing these novelty concept songs and he absolutely killed it.
(23:54):
He bought up half a Nashville. I took a tour
with him, it was like on that, on that, on
that own that he owns the building that I Heart
is in, and it's a three story building next door
to his building. Both of them are on hard corners
next door to his building, which has a recording studio
(24:14):
in it people rent out. Ray Stevens has made more
money in music than almost anybody you can imagine, because
unlike the artist who's mostly just getting paid an appearance
fee to show up at a concert, and Ray Stevens
owned the front end, the back end, the recording studio,
the publishing rights, all the mailbox money. That guy is
(24:37):
such a phenomenal businessman in much the same way Oprah is.
But he was ahead of his time. Bill, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
I was a dad, got a transfer from Norfolk, Virginia
to Houston. We bought a house on nineteen sixty and
the Champions Forest. It was greenwood forest, but helped people
realize where it was and there was two stop lights
between there and forty five Well Kirkandal Studenter and I
remember in seventy three, so I guess I was twelve.
(25:10):
We got some friends and I think there may have
been a small amount of Boons Farm involved. Anyway, shed
the clothes and started streaking down in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
It was very very.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Popular at the time.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
How old were you, I think twelve.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I mean, I look, I don't know, and we all
deal with moving differently. I think that's very traumatic for
kids when you move them. And I was trying to
make new friends and experimented with a couple other things
in sixth grade. But I remember I remember streaking, and
I just thought I was crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It was.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
It was a night, my man, it was a night.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
You know.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I'm not that proud.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I love that Ray Stephen song.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It was just so much fun.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
But anyway, that's my streaking story.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's a good story.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
H I don't know about want my kids doing it,
but it was fun back then. That was as as
belligerent and wild as we got. I think we wrapped
a few houses with toilet paper, but that was about it.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I got to tell you. When I see a guy
go down on the field and start running and the
security guards try to catch him, I think these guys
must be coked up or at least amphetamined up. Yea,
and it's like they have superhumans. It's I guess the
adrenaline is pumping, and the security guard but I will,
(26:31):
I will watch and root for them like you cannot imagine.
And then when they're caught, they're absolutely gassed, right, they
are exhausted and they're caught, and now the fun is over.
But you can tell it is a thrill ride like
nothing else when they get out on a field and
start running and the cops are con afterb and it's
(26:52):
embarrassing for the cops or the security guards because they're
usually in terrible, terrible shape. And watch the smile on
the person's face.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I just I find that I find that must watch.
I cannot and if I'm at an event. I don't
go to sporting events anymore, but I used to, and
when I would, i'd.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Root for that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And if you know, it's when you least expect it, right,
it's always in the middle of an inning, when you
least expecting that guy he goes out there and he's
sprinting at full speed and he's button nagging, or even
if he's not buttonagging, it's just hilarious.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
God, we're going, We're going streaking the quad gium on
every day.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Come on, Snoop super.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Noololing, bring your green hand, let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Do you remember when the ladies are driving down the
street and they look at this fat guy, he's streaking,
and they realize it's her husband.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
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