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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loan. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Listma's rights. The biggest regret of not listening to my mom.
You were just talking about a hearing. You were just
talking about your hearing company sponsor. You made a memory
pop up in my head. My mother told me in
my late teens, become a hearing doctor. She said, with
all the boomboxes playing on our shoulders and the walkman's
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and our ears, when my age got older, we would
all have major hearing issues. So me, being a rebel teena,
did everything up instead of what she said. Fast forward
to thirty years later, we were all saying, huh, I
can't hear you. Why Why didn't I listen to her?
I would be rolling in business at this point. I
don't know if she's rolling in business, but I can
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tell you doctor Ellie is very busy. I will sometimes
get emails asking me if I can get someone in
earlier because she'll be booked up on a day and
they want to go in.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I love to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So if you ever with anybody you want to go
buy a magazine clouinder you want to start training with Petru.
You want to buy jewelry you need to get, you
want to be You want to see if there's a
treatment for tonight, is that that works on you. You
want to get your ears cleaned, you want hearing aids,
you want to actually be able to hear again.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Email me.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I will happily put you in charge with these people.
It always bums me out when someone goes to a
show sponsor without going through me, because you're probably going
to get great service. But if you don't get great service,
I could have assured you got great service. And wouldn't
you want me to do that for you, because I
mean I enjoyed doing that. Man, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I guess yesterday you kind of spurred some thoughts that
I think about a lot, and that is the perspective
that sometimes people in this world lose that we used
to have, you know, generation to go because of unfortunate
hardships and things that folks live through, like more deprivation
and you know, major personal lasses and we don't obviously
want anybody you know, to experience. But it leaves me
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the question, and I'm curious your thoughts. How these parents
nowadays and the you know, first world events we live
in where the biggest problem we have is the WiFi
went out that night. How do parents help develop some
perspective in the younger you know, children that you have
growing up, Like I have two daughters who are four
and eleven, and I think about, you know, what they
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consider as well, this is a big deal, this is
a problem today. But it's like it's it's not and
look around, things are not as bad as they see
kind of things. So without without belaboring the topic, I
was curious what you talk.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Fair question, it's good question. Honestly, we all want to
be great parents. Whatever that means. I'll give you my
advice as it relates to my life. We did not
our We did not expose our children to the bigger
world early in their lives for the same reason that
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I don't believe that children should be exposed to strip
clubs or pornography or graphic violence. Their brain is not
capable of processing the imagery. They don't know where to
put it, they don't know what it means. They don't
know the difference between real and now it's ai it's
even more real. They don't know the difference between real
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and stage. They don't know film versus reality. They also
don't know what to make of the fact that there
are countries around the world where people are laying out
in the streets with the distended stomach because they're dying
of starvation. There are people who believe that you expose
your child to that because it teaches great compassion. It
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does not. It confuses the brain. The brain's not ready
for that. We don't allow children to consent to sex
with an adult because they're not prepared for that. The
brain is not developed. So a I would say, shelter
your child from the cruel world. They don't need to
be watching news, they don't need to be on the internet.
We didn't let our kids have phones until they were twelve,
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and then we strictly, strictly regulated it. I had other
parents say to me, how does your kid not have
a phone? My kid's not ready for a phone. But
everybody has a phone. Oh please, that everybody is doing
things that's been around from the beginning of time. Your
child doesn't need a phone. But what will you do
if your child needs to call you because they're in trouble?
The same thing I did when we were growing up.
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Figure it out. That's the dumbest argument ever. The phone
company told you that. I read an article years ago
that the head of Google, Apple, the high tech companies,
whatever it was, consumer high tech companies, none of them
allowed their children to have a phone. That I ought
to tell you everything you need to know. Take the
phone away, Get them off the phone, get them out
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from behind the computer screen, get them outside, touch grass,
enjoy some sun, interact with other children, interact with parents,
talk to them about things.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
There's no rush for a child to have sex, or
do drugs, or get tattoos or change their sex. There
should be no rush for a child to understand what's
going on in Iran and what it's going to take
to open the strait of horror moves, and why the
Israelis hate the Palestinians and Palaestinians.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
They don't need to know all that. There are kids
who bring that into their relationship. Your child's not ready
for that. Let a child develop into who and what
they are. Let them figure out if they like peanut
butter or jelly or the two and talk about it.
That's a learning thing. Well, some people like this, and
some people like this, and some people like them both together.
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What do we make of that? And sometimes we like
it this way and next day we like it that way.
Mom likes the jelly, I like the peanut butter. You
might like them mixed together. Oh and your friend Susie,
how does she like it? I think that you develop
inner personal skills most kids today. If I walk up
on a kid, Ramon will tell you this, He's seen
it himself. If I walk up on a kid and
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they're with their parent, I always engage the child first
and I'll say, hi, Billy, how are you?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What great are you in?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
If that child can't make eye contact and answer the
question to me, I think that's a failure by the parent.
I think it's important that you learn as early as
possible as a child to make eye contact, a firm handshake,
to interact. These are the life skills that are going
to be way more important. And then perspective is less
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skew or even challenged. You know, a child is too
young to have their perspective challenged. They don't even know
what their opinion is, much less the context within which
they developed that opinion. So I think you shut the
world out. Your child should not be free floating out
in the sea of humanity on the internet and on
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their phone. That's a terrible idea, because there are some
other kids being raised by a single parent who's not
as attentive as you are, and that kid is exposed
to the Internet, and that kid is going to be
using words and concepts and phrases and sending pictures and
videos to your child that your child is not prepared
to process, and so you simply don't allow that to happen.
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Sheltering your child in that sense is a good thing.
Go to the park, go for a walk. Learn the
importance of physical health. We don't teach that we should.
How many people learn to start getting healthy at forty
or fifty. Learn to start eating fewer carbs the devil.
Processed foods are no good. Sugar drinks are horrible. Exercise
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is really good for you. This type of exercise, strength training,
getting more sleep, drinking more of water.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That I think you start developing.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's like developing a pro football player before the season starts.
Get your body in shape, get your mind in shape,
and you and only you can do that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You can do that. You don't need the outside world
for that. Lewis share it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hold on, I can't see the other names, but they're
coming in seven three one thousand, Sharon.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're old Michael Berry show. Go ahead, sweetheart again.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Well, I'm sorry, I had my hands in food. Okay,
I'm I'd just like to report on what I heard
Governor Abbott say on the on the air this morning
and ask you a question about it as well. And
his leadoff question he was a guest on a show,
and his leadoff question was, why did your secretary of
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state which he just appointed to replace Jane Nelson? But
why did your secretary of state decline to close our
elections in our primaries so that Democrats cannot vote in
Republican elections? And this is my edition.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We all know about the fraud that's been going.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
On because Democrats come over and vote in our Republican primaries,
and that's how they get people into our Texas State
legislature to do all these screwball deals that work against
our conservative interests, and they put them on as chairmen
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on committees and all that. So we've seen this cycle
of this screwball cycle where the Democrats have interfered in
our elections, primary elections and gotten people, you know, like
Rhino Republicans up into the legislature do all these screwball things,
and we haven't been able to get our conservative managures
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past many of them. And so we'd all questioned him,
was why did your secretary of state decline to close
our primary elections, you know, and let the party only
those in the party vote in those elections.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And Governor Abbot did.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
A word salad, you know, about a ten minute explanation. Well,
let me help you understand the structure of how things are.
We went into all this legalese talk that people got
lost in, and he didn't answer the question.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He didn't and I can't answer the question. That's the
problem with Abbot. Listen, I don't like Abbott. I think
he's horrible. He's terrible, and people can't seem to understand
when I explain this. So I will do it for
the eighteenth million time. I didn't like John McCain, but
he was better than Obama. And people used to say,
you're not really campaigning for McCain, No, because he's an idiot,
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but he's one one million, that's bad as Obama. But
you have to say he's good. Then I have no credibility. See,
I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to tell
you I think a Canada is great. So you've got
to vote for him because he'll make our lives better. No,
he won't, he'll make it less bad. I can understand that.
If you can't, I can't help you. Abbot is horrible.
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Abbot allowed Alex Meeler to have the election stolen from
her by Rodney Ellis's people, Clifford Tatum, four years ago.
And now the Democrats still control Harris County and they
are going to steal more votes in Harris County that
have ever been stolen market in your book. Now, after
the election, After the election, you're going to say, Mickel,
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how could they do it? How could they not? Why
would they not? Why wouldn't they cheat? There have never
been any consequences for them cheating. That's the whole point.
But Michael, don't they want what's best for America? Please
do not talk to me like a three year old. No,
they want power.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Every single one of these people on the left would
level this country to dust if it would if they
could accumulate more power. They do not share your values.
I don't understand why this is so hard for people
to understand, Michael. Don't they understand when they take them boys,
Willi's off but tim boys ain't gonna be happy later. Yeah,
they understand. They don't give an f that's the point.
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It's all about the accumulation of power. That's what sorrows
and the people who want to destroy this country, and
they do. There's a goal in that. They want to
They want to.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Muck it up. That's what they do.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And so the Democrats dutifully go from you know, we
shouldn't cut off with oh we should, Oh, yeah, we should. Yes,
we shouldn't allow anchor babies, Oh we should, Yes, we should.
We shouldn't allow a legal immigration to come in because
that destroys the labor rates and it's and excuse the
labor Oh no, sorry, yes we should. That's what they're
gonna do. Abbot is useless. He's just not as awful
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as left. If Gina Heinojosa wins by the end of
the world, So yeah, I'm gonna campaign for Abbot.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He's horrible. He's terrible, he's awful.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He's a do nothing governor, but he's one hundred times
better than Heinehosa, and he has actually done a few things.
He did get voutures passed. He did, and guess what,
public school teachers, it didn't hurt you. He did get
voutures passed. He did get the redistricting done, which is
probably the only thing that's gonna save us. Lewis on
the black line, I'm sorry, sir, I did not see
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you on the black line. I always moved black people
to the front ahead of all the white people.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I apologize, Well, surely, I just I can't talk along Michael.
If I have a guy in the chair full lab
it up, So what are.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You gonna call them? Michael Barry Shaw and then tell
me you can't talk. Put him on the phone, put
it on the speak what's his name? What his name is?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Well, he's full of labor, all his mustache, lips and things.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm lathered up too. We can talk about got well,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
If fourteen strokes to a correct shave.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How many how much you charge? What do you he
getting a shave.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
In a hot town? Shave?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Okay, how much that cost?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Twenty dollars?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh my goodness, Lewis, that's a good price in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
That's a great price. Great price, mister Hamilton. I hope
they come back that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
A head shave.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
No, I just the shaved with a Mustag's beers, A
correct shave. Fourteen strokes, okay, all right, you.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Don't ever slip and do fifteen sometime I do. It.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
All depends on how roughly beer it is. If it's
one of those tennies, would beer's sometime? I got to,
you know, add a fifteen or sixteen stroke?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Are you the one over near Uh? Yes, that would
be me. Did I bring Crockett to you?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You did. I he just got that Cadillac with.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
The with the uh exhaust as strong as all that
night fire coming out the back.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You know, I never got so much attention as as
I did on that side of town with that thing.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Well, we got a new shine guy. So the last
shine guy wasn't that well, but we got a great
one now. So I like through the experienced guys.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well, what's the name of your barber shoppers? My friend
Marvin Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Says, exactly, good looks barbershop. It's the top shop on
Scott like that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, I'm gonna go see you, come see me.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Man, I got I got a edge up for you.
And besides, I'm intimate and faster along with you. I
just eight from three to eleven?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What do you eat in eleven? Frenchies?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Now eleven o'clock, I do my last cocktail?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What's your last cocktail?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Focking turn it one good tonic.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm probably a real black man's drink. But I guess
you're a black barber. You don't have to prove your
credentials to anybody.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Kettle one and tonic.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So how many? So what does a head shave cost?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Headshave is twenty five as well?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Was it? No? No?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Not as well? It was for the shave fourteen strokes.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, but well I take the tip. But yeah, twenty
five for the hit shaves business?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Good?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Great?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What to what do you attribute that?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Well, you got to say this is a first of all,
you always need a haircut, and they keep a job
need a haircut, and to get a.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Job, you to haircut. You know what, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's that's you know what, that's a good I'm going
to give out the phone number in just a minute
to the good lucks. If you've ever seen boys in
the hood, or one of the barbershop movies Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
This is that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The University of Houston, sorry, the University of Michigan's Liberal
Arts College, said grades for incoming freshmen during their first
semester will be hidden and excluded from their transcripts. To quote,
curb the mental health crisis end quote among students, how did.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We arrive here?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Play some music.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I took a sip to coffee to the Western talking.
It went down the wrong hope. How did we end
up here where the school can't give grades because it
will trigger a mental health crisis. I'm going to tell
you this, and it's a whole lot easier when I
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criticize other communities than yours, and people who don't look
like you, people who don't live in your neighborhood. But
that's not realistic, it's not accurate, it's not useful. What
I'm about to say is we ended up here because
of us. We caused this problem, and only we can
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fix it. How did we cause it? You got grades
when you were a college freshman. If you went to college,
maybe those grades weren't as good as you wanted them
to be. A lot of people got kicked out of
school a lot of people went off to TACK or
Austin or College station TCUSMU, and they came home and
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mom and dad put him to work. We paid for
your first year school, you went off and screwed it up.
Now you're going to work. Okay, Well that isn't what's
happening now. Now we're saying, oh, you failed. We don't
want you to be upset that you failed. And we
all want to say that's other people doing that. But
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I'm watching it happen in my own life. I am
watching people that I know. Coddle, you gotta read my
emails or can't believe you told drunk Mark that he
needs to give up drinking and get a job and
stop feeling sorry for himself.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That was not what he needed to hear today. Michael,
Yeah it was. But don't worry.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm the onliest one gonna tell him that, because a
bunch of IT enablers like you are going to tell him.
He's a victim. He didn't end up here by any
decision of his own. It's not his fault. No, it
is his fault, and it's your fault for being an enabler.
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It's people's fault for not growing up. All wish things
boy about Granddaddy to turnover in his grave. Michael, if
they could see what was going on, Well, you're doing it.
There are so many people in our listening audience who
will say, well, you know what we need to do
is we need to take personal responsibility. You're forty eight
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on disability with a bad back, haven't worked in fourteen years,
and you go out and play basketball all day. Where's
the personal responsibility. We need to hold people accountable. They
need to be willing to work hard. You lay on
the couch all day. You're a grown, able bodied man
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in the prime of his physical career. You're walking around
with a service dog. You never even went in the military.
You supposedly have a disability. Lord knows how you got that.
You park up front. Seriously, knock it off. We need
everybody to stop this handholding kumbaya.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
There are so few people still.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Pulling this train and so many people on it, including
people on our side. You ever read Confederacy of Duncis,
I highly recommend it. Start it today, you'll be shocked. Well, Michael,
I ain't want any people reads much. You didn't read
in school, you didn't read in school because your hormones
were raging and the stuff they were giving you with
Silas Marner, it was boring.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Are the pearl?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
They gave you the pearl to understand for the section
in the curriculum called symbolism, And John Steinbeck said, any introduction,
people think this book is designed to illustrate symbolism. There's
no symbolism in it. They go say that symbolism and.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
It was boring.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It didn't connect with your mind. You know what did
playing cards? Look at this dude a porn star. That
dude right, he like gonna throw a fastball, hits you
in the head, doesn't he Look at this card you got?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Did you got the rolly fingers? Oh? You got Pete Vukovich?
Oh that's a card right there, man, that's a card. Nah,
I don't like Robin you out? You want Robin you?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Are?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
You?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Robin you out? And Vukovic for a roll? Now that
appealed to you.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Go home and read By Today and read Confederacy of Duncys.
It's this big fat, bloated, loud mouth, very opinionated, very smart.
It's autobiographical, but he doesn't admit that the guy who
lives in New Orleans, works for a lucky Dog, but
he can't keep a job because he knows more than
everybody else all the time. He's brilliant and he's got
very very strong opinions on everything. The guy took his
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life in real life. He's a troubled soul, but he's
a great writer. And this character. You will recognize this character.
We all know this character. I've got characters like this
that send me emails. You got characters like this that
show up at Republican rallies. You got characters like this
that you see online and they're they're the expert on everything,
wine and cheese and politics and what should be done
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and what should not be Everybody knows this guy right well,
nobody is honest with anybody any longer, because that we
are no longer determined to be a great nation. We
have settled for being a nation that is not offensive.
And you know where it all went wrong. Go ahead
and buckle up for this one. Women not because women
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are evil.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
They're not. They're wonderful. They are as God made them.
You go back.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
If not your parents, your grandparents, your mother, your grandmother
was the peacemaker and the peacekeeper. Your grandfather was hot headed.
He was a disciplinarian. He would get loud and volatile.
And I'm not talking about related to drinking. I'm talking
about as a personality. He would say, you fell, hurt yourself.
He'd say, you're not dead. Get up, Stop being a baby, Hey,
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get out of bed. Why are you sleeping all summer.
Summer's not for sleeping. You know, in old days, kids
have to work on the family farm. Get out there
and mow the grass and wash the cars and do something.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're not gonna lay up all day till noon.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You're gonna get out where And she'd say, now, honey, now, honey.
In a minute, he'd leave.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
She'd make the peace right. It's how we're built.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So you had women getting more and more into public
life and taking a much more aggressive role in administrative positions, political, academic, governmental, corporate.
And women value more than anything else, not excellence. Women
value people not being upset. It's why women were always
at HR directors. So at the company, women were not
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focused on let's hit our numbers, let's make our profits,
let's do this, let's take over the world. Women would
say we need to have a meeting today at two,
No questions asked. Everybody has to be there. Susan's upset. Okay,
Susan does not have a place to nurse, and she's
really upset, and she feels like people think it's funny
and it's not funny. So we're gonna have a course
next week. I've hired someone to come in and tell
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us how breastfeeding is not funny, but it is funny
if you don't know anything about it and it's new
to you and you've never seen it in the workforce.
And so what we had is forty years now of
emasculated men so scared to state an opinion in public
because they'll get fired or send to a course or demoted,
being lorded over by women who have a new found
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position to be like, you know, it's your kid's birthday
and he's seven, and it's your birthday.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You're in charge of everything. I'm in charge of everything. Okay,
we're gonna eat ice cream all day long.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And that's what they did. These women absolutely ran them up.
And the kind of men who brought them in were like, Okay,
well that's what you're supposed to us, what everybody's doing now,
and that's what happened. So we have become a nation
that does not pursue excellence. Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, We're
a nation that tries to avoid upsetting people, and that's
how you end up with these low standards and train
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and he's everywhere in a government that can't perform, and
corporations of camp performed Cleveland Browns of the NFL. He
told me the Astros are honoring Bill Garner late now
Phil Garner. It just passed Phil Garner and Alan Ashby
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for All Star Weekend, which is tomorrow through Sunday. I
think they're going to bring him out on the field
at one point. Terry is coming back from Colorado to
be there for that. Those guys are all still very close.
I was hoping to do a sit down with Phil Garner,
which I'd never done. We were texting buddies and I
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was hoping to do the definitive sit down with Phil Garner,
who had such a fascinating life. But he went in
for a surgery to what he hoped was fixed a
cancer and the doctor said it's too far advanced. I
can't there's nothing we can do for you. And he
sewed him up and he went home.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
To die.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And I'm bummed about that because I really, I really
I wanted him. I wanted I had one hundred questions
for him. What a neat guy. I think I've told
you before. But our first year of the RCC, the
fall of twenty thirteen, on December seventh, which is, of course,
Pearl Harbor Day, I called it Grandparents' Day, Pearl Harbor
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Day and Grandparents Day. So I said, anybody of that
generation who wants to come out service member or not,
come out and will honor you. And we had over
ten World War two veterans and this mind, this is
twenty thirteenth, the sixty seventy years after the war.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I mean, that's pretty good deal.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And there was a fellow in his uniform now he
looked like a stuffed sausage. He was tucked in there tight,
and it was the light brown uniform of his particular
Pacific fleet. And he told me that he had served
in the Pacific. And he handed me a book that
he had written about it. And I took the book
and he had signed it to me, and it was
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something Garner and Arthur Garner, let's say, I don't know,
And he said, you know, my son. You and my
son are friends. And I said, oh, that's nice. Who's
your son? And he said Phil Garner? And I said
scrap iron and he said yes. Why didn't he tell
me his dad was a World War Two better?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't know. So I'm driving home and I text him,
I'm pissed off at you.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
What you know?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I would have loved he Oh, you met my dad.
He told me he was going. I forgot to tell you.
But anyway, Phil Garner was a great man and Alan Ashby,
those are the two being honored.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I don't know when which game it is.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm going to try to go, mostly because I'm going
to be attached to Terry Poole's hip and I'm going
to get to just be there and be an obnoxious
little I'm going to be ten years old again.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm gonna be ten years old and I'm gonna walk
around with him and and uh, we're going to I'm
just gonna shake hands with.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Did you know Alan Ashby is Mormon? You knew that?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You did not.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
How did you know that? What you saw him at church?
You didn't know he was Mormon. I just see that
this is what I don't like. I just brought some
I brought some value to the show with something interesting.
And listen to the nineteen eighty pitching staff. Just imagine
this for a moment.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
J R.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Richard Nolan, Ryan, Joe nicro Ken, forsch Vern Rule, Joe
sam Bedo. My mom had the biggest crush on him.
And oh, by the way, Dave Smith, that is a
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pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Would you like to hear the lineup?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Okay, batting first in center field from I think Dominican Republic,
but he could have been nicaragu When I think a
Dominican Republic, you've got none other than Sasar Sadanio. Terry
Poole said to me that Sassar Sadanio was the player
on that team that had the biggest gulf between where
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he was and where he could have been. He said,
he had so much talent. He could have been Roberto Clemente,
He could.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Have been anyway. Batting second.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You have Terry Poole in right field, Canadian Hall of
Famer batting third from Puerto Rico Cheo Cruz batting cleanup
at third. A future coach. He was at third, but
also played first.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Art Howe.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Remember how had that big face mass thing because he
got a hit in the face batting fifth from your
Detroit Tigers. At third bay, you have none other than
Enus Cabell. At second base, you have the great Cincinnati
Red and one of the greatest players to ever played
the game, Joe Morgan.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
What a lineup.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
At short you have future second Baptist, pastor of the
Kingwood location, and great side arm thrower Craig Reynolds with
the tightest perm of the day. Yeah, love me some
Craig Reynolds. At catcher, you have the afore mentioned Alan Ashby.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You had Danny Heap on that team.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Man, what a team. Just hearing those names makes me happy, right.
I don't know how far gone Bob Watson was at
that point. He'd been on that team before, which had
Art Howard at first. Anyway, I tell Terry Pool every
time I see him the story of my trainer, Michael
Petru who when they threw up not intentionally because at
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ten year old ball or twelve year old ball they
can't control the ball that well.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But it was a high inside pitch.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
And he ducked out and fell on And you know
he played college Football's a pretty tough guy. But his
coach was worried. His coach called him Tom. Tom calls
him down to the third baseline and he says, you
all right, and he said yeah. He said you ready
to get back in there? And he said yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
He said, just be cool like Terry Poole.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
So the first time he ever saw me post a
picture of Terry Pool, he told me that story, and
I wanted. We were in the middle of our workout,
and know, if you've seen me physically, I mean, I'm like,
I don't look forward to working out. Like everybody has
their high point, this one's mine. Working out ain't my moment.
I don't invite people to come watch me work out.
They're like lead Lebrada, like watch this. They like, I
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do it because I have to.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I hate it. I'm not good at it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You know, for some reason, it doesn't it doesn't take
you know. So anyway, I wanted to leave right so
I had to text him. I said, give me a minute.
I have to text this story. I have to text
him this story right now. This story is that good?
All right, folks, here's the deal. We have had it
good for thirty years. In Texas, the Democrats are making
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the best effort they've ever made to take over every
seat we have a chance.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You're frustrated.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Don't be so frustrated that you don't engage because you
don't think we can win.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
If they win, you won't win it back. They won't
let you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That's why we couldn't win four years ago with Meeler
when she beat Lena Hidalgo. And now they've driven Lena
Hidalgo out. I don't like Greg Abbott, but I'm gonna
work my ass off to get him elected because the
woman that's running against him is a nut job. I
do like Ken Paxton, and I'll tell you why, because
Ken Paxton has done more as Attorney General for me,
as a Texan and for this state than any attorney
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general ever, and that's what matters to me. I want
Orlando Sanchez to be our next county judge. That's what
matters to me. It's time that we get involved, not
wait on them to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
K
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loan. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Listma's rights. The biggest regret of not listening to my mom.
You were just talking about a hearing. You were just
talking about your hearing company sponsor. You made a memory
pop up in my head. My mother told me in
my late teens, become a hearing doctor. She said, with
all the boomboxes playing on our shoulders and the walkman's
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and our ears, when my age got older, we would
all have major hearing issues. So me, being a rebel teena,
did everything up instead of what she said. Fast forward
to thirty years later, we were all saying, huh, I
can't hear you. Why Why didn't I listen to her?
I would be rolling in business at this point. I
don't know if she's rolling in business, but I can
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tell you doctor Ellie is very busy. I will sometimes
get emails asking me if I can get someone in
earlier because she'll be booked up on a day and
they want to go in.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I love to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So if you ever with anybody you want to go
buy a magazine clouinder you want to start training with Petru.
You want to buy jewelry you need to get, you
want to be You want to see if there's a
treatment for tonight, is that that works on you. You
want to get your ears cleaned, you want hearing aids,
you want to actually be able to hear again.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Email me.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I will happily put you in charge with these people.
It always bums me out when someone goes to a
show sponsor without going through me, because you're probably going
to get great service. But if you don't get great service,
I could have assured you got great service. And wouldn't
you want me to do that for you, because I
mean I enjoyed doing that. Man, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I guess yesterday you kind of spurred some thoughts that
I think about a lot, and that is the perspective
that sometimes people in this world lose that we used
to have, you know, generation to go because of unfortunate
hardships and things that folks live through, like more deprivation
and you know, major personal lasses and we don't obviously
want anybody you know, to experience. But it leaves me
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the question, and I'm curious your thoughts. How these parents
nowadays and the you know, first world events we live
in where the biggest problem we have is the WiFi
went out that night. How do parents help develop some
perspective in the younger you know, children that you have
growing up, Like I have two daughters who are four
and eleven, and I think about, you know, what they
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consider as well, this is a big deal, this is
a problem today. But it's like it's it's not and
look around, things are not as bad as they see
kind of things. So without without belaboring the topic, I
was curious what you talk.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Fair question, it's good question. Honestly, we all want to
be great parents. Whatever that means. I'll give you my
advice as it relates to my life. We did not
our We did not expose our children to the bigger
world early in their lives for the same reason that
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I don't believe that children should be exposed to strip
clubs or pornography or graphic violence. Their brain is not
capable of processing the imagery. They don't know where to
put it, they don't know what it means. They don't
know the difference between real and now it's ai it's
even more real. They don't know the difference between real
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and stage. They don't know film versus reality. They also
don't know what to make of the fact that there
are countries around the world where people are laying out
in the streets with the distended stomach because they're dying
of starvation. There are people who believe that you expose
your child to that because it teaches great compassion. It
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does not. It confuses the brain. The brain's not ready
for that. We don't allow children to consent to sex
with an adult because they're not prepared for that. The
brain is not developed. So a I would say, shelter
your child from the cruel world. They don't need to
be watching news, they don't need to be on the internet.
We didn't let our kids have phones until they were twelve,
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and then we strictly, strictly regulated it. I had other
parents say to me, how does your kid not have
a phone? My kid's not ready for a phone. But
everybody has a phone. Oh please, that everybody is doing
things that's been around from the beginning of time. Your
child doesn't need a phone. But what will you do
if your child needs to call you because they're in trouble?
The same thing I did when we were growing up.
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Figure it out. That's the dumbest argument ever. The phone
company told you that. I read an article years ago
that the head of Google, Apple, the high tech companies,
whatever it was, consumer high tech companies, none of them
allowed their children to have a phone. That I ought
to tell you everything you need to know. Take the
phone away, Get them off the phone, get them out
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from behind the computer screen, get them outside, touch grass,
enjoy some sun, interact with other children, interact with parents,
talk to them about things.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
There's no rush for a child to have sex, or
do drugs, or get tattoos or change their sex. There
should be no rush for a child to understand what's
going on in Iran and what it's going to take
to open the strait of horror moves, and why the
Israelis hate the Palestinians and Palaestinians.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
They don't need to know all that. There are kids
who bring that into their relationship. Your child's not ready
for that. Let a child develop into who and what
they are. Let them figure out if they like peanut
butter or jelly or the two and talk about it.
That's a learning thing. Well, some people like this, and
some people like this, and some people like them both together.
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What do we make of that? And sometimes we like
it this way and next day we like it that way.
Mom likes the jelly, I like the peanut butter. You
might like them mixed together. Oh and your friend Susie,
how does she like it? I think that you develop
inner personal skills most kids today. If I walk up
on a kid, Ramon will tell you this, He's seen
it himself. If I walk up on a kid and
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they're with their parent, I always engage the child first
and I'll say, hi, Billy, how are you?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What great are you in?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
If that child can't make eye contact and answer the
question to me, I think that's a failure by the parent.
I think it's important that you learn as early as
possible as a child to make eye contact, a firm handshake,
to interact. These are the life skills that are going
to be way more important. And then perspective is less
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skew or even challenged. You know, a child is too
young to have their perspective challenged. They don't even know
what their opinion is, much less the context within which
they developed that opinion. So I think you shut the
world out. Your child should not be free floating out
in the sea of humanity on the internet and on
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their phone. That's a terrible idea, because there are some
other kids being raised by a single parent who's not
as attentive as you are, and that kid is exposed
to the Internet, and that kid is going to be
using words and concepts and phrases and sending pictures and
videos to your child that your child is not prepared
to process, and so you simply don't allow that to happen.
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Sheltering your child in that sense is a good thing.
Go to the park, go for a walk. Learn the
importance of physical health. We don't teach that we should.
How many people learn to start getting healthy at forty
or fifty. Learn to start eating fewer carbs the devil.
Processed foods are no good. Sugar drinks are horrible. Exercise
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is really good for you. This type of exercise, strength training,
getting more sleep, drinking more of water.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That I think you start developing.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's like developing a pro football player before the season starts.
Get your body in shape, get your mind in shape,
and you and only you can do that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You can do that. You don't need the outside world
for that. Lewis share it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hold on, I can't see the other names, but they're
coming in seven three one thousand, Sharon.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're old Michael Berry show. Go ahead, sweetheart again.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Well, I'm sorry, I had my hands in food. Okay,
I'm I'd just like to report on what I heard
Governor Abbott say on the on the air this morning
and ask you a question about it as well. And
his leadoff question he was a guest on a show,
and his leadoff question was, why did your secretary of
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state which he just appointed to replace Jane Nelson? But
why did your secretary of state decline to close our
elections in our primaries so that Democrats cannot vote in
Republican elections? And this is my edition.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We all know about the fraud that's been going.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
On because Democrats come over and vote in our Republican primaries,
and that's how they get people into our Texas State
legislature to do all these screwball deals that work against
our conservative interests, and they put them on as chairmen
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on committees and all that. So we've seen this cycle
of this screwball cycle where the Democrats have interfered in
our elections, primary elections and gotten people, you know, like
Rhino Republicans up into the legislature do all these screwball things,
and we haven't been able to get our conservative managures
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past many of them. And so we'd all questioned him,
was why did your secretary of state decline to close
our primary elections, you know, and let the party only
those in the party vote in those elections.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And Governor Abbot did.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
A word salad, you know, about a ten minute explanation. Well,
let me help you understand the structure of how things are.
We went into all this legalese talk that people got
lost in, and he didn't answer the question.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He didn't and I can't answer the question. That's the
problem with Abbot. Listen, I don't like Abbott. I think
he's horrible. He's terrible, and people can't seem to understand
when I explain this. So I will do it for
the eighteenth million time. I didn't like John McCain, but
he was better than Obama. And people used to say,
you're not really campaigning for McCain, No, because he's an idiot,
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but he's one one million, that's bad as Obama. But
you have to say he's good. Then I have no credibility. See,
I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to tell
you I think a Canada is great. So you've got
to vote for him because he'll make our lives better. No,
he won't, he'll make it less bad. I can understand that.
If you can't, I can't help you. Abbot is horrible.
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Abbot allowed Alex Meeler to have the election stolen from
her by Rodney Ellis's people, Clifford Tatum, four years ago.
And now the Democrats still control Harris County and they
are going to steal more votes in Harris County that
have ever been stolen market in your book. Now, after
the election, After the election, you're going to say, Mickel,
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how could they do it? How could they not? Why
would they not? Why wouldn't they cheat? There have never
been any consequences for them cheating. That's the whole point.
But Michael, don't they want what's best for America? Please
do not talk to me like a three year old. No,
they want power.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Every single one of these people on the left would
level this country to dust if it would if they
could accumulate more power. They do not share your values.
I don't understand why this is so hard for people
to understand, Michael. Don't they understand when they take them boys,
Willi's off but tim boys ain't gonna be happy later. Yeah,
they understand. They don't give an f that's the point.
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It's all about the accumulation of power. That's what sorrows
and the people who want to destroy this country, and
they do. There's a goal in that. They want to
They want to.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Muck it up. That's what they do.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And so the Democrats dutifully go from you know, we
shouldn't cut off with oh we should, Oh, yeah, we should. Yes,
we shouldn't allow anchor babies, Oh we should, Yes, we should.
We shouldn't allow a legal immigration to come in because
that destroys the labor rates and it's and excuse the
labor Oh no, sorry, yes we should. That's what they're
gonna do. Abbot is useless. He's just not as awful
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as left. If Gina Heinojosa wins by the end of
the world, So yeah, I'm gonna campaign for Abbot.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He's horrible. He's terrible, he's awful.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He's a do nothing governor, but he's one hundred times
better than Heinehosa, and he has actually done a few things.
He did get voutures passed. He did, and guess what,
public school teachers, it didn't hurt you. He did get
voutures passed. He did get the redistricting done, which is
probably the only thing that's gonna save us. Lewis on
the black line, I'm sorry, sir, I did not see
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you on the black line. I always moved black people
to the front ahead of all the white people.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I apologize, Well, surely, I just I can't talk along Michael.
If I have a guy in the chair full lab
it up, So what are.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You gonna call them? Michael Barry Shaw and then tell
me you can't talk. Put him on the phone, put
it on the speak what's his name? What his name is?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Well, he's full of labor, all his mustache, lips and things.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm lathered up too. We can talk about got well,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
If fourteen strokes to a correct shave.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How many how much you charge? What do you he
getting a shave.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
In a hot town? Shave?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Okay, how much that cost?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Twenty dollars?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh my goodness, Lewis, that's a good price in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
That's a great price. Great price, mister Hamilton. I hope
they come back that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
A head shave.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
No, I just the shaved with a Mustag's beers, A
correct shave. Fourteen strokes, okay, all right, you.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Don't ever slip and do fifteen sometime I do. It.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
All depends on how roughly beer it is. If it's
one of those tennies, would beer's sometime? I got to,
you know, add a fifteen or sixteen stroke?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Are you the one over near Uh? Yes, that would
be me. Did I bring Crockett to you?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You did. I he just got that Cadillac with.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
The with the uh exhaust as strong as all that
night fire coming out the back.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You know, I never got so much attention as as
I did on that side of town with that thing.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Well, we got a new shine guy. So the last
shine guy wasn't that well, but we got a great
one now. So I like through the experienced guys.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well, what's the name of your barber shoppers? My friend
Marvin Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Says, exactly, good looks barbershop. It's the top shop on
Scott like that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, I'm gonna go see you, come see me.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Man, I got I got a edge up for you.
And besides, I'm intimate and faster along with you. I
just eight from three to eleven?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What do you eat in eleven? Frenchies?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Now eleven o'clock, I do my last cocktail?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What's your last cocktail?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Focking turn it one good tonic.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm probably a real black man's drink. But I guess
you're a black barber. You don't have to prove your
credentials to anybody.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Kettle one and tonic.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So how many? So what does a head shave cost?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Headshave is twenty five as well?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Was it? No? No?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Not as well? It was for the shave fourteen strokes.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, but well I take the tip. But yeah, twenty
five for the hit shaves business?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Good?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Great?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What to what do you attribute that?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Well, you got to say this is a first of all,
you always need a haircut, and they keep a job
need a haircut, and to get a.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Job, you to haircut. You know what, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's that's you know what, that's a good I'm going
to give out the phone number in just a minute
to the good lucks. If you've ever seen boys in
the hood, or one of the barbershop movies Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
This is that.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The University of Houston, sorry, the University of Michigan's Liberal
Arts College, said grades for incoming freshmen during their first
semester will be hidden and excluded from their transcripts. To quote,
curb the mental health crisis end quote among students, how did.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We arrive here?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Play some music.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I took a sip to coffee to the Western talking.
It went down the wrong hope. How did we end
up here where the school can't give grades because it
will trigger a mental health crisis. I'm going to tell
you this, and it's a whole lot easier when I
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criticize other communities than yours, and people who don't look
like you, people who don't live in your neighborhood. But
that's not realistic, it's not accurate, it's not useful. What
I'm about to say is we ended up here because
of us. We caused this problem, and only we can
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fix it. How did we cause it? You got grades
when you were a college freshman. If you went to college,
maybe those grades weren't as good as you wanted them
to be. A lot of people got kicked out of
school a lot of people went off to TACK or
Austin or College station TCUSMU, and they came home and
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mom and dad put him to work. We paid for
your first year school, you went off and screwed it up.
Now you're going to work. Okay, Well that isn't what's
happening now. Now we're saying, oh, you failed. We don't
want you to be upset that you failed. And we
all want to say that's other people doing that. But
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I'm watching it happen in my own life. I am
watching people that I know. Coddle, you gotta read my
emails or can't believe you told drunk Mark that he
needs to give up drinking and get a job and
stop feeling sorry for himself.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That was not what he needed to hear today. Michael,
Yeah it was. But don't worry.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm the onliest one gonna tell him that, because a
bunch of IT enablers like you are going to tell him.
He's a victim. He didn't end up here by any
decision of his own. It's not his fault. No, it
is his fault, and it's your fault for being an enabler.
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It's people's fault for not growing up. All wish things
boy about Granddaddy to turnover in his grave. Michael, if
they could see what was going on, Well, you're doing it.
There are so many people in our listening audience who
will say, well, you know what we need to do
is we need to take personal responsibility. You're forty eight
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on disability with a bad back, haven't worked in fourteen years,
and you go out and play basketball all day. Where's
the personal responsibility. We need to hold people accountable. They
need to be willing to work hard. You lay on
the couch all day. You're a grown, able bodied man
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in the prime of his physical career. You're walking around
with a service dog. You never even went in the military.
You supposedly have a disability. Lord knows how you got that.
You park up front. Seriously, knock it off. We need
everybody to stop this handholding kumbaya.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
There are so few people still.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Pulling this train and so many people on it, including
people on our side. You ever read Confederacy of Duncis,
I highly recommend it. Start it today, you'll be shocked. Well, Michael,
I ain't want any people reads much. You didn't read
in school, you didn't read in school because your hormones
were raging and the stuff they were giving you with
Silas Marner, it was boring.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Are the pearl?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
They gave you the pearl to understand for the section
in the curriculum called symbolism, And John Steinbeck said, any introduction,
people think this book is designed to illustrate symbolism. There's
no symbolism in it. They go say that symbolism and.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
It was boring.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It didn't connect with your mind. You know what did
playing cards? Look at this dude a porn star. That
dude right, he like gonna throw a fastball, hits you
in the head, doesn't he Look at this card you got?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Did you got the rolly fingers? Oh? You got Pete Vukovich?
Oh that's a card right there, man, that's a card. Nah,
I don't like Robin you out? You want Robin you?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Are?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
You?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Robin you out? And Vukovic for a roll? Now that
appealed to you.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Go home and read By Today and read Confederacy of Duncys.
It's this big fat, bloated, loud mouth, very opinionated, very smart.
It's autobiographical, but he doesn't admit that the guy who
lives in New Orleans, works for a lucky Dog, but
he can't keep a job because he knows more than
everybody else all the time. He's brilliant and he's got
very very strong opinions on everything. The guy took his
(21:53):
life in real life. He's a troubled soul, but he's
a great writer. And this character. You will recognize this character.
We all know this character. I've got characters like this
that send me emails. You got characters like this that
show up at Republican rallies. You got characters like this
that you see online and they're they're the expert on everything,
wine and cheese and politics and what should be done
(22:13):
and what should not be Everybody knows this guy right well,
nobody is honest with anybody any longer, because that we
are no longer determined to be a great nation. We
have settled for being a nation that is not offensive.
And you know where it all went wrong. Go ahead
and buckle up for this one. Women not because women
(22:36):
are evil.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
They're not. They're wonderful. They are as God made them.
You go back.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
If not your parents, your grandparents, your mother, your grandmother
was the peacemaker and the peacekeeper. Your grandfather was hot headed.
He was a disciplinarian. He would get loud and volatile.
And I'm not talking about related to drinking. I'm talking
about as a personality. He would say, you fell, hurt yourself.
He'd say, you're not dead. Get up, Stop being a baby, Hey,
(23:04):
get out of bed. Why are you sleeping all summer.
Summer's not for sleeping. You know, in old days, kids
have to work on the family farm. Get out there
and mow the grass and wash the cars and do something.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're not gonna lay up all day till noon.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You're gonna get out where And she'd say, now, honey, now, honey.
In a minute, he'd leave.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
She'd make the peace right. It's how we're built.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So you had women getting more and more into public
life and taking a much more aggressive role in administrative positions, political, academic, governmental, corporate.
And women value more than anything else, not excellence. Women
value people not being upset. It's why women were always
at HR directors. So at the company, women were not
(23:48):
focused on let's hit our numbers, let's make our profits,
let's do this, let's take over the world. Women would
say we need to have a meeting today at two,
No questions asked. Everybody has to be there. Susan's upset. Okay,
Susan does not have a place to nurse, and she's
really upset, and she feels like people think it's funny
and it's not funny. So we're gonna have a course
next week. I've hired someone to come in and tell
(24:09):
us how breastfeeding is not funny, but it is funny
if you don't know anything about it and it's new
to you and you've never seen it in the workforce.
And so what we had is forty years now of
emasculated men so scared to state an opinion in public
because they'll get fired or send to a course or demoted,
being lorded over by women who have a new found
(24:31):
position to be like, you know, it's your kid's birthday
and he's seven, and it's your birthday.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You're in charge of everything. I'm in charge of everything. Okay,
we're gonna eat ice cream all day long.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And that's what they did. These women absolutely ran them up.
And the kind of men who brought them in were like, Okay,
well that's what you're supposed to us, what everybody's doing now,
and that's what happened. So we have become a nation
that does not pursue excellence. Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, We're
a nation that tries to avoid upsetting people, and that's
how you end up with these low standards and train
(25:00):
and he's everywhere in a government that can't perform, and
corporations of camp performed Cleveland Browns of the NFL. He
told me the Astros are honoring Bill Garner late now
Phil Garner. It just passed Phil Garner and Alan Ashby
(25:22):
for All Star Weekend, which is tomorrow through Sunday. I
think they're going to bring him out on the field
at one point. Terry is coming back from Colorado to
be there for that. Those guys are all still very close.
I was hoping to do a sit down with Phil Garner,
which I'd never done. We were texting buddies and I
(25:44):
was hoping to do the definitive sit down with Phil Garner,
who had such a fascinating life. But he went in
for a surgery to what he hoped was fixed a
cancer and the doctor said it's too far advanced. I
can't there's nothing we can do for you. And he
sewed him up and he went home.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
To die.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And I'm bummed about that because I really, I really
I wanted him. I wanted I had one hundred questions
for him. What a neat guy. I think I've told
you before. But our first year of the RCC, the
fall of twenty thirteen, on December seventh, which is, of course,
Pearl Harbor Day, I called it Grandparents' Day, Pearl Harbor
(26:31):
Day and Grandparents Day. So I said, anybody of that
generation who wants to come out service member or not,
come out and will honor you. And we had over
ten World War two veterans and this mind, this is
twenty thirteenth, the sixty seventy years after the war.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I mean, that's pretty good deal.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And there was a fellow in his uniform now he
looked like a stuffed sausage. He was tucked in there tight,
and it was the light brown uniform of his particular
Pacific fleet. And he told me that he had served
in the Pacific. And he handed me a book that
he had written about it. And I took the book
and he had signed it to me, and it was
(27:11):
something Garner and Arthur Garner, let's say, I don't know,
And he said, you know, my son. You and my
son are friends. And I said, oh, that's nice. Who's
your son? And he said Phil Garner? And I said
scrap iron and he said yes. Why didn't he tell
me his dad was a World War Two better?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't know. So I'm driving home and I text him,
I'm pissed off at you.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
What you know?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I would have loved he Oh, you met my dad.
He told me he was going. I forgot to tell you.
But anyway, Phil Garner was a great man and Alan Ashby,
those are the two being honored.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I don't know when which game it is.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm going to try to go, mostly because I'm going
to be attached to Terry Poole's hip and I'm going
to get to just be there and be an obnoxious
little I'm going to be ten years old again.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm gonna be ten years old and I'm gonna walk
around with him and and uh, we're going to I'm
just gonna shake hands with.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Did you know Alan Ashby is Mormon? You knew that?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You did not.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
How did you know that? What you saw him at church?
You didn't know he was Mormon. I just see that
this is what I don't like. I just brought some
I brought some value to the show with something interesting.
And listen to the nineteen eighty pitching staff. Just imagine
this for a moment.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
J R.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Richard Nolan, Ryan, Joe nicro Ken, forsch Vern Rule, Joe
sam Bedo. My mom had the biggest crush on him.
And oh, by the way, Dave Smith, that is a
(28:58):
pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Would you like to hear the lineup?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Okay, batting first in center field from I think Dominican Republic,
but he could have been nicaragu When I think a
Dominican Republic, you've got none other than Sasar Sadanio. Terry
Poole said to me that Sassar Sadanio was the player
on that team that had the biggest gulf between where
(29:23):
he was and where he could have been. He said,
he had so much talent. He could have been Roberto Clemente,
He could.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Have been anyway. Batting second.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You have Terry Poole in right field, Canadian Hall of
Famer batting third from Puerto Rico Cheo Cruz batting cleanup
at third. A future coach. He was at third, but
also played first.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Art Howe.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Remember how had that big face mass thing because he
got a hit in the face batting fifth from your
Detroit Tigers. At third bay, you have none other than
Enus Cabell. At second base, you have the great Cincinnati
Red and one of the greatest players to ever played
the game, Joe Morgan.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
What a lineup.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
At short you have future second Baptist, pastor of the
Kingwood location, and great side arm thrower Craig Reynolds with
the tightest perm of the day. Yeah, love me some
Craig Reynolds. At catcher, you have the afore mentioned Alan Ashby.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You had Danny Heap on that team.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Man, what a team. Just hearing those names makes me happy, right.
I don't know how far gone Bob Watson was at
that point. He'd been on that team before, which had
Art Howard at first. Anyway, I tell Terry Pool every
time I see him the story of my trainer, Michael
Petru who when they threw up not intentionally because at
(31:00):
ten year old ball or twelve year old ball they
can't control the ball that well.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But it was a high inside pitch.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
And he ducked out and fell on And you know
he played college Football's a pretty tough guy. But his
coach was worried. His coach called him Tom. Tom calls
him down to the third baseline and he says, you
all right, and he said yeah. He said you ready
to get back in there? And he said yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
He said, just be cool like Terry Poole.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
So the first time he ever saw me post a
picture of Terry Pool, he told me that story, and
I wanted. We were in the middle of our workout,
and know, if you've seen me physically, I mean, I'm like,
I don't look forward to working out. Like everybody has
their high point, this one's mine. Working out ain't my moment.
I don't invite people to come watch me work out.
They're like lead Lebrada, like watch this. They like, I
(31:46):
do it because I have to.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I hate it. I'm not good at it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You know, for some reason, it doesn't it doesn't take
you know. So anyway, I wanted to leave right so
I had to text him. I said, give me a minute.
I have to text this story. I have to text
him this story right now. This story is that good?
All right, folks, here's the deal. We have had it
good for thirty years. In Texas, the Democrats are making
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the best effort they've ever made to take over every
seat we have a chance.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You're frustrated.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Don't be so frustrated that you don't engage because you
don't think we can win.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
If they win, you won't win it back. They won't
let you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That's why we couldn't win four years ago with Meeler
when she beat Lena Hidalgo. And now they've driven Lena
Hidalgo out. I don't like Greg Abbott, but I'm gonna
work my ass off to get him elected because the
woman that's running against him is a nut job. I
do like Ken Paxton, and I'll tell you why, because
Ken Paxton has done more as Attorney General for me,
as a Texan and for this state than any attorney
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general ever, and that's what matters to me. I want
Orlando Sanchez to be our next county judge. That's what
matters to me. It's time that we get involved, not
wait on them to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
K
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