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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, lucking load still Michael Very.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Here's Johnny. I am the danger. I am the one
who knocks.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We'll do it lit that, we'll do it live.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Last year I spent more money on still liquor. There's
fires from one side of this world to the other
than you may. You're talking to the roles wearing diamond ring,
wearing jet stealing, whoa wheeling, dealing ligans in right jet,
flat stud of a gun, and I'm having a hard
time holding the allegantors doing this book.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Salive this little level. She can tell right away.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That I was bad at the ball, head of the bowl,
bad of the bowl, bad of the bowl.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Let my dog. So now that'll be the end of it.
I will not look for you. I will not pursue you.
But if you don't I will look for you. I
will find you, and I will kill you.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Alf that I'm bad of the bowl, bad of the bowl.
Fire fire, fire, bad ball.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I want ray, what again?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I tell you I'll double again.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Terry, Terry, What do you think Terry's doing? What if
(02:29):
he left his phone in the workshop and there's people around,
they won't Terry may go Mana, here's this thought. It's
been I don't put a tea Harry me not mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He probably went to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That was gonna dig you. He let me find that,
Emil while we went on care District. There, go to Robert.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Robert, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Hello, Michael Coincidentally, I have a story about Richmond, Texas.
It took place back in nineteen forty five, and there
was a Mexican at the White House being awarded the
Medal of Honor in August. In September, he came home,
They got a pass, gave him a pass. He came home,
(03:35):
still in the army. So he came home to sugar Land,
where his family had been sharecroppers for about thirteen years.
And then he went to get a bite to eat
at the Oasis Cafe in Richmond, Texas. You know, Sugarland
and Richmond real close together. But they wouldn't serve him
because he was a Mexican, and they beat him with
(04:00):
a baseball bag. Actually they it was a white woman.
A white woman.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
This not Johnny Paycheck's Colorado kool aid?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Is it.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Me or the person I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
To the song. It's not the song, is it.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I don't even know that song. Michael.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, he cut his ear clean off, and then it
reached in, picked up off the ground, reached in and
spoke to it in his ear.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
But ahead, this is Michael, this is serious, a serious story.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I'm sure it is. That's a serious song.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Uh well, okay, well, thank you for thank for letting
me know that. Hey, anyway, he's He was a combat
veteran in Europe for six months as first gout for
the Assault Battalion of the twenty second Regiment. He killed
many people. If you read his Medal of Honor citation,
(04:52):
you'll see he's a very fair minded man. He saved
people's life during the altercation in Germany when he was
in actual combat with the enemy and the only one
who could save his company from decimation from artillery. At
any rate, the woman was very lucky. She didn't lose
(05:15):
her life. She just lost a few teeth. What happened
is the army they came and arrested him. Richmond did
the sheriff, and the army came and got him out
of jail and said, hey, he is still in the army.
He's not under your jurisdiction. Sorry, Richmond knew they had
(05:38):
stepped in it, and they tried to sweep it under
the carpet. But the Mexican American community could not handle
what had happened. They just couldn't. They just said, this
is too much, this is too far. You draft somebody,
you put him in the army, you put them on
the front line, they get the Medal of Honor, you
bring him home, and you won't even serve him any food.
(06:00):
This is too far. So a guy named John Jay Herrera,
who had felled the bar about six times and finally
passed it, became his lee attorney. John J. Herrera leaked
the story to Walter Winchell in New York, and Walter
Winchell over the radio nashally called Richmond, Texas the dirtiest
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little town in Texas. So anyway, that's the story.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm pretty sure that's Colorado kool aid by Johnny Pacheck.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Michael, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, they write songs about things that happen.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Well, that song's not about well, okay, well let's just
go with you. Let's say that song is about Macardia
Garcia and by the way, y'all, y'all advertised thunderbolts a
lot and thunderbolts on the at the intersection of staff
Sergeant maccartie or Garcia.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yep, I know, yep.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
So anyway, Hey, Michael, that's all I had. If it's
not enough to engage in, no problem, Well.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know. It's a good story. I don't know
what you want me to.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Do, Michael. You asked people to call in with bad
stories about the city problems in Richmond, Texas. Uh, Richmond, Texas.
That's where it happened. Oased this cafe in Richmond, Texas.
They still haven't learned their lessons evidently, Uh, by the
way they treated you and the way they treated that
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lady who bought the the the heirloom.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, I agree, I let you tell the story. I
don't know what you want me to do. I'm not
sure how I'm feeling.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
You know what I want you to do. I want
you to hang up because that's what I'm going to do.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
For more.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Do you do you understand why he was so mad?
That doesn't make any sense to me. You probably don't
like Johnny Payjack. It was a good story, although he
buried the lead. I mean it was a good Paul
Harvey reveal where at the end it was macaryol Garcia.
I think he forgot to tell that part because at
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the very end, and you know, the worst part is
the worst thing they did to dishonor MACARYO Garcia named
a street after him and the worst part of town.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Doing it big on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know, I was thinking to myself then I had
a real Red Savine feel to it. So I didn't
know who wrote it. I didn't know if Johnny Paycheck
himself wrote it or not. So I looked it up.
It was written by Phil Thomas, but it was first
recorded by Red Solvine. That is a glorious time in
(08:54):
American music for me, when you had the spoken word
songs of the Red Sorons.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Like Teddy Bear. Oh, I guess me. Ever, now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Red Skelton did the pledge of allegiance. Oh, Terry's back.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Uh, Oh, this is not going well.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I can hardly tell Terry. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Hey, thanks for having me, sir Hey, Michael, I wanted
to give you a I guess I'll tell you about
some of your show sponsors. We just built a house
and just got moved in here shortly, and uh, we
used some of your show sponsors there. Uh Becky from
(09:43):
Southern front Doors.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh yeah, okay, that was you know.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
I went in there. I kind of drove up on
it by accident, went in there and looked around. Beg
you showed me around. You showed me a set of
front doors, eight foot steel doors with the glass.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, the four star like that.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Yeah, okay, I liked them. I said, man, I could
bring my wife by. I brought my wife by. Becky
showed us around again, and my wife looked at them
same doors. Go, oh, that's the one, don't they So did.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You do the solid or did you do the forged
iron then a door behind it?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
No, we did like the solid with the glass in it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Not our current house, but our last house.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We move a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Our last house we had regular doors, but they were glass,
and even though we had fencing and walls and all
that sort of stuff, I stoodn't. I wasn't wild about
that concept. And my wife likes to leave the door open.
I think this is a foreign thing. And she likes
to when I'm not there, she likes to leave the
doors open and let the air come through. And so
(10:49):
I went to Southern Front Door and I got the
forged iron kind of decorative and it's it's like a
it's like a front gate sort of deal.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know, they had real decorative.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Iron, but the air come through and you could see out,
but yet it was still locked. You know, a person
couldn't get through them. Well, that's fantastic. Who were the
others that you used?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
Well, then we went to Flarerty's and we shopped around
where we were building, and Larry's just had a better price.
And of course it took about three trips for my
wife to go through there. And I cannot remember the
lady's name. She worked with their off the Grant Roach
in the Cypress area, but I know our license plate
(11:30):
is tinker Belt and she had the patients, you know,
with my wife, and they finally got all the flouring,
and they did all the flouring our old houses style
except for the master closet. Then there's three bathrooms that
are all tiled, the showers and also she picked out
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all that all that went real good. So as the
house got a little further along. We toured this house
last year about this time of year, and we didn't
have a lot of water to keep the slap cool cooled.
So the front and rear front, forestback patio they all
had some little surface cracks. So we called up Allied
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Outdoor Solutions. They came out about three times, show us
simples and what they're going to do, and of course
we threw the Michael Berry name out there so that
they worked with us on the price and stuff, and
we came to a pattern that we liked on there.
In fact, we even added the sidewalk all the way
(12:34):
out to the driveway done up. And then probably the
best one was Dale Sun for Sunfire coating. Yeah, super
nice guy man. In fact, we were on vacation and
I just get I said, Dale, here, here's the combination
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to the gate, here's a combination to the garage. He
did our garage and our order. J all in the
you know the chin there on the floor. So we're
all four of them. Great people to work with.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Terry.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I appreciate you trusting my recommendation, but I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Following up and letting me know how it goes.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You have no idea. How proud that makes me that
our model, when our models works, I can always hold
it together on that song until the mom calls. When
the mom comes over the air, that's that's the moment. Man, James,
(13:44):
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Are you in Corpus
Christy or is your phone just registered to Corpus Christy.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Registered to Corpus? I live in Dickinson.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Now, Mike, what was your Michael, what was your Corpus connection?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I my wife Back then we had moved down that
way to get away from the Dallas area and just
stay there for about four years.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Interesting, what do you do now?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'm a maritime engineer?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh really?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So what exactly do you do?
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
When I'm on the boat. Depending on which boat I'm
on right now, I've been working up in and around
the Oakland, San Francisco area, moving to you know, barges around,
fuel barges and dredge work. Other than that, sometimes I'm
working in Long Beach. We'll go out and catch the
SpaceX rockets that are landing out the Pacific.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Forgive me, I'm not a maritime expert, but is a
maritime engineer like a locomotive engineer.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You the operator, No, sir.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
That's the captain of the vessel. I'm the one that
keeps the engines running, the air conditioning cold, the hydraulics,
and pretty much keep the boat lit up, fixed things
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Did you learn to do that in the service.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
No, sir, I didn't. When I got out of the Marines, Uh,
I didn't know what I wanted to do. So I
did bartending for a bit, and every once in a
while these guys would come in with fat wallets and they,
you know, I kept asking what they did, and they said,
we work on boats. And I had no you know,
I was thinking like twenty foot John boats and that
kind of thing, and they told me. I gave it
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a shot, and I found out I was pretty good
at it, and uh work my way up a chain,
and uh, I could have been a captain, but you know,
I they're stuck in that wheelhouse for hours at a time.
I like moving around. Yeah, so that's why I went
to the engineering route.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So did you was it on the job training?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Where did you learn to do this?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes, sir, yes, yes, I'm sorry, yes, answer your question. Yeah,
it was all ojat and busted knuckles.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So when you start, did you have an aptitude for
miss machinery engineering?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No, no, no, not at all, not at all. I was.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
I hated it.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
When I was a kid. I'd be up under there
the car with my dad and he'd be cussing at
me because I didn't hold the flashlight right. And I
knew early on I didn't want to do that for
a living. And anyway, just through habits and well this
ain't that hard thinking or through the process of illumination,
I could figure out how to fix certain things. And
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like I said, I didn't want to go to the wheelhouse,
so I figured I'd just give that a shot. And
it turned out to be I could when I can.
I can set my own schedule on the boat, you know,
and work the hours that I can and when I want,
and stay out of everybody else's hair, and I can
do what I want to do when I want.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So are you an employee of their company? Are you
a private contractor?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
How does that work?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No, sir, I'm an employee. Just it's I did all
my education and training and experience primarily in the Gulf
of Mexico on the old field supply boats and now
I'm on the tug boats because bigger boats mean bigger problems.
Smaller boats smaller headaches. So anyway, I'm on tugs up
and out in California. I've called you before quite a
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few times, but uh, anyhow, No, I just all OJT.
I've got to. I can really say I had. I've
had a great time in the industry because I had
I would. I always found myself working with the good guys.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, getting up, It's Gulf of America about it. Hold on,
how about you think he makes a year or month?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I would have guessed. Yeah, probably.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Continues today.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No time.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Do you think Jet sings along every Friday?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Guarantee he does.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
If you're wondering why, we don't know, it's because Chad
is in the studio that has a wall in between,
so I can't see him. I can see across the
glass to see Ramon. Is this What what does that mean?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
He doesn't want to be around us because we have
unhealthy habits. And Chad is a an asthete.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What is the word he's?
Speaker 8 (18:22):
He his?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
A person who is pure of heart, soul, mind, and body.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What is the term for that? He is?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I forget well, straight edge, I mean even goofball it
is straight edge, but he's more like the whole thing
A C or a J.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
What was his name? A aw? What was it? What
a D? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, have you heard from him? Have you heard from him?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh? Okay, good for him?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Okay, uh James, Yes, sir, what do you make as
a maritime engineer?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You were pretty much spot on at your estimation there
at the end of that last conversation.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
About two hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Now one seventy five. You can, but that's working eight
months out of the year though, you know you most
of the companies like you to do six months on,
six months off. But there's such a shortage right now
for engineers in the industry wide because it's work. It's
the working part of the boat. Not that deckhands don't work.
(19:32):
A good deckhand can make eighty grand a year starting.
But you know, you got to do at least six
seven months to get your skill sets in and then
you can decide which route you want to go. A
lot of people want to go to the wheelhouse because
they think captains and mates they don't do a lot
of sweating, you know what I'm saying. They're not working,
working physical, not that they don't work. That is work,
(19:54):
you know, dealing with clients and all that. I don't
want to have anything to do with that. So whenever
I go to my engine room, and I swear to God,
I'm in California with ear pods in in my earphones,
and you're blasting in my ears while I'm down there
doing an old change on an engine as big as
a pickup truck. So, you know, I listen to you
guys out there, and I'm always telling people your points
(20:16):
and we talk about it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I love to hear from people. And I say this
on the when when we do bonus podcasts, I'll do
a whole separate intro for that, and I ask people,
you know, where they're listening, literally and specifically. So people
will say, I'm in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the chocolate factory,
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or I'm in you know, some place in Idaho I've
never been to, and like what you do. That's a
relatively rare way.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
To make a living.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But it's fascinating to me the different ways, the different
things people do.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Or a lot of people will listen.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
While they're their hobby, while they're whitling ramon some people
while they're whitling. Yes, will listen, but you you had
called about something, So I want to give you a
minute to say that, and then I'll go to Bill.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
What I appreciate that. Yes, So, just watching the news
and everything on all the channels, I'm seeing where it appears,
and people are saying that the Democrats planned to shut
down long before this came to, you know, the new
government funding. And my wife and I listen to you
every day I'm at home and I'm just thinking, you know,
and me and her talk about this past couple of nights.
(21:29):
Are they going to sandbag this? Is there a way
they can sandbag this peace deal with Israel in Palestine?
Is there a way they can get in there and
screw this up? Because they will. Certain people true themselves
to be Yeah, they will. Okay, what's your.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I mean, you know how they do it? Who knows?
But yes, I do believe the shutdown was planned. In fact,
I think that they I think that the illegal alien
health care was inserted and drawn and brought to the
attention of Republicans for the sole purpose of them opposing it.
(22:11):
They wanted they were baiting Republicans into a fight, and
that way they could create the shutdown because they need
to know if you remember what they did to Trump.
Starting in January of twenty twenty, the economy was booming,
things were going great, and they knew this is no
(22:32):
environment in which to defeat him in the election.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So you have.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
COVID starts shortly. COVID actually sort of began at that point,
but by March it was in full swing. The country
was in shutdown mode, and now everybody was living scared,
post apocalyptic in their houses. So now nobody was going out.
So now you do ballot by mail, and so you
have all the things that work together. You had George Floyd.
(22:58):
There's always a George Floyd case. There's always some black
dude that that you know, suicide by cop or in
that case, takes an overdose and dies, and and you
know a group of people come around in cops, all
bad people, and so that all of those things were
designed to work together to dislodge Trump, and it worked
(23:19):
at that and all the cheating that went with it,
and it worked. So yes, you know a lot of
people don't still don't seem to understand that nothing you
watch coming out of Washington d c is authentic. It
is all performative, it is all kabuki theater. It is
all pre planned, prescripted. The only thing that is not
(23:42):
is how we react. Sometimes we react differently, and I
think they're probably quite disappointed that they're not getting the
support with the lockdown that they want. So I think
what we're about to start is by next week, we're
going to start seeing people. We're going to see story
from CBSABC, NBC, MSNBCCNN of this person is about to
(24:06):
die because the government is shut down. We're going to
find cases where you've got to have the government or
this person will die, and that'll become the big story,
kind of the George Floyd story. And they'll pick somebody
white who is a Republican who voted for Trump, and
that person is about to die because the government has
shut down and they desperately need the government to reopen,
(24:27):
and that person will look into canas say I.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Voted for Donald Trump. I liked Donald Trump, but I
didn't vote for this.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
We're about to die down here in southern Texas and
President Trump's got to reopen the government.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I can't believe he's doing this. Why would he do this?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I wished I hadn't.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Voting for him.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And there'll be that whole that little game that they'll
play so and there will be people. There are stupid people.
We have to recognize that. Some of them are nice.
Some of them go to church with us, they live
next door to us. But they're very, very very stupid.
They're naive to the point of being slow. We used
(25:06):
to call that special. They're really really stupid sheeple who
can be convinced of things because they see it on
the news and then they come to You know, I'm
not wanting to be easily swayed. I'll tell you what,
But but I think this. You keep saying this, this
COVID is not bad. I think this thing can take.
This could be like Spanish flu in nineteen eighteen. I'm
(25:27):
double You can make fun of me all you want.
I'm double masking. I'm taking a shot. I'm gonna take
every booster. I'm doing everything that this thing kill us.
All Okay, there
It's that time time, time, time, lucking load still Michael Very.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Here's Johnny. I am the danger. I am the one
who knocks.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We'll do it lit that, we'll do it live.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Last year I spent more money on still liquor. There's
fires from one side of this world to the other
than you may. You're talking to the roles wearing diamond ring,
wearing jet stealing, whoa wheeling, dealing ligans in right jet,
flat stud of a gun, and I'm having a hard
time holding the allegantors doing this book.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Salive this little level. She can tell right away.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That I was bad at the ball, head of the bowl,
bad of the bowl, bad of the bowl.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Let my dog. So now that'll be the end of it.
I will not look for you. I will not pursue you.
But if you don't I will look for you. I
will find you, and I will kill you.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Alf that I'm bad of the bowl, bad of the bowl.
Fire fire, fire, bad ball.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I want ray, what again?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I tell you I'll double again.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Terry, Terry, What do you think Terry's doing? What if
(02:29):
he left his phone in the workshop and there's people around,
they won't Terry may go Mana, here's this thought. It's
been I don't put a tea Harry me not mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He probably went to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That was gonna dig you. He let me find that,
Emil while we went on care District. There, go to Robert.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Robert, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Hello, Michael Coincidentally, I have a story about Richmond, Texas.
It took place back in nineteen forty five, and there
was a Mexican at the White House being awarded the
Medal of Honor in August. In September, he came home,
They got a pass, gave him a pass. He came home,
(03:35):
still in the army. So he came home to sugar Land,
where his family had been sharecroppers for about thirteen years.
And then he went to get a bite to eat
at the Oasis Cafe in Richmond, Texas. You know, Sugarland
and Richmond real close together. But they wouldn't serve him
because he was a Mexican, and they beat him with
(04:00):
a baseball bag. Actually they it was a white woman.
A white woman.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
This not Johnny Paycheck's Colorado kool aid?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Is it.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Me or the person I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
To the song. It's not the song, is it.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I don't even know that song. Michael.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, he cut his ear clean off, and then it
reached in, picked up off the ground, reached in and
spoke to it in his ear.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
But ahead, this is Michael, this is serious, a serious story.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I'm sure it is. That's a serious song.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Uh well, okay, well, thank you for thank for letting
me know that. Hey, anyway, he's He was a combat
veteran in Europe for six months as first gout for
the Assault Battalion of the twenty second Regiment. He killed
many people. If you read his Medal of Honor citation,
(04:52):
you'll see he's a very fair minded man. He saved
people's life during the altercation in Germany when he was
in actual combat with the enemy and the only one
who could save his company from decimation from artillery. At
any rate, the woman was very lucky. She didn't lose
(05:15):
her life. She just lost a few teeth. What happened
is the army they came and arrested him. Richmond did
the sheriff, and the army came and got him out
of jail and said, hey, he is still in the army.
He's not under your jurisdiction. Sorry, Richmond knew they had
(05:38):
stepped in it, and they tried to sweep it under
the carpet. But the Mexican American community could not handle
what had happened. They just couldn't. They just said, this
is too much, this is too far. You draft somebody,
you put him in the army, you put them on
the front line, they get the Medal of Honor, you
bring him home, and you won't even serve him any food.
(06:00):
This is too far. So a guy named John Jay Herrera,
who had felled the bar about six times and finally
passed it, became his lee attorney. John J. Herrera leaked
the story to Walter Winchell in New York, and Walter
Winchell over the radio nashally called Richmond, Texas the dirtiest
(06:26):
little town in Texas. So anyway, that's the story.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm pretty sure that's Colorado kool aid by Johnny Pacheck.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Michael, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, they write songs about things that happen.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Well, that song's not about well, okay, well let's just
go with you. Let's say that song is about Macardia
Garcia and by the way, y'all, y'all advertised thunderbolts a
lot and thunderbolts on the at the intersection of staff
Sergeant maccartie or Garcia.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yep, I know, yep.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
So anyway, Hey, Michael, that's all I had. If it's
not enough to engage in, no problem, Well.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know. It's a good story. I don't know
what you want me to.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Do, Michael. You asked people to call in with bad
stories about the city problems in Richmond, Texas. Uh, Richmond, Texas.
That's where it happened. Oased this cafe in Richmond, Texas.
They still haven't learned their lessons evidently, Uh, by the
way they treated you and the way they treated that
(07:37):
lady who bought the the the heirloom.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, I agree, I let you tell the story. I
don't know what you want me to do. I'm not
sure how I'm feeling.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
You know what I want you to do. I want
you to hang up because that's what I'm going to do.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
For more.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Do you do you understand why he was so mad?
That doesn't make any sense to me. You probably don't
like Johnny Payjack. It was a good story, although he
buried the lead. I mean it was a good Paul
Harvey reveal where at the end it was macaryol Garcia.
I think he forgot to tell that part because at
(08:17):
the very end, and you know, the worst part is
the worst thing they did to dishonor MACARYO Garcia named
a street after him and the worst part of town.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Doing it big on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know, I was thinking to myself then I had
a real Red Savine feel to it. So I didn't
know who wrote it. I didn't know if Johnny Paycheck
himself wrote it or not. So I looked it up.
It was written by Phil Thomas, but it was first
recorded by Red Solvine. That is a glorious time in
(08:54):
American music for me, when you had the spoken word
songs of the Red Sorons.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Like Teddy Bear. Oh, I guess me. Ever, now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Red Skelton did the pledge of allegiance. Oh, Terry's back.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Uh, Oh, this is not going well.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I can hardly tell Terry. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Hey, thanks for having me, sir Hey, Michael, I wanted
to give you a I guess I'll tell you about
some of your show sponsors. We just built a house
and just got moved in here shortly, and uh, we
used some of your show sponsors there. Uh Becky from
(09:43):
Southern front Doors.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh yeah, okay, that was you know.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
I went in there. I kind of drove up on
it by accident, went in there and looked around. Beg
you showed me around. You showed me a set of
front doors, eight foot steel doors with the glass.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, the four star like that.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Yeah, okay, I liked them. I said, man, I could
bring my wife by. I brought my wife by. Becky
showed us around again, and my wife looked at them
same doors. Go, oh, that's the one, don't they So did.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You do the solid or did you do the forged
iron then a door behind it?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
No, we did like the solid with the glass in it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Not our current house, but our last house.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We move a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Our last house we had regular doors, but they were glass,
and even though we had fencing and walls and all
that sort of stuff, I stoodn't. I wasn't wild about
that concept. And my wife likes to leave the door open.
I think this is a foreign thing. And she likes
to when I'm not there, she likes to leave the
doors open and let the air come through. And so
(10:49):
I went to Southern Front Door and I got the
forged iron kind of decorative and it's it's like a
it's like a front gate sort of deal.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know, they had real decorative.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Iron, but the air come through and you could see out,
but yet it was still locked. You know, a person
couldn't get through them. Well, that's fantastic. Who were the
others that you used?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
Well, then we went to Flarerty's and we shopped around
where we were building, and Larry's just had a better price.
And of course it took about three trips for my
wife to go through there. And I cannot remember the
lady's name. She worked with their off the Grant Roach
in the Cypress area, but I know our license plate
(11:30):
is tinker Belt and she had the patients, you know,
with my wife, and they finally got all the flouring,
and they did all the flouring our old houses style
except for the master closet. Then there's three bathrooms that
are all tiled, the showers and also she picked out
(11:51):
all that all that went real good. So as the
house got a little further along. We toured this house
last year about this time of year, and we didn't
have a lot of water to keep the slap cool cooled.
So the front and rear front, forestback patio they all
had some little surface cracks. So we called up Allied
(12:13):
Outdoor Solutions. They came out about three times, show us
simples and what they're going to do, and of course
we threw the Michael Berry name out there so that
they worked with us on the price and stuff, and
we came to a pattern that we liked on there.
In fact, we even added the sidewalk all the way
(12:34):
out to the driveway done up. And then probably the
best one was Dale Sun for Sunfire coating. Yeah, super
nice guy man. In fact, we were on vacation and
I just get I said, Dale, here, here's the combination
(12:55):
to the gate, here's a combination to the garage. He
did our garage and our order. J all in the
you know the chin there on the floor. So we're
all four of them. Great people to work with.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Terry.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I appreciate you trusting my recommendation, but I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Following up and letting me know how it goes.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You have no idea. How proud that makes me that
our model, when our models works, I can always hold
it together on that song until the mom calls. When
the mom comes over the air, that's that's the moment. Man, James,
(13:44):
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Are you in Corpus
Christy or is your phone just registered to Corpus Christy.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Registered to Corpus? I live in Dickinson.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Now, Mike, what was your Michael, what was your Corpus connection?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I my wife Back then we had moved down that
way to get away from the Dallas area and just
stay there for about four years.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Interesting, what do you do now?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'm a maritime engineer?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh really?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So what exactly do you do?
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
When I'm on the boat. Depending on which boat I'm
on right now, I've been working up in and around
the Oakland, San Francisco area, moving to you know, barges around,
fuel barges and dredge work. Other than that, sometimes I'm
working in Long Beach. We'll go out and catch the
SpaceX rockets that are landing out the Pacific.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Forgive me, I'm not a maritime expert, but is a
maritime engineer like a locomotive engineer.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You the operator, No, sir.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
That's the captain of the vessel. I'm the one that
keeps the engines running, the air conditioning cold, the hydraulics,
and pretty much keep the boat lit up, fixed things
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Did you learn to do that in the service.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
No, sir, I didn't. When I got out of the Marines, Uh,
I didn't know what I wanted to do. So I
did bartending for a bit, and every once in a
while these guys would come in with fat wallets and they,
you know, I kept asking what they did, and they said,
we work on boats. And I had no you know,
I was thinking like twenty foot John boats and that
kind of thing, and they told me. I gave it
(15:28):
a shot, and I found out I was pretty good
at it, and uh work my way up a chain,
and uh, I could have been a captain, but you know,
I they're stuck in that wheelhouse for hours at a time.
I like moving around. Yeah, so that's why I went
to the engineering route.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So did you was it on the job training?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Where did you learn to do this?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes, sir, yes, yes, I'm sorry, yes, answer your question. Yeah,
it was all ojat and busted knuckles.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So when you start, did you have an aptitude for
miss machinery engineering?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No, no, no, not at all, not at all. I was.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
I hated it.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
When I was a kid. I'd be up under there
the car with my dad and he'd be cussing at
me because I didn't hold the flashlight right. And I
knew early on I didn't want to do that for
a living. And anyway, just through habits and well this
ain't that hard thinking or through the process of illumination,
I could figure out how to fix certain things. And
(16:29):
like I said, I didn't want to go to the wheelhouse,
so I figured I'd just give that a shot. And
it turned out to be I could when I can.
I can set my own schedule on the boat, you know,
and work the hours that I can and when I want,
and stay out of everybody else's hair, and I can
do what I want to do when I want.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So are you an employee of their company? Are you
a private contractor?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
How does that work?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No, sir, I'm an employee. Just it's I did all
my education and training and experience primarily in the Gulf
of Mexico on the old field supply boats and now
I'm on the tug boats because bigger boats mean bigger problems.
Smaller boats smaller headaches. So anyway, I'm on tugs up
and out in California. I've called you before quite a
(17:11):
few times, but uh, anyhow, No, I just all OJT.
I've got to. I can really say I had. I've
had a great time in the industry because I had
I would. I always found myself working with the good guys.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, getting up, It's Gulf of America about it. Hold on,
how about you think he makes a year or month?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I would have guessed. Yeah, probably.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Continues today.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No time.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Do you think Jet sings along every Friday?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Guarantee he does.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
If you're wondering why, we don't know, it's because Chad
is in the studio that has a wall in between,
so I can't see him. I can see across the
glass to see Ramon. Is this What what does that mean?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
He doesn't want to be around us because we have
unhealthy habits. And Chad is a an asthete.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What is the word he's?
Speaker 8 (18:22):
He his?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
A person who is pure of heart, soul, mind, and body.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What is the term for that? He is?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I forget well, straight edge, I mean even goofball it
is straight edge, but he's more like the whole thing
A C or a J.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
What was his name? A aw? What was it? What
a D? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, have you heard from him? Have you heard from him?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh? Okay, good for him?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Okay, uh James, Yes, sir, what do you make as
a maritime engineer?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You were pretty much spot on at your estimation there
at the end of that last conversation.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
About two hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Now one seventy five. You can, but that's working eight
months out of the year though, you know you most
of the companies like you to do six months on,
six months off. But there's such a shortage right now
for engineers in the industry wide because it's work. It's
the working part of the boat. Not that deckhands don't work.
(19:32):
A good deckhand can make eighty grand a year starting.
But you know, you got to do at least six
seven months to get your skill sets in and then
you can decide which route you want to go. A
lot of people want to go to the wheelhouse because
they think captains and mates they don't do a lot
of sweating, you know what I'm saying. They're not working,
working physical, not that they don't work. That is work,
(19:54):
you know, dealing with clients and all that. I don't
want to have anything to do with that. So whenever
I go to my engine room, and I swear to God,
I'm in California with ear pods in in my earphones,
and you're blasting in my ears while I'm down there
doing an old change on an engine as big as
a pickup truck. So, you know, I listen to you
guys out there, and I'm always telling people your points
(20:16):
and we talk about it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I love to hear from people. And I say this
on the when when we do bonus podcasts, I'll do
a whole separate intro for that, and I ask people,
you know, where they're listening, literally and specifically. So people
will say, I'm in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the chocolate factory,
(20:40):
or I'm in you know, some place in Idaho I've
never been to, and like what you do. That's a
relatively rare way.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
To make a living.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But it's fascinating to me the different ways, the different
things people do.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Or a lot of people will listen.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
While they're their hobby, while they're whitling ramon some people
while they're whitling. Yes, will listen, but you you had
called about something, So I want to give you a
minute to say that, and then I'll go to Bill.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
What I appreciate that. Yes, So, just watching the news
and everything on all the channels, I'm seeing where it appears,
and people are saying that the Democrats planned to shut
down long before this came to, you know, the new
government funding. And my wife and I listen to you
every day I'm at home and I'm just thinking, you know,
and me and her talk about this past couple of nights.
(21:29):
Are they going to sandbag this? Is there a way
they can sandbag this peace deal with Israel in Palestine?
Is there a way they can get in there and
screw this up? Because they will. Certain people true themselves
to be Yeah, they will. Okay, what's your.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I mean, you know how they do it? Who knows?
But yes, I do believe the shutdown was planned. In fact,
I think that they I think that the illegal alien
health care was inserted and drawn and brought to the
attention of Republicans for the sole purpose of them opposing it.
(22:11):
They wanted they were baiting Republicans into a fight, and
that way they could create the shutdown because they need
to know if you remember what they did to Trump.
Starting in January of twenty twenty, the economy was booming,
things were going great, and they knew this is no
(22:32):
environment in which to defeat him in the election.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So you have.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
COVID starts shortly. COVID actually sort of began at that point,
but by March it was in full swing. The country
was in shutdown mode, and now everybody was living scared,
post apocalyptic in their houses. So now nobody was going out.
So now you do ballot by mail, and so you
have all the things that work together. You had George Floyd.
(22:58):
There's always a George Floyd case. There's always some black
dude that that you know, suicide by cop or in
that case, takes an overdose and dies, and and you
know a group of people come around in cops, all
bad people, and so that all of those things were
designed to work together to dislodge Trump, and it worked
(23:19):
at that and all the cheating that went with it,
and it worked. So yes, you know a lot of
people don't still don't seem to understand that nothing you
watch coming out of Washington d c is authentic. It
is all performative, it is all kabuki theater. It is
all pre planned, prescripted. The only thing that is not
(23:42):
is how we react. Sometimes we react differently, and I
think they're probably quite disappointed that they're not getting the
support with the lockdown that they want. So I think
what we're about to start is by next week, we're
going to start seeing people. We're going to see story
from CBSABC, NBC, MSNBCCNN of this person is about to
(24:06):
die because the government is shut down. We're going to
find cases where you've got to have the government or
this person will die, and that'll become the big story,
kind of the George Floyd story. And they'll pick somebody
white who is a Republican who voted for Trump, and
that person is about to die because the government has
shut down and they desperately need the government to reopen,
(24:27):
and that person will look into canas say I.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Voted for Donald Trump. I liked Donald Trump, but I
didn't vote for this.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
We're about to die down here in southern Texas and
President Trump's got to reopen the government.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I can't believe he's doing this. Why would he do this?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I wished I hadn't.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Voting for him.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And there'll be that whole that little game that they'll
play so and there will be people. There are stupid people.
We have to recognize that. Some of them are nice.
Some of them go to church with us, they live
next door to us. But they're very, very very stupid.
They're naive to the point of being slow. We used
(25:06):
to call that special. They're really really stupid sheeple who
can be convinced of things because they see it on
the news and then they come to You know, I'm
not wanting to be easily swayed. I'll tell you what,
But but I think this. You keep saying this, this
COVID is not bad. I think this thing can take.
This could be like Spanish flu in nineteen eighteen. I'm
(25:27):
double You can make fun of me all you want.
I'm double masking. I'm taking a shot. I'm gonna take
every booster. I'm doing everything that this thing kill us.
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