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It's that time time, time,time, luck and load. So Michael
Vary Show is on the air calledthe Black see the Red. Start to

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day like call the rest, firstthing every morning that I do. God,
miss thank you. Oh yes,that's Telly Savalis. You either know

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or you don't. I can't explainto you how cool Telly Savalis was,
or how cool I thought Telly Savaliswas. But he was about as cool
as there was as far as Iwas concerned. A couple of you have
had a conniption that I said,Beretta said one more, just one more

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thing, And it was actually Colombo, in fact, Michael Petro, who's
losing his mind out there over thissaid. In fact, Peter Falk's biography
is titled Just One More Thing,and it's an interesting read. You should
read it. So some of youwill remember Colombo and his oh just just
one more thing. Oh listen,it's one other thing I wanted to ask

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you about. There's some of thelesson worked for doctor Murchison. I can't
find him, and I was wonderingwhether you can help me. Apparently he
goofed up on some expensive price.I think that he was working on see
I've seen this picture every day fortwelve years. You know, I don't
know. I don't watch TV anymore. I will I will watch. I

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do YouTube subscriptions, so I havethings that I have subscribed to. Some
of them are sports, uh,some of them are true crime, some
of them are financial frauds, andsome of them are political biographies or kind
of a you know, videos ofwhat has happened in the day in quote

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unquote news, which is usually justpolitics. But I don't watch television shows
the way we used to. Youknow, we had the three stations CBS,
NBC, ABC, and that waswhat we did, and everybody kind
of watched the same thing. Andthere would be your primetime TV shows like
that. I don't know if Iwould watch that kind of stuff now,

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but I sure did then and Iloved it. Hawaii five Oz, book
them, Dan over Man, that'squality right there. Anyway, it's time
for a little you Know What Imiss and now the Michael Barry Show present,
Michael, you Know what I missed? Why Bablu mom La Ramon,

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do you remember the you know whatI miss? Lady? I remember asking
her to do it. I thinkshe did it two or three times.
Till we got her to nail itjust right. Margaret, What do you
miss, sweetheart? Hey Michael,I missed gas stations with full service?
Really, Yes, that's what I'vebeen thinking a lot about lately, things

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that used to be and aren't anymoreso. And that was the first one
that came to my mind. AndI also remember gas at twenty five cents
a gallup? Two? Where wasyour gas station with full service that you
think you last went on the regular? Oh? My god. That was

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a long time ago, probably onthe north side of Houston, because we
lived on Momon Road and that's whereI grew up. The only reason I
say that is because my parents didn'thave money, and we didn't pay anybody
to do anything, because my dad'smine. You know, if money is

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scarce, you don't pay somebody todo something you can do yourself. Changed
our own oil, caught our owngrass, washed our own cars, you
know, anything my dad could doand could teach us to do, or
my mom could do for that matter. My mom was not afraid of hard
work. We didn't pay anybody todo We did it ourselves, and that

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was just a luxury that we Imean, I honestly don't know. For
me. Full service gas is youknow goober on the Andy Griffith Show,
you know, some guy coming outwith the rag. I can remember seeing
people do it. It was justa luxury. Maybe some of you did

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it. I don't even know whatthe price difference would have been. I
will tell you this, when theyfirst added us in Portland, I was
going up and spending the summer therefor several years and the kids loved it.
And in the state of Portland youcannot pump your own gas. I
know, it's crazy. There aretwo states. I think it's main is
the other one where you can't pumpyour own gas. New Jersey. That's

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it. Yeah, you're exactly right. It's New Jersey. And I remember
in Oregon I'd go to the gapand I hated it. I like pumping
my own gay. It's a routine, right, I pull up. You
know, you got your whole setof things you do. You click click,
click, click, and you putit in and then you go to
the restroom and you do this.And it was weird having somebody else in

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my space, you know. Itwas like having somebody there while you're shaving
or something. Brian, what doyou what do you really miss? You
know what I miss is the CarolBurnett Show. Oh Man, the talent
on that show. Vicky Lawrence,Harvey Gorman, Tim Conway, somebody huge

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got their start on the Carol BurnettShow. Who was it? Somebody I'm
not thinking of? You're right?And then did you watch Mama's Family?
I did. I was a bigVicky Lawrence fan, but honestly I liked
her in a more of her,the more of the stuff that she did
where you could like to see her. I thought she was cute. I

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got to interview Vicky Lawrence when Istarted in radio, so I started in
five, this was probably six,and I have a great picture of the
two of us, and she'd hada lot of work done, but I
will tell you for her age,she still looked really, really good and
she can sing lights out. Thewoman is insanely talented. Great call,

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Brian, fantastic Cheryl. What's yourMichael? You know what I really miss?
I really miss when we were racingto the store, grocery store and
going seventy miles an hour. MyMom's driving the Big View and we're trying
to get there before they close atfive o'clock because if you didn't get in

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there, the stores were closed onSundays. So it was like a contest.
It was the thrill of victory andthe agony of defeat. So we
screech in there and my sister wouldjump out or I would. We try
to race the guy to the doorbefore he was locking in. And now
it's not anything special. No,Now they'll stay open twenty four hours.

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It takes the sense of immediacy outof it. But you know, you
see those cars that you rode inin that time, no air conditioning,
the big heavy door, the clunkydoor, you had the windows down,
and I think to myself, wedidn't think anything of that, but that
at the time, that was luxury. No seat belt. You you know,

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it's crazy to think, and thatwasn't that long ago. Trace you're
on the Michael Berry Show. Goahead, Michael, I missed the back
car of the Texas cyclone. Ijust funny you say that. I literally
just yesterday the Houston Chronicle, theyhave a guy named Andrew Dansby is a

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music reviewer, and he wrote aHere's what really happened to Astrowold. But
it was a it was a briefbut pretty good little clip on the on
Astroworld and some of the people whocame through there. There was a Patrick
Swayzey scene that was filmed for whenhe was going by the name Buddy,

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but he's in a suit like abear suit. Anyway, it's more of
a Michael you know what I misscoming up? Oh the Michael Very show.
What the Wama won? All theworld is waiting for you and the

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power you possessed in your sat tights, fighting for your rights and the old
friend fighting wonder Wama, wonder Wama. Now the world is ready for you

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and the wonders you can do.Make a honking dumb stop with warming move,
make a liar editor, wh Inever realized how absurd. The theme

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song of that was the sac ofBlaxploitation film soundtrack. Then the carter turned
seventy three today. I was readingabout wonder Woman during the break. I
didn't realize Ramon, I don't knowif you did it. I didn't realize
wonder Woman, it says. So. The show aired from seventy five to

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seventy nine for three seasons, startedon ABC. You know what's funny,
I don't know what network anything ison anymore. I can't even tell you
if something was on Netflix or Prime. I'll just say I watch something,
I get aggravated. But hey,where do I find I don't know,
go find it. It's Apple,Netflix or Prime. That's only things.
Well, that's basically what I have. It shouldn't be that hard to find.

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We didn't have used to. Youdidn't have the Internet. So you
could say, you know, howdo I watch the Tyson Jake Paul fight.
You'd have to actually know or you'dmiss it. Now you just can.
You can search it. But Iwas just looking at this. The
show's first season aired on ABC andis set in the forties during World War
Two. The second and third seasonsaired on CBS and are set in the

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then current day late seventies, withthe title changed to The New Adventures of
Wonder Woman. So I guess theyfigured they goofed by setting it in the
forties during World War Two, andso now the New Adventures are Oh,
it's a new season, it's thirtyyears later. Huh. I did not

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realize that it was originally set inWorld War two? Did you remove?
I had no idea? Huh?I mean, I guess I just remember
the later years that the New Adventuresseason two and three, when it was
set in what was then modern dayseventy five. All right, it's a

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it's an episode of Michael you knowwhat I miss seven one? Michael,
you know what I missed? Why? Bam bam? Oh to know what

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that what? Michael T just walkedin and heard me talking and said that,
Yeah, Wonder Woman started in WorldWar two, And I'm wondering how
in the world he knows that andI didn't. All right, Oh they
made a movie about it. Ohwhat? Oh? He also read the

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comics. Okay, I never readthe comics. Were you a comic reader?
Did you collect comics? So Inever did. I always kind of
thought people that collected comics were different. No, not like that, just
different. And I still think that, Like, I bet you Dave Obert

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collects comics, guarantee you. Ibet you Jim Mudd collected comics. There's
a certain kind of nerdy but notnerdy intellectual. It's kind of nerdy sci
fi, Dungeons and Dragons, Ramonest shirt, you know, Ramones the
band T shirt. Kind of likethat's a certain subset of people. You

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know, maybe some of them becamegrateful dead people, you know, the
kind of people that listened to theKinks and they wore concert t shirts and
their hair in a in a ina ponytail and kind of real nerdy and
socially awkward, but intellectually curious.Maybe bad students, but intellectually curious.

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Anyway, I didn't read comic books. What can I tell you, John,
What do you truly miss the abilityto trust people? What? Hell?
Yeah, I'm listening, Michael yepOh. I just I used to
be. You could trust people,you can trust companies, you can trust

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the establishments, you could trust thenews, you can trust what you heard
on the radio. And it's gettingreally, really hard to do that.
Thirty years ago, when I wasin my thirties, if I met you
the first time, I could trustyou until you proved to me that you're
untrustworthy. Now, if I can'thave to walk through life just on guard

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all the time, and I thinkthat's the biggest thing that's going on an
American. I missed it. Trustand are personal responsibility here? Yes,
I think those things were valued.You know. I'll tell you I've had
this conversation with a lot of peopleMy dad worked for forty years for DuPont,
and there is a certain mentality ofpeople who who feel like companies started

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screwing over workers. And my thoughtis, yeah, that's that's absolutely true.
And companies will talk about how hardit is to hire good people today.
Well, yes, because loyalty tothe employee was discontinued. If you
don't extend that to the employee,then you shouldn't expect them to. If

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you have layoffs and people are handeda box and say grab your crap and
get out, or you can comeback tomorrow. To me, there has
been a a loss of faith insuch relationships. I one hundred percent agree
with that, and I think that'sbecause as a society we don't honor.

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We don't honor that any longer.It's what can I get for me?
Ben, what's your contribution to theMichael? You know what I miss?
Michael? You know what I reallymiss as in the early eighties, being
a kid, being in an organizedcrime family. My dad would climb the

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telephone pole, hook up a cable, run it across a field through the
window into the back of TV,and we'd sit around as a family stealing
cable. Was there anything better thangetting over on the cable company. I
mean the idea that you're getting somethingthat other people are not. I mean
that you're not supposed to. Youknow, that's how Steve Jobs started.

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Steve Jobs in Wosniank started with acable box. It stole cable that is
absolutely that was their first technology.In fact. Well, anyway, that's
the whole story, Alex, what'syour addition to the Michael? You know
what I really miss, Michael,what I really miss? If you could
make it past Chevy Chase and DanAykroyd on Saturday Night Live, you could

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watch Monty Python's Flying Circus, EricIdyl, John Cleese remember those guys,
Yeah, Terry, the whole group. When you said, if you could
make it through Saturday Night Live,did you not like Saturday Night Live back
then? No? I well,I mean as a kid, I mean

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I think we were like fifth grade. And if you could make it past
your parents not getting caught your parentshaving that TV on past nine thirty after
Carol Burnett, Actually yeah, youcould. They just did not like that.
They just didn't like the kids watchingSaturday Night Live. Yeah, so
you have to once you watch theentire thing and if you stayed up late,

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if you could stay past that,you catch Monty pythons, and you
know, well, you know,for me, it was also Benny Hill,
Friday Nights, Benny Hill. Ohmy god, Benny Hill. I
was gonna mention that that was thefunniest darned thing. And Yakty sacks uh
when that music would play and theywould speed it up and he would stop

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and he would, you know,break the fourth wall, look out at
you and smirt boy. That wasas a kid man, I thought that
was the funniest darned thing. Butmommy python was I think my first introduction
to true absurdism, and and thatI've never seen anything like that. I'd
never seen anything that was straight lazers, perfect English comedy. Inclace was a

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master of it. That was pureabsurdism, and I loved it. I'm
trying to be nice. Don't callhim a fat pick gee. I almost

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forgot. This was fascinating. There'sone other thing I wanted to talk to
you about. It's a rather personal. Oh listen, there's one other thing
I wanted to ask you about.I'm sorry to body man, I just
wanted to ask you one more question. What is it? Oh, there's
one thing I almost forgot. Doyou have another minute? Oh, sir

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Lessen. A couple of things cameup that I wanted to discuss with you,
But I don't want to burn younow because I could see you got
a lot on your mind. DoctorKevill, I almost forgot. Oh,
mister Chase. One thing she almostforgot that. There's one thing about the
Malory case that bothers me. Maybeyou can help me. I'm a strange

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guy. Yeah, I worry you. I mean little things bother me.
I'm gonna worry you. I meanlittle bit significant details. I lose my
app ato, I get even.You know, there's only one thing that
I'm not clear about. Actually thereis one thing. One other thing.
One more questions about those Saxophon things. We got it. So before we

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get back to a Michael, youknow what I miss? A quick update
on the big arrest coming out thismorning. The FBI is the lead agency.
There are multiple other local agencies assisting. It's about forty warrants that were
issued for a group called the YSBGang, which is known as the Young

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Scott Block. YSB is apparently apretty bad group of dudes. It's a
Southeast gang in Houston, which isa criminal organization that the allegation is was
working with a bonding company and inorder to get favors, they would supply

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narcotics and guns. As it hasbeen explained to me. The allegation anyway,
is when one of your guys getspicked up and gets a million dollar
bond, that's one hundred thousand dollarsit has to be given to the bonding
company, and they know, wedon't have one hundred thousand in cash lying

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around, but we got some ofthese machine guns and pound of coke and
whatever else. And so the allegationis they were they needed the bonding companies
to put up the bonds, andthe guys running the bonding companies, I
guess they had some bad dues thatthey had done business with who they could

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they could trade for. You know, Ramon, do you notice that when
you do a Michael, you knowwhat I really miss exkews mail four out
of five, maybe five out ofsix. I don't think women enjoining us
algi of the way men do.I don't know why. I'm just observing
what I notice. It's interesting,we don't we never get as many women

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to the Michael, you know whatI miss as much as we do Men
seven one thousand, Fire Away,Ramon and now Michael Barry Show Present,
Michael, you know what I missw L. Charles. What would you
like to the d to add tothe Michael, you know what I miss?

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I missed Johnny Carson and Karnak theMagnificent with the mysterious Uh Mayon Ase,
jar On Flunkett, Wagner's back horseand then his legal for do We
Cheat Him? And Steel Uh.Nowadays, I'd rather count thoughts than listen
to those libtards that are on inthe night. You know, I always
enjoyed Johnny Carson and and I thoughta lot of him, But it wasn't

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until I started working with Ramon andhis absolute absolute idolatry, I mean,
his his just passion for Johnny Carson. And he would share clips and I
would start to break them down andreally understand his comedic talent. And I
have come to appreciate now and Iwill often go back and and watch clips

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how good he really was. Yeah. In fact, one of Romont's favorite
stories is Comedy Central. When WhenWhen When Carson's last episode was on Comedy
Central went dark and on the screenit said, we're watching the final episode
of Johnny Carson, and so shouldyou. That's a level of respect from

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your peers that you don't see veryoften. That's a it's pretty cool thing.
Charlie. What's your addition to theMichael? You know what I really
miss? What I really miss isswimming pools with three meter and one meter
diving boards, which used to bewhen Lender Lake, which is my favorite,

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was in business. Every it wasa sort of if you're a young
man, you had to go offa high diet three meters. So I
missed them, and Glender Lake inthe Heights area was unique. You know,
I don't know how many injuries therewere. I suspect a lot from
diving boards, but but that wasa source of great enjoyment. You know,

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you certainly reduce a number of peoplewho break their neck and broken bones
and all the things, but youalso reduce I mean, there's a certain
amount of fun that was had fromthose damn things. Brad, what do
you have to add to the Michael? You know what I really miss?
Yes, sir, Well, ifyou're missing women, I can identify as
a woman right now with my comment, go ahead. And I truly missed

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the birds and the bees. Thebirds and the bees. Oh yeah,
I have to with my son thisweek. And oh we got explaining the
birds and the bees. But thebirds that like the bees, the birds
like the birds, the birds inwhich they were birds and bees and all
that on this, Yes, thebees that don't have a stinger. Yeah,

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no, I get it, Iget it. Oh, we have
a girl, Ramon, we havea girl. We found one. This
feels like we're on a work ona work crew in Alaska. We found
a woman. Andrea or Andrea.What do you have to add to the
Michael, You know what I trulymiss. It's Andrea. And oh boy,
am I ever a female. I'lltell you what. Yes, I

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know, okay, I grew upin the fifties and early sixties, and
what I yes, I'm old.What I miss is manners. If you
will, recall the movie Apollo thirteen, when Neil Armstrong was about to land
on the moon. The kids areup on the stairwell, all the adults

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are down in the room, andthen all of a sudden they say,
come on, kids, come ondown and watch. And they got permission
to join the adults. As achild, I remember watching my parents play
peanuckle with their friends and we wereallowed to sit on the couch and watch,

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and we were just in awe.Wow. Is that rise now surprising?
Makes sense? The song is allabout that bass, which was Megan
Traynor talking about being a big girl. Although I think it would have been

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far more interesting if it was allabout that bass and it had been written
for her and it was a songabout loving fishing, but leave that aside.
There is a group called Postmodern Jukeboxand they take pop songs and put
them into kind of a cabaret style, and the lead singer on that is
one of the original members of PostmodernJukebox, which is Arianna Savalis, Telly

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Savalis's daughter. Kind of in thesmall world category, thank you to Did
I send you no diggity? Oh? I meant to send you all about
that bass? Well you get mypoint, you understand. It's it's time
for another exciting edition of Michael YouKnow What I Miss? And now Michael

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Barry Show Present Michael you Know WhatI miss? Lend a sweetheart? What
do you miss? Michael? Imiss concert tickets being affordable and not being
the price of a piece of artwork. You know, Charlie Crockett just did

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a whole project, an album,concept album, and the whole deal around
a ten dollars ticket. And Icalled Levi Good who hosted his concert in
Houston at Armadilla Palace, and Italked to him and Chris Shaw, who
Chris used to run the House ofBlues and now he's he's kind of the

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see Linda are used to there,I'm here, I'm here hey. And
I said, did y'all are y'allpart of that ten dollars tour deal?
And he said yeah. And Isaid, I've been to a lot of
shows at Armadilla. How did youmake money paying him if he captured tickets

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at ten dollars? He said,we lost a lot of money. We
just did it because we wanted tobe part of the tour. We love
Charlie Crockett. And you know,you want to be seen as a type
of venue that hosts these types ofevents. You're right about the price of
tickets and what they are, butwhen the bands demand it, one of

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two things has to happen. Eitherthe fans pay it or the fans don't
pay it and you starve out thebands and they It's just like tickets to
sporting events. People love how muchthe guys make at the sporting you know,
playing for their favorite team. Theylove these big contracts. But unless
you refuse to pay them, theprices are going up. There's just no

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way around that. Charlie, whatdo you truly or what is your contribution
to the Michael? You know whatI miss? Truly missed swimming pools with
high dive three meter and low divesone meter. There used to be everywhere
Houston, particularly lived there lake inthe high period, which was unique.

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Am I having a deja vu?Didn't Charlie? Just tell that story with
the reference to the same lake andthe Saint I mean, he was like
consistent, Rob, What do youmiss, Michael on the CD radios and
sitting shop and down and shifting gearsfrom my dad? Well, you hit

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a lot of buttons right there ina short amount of time. That's that's
a solid that is uh, thatis rock solid. I do miss the
Cbee radio big time. I yeah, Wes, what do you miss,
Michael? I miss when there wasno EPA, OSHA or Department of Energy.

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They have screwed up this country somuch with their regulations. You're right,
and a lot of people have stoodidly by because they believe those organizations
are out to protect us, andthey're not. They're not, they're out
to regulate. They're often sent atthe direction of a competitor to shut somebody

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down because they're doing what they're doingextraordinarily. Well, it's amazing how many
life saving drugs, how many lifeimproving products could be available to us.
Just the air conditioning industry with therestrictions they've put on refrigerant, and how
much more expensive the air conditioning processis now. How much less efficient your

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units are, how much more itcosts to fix them. Ask anybody that's
in the air conditioning repair and replacementbusiness whether we have improved our air conditioning
process as a result of the refrigementrestrictions, and they'll tell you no,
we were much better off before.Ruben. What do you miss, man?
I miss Prince's drive in and drivein theaters? Amen, drive in

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theaters. But you know what's funny. What people don't remember, And I
was watching a video on this theother day. What people don't remember is
how bad the audio was that boxthat stayed out in the rain all the
time that you would drop through yourwindow to listen to the musical card.
It wasn't as good as we remember. You weren't actually at the movie theater

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to watch the movie anyway. Let'sbe clear, Alyssa, what do you
miss, Hi, Michael, Imiss here in Rush on after your show.
Oh, I agree. I didn'tget to listen to Rush much once
we went to eight to eleven becauseat eleven we then transitioned to doing a

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lot of production elements. That's whenwe write our comedy skits. That's when
we record a lot of our spots, and we record stuff for all of
our stations around the country. Sothat goes on for a couple of hours.
So I typically don't get to walkout of the studio for the first
time until one o'clock or so.And what I would try to do is

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make sure that I could at leastcatch some of Rush's show, But most
days I wouldn't, but it wassuch a treat when I did. I
have to tell you one of mymemories of our show, not Rush per
Se, that I will never forgetis the first time that we filled in

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for Rush and it was Christmas Eveof his first Christmas Eve afterwards, which
was his favorite show, and wewere chosen by his show team to do
that show. And they were allthere on Christmas Eve to be there with
us because it was such a bigdeal for them and for the audience.
And when was it My City InRuins, it's called My City was Gone.

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When the music started and they saidhold hold, it's like William Wallace
at Braveheart. Hold because they didn'twant us to panic and start talking.
And Ramone looked at me and Imean, I get choked up thinking about
it. Ramone looked at me andit was like, this is real.
We are about to do Rush isGone. But we were about to do

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Rush Limbaugh's show with Rush Limbaugh's entireteam here to Rush Limbaugh's audience. I
can't imagine. It must be likewhat it's like to go out on the
mound at Yankee Stadium when you werea lifelong Yankees fan. I mean,
it just it was, you know, lump in your throat, and I
was worried, like what if Igo to speak? And I mean it was man
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