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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. Well, I've never
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been to therapy. I don't need to. I have a
radio show, and so I guess some of these people
are trying to help me work through this confusion. I
was puzzled over my uncle Preston saying that about Glenn Campbell,
who doesn't like Glenn Campbell? Why why could you? How
could you be mad at Glenn Campbell? And Greg and
Manville writes, Glenn Campbell and your uncle Preston. I remember
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watching a music awards show on TV back in the seventies.
Glenn Campbell was presenting the award which Willie Nelson ended
up winning. Glenn says something to the effect, well, we
all know that Willie wouldn't cross the street to watch
a piss hnt pull a veil of hay, but we
congratulate him and accept the award for him. Maybe that
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was it. I don't know. I'm puzzled to this day.
My uncle Preston died too young for me to be
able to ask him. Of course, if he lived past
fifty six and I'd gone on to ask him, you know,
twenty five years later, Uncle Preston, Remember when you said
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you wouldn't cross the street to watch Glenn Campbell and
I said, but he's got rying Stone Cowboy And you
said that was a stupid song, and I thought it
was the coolest thing. How come you to say that?
And he might go, I didn't say that, or did
I say that? I don't know, Or maybe he'd tell
a story. You know, Glenn Campbell was at the bars
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at one time and he made a stupid comment. Or
Glenn Campbell, I don't know. The mystery of Whync Ressell
didn't care for Glenn Campbell might haunt me till my
dying days. Jim writes, as Jim Mudd, our creative director,
When Hogan died, I saw a Fellow tweet quote my
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childhood is dying, one person at a time. End quote
Things we lost too soon, Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan, Dell
Huxtable from The Cosby Show in Uncle Jerry's Toe, when Uncle,
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When Hulk Hogan died, I saw a Fella tweet my
childhood is dying when person at a time. It made
me think, what was the first celebrity death that felt
like part of your childhood had slipped away. What was
the first celebrity death that felt like part of your
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childhood had slipped away?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
See?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This is why we paid Jim the big money to
be creative director, to think of questions that arise at
moments like this. What was the first Ramona? I want
to know yours? What was the first celebrity death that
felt like part of your childhood had slipped away? And
then John Ritter, I know who John Ridder is. You
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want to explain who John Ridder is? Yeah, Three's company.
I love Three's company. What was mister mister Roper's real name?
Do you remember a little like mister Magoo? Do you
remember his name was? Was Norman? Uh? What?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Normal?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes? Normal felt that's it? Yes? Yes, yes, he says.
This is Jim saying this for many in our audience.
I suspect maybe that person. What was the first celebrity
death that felt like part of your childhood had slipped away?
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Elvis was? It wasn't Metthuselam. I'm not that old, shut up.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I don't know. See, I don't know how much of
Elvis's death I internalized because everybody around me was so devastated.
So I don't know that I was authentically that sad
as opposed to being sad because it was contagious. Wow,
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let's see, that would have been August sixteenth of seventy seven,
if memory serves August sixteenth of seventy seven. I was
a couple of months short of my seventh birthday, so
I was six years old. I would love to say
that's today, but most of my Elvis is post his death. Uh, conversations, documentaries,
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watching things, listening to things, conversations with my parents, conversation
with my grandparents. I think folks a little older than
me would say, Elvis, who was yours? Oh, yours was
John Ritter. I gotta think on who mine was. I
gotta give that some thought. Seven one three nine nine
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nine one thousand will take your costs to that moment.
Seven to one, three nine one thousand. You got me
thinking very very hard on this one, very very hard.
I don't know I might have to think on this.
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It was on this day, nineteen fifty eight, that Billboard
magazine combined its unwieldy system of five separate cells, jukebox
and DJ charts to make one master chart, which came
to be known as the Billboard Hot One hundred. The
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first number one song on the New Billboard Hot one
hundred that combined sales, jukebox and DJ charts was Ricky
Nelson's Poor Little Fool. The first thing that comes to
mind on that is how much room for cheating there was,
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because how do you get jukebox numbers? Jukebox numbers? These
weren't Internet connected jukeboxes. The juke boxes were reported and
if you think about it, I think it was the
Star label that George Jones was on out of Beaumont
and then he and then he moved to Houston to
be on it. If you think about the mafia ownership
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of the jukeboxes and the mafia ownership of record labels,
and the mafia ownership of Frank Sinatra and some others.
Who was the guy that was shot in his car?
And everybody knows he was murdered, but they pretended he wasn't.
Wasn't Bobby Darren? Who was the guy? Uh shoot? I
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can't remember? But my point is, I mean even the
DJ charts were open to uh were open to fraud
because you had who was the old boy Dick Clark?
Remember he got busted for Paola, but he managed to
get away and Alan what's his name got nailed for it?
What was his name, Alan Freed, He got nailed for it.
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So you realize that, especially in those days, the ability anyway,
all right, who was that person celebrity death who you
felt like your childhood was slipping away? Seven nine, one
thousand at the answer to the guy that was likely
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murdered was body Fuller And apparently I've just learned from
a listener that he was from Baytown. The number one
answer I have received from one hundred or so emails,
the first hundred or so emails that came in that
I went through pretty fast, that this celebrity death was
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the first one you remember feeling like a certain end
of your childhood was John Wayne, John Wayne. The number
one answer, Let's go to Kim Kim. Who was that
for you? Which celebrity death? Lucille Ball.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I really did cry when she passed away.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I loved this, of course, is love Lucy's show, but
all the.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Cameos by stars and just her physical comedy. And I'm
also a big fan of Carol Vernet.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I mean, she's still I was about to say, yeah,
they're very similar comics and actors to me, Lucille Ball
was August twenty sorry, April twenty sixth of nineteen eighty nine. Interesting,
you are the third person to say Lucille Ball, and
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one of them confessed it was because she reminded him
of his mother and that was the reason for that.
Lucille Ball represented that. Let's go to Chuck Chuck, which
celebrity death represented to you the first feeling that your
childhood was slipping away? Chuck, We got you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh? John Wayne, Chuck Chuck, what were you doing.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
House?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You were still talking to that?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I got you?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
John Wayne, John Wayne, it is John Wayne is in
first by a long way for our listeners so far
that have emailed in. Paul, who was that for you? Paul?
John Candy? John John Candy was so good in planes,
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trains and automobiles. He was ramon what was the one?
What movie was it that he was out front? That
that he was the guard out front to Wally World?
Or what was that National Lampoons?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What was that National Lampoon's vacation? That he was so good? Sorry,
sir Clark, yeah, because it was Clark Griswold. Sorry, is
her camps closed? That was such a great character. Russell,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Who was that celebrity
death that marked for you the beginning of the end
of your childhood?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yes, her mind would be a two part it'd be
pair of fouset I can still see her poster on
my closet door and leave Majors.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Lee, Majors hasn't died. Uh oh oh No. In fact,
he is. Uh. He is involved with our movie about
Kerrville called River of Angels. He is. He and I
are narrating. He's narrating the opening and the closing, and
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I'm narrating everything in between. And Sean Welling Welling Films
has done all the heavy lifting. He interviewed two little
girls yesterday who were there and who survived, and their
parents have to be so incredibly proud of them. When
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you see the footage, well, it'll be in the movie.
The movie's called River of Angels. But when you see
these little girls and how poised they are, and what
they've been through and what they've experienced, and their ability
to talk about it and put it in perspective, it's
a real it's a real testament to their parents and
to these young ladies. Their composure being so darn young Jesse,
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You're on the Michael Berry Show. Who was that celebrity
who's death marked for you the beginning of the end
of your childhood?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Well, what's gonna say for a Fosters? I've seen the
last guy just said that. But since I'm into music
and I play guitar, dined back.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Daryl, dine back, Daryl. He was shot, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He was.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know if I saw the video or in
my mind I've created a video because I heard about it.
But some guy walks up to the edge of the
stage and just shoots him. His weirdest thing ever. Do
we know who that was?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
They mentioned the name.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I think the guy was kind of crazy. I think
it might have been in the military. But I do
remember they come. They pop it up every now and then.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Daryl, it was he.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
He got mad because he split up with Pam Kira,
and I guess he dabb it or Darryl split that
band up, which he liked, so he decided to go to.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The concert and shoot him on stage. And it was terrible.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
I remember when it happened and watching it, I mean
watching on the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
News, and I was like man, and that kind of
destroyed the rock and roll community, just like Ozzy.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Ozzy was real big and he just passed away.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So that's another one.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know, Ramon, if you can find thank you, Jesse,
good call. If you can find the version of Ozzie
and Slash doing a Day in the Life, I would
to come back with. That was one of my brother's
favorite songs, and that version, I don't know if it's
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easy to find, probably take YouTube. I'd love to hear that.
But you made me think of that. RJ on the
Black Line.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
E're up, Sir, James Aprey.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uncle Phil.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Through my middle school in high school years, I needed
an Uncle Phil in my life. So I watched a
lot of Fresh Press of bel Air and Uncle Phil
was it for me. So when he passed away in
twenty eighteen, it kind of was the beginning of like man,
I'm going over so yeah, Uncle Phil.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So let me see. I'm trying to check to see
I think it was James Avery. It might not have
been when my nephew, No, it wasn't. It wasn't. He
was a different actor. I'm getting black actors confused. James
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LaRue Avery Fresh I didn't watch much of the Fresh
Prince of Bellair, did you remont? It came a little
later than me, but I do recognize him from that.
That show got more attention. I think it had a
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bigger pop culture influence than almost anything of its day,
because if first of all, you got you got the dance.
What's the guy's name that does the dance? The Carlton?
You got the Carlton. Of course you got Will Smith
that comes out of that, that goes on freak though
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he may be, that goes on to superstar or status.
When you had this great intro music, well that's a
good call, Argie the black Man. I'm not just saying.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
The Michael Very show long to be a fight and
breathe and then's uh.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
This song will always have a special meaning for me
for the rest of my life because just before my
brother died, he saw our youth Minister Brad Bickham, Brad
de Beaman Bickham at the hardware store in Orange and
he walked up behind him. And as Brad was looking
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at something on the shelf to buy because some project
he's working at home, Chris walked up behind him. Chris
was a very good vocalist in our in our youth choir,
he would often have solos. He was really good. I
never got a solo. I was placed in the very
back so nobody could hear me, because I can't carry
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a tune in a bucket. But my brother put his
arms around Brad, like to bear hug him, and so
that Brad couldn't turn and see who it was. And
he started singing that song there are places we remember
people in our lives, these sorts of things. And Brad said,
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you gotta understand, Brad, it's like Gomer Pyle.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
He is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He is just golle Shocks Southern Baptist youth minister, song minister.
And Brad said, bub, I don't know who this is.
Everybody was bub, bub, I don't know who is this?
Chris Berry and Chris leved downey it is and he said,
how come you didn't finish the song with me, Brad,
because Brad is a great vocalist. And he said, bub,
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you ought to know I only know gospel music. I
just I'm not good with that kind of secular music.
And so Chris started into it again. He said, join in, Brad,
this is a great song, one of my favorites. Brad said,
I don't know that song. Bub So when my brother passed,
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I was at the hospital and we didn't think my
dad was gonna make it to the weekend. Forgive me,
I've told the show this story on the air before,
but we didn't think my dad was gonna make it
to the weekend. And so I'm up to the hospital
making arrangements and trying to get the best care in
Beaumont for my dad when this whole thing, this was
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actually I had to rush to see my dad. We
didn't want him to get the news if my brother
had died, because that was gonna push him over it.
And so I'm there the very next day. Chris died
on a Tuesday. It's Wednesday evening, and I told my
mom mis paniced, and she said, can you handle the funeral?
I said, I got it. You just take care of dad.
I got this. So I'm sitting in the lobby at
the hospital and I'm calling Brad. You're gonna preach it.
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You're gonna sing, We're gonna do it at clay Bars
and Orange. We're gonna do this whole thing. So I
called Brad, I said, hey, I need you to preach
the funeral. That's what Chris would want. And about five
minutes later he called me back. He said, bub I
get something's on my heart. There's a song that Chris
sang to me and this is some of the words
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I remember. And I said, yeah, that's of course I
know the song. And he said, what do you think.
I just read the lyrics to it and it's not
a dirty song or anything, and what would you think?
And I said, that's great? And so that was song
at my brother's wedding and my brother's wedding, my brother's funeral. Anyway,
who was that celebrity who when he passed you felt
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like a piece of your childhood had died? Who was
that first celebrity you remember that? Being JT?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
You're up, Hey, Michael, look at here? Man?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
How can you talk about a celebrity that we lost
with all talking about r lee Ermy man, he was
tougher than Hobo crap, right, I son idolized that guy.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, he was, and what a character in real life
as well as on the screen. But I think you'd
have to be a lot younger for him to have
represented your childhood. There are people that they die that
you're bummed but you'd have to be pretty young for
that to be your childhood, Michael, you're up.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, Bob Barker when he died after many many mornings
watching the Prices, right, yeah, he passed away.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know, it's funny you bring him up, Michael, because
when I would get dropped off at my grandmother's house
when my mom was going into town and running errands,
my grandmother religiously watched prices, right, the Price. It was
just it was just called the Price, and she loved
Bob Barker. Then you find out he's bonking all the
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girls on there. That's not what got him in trouble.
Banking the girls didn't get him in trouble. Got him
in trouble was trying to the girls that didn't want
to bok him. And that was the one that I
will always remember of Bob Barker. That goofy microphone, the long,
bulbous microphone that every Marvin Gay and Bob Barker speaking
into that microphone I'll always think of. And then the
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spae and Newter thing at the end, which I always
thought was so stupid. Rooster, who was that for you?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, I'm a late rival to this. I didn't understand.
But my person is Russell and Ball and it certainly
not when I was a child, but made a big
difference in my life, and I think it allies to
a lot of people in this country.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And you know what, Yes, yes he is, but you
know and I will not strike that answer, even though
it doesn't fit at least for your generation or mine.
You'd have to be a lot younger for that to
be the case. But I will say this will never
strike the rustling baw answer. But I have often said
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that if we do not carry the torch, that Rush
passed and his work was futile. Jim Collins wrote a
book called Good to Great, and when he was studying
great companies, he said, if your company does not withstand
the absence the exit of the great charismatic leader, then
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your company did not have a great culture. And so
he took Leiahcoca out of his list of great leaders
because when Ayacoca left Chrysler, Chrysler went into a crash,
and that meant that he had not built a culture.
It was just a cult, and that was the big difference.
So I think that we should consider this our call
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to action to take everything Rush taught us, and there's
literally not a day that goes by that I don't
think to myself. You know, Rush made the point about this,
and I will quote that, and that's things I learned
from him. That's how it's supposed to be ken. You're
on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, sir.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
John Lennon?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Mate?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You are not the first person to say that I
had about was Lennon eighty Ramon? Is that right? I
think eighty one eighty?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah? Just see if we can get Carl on here
a real quick Carl, Carl, who was yours? Hold on,
hang tight, Carl gets your.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Best Queensiet brings your bias.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
The Michael Berry brings your bias.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
On my ball tight wi.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
One side ice and one is buyer. It's a Servicus
game with.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You, me.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
My bone, the tight road.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
One sight's hate and one is hope.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
But the top head on my head is all.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
You see, and the wire seems to be all the
ladies for me comedy WHI falllll.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Of love and up to them you look into my band.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Well the bee you're just too blind too see. I'm
up in a spider like wool. Does it feel right?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Me?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
And Russell is one of those guys out like carry
Neils Series, one of those guys that is not as
widely known among the retail public as within the industry.
One of those guys that's highly highly respected by other
singer songwriters, especially the outlaw country.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Era singer songwriters. Before we get back to the calls,
David Malsby's today's champion of Camp Hope. He says, this
past Saturday, the Gulf Coast Wood Turners Association enjoyed a
great afternoon making writing pins with the combat veterans at
Camp Hope. Thank you to the Golf Coast went Wood
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Burnt Wood Turners Association for donating their tools and expertise.
So one of their guiding principles on their website is
to provide guidance and training on wood turning to the community.
Ramon you would like this. Do you know what wood
turning is? I had to look it up. Wood turning
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is a woodworking craft where a piece of wood is
shaped into a desired form by using handheld tools while
the wood is rotated on a lathe. The lathe, a
machine that spins the wood, is central to the process.
Wood Turners use various tools to cut, shape and refine
the wood as it spins, creating symmetrical forms around the
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axis of rotation. It allows the transformation of raw wood
into functional and artistic objects like bowls, pins, and tool handles.
To decorate too, decorative pieces like vases or vases if
you like sculptures and ornaments, requires a combination of skill, patients,
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and understanding of wood properties and tool techniques. Ramon, you
would love this.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Thank you to the Gulf Coast Wood Turners Association. I
hope we have recruited for you more wood turners for
the Wood Turners Association because I'm grateful to you for
coming out and providing that experience to our veterans at
Camp Hope. I'm gonna go, Tim, Robin, Brandon, Mack and
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Carl if you could be quick and get right to it.
Who was that celebrity who when they passed you felt
like that was the beginning of the end of your childhood,
even if you were much older. Who was the first
person you remember that being the case? For Tim, you're up, Hey, Michael,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
For me, it was Walter Payton, big football fan, and
I was eighteen when he passed, and I.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Was yeah, I was quite sad to see him pass.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
There's a great I'm glad he got to be on
that eighty five team. He wasn't a major contributor, but
I'm glad he got a ring before it was all over.
There's a great picture of Sweetness and the Tyler Rose
together the two thirty four's. I could probably find it
if I looked it up, but I just love that photo. Ramon,
I'm having trouble pulling up the calls. Can you pull
up Robin for me? Robin, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
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Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning. How are you great?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I would have to say, Dan Blocker, old hosscart right.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Good times in Nebraska. Every Sunday evening we.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Would sit down after supper and watch Bonanza.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Oh man, what a great show. Yeah, that was only
a few years ago. We did a big deal on him,
and I was surprised. It was important to me so
I didn't care if anybody else liked it. I was
surprised how many people sent notes about that because they
they were happy with that. Brandon Europe, Yes.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Sir, Michael, good morning. Tudos to Robin for Bonanza. Also
grew up on gun Smoke Oh yeah, I have a
three part answer. Jerry Reid, Jackie Gleason, and Burt Reynolds.
Do you know what movie I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And you know what's interesting is how many people had
a smoke in the bandit reference. I think for us
my generation that you sound like you're about my age.
That was such a pivotal, influential, seminal moment for us,
that the death first of Jackie Gleeson, and then especially
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Burt Reynolds dying because he was in so many movies
in our area, the Longest Yard being the most underrated
of all the movies he ever met. That's just a
great movie. That's scene at the end where they want
to shoot him. They want the guard to shoot him.
The warden wants the guard to shoot him, and he's
going to pick up the football and he picks it
up and turns around, and you realize, my goodness, he
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should have never suggested that. Mac, you're up?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Who is it for you?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Michael. Mine also is a sports figure.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I grew up a big fan of Roger Merris.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Roger Maris the home run king. Yep, that's a good
one sixty one home runs.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Carl you're up, John Wayne.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Is the number one most answered today. I guess that
says something more about the age of folks calling in
than anything else. But that's interesting, Paul, you're up. Who's yours?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Hey, I came in late, so I don't let your
topic it call it to Razio about not having gone
to shop class.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That I didn't go to shop class.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You must not have, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I was an absolute nerd. I was in our calculus
class met in the shop next to where they did
body shop, and it was in a sheet metal building,
and we needed more classroom space at our school, and
so they took some of the shop space and made
it our calculus class. That didn't make it quiet, though,
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so Philip Welch, who I adored, who taught me trig
calculus and algebra two. And if there had been more classes,
I would have taken them because, oh you know what,
he might have taught me geometry to I loved that man,
and anyway, but he would be trying to teach us calculus,
which is not easy, and they'd be just across the
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little plywood or sheet rock wall they had assembled. They
hadn't even roughed in the wall. It was just it
was just the wood on our side from the sheet
rock on their side, and they'd get to grind in
a way, and we were trying to we were trying
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to concentrate, and we couldn't. But no, I was not
a shop guy. In fact, it's why I don't have
any practical knowledge, because I was a complete and utter nerd. John,
you're up, Hey, Michael, great show.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You might not be old enough to remember him, but
as a young.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Man I loved listening to Carl Sagan and he was
a great astrophysicist.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Sure, and Michael. When he died, I knew all of
us were going to die someday. I thought, he's just
the smartest man.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And if he can die, if Sagan can die, we
can all die. That's a good one. That's that's a
different one because it's not as much it's not as
purely a pop culture Lisa, what say you, sweetheart?
Speaker 8 (32:20):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Michael?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Thanks for having me?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
How about Robin Williams? Great icon?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You know, the Robin Williams death affected me more, not
because I was a huge, huge fan. I thought that poet.
I thought that poet society was absolutely brilliant and I
watched that silly more commende. But to know that he
had been suffering like that, that bothered me. It bothered
me in a way that when I see a dog
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being kicked or a woman being it bothered me. It
kind of hurt me to know that he had been
in so much pain for so long that that bothered me.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. Well, I've never
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been to therapy. I don't need to. I have a
radio show, and so I guess some of these people
are trying to help me work through this confusion. I
was puzzled over my uncle Preston saying that about Glenn Campbell,
who doesn't like Glenn Campbell? Why why could you? How
could you be mad at Glenn Campbell? And Greg and
Manville writes, Glenn Campbell and your uncle Preston. I remember
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watching a music awards show on TV back in the seventies.
Glenn Campbell was presenting the award which Willie Nelson ended
up winning. Glenn says something to the effect, well, we
all know that Willie wouldn't cross the street to watch
a piss hnt pull a veil of hay, but we
congratulate him and accept the award for him. Maybe that
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was it. I don't know. I'm puzzled to this day.
My uncle Preston died too young for me to be
able to ask him. Of course, if he lived past
fifty six and I'd gone on to ask him, you know,
twenty five years later, Uncle Preston, Remember when you said
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you wouldn't cross the street to watch Glenn Campbell and
I said, but he's got rying Stone Cowboy And you
said that was a stupid song, and I thought it
was the coolest thing. How come you to say that?
And he might go, I didn't say that, or did
I say that? I don't know, Or maybe he'd tell
a story. You know, Glenn Campbell was at the bars
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at one time and he made a stupid comment. Or
Glenn Campbell, I don't know. The mystery of Whync Ressell
didn't care for Glenn Campbell might haunt me till my
dying days. Jim writes, as Jim Mudd, our creative director,
When Hogan died, I saw a Fellow tweet quote my
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childhood is dying, one person at a time. End quote
Things we lost too soon, Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan, Dell
Huxtable from The Cosby Show in Uncle Jerry's Toe, when Uncle,
(02:55):
When Hulk Hogan died, I saw a Fella tweet my
childhood is dying when person at a time. It made
me think, what was the first celebrity death that felt
like part of your childhood had slipped away. What was
the first celebrity death that felt like part of your
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childhood had slipped away?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
See?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This is why we paid Jim the big money to
be creative director, to think of questions that arise at
moments like this. What was the first Ramona? I want
to know yours? What was the first celebrity death that
felt like part of your childhood had slipped away? And
then John Ritter, I know who John Ridder is. You
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want to explain who John Ridder is? Yeah, Three's company.
I love Three's company. What was mister mister Roper's real name?
Do you remember a little like mister Magoo? Do you
remember his name was? Was Norman? Uh? What?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Normal?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes? Normal felt that's it? Yes? Yes, yes, he says.
This is Jim saying this for many in our audience.
I suspect maybe that person. What was the first celebrity
death that felt like part of your childhood had slipped away?
(04:26):
Elvis was? It wasn't Metthuselam. I'm not that old, shut up.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I don't know. See, I don't know how much of
Elvis's death I internalized because everybody around me was so devastated.
So I don't know that I was authentically that sad
as opposed to being sad because it was contagious. Wow,
(05:06):
let's see, that would have been August sixteenth of seventy seven,
if memory serves August sixteenth of seventy seven. I was
a couple of months short of my seventh birthday, so
I was six years old. I would love to say
that's today, but most of my Elvis is post his death. Uh, conversations, documentaries,
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watching things, listening to things, conversations with my parents, conversation
with my grandparents. I think folks a little older than
me would say, Elvis, who was yours? Oh, yours was
John Ritter. I gotta think on who mine was. I
gotta give that some thought. Seven one three nine nine
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nine one thousand will take your costs to that moment.
Seven to one, three nine one thousand. You got me
thinking very very hard on this one, very very hard.
I don't know I might have to think on this.
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It was on this day, nineteen fifty eight, that Billboard
magazine combined its unwieldy system of five separate cells, jukebox
and DJ charts to make one master chart, which came
to be known as the Billboard Hot One hundred. The
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first number one song on the New Billboard Hot one
hundred that combined sales, jukebox and DJ charts was Ricky
Nelson's Poor Little Fool. The first thing that comes to
mind on that is how much room for cheating there was,
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because how do you get jukebox numbers? Jukebox numbers? These
weren't Internet connected jukeboxes. The juke boxes were reported and
if you think about it, I think it was the
Star label that George Jones was on out of Beaumont
and then he and then he moved to Houston to
be on it. If you think about the mafia ownership
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of the jukeboxes and the mafia ownership of record labels,
and the mafia ownership of Frank Sinatra and some others.
Who was the guy that was shot in his car?
And everybody knows he was murdered, but they pretended he wasn't.
Wasn't Bobby Darren? Who was the guy? Uh shoot? I
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can't remember? But my point is, I mean even the
DJ charts were open to uh were open to fraud
because you had who was the old boy Dick Clark?
Remember he got busted for Paola, but he managed to
get away and Alan what's his name got nailed for it?
What was his name, Alan Freed, He got nailed for it.
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So you realize that, especially in those days, the ability anyway,
all right, who was that person celebrity death who you
felt like your childhood was slipping away? Seven nine, one
thousand at the answer to the guy that was likely
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murdered was body Fuller And apparently I've just learned from
a listener that he was from Baytown. The number one
answer I have received from one hundred or so emails,
the first hundred or so emails that came in that
I went through pretty fast, that this celebrity death was
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the first one you remember feeling like a certain end
of your childhood was John Wayne, John Wayne. The number
one answer, Let's go to Kim Kim. Who was that
for you? Which celebrity death? Lucille Ball.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I really did cry when she passed away.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I loved this, of course, is love Lucy's show, but
all the.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Cameos by stars and just her physical comedy. And I'm
also a big fan of Carol Vernet.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I mean, she's still I was about to say, yeah,
they're very similar comics and actors to me, Lucille Ball
was August twenty sorry, April twenty sixth of nineteen eighty nine. Interesting,
you are the third person to say Lucille Ball, and
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one of them confessed it was because she reminded him
of his mother and that was the reason for that.
Lucille Ball represented that. Let's go to Chuck Chuck, which
celebrity death represented to you the first feeling that your
childhood was slipping away? Chuck, We got you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh? John Wayne, Chuck Chuck, what were you doing.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
House?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You were still talking to that?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I got you?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
John Wayne, John Wayne, it is John Wayne is in
first by a long way for our listeners so far
that have emailed in. Paul, who was that for you? Paul?
John Candy? John John Candy was so good in planes,
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trains and automobiles. He was ramon what was the one?
What movie was it that he was out front? That
that he was the guard out front to Wally World?
Or what was that National Lampoons?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What was that National Lampoon's vacation? That he was so good? Sorry,
sir Clark, yeah, because it was Clark Griswold. Sorry, is
her camps closed? That was such a great character. Russell,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Who was that celebrity
death that marked for you the beginning of the end
of your childhood?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yes, her mind would be a two part it'd be
pair of fouset I can still see her poster on
my closet door and leave Majors.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Lee, Majors hasn't died. Uh oh oh No. In fact,
he is. Uh. He is involved with our movie about
Kerrville called River of Angels. He is. He and I
are narrating. He's narrating the opening and the closing, and
(11:58):
I'm narrating everything in between. And Sean Welling Welling Films
has done all the heavy lifting. He interviewed two little
girls yesterday who were there and who survived, and their
parents have to be so incredibly proud of them. When
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you see the footage, well, it'll be in the movie.
The movie's called River of Angels. But when you see
these little girls and how poised they are, and what
they've been through and what they've experienced, and their ability
to talk about it and put it in perspective, it's
a real it's a real testament to their parents and
to these young ladies. Their composure being so darn young Jesse,
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You're on the Michael Berry Show. Who was that celebrity
who's death marked for you the beginning of the end
of your childhood?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Well, what's gonna say for a Fosters? I've seen the
last guy just said that. But since I'm into music
and I play guitar, dined back.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Daryl, dine back, Daryl. He was shot, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He was.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know if I saw the video or in
my mind I've created a video because I heard about it.
But some guy walks up to the edge of the
stage and just shoots him. His weirdest thing ever. Do
we know who that was?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
They mentioned the name.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I think the guy was kind of crazy. I think
it might have been in the military. But I do
remember they come. They pop it up every now and then.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Daryl, it was he.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
He got mad because he split up with Pam Kira,
and I guess he dabb it or Darryl split that
band up, which he liked, so he decided to go to.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The concert and shoot him on stage. And it was terrible.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
I remember when it happened and watching it, I mean
watching on the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
News, and I was like man, and that kind of
destroyed the rock and roll community, just like Ozzy.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Ozzy was real big and he just passed away.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So that's another one.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know, Ramon, if you can find thank you, Jesse,
good call. If you can find the version of Ozzie
and Slash doing a Day in the Life, I would
to come back with. That was one of my brother's
favorite songs, and that version, I don't know if it's
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easy to find, probably take YouTube. I'd love to hear that.
But you made me think of that. RJ on the
Black Line.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
E're up, Sir, James Aprey.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uncle Phil.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Through my middle school in high school years, I needed
an Uncle Phil in my life. So I watched a
lot of Fresh Press of bel Air and Uncle Phil
was it for me. So when he passed away in
twenty eighteen, it kind of was the beginning of like man,
I'm going over so yeah, Uncle Phil.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So let me see. I'm trying to check to see
I think it was James Avery. It might not have
been when my nephew, No, it wasn't. It wasn't. He
was a different actor. I'm getting black actors confused. James
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LaRue Avery Fresh I didn't watch much of the Fresh
Prince of Bellair, did you remont? It came a little
later than me, but I do recognize him from that.
That show got more attention. I think it had a
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bigger pop culture influence than almost anything of its day,
because if first of all, you got you got the dance.
What's the guy's name that does the dance? The Carlton?
You got the Carlton. Of course you got Will Smith
that comes out of that, that goes on freak though
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he may be, that goes on to superstar or status.
When you had this great intro music, well that's a
good call, Argie the black Man. I'm not just saying.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
The Michael Very show long to be a fight and
breathe and then's uh.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
This song will always have a special meaning for me
for the rest of my life because just before my
brother died, he saw our youth Minister Brad Bickham, Brad
de Beaman Bickham at the hardware store in Orange and
he walked up behind him. And as Brad was looking
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at something on the shelf to buy because some project
he's working at home, Chris walked up behind him. Chris
was a very good vocalist in our in our youth choir,
he would often have solos. He was really good. I
never got a solo. I was placed in the very
back so nobody could hear me, because I can't carry
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a tune in a bucket. But my brother put his
arms around Brad, like to bear hug him, and so
that Brad couldn't turn and see who it was. And
he started singing that song there are places we remember
people in our lives, these sorts of things. And Brad said,
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you gotta understand, Brad, it's like Gomer Pyle.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
He is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He is just golle Shocks Southern Baptist youth minister, song minister.
And Brad said, bub, I don't know who this is.
Everybody was bub, bub, I don't know who is this?
Chris Berry and Chris leved downey it is and he said,
how come you didn't finish the song with me, Brad,
because Brad is a great vocalist. And he said, bub,
(17:46):
you ought to know I only know gospel music. I
just I'm not good with that kind of secular music.
And so Chris started into it again. He said, join in, Brad,
this is a great song, one of my favorites. Brad said,
I don't know that song. Bub So when my brother passed,
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I was at the hospital and we didn't think my
dad was gonna make it to the weekend. Forgive me,
I've told the show this story on the air before,
but we didn't think my dad was gonna make it
to the weekend. And so I'm up to the hospital
making arrangements and trying to get the best care in
Beaumont for my dad when this whole thing, this was
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actually I had to rush to see my dad. We
didn't want him to get the news if my brother
had died, because that was gonna push him over it.
And so I'm there the very next day. Chris died
on a Tuesday. It's Wednesday evening, and I told my
mom mis paniced, and she said, can you handle the funeral?
I said, I got it. You just take care of dad.
I got this. So I'm sitting in the lobby at
the hospital and I'm calling Brad. You're gonna preach it.
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You're gonna sing, We're gonna do it at clay Bars
and Orange. We're gonna do this whole thing. So I
called Brad, I said, hey, I need you to preach
the funeral. That's what Chris would want. And about five
minutes later he called me back. He said, bub I
get something's on my heart. There's a song that Chris
sang to me and this is some of the words
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I remember. And I said, yeah, that's of course I
know the song. And he said, what do you think.
I just read the lyrics to it and it's not
a dirty song or anything, and what would you think?
And I said, that's great? And so that was song
at my brother's wedding and my brother's wedding, my brother's funeral. Anyway,
who was that celebrity who when he passed you felt
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like a piece of your childhood had died? Who was
that first celebrity you remember that? Being JT?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
You're up, Hey, Michael, look at here? Man?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
How can you talk about a celebrity that we lost
with all talking about r lee Ermy man, he was
tougher than Hobo crap, right, I son idolized that guy.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, he was, and what a character in real life
as well as on the screen. But I think you'd
have to be a lot younger for him to have
represented your childhood. There are people that they die that
you're bummed but you'd have to be pretty young for
that to be your childhood, Michael, you're up.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, Bob Barker when he died after many many mornings
watching the Prices, right, yeah, he passed away.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know, it's funny you bring him up, Michael, because
when I would get dropped off at my grandmother's house
when my mom was going into town and running errands,
my grandmother religiously watched prices, right, the Price. It was
just it was just called the Price, and she loved
Bob Barker. Then you find out he's bonking all the
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girls on there. That's not what got him in trouble.
Banking the girls didn't get him in trouble. Got him
in trouble was trying to the girls that didn't want
to bok him. And that was the one that I
will always remember of Bob Barker. That goofy microphone, the long,
bulbous microphone that every Marvin Gay and Bob Barker speaking
into that microphone I'll always think of. And then the
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spae and Newter thing at the end, which I always
thought was so stupid. Rooster, who was that for you?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, I'm a late rival to this. I didn't understand.
But my person is Russell and Ball and it certainly
not when I was a child, but made a big
difference in my life, and I think it allies to
a lot of people in this country.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And you know what, Yes, yes he is, but you
know and I will not strike that answer, even though
it doesn't fit at least for your generation or mine.
You'd have to be a lot younger for that to
be the case. But I will say this will never
strike the rustling baw answer. But I have often said
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that if we do not carry the torch, that Rush
passed and his work was futile. Jim Collins wrote a
book called Good to Great, and when he was studying
great companies, he said, if your company does not withstand
the absence the exit of the great charismatic leader, then
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your company did not have a great culture. And so
he took Leiahcoca out of his list of great leaders
because when Ayacoca left Chrysler, Chrysler went into a crash,
and that meant that he had not built a culture.
It was just a cult, and that was the big difference.
So I think that we should consider this our call
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to action to take everything Rush taught us, and there's
literally not a day that goes by that I don't
think to myself. You know, Rush made the point about this,
and I will quote that, and that's things I learned
from him. That's how it's supposed to be ken. You're
on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, sir.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
John Lennon?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Mate?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You are not the first person to say that I
had about was Lennon eighty Ramon? Is that right? I
think eighty one eighty?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah? Just see if we can get Carl on here
a real quick Carl, Carl, who was yours? Hold on,
hang tight, Carl gets your.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Best Queensiet brings your bias.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
The Michael Berry brings your bias.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
On my ball tight wi.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
One side ice and one is buyer. It's a Servicus
game with.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You, me.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
My bone, the tight road.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
One sight's hate and one is hope.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
But the top head on my head is all.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
You see, and the wire seems to be all the
ladies for me comedy WHI falllll.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Of love and up to them you look into my band.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Well the bee you're just too blind too see. I'm
up in a spider like wool. Does it feel right?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Me?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
And Russell is one of those guys out like carry
Neils Series, one of those guys that is not as
widely known among the retail public as within the industry.
One of those guys that's highly highly respected by other
singer songwriters, especially the outlaw country.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Era singer songwriters. Before we get back to the calls,
David Malsby's today's champion of Camp Hope. He says, this
past Saturday, the Gulf Coast Wood Turners Association enjoyed a
great afternoon making writing pins with the combat veterans at
Camp Hope. Thank you to the Golf Coast went Wood
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Burnt Wood Turners Association for donating their tools and expertise.
So one of their guiding principles on their website is
to provide guidance and training on wood turning to the community.
Ramon you would like this. Do you know what wood
turning is? I had to look it up. Wood turning
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is a woodworking craft where a piece of wood is
shaped into a desired form by using handheld tools while
the wood is rotated on a lathe. The lathe, a
machine that spins the wood, is central to the process.
Wood Turners use various tools to cut, shape and refine
the wood as it spins, creating symmetrical forms around the
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axis of rotation. It allows the transformation of raw wood
into functional and artistic objects like bowls, pins, and tool handles.
To decorate too, decorative pieces like vases or vases if
you like sculptures and ornaments, requires a combination of skill, patients,
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and understanding of wood properties and tool techniques. Ramon, you
would love this.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Thank you to the Gulf Coast Wood Turners Association. I
hope we have recruited for you more wood turners for
the Wood Turners Association because I'm grateful to you for
coming out and providing that experience to our veterans at
Camp Hope. I'm gonna go, Tim, Robin, Brandon, Mack and
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Carl if you could be quick and get right to it.
Who was that celebrity who when they passed you felt
like that was the beginning of the end of your childhood,
even if you were much older. Who was the first
person you remember that being the case? For Tim, you're up, Hey, Michael,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
For me, it was Walter Payton, big football fan, and
I was eighteen when he passed, and I.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Was yeah, I was quite sad to see him pass.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
There's a great I'm glad he got to be on
that eighty five team. He wasn't a major contributor, but
I'm glad he got a ring before it was all over.
There's a great picture of Sweetness and the Tyler Rose
together the two thirty four's. I could probably find it
if I looked it up, but I just love that photo. Ramon,
I'm having trouble pulling up the calls. Can you pull
up Robin for me? Robin, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
(28:00):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning. How are you great?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I would have to say, Dan Blocker, old hosscart right.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Good times in Nebraska. Every Sunday evening we.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Would sit down after supper and watch Bonanza.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Oh man, what a great show. Yeah, that was only
a few years ago. We did a big deal on him,
and I was surprised. It was important to me so
I didn't care if anybody else liked it. I was
surprised how many people sent notes about that because they
they were happy with that. Brandon Europe, Yes.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Sir, Michael, good morning. Tudos to Robin for Bonanza. Also
grew up on gun Smoke Oh yeah, I have a
three part answer. Jerry Reid, Jackie Gleason, and Burt Reynolds.
Do you know what movie I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And you know what's interesting is how many people had
a smoke in the bandit reference. I think for us
my generation that you sound like you're about my age.
That was such a pivotal, influential, seminal moment for us,
that the death first of Jackie Gleeson, and then especially
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Burt Reynolds dying because he was in so many movies
in our area, the Longest Yard being the most underrated
of all the movies he ever met. That's just a
great movie. That's scene at the end where they want
to shoot him. They want the guard to shoot him.
The warden wants the guard to shoot him, and he's
going to pick up the football and he picks it
up and turns around, and you realize, my goodness, he
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should have never suggested that. Mac, you're up?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Who is it for you?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Michael. Mine also is a sports figure.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I grew up a big fan of Roger Merris.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Roger Maris the home run king. Yep, that's a good
one sixty one home runs.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Carl you're up, John Wayne.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Is the number one most answered today. I guess that
says something more about the age of folks calling in
than anything else. But that's interesting, Paul, you're up. Who's yours?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Hey, I came in late, so I don't let your
topic it call it to Razio about not having gone
to shop class.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That I didn't go to shop class.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You must not have, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I was an absolute nerd. I was in our calculus
class met in the shop next to where they did
body shop, and it was in a sheet metal building,
and we needed more classroom space at our school, and
so they took some of the shop space and made
it our calculus class. That didn't make it quiet, though,
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so Philip Welch, who I adored, who taught me trig
calculus and algebra two. And if there had been more classes,
I would have taken them because, oh you know what,
he might have taught me geometry to I loved that man,
and anyway, but he would be trying to teach us calculus,
which is not easy, and they'd be just across the
(31:12):
little plywood or sheet rock wall they had assembled. They
hadn't even roughed in the wall. It was just it
was just the wood on our side from the sheet
rock on their side, and they'd get to grind in
a way, and we were trying to we were trying
(31:33):
to concentrate, and we couldn't. But no, I was not
a shop guy. In fact, it's why I don't have
any practical knowledge, because I was a complete and utter nerd. John,
you're up, Hey, Michael, great show.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You might not be old enough to remember him, but
as a young.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Man I loved listening to Carl Sagan and he was
a great astrophysicist.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Sure, and Michael. When he died, I knew all of
us were going to die someday. I thought, he's just
the smartest man.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And if he can die, if Sagan can die, we
can all die. That's a good one. That's that's a
different one because it's not as much it's not as
purely a pop culture Lisa, what say you, sweetheart?
Speaker 8 (32:20):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Michael?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Thanks for having me?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
How about Robin Williams? Great icon?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You know, the Robin Williams death affected me more, not
because I was a huge, huge fan. I thought that poet.
I thought that poet society was absolutely brilliant and I
watched that silly more commende. But to know that he
had been suffering like that, that bothered me. It bothered
me in a way that when I see a dog
(32:49):
being kicked or a woman being it bothered me. It
kind of hurt me to know that he had been
in so much pain for so long that that bothered me.
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