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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smother. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Since this weekend his mother's say. And I know many
people will get it.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Use certain holidays as for events as Hallmark holidays. I
wonder how many young people even know what Hallmark is.
My grandfather died when my grandmother was in her early forties.
She still had kids at home, the older the younger
kids were still at home.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And it wasn't like today.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
There wasn't there wasn't a paycheck coming, there wasn't any coverage.
There wasn't wrong dad. You just struggled. So she went
to work as a cafeteria worker and then she never remarried,
never dated. She just raised those kids. And then immediately
she had grandkids coming along from her first round of kids.
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And so that was her life. She's worked, worked and
came home and she that was where we all went
to visit. She's my father's mother. You heard me talk
about my grandmother who I called Nanny, and her husband
was Papa. This is this is Grandma Barry at my
dad's mother. And then she picked up an extra job
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in the evening, working at Hallmark, because she said, what
am I going to do is sitting at home? Make
a little extra money. So we got cards at every occasion.
Because she was already there at Hallmark, they probably gave
her a little discount while she was sitting there. If
nobody came in, she'd right, you know, for your birthday,
and maybe five dollars in there. And you always knew
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that that was the one person that was not going
to forget your birthday. She had organized it and in
her calendar, and you were going to get your card anyway.
So I'm sure Hallmark holidays for those of you who
know what that means, and I'm sure there are some
silly things for that, But Mother's Day is important, by golly,
it's important.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Mothers are important.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know, it's been a week for Catholics, and Catholics
understand the role of the Virgin Mary, and you know
she's Christ's mother, and there's something hallowed and sacred about that.
Latin American culture has that same sort of sanctification of
the mother, which I believe is pure and good, and
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many cultures do the birthing process, the beautiful thing that
is the giving of life that mothers bear almost a
complete responsibility. Four men got it so easy. It's a
coupling of the two to create the baby, but it's
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the mother that carries this child to term. And realistically,
it's the mother in most cases who has the lion's
share of the influence on earth.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Lion's share of.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
The care of the child, particularly as relates to feeding
and putting to bed and.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Those sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
A father's role, which is very different, is also important.
Discipline and diligence and these sorts of self respect and
these sorts of things. But I just hope that if
you're lucky enough that your mother is alive, that you
will say to her things that if you never had
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a chance to say before she.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Died, you would have no regrets.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
My mother passed September nineteenth, and while I would like
her to be here, I have no regrets because I
was very clear with my mother about things that she
did for me that made me who I am, and
moments she was there for me that I noticed that
she might not have noticed, or she might not have
realized I noticed, And the sacrifices she made, and the
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passions that she excited in me, including a love of reading.
She was the one who inspired me to no matter
what's going on, you know, kids will kids from time
immemorial will say I'm bored.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Kids are always bored. You weren't allowed to be bored.
Here's a book.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Read a book. She couldn't afford to buy books. So
we went to the library. We checked out books, and
we read them. We brought them back and we'd get
free ice cream and different things, because if you read
an X number of books, you'd get points and all
that sort of stuff. But all that my way of saying,
my own mother was very influential to me. I knew
that one day she would pass, and she has passed,
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and I miss her. And if your mother is not alive,
you miss your mother. But if you are lucky enough
that your mother is still alive and the mother of
your children, and everything she's done for your children, not
just bringing them to birth, but the role she plays
as a mother, this is a great excuse. And if
you needed an excuse, so be it. This is your
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excuse to express that, to take a moment, spend some
time with them, share those sorts of things. That is
very very very important. So to all our mothers out there,
including the mother of my children, Happy Mother's Day. And
now to get a started as we always do. Courtesy
of the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chatta
Cone Nakanishi, here.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We can do.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Listen to how Bad nineteen ninety one. The number one
song of the year is Brian Adams. Everything I do,
I'd do it for you. Everything you know, it's true.
Everything I do, I'd do it, Slow down, Brian.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
This morning, President Trump is directing the federal government to
reopen Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on the San Francisco
Bay known as the Rock.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
The President says he wants to reopen alcatraus because he's frustrated.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
With judges who have placed roadblocks on parts of his agendas.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Long bit of symbol Alfria Draz. It's a symbol of
law and order.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
The left lost her mind in most Americans cheer? Why
did Americans cheer? Because that is the rock, that is
the Siberia.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That is the place you send the ruthless, violent offenders.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We don't even want them on our soil. We want
them over there.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Police charging the woman they say defecated on another driver's
calificated on another driver's.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Car, defecating on a car hood.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
This is all after an apparent dispute with a walking.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
To another woman's car.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
She appeared to defecate on the car.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
To be able to pull on a car like that
was impressive, but it was discussing at the same sense.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But for me to drop a noose on somebody's hood,
I'd have to get back there, get into a squatting position,
pull my iPhone out, start reading the Facebook comments.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'd have to get everything comfortable. I think by that
time it did run me over.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Mom. Let me, let me, mama, Mama, Mama.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Remind her Mother's Day this Sunday. You better call Connie
Stagner to Corey Diamonds. You better make your reservations with
Gringos or Federal American Grill or Big City Wings.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You better start getting the kids, make a card for
mom Mother's Day.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
He's an innocent little boy. She's a single mom. She
fails his f on the toe. He feels hard or easy.
Remn pounds. He's a child, of course he pounds. There's
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a sadness.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You're listening to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Michael Berry's Show for your Mother's Day tribute. Sharon, you're
a first sweetheart. Go ahead, mister Barry.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I wish you hadn't played that song.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
I appreciate that this is gonna be tough.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
I was listening to.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
A little bit a little bit tough when you were
talking and given the update about your mama, you could
have been talking about my mama, because she was She
did go to the hospital through the emergency room. She
did have the mammia and buzzlums, but she had some
other year. She she had a ninety two year old
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body that she could do things that she did when
she was forty two. We were not able to bring
her home. We had her to find celebration on midday
and that song along with Reeves seven Minutes in Heaven,
we're part of our tribute to mama and my baby sister.
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Deliver hurt eulogy and everyone should be as blessed to
have a mama like ours.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I love it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Ray, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your
Mother's Day tribute?
Speaker 12 (09:35):
Well, it goes a little like this, but nineteen sixty six,
I was born to Helen Benedeiga. She was not married
to give him for adoption. Two years ago. We got reconnected.
Last weekend, we had to bury my father. Uh it
was just a sad time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Went all the way back.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
Up to Canada and buried him and been reconnect with
all of the family.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I have a brother who's younger than me. He was
the oldest brother.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
Now he's not. I have a sister, she was adopted.
I have another brother and he has Down syndrome. I
call it the United Nations of families. We've got one
that we picked, one that.
Speaker 13 (10:16):
Has a bit of a disability. But my father always
said he was a blessing. He showed us the other
side of the world. He showed us the other side
of the coin. My mother's just so special.
Speaker 12 (10:26):
For fifty five years, she didn't know where I was.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I love her so much.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
She's just the strongest woman.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Right. That's a great story. And you have.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You have a great voice and a great delivery. It
punches through the airways. You talk right into the microphone.
On the microphone, it came through my speakers loudly. From
a purely technical sense, that is a fantastic calls a
treat to my ears for somebody to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your Mother's
Day Tribute?
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Well, I lost my father in nineteen seventy three. My
oldest brother had just completed the year U teen, had
new sisters in high school, and I had just started
junior high. And at forty one years old, she pulled
up her bootstraps and just kept everybody together and.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Raised us kids.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
And I was so thankful that I.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Got to have just.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Four years my mom and myself.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Before I went to school, and she taught me how
to be a man and to have a conscience and
make good decisions.
Speaker 14 (11:46):
In my life.
Speaker 11 (11:48):
I didn't always live up to that, but that little
voice in the back of my head and.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Your conscience, that's what it's there for. That's what mamas are.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
God gives mothers that superpower because they don't know how
to do that on it that God gives them that
plant sit in them. Roh. What's your Mother's Date tribute?
Speaker 11 (12:08):
Sir?
Speaker 14 (12:10):
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 15 (12:12):
I just want to talk a little bit about the
most courageous woman that I've known in my life, as
my mom. I was born in Havana, Quba.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
My mother brought me.
Speaker 15 (12:19):
Over to the United States in the nineteen sixties to
get me away from Castro and communism.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And to do that she had to leave everything behind.
Speaker 15 (12:26):
She brought me I was five years old, and my
little sister that was two years old, and we were
able to come over with the clothes on our backs
and the extra pair of underwear. She could barely speak
any English at all. She is a mathematic teacher, and
she left her my father behind, all the siblings behind,
her mother and farm behind. Everybody behind becomes our country.
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But she knew nobody and through the years we're blessed
she was able to get her jobs. She was a
college professor's college professor, and she sacrificed not just for me,
but provided me with events case on that I could
have over the years. But also sac adfis to bring
the rest of her siblings over for siblings or older
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father and of course my dad over from Cuba during
a very difficult time. She's always been very encouraging for me.
She was an educator educated me. I encouraged me to
get a good upscase and I was able to both
are the best schools you know and Dallas where I
grew up and also the best medical school. I thought
yourself was a medical school.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Look at you, I look at you. Hold on.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I want to get one more in on this segment
A guy's been holding forever, Doug, what's your Mother's Day tribute?
Speaker 10 (13:40):
Hey, Michael, how you doing? Just wanted to call and
talk to him about my mom. She was this, you know,
the kind of lady that would just be all my
ball games, two brothers, you know, never missed the game,
and you know, just a wonderful mom. And she was
taken for me in nineteen ninety three. She was murdered,
and it was such a tragic event that was just,
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you know, just a terrible thing. And I struggled a
lot because I found her and I was such a
victim of things. I dove into alcoholism and just really
help with my life.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It wasn't a mess for about.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Thirteen or fifteen years, and then I decided, you know,
go into a program and I sobered up. And one
of the things that somebody asked me that deal was
with your mom being proud of the way you're living
your life. And I was like, absolutely not. And uh,
you know, I miss her a lot. She never saw
my kids grow up. I mean, she would have been
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the great, greatest grandmother in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But I miss her a lot.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
And I'm just thankful for the time I had her
with her.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Him man Noo, that's a hard thing to call up
and say. I appreciate you sharing that story. A lot
of people heard it and that will.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Affect to come up remember me. I can't remember Scott
a mouth mouth on Valman. Happy Mother's Day to Pat Bawman.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
My brother Travis, and my sister Andrea and I are
campaigning for our mom to become Saint Patricia. Our mom
always has given her time to her husband and children selflessly,
wearing so many hats through life, including Boy Scout and
Girl Scout, troop leader, four H club leader, staunch supporter
of our sports Rodeo four AH activities, growing up, taking
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only her time for herself for Bible study and for
the last fifty years with her Bunco group with wonderful
ladies from Alvin Manville and Roch Sharon. Mom gave all
of energy to take care of our dad and his
final days on earth, which was a tremendous blessing. We
love you, Mom and all hell Saint Pat. That's Pat Bauman,
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I'll sweep Larry, writes Michael. My mother passed when I
was at When I was four ten years old. I
lived in Houston with my aunt and uncle for two
years before returning to my hometown and living with my
best friend and his parents, which enabled me to finish
high school with all my childhood friends. So really, I
had three mothers while growing up, and I felt nothing
but love from all of them. They're all gone now,
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but after I grew up, I was able to tell
them how grateful I was for them to have given
me their love in a time I needed at most.
I just wish i'd told my real mom how grateful
I was, but I was young and took that for granted.
I hope she knew how much I loved her, but
at fourteen she probably had her doubts. Never let a
day pass without letting your mother know how much you
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love them.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Amen to that one. Brother lee Anne.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Writes, When I became old enough to start going out
to clubs, my mom gave me this advice. If the
ugliest guy in the place or the worst dancer asks
you to dance, you dance with him, because the most
handsome guy or the best dancer may see you turn
the other guy down, and he'll never ask you to
dance for the record. That's how I met my husband
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of thirty eight years. Lois writes, I lost my mom
on second of January of this year, and I miss
her every single day. She was a church organist and
the best of companies around. She made everyone sound great.
She was a true people person who made everyone laugh
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and feel special. As she aged, she chose me to
accompany her through later years. I didn't have to take
care of her in her last few years of life.
I got to take care of her, and it was
such an honor. She was talented, witty, gracious, and so
much more. Every day is bittersweet without her, but I
am thankful I had her for as long as I did.
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If you're having a hard time figuring out what to
get your mom on Saturday, there is one thing all
mothers want from their grown children. If you haven't given
her this gift yet, you've probably heard her asking about it.
This is a bit Saturday Night Live did on moms
and what they want from their grown children on Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Tell me it ain't true.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It can be hard to know what to get moms
for the holidays. That's why we wanted to ask real
moms what they actually want. You can do that, well,
I should think so.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yeah, I think we can handle that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Awesome. Well, let's give it a whirl.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
An action. Okay, moms, what do you want for the holidays?
Speaker 14 (18:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Nothing, I'm not fussy.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Don't spend too much.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
No, really, what would you like?
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Maybe I don't know, just a small.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Seriously, you can be honest. What do you really want?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Grandchildren? Grandchildren?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay, sure, but what do you want this year?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Grandchildren? Grandchildren?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What about something from home goods?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Grandchild for grandchildren, grandchildren, a son for myself?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Five grandchildren?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I think we've got grandchildren. Maybe we could just branch
out a.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Fuzzy blanket to swallow grandchildren closer?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
All a cake stand? Hey, there you go with grandchildren
on top. Can you can you just say sweater? Say swim?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Why? Just to have it baby sweater?
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Okay, just sweater, just baby got Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So the thing about home goods is that we can't
actually sell grand children. That sounds like a you problem.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Yeah, can you check in the back. Well, sorry, well,
I mean we've never been active before.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, we've also never said what we want out loud before,
so that feels pretty good.
Speaker 16 (19:31):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Sure, you two are some of our biggest home goods shoppers.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Just today you bought hand soap that smells like wine,
late by ten canvas with the word and courage on it.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Goodmind what I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Feed you some things that we do sell and then
you just say them back. It's all right.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Crock Pot, Toddler, Apron, grandson, Nope, milk frother milk daughter,
Christmas wreath boy named Keith, mister clean, magic eraser, many magic.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Children, faster coffee table, No got. I don't know why
you guys are so hung up on grandchildren. Do you
have kids in a way too much responsibility? I mean,
kids are cute. It's nice to see them every once
in a while, but not all the time. Yes, I
mean sure. It would be fun to take a little
scamp who looks like me on the Ferris wheel say
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good job when she gots cartwheels on my lawn.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, oh my god. I want grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yes, grandchildren are amazing. They don't blame you for anything.
They just play clar aet and get into college.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I want them.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I want to take them to the Science Museum and
buy them a necklace in the gift shop.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
There's got a little bug in it.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I want to say something weird that makes them consider
having a confrontation with me, and then do the math
on how long I have and decide.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Not to bother.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I want to have weird opinions about Israel, not bad, weird.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Yes, it's the wrong shape.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You guys are right, I'm sorry, it's all right.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
It's hello, Fama, it's healthy.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Had a girl Kelsey.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
I looked at him, and they looked at me, you know,
and I just looked at her, and I have to
just get your stuff and get it out to Michael very.
I read over and got a newspaper and I wrote
it up.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
I slapped him on the nose that.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Said, sad.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Mother's Day.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I wanted to let you know that you are the
most important things to me. I'm grateful for everything you've
done for me, and I love you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's Michael. His voice is groom.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Deep, our dear friend, incredible contributor.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He's so talented it scares me.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Chance McClain, my name is Chance McClain, and I'm the
resident song smith and architect of Chaos on the world
famous Michael Berry show. My mom is Miss Rebecca Hall.
I'm going to talk for just a sec about a
pivotal point in my life. I wish the world knew
how strong my mom was and is her husband. My
dad bailed when I was in high school. We were penniless.
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House got foreclosed, so holmeless for a little bit, just destitute.
Cars got repolled behind the scenes. It was an absolute
pitiful mess. But my mom didn't complain. She rolled up
her sleeves, she went back to work. Her devotion to
me and my brother made us feel normal despite all
the crap going on around us.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
She encouraged us.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Never missed a game, never missed a play, never missed anything.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Always there. She was always there, and she still is.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
She is the definition of supportive, no matter what mayhem
I throw at her. So from Disney World right now,
I want to wish you a very happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 14 (22:52):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I love you, and I can't wait for the next.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Adventure true story chances.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Sweet mother Becky remarried much later in life to a
nice man named Sam, and Sam worked with my dad.
They knew each other at DuPont and we didn't know
that until several years into knowing Chance that his stepdad,
who was from March, who he loved. He considers his
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stepdad his dad, even though he came into his life
when Chance was in his forties, and unfortunately he passed away.
The last time I saw him we did a heritage film.
He laid on the couch in the green room. He
stood up, he sat up.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
We did the.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Interview about two to three hours. It's the only heritage
film interview I've done where I did the interview because
Chance didn't think he could hold it together. And at
the end of it, he said, are we finished? And
I said, yes, sir. If Chance says we're finished, we're finished.
He looks a Chance and he said, you don't need
to record anything else, And he said no.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
He was supposed to live other three weeks.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
He laid down on the couch, he said, And he
laid down a minute and he passed to and a
half days later he knew. He was waiting for to
be recorded, to share what he had to say with
his family and then.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Head to heaven. That's how it happened. Did we go
to Clyde already?
Speaker 14 (24:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Why you miss Clyde?
Speaker 14 (24:22):
Hey, Barry, how are you? Michael Berry? How are you
doing this?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We've also spelled your name C L I d E.
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
Well, go ahead, that's right. Well, I'm going to give
a shout. This my first heavenly Mother's Day from my mom.
She just passed. She was a great mom. She did
a lot of things. Even after she couldn't get around,
she always made sure that she did things special for
people that you know, crafts, things and stuff. She went
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to the grand kids school and did crafts and just
make sure people felt special. And even when we were
growing up, we were can enable. My brother and I
always fighting. She always had to referee. I can't explain
how we had to fire a refrigerator in the front door.
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Had to put up with her that much stuff. But
I wanted to give a shout for her. She had
a lot to put up and water up to get
for us.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
But that's why you are who you are, brother, Red,
You're on the Michael Berry Show, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Yes, I have an unusual story.
Speaker 17 (25:31):
I wanted to just relate that my mother had me
after hiding her pregnancy.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I was number four when she was twenty one, and
she packed her bag when she gave birth and left
me behind at the hospital.
Speaker 17 (25:50):
I ended up having two mother figures in my life
growing up, and I'm sorry this is hard, but they
taught me was how to be a good mom.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Not because they were good moms. They taught me to
be a good mom inadvertently.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
I met my mother.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Who gave birth to me when I was thirty six
years old, and I had no idea that she was
my birth mom.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
And I am so grateful that she left.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Me behind, because even though I had a bad growing up,
it would have been so.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Much worse with her.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
She had nine children from eight different fathers, and I
was the first that she left behind. Last year, I
found the last of us, a brother who was the
last one to be given away.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
And he was very hard to find.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
But we're all back together as siblings. My mother and
the two mother figures have all passed away. And my
daughter wrote a piece about these several years ago, and
one thing that she said was that I broke the chase,
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and you did.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And by telling this story, you're going to change somebody's life.
Don't underestimate that seven three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
Let's half Pastor ed Young take us to break.
Speaker 16 (27:32):
My mother was a Christian for most of my braining
up the years my dad was not. But mother saul
that we read the Bible, we prayed every night, and
I didn't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And I was very reventful.
Speaker 16 (27:47):
For many things because she was such a disciphinari right long,
up and down we go.
Speaker 18 (27:54):
To church, et cetera. But I look back on that
and think, thank God I had.
Speaker 16 (27:59):
A mother who was severe with me, was streak me,
because that gave.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Me a platform by which God could.
Speaker 18 (28:08):
Work and speak to my life, that lead me into
not only Christianity, but a Christian service.
Speaker 16 (28:14):
And I just praise God for her. I thank her
this Mother's Day. I wish you were here so I
could tell her bursally.
Speaker 18 (28:21):
And that's something that you never know when do you
look back in retrospect, except that my mother was a
Christian woman, perhaps to severe, but yes, she was a
part of the salve Asian process of my life.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Mother, what a beautiful name, What a beautiful name it
is to me.
Speaker 16 (28:42):
I love her more now and appreciate her more now
than I ever did did all of my glory of years.
Praise God for moms who have the highest and most
difficult job.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
To do in the twenty first century.
Speaker 18 (28:58):
Bring up young people the no God and walk the
path of his way.
Speaker 16 (29:05):
At your Mother's Day, to all mothers, stay in the battle.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's to worship
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smother. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Since this weekend his mother's say. And I know many
people will get it.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Use certain holidays as for events as Hallmark holidays. I
wonder how many young people even know what Hallmark is.
My grandfather died when my grandmother was in her early forties.
She still had kids at home, the older the younger
kids were still at home.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And it wasn't like today.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
There wasn't there wasn't a paycheck coming, there wasn't any coverage.
There wasn't wrong dad. You just struggled. So she went
to work as a cafeteria worker and then she never remarried,
never dated. She just raised those kids. And then immediately
she had grandkids coming along from her first round of kids.
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And so that was her life. She's worked, worked and
came home and she that was where we all went
to visit. She's my father's mother. You heard me talk
about my grandmother who I called Nanny, and her husband
was Papa. This is this is Grandma Barry at my
dad's mother. And then she picked up an extra job
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in the evening, working at Hallmark, because she said, what
am I going to do is sitting at home? Make
a little extra money. So we got cards at every occasion.
Because she was already there at Hallmark, they probably gave
her a little discount while she was sitting there. If
nobody came in, she'd right, you know, for your birthday,
and maybe five dollars in there. And you always knew
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that that was the one person that was not going
to forget your birthday. She had organized it and in
her calendar, and you were going to get your card anyway.
So I'm sure Hallmark holidays for those of you who
know what that means, and I'm sure there are some
silly things for that, But Mother's Day is important, by golly,
it's important.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Mothers are important.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know, it's been a week for Catholics, and Catholics
understand the role of the Virgin Mary, and you know
she's Christ's mother, and there's something hallowed and sacred about that.
Latin American culture has that same sort of sanctification of
the mother, which I believe is pure and good, and
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many cultures do the birthing process, the beautiful thing that
is the giving of life that mothers bear almost a
complete responsibility. Four men got it so easy. It's a
coupling of the two to create the baby, but it's
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the mother that carries this child to term. And realistically,
it's the mother in most cases who has the lion's
share of the influence on earth.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Lion's share of.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
The care of the child, particularly as relates to feeding
and putting to bed and.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Those sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
A father's role, which is very different, is also important.
Discipline and diligence and these sorts of self respect and
these sorts of things. But I just hope that if
you're lucky enough that your mother is alive, that you
will say to her things that if you never had
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a chance to say before she.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Died, you would have no regrets.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
My mother passed September nineteenth, and while I would like
her to be here, I have no regrets because I
was very clear with my mother about things that she
did for me that made me who I am, and
moments she was there for me that I noticed that
she might not have noticed, or she might not have
realized I noticed, And the sacrifices she made, and the
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passions that she excited in me, including a love of reading.
She was the one who inspired me to no matter
what's going on, you know, kids will kids from time
immemorial will say I'm bored.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Kids are always bored. You weren't allowed to be bored.
Here's a book.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Read a book. She couldn't afford to buy books. So
we went to the library. We checked out books, and
we read them. We brought them back and we'd get
free ice cream and different things, because if you read
an X number of books, you'd get points and all
that sort of stuff. But all that my way of saying,
my own mother was very influential to me. I knew
that one day she would pass, and she has passed,
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and I miss her. And if your mother is not alive,
you miss your mother. But if you are lucky enough
that your mother is still alive and the mother of
your children, and everything she's done for your children, not
just bringing them to birth, but the role she plays
as a mother, this is a great excuse. And if
you needed an excuse, so be it. This is your
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excuse to express that, to take a moment, spend some
time with them, share those sorts of things. That is
very very very important. So to all our mothers out there,
including the mother of my children, Happy Mother's Day. And
now to get a started as we always do. Courtesy
of the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chatta
Cone Nakanishi, here.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We can do.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Listen to how Bad nineteen ninety one. The number one
song of the year is Brian Adams. Everything I do,
I'd do it for you. Everything you know, it's true.
Everything I do, I'd do it, Slow down, Brian.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
This morning, President Trump is directing the federal government to
reopen Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on the San Francisco
Bay known as the Rock.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
The President says he wants to reopen alcatraus because he's frustrated.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
With judges who have placed roadblocks on parts of his agendas.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Long bit of symbol Alfria Draz. It's a symbol of
law and order.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
The left lost her mind in most Americans cheer? Why
did Americans cheer? Because that is the rock, that is
the Siberia.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That is the place you send the ruthless, violent offenders.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We don't even want them on our soil. We want
them over there.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Police charging the woman they say defecated on another driver's
calificated on another driver's.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Car, defecating on a car hood.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
This is all after an apparent dispute with a walking.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
To another woman's car.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
She appeared to defecate on the car.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
To be able to pull on a car like that
was impressive, but it was discussing at the same sense.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But for me to drop a noose on somebody's hood,
I'd have to get back there, get into a squatting position,
pull my iPhone out, start reading the Facebook comments.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'd have to get everything comfortable. I think by that
time it did run me over.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Mom. Let me, let me, mama, Mama, Mama.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Remind her Mother's Day this Sunday. You better call Connie
Stagner to Corey Diamonds. You better make your reservations with
Gringos or Federal American Grill or Big City Wings.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You better start getting the kids, make a card for
mom Mother's Day.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
He's an innocent little boy. She's a single mom. She
fails his f on the toe. He feels hard or easy.
Remn pounds. He's a child, of course he pounds. There's
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a sadness.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You're listening to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Michael Berry's Show for your Mother's Day tribute. Sharon, you're
a first sweetheart. Go ahead, mister Barry.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I wish you hadn't played that song.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
I appreciate that this is gonna be tough.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
I was listening to.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
A little bit a little bit tough when you were
talking and given the update about your mama, you could
have been talking about my mama, because she was She
did go to the hospital through the emergency room. She
did have the mammia and buzzlums, but she had some
other year. She she had a ninety two year old
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body that she could do things that she did when
she was forty two. We were not able to bring
her home. We had her to find celebration on midday
and that song along with Reeves seven Minutes in Heaven,
we're part of our tribute to mama and my baby sister.
(09:20):
Deliver hurt eulogy and everyone should be as blessed to
have a mama like ours.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I love it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Ray, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your
Mother's Day tribute?
Speaker 12 (09:35):
Well, it goes a little like this, but nineteen sixty six,
I was born to Helen Benedeiga. She was not married
to give him for adoption. Two years ago. We got reconnected.
Last weekend, we had to bury my father. Uh it
was just a sad time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Went all the way back.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
Up to Canada and buried him and been reconnect with
all of the family.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I have a brother who's younger than me. He was
the oldest brother.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
Now he's not. I have a sister, she was adopted.
I have another brother and he has Down syndrome. I
call it the United Nations of families. We've got one
that we picked, one that.
Speaker 13 (10:16):
Has a bit of a disability. But my father always
said he was a blessing. He showed us the other
side of the world. He showed us the other side
of the coin. My mother's just so special.
Speaker 12 (10:26):
For fifty five years, she didn't know where I was.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I love her so much.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
She's just the strongest woman.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Right. That's a great story. And you have.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You have a great voice and a great delivery. It
punches through the airways. You talk right into the microphone.
On the microphone, it came through my speakers loudly. From
a purely technical sense, that is a fantastic calls a
treat to my ears for somebody to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your Mother's
Day Tribute?
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Well, I lost my father in nineteen seventy three. My
oldest brother had just completed the year U teen, had
new sisters in high school, and I had just started
junior high. And at forty one years old, she pulled
up her bootstraps and just kept everybody together and.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Raised us kids.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
And I was so thankful that I.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Got to have just.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Four years my mom and myself.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Before I went to school, and she taught me how
to be a man and to have a conscience and
make good decisions.
Speaker 14 (11:46):
In my life.
Speaker 11 (11:48):
I didn't always live up to that, but that little
voice in the back of my head and.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Your conscience, that's what it's there for. That's what mamas are.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
God gives mothers that superpower because they don't know how
to do that on it that God gives them that
plant sit in them. Roh. What's your Mother's Date tribute?
Speaker 11 (12:08):
Sir?
Speaker 14 (12:10):
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 15 (12:12):
I just want to talk a little bit about the
most courageous woman that I've known in my life, as
my mom. I was born in Havana, Quba.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
My mother brought me.
Speaker 15 (12:19):
Over to the United States in the nineteen sixties to
get me away from Castro and communism.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And to do that she had to leave everything behind.
Speaker 15 (12:26):
She brought me I was five years old, and my
little sister that was two years old, and we were
able to come over with the clothes on our backs
and the extra pair of underwear. She could barely speak
any English at all. She is a mathematic teacher, and
she left her my father behind, all the siblings behind,
her mother and farm behind. Everybody behind becomes our country.
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But she knew nobody and through the years we're blessed
she was able to get her jobs. She was a
college professor's college professor, and she sacrificed not just for me,
but provided me with events case on that I could
have over the years. But also sac adfis to bring
the rest of her siblings over for siblings or older
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father and of course my dad over from Cuba during
a very difficult time. She's always been very encouraging for me.
She was an educator educated me. I encouraged me to
get a good upscase and I was able to both
are the best schools you know and Dallas where I
grew up and also the best medical school. I thought
yourself was a medical school.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Look at you, I look at you. Hold on.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I want to get one more in on this segment
A guy's been holding forever, Doug, what's your Mother's Day tribute?
Speaker 10 (13:40):
Hey, Michael, how you doing? Just wanted to call and
talk to him about my mom. She was this, you know,
the kind of lady that would just be all my
ball games, two brothers, you know, never missed the game,
and you know, just a wonderful mom. And she was
taken for me in nineteen ninety three. She was murdered,
and it was such a tragic event that was just,
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you know, just a terrible thing. And I struggled a
lot because I found her and I was such a
victim of things. I dove into alcoholism and just really
help with my life.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It wasn't a mess for about.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Thirteen or fifteen years, and then I decided, you know,
go into a program and I sobered up. And one
of the things that somebody asked me that deal was
with your mom being proud of the way you're living
your life. And I was like, absolutely not. And uh,
you know, I miss her a lot. She never saw
my kids grow up. I mean, she would have been
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the great, greatest grandmother in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But I miss her a lot.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
And I'm just thankful for the time I had her
with her.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Him man Noo, that's a hard thing to call up
and say. I appreciate you sharing that story. A lot
of people heard it and that will.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Affect to come up remember me. I can't remember Scott
a mouth mouth on Valman. Happy Mother's Day to Pat Bawman.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
My brother Travis, and my sister Andrea and I are
campaigning for our mom to become Saint Patricia. Our mom
always has given her time to her husband and children selflessly,
wearing so many hats through life, including Boy Scout and
Girl Scout, troop leader, four H club leader, staunch supporter
of our sports Rodeo four AH activities, growing up, taking
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only her time for herself for Bible study and for
the last fifty years with her Bunco group with wonderful
ladies from Alvin Manville and Roch Sharon. Mom gave all
of energy to take care of our dad and his
final days on earth, which was a tremendous blessing. We
love you, Mom and all hell Saint Pat. That's Pat Bauman,
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I'll sweep Larry, writes Michael. My mother passed when I
was at When I was four ten years old. I
lived in Houston with my aunt and uncle for two
years before returning to my hometown and living with my
best friend and his parents, which enabled me to finish
high school with all my childhood friends. So really, I
had three mothers while growing up, and I felt nothing
but love from all of them. They're all gone now,
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but after I grew up, I was able to tell
them how grateful I was for them to have given
me their love in a time I needed at most.
I just wish i'd told my real mom how grateful
I was, but I was young and took that for granted.
I hope she knew how much I loved her, but
at fourteen she probably had her doubts. Never let a
day pass without letting your mother know how much you
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love them.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Amen to that one. Brother lee Anne.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Writes, When I became old enough to start going out
to clubs, my mom gave me this advice. If the
ugliest guy in the place or the worst dancer asks
you to dance, you dance with him, because the most
handsome guy or the best dancer may see you turn
the other guy down, and he'll never ask you to
dance for the record. That's how I met my husband
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of thirty eight years. Lois writes, I lost my mom
on second of January of this year, and I miss
her every single day. She was a church organist and
the best of companies around. She made everyone sound great.
She was a true people person who made everyone laugh
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and feel special. As she aged, she chose me to
accompany her through later years. I didn't have to take
care of her in her last few years of life.
I got to take care of her, and it was
such an honor. She was talented, witty, gracious, and so
much more. Every day is bittersweet without her, but I
am thankful I had her for as long as I did.
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If you're having a hard time figuring out what to
get your mom on Saturday, there is one thing all
mothers want from their grown children. If you haven't given
her this gift yet, you've probably heard her asking about it.
This is a bit Saturday Night Live did on moms
and what they want from their grown children on Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Tell me it ain't true.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It can be hard to know what to get moms
for the holidays. That's why we wanted to ask real
moms what they actually want. You can do that, well,
I should think so.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yeah, I think we can handle that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Awesome. Well, let's give it a whirl.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
An action. Okay, moms, what do you want for the holidays?
Speaker 14 (18:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Nothing, I'm not fussy.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Don't spend too much.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
No, really, what would you like?
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Maybe I don't know, just a small.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Seriously, you can be honest. What do you really want?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Grandchildren? Grandchildren?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay, sure, but what do you want this year?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Grandchildren? Grandchildren?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What about something from home goods?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Grandchild for grandchildren, grandchildren, a son for myself?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Five grandchildren?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I think we've got grandchildren. Maybe we could just branch
out a.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Fuzzy blanket to swallow grandchildren closer?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
All a cake stand? Hey, there you go with grandchildren
on top. Can you can you just say sweater? Say swim?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Why? Just to have it baby sweater?
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Okay, just sweater, just baby got Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So the thing about home goods is that we can't
actually sell grand children. That sounds like a you problem.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Yeah, can you check in the back. Well, sorry, well,
I mean we've never been active before.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, we've also never said what we want out loud before,
so that feels pretty good.
Speaker 16 (19:31):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Sure, you two are some of our biggest home goods shoppers.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Just today you bought hand soap that smells like wine,
late by ten canvas with the word and courage on it.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Goodmind what I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Feed you some things that we do sell and then
you just say them back. It's all right.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Crock Pot, Toddler, Apron, grandson, Nope, milk frother milk daughter,
Christmas wreath boy named Keith, mister clean, magic eraser, many magic.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Children, faster coffee table, No got. I don't know why
you guys are so hung up on grandchildren. Do you
have kids in a way too much responsibility? I mean,
kids are cute. It's nice to see them every once
in a while, but not all the time. Yes, I
mean sure. It would be fun to take a little
scamp who looks like me on the Ferris wheel say
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good job when she gots cartwheels on my lawn.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, oh my god. I want grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yes, grandchildren are amazing. They don't blame you for anything.
They just play clar aet and get into college.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I want them.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I want to take them to the Science Museum and
buy them a necklace in the gift shop.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
There's got a little bug in it.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I want to say something weird that makes them consider
having a confrontation with me, and then do the math
on how long I have and decide.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Not to bother.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I want to have weird opinions about Israel, not bad, weird.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Yes, it's the wrong shape.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You guys are right, I'm sorry, it's all right.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
It's hello, Fama, it's healthy.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Had a girl Kelsey.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
I looked at him, and they looked at me, you know,
and I just looked at her, and I have to
just get your stuff and get it out to Michael very.
I read over and got a newspaper and I wrote
it up.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
I slapped him on the nose that.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Said, sad.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Mother's Day.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I wanted to let you know that you are the
most important things to me. I'm grateful for everything you've
done for me, and I love you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's Michael. His voice is groom.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Deep, our dear friend, incredible contributor.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He's so talented it scares me.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Chance McClain, my name is Chance McClain, and I'm the
resident song smith and architect of Chaos on the world
famous Michael Berry show. My mom is Miss Rebecca Hall.
I'm going to talk for just a sec about a
pivotal point in my life. I wish the world knew
how strong my mom was and is her husband. My
dad bailed when I was in high school. We were penniless.
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House got foreclosed, so holmeless for a little bit, just destitute.
Cars got repolled behind the scenes. It was an absolute
pitiful mess. But my mom didn't complain. She rolled up
her sleeves, she went back to work. Her devotion to
me and my brother made us feel normal despite all
the crap going on around us.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
She encouraged us.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Never missed a game, never missed a play, never missed anything.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Always there. She was always there, and she still is.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
She is the definition of supportive, no matter what mayhem
I throw at her. So from Disney World right now,
I want to wish you a very happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 14 (22:52):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I love you, and I can't wait for the next.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Adventure true story chances.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Sweet mother Becky remarried much later in life to a
nice man named Sam, and Sam worked with my dad.
They knew each other at DuPont and we didn't know
that until several years into knowing Chance that his stepdad,
who was from March, who he loved. He considers his
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stepdad his dad, even though he came into his life
when Chance was in his forties, and unfortunately he passed away.
The last time I saw him we did a heritage film.
He laid on the couch in the green room. He
stood up, he sat up.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
We did the.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Interview about two to three hours. It's the only heritage
film interview I've done where I did the interview because
Chance didn't think he could hold it together. And at
the end of it, he said, are we finished? And
I said, yes, sir. If Chance says we're finished, we're finished.
He looks a Chance and he said, you don't need
to record anything else, And he said no.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
He was supposed to live other three weeks.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
He laid down on the couch, he said, And he
laid down a minute and he passed to and a
half days later he knew. He was waiting for to
be recorded, to share what he had to say with
his family and then.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Head to heaven. That's how it happened. Did we go
to Clyde already?
Speaker 14 (24:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Why you miss Clyde?
Speaker 14 (24:22):
Hey, Barry, how are you? Michael Berry? How are you
doing this?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We've also spelled your name C L I d E.
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
Well, go ahead, that's right. Well, I'm going to give
a shout. This my first heavenly Mother's Day from my mom.
She just passed. She was a great mom. She did
a lot of things. Even after she couldn't get around,
she always made sure that she did things special for
people that you know, crafts, things and stuff. She went
(24:53):
to the grand kids school and did crafts and just
make sure people felt special. And even when we were
growing up, we were can enable. My brother and I
always fighting. She always had to referee. I can't explain
how we had to fire a refrigerator in the front door.
(25:14):
Had to put up with her that much stuff. But
I wanted to give a shout for her. She had
a lot to put up and water up to get
for us.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
But that's why you are who you are, brother, Red,
You're on the Michael Berry Show, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Yes, I have an unusual story.
Speaker 17 (25:31):
I wanted to just relate that my mother had me
after hiding her pregnancy.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I was number four when she was twenty one, and
she packed her bag when she gave birth and left
me behind at the hospital.
Speaker 17 (25:50):
I ended up having two mother figures in my life
growing up, and I'm sorry this is hard, but they
taught me was how to be a good mom.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Not because they were good moms. They taught me to
be a good mom inadvertently.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
I met my mother.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Who gave birth to me when I was thirty six
years old, and I had no idea that she was
my birth mom.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
And I am so grateful that she left.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Me behind, because even though I had a bad growing up,
it would have been so.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Much worse with her.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
She had nine children from eight different fathers, and I
was the first that she left behind. Last year, I
found the last of us, a brother who was the
last one to be given away.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
And he was very hard to find.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
But we're all back together as siblings. My mother and
the two mother figures have all passed away. And my
daughter wrote a piece about these several years ago, and
one thing that she said was that I broke the chase,
(27:18):
and you did.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And by telling this story, you're going to change somebody's life.
Don't underestimate that seven three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
Let's half Pastor ed Young take us to break.
Speaker 16 (27:32):
My mother was a Christian for most of my braining
up the years my dad was not. But mother saul
that we read the Bible, we prayed every night, and
I didn't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And I was very reventful.
Speaker 16 (27:47):
For many things because she was such a disciphinari right long,
up and down we go.
Speaker 18 (27:54):
To church, et cetera. But I look back on that
and think, thank God I had.
Speaker 16 (27:59):
A mother who was severe with me, was streak me,
because that gave.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Me a platform by which God could.
Speaker 18 (28:08):
Work and speak to my life, that lead me into
not only Christianity, but a Christian service.
Speaker 16 (28:14):
And I just praise God for her. I thank her
this Mother's Day. I wish you were here so I
could tell her bursally.
Speaker 18 (28:21):
And that's something that you never know when do you
look back in retrospect, except that my mother was a
Christian woman, perhaps to severe, but yes, she was a
part of the salve Asian process of my life.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Mother, what a beautiful name, What a beautiful name it
is to me.
Speaker 16 (28:42):
I love her more now and appreciate her more now
than I ever did did all of my glory of years.
Praise God for moms who have the highest and most
difficult job.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
To do in the twenty first century.
Speaker 18 (28:58):
Bring up young people the no God and walk the
path of his way.
Speaker 16 (29:05):
At your Mother's Day, to all mothers, stay in the battle.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's to worship
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