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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is.
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On the air.
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It's Charlie from black Face moment. I can feel it
goodn't coming on?
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It's to Michael Berry Show.
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All Yes, it is. I believe didn't have to think
about that too, that.
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Fatherless homes skin. I believe this phenomenon, situation of the
moment is the greatest threat common to our nation. That
this has happened for so long has led to a
cascade of problems. But rather than discuss those problems, I
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would like to celebrate fatherhood. It's the most important thing
I've ever done in my life. I am fortunate, not
to brad to have had the greatest dad in the
history of mankind, and I'm fortunate that he's still alive
at eighty five. We are fortunate as a team to
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have been molded by strong men who loved us and
disciplined us. Do you know if Kunda's dad is alive, Romo,
I will ask him.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'll ask him during the break.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Chad Nakanishi's father was our executive producer. His father was
a chef of Japanese descent. He had the restaurant at
the airport had the concession there at the airport. He
was a prominent chef, apparently a strict disciplinarian as you
can imagine, and kind of the soup Nazi in Seinfeld.
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That's what I imagine him. Is a strong character to
have made Chad the man he is. Ramone's dad, who's
a military veteran who worked at the plant, who then
retired and went and worked in the public schools to
give something back. Jim's father, who fortunately is still with us,
he's taking him to blue Bell. It's his father's i
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think seventy fifth birthday. He's taken him to blue Bell
in a few days, which is our beloved ice cream
down here in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And that's all his father wanted was to go to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Blue Bell and then go to Tin Roof Barbecue. So
Jim will be taking off a day about a week
from now to do that and he's very, very excited.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
To do that.
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Today we celebrate fatherhood and fathers and it is our ardent,
sincere earnest hope that maybe just made it will inspire
someone to be a better father than they were before
they heard today's show. Maybe just maybe it will remind
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someone as we pay tribute to the fathers before us.
It will remind someone that, hey, you know what, I
need to be that kind of father for my kids
right now, so that twenty thirty forty years hence, they'll
talk about me the way I talked about my dad.
The need for fatherhood is greater today than it ever
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has been. The need for the things a father provides
is greater now than it ever has been. As always,
you can email me anytime through our website Michael Berryshow
dot com, and I do love to hear from you,
and I will be reading some of the emails I
received about Father's Day. Our special Tomorrow's bonus podcast will
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be President. It'll be about the United States Army, which
will be celebrating its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. So
for all of our Army veterans and all your Army
dads and moms and God bless you, happy birthday. And
tomorrow is our president's seventy ninth birthday, President Donald J. Trump,
Tomorrow is his birthday. And with that, courtesy of executive
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producer Chattaconi Nakanishi, your wee can reviews.
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I love more is it You're going to have some
good from Saint Luis. What to see carrying a Hamas.
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Flag and it's supposed to give you the image that, look,
wherever we're from, we're all angry at this country.
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We refuse to leave from.
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I love bar is it.
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Anti ice protesters flashing with National Guard troops outside of
the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.
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Cars being sat on fire, fireworks being shot off at
police officers, protesters blocking roadways.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
You'll notice it's all foreign flags. It's all Mexican flags,
Palestinian flags, flags from like El Salvador, it's all.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Fourig When you're carrying the Mexican flag in Los Angeles
protesting that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You don't want to be sent back to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I am very proud Mexican.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't send me back to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, perhaps you're not as proud a Mexican as you
claim to be.
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For a lot of high school seniors, at the end
of the school year, senior Franks two.
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Sealy High School seniors put up a coming soon sign
for fake GB.
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Well, they're posts on Facebook have people celebrating, sharing and
tagging their friends.
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But according to Facebook comments, people really want one.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is the best pr HGB could ever hope and
it's funny, and it's young people. When young people think
you're cool, that's rare. You're a grocery store.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please rise for the
zame voting.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I can't speak for girls because they're wired differently.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Thank God for that. But what dude hadn't wanted to
drive the zambone? And I'm better A good number of
men listening to the to the show. Maybe women too,
I just don't know thought to themselves. Man, I like
drive zambone. I'd go work on Saturday month just drive zampon.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I'd be fun. Find this game.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
My old man feel the Jodess on his head, dusty
overall my own man. Now I finally understand. I have
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lots of learn from my old man.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Now I'm a giant. The Michael Berry Show. Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The number one problem in America as fatherless homes. I
think it's a real problem, and I think it's a
problem that affects every aspect of American life. I think
it's a reason for our out of control crime. Where
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you see fatherlessness worst, which is in the black community,
inner city, black families, is where you see the greatest
degree of illiteracy, failure to graduate, high school, crime, and
this situation perpetuates itself. It's a terrible, terrible problem. So
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we always dedicate a show to Mother's Day to Father's
Day because it needs to be talked about. It's critically important.
And so today we're going to talk about Father's Day
and fathers and we've heard from a number of you already.
We'll be sharing some of those. We'll be taking some
calls seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven
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one three, nine nine nine one thousand. We're going to
share some different perspectives on being a father, the importance
of a father. And I'll tell you, if we inspire
just a few folks out there to say, you know what,
I haven't been the father i'd like to be.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I should be better, then it was worth it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And there's lots of reasons that people end up not
being as good a father as they should. One of
them is, well, you're fighting with your ex. And because
you're fighting with your ex and she has primary custody,
the kids get lost in the mix.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let me tell you something. This happens a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I see it happen a lot, but no matter what
the situation, your children are worth it. It's not your
children's fault that their mom's crazy, or ladies, it's not
your children's fault if their dad's crazy. It's important that
we are fathers and this doesn't get set often enough.
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You know, used to you'd have bring your dad to
work day or bring your dad to school day, and
then it was decided, well, a lot of people don't
have fathers, so we can't do that anymore. You see
the breakdown the fatherlessness in families. You see welfare loss
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that reward a woman for not being married when she
has children. So in time she didn't want to share
the welfare check. She'd get paid to stay at home
and have babies. And that happened, but there are consequences
for that. As part of our Father's Day special, Denzel
Washington talking about the importance of the father being in
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the home.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities and Roman dez into this
the issues.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And I do think it's more important to make headway
in our own house. By the time the system comes
into play. The damage is done. They're not locking up
seven year olds. Yeah, you know, I was in Chicago
a couple of three four weeks ago and we saw
these little kids on bikes with masks on the side
of the head, like five or six of them. And
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the driver said, yeah, they little yummies. I said, who
said little yummies? Look up Google little yummy. Little yummy
was eleven year old murderer.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Wow. And you look at this picture.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You see this head shot up and he's like this,
and you got murdered at eleven by a fourteen year old.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Who's doing life now on a sixteen year old? That
makes no sense? You blaming the system? Where was this
far father?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yeah, well well my father got locked up.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well where was his father? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did, you know, fifteen to twenty five, one
did twenty eight this, and that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
My parents were together.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And they didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
We canplain the system if we won, but they didn't
lock any of us up. At seven, Yeah, we were
all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen, my
parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have anybody
to help them, and they kept doing what they was
doing and the system got them.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So I don't know. The system is rigged, but why
all the more reason I got to help it? Rick
dear only Michael Berry show go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
My dad I lost twenty one years ago at age thirty,
when I was thirty three. He taught me how to
deal with adversity and challenges with bravery and dignity. And
I get emotional he's talking about it. He was ravaged
by Parkinson's disease, so he would have one good hour
where he could actually walk and move in two or
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three hours, so he would start freezing up till his
next medication dosage a bit. He always had a smile
in his face and a positive attitude and taught me
so much about being a father just by his courage
that anytime I'm facing hardship today look back and said,
what would Dad do? And how would Dad deal with this?
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And I talked to him every day and I miss
him so much and so I'm just really thankful that
I had such a great.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Dad, you know, Rick, I always tell folks when they
lose a loved one. In the midst of that grief,
Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to missus Bixby, who it
was believed at the time had lost I think they
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thought she lost five sons in the war. It turns
out that was not true. She had not lost I
think she lost one or two, which is still tragic.
But the story goes that that then President Lincoln ordered
the sons out of the field because this woman had
suffered enough, she'd given enough to the nation. And there's
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a line in the letter he writes to her that
I've always thought was beautiful, and it's something to the
effect of, you know, my mere words cannot a sage
your grief, but let them be my offering to you.
And I've always felt a certain, a certain smallness to
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an attempt to bring comfort to someone when they and
they've lost, when they've lost someone dear. And what I
finally settled on, which is probably my best way to
say it, is that as the depth of your grief
when you lose someone is directly proportional to how fortunate
you were to have them.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Every year at.
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This time I will receive an email or five from
people who will say, and they don't mean ill in this.
It might come off as that, but I've come to
learn the place from which it derives. And they will say,
I'm glad to hear all these nice stories from people
who had good dads, but I didn't. My dad walked out,
or my dad beat us, or my dad abused us,
or my dad abused my mom, or my dad was
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a drunk or either all these sorts of horrible experiences
people have, And I'm grateful for those because it is
a good reminder that everybody wasn't raised the way I
was or the way you were, and that we should
we should recognize how important, how special, how blessed we
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truly were, because many many people were not. And that's
not a good alternative. Her camera of the famous Growing
Pains man.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
If you work for.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Growing Pains, I wouldn't be on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
You our rose.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Make sure you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Welcome to the program sir, take it away.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
When I was ten years old, my father gave me
a shortwave radio helicrafter, and that started a whole new
hobby for me. I love searching for distance stations, and
he would explain to me why I'm getting stations from
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long distances at night. And my mother put a wall
map up and each time I got a new station,
she would stick a pin in the map and say,
this is where Cincinnati is, this is where Cleveland is, etc. Etc.
At the same time, he was really tough on me
and made me learn to cope in a sided world,
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and I'll always remember him. And also I also did
some DXing on TV and got some very interesting stations
when reception was good. Different types of propagation, like, for instance,
after a thunderstorm, we get some stations about one hundred
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miles away, and then there was ducting where the air
currents would form ducts and the signals would go in
these air pipes and we'd get stations as far away
as New York and other places. It was really quite
interesting and I turned it into a lifelong hobby. And
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being blind, I did have a little bit of sight,
but I knew when it was nighttime. That's when I
knew when the nighttime stations would come in. And the
other stations would have to sign off to make group,
you know, because of the clear channel stations. And also
when I traveled up to Boston to visit my late
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fiance back in the nineties, I knew where I was
because I had a walkman type radio, and I knew
where I was because of the stations that I would
pick up along the way when I went from d
C up to Boston. So it's been a lifelong hobby,
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and a lot of blind people do this as a hobby,
and it's quite interesting that I get a whole bunch
of interesting stations.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You know, great call, Victor.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You know, I didn't know it was Blind Victor when
you first called, but your voice sounded very, very familiar,
And I hadn't paid attention to the name because I
remembered you as blind Victory in my mind. That's how
I categorize people. But your voice, you had, you had
there's a certain resonance to your voice that sounded quite familiar.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
When you mentioned that you were blind, it made me
think of it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You know, over the years, I've never met a person
who was a hand radio person or who registered radio signals,
you know, the old clear channel signals and I've never
met anybody who was interested in those sorts of things,
or a tinkerer at home with with with mechanical I
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never met anybody like that who wasn't a good person.
Just something interesting about that. I never met anyone who
wasn't a good person who fit into that category.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Larry, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Michael.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
First time caller, a longtime listener. My father was a
corporate pilot and he was killed in sixty eight in
a plane crash. He was thirty nine years old, and
so I was, yeah, I was sixteen, but my dad
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not because he was not dead. But he was just
the best man other than none. He taught me so much.
He was a fine Christian man that his goal in
life was to be the best Christian he could could
possibly and then the next was the best pilot. I
actually we moved to Beaumont in sixty one. Before then,
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he flew for an all men in Houston named West
and West, one of the West Brothers. And during the
sixties or the campaign for Kennedy that year he flew
Johnson and the Kennedy women all over Texas for Teas
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got to fly a Ladybird a number of times, and
even Harry Truman back then. But he was They sold
the DC three to Texas Pulp and Paper back then
in Evendelle, and he flew for them until sixty eight
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when they were killed out in West Texas on a
plane crash. But he was the kind of man that
people just gravitated to. He was very quiet, had a
real draft and humor. But the kids, uh, Mike Buckley
was a president of these texts at that time, and
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he was he came over as a just to fill
in when they'd show the plane. They already had a
chief pilot. But he, uh, they he liked it over
here and they liked him.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
But I know, I'm kind of rambling. I'm driving to
going toward Orange, matter of fact. But he was the
kind of man that mister Buckley had a large family
and the kids would fight over to see who got
to sit by mister Courtney when they ate. Uh, when
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they went out or won, they flew them. So he
was he taught me, Like I said, I know, I'm
kind of rambling, but he he taught me to work
worth ethic. That just was a good man. And I'm
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missing I'm missing more today than I did back.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Well, hold on to your memories, brother, because that's what
we have and that's what's important. Will Will you are
on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
My.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Shout out to my dad. Lost him about four and
a half years ago. He passed and he you know,
Dad was one hundred first air borning in sixty six
and sixty seven, guy of the Army, went to work
in a coal mine, working on underground coal mine for
seven or eight years, and then after that decided to
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start cutting timber. Cut timber for almost twenty years.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I've been doing his early fifties.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
And then decided I didn't have enough work, so he
after that he started Anthic Company. He fenced, built fence
another twenty years up until he was seventy. Died at
seventy four. The main thing I learned from my pop
was you get your ass up and go to work
every day unless I learned my work ethic from him.
And I'm fifty four, stepped away from a thirty year
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career last fall. I'm very proud of what I did,
but it all had to do if I learned from
Dad and just that continuable drive to get up, provide
for your family. Don't sit around and wait for me
to hand you something, Andy, Do you want something? To
get up and you go out and your work and
you earn it, and it'll always be He'll always be
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remembered and always be loved. And it was just sitting
to call in today and tell.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You all that I'm glad you did. I appreciate you
doing that. Thank you.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
By I'll bet you we got ten thousand sweet little
ladies of seventy or more that would make a pound
cake that you could eat cold and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Michael Barryshow.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Let's get you some of our voicemails and reminder you
can always leave us a voicemail when we are off
the air. Seven one three nine nine one thousand. Seven
one three nine one thousand. Let's start with Henry, who
called in to wish a happy Father's Day to all
the men whose baby mamas won't allow them to see
their children.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Yeah, my name's Henry. I'd like to wish a happy
Father's Day to all of the fathers who are not
allowed to see their children on Father's Day because the
baby mama will not allow you to see their children.
I've been living it for sixteen years and it's rough.
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But keep your spirits up, love your children, saying when
you're allowed to see him, but I've been kept from
mind for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That message comes from a dark place for mom. There's
a lot of there's a lot of pain in that one.
Karen called in to remember her daddy for Father's Day.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Karen Marshall, I just wanted to say that my daddy
was such a great, great man and I'm missing him
with all my heart. I left him and he was
very dear to me. He was a good man, a
decent man, honorable man. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And the final voicemail we will play today is from
a woman. She doesn't give her name, but I want
you to take note. The reason we chose this one
is she talked about her dad teaching her things. The
most important teacher in your child's life should be you.
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You don't outsource that to people paid by the state.
Their morals, their values. How to tie your shoes, how
to change a tire, how to treat the opposite sex,
how to treat others, how to build things, how to
create things, What to think about yourself, how to present yourself,
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that should come from the original teacher. God puts you
in that position to be that teacher. So when you
hear people talking about things that their daddy taught them,
that's because that's what a daddy should do.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
My daddy was wonderful. He taught me how to chop
for the wood for a family populated stove that we
got from the lumberyards. It was scrap wood and we
lived on that when we were kids. And he taught
me how to change it tire, and how to do plumbing,
all kinds of things, and especially the things that were
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in our camp for Girl's book of awards you could
win beads for. Daddy also taught me how to use
the hammer to drive a nail and straight, and he
taught me how to use the klaw and if I
got overra zealous and bed it in uh because I
was trying to drive it too fast and it had
to be pulled back out and straightened. He taught me
how to take a saw handsaw and pull back a
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couple of times until you got a little bit of
a cut started, so then you could go back and
forth with the handsaw instead of it wobbling. And it's
sticking up in the process. And oh, I just feel
so sorry for kids that don't have daddies or uncles
to show him how to use the basics of the
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hand tools. Because when you have those skills, the world
is your oyster. You can build all kinds of things,
and you can you can just feel independent and you
have your own self worth and you don't have to
go out and take drugs to try to feel important
because you can do stuff with little tools. You can
make stuff and repair stuff, and it's a wonderful, wonderful feeling. Michael,
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Daddy taught me all those things, and I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, bye, what a nice message.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You know, we were laughing in the studio this week
talking about what we were going to do for this
show and that show, and we talked about Father's Day
and we were all having a fun time talking about
being father's and how Father's Day is remembered versus Mother's Day.
You know, Mother's day is take her out for a meal,
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buy her jewelry, buy her gifts, give her flowers. You know,
mom is to be pampered and honored and it's her day.
And then it comes time for Father's Day. And here's
a hammer, here's a tie. We're not really gonna get
all excited about it.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Mother's Day a time to honor the woman who gave
you life. Buy her diamonds, send her to the spam
for the weekend, give her the world wrapped in beautiful
soft silk.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And then there's.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Father's Day this weekend only you get a pre two
back of socks with any pro pain tank, rebuilt.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Twenty percent off nosehair trimmers for the man who survived
camping trips, clog toilets, and your middle school attitude. Because
nothing says thanks Dad like a Camo cooler, a twelve
ninety nine spatula, and ooh, what's this on the bottom.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
A five dollars tie.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Happy Father's Day, Dad's looks like we'll be grilling our.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Own dinner again. It's so true, though, isn't it. It
is so incredibly true, and dads don't even mind. I
think part of the reason is moms really want to
be fussed over. It goes back to when we.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Were a kid. We're just wired differently.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Every girl wanted to grow up and marry her prince.
She wanted to live in a castle. She wanted to
have a big the pageantry of the wedding, and all
of these sorts of things. We just want to be
left alone with a fishing pole or a pistol, or
an old card, a tinker on, or a ball game
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to watch, or a ribs to barbecue. However, you are
being honored this Father's Day for all of you great
fathers out there. And you folks are the cream of
the crop. You really are not just pandering. You are
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the him of the crop. You keep the families protected,
the budgets balanced, you keep the trains running on time,
and you are the best of the best. So, however,
you are being honored, and I hope you are. And
however you are honoring your father. If you're lucky enough,
you still haven't.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
God bless you.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's Charlie from black Face moment. I can feel it
goodn't coming on?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's to Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
All Yes, it is. I believe didn't have to think
about that too, that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Fatherless homes skin. I believe this phenomenon, situation of the
moment is the greatest threat common to our nation. That
this has happened for so long has led to a
cascade of problems. But rather than discuss those problems, I
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would like to celebrate fatherhood. It's the most important thing
I've ever done in my life. I am fortunate, not
to brad to have had the greatest dad in the
history of mankind, and I'm fortunate that he's still alive
at eighty five. We are fortunate as a team to
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have been molded by strong men who loved us and
disciplined us. Do you know if Kunda's dad is alive, Romo,
I will ask him.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'll ask him during the break.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Chad Nakanishi's father was our executive producer. His father was
a chef of Japanese descent. He had the restaurant at
the airport had the concession there at the airport. He
was a prominent chef, apparently a strict disciplinarian as you
can imagine, and kind of the soup Nazi in Seinfeld.
(02:02):
That's what I imagine him. Is a strong character to
have made Chad the man he is. Ramone's dad, who's
a military veteran who worked at the plant, who then
retired and went and worked in the public schools to
give something back. Jim's father, who fortunately is still with us,
he's taking him to blue Bell. It's his father's i
(02:26):
think seventy fifth birthday. He's taken him to blue Bell
in a few days, which is our beloved ice cream
down here in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And that's all his father wanted was to go to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Blue Bell and then go to Tin Roof Barbecue. So
Jim will be taking off a day about a week
from now to do that and he's very, very excited.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Today we celebrate fatherhood and fathers and it is our ardent,
sincere earnest hope that maybe just made it will inspire
someone to be a better father than they were before
they heard today's show. Maybe just maybe it will remind
(03:10):
someone as we pay tribute to the fathers before us.
It will remind someone that, hey, you know what, I
need to be that kind of father for my kids
right now, so that twenty thirty forty years hence, they'll
talk about me the way I talked about my dad.
The need for fatherhood is greater today than it ever
(03:31):
has been. The need for the things a father provides
is greater now than it ever has been. As always,
you can email me anytime through our website Michael Berryshow
dot com, and I do love to hear from you,
and I will be reading some of the emails I
received about Father's Day. Our special Tomorrow's bonus podcast will
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be President. It'll be about the United States Army, which
will be celebrating its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. So
for all of our Army veterans and all your Army
dads and moms and God bless you, happy birthday. And
tomorrow is our president's seventy ninth birthday, President Donald J. Trump,
Tomorrow is his birthday. And with that, courtesy of executive
(04:16):
producer Chattaconi Nakanishi, your wee can reviews.
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I love more is it You're going to have some
good from Saint Luis. What to see carrying a Hamas.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Flag and it's supposed to give you the image that, look,
wherever we're from, we're all angry at this country.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
We refuse to leave from.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I love bar is it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Anti ice protesters flashing with National Guard troops outside of
the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Cars being sat on fire, fireworks being shot off at
police officers, protesters blocking roadways.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
You'll notice it's all foreign flags. It's all Mexican flags,
Palestinian flags, flags from like El Salvador, it's all.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Fourig When you're carrying the Mexican flag in Los Angeles
protesting that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You don't want to be sent back to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I am very proud Mexican.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't send me back to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, perhaps you're not as proud a Mexican as you
claim to be.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
For a lot of high school seniors, at the end
of the school year, senior Franks two.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Sealy High School seniors put up a coming soon sign
for fake GB.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Well, they're posts on Facebook have people celebrating, sharing and
tagging their friends.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
But according to Facebook comments, people really want one.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is the best pr HGB could ever hope and
it's funny, and it's young people. When young people think
you're cool, that's rare. You're a grocery store.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please rise for the
zame voting.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I can't speak for girls because they're wired differently.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Thank God for that. But what dude hadn't wanted to
drive the zambone? And I'm better A good number of
men listening to the to the show. Maybe women too,
I just don't know thought to themselves. Man, I like
drive zambone. I'd go work on Saturday month just drive zampon.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I'd be fun. Find this game.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
My old man feel the Jodess on his head, dusty
overall my own man. Now I finally understand. I have
(06:42):
lots of learn from my old man.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Now I'm a giant. The Michael Berry Show. Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The number one problem in America as fatherless homes. I
think it's a real problem, and I think it's a
problem that affects every aspect of American life. I think
it's a reason for our out of control crime. Where
(07:28):
you see fatherlessness worst, which is in the black community,
inner city, black families, is where you see the greatest
degree of illiteracy, failure to graduate, high school, crime, and
this situation perpetuates itself. It's a terrible, terrible problem. So
(07:50):
we always dedicate a show to Mother's Day to Father's
Day because it needs to be talked about. It's critically important.
And so today we're going to talk about Father's Day
and fathers and we've heard from a number of you already.
We'll be sharing some of those. We'll be taking some
calls seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven
(08:13):
one three, nine nine nine one thousand. We're going to
share some different perspectives on being a father, the importance
of a father. And I'll tell you, if we inspire
just a few folks out there to say, you know what,
I haven't been the father i'd like to be.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I should be better, then it was worth it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And there's lots of reasons that people end up not
being as good a father as they should. One of
them is, well, you're fighting with your ex. And because
you're fighting with your ex and she has primary custody,
the kids get lost in the mix.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let me tell you something. This happens a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I see it happen a lot, but no matter what
the situation, your children are worth it. It's not your
children's fault that their mom's crazy, or ladies, it's not
your children's fault if their dad's crazy. It's important that
we are fathers and this doesn't get set often enough.
(09:16):
You know, used to you'd have bring your dad to
work day or bring your dad to school day, and
then it was decided, well, a lot of people don't
have fathers, so we can't do that anymore. You see
the breakdown the fatherlessness in families. You see welfare loss
(09:38):
that reward a woman for not being married when she
has children. So in time she didn't want to share
the welfare check. She'd get paid to stay at home
and have babies. And that happened, but there are consequences
for that. As part of our Father's Day special, Denzel
Washington talking about the importance of the father being in
(10:03):
the home.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities and Roman dez into this
the issues.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And I do think it's more important to make headway
in our own house. By the time the system comes
into play. The damage is done. They're not locking up
seven year olds. Yeah, you know, I was in Chicago
a couple of three four weeks ago and we saw
these little kids on bikes with masks on the side
of the head, like five or six of them. And
(10:36):
the driver said, yeah, they little yummies. I said, who
said little yummies? Look up Google little yummy. Little yummy
was eleven year old murderer.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Wow. And you look at this picture.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You see this head shot up and he's like this,
and you got murdered at eleven by a fourteen year old.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Who's doing life now on a sixteen year old? That
makes no sense? You blaming the system? Where was this
far father?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yeah, well well my father got locked up.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well where was his father? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did, you know, fifteen to twenty five, one
did twenty eight this, and that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
My parents were together.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And they didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
We canplain the system if we won, but they didn't
lock any of us up. At seven, Yeah, we were
all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen, my
parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have anybody
to help them, and they kept doing what they was
doing and the system got them.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So I don't know. The system is rigged, but why
all the more reason I got to help it? Rick
dear only Michael Berry show go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
My dad I lost twenty one years ago at age thirty,
when I was thirty three. He taught me how to
deal with adversity and challenges with bravery and dignity. And
I get emotional he's talking about it. He was ravaged
by Parkinson's disease, so he would have one good hour
where he could actually walk and move in two or
(12:18):
three hours, so he would start freezing up till his
next medication dosage a bit. He always had a smile
in his face and a positive attitude and taught me
so much about being a father just by his courage
that anytime I'm facing hardship today look back and said,
what would Dad do? And how would Dad deal with this?
(12:41):
And I talked to him every day and I miss
him so much and so I'm just really thankful that
I had such a great.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Dad, you know, Rick, I always tell folks when they
lose a loved one. In the midst of that grief,
Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to missus Bixby, who it
was believed at the time had lost I think they
(13:11):
thought she lost five sons in the war. It turns
out that was not true. She had not lost I
think she lost one or two, which is still tragic.
But the story goes that that then President Lincoln ordered
the sons out of the field because this woman had
suffered enough, she'd given enough to the nation. And there's
(13:33):
a line in the letter he writes to her that
I've always thought was beautiful, and it's something to the
effect of, you know, my mere words cannot a sage
your grief, but let them be my offering to you.
And I've always felt a certain, a certain smallness to
(13:57):
an attempt to bring comfort to someone when they and
they've lost, when they've lost someone dear. And what I
finally settled on, which is probably my best way to
say it, is that as the depth of your grief
when you lose someone is directly proportional to how fortunate
you were to have them.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Every year at.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This time I will receive an email or five from
people who will say, and they don't mean ill in this.
It might come off as that, but I've come to
learn the place from which it derives. And they will say,
I'm glad to hear all these nice stories from people
who had good dads, but I didn't. My dad walked out,
or my dad beat us, or my dad abused us,
or my dad abused my mom, or my dad was
(14:42):
a drunk or either all these sorts of horrible experiences
people have, And I'm grateful for those because it is
a good reminder that everybody wasn't raised the way I
was or the way you were, and that we should
we should recognize how important, how special, how blessed we
(15:03):
truly were, because many many people were not. And that's
not a good alternative. Her camera of the famous Growing
Pains man.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
If you work for.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Growing Pains, I wouldn't be on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
You our rose.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Make sure you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Welcome to the program sir, take it away.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
When I was ten years old, my father gave me
a shortwave radio helicrafter, and that started a whole new
hobby for me. I love searching for distance stations, and
he would explain to me why I'm getting stations from
(15:51):
long distances at night. And my mother put a wall
map up and each time I got a new station,
she would stick a pin in the map and say,
this is where Cincinnati is, this is where Cleveland is, etc. Etc.
At the same time, he was really tough on me
and made me learn to cope in a sided world,
(16:13):
and I'll always remember him. And also I also did
some DXing on TV and got some very interesting stations
when reception was good. Different types of propagation, like, for instance,
after a thunderstorm, we get some stations about one hundred
(16:37):
miles away, and then there was ducting where the air
currents would form ducts and the signals would go in
these air pipes and we'd get stations as far away
as New York and other places. It was really quite
interesting and I turned it into a lifelong hobby. And
(17:01):
being blind, I did have a little bit of sight,
but I knew when it was nighttime. That's when I
knew when the nighttime stations would come in. And the
other stations would have to sign off to make group,
you know, because of the clear channel stations. And also
when I traveled up to Boston to visit my late
(17:26):
fiance back in the nineties, I knew where I was
because I had a walkman type radio, and I knew
where I was because of the stations that I would
pick up along the way when I went from d
C up to Boston. So it's been a lifelong hobby,
(17:47):
and a lot of blind people do this as a hobby,
and it's quite interesting that I get a whole bunch
of interesting stations.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You know, great call, Victor.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You know, I didn't know it was Blind Victor when
you first called, but your voice sounded very, very familiar,
And I hadn't paid attention to the name because I
remembered you as blind Victory in my mind. That's how
I categorize people. But your voice, you had, you had
there's a certain resonance to your voice that sounded quite familiar.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
When you mentioned that you were blind, it made me
think of it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You know, over the years, I've never met a person
who was a hand radio person or who registered radio signals,
you know, the old clear channel signals and I've never
met anybody who was interested in those sorts of things,
or a tinkerer at home with with with mechanical I
(18:55):
never met anybody like that who wasn't a good person.
Just something interesting about that. I never met anyone who
wasn't a good person who fit into that category.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Larry, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Michael.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
First time caller, a longtime listener. My father was a
corporate pilot and he was killed in sixty eight in
a plane crash. He was thirty nine years old, and
so I was, yeah, I was sixteen, but my dad
(19:37):
not because he was not dead. But he was just
the best man other than none. He taught me so much.
He was a fine Christian man that his goal in
life was to be the best Christian he could could
possibly and then the next was the best pilot. I
actually we moved to Beaumont in sixty one. Before then,
(20:01):
he flew for an all men in Houston named West
and West, one of the West Brothers. And during the
sixties or the campaign for Kennedy that year he flew
Johnson and the Kennedy women all over Texas for Teas
(20:22):
got to fly a Ladybird a number of times, and
even Harry Truman back then. But he was They sold
the DC three to Texas Pulp and Paper back then
in Evendelle, and he flew for them until sixty eight
(20:45):
when they were killed out in West Texas on a
plane crash. But he was the kind of man that
people just gravitated to. He was very quiet, had a
real draft and humor. But the kids, uh, Mike Buckley
was a president of these texts at that time, and
(21:07):
he was he came over as a just to fill
in when they'd show the plane. They already had a
chief pilot. But he, uh, they he liked it over
here and they liked him.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
But I know, I'm kind of rambling. I'm driving to
going toward Orange, matter of fact. But he was the
kind of man that mister Buckley had a large family
and the kids would fight over to see who got
to sit by mister Courtney when they ate. Uh, when
(21:45):
they went out or won, they flew them. So he
was he taught me, Like I said, I know, I'm
kind of rambling, but he he taught me to work
worth ethic. That just was a good man. And I'm
(22:12):
missing I'm missing more today than I did back.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Well, hold on to your memories, brother, because that's what
we have and that's what's important. Will Will you are
on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
My.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Shout out to my dad. Lost him about four and
a half years ago. He passed and he you know,
Dad was one hundred first air borning in sixty six
and sixty seven, guy of the Army, went to work
in a coal mine, working on underground coal mine for
seven or eight years, and then after that decided to
(22:51):
start cutting timber. Cut timber for almost twenty years.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I've been doing his early fifties.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
And then decided I didn't have enough work, so he
after that he started Anthic Company. He fenced, built fence
another twenty years up until he was seventy. Died at
seventy four. The main thing I learned from my pop
was you get your ass up and go to work
every day unless I learned my work ethic from him.
And I'm fifty four, stepped away from a thirty year
(23:17):
career last fall. I'm very proud of what I did,
but it all had to do if I learned from
Dad and just that continuable drive to get up, provide
for your family. Don't sit around and wait for me
to hand you something, Andy, Do you want something? To
get up and you go out and your work and
you earn it, and it'll always be He'll always be
(23:39):
remembered and always be loved. And it was just sitting
to call in today and tell.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You all that I'm glad you did. I appreciate you
doing that. Thank you.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
By I'll bet you we got ten thousand sweet little
ladies of seventy or more that would make a pound
cake that you could eat cold and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Michael Barryshow.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Let's get you some of our voicemails and reminder you
can always leave us a voicemail when we are off
the air. Seven one three nine nine one thousand. Seven
one three nine one thousand. Let's start with Henry, who
called in to wish a happy Father's Day to all
the men whose baby mamas won't allow them to see
their children.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Yeah, my name's Henry. I'd like to wish a happy
Father's Day to all of the fathers who are not
allowed to see their children on Father's Day because the
baby mama will not allow you to see their children.
I've been living it for sixteen years and it's rough.
(24:54):
But keep your spirits up, love your children, saying when
you're allowed to see him, but I've been kept from
mind for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That message comes from a dark place for mom. There's
a lot of there's a lot of pain in that one.
Karen called in to remember her daddy for Father's Day.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Karen Marshall, I just wanted to say that my daddy
was such a great, great man and I'm missing him
with all my heart. I left him and he was
very dear to me. He was a good man, a
decent man, honorable man. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And the final voicemail we will play today is from
a woman. She doesn't give her name, but I want
you to take note. The reason we chose this one
is she talked about her dad teaching her things. The
most important teacher in your child's life should be you.
(26:01):
You don't outsource that to people paid by the state.
Their morals, their values. How to tie your shoes, how
to change a tire, how to treat the opposite sex,
how to treat others, how to build things, how to
create things, What to think about yourself, how to present yourself,
(26:23):
that should come from the original teacher. God puts you
in that position to be that teacher. So when you
hear people talking about things that their daddy taught them,
that's because that's what a daddy should do.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
My daddy was wonderful. He taught me how to chop
for the wood for a family populated stove that we
got from the lumberyards. It was scrap wood and we
lived on that when we were kids. And he taught
me how to change it tire, and how to do plumbing,
all kinds of things, and especially the things that were
(26:59):
in our camp for Girl's book of awards you could
win beads for. Daddy also taught me how to use
the hammer to drive a nail and straight, and he
taught me how to use the klaw and if I
got overra zealous and bed it in uh because I
was trying to drive it too fast and it had
to be pulled back out and straightened. He taught me
how to take a saw handsaw and pull back a
(27:22):
couple of times until you got a little bit of
a cut started, so then you could go back and
forth with the handsaw instead of it wobbling. And it's
sticking up in the process. And oh, I just feel
so sorry for kids that don't have daddies or uncles
to show him how to use the basics of the
(27:42):
hand tools. Because when you have those skills, the world
is your oyster. You can build all kinds of things,
and you can you can just feel independent and you
have your own self worth and you don't have to
go out and take drugs to try to feel important
because you can do stuff with little tools. You can
make stuff and repair stuff, and it's a wonderful, wonderful feeling. Michael,
(28:07):
Daddy taught me all those things, and I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, bye, what a nice message.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You know, we were laughing in the studio this week
talking about what we were going to do for this
show and that show, and we talked about Father's Day
and we were all having a fun time talking about
being father's and how Father's Day is remembered versus Mother's Day.
You know, Mother's day is take her out for a meal,
(28:38):
buy her jewelry, buy her gifts, give her flowers. You know,
mom is to be pampered and honored and it's her day.
And then it comes time for Father's Day. And here's
a hammer, here's a tie. We're not really gonna get
all excited about it.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Mother's Day a time to honor the woman who gave
you life. Buy her diamonds, send her to the spam
for the weekend, give her the world wrapped in beautiful
soft silk.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And then there's.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Father's Day this weekend only you get a pre two
back of socks with any pro pain tank, rebuilt.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Twenty percent off nosehair trimmers for the man who survived
camping trips, clog toilets, and your middle school attitude. Because
nothing says thanks Dad like a Camo cooler, a twelve
ninety nine spatula, and ooh, what's this on the bottom.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
A five dollars tie.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Happy Father's Day, Dad's looks like we'll be grilling our.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Own dinner again. It's so true, though, isn't it. It
is so incredibly true, and dads don't even mind. I
think part of the reason is moms really want to
be fussed over. It goes back to when we.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Were a kid. We're just wired differently.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Every girl wanted to grow up and marry her prince.
She wanted to live in a castle. She wanted to
have a big the pageantry of the wedding, and all
of these sorts of things. We just want to be
left alone with a fishing pole or a pistol, or
an old card, a tinker on, or a ball game
(30:39):
to watch, or a ribs to barbecue. However, you are
being honored this Father's Day for all of you great
fathers out there. And you folks are the cream of
the crop. You really are not just pandering. You are
(30:59):
the him of the crop. You keep the families protected,
the budgets balanced, you keep the trains running on time,
and you are the best of the best. So, however,
you are being honored, and I hope you are. And
however you are honoring your father. If you're lucky enough,
you still haven't.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
God bless you.
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