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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, lucking load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
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blues I had before or go another working week is over,
no chance staying sober.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I can feel a good woman coming on. Man, we're
gonna get to feel in a ride. We're gonna keep
this pider.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I can feel the break of don.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I can feel a good woman coming doll.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
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the lake and didn't have to think about.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
That too long.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You know, this is as good a time as any
any bring this up situation goodness.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
We're not going to have the same president and cabinet forever.
And what this nation needs is a movement, not a messiah.
And so a lot of people think, well, if I
just worship Trump then and I worship him harder than
everyone else, and I defend him and I support him,
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and I wear shirts with his name on it and
capsure his name on it. Then that's gonna save the country.
Trump's not going to be here forever. Okay, none of
us are. In order for this movement to be a
real movement and to take back this country, not just
score a few wins, We're gonna have to have more
good people step up and don't look around, you're it.
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This is Isaiah in the Bible where he has the
vision of God, and God in his vision is walking
around and saying, who shall I send?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Who can for us? Who can spread the gospel? Who
can do it?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
And Isaiah, in his dream, and he wakes to do this,
raises his hand to God and says, here, am I
send me? That verse has always meant a lot to me,
because there are there are things that have to be done.
Somebody's got to go confront the bully. Somebody's got to
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go tell the now widow who doesn't know she's a
widow that her husband has died. Somebody has got to
go fight to fight, somebody's got to go witness. Somebody's
got to go arrest the bad guy, and somebody's got
to run for office.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And man, that's you. Yeah, you, that's me talking to you.
You can hear me, right? Why not you? Oh, I
could never do that. If your answer is oh, I
could never do that, you are the perfect candidate. What
we need is fewer student body presidents. I was one.
What we need is fewer.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
People who dreamed of being president since they were a kid,
Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and more people who passionately love
this country and could never imagine themselves in politics.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You're the perfect person. You're authentic, you're real, you're sincere,
You're good, You're wholesome.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
You didn't want to be in politics. You just want
to be a mommy. You just want to be a
small business owner. You just want to be a farmer.
You're who we need. So before the elections begin, before
any of the other stuff, Well, Michael, how do I
get started? If you can't figure out how to get started,
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then you can't fix the government. And I don't mean
running for president or even Congress. I'm talking about your
local city council. I'm talking about your church governance board,
I'm talking about your pta, your Neighborhood Association. We need
good people to stand up and serve in order for
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our organizations to operate fairly, efficiently, effectively, properly. You can't
complain if you're not willing to serve. You can't complain
that the people who do serve.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Aren't doing a good job if you're not willing to
do it better. Unfortunately, the wrong people are attracted to
public service for all the wrong reasons, to self indulge,
to self deal, to steal money, to exert power over
other people, to impose their bad ideas on other people.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
We need more of you and fewer of them. Yeah,
I'm looking at you, you right there. Yes, Yes, that's you.
I'm looking at you. You find a place to serve
and start serving now, Ramon, you got a little fired
up there, Okay, I guess that's Ramon's way of saying
that it's time courtousy of the greatest executive producer in
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all the land, chatted Cooney Nakanishi.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
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If she can darn or knit or stitch marry that one,
if she's in college or post college, if.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
She quilts, lock her down right now, don't let that
one get don't let her out of your sight.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
That is the one you want.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You've got gay.
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David tell us the gayest song throw it off.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
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Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's pretty gay.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Number three I don't feel like dancing if that's lesbian.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We're not mixing. The number two hymta by the Village People,
All right, go ahead?
Speaker 9 (06:58):
Number one by the weather Girl.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
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in the train.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Please tell people don't do this.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I'm always amused how many people want to do a
public service announcement out of what happens to now.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I don't know if I'm supposed to see that and go, hey, guys, hey,
we're gonna talk about some stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
But I want to remind y'all please do not put
grease down your toilets. Guys, tzar burned my mouth this
morning getting my regular offeet at McDonald's. Please remind people,
don't put the coffee to your mouth until you've tested
it to make sure it's not too hot.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It's not a PSA needed a for everything, and knowing
is half to bout Gee Joe.
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Speaker 1 (08:18):
They remain scared to death of you, and they remain
scared to death of Trump. To Michael Berry Show, You're
not going anywhere even if Trump does, You're not.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
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twisting off. I'm at the house, just turning on the TV.
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Man inmols connected to the drinking.
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Home hate us too is always pouring down south his
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It's freeze and you go.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Earlier in the week, we uh I asked the question
about people who do interesting, odd and interesting things for
a living, things that you know would be fun in
second grade if somebody's dad came in that you know,
bring your dad to work day. Because we got the
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fireman and the police officer and the lawyer and the
judge and you know, interesting, odd, quirky things that you
wouldn't even think of.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
As as a judge.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
And I have gotten more fun emails and we ever
received more phone calls all hours of day. And by
the way, if you ever want to share something with
our show, put our number in your phone. You can
put it down as my name so you'll remember it's
me seven thousand. In any hour of the day or night.
(10:18):
You can leave us a message. Please start your message
with this is you know Bob from Baltimore, uh, and
then go into it and we will share some of
those on the air. But we have heard from more
interesting people. And I asked this fellow to call back
because he said he was a medical a forensic death investigator,
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and I thought that was just fascinating. So Roy, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Thank you. I was a forensic death investigator for the
Harris County Medical Examiner's Office there in Houston, did that
for six years. You know, I had graduated from Houston,
went a criminal justice degree, and you know, back then,
you know, this was ninety seven, ninety eight, you know,
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the forensic boom really hadn't hit yet, you know, CSI
wasn't a thing yet, so there wasn't really a whole
lot people knew about it. And I was working at
the Sheriff's apartment in Washington County and I was thumbing
through the want ads in the chronicle and I saw
that they had an investigator position open. You know, I
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was like, okay, medical examiner. You know, I wasn't really
sure what they did, even though you know, I had
a criminal justice degree and so soil. That application went
down to Prairie Lee Street. Never heard anything back. So
I finally called, uh, the the office and I said, hey,
you know I fell on application. Did you know, did
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y'all lose it or whatever? And she said, well, you
don't have any experience. And I was like, well, you know,
it's kind of such a unique field. You know, how
do you get experience? And she said most of their
investigators were former law enforcement, you know, HPD detectives or whatever.
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And so I said, well, you know, if you'll ever
done an internship because I just recently graduated, and she said, no,
they'll talk to doctor Carter about it. Joy Carter was
the medical examiner at the time. And you know, I
didn't hit anything back I kept checking back, you know,
every couple of weeks. So anyway, six months went on
and finally they decided to meet with me. And I
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went up there and met with the chief investigator at
the time, and we kind of hit it off. And
so she finally went and asked doctor Carter about doing
an internship. And so basically my I was working nights
at the Sheriff's department and so whenever I got off
and during the day, I drove up to Houston just
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did whatever they asked me to do, answered phones, you know, uh,
just kind of do whatever. And you know, next thing
I knew, they fired one of the investigators and hired me.
And you know, that's that's how I became, uh an
investigator with them.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
So when you first walk in to do an investigation,
what are you thinking to yourself?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What what?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
What are you first looking at? I mean, I guess
you're looking for foul You're looking for method of death, uh,
a reason for the death and foul play. Right, walk
me through your checklist on that.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Sure, Like, well, you know, Article forty nine point twenty
five of the Texas Penal Code requires a medical examiner
for any you know, city, A million population or more.
Uh So basically it's a it's its own separate entity.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
They're in charge of determining cause and manner of death
and identifying you know, the body. You know. Basically anything
natural death is obviously a medical examiner's case. But also
if anybody is admitted to a hospital in less than
twenty four hours, that case also has to be called in.
So basically my job at the scene. Uh, you know,
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once there's a body, basically, if somebody's dead, it becomes
property as a medical examiner. Nobody is by law able
to disturb it or touch it until the medical examiner arrives.
So my my basically main role is to ensure that
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there's no tampered with evidence on the body, you know,
document obviously you know what we know at the time
would happened. Uh in the event that it's a uh,
you know, homicide or something like that, you know, my
job would be to give uh you know, uh, you
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know evidence or real time information to the actives about
you know, maybe what type of weapon it was, you know,
just a contact wound, you know, stab wound, you know,
just kind of give them information on you know, maybe
the cause of death and basically document everything, take photographs.
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You know, my job wasn't necessarily to do with the scene.
You know, that would be the local law enforcement or
whoever had jurisdiction on the scene. So my basically responsibility
is the body, anything that's on the body, touching the body,
or anything that would have to do with the uh
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you know, cause and manner of death. Uh So document photographs,
generate a report because the pathologists, you know, they're not
always going out to the scene, you know, unless it's
some high profile case, but you know they're when they
get the body, you know, for the autopsy, they have
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to review my report, review the photographs and everything, so
that can kind of filter in with the cause and
manner of death uh determination. And then you know, I
would also be in charge of identify properly identifying the
body and you know, making sure that it's transported correctly.
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How long didn't they you know, testify it?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You're good? Sure sometimes you.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Know, you would have to testify in court, you know,
on any type of evidence. Sometimes maybe that you gathered
off the body, if you know, if they wanted to
have that entered, you know, you would have to test
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Speaker 6 (16:57):
Roman de Roy, who was a forensic depth investigator.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
With Harris County.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Harris County is the city, is the is the county that.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That city, city of Houston is in.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
It's a big county and obviously you're going to see
a lot of violence. And we're talking about well being
a forensic death invesket or can you imagine imagine how
how I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You wake up, you're eating.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Your cereal in the morning, knowing you're going to go
in and look at dead bodies, and you're just acting
like it's normal, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, all right, how long did it.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Take you after you started doing this job to where
you could walk in and see a human being, the
body of a human being, the corpse of a human
being and not and not and just work as if
they're not there, I mean, walk me.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
How do you process that?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, that's a funny thing is that you either can
do it or you can't. You know, you know, it's
one of those things that you really don't know how
you're going to react.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Until you see it.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You know, and it just you know, for whatever reason,
you know, I was able to do it. You know,
there were some people that you know, first day on
the job, you know, they would quit because you know,
you have to be able to process that in a
certain way. You know. Sometimes homicide detectives would come and
view the first autopsy and just pass smooth out, you know,
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after seeing that. So you really don't know how you're
going to react until you see it. And for whatever reason,
you know, I was able to do it. I was
able to you know, process the the gore and the
you know, just the awful things that you see and
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just realize that that was part of my job to
get justice, you know, for the victim, you know, my
my my job was the link in the chain that
would eventually you know, get to a conviction or you know,
get to you know, catch the person that did it,
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you know, in homicide cases, but there were also you know,
accidental suicides. You know, like I said, you know, you
really don't know how you're going to act until you
see it, you know, I mean, we did we deal
with death every day, you know, and so it's it's
not one of the things that you go home to
your wife and be like, oh, I guess what happened today,
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you know, because you know you have to be able
to to to see it and do it and then
just you know, really just leave it at work, you know.
But the hardest thing was, you know, dealing with the
family and the victims. You know, afterwards, you know you
had to be you had to be hard and empathetic
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at the same time, because when you're dealing with you know,
the family members, you know, you're you're talking to them
and working with them at the worst possible time of
their life. You know, you're you're informing them and telling
them that their husband or daughter or you know, wife
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just died. And so you really have to you know,
have a real sense of empathy, uh and then also
you know, be able to deal with it at the
same time. But you know, over the years that I
did it, you know, it really changed my life because
it really makes you be thankful for everything. You know,
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any any day you get up and put two feet
on the ground, that's a good day, you know. And
it really taught me how to, you know, just be
thankful for the little things, you know, because we're not
always guaranteed tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
When you look.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
At a dead body for a person, for us uninitiated,
when you look at a dead body from head to toe,
what are some things that are different? I mean, I
had a guy tell me the It was Jim Mutt,
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our creative director. We were talking about myths, and there
is the myth that your nails grow after you die,
and he researched it and it turns out that no,
that's not true. The skin shrivels, giving the appearance that
the nail has grown, but it hasn't, just the skin
has withdrawn around it. What are some ways that the
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body changes as part I'm not talking about decomposition. I'm
just talking about, you know, without the lifeblood in it.
What are some ways that we wouldn't expect the body changes?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well, you know basically, you know, when everything stops working,
you know, gravity takes its toll, you know, So however
the body is laying, you know, that's basically the position
you know would be in, you know, like when rigamortis
sets in or lividity, you know, one of the ways
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you know, to kind of determine what time you know
the death was. That was always you know, one of
the biggest questions. You know that we would try to
help to figure out. You know, so lividity basically all
the blood pools and wherever gravity takes it. And so
there would be you know, almost bruising or red dark
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areas of the body where the blood would pool. And
so you know, depending on different factors environmental temperature and
you know, and whatnot. You know that has a certain
rate where lividity becomes fixed. Also the rigor mortis, you know,
the body's body stiffens, you know, during a particular time
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after death. So you know the body would be stiff
in certain areas. But you know, basically it's just you know,
looking at those things. You know obviously the the skin
you know, and everything you know basically just shrivels and
you know withers, you know that kind of stuff. So
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you know, just those type of uh changes you know,
on the body.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Does it does it change?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Do you feel like it changes how you interact with people?
Because people who've dealt with death, it seems to me
it does change you in in remarkable and basic ways
because you see the full life cycle. Do you feel
like that has a affected you and how you treat
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other people or how you look at other people or
how you look at life.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
For sure, it you know, like I said, I definitely
have a lot more empathy. But in other things, you know,
like I don't really see problems like most people do,
you know, because I'm just like, you know, that's not
a problem. You know, that's nothing. You know, I build
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houses now, and so you know, people you know have
issues with things, you know, in their homes and whatever.
And it just makes me one, you know, have a
lot more patience for stuff like that. But then you know,
it just makes me realize that you know, this, this
ain't a problem. You know, we can get through this,
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you know. So it really, uh just gives me a
way better outlook in life, I think, dealing with with
problems and everything because you know, I don't really see
it was this problem.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Very interesting, very interesting story.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Thank you for the call boy, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
What else do you want?
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Mary?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
David?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
Hello Michael.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
I met you, oh several years ago at Grand Ranch
sales office with Marcus or Trail. I'm a former Green Beret, uh,
and I brought a weapon up there. Do you recall?
I'm sorry I do not, but that's okay. I remember
that day. I remember Marcus joining me. I just I
don't don't recall this particular.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Interaction, but I do.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
We make three thousand pounds of deer sausage and I
take and hand it out at Fort Benning, Georgia every
year for the last seven years, and when the unit deploys,
I go to a fish fry for them. I catch
all the fish, I clean all the fish, and I
go cook it off at Fort Benning, Georgia. And I'm
needing something from your listeners, and I want to make
sure it's okay before I say so.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Well, yeah, well, first of all, hold on a minute.
You had me at sausage and then you went to
fish fries. Let me process. It's still a lot. This
is kind of a sugar shock for my you know,
my system is a whole lot. It's a whole lot
going on for me. All right, go ahead, Yes, you
may ask.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
The unit's going to deploy and there's going to be
one hundred and fifty people soldiers there in their families.
I've got bouncy houses for the kids. I'm needing one
hundred and fifty door prices so I can make sure
that every family gets door price before they leave there.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And these and these are navy seal families.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Did you say these are army? They green rays?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You said that, I'm a good Yeah, okay. And what
would a door prize look like? I know you don't
want to limit it, but what kind of value would
a door price have?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
The lower obviously being.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Well, uh, I've had like Academy gave a couple of
rotten reels. I've had artie coolers, getty coolers, something that
is not specific to an area where that soldier couldn't
use it, You know.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
What I mean? Yeah? What would you say.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Is from all change from Cleveland, Ohio wouldn't do no
good in Columbus, Georgia.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I got you, Okay, I have your email address, and
if somebody can help us out, whether they can do
all one hundred and fifty of them or some number
of them, then I will forward those to you by
email and you will get them as and.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
When they come in. All right, that's pretty cool, you know, Ramon.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
My brother used to make his own deer sausage, okay,
And he and his wife Brenda would do that in
their kitchen. And I'm telling you my brother was so impressive.
If you walked in while they were doing that, it
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would look like a bomb went off in the middle
of a crowd. It was the biggest mess in that house.
And then you came back that weekend and you would
have the most You could not believe it wasn't made
at La Boucherie my sponsor.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Or?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Can I say your sponsor's name? Are you sure you
don't mind if I say your sponsor's name? Well, but
people need to understand Labucherie is my sponsor.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's my people. Your people are not Labucherie, but I
will say they're great people.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Ramona and I in some categories have a different show sponsor,
and Eddie was concerned when I first said, hey, there
are more people that want to partner with our show
than I have capacity for because I can only speak
for one company in a category. I want best in
class for my category, but there are other people who
are also good.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't think that.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
I don't believe that I have to that somebody should
listen to our show because the other shows aren't any good.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
There are lots of good shows out there.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
I mentored Jesse Kelly from being an RV salesman to
a nationally syndicated talk show host, and people think, people
in the industry think, oh, wow, you know Jesse k
I love Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
He's one of my best friends. His success is my success.
Every dollar he makes is a dollar I made.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Every award he wins his selling book, there is no
jealousy at all.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I will tell you there is no jealousy.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
There is nothing but mad respect and self centered, narcissistic
credit claiming for me because I feel like I had
a lot to do with that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And when you have that approach to things. Now, there
are people in the industry I don't like.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I wouldn't say I'm jealous of them, but I wish
I'm ill because I think they're bad people. But no,
that's a good thing. That being said. That being said,
Ramon has sponsors in some categories that are different than mine,
and if you don't use mine, I hope you use his.
That's how I wanted to work. There can be two
good meat markets in town, just as simple as that.
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Midway actually came to me and said, hey, we want you.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
To speak for us. I said, I can't speak for you,
but I can do you one better.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
The guy who's probably more respected in terms of processing meat.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Laboucherie's great, they do great with me.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
But the guy who processes his own meat and those
meats is Ramone, and I think he's all.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
You ever had an argument with your spouse and he
solved it with sausage? It works really, one trip to
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And see why that See this is why I don't
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the tent. Right, there's go back to my point. Chris's
sausage was as good as anything I've ever got at
any meat market. You know, we don't talk enough about sausage,
So I'm gonna do a name drop but it's not
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actually a name drop. It's part of the story, so
I'm not it's not intended to go, oh, Michael's hanging
out with famous people. That is not the intention. I
have to give this detail because it's part of the
story and it's relevant to the story. So I don't
want a ding. I just want it to be natural.
It's not like I'm not trying to, oh, you know,
brag on myself. Okay, So opening day, I got invited
to Jim Crane's suite, so I just said, don't do that.
(32:11):
So I got invited Jim Crane Sweet, one of the astros.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I just said, don't do that. And so there I
am in Jim Crane Sweet, such an idiot.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
You knew.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I couldn't help it. I was trying to listen. Have
you ever been for a hearing test? That's what you do,
and what happens is it gets in your head literally,
So they started like ding, yep, I got that. You
raise your hand.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I got that one, and then Dan and then after
a while you're sitting there and you know, we've all
got some level of.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Tonight's it's a little old lady right now. She's a
former English teacher in the library. It's tenantist, Michael, It's tenna.
That's what's what I call it.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I call it tonight as you call it tenadas, you
call it whatever you want, call it tonightus.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Somebody had decided how it was. I was said, you're
just repeating what they said. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
You're sitting there in your ears are kind of ringing,
and as at some point you just randomly raise your hand.
I would love to be on the other side and
just sit there for five minutes with it never doing
and watch them. Ever saw them kind of half raised there.
I think now, because you figure at some point they're
dinging it right. I want to get it right.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
So we're in Jim crane suite and Jim said, hey,
have you eaten? He didn't say have you eat? Well,
my grandmother did, but it would been good if he did.
And he said, uh, I tried out. I'm curious. You know,
got some new stuff on them on the men. You
don't want to see what you think, so I don't
don't twist my arm. It was a three o'clock game,
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and so I go walking You're sitting down to watch,
and then you walk back a couple of steps, and
there's a nice.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Lady naming Bobby. I think her name was Bobby or Barbie.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
And so they had regular hot dog, the regular little
skinny weenie, which but they had brocks. And I like
a hot dog that's that's a thicker and got that's
more of a sausage, right, got more flavor and all
that not just lips and booty holes. And man was
so big that I had told you the story. I
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had the bun. Because I didn't tear the bun fully apart,
I just laid it on top of the bun.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
It wouldn't go down in there. So my second one
I had to have later.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I had to take the bun, tear it apart into
two halves, put it.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Back together to make like a sandwich.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
And on the sides, I had to mash the bun
down to where it basically created a pig and a
blanket
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You know, this is as good a time as any
any bring this up situation goodness.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
We're not going to have the same president and cabinet forever.
And what this nation needs is a movement, not a messiah.
And so a lot of people think, well, if I
just worship Trump then and I worship him harder than
everyone else, and I defend him and I support him,
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and I wear shirts with his name on it and
capsure his name on it. Then that's gonna save the country.
Trump's not going to be here forever. Okay, none of
us are. In order for this movement to be a
real movement and to take back this country, not just
score a few wins, We're gonna have to have more
good people step up and don't look around, you're it.
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This is Isaiah in the Bible where he has the
vision of God, and God in his vision is walking
around and saying, who shall I send?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Who can for us? Who can spread the gospel? Who
can do it?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
And Isaiah, in his dream, and he wakes to do this,
raises his hand to God and says, here, am I
send me? That verse has always meant a lot to me,
because there are there are things that have to be done.
Somebody's got to go confront the bully. Somebody's got to
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go tell the now widow who doesn't know she's a
widow that her husband has died. Somebody has got to
go fight to fight, somebody's got to go witness. Somebody's
got to go arrest the bad guy, and somebody's got
to run for office.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And man, that's you. Yeah, you, that's me talking to you.
You can hear me, right? Why not you? Oh, I
could never do that. If your answer is oh, I
could never do that, you are the perfect candidate. What
we need is fewer student body presidents. I was one.
What we need is fewer.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
People who dreamed of being president since they were a kid,
Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and more people who passionately love
this country and could never imagine themselves in politics.
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You're the perfect person. You're authentic, you're real, you're sincere,
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You didn't want to be in politics. You just want
to be a mommy. You just want to be a
small business owner. You just want to be a farmer.
You're who we need. So before the elections begin, before
any of the other stuff, Well, Michael, how do I
get started? If you can't figure out how to get started,
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then you can't fix the government. And I don't mean
running for president or even Congress. I'm talking about your
local city council. I'm talking about your church governance board,
I'm talking about your pta, your Neighborhood Association. We need
good people to stand up and serve in order for
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our organizations to operate fairly, efficiently, effectively, properly. You can't
complain if you're not willing to serve. You can't complain
that the people who do serve.
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Aren't doing a good job if you're not willing to
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to self deal, to steal money, to exert power over
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I'm always amused how many people want to do a
public service announcement out of what happens to now.
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I don't know if I'm supposed to see that and go, hey, guys, hey,
we're gonna talk about some stuff.
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Speaker 6 (09:22):
Earlier in the week, we uh I asked the question
about people who do interesting, odd and interesting things for
a living, things that you know would be fun in
second grade if somebody's dad came in that you know,
bring your dad to work day. Because we got the
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fireman and the police officer and the lawyer and the
judge and you know, interesting, odd, quirky things that you
wouldn't even think of.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
As as a judge.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
And I have gotten more fun emails and we ever
received more phone calls all hours of day. And by
the way, if you ever want to share something with
our show, put our number in your phone. You can
put it down as my name so you'll remember it's
me seven thousand. In any hour of the day or night.
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You can leave us a message. Please start your message
with this is you know Bob from Baltimore, uh, and
then go into it and we will share some of
those on the air. But we have heard from more
interesting people. And I asked this fellow to call back
because he said he was a medical a forensic death investigator,
(10:38):
and I thought that was just fascinating. So Roy, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Thank you. I was a forensic death investigator for the
Harris County Medical Examiner's Office there in Houston, did that
for six years. You know, I had graduated from Houston,
went a criminal justice degree, and you know, back then,
you know, this was ninety seven, ninety eight, you know,
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the forensic boom really hadn't hit yet, you know, CSI
wasn't a thing yet, so there wasn't really a whole
lot people knew about it. And I was working at
the Sheriff's apartment in Washington County and I was thumbing
through the want ads in the chronicle and I saw
that they had an investigator position open. You know, I
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was like, okay, medical examiner. You know, I wasn't really
sure what they did, even though you know, I had
a criminal justice degree and so soil. That application went
down to Prairie Lee Street. Never heard anything back. So
I finally called, uh, the the office and I said, hey,
you know I fell on application. Did you know, did
(11:50):
y'all lose it or whatever? And she said, well, you
don't have any experience. And I was like, well, you know,
it's kind of such a unique field. You know, how
do you get experience? And she said most of their
investigators were former law enforcement, you know, HPD detectives or whatever.
(12:11):
And so I said, well, you know, if you'll ever
done an internship because I just recently graduated, and she said, no,
they'll talk to doctor Carter about it. Joy Carter was
the medical examiner at the time. And you know, I
didn't hit anything back I kept checking back, you know,
every couple of weeks. So anyway, six months went on
and finally they decided to meet with me. And I
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went up there and met with the chief investigator at
the time, and we kind of hit it off. And
so she finally went and asked doctor Carter about doing
an internship. And so basically my I was working nights
at the Sheriff's department and so whenever I got off
and during the day, I drove up to Houston just
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did whatever they asked me to do, answered phones, you know, uh,
just kind of do whatever. And you know, next thing
I knew, they fired one of the investigators and hired me.
And you know, that's that's how I became, uh an
investigator with them.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
So when you first walk in to do an investigation,
what are you thinking to yourself?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What what?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
What are you first looking at? I mean, I guess
you're looking for foul You're looking for method of death, uh,
a reason for the death and foul play. Right, walk
me through your checklist on that.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Sure, Like, well, you know, Article forty nine point twenty
five of the Texas Penal Code requires a medical examiner
for any you know, city, A million population or more.
Uh So basically it's a it's its own separate entity.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
They're in charge of determining cause and manner of death
and identifying you know, the body. You know. Basically anything
natural death is obviously a medical examiner's case. But also
if anybody is admitted to a hospital in less than
twenty four hours, that case also has to be called in.
So basically my job at the scene. Uh, you know,
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once there's a body, basically, if somebody's dead, it becomes
property as a medical examiner. Nobody is by law able
to disturb it or touch it until the medical examiner arrives.
So my my basically main role is to ensure that
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there's no tampered with evidence on the body, you know,
document obviously you know what we know at the time
would happened. Uh in the event that it's a uh,
you know, homicide or something like that, you know, my
job would be to give uh you know, uh, you
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know evidence or real time information to the actives about
you know, maybe what type of weapon it was, you know,
just a contact wound, you know, stab wound, you know,
just kind of give them information on you know, maybe
the cause of death and basically document everything, take photographs.
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You know, my job wasn't necessarily to do with the scene.
You know, that would be the local law enforcement or
whoever had jurisdiction on the scene. So my basically responsibility
is the body, anything that's on the body, touching the body,
or anything that would have to do with the uh
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you know, cause and manner of death. Uh So document photographs,
generate a report because the pathologists, you know, they're not
always going out to the scene, you know, unless it's
some high profile case, but you know they're when they
get the body, you know, for the autopsy, they have
(16:02):
to review my report, review the photographs and everything, so
that can kind of filter in with the cause and
manner of death uh determination. And then you know, I
would also be in charge of identify properly identifying the
body and you know, making sure that it's transported correctly.
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How long didn't they you know, testify it?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You're good? Sure sometimes you.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Know, you would have to testify in court, you know,
on any type of evidence. Sometimes maybe that you gathered
off the body, if you know, if they wanted to
have that entered, you know, you would have to test
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Speaker 6 (16:57):
Roman de Roy, who was a forensic depth investigator.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
With Harris County.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Harris County is the city, is the is the county that.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That city, city of Houston is in.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
It's a big county and obviously you're going to see
a lot of violence. And we're talking about well being
a forensic death invesket or can you imagine imagine how
how I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You wake up, you're eating.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Your cereal in the morning, knowing you're going to go
in and look at dead bodies, and you're just acting
like it's normal, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, all right, how long did it.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Take you after you started doing this job to where
you could walk in and see a human being, the
body of a human being, the corpse of a human
being and not and not and just work as if
they're not there, I mean, walk me.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
How do you process that?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, that's a funny thing is that you either can
do it or you can't. You know, you know, it's
one of those things that you really don't know how
you're going to react.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Until you see it.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You know, and it just you know, for whatever reason,
you know, I was able to do it. You know,
there were some people that you know, first day on
the job, you know, they would quit because you know,
you have to be able to process that in a
certain way. You know. Sometimes homicide detectives would come and
view the first autopsy and just pass smooth out, you know,
(18:33):
after seeing that. So you really don't know how you're
going to react until you see it. And for whatever reason,
you know, I was able to do it. I was
able to you know, process the the gore and the
you know, just the awful things that you see and
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just realize that that was part of my job to
get justice, you know, for the victim, you know, my
my my job was the link in the chain that
would eventually you know, get to a conviction or you know,
get to you know, catch the person that did it,
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you know, in homicide cases, but there were also you know,
accidental suicides. You know, like I said, you know, you
really don't know how you're going to act until you
see it, you know, I mean, we did we deal
with death every day, you know, and so it's it's
not one of the things that you go home to
your wife and be like, oh, I guess what happened today,
(19:39):
you know, because you know you have to be able
to to to see it and do it and then
just you know, really just leave it at work, you know.
But the hardest thing was, you know, dealing with the
family and the victims. You know, afterwards, you know you
had to be you had to be hard and empathetic
(20:02):
at the same time, because when you're dealing with you know,
the family members, you know, you're you're talking to them
and working with them at the worst possible time of
their life. You know, you're you're informing them and telling
them that their husband or daughter or you know, wife
(20:23):
just died. And so you really have to you know,
have a real sense of empathy, uh and then also
you know, be able to deal with it at the
same time. But you know, over the years that I
did it, you know, it really changed my life because
it really makes you be thankful for everything. You know,
(20:47):
any any day you get up and put two feet
on the ground, that's a good day, you know. And
it really taught me how to, you know, just be
thankful for the little things, you know, because we're not
always guaranteed tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
When you look.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
At a dead body for a person, for us uninitiated,
when you look at a dead body from head to toe,
what are some things that are different? I mean, I
had a guy tell me the It was Jim Mutt,
(21:26):
our creative director. We were talking about myths, and there
is the myth that your nails grow after you die,
and he researched it and it turns out that no,
that's not true. The skin shrivels, giving the appearance that
the nail has grown, but it hasn't, just the skin
has withdrawn around it. What are some ways that the
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body changes as part I'm not talking about decomposition. I'm
just talking about, you know, without the lifeblood in it.
What are some ways that we wouldn't expect the body changes?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well, you know basically, you know, when everything stops working,
you know, gravity takes its toll, you know, So however
the body is laying, you know, that's basically the position
you know would be in, you know, like when rigamortis
sets in or lividity, you know, one of the ways
(22:22):
you know, to kind of determine what time you know
the death was. That was always you know, one of
the biggest questions. You know that we would try to
help to figure out. You know, so lividity basically all
the blood pools and wherever gravity takes it. And so
there would be you know, almost bruising or red dark
(22:47):
areas of the body where the blood would pool. And
so you know, depending on different factors environmental temperature and
you know, and whatnot. You know that has a certain
rate where lividity becomes fixed. Also the rigor mortis, you know,
the body's body stiffens, you know, during a particular time
(23:09):
after death. So you know the body would be stiff
in certain areas. But you know, basically it's just you know,
looking at those things. You know obviously the the skin
you know, and everything you know basically just shrivels and
you know withers, you know that kind of stuff. So
(23:33):
you know, just those type of uh changes you know,
on the body.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Does it does it change?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Do you feel like it changes how you interact with people?
Because people who've dealt with death, it seems to me
it does change you in in remarkable and basic ways
because you see the full life cycle. Do you feel
like that has a affected you and how you treat
(24:01):
other people or how you look at other people or
how you look at life.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
For sure, it you know, like I said, I definitely
have a lot more empathy. But in other things, you know,
like I don't really see problems like most people do,
you know, because I'm just like, you know, that's not
a problem. You know, that's nothing. You know, I build
(24:26):
houses now, and so you know, people you know have
issues with things, you know, in their homes and whatever.
And it just makes me one, you know, have a
lot more patience for stuff like that. But then you know,
it just makes me realize that you know, this, this
ain't a problem. You know, we can get through this,
(24:48):
you know. So it really, uh just gives me a
way better outlook in life, I think, dealing with with
problems and everything because you know, I don't really see
it was this problem.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Very interesting, very interesting story.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Thank you for the call boy, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
What else do you want?
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Mary?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
David?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
Hello Michael.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
I met you, oh several years ago at Grand Ranch
sales office with Marcus or Trail. I'm a former Green Beret, uh,
and I brought a weapon up there. Do you recall?
I'm sorry I do not, but that's okay. I remember
that day. I remember Marcus joining me. I just I
don't don't recall this particular.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Interaction, but I do.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
We make three thousand pounds of deer sausage and I
take and hand it out at Fort Benning, Georgia every
year for the last seven years, and when the unit deploys,
I go to a fish fry for them. I catch
all the fish, I clean all the fish, and I
go cook it off at Fort Benning, Georgia. And I'm
needing something from your listeners, and I want to make
sure it's okay before I say so.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Well, yeah, well, first of all, hold on a minute.
You had me at sausage and then you went to
fish fries. Let me process. It's still a lot. This
is kind of a sugar shock for my you know,
my system is a whole lot. It's a whole lot
going on for me. All right, go ahead, Yes, you
may ask.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
The unit's going to deploy and there's going to be
one hundred and fifty people soldiers there in their families.
I've got bouncy houses for the kids. I'm needing one
hundred and fifty door prices so I can make sure
that every family gets door price before they leave there.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And these and these are navy seal families.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Did you say these are army? They green rays?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You said that, I'm a good Yeah, okay. And what
would a door prize look like? I know you don't
want to limit it, but what kind of value would
a door price have?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
The lower obviously being.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Well, uh, I've had like Academy gave a couple of
rotten reels. I've had artie coolers, getty coolers, something that
is not specific to an area where that soldier couldn't
use it, You know.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
What I mean? Yeah? What would you say.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Is from all change from Cleveland, Ohio wouldn't do no
good in Columbus, Georgia.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I got you, Okay, I have your email address, and
if somebody can help us out, whether they can do
all one hundred and fifty of them or some number
of them, then I will forward those to you by
email and you will get them as and.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
When they come in. All right, that's pretty cool, you know, Ramon.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
My brother used to make his own deer sausage, okay,
And he and his wife Brenda would do that in
their kitchen. And I'm telling you my brother was so impressive.
If you walked in while they were doing that, it
(28:35):
would look like a bomb went off in the middle
of a crowd. It was the biggest mess in that house.
And then you came back that weekend and you would
have the most You could not believe it wasn't made
at La Boucherie my sponsor.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Or?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Can I say your sponsor's name? Are you sure you
don't mind if I say your sponsor's name? Well, but
people need to understand Labucherie is my sponsor.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's my people. Your people are not Labucherie, but I
will say they're great people.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Ramona and I in some categories have a different show sponsor,
and Eddie was concerned when I first said, hey, there
are more people that want to partner with our show
than I have capacity for because I can only speak
for one company in a category. I want best in
class for my category, but there are other people who
are also good.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't think that.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
I don't believe that I have to that somebody should
listen to our show because the other shows aren't any good.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
There are lots of good shows out there.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
I mentored Jesse Kelly from being an RV salesman to
a nationally syndicated talk show host, and people think, people
in the industry think, oh, wow, you know Jesse k
I love Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
He's one of my best friends. His success is my success.
Every dollar he makes is a dollar I made.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Every award he wins his selling book, there is no
jealousy at all.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I will tell you there is no jealousy.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
There is nothing but mad respect and self centered, narcissistic
credit claiming for me because I feel like I had
a lot to do with that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And when you have that approach to things. Now, there
are people in the industry I don't like.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I wouldn't say I'm jealous of them, but I wish
I'm ill because I think they're bad people. But no,
that's a good thing. That being said. That being said,
Ramon has sponsors in some categories that are different than mine,
and if you don't use mine, I hope you use his.
That's how I wanted to work. There can be two
good meat markets in town, just as simple as that.
(30:39):
Midway actually came to me and said, hey, we want you.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
To speak for us. I said, I can't speak for you,
but I can do you one better.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
The guy who's probably more respected in terms of processing meat.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Laboucherie's great, they do great with me.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
But the guy who processes his own meat and those
meats is Ramone, and I think he's all.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
You ever had an argument with your spouse and he
solved it with sausage? It works really, one trip to
mid meat market you can come home with a peace offering,
a fresh cut steaks, homemade jersey. This is why, maybe
even a bottle of wine to smooth things over. Suddenly
you're not a forgetful husband, You're a meat bearing heroes.
Midway has been saving relationships and grilling reputations since nineteen
sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Inch take so skip the.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Flowers, bring brisket, Go see Herman and the Meyer family.
A Midway meat market off its and open eight to
seven daily Midway meat Market dot com.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
And see why that See this is why I don't
I don't ever open. That's the proverbial animal knows under
the tent. Right, there's go back to my point. Chris's
sausage was as good as anything I've ever got at
any meat market. You know, we don't talk enough about sausage,
So I'm gonna do a name drop but it's not
(31:45):
actually a name drop. It's part of the story, so
I'm not it's not intended to go, oh, Michael's hanging
out with famous people. That is not the intention. I
have to give this detail because it's part of the
story and it's relevant to the story. So I don't
want a ding. I just want it to be natural.
It's not like I'm not trying to, oh, you know,
brag on myself. Okay, So opening day, I got invited
to Jim Crane's suite, so I just said, don't do that.
(32:11):
So I got invited Jim Crane Sweet, one of the astros.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I just said, don't do that. And so there I
am in Jim Crane Sweet, such an idiot.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
You knew.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I couldn't help it. I was trying to listen. Have
you ever been for a hearing test? That's what you do,
and what happens is it gets in your head literally,
So they started like ding, yep, I got that. You
raise your hand.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I got that one, and then Dan and then after
a while you're sitting there and you know, we've all
got some level of.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Tonight's it's a little old lady right now. She's a
former English teacher in the library. It's tenantist, Michael, It's tenna.
That's what's what I call it.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I call it tonight as you call it tenadas, you
call it whatever you want, call it tonightus.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Somebody had decided how it was. I was said, you're
just repeating what they said. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
You're sitting there in your ears are kind of ringing,
and as at some point you just randomly raise your hand.
I would love to be on the other side and
just sit there for five minutes with it never doing
and watch them. Ever saw them kind of half raised there.
I think now, because you figure at some point they're
dinging it right. I want to get it right.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
So we're in Jim crane suite and Jim said, hey,
have you eaten? He didn't say have you eat? Well,
my grandmother did, but it would been good if he did.
And he said, uh, I tried out. I'm curious. You know,
got some new stuff on them on the men. You
don't want to see what you think, so I don't
don't twist my arm. It was a three o'clock game,
(33:33):
and so I go walking You're sitting down to watch,
and then you walk back a couple of steps, and
there's a nice.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Lady naming Bobby. I think her name was Bobby or Barbie.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
And so they had regular hot dog, the regular little
skinny weenie, which but they had brocks. And I like
a hot dog that's that's a thicker and got that's
more of a sausage, right, got more flavor and all
that not just lips and booty holes. And man was
so big that I had told you the story. I
(34:03):
had the bun. Because I didn't tear the bun fully apart,
I just laid it on top of the bun.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
It wouldn't go down in there. So my second one
I had to have later.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
I had to take the bun, tear it apart into
two halves, put it.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Back together to make like a sandwich.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
And on the sides, I had to mash the bun
down to where it basically created a pig and a
blanket
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