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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Eric Church's speech is pop culture meets school bond. You
know he's a u University of North Carolina graduate. He
makes a joke about coach k you know they're big
rival at Duke, and about beating Duke, and you know
there's some of that.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You got to have that.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
But in the midst of all that, and then just
the overall cool vibe that Eric Church has given your speech,
there's some deeply profound messages buried and they're beautiful. The
next string he talks about, he goes through each string
in the in the guitar, encourage you. It's on YouTube,
It's on my Facebook page. You can find it anywhere.
Just look up Eric Church graduation speech. The next string
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is ambition and resilience.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The g string, that's what it's called. Sorry I didn't
name the damn thing. That's just what it is. String
drifts faster than the others on a guitar. I can
promise you that is true. I have dealt with it
my whole life. It's because ambition and resilience both live
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on this string and they pull in opposite direct directions.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I want you to want things. You should want things.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The world has more than enough people standing at the
edge of their own potential waiting for a permission slip
that was never going to arrive. Won't the thing? Say
it out loud, Build toward it with everything you have.
When you fail, and you will fail him in way
wrote it plainly right in the stern. The world breaks
everyone afterward, the best of us are stronger at the
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broken places. Get back up, tune the string, keep playing.
It's true. Resilience is everything.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I was talking to a show sponsor in Houston that
does credit card processing, and he was saying, as everyone
does me. The toughest part of people's business today is
getting employees who can do what you need them to do.
It's not even a question anymore of being able to
afford employees. There was a labor cost to value ratio
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out of whack a few years ago where it didn't
make sense to hire people, especially in hospitality, for the
rates they wanted. The COVID era and it was hard
to get people off the couch. Everybody was getting paid
stay home, and then a lot of people got used
to staying home and it became an option that they'd
never considered before. Now, all of a sudden, oh wait
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a second, I can find a job where I get
up and not have to get dressed, not have to
put on a coat and tie. And all of a sudden,
the world changed. It changed in a way that it
hasn't gone back. And so people will tell me that
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their biggest challenge is finding someone, finding people to work
who can handle the job.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So I'm talking to the three brothers of Petrie. Brothers
own a company in Houston called Redstone credit card Processing,
Redstone Payment Systems, And I said, I always asked my
show's moond what's your biggest challenge?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And I say, well, finding good people? All right, what
can the people not do? And they said, well, when
we get a lead that comes in and we send
somebody out to pitch a deal, that'll we'll handle your
credit card processing. And here's here's how much it'll cost,
and here how much we'll save. A lot of people
don't want to change it that we may maybe we
can save the money, but they don't want to go
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somewhere different or.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Whatever the is.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But you know, you think about this, and in professional baseball,
if you fail seven out of ten times, you get
me in the Hall of Fame because you bat at
three hundred or better. But you get a guy that
fails half the time and you can't get them to
go back up and go back in the game. And
resilience is such an important life skill. It's amazing to
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me watching little league sports growing up, how many parents
never taught their kids how to lose with grace. The
team would lose, and the parents would be blaming the
ref and or the umpire and the coach and all that.
Who I got news for you. You're going to lose in life.
You're gonna lose a lot. No matter how good you are,
You're gonna lose a lot. And you better learn how
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to get back up. You better learn how to do
so with grace.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
As I've just put that on a Michael Barrison.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Michael Berry show.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Eric Church delivered the graduation speech at the University of
North Carolina. I listen to a lot of graduation speeches,
probably more than anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
That's not a flex it's just what I do. I
give a lot of speeches. I study speeches. I study structure,
study concept, delivery, all of it. I study ted talks,
I study sermons, I study stand up comics. And this
particular graduation speeches is the second most impactful to me
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that I've ever seen, and that includes the Admiral Admiral
McRaven speech that I think is phenomenal at the University
of Texas a few years ago. Lou Holtz is Lou Holtz.
The one by Lou Holtz I think is the best. Anyway,
I want to finish out speech. I got other things
I want to get to. But one of the things
he does is takes his guitar and goes through each
string and represents that represents each part of your life,
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and any one of them being out of tune ruins
a song. And the next one is community, which is
the B string.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The B string is about community.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Your generation faces a temptation no generation before has ever faced,
the temptation to perform for everyone and belong to no one,
to be globally visible and locally invisible, to have thousands
of followers and no one knows actually where you live.
Resist this plant yourself somewhere, put down roots with the
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full intention of growing there. Learn the actual names, not
user names, of the people around you. Volunteer, coach the team,
build the thing your community needs, even if the Internet
will never sit.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Generosity.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Generosity is not something you do after you make it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's how you make it.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And if you get lost, and at some point I
promise you will, you have a place you belong. Now
come back, walk through the quad on a fall day,
or sit on Franklin Street on a game day, and
remember these are my people because I am a tar hill.
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My last tour, My last tour took me forty two
thousand and one hundred and eighty five miles over North America,
and every single night, near and far, someone had on
a Carolina flag, a Carolina hat, or a Carolina jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You will find yourselves.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Speaking from experience, high fiving strangers wearing Carolina gear in
faraway airports, are staying up across time zones to catch
the moments last moments of a game. Are canceling a
show in Texas to be with your people in the
final four.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
As you vanquished. Coach k You're welcome.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And having the ultimate pride knowing that's the night my
boys learned. The Carolina fight song ends with go to
hell Duke.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You know what my thought is on that?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
When your university defines itself by criticizing another university.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's all I need to know. I always tell people.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Aggis Longhorns the whole thing. I don't have a dog
and hunt. My kids go to UT. I went to
University of Houston. I went to UT law School. You
know I'm good educationally, they're all good. But when we
see your team playing in a playoff game against another
team that is not the University of Texas and the
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sign for your school is the Longhorns of Texas turned
upside down, you're thinking about UT even when you're not
playing UT. I would reconsider that if it was me
when your school fight song says beat Duke. I don't
know what the school fight song at Duke is.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But if their school fight song doesn't include you, but
yours includes them, I'd start wondering if maybe I'm not
trying too hard, if I'm defining myself based on not
being them. Who am I? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
It's a fun moment. That's you know, school rivalries there,
they're silly but they're fun right. The next one is individuality. Finally,
the high ye string. This is the thinnest string.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
It's the highest note, the one that carries the melody,
that single line above the cord, that everyone in this
room recognizes and takes with them on the way home.
It's also the one bent most easily by outside pressure.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Social media is going to show you a thousand versions
of a life. Amen looks better than yours.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
The comparison will be relentless, curated and a lie dressed
up in really good lighting. Someone's comments, someone's criticism, someone's
cold opinion, is going to try to convince you to
retune yourself to match what they think you should sound like.
Do not let them touch your string. You were made uniquely, wonderfully, distinctly.
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They're there's a sound only you can make a voice
that has never existed before you and will need it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And then let me close with him, sticking the landing
the way Carrie strug did.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Six strings, six strings of life, and willingness to keep
them in tune, six principles, six pillars. When all six
are in tune with each other, the cordier life makes
is full and resonant and truth. All six will drift,
not one or two, all six and their own time,
in their own season. Your faith will go quiet when
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you need it loud. Your family will get complicated in
a way only the people who love you most can
complicate things. You will go through hard seasons with your spouse.
Your ambition will hollow out and your resilience will wear thin.
Your community will start to feel like an obligation, and
your world will try to sand down the edges of exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Who you are.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
This is not failure, This is not weakness. It's the
inevitable universe experience of living in an imperfect world that
doesn't stop to let us tune up, and the difference
between a life that sounds like music and a life
that sounds like noise. It's whether you stop and listen,
whether you're honest enough to hear which string has drifted
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out of tune, and humble enough to make the adjustment
instead of just turning up the volume and hoping nobody notices.
Because you will notice. The part of you that knows
what the chord should sound like will always notice. It
will not let you go. Life won't be right until
it is tuned. I trust what your heart hears and
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is telling you about your song.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
This is me, Michael Berry the show.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
This is a high out of my week right here
about to happen right now. I got an email from
a friend of mine named Kenny Allen. Kenny Allen hosts
a radio out in the country. He works at a
small business. He posts goofy, goofy, goofy ass videos of
himself with great old les Paul guitars.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He's got quite the collection.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He's got like ten dollars to his name, but he
uses all of it for interesting stuff. Sometimes he'll post
videos of himself on a riding lawnmower, pop and wheelies
that he's you know, took it to John Hennessy and
juiced it up, or maybe the guy that's some new
mayor of Magnolia. Anyway, he always sends me interesting stuff.
So he sends me a picture. He sends me a
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deal here and it said Czar, I figured you'd appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, it is real. I checked.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It was listed on the Lagrange page, but I think
the barbershop is actually in Fayetteville.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's a handmade sign. It's pink.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It's taped to the wall with blue painters tape and
it says free summer buzz cuts for kids under twelve
Larry's barber Shop, number one, two, three and four. I
guess that's the clipper length. And I called him and
I said, why'd you send me that? He said, because
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I knew you'd like it. What do you think I'd
like about it? That in twenty twenty six a dude
is given free haircuts to the kids for summer A
and B that he's given buzz cuts, And I said,
you're right, I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So we've tracked him down. He didn't want to do
the interview today.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
He said he could do it one day next week,
he could take some time off, and we said, no, no, no, no, no,
we want to talk to you while you're cutting hair.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So we're making a very rare.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Variance of issue to variance for him to do the
interview on speakerphone because he's cutting hair during that time.
Larry the Barber, Yes, sir, okay, Well, first of all,
I think it's real cool that you do this.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Okay, Oh, we started, We're in it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We're already we're in the co it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, I have Michael on my longtime customers in the
chair right now. Okay, so I'm go go let him
hold the phone while I try to talk. Okay, I
hope you can hear me, be Han clear on your end.
It's a little bit soft.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, I'll try to talk a little louder here. Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
My first question is I looked at the picture of
the sign you put up, and you got a tractor
back behind it that says Minneapolis Moline and they haven't
made that brand since nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm wondering what the history of that tractor is.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The tractor is that's actually a calendar from First National Bank.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh okay, I love tractors.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I love farm working farmers and all of that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I work here in Smithville for twelve years and majority
of my business is all farmers and all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
This hard working Americans.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
All right, Larry, I'm going to ask you a question
that is intended to stump you. So if you don't
know it, it's not a bad thing. But if you
do know it, then you're a superstar with tractor knowledge.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
The brand of that.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Tractor, Minneapolis molein MM, was established by the merger of
three companies that come together do you know what they were? No, sir,
it was Minneapolis Steeling Machinery, Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company, and
the Moleine implement Company.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Does that jar your memory?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh yeah a little bit, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Okay, somewhere out there there's an old farmer that can't
believe that that was just discussed on the air.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
How come you to give up? How come you to
do free buzz cuts for the kids?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, because I want to get back to the community
of Smithville. You know, they've been so kind to me.
I've been in out. I'm not born and raised in Smithville.
I was born in Austin, And you know, everything I
can do to help out the community that adopted me,
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why not? So it's not I don't just stop with
free buzz cuts for kids. I also go to the
Volunteer Fire Department. I've been going for ten years and
giving money and donations to the volunteer Fire Department. I
also like to go to the school in Smithfield and
do haircuts for kids going back to school. I even
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thought about later maybe doing for the guy that is
trying to get a job and he ain't really got
much money to do a free haircut for someone that's
working to trying to get a job. You know my
barber's story, you know it has lots of ups and downs,
a lot of court screws. It's like it's you know,
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I've been been a barber my entire life. When the
barber's school when I was fourteen years old. I got
my barber's license at sixteen, And like Forrest Gump one
said in his movie, you know, life is like a
box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get.
So I never forget, ever, Have I ever forgotten where
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I came from. I've had a lot of hard times,
a lot of hard struggles, so that encourages me. That
puts the fire under my feet to constantly always thinking
about others and how I can give that. What's good
about being a barber is you become a jack of
all trades and a master of none. One day I'm
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in here talking to a guy's struggling with drug addiction.
Another time I'm here talking with a kid that's been abused.
Another time I'm in here talking to one of my
church customers and talking about God, and we just talked
about everything. One thing I've learned in a small town
like Vegas, whatever I say in the barber's out kind
of stays in the barber saw. You don't know who
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somebody's related to. We have less than five thousand people here.
When I first would be here in town, I didn't
know anybody.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Twelve years later.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I can't even stand outside without people hanking their horn,
driving by yellowing out the window. I'll be in at
lunch to get a haircut, and I'll see you tomorrow, Larry.
And that's what I really love my job, when I
can help somebody else out that struggled, because I have
a whole barber story about struggles from where I came from.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
All Right, I want to hear that in the next segment.
So here, here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
We got two minutes left in this segment, and then
we got a couple minute break and then we'll come back,
and I want you to tell that story. Why don't
you go ahead and start with the buzzers and we'll
just listen in while you're doing the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You're using the buzzer on him.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, I'm going to hand him the phone and it's
gonna work.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yeah, we just listen to hear you what the buzzer going.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's okay, we'll be able to here. You go ahead.
I like the hum of the buzzer.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I got yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I like the.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Found the money right there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well I did do the math four hundred times forty.
Here we go, let's see what we got.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I really like to see a little refrigerator in there,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You can even do those little drinks, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I like those little drinks, Just some diet cokes and cokes,
some Doctor peppers and then some.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Throwbacks to you know. I bet people would bring a
six pack of you know, old knee high and and tab.
I bet somebody bring some tab.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I used to have coffee in the morning for my customers.
The farmers wanted coffee. Then I wound up a half
a pot of coffee away. Then they asked me to
get donuts, and then I grabbed donuts on Saturday mornings,
have donuts with customers and kids and stuff. Yeah, then
I wind up taking them home and looking like a
donut myself.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, well, take us to break.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
We got just a few seconds before we go to break,
and then we'll have a quick break and then we'll
hear your your barber story.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
But let's hear the buzzers.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Okay, here the barber story.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, I mean that's very distinctive. I'll sit there having covers, I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Cut and then they got around.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Activate the Michael Berry Show. I think you'll love this story.
There's a guy in Smithville.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Who is doing free buzz cuts for the kids to
start the summer. So they got a summer haircut and
then a but and then he does it again when
they start to school in the fall, and he does
it free for the kids. And I thought that was
the coolest thing ever. And uh, Larry the barber is
our is our guest.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You got him? Okay, Larry, you're gonna tell you your
barber story. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I'm want to tell my barbers story. And let
me cast my customer out. And I got another customer.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
How much is his? How much does his cost?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
His cost?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Twenty five dollars? Okay, regular haircuts here there's barbershop Smithfield
are twenty five dollars, and for seniors and veterans, I
also get veterans of discount for twenty bucks and kids
under twelve are sixteen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Dollars, but they get a free bus cut to start
the summer. Huh, but they get a free bus cut
to start the summer.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yes, yes, yes, most definitely. I'm going to do a
free bus cuts for kids twelve and younger for the summer,
and I'm going to love every minute of it. I
did my very first buzz cut on my brother when
I was six years old. I had to stand in
my dad's barbershop and stand on a milk carton to
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cut his hair, and I laugh and giggle. My dad said,
why are you laughing, Larry? When you're done with brother,
brother gets to buzz your hair.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I love it all right, So tell your story.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
My story starts back in nineteen eighty five. I was
fourteen years old, and I got out of high school
at eleven forty five, and I went to barber's school.
So I want to give a big shout out to
Roffler's School of Hair Design on Burnett Road. And my
barber instructor was Ron Brown's. He became my lap whole life,
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dad kind of speak. So fourteen years old, the only
one close to my age was a boy or girl,
probably not nineteen years old. So I went to barber
school and then I got my barber's license at sixteen
years old, and then I went on my journey being
a barber. And my stepdad that raised me. He had
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a problem with alcohol and he was very abusive to
me and my brother, my stepmom. So I had to
deal with that, and then that led.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Me into becoming a drug addict.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I went through that in my life about twenty years.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I've lost my kid.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I became homeless on the streets of Austin, sleeping under bridge.
Horrible time in my life, but I kept moving forward.
You know, I'll never forget where I came from. I
kept moving forward. I knew one of these days that
barbaring was going to take me where I'm at today.
But I had to go through the fights and the
struggles and the pains and tears.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And all of that. And so I was.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
A ranch hand for about two years. And then one
of my friends from a recovery center says, my dad
left me one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. I want
to give you five thousand dollars to open up a
barber shop. And if you go back on drugs, you know,
you're just pretty dumb. So I said I'm done.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
With drugs.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I want to straighten my life out. I put drugs
down one twelve and now I'm fixing the come up
on a birthday, fourteen years cleaning sober. I give all
the credit to Jesus Christ, Thank you God. And so
then my friend gave me the money, and then I
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bought me a soccer's mom van. I know it's a
soccer mom's van because I had all them little stick
people in the back. And there went twenty five and
I still don't have a barber shop. Then I went
over the other twenty five down to sixteen hundred, and
my buddy on Gardener, which has passed now in seventeen,
he said, are you going to open up a barber
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shop or not? Are you going to work for free
to rest your life on that ranch? For a room
and board. I'm going to open up a barber shop,
but I don't know where to go. He said, come
come to Smithville and talk to my friend Bob Parker.
So I talked to Bob Parker and he said rent
was four twenty five a month and okay, and then
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I got two hundred dollars to pay for the turn
the lights and everything on. Okay, and I got to
get barber's supply and all this stuff. Okay, okay. And
then I said, you know, mister Parker, what if I
don't make it, then what Larry? You're a ranch hen
and you're working for free and bass Drop taking care
of eighteen horses and building fences. So I have a
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bar and that needs to be painted, okay, And if
you're short, then you just work it off, okay. And
then I said, I just don't know. You know, I
was barely a year clean and sober, some a little
sketchy at this time, and I don't know if I'm
gonna make it. Mister Parker. You know, well if I
crash and burn, well, at least she tried. He goes,
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shake my hand, Larry, Let's make it happen. So I
should mister Parker's hand. We made it happen. I put
my first sign out there February, the first.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Twenty and twelve. It was a cold booter that time.
I stand out.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Signed with a huge sign that says barbershop now open.
And my first customer come as a woman. Oh come on, god,
I'm just a regular barber shop, now the style shop.
And hang on, God said it might have a little
boy or husband or grandpa or something. She come into
sign has come in the shop and looked at the
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sign and said barber shop now open. I thought that
said bakery shop now open. Now it's a barber shop.
Then another week and another one saw this sign I
ain't holding out there outside and said he came in
and said barber shop now open. I thought that said
banner shop now open. I said, God, I am doomed.
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People in Smithfield cannot read.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But uh, you know I got my I made it.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
My first month, I did not have to touch a
paint brush. I thank God for that.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
A bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And uh, I paid my first month's rent for twenty
five I paid my youth tility bill.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I had one hundred dollars to my name.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So grateful, so grateful to have one hundred dollars. And
I started building my building blocks, and I remember where
I come from. So anybody struggling with drug addiction, homeless,
child abuse, it don't matter what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Larry the Barber's been there and done that.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I love love helping people out those areas. So I
paid my first month's rent, and then I made the
money to pay my next month, and here.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I am twelve years later.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I got married to my sweetheart is also a recovering attic.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
She's recovering from.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Heroin and she has two more.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Years clean time than me.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And her name is Jamie Simpson and she works across
the street from me at.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Seven to eleven.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
She's my rock, she's my everything, and she's a little
beauty thing. And I'm a big two hundred and thirty
pounds guy. And she keeps me straight and I chief
her straight. I've got my kid back. I bought me
a house, well got vehicle, and life is really good
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as long as I continue to do the next right thing.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
God bless you. Mary, nice life for you. Thank you,
and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Eric Church's speech is pop culture meets school bond. You
know he's a u University of North Carolina graduate. He
makes a joke about coach k you know they're big
rival at Duke, and about beating Duke, and you know
there's some of that.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You got to have that.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
But in the midst of all that, and then just
the overall cool vibe that Eric Church has given your speech,
there's some deeply profound messages buried and they're beautiful. The
next string he talks about, he goes through each string
in the in the guitar, encourage you. It's on YouTube,
It's on my Facebook page. You can find it anywhere.
Just look up Eric Church graduation speech. The next string
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is ambition and resilience.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The g string, that's what it's called. Sorry I didn't
name the damn thing. That's just what it is. String
drifts faster than the others on a guitar. I can
promise you that is true. I have dealt with it
my whole life. It's because ambition and resilience both live
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on this string and they pull in opposite direct directions.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I want you to want things. You should want things.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The world has more than enough people standing at the
edge of their own potential waiting for a permission slip
that was never going to arrive. Won't the thing? Say
it out loud, Build toward it with everything you have.
When you fail, and you will fail him in way
wrote it plainly right in the stern. The world breaks
everyone afterward, the best of us are stronger at the
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broken places. Get back up, tune the string, keep playing.
It's true. Resilience is everything.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I was talking to a show sponsor in Houston that
does credit card processing, and he was saying, as everyone
does me. The toughest part of people's business today is
getting employees who can do what you need them to do.
It's not even a question anymore of being able to
afford employees. There was a labor cost to value ratio
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out of whack a few years ago where it didn't
make sense to hire people, especially in hospitality, for the
rates they wanted. The COVID era and it was hard
to get people off the couch. Everybody was getting paid
stay home, and then a lot of people got used
to staying home and it became an option that they'd
never considered before. Now, all of a sudden, oh wait
(03:10):
a second, I can find a job where I get
up and not have to get dressed, not have to
put on a coat and tie. And all of a sudden,
the world changed. It changed in a way that it
hasn't gone back. And so people will tell me that
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their biggest challenge is finding someone, finding people to work
who can handle the job.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So I'm talking to the three brothers of Petrie. Brothers
own a company in Houston called Redstone credit card Processing,
Redstone Payment Systems, And I said, I always asked my
show's moond what's your biggest challenge?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And I say, well, finding good people? All right, what
can the people not do? And they said, well, when
we get a lead that comes in and we send
somebody out to pitch a deal, that'll we'll handle your
credit card processing. And here's here's how much it'll cost,
and here how much we'll save. A lot of people
don't want to change it that we may maybe we
can save the money, but they don't want to go
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somewhere different or.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Whatever the is.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But you know, you think about this, and in professional baseball,
if you fail seven out of ten times, you get
me in the Hall of Fame because you bat at
three hundred or better. But you get a guy that
fails half the time and you can't get them to
go back up and go back in the game. And
resilience is such an important life skill. It's amazing to
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me watching little league sports growing up, how many parents
never taught their kids how to lose with grace. The
team would lose, and the parents would be blaming the
ref and or the umpire and the coach and all that.
Who I got news for you. You're going to lose in life.
You're gonna lose a lot. No matter how good you are,
You're gonna lose a lot. And you better learn how
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to get back up. You better learn how to do
so with grace.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
As I've just put that on a Michael Barrison.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Michael Berry show.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Eric Church delivered the graduation speech at the University of
North Carolina. I listen to a lot of graduation speeches,
probably more than anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
That's not a flex it's just what I do. I
give a lot of speeches. I study speeches. I study structure,
study concept, delivery, all of it. I study ted talks,
I study sermons, I study stand up comics. And this
particular graduation speeches is the second most impactful to me
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that I've ever seen, and that includes the Admiral Admiral
McRaven speech that I think is phenomenal at the University
of Texas a few years ago. Lou Holtz is Lou Holtz.
The one by Lou Holtz I think is the best. Anyway,
I want to finish out speech. I got other things
I want to get to. But one of the things
he does is takes his guitar and goes through each
string and represents that represents each part of your life,
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and any one of them being out of tune ruins
a song. And the next one is community, which is
the B string.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The B string is about community.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Your generation faces a temptation no generation before has ever faced,
the temptation to perform for everyone and belong to no one,
to be globally visible and locally invisible, to have thousands
of followers and no one knows actually where you live.
Resist this plant yourself somewhere, put down roots with the
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full intention of growing there. Learn the actual names, not
user names, of the people around you. Volunteer, coach the team,
build the thing your community needs, even if the Internet
will never sit.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Generosity.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Generosity is not something you do after you make it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's how you make it.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And if you get lost, and at some point I
promise you will, you have a place you belong. Now
come back, walk through the quad on a fall day,
or sit on Franklin Street on a game day, and
remember these are my people because I am a tar hill.
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My last tour, My last tour took me forty two
thousand and one hundred and eighty five miles over North America,
and every single night, near and far, someone had on
a Carolina flag, a Carolina hat, or a Carolina jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You will find yourselves.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Speaking from experience, high fiving strangers wearing Carolina gear in
faraway airports, are staying up across time zones to catch
the moments last moments of a game. Are canceling a
show in Texas to be with your people in the
final four.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
As you vanquished. Coach k You're welcome.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And having the ultimate pride knowing that's the night my
boys learned. The Carolina fight song ends with go to
hell Duke.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You know what my thought is on that?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
When your university defines itself by criticizing another university.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's all I need to know. I always tell people.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Aggis Longhorns the whole thing. I don't have a dog
and hunt. My kids go to UT. I went to
University of Houston. I went to UT law School. You
know I'm good educationally, they're all good. But when we
see your team playing in a playoff game against another
team that is not the University of Texas and the
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sign for your school is the Longhorns of Texas turned
upside down, you're thinking about UT even when you're not
playing UT. I would reconsider that if it was me
when your school fight song says beat Duke. I don't
know what the school fight song at Duke is.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But if their school fight song doesn't include you, but
yours includes them, I'd start wondering if maybe I'm not
trying too hard, if I'm defining myself based on not
being them. Who am I? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
It's a fun moment. That's you know, school rivalries there,
they're silly but they're fun right. The next one is individuality. Finally,
the high ye string. This is the thinnest string.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
It's the highest note, the one that carries the melody,
that single line above the cord, that everyone in this
room recognizes and takes with them on the way home.
It's also the one bent most easily by outside pressure.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Social media is going to show you a thousand versions
of a life. Amen looks better than yours.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
The comparison will be relentless, curated and a lie dressed
up in really good lighting. Someone's comments, someone's criticism, someone's
cold opinion, is going to try to convince you to
retune yourself to match what they think you should sound like.
Do not let them touch your string. You were made uniquely, wonderfully, distinctly.
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They're there's a sound only you can make a voice
that has never existed before you and will need it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And then let me close with him, sticking the landing
the way Carrie strug did.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Six strings, six strings of life, and willingness to keep
them in tune, six principles, six pillars. When all six
are in tune with each other, the cordier life makes
is full and resonant and truth. All six will drift,
not one or two, all six and their own time,
in their own season. Your faith will go quiet when
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you need it loud. Your family will get complicated in
a way only the people who love you most can
complicate things. You will go through hard seasons with your spouse.
Your ambition will hollow out and your resilience will wear thin.
Your community will start to feel like an obligation, and
your world will try to sand down the edges of exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Who you are.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
This is not failure, This is not weakness. It's the
inevitable universe experience of living in an imperfect world that
doesn't stop to let us tune up, and the difference
between a life that sounds like music and a life
that sounds like noise. It's whether you stop and listen,
whether you're honest enough to hear which string has drifted
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out of tune, and humble enough to make the adjustment
instead of just turning up the volume and hoping nobody notices.
Because you will notice. The part of you that knows
what the chord should sound like will always notice. It
will not let you go. Life won't be right until
it is tuned. I trust what your heart hears and
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is telling you about your song.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
This is me, Michael Berry the show.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
This is a high out of my week right here
about to happen right now. I got an email from
a friend of mine named Kenny Allen. Kenny Allen hosts
a radio out in the country. He works at a
small business. He posts goofy, goofy, goofy ass videos of
himself with great old les Paul guitars.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He's got quite the collection.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He's got like ten dollars to his name, but he
uses all of it for interesting stuff. Sometimes he'll post
videos of himself on a riding lawnmower, pop and wheelies
that he's you know, took it to John Hennessy and
juiced it up, or maybe the guy that's some new
mayor of Magnolia. Anyway, he always sends me interesting stuff.
So he sends me a picture. He sends me a
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deal here and it said Czar, I figured you'd appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, it is real. I checked.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It was listed on the Lagrange page, but I think
the barbershop is actually in Fayetteville.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's a handmade sign. It's pink.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It's taped to the wall with blue painters tape and
it says free summer buzz cuts for kids under twelve
Larry's barber Shop, number one, two, three and four. I
guess that's the clipper length. And I called him and
I said, why'd you send me that? He said, because
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I knew you'd like it. What do you think I'd
like about it? That in twenty twenty six a dude
is given free haircuts to the kids for summer A
and B that he's given buzz cuts, And I said,
you're right, I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So we've tracked him down. He didn't want to do
the interview today.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
He said he could do it one day next week,
he could take some time off, and we said, no, no, no, no, no,
we want to talk to you while you're cutting hair.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So we're making a very rare.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Variance of issue to variance for him to do the
interview on speakerphone because he's cutting hair during that time.
Larry the Barber, Yes, sir, okay, Well, first of all,
I think it's real cool that you do this.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Okay, Oh, we started, We're in it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We're already we're in the co it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, I have Michael on my longtime customers in the
chair right now. Okay, so I'm go go let him
hold the phone while I try to talk. Okay, I
hope you can hear me, be Han clear on your end.
It's a little bit soft.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, I'll try to talk a little louder here. Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
My first question is I looked at the picture of
the sign you put up, and you got a tractor
back behind it that says Minneapolis Moline and they haven't
made that brand since nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm wondering what the history of that tractor is.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The tractor is that's actually a calendar from First National Bank.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh okay, I love tractors.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I love farm working farmers and all of that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I work here in Smithville for twelve years and majority
of my business is all farmers and all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
This hard working Americans.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
All right, Larry, I'm going to ask you a question
that is intended to stump you. So if you don't
know it, it's not a bad thing. But if you
do know it, then you're a superstar with tractor knowledge.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
The brand of that.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Tractor, Minneapolis molein MM, was established by the merger of
three companies that come together do you know what they were? No, sir,
it was Minneapolis Steeling Machinery, Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company, and
the Moleine implement Company.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Does that jar your memory?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh yeah a little bit, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Okay, somewhere out there there's an old farmer that can't
believe that that was just discussed on the air.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
How come you to give up? How come you to
do free buzz cuts for the kids?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, because I want to get back to the community
of Smithville. You know, they've been so kind to me.
I've been in out. I'm not born and raised in Smithville.
I was born in Austin, And you know, everything I
can do to help out the community that adopted me,
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why not? So it's not I don't just stop with
free buzz cuts for kids. I also go to the
Volunteer Fire Department. I've been going for ten years and
giving money and donations to the volunteer Fire Department. I
also like to go to the school in Smithfield and
do haircuts for kids going back to school. I even
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thought about later maybe doing for the guy that is
trying to get a job and he ain't really got
much money to do a free haircut for someone that's
working to trying to get a job. You know my
barber's story, you know it has lots of ups and downs,
a lot of court screws. It's like it's you know,
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I've been been a barber my entire life. When the
barber's school when I was fourteen years old. I got
my barber's license at sixteen, And like Forrest Gump one
said in his movie, you know, life is like a
box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get.
So I never forget, ever, Have I ever forgotten where
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I came from. I've had a lot of hard times,
a lot of hard struggles, so that encourages me. That
puts the fire under my feet to constantly always thinking
about others and how I can give that. What's good
about being a barber is you become a jack of
all trades and a master of none. One day I'm
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in here talking to a guy's struggling with drug addiction.
Another time I'm here talking with a kid that's been abused.
Another time I'm in here talking to one of my
church customers and talking about God, and we just talked
about everything. One thing I've learned in a small town
like Vegas, whatever I say in the barber's out kind
of stays in the barber saw. You don't know who
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somebody's related to. We have less than five thousand people here.
When I first would be here in town, I didn't
know anybody.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Twelve years later.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I can't even stand outside without people hanking their horn,
driving by yellowing out the window. I'll be in at
lunch to get a haircut, and I'll see you tomorrow, Larry.
And that's what I really love my job, when I
can help somebody else out that struggled, because I have
a whole barber story about struggles from where I came from.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
All Right, I want to hear that in the next segment.
So here, here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
We got two minutes left in this segment, and then
we got a couple minute break and then we'll come back,
and I want you to tell that story. Why don't
you go ahead and start with the buzzers and we'll
just listen in while you're doing the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You're using the buzzer on him.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, I'm going to hand him the phone and it's
gonna work.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yeah, we just listen to hear you what the buzzer going.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's okay, we'll be able to here. You go ahead.
I like the hum of the buzzer.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I got yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I like the.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Found the money right there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well I did do the math four hundred times forty.
Here we go, let's see what we got.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I really like to see a little refrigerator in there,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You can even do those little drinks, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I like those little drinks, Just some diet cokes and cokes,
some Doctor peppers and then some.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Throwbacks to you know. I bet people would bring a
six pack of you know, old knee high and and tab.
I bet somebody bring some tab.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I used to have coffee in the morning for my customers.
The farmers wanted coffee. Then I wound up a half
a pot of coffee away. Then they asked me to
get donuts, and then I grabbed donuts on Saturday mornings,
have donuts with customers and kids and stuff. Yeah, then
I wind up taking them home and looking like a
donut myself.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, well, take us to break.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
We got just a few seconds before we go to break,
and then we'll have a quick break and then we'll
hear your your barber story.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
But let's hear the buzzers.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Okay, here the barber story.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, I mean that's very distinctive. I'll sit there having covers, I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Cut and then they got around.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Activate the Michael Berry Show. I think you'll love this story.
There's a guy in Smithville.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Who is doing free buzz cuts for the kids to
start the summer. So they got a summer haircut and
then a but and then he does it again when
they start to school in the fall, and he does
it free for the kids. And I thought that was
the coolest thing ever. And uh, Larry the barber is
our is our guest.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You got him? Okay, Larry, you're gonna tell you your
barber story. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, I'm want to tell my barbers story. And let
me cast my customer out. And I got another customer.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
How much is his? How much does his cost?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
His cost?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Twenty five dollars? Okay, regular haircuts here there's barbershop Smithfield
are twenty five dollars, and for seniors and veterans, I
also get veterans of discount for twenty bucks and kids
under twelve are sixteen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Dollars, but they get a free bus cut to start
the summer. Huh, but they get a free bus cut
to start the summer.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yes, yes, yes, most definitely. I'm going to do a
free bus cuts for kids twelve and younger for the summer,
and I'm going to love every minute of it. I
did my very first buzz cut on my brother when
I was six years old. I had to stand in
my dad's barbershop and stand on a milk carton to
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cut his hair, and I laugh and giggle. My dad said,
why are you laughing, Larry? When you're done with brother,
brother gets to buzz your hair.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I love it all right, So tell your story.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
My story starts back in nineteen eighty five. I was
fourteen years old, and I got out of high school
at eleven forty five, and I went to barber's school.
So I want to give a big shout out to
Roffler's School of Hair Design on Burnett Road. And my
barber instructor was Ron Brown's. He became my lap whole life,
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dad kind of speak. So fourteen years old, the only
one close to my age was a boy or girl,
probably not nineteen years old. So I went to barber
school and then I got my barber's license at sixteen
years old, and then I went on my journey being
a barber. And my stepdad that raised me. He had
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a problem with alcohol and he was very abusive to
me and my brother, my stepmom. So I had to
deal with that, and then that led.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Me into becoming a drug addict.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I went through that in my life about twenty years.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I've lost my kid.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I became homeless on the streets of Austin, sleeping under bridge.
Horrible time in my life, but I kept moving forward.
You know, I'll never forget where I came from. I
kept moving forward. I knew one of these days that
barbaring was going to take me where I'm at today.
But I had to go through the fights and the
struggles and the pains and tears.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And all of that. And so I was.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
A ranch hand for about two years. And then one
of my friends from a recovery center says, my dad
left me one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. I want
to give you five thousand dollars to open up a
barber shop. And if you go back on drugs, you know,
you're just pretty dumb. So I said I'm done.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
With drugs.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I want to straighten my life out. I put drugs
down one twelve and now I'm fixing the come up
on a birthday, fourteen years cleaning sober. I give all
the credit to Jesus Christ, Thank you God. And so
then my friend gave me the money, and then I
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bought me a soccer's mom van. I know it's a
soccer mom's van because I had all them little stick
people in the back. And there went twenty five and
I still don't have a barber shop. Then I went
over the other twenty five down to sixteen hundred, and
my buddy on Gardener, which has passed now in seventeen,
he said, are you going to open up a barber
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shop or not? Are you going to work for free
to rest your life on that ranch? For a room
and board. I'm going to open up a barber shop,
but I don't know where to go. He said, come
come to Smithville and talk to my friend Bob Parker.
So I talked to Bob Parker and he said rent
was four twenty five a month and okay, and then
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I got two hundred dollars to pay for the turn
the lights and everything on. Okay, and I got to
get barber's supply and all this stuff. Okay, okay. And
then I said, you know, mister Parker, what if I
don't make it, then what Larry? You're a ranch hen
and you're working for free and bass Drop taking care
of eighteen horses and building fences. So I have a
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bar and that needs to be painted, okay, And if
you're short, then you just work it off, okay. And
then I said, I just don't know. You know, I
was barely a year clean and sober, some a little
sketchy at this time, and I don't know if I'm
gonna make it. Mister Parker. You know, well if I
crash and burn, well, at least she tried. He goes,
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shake my hand, Larry, Let's make it happen. So I
should mister Parker's hand. We made it happen. I put
my first sign out there February, the first.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Twenty and twelve. It was a cold booter that time.
I stand out.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Signed with a huge sign that says barbershop now open.
And my first customer come as a woman. Oh come on, god,
I'm just a regular barber shop, now the style shop.
And hang on, God said it might have a little
boy or husband or grandpa or something. She come into
sign has come in the shop and looked at the
(27:50):
sign and said barber shop now open. I thought that
said bakery shop now open. Now it's a barber shop.
Then another week and another one saw this sign I
ain't holding out there outside and said he came in
and said barber shop now open. I thought that said
banner shop now open. I said, God, I am doomed.
(28:12):
People in Smithfield cannot read.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But uh, you know I got my I made it.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
My first month, I did not have to touch a
paint brush. I thank God for that.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
A bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And uh, I paid my first month's rent for twenty
five I paid my youth tility bill.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I had one hundred dollars to my name.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So grateful, so grateful to have one hundred dollars. And
I started building my building blocks, and I remember where
I come from. So anybody struggling with drug addiction, homeless,
child abuse, it don't matter what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Larry the Barber's been there and done that.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I love love helping people out those areas. So I
paid my first month's rent, and then I made the
money to pay my next month, and here.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I am twelve years later.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I got married to my sweetheart is also a recovering attic.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
She's recovering from.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Heroin and she has two more.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Years clean time than me.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And her name is Jamie Simpson and she works across
the street from me at.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Seven to eleven.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
She's my rock, she's my everything, and she's a little
beauty thing. And I'm a big two hundred and thirty
pounds guy. And she keeps me straight and I chief
her straight. I've got my kid back. I bought me
a house, well got vehicle, and life is really good
(29:53):
as long as I continue to do the next right thing.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
God bless you. Mary, nice life for you. Thank you,
and good night.
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