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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Steve Austin astronaut, a man barely alive, gentlemen, we can
rebuild him.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We have the technology, we have.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
The capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve
Austin will be that man, better than he was before, better, stronger, fast.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's been fun, lots of laughs, Jamie. It always is
when friends meet again, a.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Cause the films that dast.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
You can always see the less in the ladies.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
You can always tell the death runs in the way
a woman speaks the ladies, Jose, let's carefully the other's
just talk to you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Lee Majors, Hollywood superstar, Lee Majors, Lee Majors, Lee Majors.
He was Heath Barkley, Steve Austin and Colt Seavers. It's
Lee Majors. As I told you yesterday, I was going
to be speaking to Lee Majors this morning, and I did.
Here's our conversation. A six million dollar man. Lee Majors
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is our guest. Welcome to the program, Sir.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well Sir Michael introduction. I'm feeld honored there. I thought, Wow,
what the heck is going on.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well this this was a group project.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I got to tell you so Chad Nakanishi, our executive director,
Ramon Roebliss who you know, and Jim mud more or less. Yeah,
everybody was arguing over who got to do the Lee
Majors intro because that meant we could go back through
the body of work of stories on you. In fact,
there was a news clip of you I think it
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was nineteen eighty four and the Los Angeles Express I
can't remember the name of the football team that you
Oh yeah, La Express, And there was a whole clip
on that. But we Jim couldn't figure out how to
reduce it down so that we could add it to
the thing. But I mean, people forget all the cool
stuff you've done, all right, So you mentioned that this
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guy or you consented when I asked you about that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I just don't start on that. Let's don't get on
that real quick. Oh okay, let's visit for a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You got a whold of don't rush me. Yeah, I'm sorry.
I was trying to let it, let it breathe like
a fine wine. But Ramon was excited.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I said, go, you know, you got a light first.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
So what are you doing today? Tell me what is
on the right now?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Let me tell you, uh, you know, I want to
talk about our fire, our snow. Actually, isn't that wonderful
snow day we had?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
So like you from Colorado and you said, I said,
look at this beautiful snow, And you said, I'm sitting
in Houston and I got this snow.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
No what I said that I went to bed in
Houston and woke up in Colorado and yeah, you know what,
you know what, so here we go again. But you
know it didn't it wasn't like the last one we
had where we had it was frankling of snow and
it froze and we lost power for more people. By
that was over almost two weeks. And and then you
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know that one was a terrible one, and there you know,
it kept icing over, icing over. Anyway, this one was
so beautiful. It was what a snow day, and what
a beautiful Christmas. It seemed like a Christmas day that
the Lord gave us there. And I just was very
pressure to that. And you know what, it was gone
in a day and a half.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
About Lias, if I remember correctly, and I didn't look
it up. I think you were raised in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But I will. And if we saw snow out the window, Mommy, mommy,
I want to go.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Go exactly. You remember, I was raised in Orange, Texas,
on the Louisiana born. We didn't have snow. So so
for us, if we in my life as a kid,
in my entire childhood, if we had had the snow
that we had here last week, I would have lost
my mind. It would have been so exciting. Yeah, you
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weren't here, right, Uh, yes, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You were in Astida right. Well, you know what, it
was just so beautiful. I knew it said something was coming,
but I didn't think it. You know. I woke up
the next morning and I looked out the window, and
my god, what a beautiful view.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
My wife said, we're going to have some stringes. Yeah,
she said, we're gonna have six inches of snow. And
this was like on Thursday, and it was going to
happen on Sunday or Monday. And I said, sweetheart, I've
lived in this part of Texas my entire life, and
they promise us that every year, and it's nothing but disappointment.
We're not going to have snow, and lo and behold,
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what did we have but glorious for this part of
the world. Glorious snow.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, you know, Wstonians just don't pray enough.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Right for what year did you come to Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
About thirteen years ago? Twenty twelve? Well, twenty eleven is
when I looked around and you had one hundred straight
days over one hundred degrees over. It was hot, and
you still can and I still came. I closed on
a place here in twenty twelve, and then you know,
I said, hey, it can get hot, but heck, it's
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not the burning hot like you get you know in
an Arizona or up in Nevada, you know, in Las
Vegas or somewhere like that, where it just you can't
touch a door handle. Anyway, Now we can get on
a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yes, I'm up abas you break in about a minute.
I don't have to interrupt you. Let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, no, you can interrupt.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Well, I'll have to interrupt to go to break. But
let me ask you, since we're on the subject thirteen
years into it, what are your Obviously you could live
anywhere you want and have lived all over the world.
What do you like about living in Houston. Why do
you stay here?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, first of all, it's the people. I mean, the
hospitality here. It's these wonderful people here, and everybody's friendly.
Nobody bothers you, you know, except if you're going the
wrong areas. But I just love it. I had a
great friend here named Charlie Thomas before I moved here.
He had the Houston Rockets and he's a great friend.
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He got me here. He kept saying, come to Houston
because I was going to go back to Florida. And anyway,
that's how I got here.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
And we are glad you were here. Ramon, you know who.
Charlie Thomas was passed away a couple of years ago,
but Charlie Thomas was a legend in me on.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The Houston Rockets there. I'm in one of the biggest
car dealers in the country and.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I never got invited to the ranch, but I always
wanted to. But my understanding is that he and you
held forth or some EPICU poker games at his ranch.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No. Actually it was a little dice game which was
very simple, and we had ten or twelve people come
up there and have a big dinner and the moall
guys and then we said out and do this game
around the table, and it was just so much fun.
You know. He had he had a beautiful place there,
and he had his house of course, he had a
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little munkhouse, and he had a saloon that was as
big as the one they had over in Brennan or
Brenham were over somewhere and ain't copy it. It was
like he'd have over one hundred people up there every
year from the locals and all his friends. And you
have a big pequet, and I know I got to go.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Now hold on this moment, Lee Majors is our guess.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Thiszar is on. Well done. So this is the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Lee Majors is our guest. I told folks you would
be on the show and to feel free to send
me a message. And this was one of many from
Jim Adare. I received a very special birthday gift last August.
It was a video message from Lee Majors wishing me
a happy birthday. We have a mutual friend and I
told her I would love to say hello to him
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one day because I was such a big fan. And
this guy got Lee to do this for me. And
my wife played the video message to me Emma on
my birthday and don't think less of me, or don't
think I'm less a man, or think less of me.
But I have to admit I teared up imagining that
he took the time to do that. How nice is that?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Are you talking to me?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, that story was about you. You didn't send me
a video message on my birthday?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, I do a lot of those.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
That's nice. What's the point of having celebrity if you're
not going to share it with people like that? That's
you're putting it to good use.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, no, I understand that, And that's the mcke is.
Just be nice to people. Of course, be nice to
people on the way up because you you might not
see them on the way down.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, let's talk about that, because most people are supposed
to have this twilight period where they're forgotten about and
then you know, their name pops up and we go, oh,
whatever happened to that guy? You're eighty five and you
are maybe you don't.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, just there, that's correct you. No, No,
I'm fifty eight, fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I'm sorry. You know what I got? Dyslexia?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, no, Biden had dyslexia. Turned. I turned it around
because this sounds better.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
You weren't supposed to tell that I was doing the
show from Aspen, because people didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
You outed, Well, okay, so let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I think this is well, you were only there a
couple of days out of yourself. I was in Aspen.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yes, let's talk about this exhibit in California because this
is cool.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, all right, Well, well, first of all, you know,
I've had I had a daughter out there, you know,
all the fires that are going on, and she's in there.
She has like, you know, four kids and three dogs,
and she who was in the Palisades and they had
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to evacuate. And of course you saw what happened in
the Palisades, but it almost burned everything out of Pallisades.
But you know what I see. After she exactuated, she said,
I think it's it's gone, dad, you know, And I said, well,
I'm praying to God that he made a miracle and
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it will still be standing.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well, she got a chance later a couple of days
later to go in with a fire patrol, her and
her husband, and I believe it or not, it was
still standing. And what do you say to that. You know,
it was a lot of mess, you know, but you know,
the smoke mess and stuff like that, but at least
the structure was still there, you know. And it just
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amazes me. When you do a good prayer, miracles do happen.
My friend. Anyway, I've been I've been praying for another
friend named Terry Kaiser. I don't know if you.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Can remember him.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, he uh, he was Bernie in weekend at Bernie's.
He was a leader at the Star of two Weekend
at Bernie Movies. And he was a fabulous in that
and he isn't known for that for many many years.
And he's the same age as me, he is eighty five.
And he was away and he had a phone call
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that his house was on fire. And I don't know
where he was, but by the time he was a
get there, he didn't burn to the ground. And it
was a place that he lived in there in Colorado
and in the ridgeway. It was his little town and
near Urray and across over the mountain there was you know,
all the snow ski resorts and stuff, but this was
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just out in the country kind of thing. That's all
he had. And I said, well, what do you need?
He said, where you got? He said, well, I got
two pair of socks, three pair three T shirts, maybe
four pair of underwear, and my golfuse. I went to
bed and I I woke up at three in the morning.
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I couldn't take it. So I went in and grabbed
a bag and I to underwear, socks, T shirts, heavy,
some more heavy stuff and me and anything I could
put in there. And I got a ship to him
within two days and said, oh my god, thanks, I
got something. And then I did another box much later.
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But he's doing well. He's staying at a place and
they're going to rebuild his insurance Coty. They got to
hit fire insurance. So anyway, moving on the Palisade fire
and all those signed Altadena and Abassady everywhere, there was
fires all over the place. I'd never heard of anything,
seen anything like that. I mean, I mean, those people have,
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like I say, they don't pray enough, and they it
just happened. It just happened. And my daughter was in
the middle. But I remember, and I said her, I said,
but I'm thinking, here's the story on this banana deal. Okay,
you heard the guy that the guy that sold a
(14:05):
banana for six million dollars. Uh. Anyway, Uh, he has
a gallery out there. Well he sold here to a
crypto entrepreneur and uh, and he's he's in his studio.
The gallery is in the Venetian resort. And so I
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guess this crypto guy came in there and and he
bought it. And then I heard not long ago he
ate it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
He invited the press to come watch him.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He Peter doll banana.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, and actually in front of him. I mean, but
here's the thing we're talking about it. So he spent
six million dollars advertising for everybody to know he's got
a crypto fund, and he probably made six sixty million
dollars off of the publicity because the end of the day,
it's all about the publicity. I'm filibustering you because I
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want you to tell the story. And we were about
we're up against a break, so I wanted you to
have a full segment to tell it. So hang with me. First,
Steve Austin, Heath Barkley, Colt Seavers and however else you know,
the great Lee Majors, he's our guests. More with him.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Enough, lucky you, the Michael Ferry show continues.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
The multi talented originally trained as a theater actor, as
all the greats are, Lee Majors is our guest.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
My friend Rick Doak, who's a farm and ranch realtor,
lives in Chapel Hill, but he sells a lot of properties.
His partner sold Charlie Thomas's ranch and he sent me
the listing. If you have thirty seconds, I'll read it
to you. Welcome, Welcome to Twin Oaks Ranch. This ranch
is offered for the first time and has so much
to offer for every buyer. The iconic ranch has been
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published in the Wall Street Journals, The Chronicle and many
others as it has made the list for its beauty,
location and amenities it offers. This was the family ranch
of a legendary man, Charlie Thomas and his wife Kitsey.
They created a retreat as well as a place for recreation.
It was also a place to call home to their
infamous collection of antique cars. Once you arrive and drive
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through the gated entrance, you will be amazed what lies
beyond enough space to describe this ranch in one paragraph,
you must see for yourself from the custom green Hall.
That's what you're talking about replica that they took it
from New Bronfels, the Green Hall Replica movie theater, Grand
Prix go kart track, to several large climate controlled industrial buildings,
the main home, guests homes, covered arenas, sketball court, an
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almost six acre rated lake with fishing cabin. If you
have an imagination, this property can take you there. They
should have said, this is where Lee Majors used to
hang out.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well, I only hung out there mainly for fishing that
little bitty lake head.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Yeah, and the picture. You know what's funny of all
the glorious things at that property, the picture they chose
is that is that antique little cottage cabin on the
lake with the little dock out in front of it,
which is where.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You would have Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
No, it's just a little bitty, small little places and
it's not you couldn't spend the night there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It looks like you've gone out to Walden to meet
Henry David Thureaux. It's just glorious.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah. Picture, Well, i'd love to have a copy of
that if you'll send it to that up for me.
It's great and I was so good. You can put
that other thing you put together there for me, I
would be hones. I haven't heard those songs in one
hundred years. You know.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You said that when you came in last time, and.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I know we're going to do it, but you never
did it, and I it.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Was me, It was Jim Mudd. And all he does
is tell us what a big fan of Lee Majors
he is. And then you give him a task and
he didn't do it. Fired save us a lot of money.
So tell me, yeah, well, uh we got it. You
know what, we got to trim the crowd here, we
gotta we got to reduce payroll. You know, it's tough times. Hey,
By the way, you are so relevant, uh Donald Trump.
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You know who Jim Acosta was. He was the one
at uh uh CNN who was always yelling at Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, so he was.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Yeah, well he's just got fired. He's calling it being
laid up. So Trump, the President tweets, wow, really good news.
Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters
in journalistic history, a major sleeves bag, has been relegated
by CNN fake News to the Midnight Hour Death Valley.
He put that in quotes because of extraordinarily bad ratings
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and no talent. Word is that he wants to quit,
and that would be even better. Jim is a major
loser who will fail no matter where he ends up.
Good luck, Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Wonderful story.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah yeah, how about Hey, how about the Death Valley reference?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
All right, so tell about it. I didn't want to
have to interrupt you in the middle of the story.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Tell the story about what's going on in Hollywood, the
Hollywood Museum, because I think this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, no, this is going to be Let me tell
you the guy this is not the same guy that
sold the other banana. This is a guy who has
an amazing and it's called an like an an amazing
gallery and it's in the Grand Canal shops at the
Venetian Resort in Vegas. Okay, he put a playful twist
on this Virol phenomenon, and they just unveiled a new
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piece that features a vantage. I say, nineteen seventy three Kenner,
a six million dollar man action figure holding an acrylic
banana which is taped to a piece of white foam
board and then measuring eighteen inches my thirteen inches and anyway,
it's turning his up there and it's going to go
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to auction. I don't know exactly where i'd been coming
up very quick. Hey, the other one was it? So
I think somebody said this was a Christis anyway, let
me get it down to you what the reason is.
I got contacted by him, and he wondered. He told
me about it, and he wondered if I would fly
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up and he'd fly me there and put me up
and to sign when I sign it in his studio,
and I thought, well, you know, I don't do stuff
like that. I really don't like to do that stuff.
But anyway, that's you know. Then the fire happened and
he called me back after he said have you thought
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it over? And I said, yeah, you know what, I'll
do that, but you got to guarantee a portion of
the the prophets, so whatever the amount of it is,
to go to the American Red Cross in the Palisades,
you know, in that area, to help help people there.
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So that's so I'm doing that, and I'm flying out
of here on Thursday, and I'm going to be there
on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
How long will it be at the Venetian.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't know. Well, he'll probably leave it on for
a while after. You know, he just kind of unveiled
in so that people will come and see it and everything,
and then he put it on the auction.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I don't know, are you a plan of the Eagles?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Sure? I remember I haven't had a dinner once. Oh
what's the lead Saursday? Yeah, Don Henley, Don Henley.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
You've had dinner with everybody?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh no, no, come on, well a lot of people.
But let me tell you. You know, I hate the
title of that series that they gave The six million
Dollar Man, because you know, people are that said. I'll
never get away from that title, you know, and and
you know, people think I made a lot of money
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on that show. We're talking way back, you know, in
the seventies. The big value was in the sixties, and
didn't I didn't get a penny from that. And it's
run reruns every day, but I don't get anything from that.
And because there were no residuals back then, and you know,
everything else was under a contractor universal and the deals
weren't very big. So you know, people, oh, read the
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six million Dollar Man every time I hear in a
carange because I'm not the sixty dollar man you think,
you know. So, I'm still doing old comic cons here
and there that kind of pay the bills.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
And anyway, I've never been to comic con, but I
am told by my friend Ken Webster, who does go
and who is one of these. I mean, he's really
really into it and he says that amazingly but not surprisingly,
you are one of the top draws to this day.
People love you at that event.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
No, no, you know who's the top draw or less.
It's Weave Patten, my buddy, my friend.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I would believe that. I would believe that.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, you know they so some of us say
so some of the stuff, you know, like I can't
remember what all his figures were, but you know, you
had a lot of memorabilia stuff, but actually stuff that
they used in the show.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
And that's because Shatner has what you have and very
few people have, which is, no matter what you do,
it's cool and cool is not something you can you
can create or build or buy it. You just are
or you're not. Lead majors. I love you to death.
Thanks for being our guests.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Speakers.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Smart devices.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
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So I have a story for you in this our
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Speaker 2 (27:40):
You know, used to.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
People will say that I'm in the radio business. Not
in the radio business. I'm in the entertainment business. And
other people will say, oh, I think that cheapens what
you do.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Rush was in the entertainment business. There are a lot
of people screaming into the microphone, and that's not very
entertaining in the sense that it's enjoyable, but it is
entertaining in the sense that some people like that. I mean,
there's been talk show hosts, and you know who they are,
most aren't around anymore. Who all they do is is
what I call angry white man radio. They just screamed,
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there's mad at everybody all day long. I life's too short.
I got enough things to worry about that I don't
need to turn it on. And here's some guys scream
and holler and be mad all the time. Rush was
able to lay out what was going on and explain
makes sense of the crazy things that were going on
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in the world, but do it in a way that
didn't make you want to take your own life or
drown yourself in a bottle. He did it in such
a way that we could learn to laugh at things
around us that we don't like. And many people never
grasp this. This life lesson and hear me out. When
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you can laugh at something, you own what you laugh at.
When something makes you angry, that thing, person, idea, concept,
action owns you. Many people will never get that. They'll
argue with me, well, I'm never going to be happy
about the point at which you learn to laugh at
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it is the point at which you exercise dominion over it.
When you tell me that this person comes on TV
and you get so mad that you have to turn
the TV and walk outside and yell at your dog
and kick your cat, that is the moment that you
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have lost perspective and control over it. And I'll tell
you this, if you want to make a liberal mad,
you can argue with them, you can insult them, But
when you laugh at them, that's when they'll start swinging.
That's when they grow angry. Because the one thing the
left cannot do is laugh at themselves. They are which
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is one of the worst insults you can ever hurl.
They are humorless. I often say, if you have no sight,
you are blind. That's a sense that you do not possess.
If you have no hearing, you are deaf. It's a
sense that you lack. You cannot speak, you are dumb.
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We don't use the term dumb anymore, but that's where
what it meant meant you were mute because you lack
that sense. You lack that well. If you do not
see humor where it naturally exists, it's fertile ground. For it,
and you are humorless. The left is humorless. And the
unfortunate thing is many people on our side of the
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aisle have become equally humorless and powerless are so they
believe to not be humorless. The moment you tell me
but Michael, I can't laugh at Joe Biden because he
ruined this country. The moment you laugh is the moment
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you can deal with it. And if I can't get
that through to you, if you cannot understand that, if
you really give it some thought and you cannot understand it,
then I'm going to keep trying because that was Russia's goal,
and that's why I brought Rush up. A great leader
of a movement uses humor. That's why people underestimate the
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influence of stand up comics. They're very powerful. Kat Williams
can make some incredibly deep points while making you laugh.
A lot of a lot of the great comics that
you know had social Unfortunately most of them were liberals,
but they were very influential. By making people laugh, you're
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God willing,
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
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a woman speaks the ladies, Jose, let's carefully the other's
just talk to you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Lee Majors, Hollywood superstar, Lee Majors, Lee Majors, Lee Majors.
He was Heath Barkley, Steve Austin and Colt Seavers. It's
Lee Majors. As I told you yesterday, I was going
to be speaking to Lee Majors this morning, and I did.
Here's our conversation. A six million dollar man. Lee Majors
(01:56):
is our guest. Welcome to the program, Sir.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well Sir Michael introduction. I'm feeld honored there. I thought, Wow,
what the heck is going on.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well this this was a group project.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I got to tell you so Chad Nakanishi, our executive director,
Ramon Roebliss who you know, and Jim mud more or less. Yeah,
everybody was arguing over who got to do the Lee
Majors intro because that meant we could go back through
the body of work of stories on you. In fact,
there was a news clip of you I think it
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was nineteen eighty four and the Los Angeles Express I
can't remember the name of the football team that you
Oh yeah, La Express, And there was a whole clip
on that. But we Jim couldn't figure out how to
reduce it down so that we could add it to
the thing. But I mean, people forget all the cool
stuff you've done, all right, So you mentioned that this
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guy or you consented when I asked you about that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I just don't start on that. Let's don't get on
that real quick. Oh okay, let's visit for a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You got a whold of don't rush me. Yeah, I'm sorry.
I was trying to let it, let it breathe like
a fine wine. But Ramon was excited.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I said, go, you know, you got a light first.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
So what are you doing today? Tell me what is
on the right now?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Let me tell you, uh, you know, I want to
talk about our fire, our snow. Actually, isn't that wonderful
snow day we had?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
So like you from Colorado and you said, I said,
look at this beautiful snow, And you said, I'm sitting
in Houston and I got this snow.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
No what I said that I went to bed in
Houston and woke up in Colorado and yeah, you know what,
you know what, so here we go again. But you
know it didn't it wasn't like the last one we
had where we had it was frankling of snow and
it froze and we lost power for more people. By
that was over almost two weeks. And and then you
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know that one was a terrible one, and there you know,
it kept icing over, icing over. Anyway, this one was
so beautiful. It was what a snow day, and what
a beautiful Christmas. It seemed like a Christmas day that
the Lord gave us there. And I just was very
pressure to that. And you know what, it was gone
in a day and a half.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
About Lias, if I remember correctly, and I didn't look
it up. I think you were raised in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But I will. And if we saw snow out the window, Mommy, mommy,
I want to go.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Go exactly. You remember, I was raised in Orange, Texas,
on the Louisiana born. We didn't have snow. So so
for us, if we in my life as a kid,
in my entire childhood, if we had had the snow
that we had here last week, I would have lost
my mind. It would have been so exciting. Yeah, you
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weren't here, right, Uh, yes, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You were in Astida right. Well, you know what, it
was just so beautiful. I knew it said something was coming,
but I didn't think it. You know. I woke up
the next morning and I looked out the window, and
my god, what a beautiful view.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
My wife said, we're going to have some stringes. Yeah,
she said, we're gonna have six inches of snow. And
this was like on Thursday, and it was going to
happen on Sunday or Monday. And I said, sweetheart, I've
lived in this part of Texas my entire life, and
they promise us that every year, and it's nothing but disappointment.
We're not going to have snow, and lo and behold,
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what did we have but glorious for this part of
the world. Glorious snow.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, you know, Wstonians just don't pray enough.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Right for what year did you come to Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
About thirteen years ago? Twenty twelve? Well, twenty eleven is
when I looked around and you had one hundred straight
days over one hundred degrees over. It was hot, and
you still can and I still came. I closed on
a place here in twenty twelve, and then you know,
I said, hey, it can get hot, but heck, it's
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not the burning hot like you get you know in
an Arizona or up in Nevada, you know, in Las
Vegas or somewhere like that, where it just you can't
touch a door handle. Anyway, Now we can get on
a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yes, I'm up abas you break in about a minute.
I don't have to interrupt you. Let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, no, you can interrupt.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Well, I'll have to interrupt to go to break. But
let me ask you, since we're on the subject thirteen
years into it, what are your Obviously you could live
anywhere you want and have lived all over the world.
What do you like about living in Houston. Why do
you stay here?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, first of all, it's the people. I mean, the
hospitality here. It's these wonderful people here, and everybody's friendly.
Nobody bothers you, you know, except if you're going the
wrong areas. But I just love it. I had a
great friend here named Charlie Thomas before I moved here.
He had the Houston Rockets and he's a great friend.
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He got me here. He kept saying, come to Houston
because I was going to go back to Florida. And anyway,
that's how I got here.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
And we are glad you were here. Ramon, you know who.
Charlie Thomas was passed away a couple of years ago,
but Charlie Thomas was a legend in me on.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The Houston Rockets there. I'm in one of the biggest
car dealers in the country and.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I never got invited to the ranch, but I always
wanted to. But my understanding is that he and you
held forth or some EPICU poker games at his ranch.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No. Actually it was a little dice game which was
very simple, and we had ten or twelve people come
up there and have a big dinner and the moall
guys and then we said out and do this game
around the table, and it was just so much fun.
You know. He had he had a beautiful place there,
and he had his house of course, he had a
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little munkhouse, and he had a saloon that was as
big as the one they had over in Brennan or
Brenham were over somewhere and ain't copy it. It was
like he'd have over one hundred people up there every
year from the locals and all his friends. And you
have a big pequet, and I know I got to go.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Now hold on this moment, Lee Majors is our guess.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Thiszar is on. Well done. So this is the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Lee Majors is our guest. I told folks you would
be on the show and to feel free to send
me a message. And this was one of many from
Jim Adare. I received a very special birthday gift last August.
It was a video message from Lee Majors wishing me
a happy birthday. We have a mutual friend and I
told her I would love to say hello to him
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one day because I was such a big fan. And
this guy got Lee to do this for me. And
my wife played the video message to me Emma on
my birthday and don't think less of me, or don't
think I'm less a man, or think less of me.
But I have to admit I teared up imagining that
he took the time to do that. How nice is that?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Are you talking to me?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, that story was about you. You didn't send me
a video message on my birthday?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, I do a lot of those.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
That's nice. What's the point of having celebrity if you're
not going to share it with people like that? That's
you're putting it to good use.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, no, I understand that, And that's the mcke is.
Just be nice to people. Of course, be nice to
people on the way up because you you might not
see them on the way down.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, let's talk about that, because most people are supposed
to have this twilight period where they're forgotten about and
then you know, their name pops up and we go, oh,
whatever happened to that guy? You're eighty five and you
are maybe you don't.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, just there, that's correct you. No, No,
I'm fifty eight, fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I'm sorry. You know what I got? Dyslexia?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, no, Biden had dyslexia. Turned. I turned it around
because this sounds better.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
You weren't supposed to tell that I was doing the
show from Aspen, because people didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
You outed, Well, okay, so let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I think this is well, you were only there a
couple of days out of yourself. I was in Aspen.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yes, let's talk about this exhibit in California because this
is cool.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, all right, Well, well, first of all, you know,
I've had I had a daughter out there, you know,
all the fires that are going on, and she's in there.
She has like, you know, four kids and three dogs,
and she who was in the Palisades and they had
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to evacuate. And of course you saw what happened in
the Palisades, but it almost burned everything out of Pallisades.
But you know what I see. After she exactuated, she said,
I think it's it's gone, dad, you know, And I said, well,
I'm praying to God that he made a miracle and
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it will still be standing.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well, she got a chance later a couple of days
later to go in with a fire patrol, her and
her husband, and I believe it or not, it was
still standing. And what do you say to that. You know,
it was a lot of mess, you know, but you know,
the smoke mess and stuff like that, but at least
the structure was still there, you know. And it just
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amazes me. When you do a good prayer, miracles do happen.
My friend. Anyway, I've been I've been praying for another
friend named Terry Kaiser. I don't know if you.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Can remember him.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, he uh, he was Bernie in weekend at Bernie's.
He was a leader at the Star of two Weekend
at Bernie Movies. And he was a fabulous in that
and he isn't known for that for many many years.
And he's the same age as me, he is eighty five.
And he was away and he had a phone call
(12:15):
that his house was on fire. And I don't know
where he was, but by the time he was a
get there, he didn't burn to the ground. And it
was a place that he lived in there in Colorado
and in the ridgeway. It was his little town and
near Urray and across over the mountain there was you know,
all the snow ski resorts and stuff, but this was
(12:39):
just out in the country kind of thing. That's all
he had. And I said, well, what do you need?
He said, where you got? He said, well, I got
two pair of socks, three pair three T shirts, maybe
four pair of underwear, and my golfuse. I went to
bed and I I woke up at three in the morning.
(13:01):
I couldn't take it. So I went in and grabbed
a bag and I to underwear, socks, T shirts, heavy,
some more heavy stuff and me and anything I could
put in there. And I got a ship to him
within two days and said, oh my god, thanks, I
got something. And then I did another box much later.
(13:21):
But he's doing well. He's staying at a place and
they're going to rebuild his insurance Coty. They got to
hit fire insurance. So anyway, moving on the Palisade fire
and all those signed Altadena and Abassady everywhere, there was
fires all over the place. I'd never heard of anything,
seen anything like that. I mean, I mean, those people have,
(13:42):
like I say, they don't pray enough, and they it
just happened. It just happened. And my daughter was in
the middle. But I remember, and I said her, I said,
but I'm thinking, here's the story on this banana deal. Okay,
you heard the guy that the guy that sold a
(14:05):
banana for six million dollars. Uh. Anyway, Uh, he has
a gallery out there. Well he sold here to a
crypto entrepreneur and uh, and he's he's in his studio.
The gallery is in the Venetian resort. And so I
(14:30):
guess this crypto guy came in there and and he
bought it. And then I heard not long ago he
ate it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
He invited the press to come watch him.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He Peter doll banana.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, and actually in front of him. I mean, but
here's the thing we're talking about it. So he spent
six million dollars advertising for everybody to know he's got
a crypto fund, and he probably made six sixty million
dollars off of the publicity because the end of the day,
it's all about the publicity. I'm filibustering you because I
(15:05):
want you to tell the story. And we were about
we're up against a break, so I wanted you to
have a full segment to tell it. So hang with me. First,
Steve Austin, Heath Barkley, Colt Seavers and however else you know,
the great Lee Majors, he's our guests. More with him.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Enough, lucky you, the Michael Ferry show continues.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
The multi talented originally trained as a theater actor, as
all the greats are, Lee Majors is our guest.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
My friend Rick Doak, who's a farm and ranch realtor,
lives in Chapel Hill, but he sells a lot of properties.
His partner sold Charlie Thomas's ranch and he sent me
the listing. If you have thirty seconds, I'll read it
to you. Welcome, Welcome to Twin Oaks Ranch. This ranch
is offered for the first time and has so much
to offer for every buyer. The iconic ranch has been
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published in the Wall Street Journals, The Chronicle and many
others as it has made the list for its beauty,
location and amenities it offers. This was the family ranch
of a legendary man, Charlie Thomas and his wife Kitsey.
They created a retreat as well as a place for recreation.
It was also a place to call home to their
infamous collection of antique cars. Once you arrive and drive
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through the gated entrance, you will be amazed what lies
beyond enough space to describe this ranch in one paragraph,
you must see for yourself from the custom green Hall.
That's what you're talking about replica that they took it
from New Bronfels, the Green Hall Replica movie theater, Grand
Prix go kart track, to several large climate controlled industrial buildings,
the main home, guests homes, covered arenas, sketball court, an
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almost six acre rated lake with fishing cabin. If you
have an imagination, this property can take you there. They
should have said, this is where Lee Majors used to
hang out.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well, I only hung out there mainly for fishing that
little bitty lake head.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Yeah, and the picture. You know what's funny of all
the glorious things at that property, the picture they chose
is that is that antique little cottage cabin on the
lake with the little dock out in front of it,
which is where.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You would have Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
No, it's just a little bitty, small little places and
it's not you couldn't spend the night there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It looks like you've gone out to Walden to meet
Henry David Thureaux. It's just glorious.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah. Picture, Well, i'd love to have a copy of
that if you'll send it to that up for me.
It's great and I was so good. You can put
that other thing you put together there for me, I
would be hones. I haven't heard those songs in one
hundred years. You know.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You said that when you came in last time, and.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I know we're going to do it, but you never
did it, and I it.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Was me, It was Jim Mudd. And all he does
is tell us what a big fan of Lee Majors
he is. And then you give him a task and
he didn't do it. Fired save us a lot of money.
So tell me, yeah, well, uh we got it. You
know what, we got to trim the crowd here, we
gotta we got to reduce payroll. You know, it's tough times. Hey,
By the way, you are so relevant, uh Donald Trump.
(18:24):
You know who Jim Acosta was. He was the one
at uh uh CNN who was always yelling at Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, so he was.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Yeah, well he's just got fired. He's calling it being
laid up. So Trump, the President tweets, wow, really good news.
Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters
in journalistic history, a major sleeves bag, has been relegated
by CNN fake News to the Midnight Hour Death Valley.
He put that in quotes because of extraordinarily bad ratings
(18:55):
and no talent. Word is that he wants to quit,
and that would be even better. Jim is a major
loser who will fail no matter where he ends up.
Good luck, Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Wonderful story.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah yeah, how about Hey, how about the Death Valley reference?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
All right, so tell about it. I didn't want to
have to interrupt you in the middle of the story.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Tell the story about what's going on in Hollywood, the
Hollywood Museum, because I think this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, no, this is going to be Let me tell
you the guy this is not the same guy that
sold the other banana. This is a guy who has
an amazing and it's called an like an an amazing
gallery and it's in the Grand Canal shops at the
Venetian Resort in Vegas. Okay, he put a playful twist
on this Virol phenomenon, and they just unveiled a new
(19:45):
piece that features a vantage. I say, nineteen seventy three Kenner,
a six million dollar man action figure holding an acrylic
banana which is taped to a piece of white foam
board and then measuring eighteen inches my thirteen inches and anyway,
it's turning his up there and it's going to go
(20:08):
to auction. I don't know exactly where i'd been coming
up very quick. Hey, the other one was it? So
I think somebody said this was a Christis anyway, let
me get it down to you what the reason is.
I got contacted by him, and he wondered. He told
me about it, and he wondered if I would fly
(20:28):
up and he'd fly me there and put me up
and to sign when I sign it in his studio,
and I thought, well, you know, I don't do stuff
like that. I really don't like to do that stuff.
But anyway, that's you know. Then the fire happened and
he called me back after he said have you thought
(20:50):
it over? And I said, yeah, you know what, I'll
do that, but you got to guarantee a portion of
the the prophets, so whatever the amount of it is,
to go to the American Red Cross in the Palisades,
you know, in that area, to help help people there.
(21:11):
So that's so I'm doing that, and I'm flying out
of here on Thursday, and I'm going to be there
on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
How long will it be at the Venetian.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't know. Well, he'll probably leave it on for
a while after. You know, he just kind of unveiled
in so that people will come and see it and everything,
and then he put it on the auction.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I don't know, are you a plan of the Eagles?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Sure? I remember I haven't had a dinner once. Oh
what's the lead Saursday? Yeah, Don Henley, Don Henley.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
You've had dinner with everybody?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh no, no, come on, well a lot of people.
But let me tell you. You know, I hate the
title of that series that they gave The six million
Dollar Man, because you know, people are that said. I'll
never get away from that title, you know, and and
you know, people think I made a lot of money
(22:11):
on that show. We're talking way back, you know, in
the seventies. The big value was in the sixties, and
didn't I didn't get a penny from that. And it's
run reruns every day, but I don't get anything from that.
And because there were no residuals back then, and you know,
everything else was under a contractor universal and the deals
weren't very big. So you know, people, oh, read the
(22:33):
six million Dollar Man every time I hear in a
carange because I'm not the sixty dollar man you think,
you know. So, I'm still doing old comic cons here
and there that kind of pay the bills.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
And anyway, I've never been to comic con, but I
am told by my friend Ken Webster, who does go
and who is one of these. I mean, he's really
really into it and he says that amazingly but not surprisingly,
you are one of the top draws to this day.
People love you at that event.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
No, no, you know who's the top draw or less.
It's Weave Patten, my buddy, my friend.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I would believe that. I would believe that.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, you know they so some of us say
so some of the stuff, you know, like I can't
remember what all his figures were, but you know, you
had a lot of memorabilia stuff, but actually stuff that
they used in the show.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
And that's because Shatner has what you have and very
few people have, which is, no matter what you do,
it's cool and cool is not something you can you
can create or build or buy it. You just are
or you're not. Lead majors. I love you to death.
Thanks for being our guests.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Speakers.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Smart devices.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
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a lot of true crime podcasts, or any number of
podcasts that are out there. It's a wonderful, wonderful world
we live in. It's a wonderful era, a golden age
or content creation and content consumption. You can always hear
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any of our shows rebroadcast as a podcast. And if
you only get two hours of our show a day
and for some crazy reason you would like more, you can.
You'll see the time we do a morning show, and
then you're getting now what we air in the evening
(25:00):
Central time. Five to seven were on delay in many markets,
and you can hear our morning show, which is eight
am to eleven am Central, and you'll just look at
the time and you'll see that. So if you listen
to an evening show and you want to try out
our morning show, it's a little a little more relaxed.
We're a little more serious on this show, and the
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reason is because people will ask, well you sound different.
The reason is when we started in radio nineteen years ago.
In a few years in once stations started picking us up,
it's the evening show format. A lot of our listeners
are in stations that were listening to at that time
Glenn back in the morning, Rush in the midday, and
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then Hannity, and then we were coming on after that.
That listener was accustomed to a pretty serious show. Now
Rush Rush used humor. And that's the thing that bothers me.
When people who don't like Rush the left, they make
him sound like a bitter, angry man. Rush was not
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bitter at all. Rush loved life. He had a zest
for life. He was a happy person all the while.
He was a joyful warrior. To use the less term,
but it's true. In the culture wars. He was a teacher.
He cared about people. You could hear it, you could
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hear what he brought to the table every day. I
have so much admiration for this man in his ministry,
and I do see it as a ministry. I don't
think you have to preach in a pulpit or have
congregants per se to be a minister. A person who ministers.
We talked earlier about nurses. I think nurses minister, I
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think teachers, minister, I think a good parent ministers. I
think we think of parenting as providing a roof over
the head and a ride to the soccer game, But
is so much more to being a parent. Parents mold
us into who and what we are. I know mine did.
So I have a story for you in this our
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last segment. All that was by way of saying, if
you don't already listen to our podcast, you can download them.
They're free. iHeart Spotify, iTunes, wherever else you get your podcast.
And by the way, if you've never listened to podcasts,
because people tell me every day they just discovered our
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podcast and they just discovered the concept of podcasting. There
is such a wonderful world of content out there that
you would not believe.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You know, used to.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
People will say that I'm in the radio business. Not
in the radio business. I'm in the entertainment business. And
other people will say, oh, I think that cheapens what
you do.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Rush was in the entertainment business. There are a lot
of people screaming into the microphone, and that's not very
entertaining in the sense that it's enjoyable, but it is
entertaining in the sense that some people like that. I mean,
there's been talk show hosts, and you know who they are,
most aren't around anymore. Who all they do is is
what I call angry white man radio. They just screamed,
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there's mad at everybody all day long. I life's too short.
I got enough things to worry about that I don't
need to turn it on. And here's some guys scream
and holler and be mad all the time. Rush was
able to lay out what was going on and explain
makes sense of the crazy things that were going on
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in the world, but do it in a way that
didn't make you want to take your own life or
drown yourself in a bottle. He did it in such
a way that we could learn to laugh at things
around us that we don't like. And many people never
grasp this. This life lesson and hear me out. When
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you can laugh at something, you own what you laugh at.
When something makes you angry, that thing, person, idea, concept,
action owns you. Many people will never get that. They'll
argue with me, well, I'm never going to be happy
about the point at which you learn to laugh at
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it is the point at which you exercise dominion over it.
When you tell me that this person comes on TV
and you get so mad that you have to turn
the TV and walk outside and yell at your dog
and kick your cat, that is the moment that you
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have lost perspective and control over it. And I'll tell
you this, if you want to make a liberal mad,
you can argue with them, you can insult them, But
when you laugh at them, that's when they'll start swinging.
That's when they grow angry. Because the one thing the
left cannot do is laugh at themselves. They are which
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is one of the worst insults you can ever hurl.
They are humorless. I often say, if you have no sight,
you are blind. That's a sense that you do not possess.
If you have no hearing, you are deaf. It's a
sense that you lack. You cannot speak, you are dumb.
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We don't use the term dumb anymore, but that's where
what it meant meant you were mute because you lack
that sense. You lack that well. If you do not
see humor where it naturally exists, it's fertile ground. For it,
and you are humorless. The left is humorless. And the
unfortunate thing is many people on our side of the
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aisle have become equally humorless and powerless are so they
believe to not be humorless. The moment you tell me
but Michael, I can't laugh at Joe Biden because he
ruined this country. The moment you laugh is the moment
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you can deal with it. And if I can't get
that through to you, if you cannot understand that, if
you really give it some thought and you cannot understand it,
then I'm going to keep trying because that was Russia's goal,
and that's why I brought Rush up. A great leader
of a movement uses humor. That's why people underestimate the
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influence of stand up comics. They're very powerful. Kat Williams
can make some incredibly deep points while making you laugh.
A lot of a lot of the great comics that
you know had social Unfortunately most of them were liberals,
but they were very influential. By making people laugh, you're
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also making people think. I do enjoy your emails. I
read everyone, I don't respond to everyone. You can always
visit our website Michael berryshow dot com, where you can
send me an email directly. You can sign up for
our daily blast we send memes that we do. We'll
never sell your email. We'll never share your email ever,
never have, never will. So we'll see you back tomorrow,
(32:19):
God willing,
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