PM Show Hr 2 | The American Respect for Coaches

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time lucking load. So Michael
Berry Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by Son as downright undemocratic.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Two six packs, Shiner, ninety nine cent, Putaine Ladder, Lucky
Strack Center, fifth of patrol Us down Attig, glue cooler,
take a guess at all to do? I can feel
a good one coming on, throwing a real Wildy Hubbard

(00:58):
sing along to red Neck Mother. Any blues I had
before gone. Another working week is over, no chane staying.
So I can feel a good one coming on.

Speaker 6 (01:18):
We are.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
We're gonna get to feeling right.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
We gonna keep this pider Rock can feel the break
of doll.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I can feel a good one coming on.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
I just kind of getting calm.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
And it's one about a kick and I put in
a hard day's work, but in eleven foelve hours a
day and they ain't getting you drug.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
And they just boring football Chuck Klosterman. It's kind of
an analysis of the American mindset with regard to football.
And for anyone stupid enough to email me guy with
football Vacle, the one that played in Europe or what
we call they call it football, Tobbichael, please never email

(02:03):
me again. I mean I've made sure of that, because
you're blocked. I've never in my life had trouble in
a conversation talking to someone or I said, who's your
favorite football team? And they said, oh, Manchester United? I
like Manchester United? Who you like.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
That?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
This doesn't Nobody that I ever associate with confuses the
phrase we say soccer, and it amuses me how people
will say, well, Europe they do it this way. Okay, yeah,

(02:47):
they call a cigarette. Do you do you do you
ever use the phrase in that way? No you don't.
Do you do you put things in the dicky when
you're going on a road trip? No you don't, So
stop just stop doing. I remember the first time I
went abroad too, and learned some other terms for common

(03:07):
everyday things. Just just quit. But anyway, So there is
a chapter in there about the American respect for coaches,
football coaches more than any other sport, and talks about
Tom Landry and you know you remember Tom Landry dressed

(03:30):
like Bear Bryant dressed the tweed jacket, the uh you know,
the hat, the distinctive hat that Bear Bryant and h
Tom Landry wore the tie. I mean they looked professional.
Not really sure why, but it did give them an

(03:55):
aura that that carried with them into everything they did
as a coach. Well, the chapter is builds up the
respect level of a coach and then talks about how
that was an important part of the Democrat Party choice

(04:16):
of Tim Waltz to be Kamala Harris's running mate. The
Democrat Party knows that straight white males find them repulsive.
It's to the point now that they're disgusting and it's understood.

(04:37):
So what they've tried to do in their own awkward,
you know, walking through the room in the dark, banging
things around, clumsy way, is find someone who will appeal
to white working class voters. And so they, oh, we

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got the ball coach, Timmy Waltz. But the problem is
the second we laid eyes on Timmy Waltz, we all
knew that guy. That's the guy that at your school,
you know, never be in the locker room alone when

(05:24):
you're in seventh grade, naked, coming out of the showers,
that's the guy that comes in too often as everybody's
as as all the guys are coming out of the
shower and going all right, you guys, now, y'all, I
don't want to grab assing in here, coach. We just
came out of the shower. Could you you're looking at us? Weird?

(05:45):
You're you're you're you're just too weird. You're too weird.
We had a women's we had a women's basketball coach
at Orangefield. Uh who the the ladies would the girls
would tell us that there was a there was a
story about who was a very she was a very
odd bird. And she would go in and she would

(06:08):
decide she was going to be the hall monitor as
the girls were coming out of the shower, and it
was a It was an often talked about phenomenon. But
the point was the most important part of Tim Waltz's
biography was that he had supposedly been a football coach.
What turned out he was never on the payroll, he

(06:29):
was never officially a coach. He'd had a lot of
problems with kids around that era. But the book makes
the point that for the first month, Kamala Harris never
called him governor. She only called him coach anyway, so
he had a block. There was a judge that threw

(06:51):
out a grand jury subpoena aimed at him a few
weeks ago, and the mayor of Minneapolis and then Gavin
Newsom reached out for help on the well, they give
special contracts to gay people and they look to the
Minnesota model for well, how do we know if they're
really gay or not?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Hello America, it's your boy, Timmy Wools breathing a big.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Breath of fresh air today.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh what's that over there that just flew out the window.
Looks like a bunch of subpoenas going bye bye chumping.
His bullies thought they could just come in and bring
a bunch of overwhelming credible evidence to the table against
me and my good friend Jacob Fray. Huh, the old
ball coach wins again. Those subpoenas got blocked like a
three point home run. I love America, home of the

(07:41):
brave and loopholes. Now for the big news. One of
my other great close personal friends who always does amazing
things for his state, mister Gavin Newsom, gave me a
ringy dinghy on my cell last night. Turns out he's
implementing a gay certification program and wants your boy Timmy
to vet the business is and certify there. Indeed, LGBT

(08:03):
owned well seems silly. Who would pretend to be something
they're not? Any who I made a gay certification true
false quiz true or false? Rainbows belong in the sky false,
crosswalks and hair colors only. Most men refer to America's
favorite pastime as baseball. False planting tulips. The most memorable

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experience of your life could be the birth.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Of a child.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
False. Marching in a parade is always the correct answer. Well,
you gotta go. You need to keep working on this list.
List the list I'm working on, the lists, the World as.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
We know it, The Michael Berry Show, Ends of the World.
Beautifully written, almost plaintively written post by a woman yesterday
or day before, and it was about a fellow that

(09:25):
I know and her because he was a very active
member at the RCC's name is Doug Truckenbrod truck and Broad.
He goes by Birdman on Facebook. You can see the post.
I put it up and she had written. She almost

(09:45):
seemed exhausted in what she had written. But it's one
of those things that bothers me. This is where you
know the concept of a Karen. I don't recall us
having that, but everybody knows that person who gets up

(10:06):
in your business and they're very aggressive about it, and
you hate them. Oh, Michael, I don't hate anybody. You
ain't had a carron onya. You'd hate them. It's so
Katie say you hate them. You would hate them because
they are relentless, they're judgy. But she was writing about

(10:27):
the fact that her husband died and now she's found
someone else, and it doesn't mean she loved her husband
any less, but she wants to be happy with what
with however many days she has left in her life.
And I thought, you know, this is a message people
need to hear. Get out of people's lives. You're going

(10:50):
on with your marriage and your life and your job
and your kids and in your house. But she just
save enough energy over here to judge Susie because she
was married to your friend or your brother or whatever else,
and she didn't grieve long enough, and so you save
a little energy to make her life miserable. What an

(11:13):
awful person you gotta be. All right, here's what this
lady Marilyn Kay. She wrote, there seems to be an
unwritten rule that says, if you're a widow or a widower,
everyone else gets to decide what your timeline should look like.
Some people think I've moved on too soon. Others think
I should still be standing still. The truth is neither
group has lived my life. Losing Chuck changed me forever.

(11:35):
That kind of loss never leaves you. Love like that
doesn't disappear because time passes or because life keeps moving.
He will always be part of my story. What many
people don't understand is that grief and love can exist together.
They're not enemies. Meeting Doug didn't erase Chuck. It didn't

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replace him. It didn't make the years I spent loving
Chuck any less red. What it did was remind me
that my heart was still capable of living, instead of
simply surviving. I've noticed that some people have become distant.
Some judge quietly. Others feel comfortable telling me how I

(12:17):
should grieve, or questioning whether I'm somehow dishonoring Chuck by
finding happiness again. Unless you've lost the person you plan
to grow old with, it's difficult to understand what that
journey is really like. No one gets to decide when
another person is ready to smile again. No one gets
to measure someone else's grief by the calendar. I loved

(12:40):
Chuck with everything I had, and I will love him forever.
There is and always will be a special place in
my heart for him. I care deeply for Doug. Let's
switch pages, uh, and I'm grateful for the joy, laughter,
and adventure he's brought back into my life. Those two
truths can exist at the same time. If my story

(13:05):
makes someone uncomfortable, that's okay. It's my life, not theirs.
I'm choosing to honor my past without sacrificing my future,
and for the first time in a long time, I'm
looking forward to what comes next. Well, Doug's one of
the sweetest human beings I've ever met. He's kind and

(13:26):
gentle and decent and honorable, always has a smile. Anything
we ever needed. At the RCC, he was there for.
There were people who were little gossipers. There always will
be in every church and every organization, and you survive them.
That's all you can do, because sometimes they'll pretend to

(13:48):
be your friends, but they're actually little behind your back.
Gossipers that this isn't as good as it used to be.
So and so's showing up, but they're not in their part,
or so and so showing up but they're drinking too much,
but so and so not showing up lately because they're
but hurt that they didn't get asked to share this event,

(14:10):
or they weren't honored when we honored the other volunteers,
or they weren't given an award when somebody else got
an award, and they're upset about it, so they may
not come back, and they'll go off and never dug
just a good, decent soul. And so these two people, somehow,

(14:31):
some way have met after she's lost her husband, and
clearly it bothers her that there were friends and family
who she loved, who loved her, who are now expressing
to her, either in words or a cold shoulder, that
they don't approve. She shouldn't be happy. Do people ever

(14:53):
stop and realize what they're doing? Is that person ever
able to stop up and say, you know what, it
doesn't cost me anything. Why not be happy for Mary Kay?
Marilyn Kay? Why not be happy for her? Why not
call her up and say, hey, if you were wondering.

(15:15):
That's what I did with my brother's wife, not that
I'm the perfect person. When he passed my mother myself,
we said to her, whenever it's time, you will have
our blessing. Whenever that time comes, whether it's a long
time or a short time, you will have our blessing.

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You were a good wife to him while he was alive,
and you do not need to take thee to a
nunnery for the rest of your life or perform sattee
in his honor. You were a good wife while he
was alive. You deserve to have a good life for

(15:58):
the rest of your life. And whether we're invited to
that wedding or whatever that may be or not, you
have our complete blessing. And the person will always say no, no, no, okay,
You don't need to say just no. Whenever it is,
however it happens, you will have our sport. Why can't

(16:18):
we do that? Why wouldn't we want someone we love
to be happy? They didn't. She didn't choose for her
custom to die. I did arrest me or take me
to Texas because I don't ready to get out of
this state.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
I think Michael Berry rob.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
It is such a natural thing, especially for women, to
care what other people think about them. Doesn't make them
bad people. It doesn't make them weak people. It doesn't
make them. People are always ascribing to me that I'm

(16:56):
saying something negative about someone when I'm not. I'm simply
observing if a wall is blue, the wall is blue.
That doesn't mean blue is good or blue is bad.
I observe the wall to be blue. If no one
else wants to say the wall is blue because you're
not supposed to say blue today, then that's upsetting. And

(17:19):
that's half the reason I'll do it. But that does
not ascribe any subjective approval or disapproval of the wall.
It's funny how I do this little thing on Facebook
where I'll say, how would you feel if someone from
fill in the blank? In one day, I think I

(17:41):
did Indonesia. How would you feel someone from Indonesia moved
in next door? And there was a guy and as
always right on Q, dutiful white thirty year old, Uh,
probably a teacher sociology degree. That's racist. That's racist, I said, no,

(18:03):
it's actually not racist. Piped down over there. Scared of
his own shadow, he felt that he needed to say
it was racist, or he might get in trouble for
not saying it was racist. And I'm just so exhausted
by that type of person. So I began poking at him,
and so he started posting things like, let's make this public,

(18:27):
Let's make everybody no, this guy's racist. And so then
I reposted what he said. I said, yes, yes, let's
do I need I need to smoke. Please, please do
what you are threatening to do. But back to the ladies.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
It is.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
When you if you were to actually wire someone up
through the course of their lives. You know how when
you go to do a e KG or whatever and
they shave off your hair and they put the little
sticker that's attached to the thing and it gives them
a reading. If you were able to implant something in
people and you could measure the thing that causes them

(19:14):
stress in their lives, Stress, first of all, is deadly.
It Every study that's been undertaken shows that sitting and
worrying is awful for your health. Stress is awful for

(19:36):
your health, I mean absolutely terrible. It leads to strokes
and heart attacks, misery, unhappiness, all sorts of conditions, and
a lot of women undertake this because of a desire

(19:57):
to avoid confrontation unhappiness. They are pleasers, Thank god they are,
because wives are often pleasers of their husband. I want
my husband to get a good night's sleep, so y'all
be quiet out here, kids. I want my husband to

(20:20):
go to work with a full belly of good food.
I want him to know he's loved at home, so
I'm going to get up even when I want to
keep sleeping, and make him the breakfast he likes. I
want my husband to feel loved, so I'm gonna bake
him his favorite cake. My grandkids are coming home for Thanksgiving.

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I want them to know Mamma loves them, and mamma
planned a head for them, and Mamma remembers what they
like the most. So I'm gonna make that strawberry cake
they love the most. This is the very thing. This
is one of the very things that makes women so special.

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This is one of the ways in which they are
the ying to our yang. This is the balance in
a household. The womanly desire to please for everybody to
be content. That desire, however, if not channeled, can make

(21:25):
a person miserable. Reading that post that this woman that
Doug truck and Broad is dating, that the bird man
is dating. It broke my heart. It broke my heart
because this was like fourth grade again, and girls were

(21:47):
being mean to her. And that is not to suggest
that she's reading something that isn't there. I'm sure they
are being mean, either by their action or in action.
I went during the break and reviewed the comments people
put up, and there were a number of widows who

(22:08):
put on there. When my husband died the foursomes we
were in, I was no longer invited, and one woman wrote,
maybe because the absence of my husband through the presence
of me reminds them that this could happen to them,

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And I thought, wow, that's profound. There are fears we
have in our lives, and we avoid certain places, people
and things because they make us think of that fear.
So I don't have a grand conclusion to this set

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of commentary. I never do, other than to say, if
you were friends with a couple and he or she
died and you haven't called, and you haven't done with
that person the thing you did with that couple, fix it.

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That's the beauty. If you still have time to solve
a problem, that solution will make you happy and make
them happy. Imagine what it's like to lose your husband
and all your friends. Imagine what it's like to lose
your husband and the people that you shared all those

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moments with, and now you've completely fallen apart. So if
a woman does start dating or a man starts dating
after losing his wife, maybe, just maybe they're not only
filling the role of the person who laid in the

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bed beside him, the person who went to dinner with
the person and they had coffee on the back porch.
Maybe they're starting a whole new friend group. Maybe they
miss all the social elements that they had as a couple.
You know, younger people today don't couple. They don't identify

(24:16):
as couples the way my parents' generation in the one
before that did. They did everything as a couple. So
when you're all alone, it can be horrible. The Michael
Berry's show, the happiest people are the people who don't
read the news. Years ago, people would email me and

(24:38):
would email me and tell me, Michael, how come you're
not talking about filling the blank? And I would explain
to them that news directors of television stations or the
Houston Chronicle. Don't program my show. I talk about what

(24:59):
I want to talk about. There is a crew of us.
We get together and we discuss what we find interesting
to talk about. If you already know about that other story,
you don't need me to talk about it. I'd rather

(25:20):
take something that you are well aware of and offer
a different perspective on it, or talk about something that
maybe wasn't chosen by the news directors as the most
interesting story or the story most likely to grab your
attention and make that the subject of my discussion. One

(25:47):
of those things is this sort of sad need by
the Houston Chronicle to scare you because they can't entertain you.
They don't have the staffing anymore, they don't have the

(26:10):
research that they don't do investigations. There's only so many
taller Rico's gonna win stories they can do, so instead,
it's always the African killer bees. It's always the next
big thing that's gonna get you meningitis. Have we had

(26:32):
our meningitis story yet and there was a case of meningitis.
They'll tell us, Oh, my goodness, there's the African killer bees.
There's the hole in the ozone, the latest an explosive
diarrhea parasite in Texas. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. The

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US is currently dealing with an outbreak of cyclospora, a
parasite that causes a collection of unpleasant symptoms, including watery diarrhea, cramping,
increased gas, and nauseam. My good way to lose weight.
Though Cyclospora is linked to a number of common fruits

(27:18):
and vegetables. See, you got to stay away from the
fruits and vegetables that'll get you every time, every time
I tell you snow peas, raspberries, blackberries, spinach, and leafy greens. Basil, cilantro.

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Do you say cilantro or cilantro? Jim you say cilantro?
Apparently that is the food most commonly linked to US
cyclospora outbreaks, especially when it's imported. I like some cilantro.
I'm a risk it. I don't mind risking it. Mesklin
is that pronounce mesklin lettuce and salad mixes. Because they're

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eating raw and difficult to thoroughly clean. All of that
is going to give you the explosive diarrhea. That's an
unpleasant thing to have. The explosive diarrhea. That's the kind
of diarrhea. You get that, you go to that, you
rush to the toilet like you're going out for dinner.

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You're going out for a couples dinner and you're like, look,
I I'm not gonna be able to make it, and
you just get you stripped down completely button naked, because
there there's no putting your underwear down around your your feet, nothing, nothing.
You're gonna be there for a while and it might
be that thing might be coming out. I mean, it's

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a it's a volcanic explosion going on in there. You're
closing the doors, turning on the music, turning on the shower,
turning on the sink. You don't want that explosive diarrhea parasite.
Here's the story case the e n TV in Waco.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
It's called glospora.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
It is an intestinal parasite. People frequently use the phrase
explosive watery diarrhea when they're talking about.

Speaker 7 (29:06):
It, and the CDC is now monitoring the microscopic parasite.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Doctors say they're prepared.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
Nothing new.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
It's seasonal.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
We deal with it, you know, usually every year, but
occasionally some years are worse than others and we have
outbreaks kind of what we're dealing.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
With, especially during summertime.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
People tend to be eating more fruits and vegetables, farmer
stands harvests.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Unwashed foods, and not washing hands or culprits.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Where there's been improper hand hygiene, improper food preparation, not
washing and preparing the fruits and the vegetables.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's not like salmonella and isn't in every food.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Basic cooking, even simple temperatures, will usually kill the bug.
It is more associated with raw produce and foods that
are not normally cooked through normal preparation.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
The difference between the bug and a normal stomach flu
is the duration.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
You're two to three days of typical diarrhea that you
shouldn't be concerned about this at that time. This is
really when you've had a diarrheal onus going on for
a week, a week and a half, or the two
week mark.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
The duration the symptoms and the test confirmed to doctors.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
Really by one week, seven days up to ten days,
you should be being seen and tested for this.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
So the illness can be addressed and treated.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
If we do end up testing you for cyclostphora and
you're positive for that, there is a recommended antibacterial therapy
for that.

Speaker 7 (30:20):
But there are people at higher risk, like the elderly,
you know, suppressed, were those prone to dehydration.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Again, it's a hygiene issue, washing and preparing your foods,
washing your hands. Be kind of cautious around areas that
have foods and fruits and produces that have been sitting out.

Speaker 7 (30:38):
While there isn't any evidence of a single outbreak link
in the cases, the CDC is looking to find potential
sources for the illness.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
It is amazing how many people die from the effects
of diarrhea in India and Pakistan and Africa. I saw
a report the other day out of every hundred thousand deaths, yeah,
maybe it was one hundred thousand deaths. It was comparing

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around the world the manner in which people die, and
the number was forty six. It was the highest rate
of It was in Africa and India. And the reason
is extreme explosive diarrhea dehydrates you. So can you imagine

(31:35):
that being the way you go, You are blowing You're
not even blowing dirt, you are just blowing water out.
You got these horrible, horrible cramps, You're doubled over. You
got nowhere in crowded countries like there you got no peace.

(31:56):
You know. It's like when you're out in public, you
got to go into a stall and you're like you're listening,
You're peeking under the things. See if everybody's coming into
the bathroom. You're hoping you got the bathroom to yourself,
because if you can't lock the door, if you can
lock the door, then after a while you're getting the hey,

(32:17):
anybody in there, Yeah, you might as well go ahead
and use the women's Fella, I'm gonna be a while,
and they're so unhappy. By the way, scientific study I've
conducted over the course of my lifetime, if you go
to the restroom, the men's restroom, and it is locked,

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and it is an abnormally long period of time, and
the line is stacking me up outside, it is one
one to one that that is an employee and they're
not even pooping, they're just sitting in there catching up
on their their self.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Upon thank you nine