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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. So on today's show an interview
we did I guess last week, but we had not
had an opportunity to air. I figure you can read
the news headlines on your own, and we'll usually bring
them up. But if we can pierce the world you're
in and make you stop and think about entrepreneurism, about
(00:22):
chasing your dreams, about your passion, about your opportunity to
own a business and hire other people and employ other
people and live out that dream and not leave anything
on the field, and not leave anything undone that you
always wanted to do. So with that in mind, we
(00:42):
will begin our conversation and whether you're a deer hunter
or my favorite email, I got an email from a
woman who said, I've never been a deer hunter, never
will be. I don't own a ranch, but I was
fascinated by that discussion, and I hope you will be too.
Texas House bill requiring more study of the warfare in
(01:04):
based poison caput that AG Commissioner Sid Miller wants for
killing Farrell hogs House lawmakers voted one hundred twenty eight
to thirteen to preliminarily approve legislation that would require state
agencies or university research. Search would require state agency research
or university research. You found it, yeah, but now I'm
(01:29):
in the middle of my story. They'll have to research
it more before the youth's use of lethal pesticides on
wild pigs. A companion bill in the Senate has ten
co sponsors. Back in February, Miller announced an emergency state
rule change allowing the use of the warfare and based
poison CAPUT, which was recently approved by the Environmental Protection
(01:52):
Agency to kill kill wild pigs. Under House Bill thirty
four fifty one that was authored by Denton State Rep.
Lynn Stuckey, the state would have to conduct a study
on its potential negative impact on other wildlife before approving
any feral hog poison. A state district judge temporarily blocked
the Agriculture Department's emergency rules in March after a Hill
(02:15):
County meat processing company, I wonder if it's Hill Country,
but it's says Hill County, joined by the Texas Hall
Hunters Association and the Environmental Defense Fund, brought a lawsuit
arguing it would hurt the meat and hunting industries or
industries as we say in Texas. KAPUT must be dispensed
through special feeders also made by Kaputz manufacturer Colorado based Psymetrics,
(02:41):
or we got to invest in symmetrics. This gonna be
the deal. This can be it that have weighted lids
intended to limit other animals access. The label's use instructions
warn against allowing livestock to graze or hunting in areas
around the baited feeders until at least ninety days after
removing the poison. Carcasses must be buried eighteen inches under
(03:04):
the ground, or, if that's not possible because of environmental conditions,
removed from sight. Well that's great. You remove them, but
you got to put them somewhere when you're done. They're heavy.
So you got it. You got it, all right, So
listen to this. I'm getting one of these cannon feeders.
Here we go. The this guy's in Bay City. Go ahead.
(03:27):
That's it. He talks, didn't it doesn't he I watched
it yesterday, but I had the volume down, but it
looked like he was talking. He was showing you how.
He said, there's ass feeder hold srex horn, fight to
sex pounds or corn, and it's got an air compressor.
It's good for two years, and it'll shoot the corn
(03:49):
and they can't know what's coming. And that way you
don't have mud ruts and there's corn. He shoots out
of hair and he just put one at Ted Nugan's
house this past week.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The Innova feeder on the more the cannon feeder, no
more spinners, no more winches. You can put out a
precise amount of feed, and it's easy to feel from
the ground like this, this.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Big, big old box. Shoot so you got enough feed.
You don't have to keep going out and fill your feeders.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The cannon feeder holds up to six hundred and fifty
pounds of feet. You can feed one pound, one and
a half pounds, or two pounds each feeding up to
six times.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It shoots some other shoot the cannon feed Shoot it
because it spreads air.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It dispenses expensive feed out into a tark, so.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's not in one spot, so they tear that up.
And then you don't have to shoot the feeder. When
you shoot them cannon feeder, do get them away from
the feet to order your necks on target feeding feeder.
Feel it and forget it, Feel it and forget it. Yeah,
see some of these guys they got thousands of acres here.
That's it. It's got a little air compressor and it
(05:04):
shoots it out of there. So what it does is
makes a pack of the fields and it shoots it
at an angle like a volley. It shoots a volley
out and it spreads it out. So you don't when
you're shooting, you don't shoot the feeder. But I mean
the biggest part about the whole thing is you can
fill this thing so full, and I guess not have
to go back out there. They let the music play
(05:29):
that long. Well what's the video of? But he's not talking. Man,
There are so many One day we're going to do
a whole show on this fie oh one hundred yard
touchdown returns? Now, why would they think you wanted to
watch that off? How did they know? There are so
many of these guys, the guys that we bought our
(05:51):
night lights, hog vision or whatever it is down in
South Texas, that whole that thing in Bay City. That
guy was a farmer, gave up farming and did there's
so many of these guys. They got little fabrication shop
and they just redneck ingenuity. And you go online and
you find all that they figured out whatever problem you
(06:11):
have at your ranch. They can They have figured it
out and fixed it. The Michael Berry Show, Michael Barry Show,
we decided to give the proprietor of cannon feeders a ring.
He was at the barber shop, but he's taken our
call anyway, Denton Lesseners Lisner Lisner.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is that German? Yes, sir? Are you German?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh? That Bohemian?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh? Okay, all right, okay. What what barbershop are you at?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Uh? In enormous barbershop Bay City, Texas?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Do they have that red, white and blue thing that
twirls out front?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay, is that where you always go?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
How often do you go get a trim?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh? Just when it goes particuling my ears too much?
I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You don't. You're not one of those guys that because
the guys are doing this, I've heard nowadays it gets
the nails and all that done, right, No, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
No, sir. I just have a nice little girl that
gives me good, good haircut and good conversations.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oll that's nice. Is she American?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
What is she?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
She's Spanish?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Spanish? Yes, like Spain, Spanish or Mexican Mexican? Okay? Does
she speak in English to you? Or do you?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, sir, she speaks English?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, all right. How much does a haircut cost?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Uh? Twelve bucks?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is she norma no, sir?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Normous? Does just comes in a couple of days a week? Okay,
normous older older ladies.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is it called normous barbershop?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay. Is it only barberache? There's no, there's no women
under those heatlamps.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
No, it's just two barbercairs. Twelve bucks?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Okay. Do you have to call ahead or they take
walk ins?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They take walk ins.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Are you still inside?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yes, sir, I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Are you fish? Are you finished with your haircut?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yes? Sir.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Do they have things for you all to read there?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Like like, tell me what's on.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Paper about anything that you want to read?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, just kind of go through if you would. What
the periodical list is? You got which paper?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, we got the dated, the Tribune, which is our
local paper.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is that out of Bay City.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We've got Western Horsemans, We've got fishing game, We've got handyman,
we got automotive, uh, Southern living hot rod even have
a men's journal.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
A men's journal? Uh huh what what? What month is
the men's journal? Can you tell me?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I have no idea. I'm just reading this office.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It is the Well you might be reading one that's
ten years.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Old April twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ocause it's only a year old. Yes, How does she
pay for all those periodicals with just twelve dollars cuts?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, but that's what they get.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Can you get a straight in Bay City? Okay? Can
you get a straight razor shave?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
There?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Can you get a straight razor shave? No?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Just a haircut?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They quit?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, well that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I'm sorry they quit doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So uh all right, Well what will you do after
the haircut?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I will go to work and I own a equipment company. Yeah,
bacco service. I do bacco work. Those are work, don't work.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well, that's how I heard about you is from Carol
James and you said you used to do a lot
of bacco work for Scott. Yes, sir, at Patriots. But
that's not what I'm interested in, right, I'm interested in
cannon feeders. Yes, sir, tell me about that. How did
that come about?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That came about? Uh? When Michael. When I got out
of college, I started farming.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's Saul Ross. Uh huh now, fine Texas.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's it's not a Baptist school. That's a what is it?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Universities?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Is what?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's a state university.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I thought it had a denomination attached. I thought Saul
Ross had a denomination attached. No, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Right, it's just a statement. In fact, my grandmother graduated
from there.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And uh anyway, when I when I got out of
farm and I quit my form for twenty six years,
and then when I got out, I've always played around
with these uh car by guns you see him around
airports that make a loud boom.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yet, now, what what kind of farming? Were you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Rice for me?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And it wasn't profitable?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, no, were.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You not good at it? Or just it wasn't it
wasn't meant to be, just.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Was meant to be. Twenty six years and I gave
it up.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
What did you ever make any money at it?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh? Very little. It was the best lifestyle in the world.
Why just to raise the family and be out your
own boss in the country.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So you just shut it down.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, the bank did.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh, okay, you know that makes sense. What'd you do
with all the equipment?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Uh? We sold some of it and some of it
I have, Okay, I still have. I still ranch. I
have cattle.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
How many head of cattle?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, oh, well you're not supposed to ask that question,
but uh, probably about one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, all right, So you got into the you got
in the equipment business, and then you had an interest in.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
In Uh, well, these carbide guns that you sit around
in ricefield is scared of the birds off with? All right?
It's it's it's basically a cannon. And I've always been
a big deer hunter. My family's always been a big
deer hunter. And coons and your pigs and the weather
(12:29):
was always a problem with deer feeders and feeding animals.
And I came up with this idea old probably a
long time ago. I had this idea twenty five years ago,
but I had to I never did do anything with
it because I had to stop and my wife and
(12:51):
I had three boys and three sons, and so we
were all involved with them and never had time to
pursue and deal. But I got them all out of
college and I started working on this Cannon theater, sir, No, sir,
(13:12):
they didn't go to saw Ross. One went to played
ball for Concordian, Lutheran and Austin, and the other two
went to One went to Wharton and one went to Brazsport.
They have, uh, the twins, both and tolar twins. They
(13:33):
worked at the nuclear power plant. One is a mill right,
the other one is electrician.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Oh those are good jobs.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh yeah in chance. Uh the one who graduated from Concordion, Uh,
he works for Barri Kim, a chemical company here in
Bay City.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So they're all, sir, they're all sounds like they're all
doing well.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're doing they're doing two. I had
three National Honor Society students or kids in two Eagle Scouts.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh wow, well, hold on just a minute. I want
to hear about this feeder, right, all right, hold on
tell them, yeah, they may probably somebody else getting their
haircut by now. Cannonfeeder dot com. You've got dumb Michael
Berry Show. Denton Leisner is our guest. He's bohemian, falling
(14:33):
in from enormous barbershop. Didn't have you ever had a
straight razor shave? Yes, sir how long has it been?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
About the time I was in college? At its soul?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, you got to try another one, man, that's just
nothing like that. Let it grow real long and stubbly
and scratchy, and go in there and let them they
do the oils and the hot packs and the towels
and the creams, and you just, man, it's it's an indulgence.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That sounds great. Yeah, at sixty three years of age, though,
the hair grows longer on your ears than it does
on your head.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I went into Orange to see my parents this weekend
for Easter, and my mother pulled me aside like she
was going to tell me that one of my relatives
had died. She pulled me aside to tell me that
I had hair growing out of my ears. Mom. That's
you don't have to you don't have you know, that's
not a hushed tone. All right. So this cannon feeder,
(15:36):
it's expensive, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Sixteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh, I'll give you twenty bucks and you keep the change.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That comes with the two year warranty. Okay, all right,
and I'll save you trips going to your dearly All right.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Let's go through the features. Let's go feature by feature. Okay, okay,
the first thing that number one reason to build this
was because it's a self contained box and can't coons
or anything get in it? Right right?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It has a it has a barrel on it. This
is not a conventional theater where you have a spinner.
It has no moving parts like a spinner.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What's wrong with you? Your your website goes on and
on about the spinners, but the spinner. Everybody uses the spinner.
What's wrong with the spinner?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
The spinner is your coons can get up there and
spin it. Your feed falls out when it rains. Okay,
the birds bother it. I can just go on and
on and on.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But I wish you could find someone this one.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
This one sits on the ground. You're not climbing a
You're not climbing the ladder. You're not winching it up
and down. I almost killed two of my kids with
when my cable broke.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Nobody likes winches, no sir.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
They they have a tendency of breaking hands and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Can other parts too, But.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
In this climbing is not good.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
When you get you, then can I ask you a question?
Because you're a lot smarter stuff than me. Is there
a way we have on our back porch because we
had a bird problem coming up under there that we
had those those swallows that are protect nationally protected. You're
not supposed to kill them, right, So we we created
this system where when a bird flies up there, it
(17:27):
screeches like an owl and it's it has worked. But
I wonder if you could set up some sort of
a solar powered deal out there that would make that
sound because I love when we're when we're out at
the feeder waiting on the hogs. I love the sound
of the corn coming through the spinner. Could you set
something up like that for me?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, I tell you what with their you.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Know what I'm talking about, right, that rattling sound at
tinting king ding ding ding thing thinging the corn coming down.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Mine has My feeder has a compressor, has a twelve
O compressor and it makes the same noise as are
similar to what the spinner does. Doctor James kroll he
and Keith Warren said that the deer can fill the
(18:17):
vibration of this compressor and they will come to it.
All right, I was kidding on doctor Krolls feeder. I
put a golf cart back up alarm on it, so
it beat when it was going off.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh, I was told you put one at Ted Nugent's
house recently.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yes, Sir, I took one to Ted Nudges and he
was he's just appalled by this thing. I have units.
I've had these units out for years and they're they're
virtually maintenance free. I have had no problem. Now what
you you want me to describe the mechanisms how it works?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, but you have to do it slowly, okay? All right?
Like how why each aspect of it is important?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay? First of all, use V timer, the West Texas timer,
and that's about That is the best timer on the market.
It draws his least amount of current of any timeer
out there. Second, law, I use a there's an air
compressor in here. It's a by Air air compressor. It's
(19:34):
on it's a fortune five hundred comany all of California,
and it's very reliable. It has a five hundred hour
run time.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
What if I want none to have all Texas parts?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Uh? I don't know what it's about that, Michael.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Can't we find something from Texas?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Uh? Yeah, we can go to Walmart and get some
of these parts. You could. Basically, you could really build
this whole, this whole system besides the box out of Walmart.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't want to do that. I just call you.
Do you deliver set them up?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I can, yes, sir, I can, if you well, it
depends on how many you buy, if you buy more
multiples of three or more. Oh, come, I'll be glad
to come and set them up for you. Then a
reasonable you know, as long as it's in a reasonable distance,
not from here to New York.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
But what if that's the day you got to get
your hair cut?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Ah, just let it go.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, all right, okay, this is this.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
These things Michael. If you are you are you familiar
with what a potato gun could do? Um?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean not intimately, but I have an idea. It's
the same concept, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
This is the same concept. I shoot my corn the
theater up anywhere from forty to fifty yards.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Come on, now, yes, sir, yard, that's the two pounds,
that's the two pound pack. You got to all right,
hold hold on a second, then hold hold on, hold
on just all right, we'll get to that. We shoot
off a potato gun. So I come back with a
little more knowledge. This next second, the Michael Berry Show continues.
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The Michael Berry Show. So on today's show an interview
we did I guess last week, but we had not
had an opportunity to air. I figure you can read
the news headlines on your own, and we'll usually bring
them up. But if we can pierce the world you're
in and make you stop and think about entrepreneurism, about
(00:22):
chasing your dreams, about your passion, about your opportunity to
own a business and hire other people and employ other
people and live out that dream and not leave anything
on the field, and not leave anything undone that you
always wanted to do. So with that in mind, we
(00:42):
will begin our conversation and whether you're a deer hunter
or my favorite email, I got an email from a
woman who said, I've never been a deer hunter, never
will be. I don't own a ranch, but I was
fascinated by that discussion, and I hope you will be too.
Texas House bill requiring more study of the warfare in
(01:04):
based poison caput that AG Commissioner Sid Miller wants for
killing Farrell hogs House lawmakers voted one hundred twenty eight
to thirteen to preliminarily approve legislation that would require state
agencies or university research. Search would require state agency research
or university research. You found it, yeah, but now I'm
(01:29):
in the middle of my story. They'll have to research
it more before the youth's use of lethal pesticides on
wild pigs. A companion bill in the Senate has ten
co sponsors. Back in February, Miller announced an emergency state
rule change allowing the use of the warfare and based
poison CAPUT, which was recently approved by the Environmental Protection
(01:52):
Agency to kill kill wild pigs. Under House Bill thirty
four fifty one that was authored by Denton State Rep.
Lynn Stuckey, the state would have to conduct a study
on its potential negative impact on other wildlife before approving
any feral hog poison. A state district judge temporarily blocked
the Agriculture Department's emergency rules in March after a Hill
(02:15):
County meat processing company, I wonder if it's Hill Country,
but it's says Hill County, joined by the Texas Hall
Hunters Association and the Environmental Defense Fund, brought a lawsuit
arguing it would hurt the meat and hunting industries or
industries as we say in Texas. KAPUT must be dispensed
through special feeders also made by Kaputz manufacturer Colorado based Psymetrics,
(02:41):
or we got to invest in symmetrics. This gonna be
the deal. This can be it that have weighted lids
intended to limit other animals access. The label's use instructions
warn against allowing livestock to graze or hunting in areas
around the baited feeders until at least ninety days after
removing the poison. Carcasses must be buried eighteen inches under
(03:04):
the ground, or, if that's not possible because of environmental conditions,
removed from sight. Well that's great. You remove them, but
you got to put them somewhere when you're done. They're heavy.
So you got it. You got it, all right, So
listen to this. I'm getting one of these cannon feeders.
Here we go. The this guy's in Bay City. Go ahead.
(03:27):
That's it. He talks, didn't it doesn't he I watched
it yesterday, but I had the volume down, but it
looked like he was talking. He was showing you how.
He said, there's ass feeder hold srex horn, fight to
sex pounds or corn, and it's got an air compressor.
It's good for two years, and it'll shoot the corn
(03:49):
and they can't know what's coming. And that way you
don't have mud ruts and there's corn. He shoots out
of hair and he just put one at Ted Nugan's
house this past week.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The Innova feeder on the more the cannon feeder, no
more spinners, no more winches. You can put out a
precise amount of feed, and it's easy to feel from
the ground like this, this.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Big, big old box. Shoot so you got enough feed.
You don't have to keep going out and fill your feeders.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The cannon feeder holds up to six hundred and fifty
pounds of feet. You can feed one pound, one and
a half pounds, or two pounds each feeding up to
six times.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It shoots some other shoot the cannon feed Shoot it
because it spreads air.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It dispenses expensive feed out into a tark, so.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's not in one spot, so they tear that up.
And then you don't have to shoot the feeder. When
you shoot them cannon feeder, do get them away from
the feet to order your necks on target feeding feeder.
Feel it and forget it, Feel it and forget it. Yeah,
see some of these guys they got thousands of acres here.
That's it. It's got a little air compressor and it
(05:04):
shoots it out of there. So what it does is
makes a pack of the fields and it shoots it
at an angle like a volley. It shoots a volley
out and it spreads it out. So you don't when
you're shooting, you don't shoot the feeder. But I mean
the biggest part about the whole thing is you can
fill this thing so full, and I guess not have
to go back out there. They let the music play
(05:29):
that long. Well what's the video of? But he's not talking. Man,
There are so many One day we're going to do
a whole show on this fie oh one hundred yard
touchdown returns? Now, why would they think you wanted to
watch that off? How did they know? There are so
many of these guys, the guys that we bought our
(05:51):
night lights, hog vision or whatever it is down in
South Texas, that whole that thing in Bay City. That
guy was a farmer, gave up farming and did there's
so many of these guys. They got little fabrication shop
and they just redneck ingenuity. And you go online and
you find all that they figured out whatever problem you
(06:11):
have at your ranch. They can They have figured it
out and fixed it. The Michael Berry Show, Michael Barry Show,
we decided to give the proprietor of cannon feeders a ring.
He was at the barber shop, but he's taken our
call anyway, Denton Lesseners Lisner Lisner.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is that German? Yes, sir? Are you German?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh? That Bohemian?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh? Okay, all right, okay. What what barbershop are you at?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Uh? In enormous barbershop Bay City, Texas?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Do they have that red, white and blue thing that
twirls out front?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay, is that where you always go?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
How often do you go get a trim?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh? Just when it goes particuling my ears too much?
I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You don't. You're not one of those guys that because
the guys are doing this, I've heard nowadays it gets
the nails and all that done, right, No, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
No, sir. I just have a nice little girl that
gives me good, good haircut and good conversations.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oll that's nice. Is she American?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
What is she?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
She's Spanish?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Spanish? Yes, like Spain, Spanish or Mexican Mexican? Okay? Does
she speak in English to you? Or do you?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, sir, she speaks English?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, all right. How much does a haircut cost?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Uh? Twelve bucks?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is she norma no, sir?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Normous? Does just comes in a couple of days a week? Okay,
normous older older ladies.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is it called normous barbershop?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay. Is it only barberache? There's no, there's no women
under those heatlamps.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
No, it's just two barbercairs. Twelve bucks?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Okay. Do you have to call ahead or they take
walk ins?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They take walk ins.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Are you still inside?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yes, sir, I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Are you fish? Are you finished with your haircut?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yes? Sir.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Do they have things for you all to read there?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Like like, tell me what's on.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Paper about anything that you want to read?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, just kind of go through if you would. What
the periodical list is? You got which paper?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, we got the dated, the Tribune, which is our
local paper.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is that out of Bay City.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We've got Western Horsemans, We've got fishing game, We've got handyman,
we got automotive, uh, Southern living hot rod even have
a men's journal.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
A men's journal? Uh huh what what? What month is
the men's journal? Can you tell me?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I have no idea. I'm just reading this office.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It is the Well you might be reading one that's
ten years.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Old April twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ocause it's only a year old. Yes, How does she
pay for all those periodicals with just twelve dollars cuts?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, but that's what they get.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Can you get a straight in Bay City? Okay? Can
you get a straight razor shave?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
There?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Can you get a straight razor shave? No?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Just a haircut?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They quit?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, well that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I'm sorry they quit doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So uh all right, Well what will you do after
the haircut?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I will go to work and I own a equipment company. Yeah,
bacco service. I do bacco work. Those are work, don't work.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well, that's how I heard about you is from Carol
James and you said you used to do a lot
of bacco work for Scott. Yes, sir, at Patriots. But
that's not what I'm interested in, right, I'm interested in
cannon feeders. Yes, sir, tell me about that. How did
that come about?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That came about? Uh? When Michael. When I got out
of college, I started farming.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's Saul Ross. Uh huh now, fine Texas.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's it's not a Baptist school. That's a what is it?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Universities?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Is what?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's a state university.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I thought it had a denomination attached. I thought Saul
Ross had a denomination attached. No, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Right, it's just a statement. In fact, my grandmother graduated
from there.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And uh anyway, when I when I got out of
farm and I quit my form for twenty six years,
and then when I got out, I've always played around
with these uh car by guns you see him around
airports that make a loud boom.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yet, now, what what kind of farming? Were you doing?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Rice for me?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And it wasn't profitable?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, no, were.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You not good at it? Or just it wasn't it
wasn't meant to be, just.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Was meant to be. Twenty six years and I gave
it up.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
What did you ever make any money at it?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh? Very little. It was the best lifestyle in the world.
Why just to raise the family and be out your
own boss in the country.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So you just shut it down.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, the bank did.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh, okay, you know that makes sense. What'd you do
with all the equipment?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Uh? We sold some of it and some of it
I have, Okay, I still have. I still ranch. I
have cattle.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
How many head of cattle?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, oh, well you're not supposed to ask that question,
but uh, probably about one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, all right, So you got into the you got
in the equipment business, and then you had an interest in.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
In Uh, well, these carbide guns that you sit around
in ricefield is scared of the birds off with? All right?
It's it's it's basically a cannon. And I've always been
a big deer hunter. My family's always been a big
deer hunter. And coons and your pigs and the weather
(12:29):
was always a problem with deer feeders and feeding animals.
And I came up with this idea old probably a
long time ago. I had this idea twenty five years ago,
but I had to I never did do anything with
it because I had to stop and my wife and
(12:51):
I had three boys and three sons, and so we
were all involved with them and never had time to
pursue and deal. But I got them all out of
college and I started working on this Cannon theater, sir, No, sir,
(13:12):
they didn't go to saw Ross. One went to played
ball for Concordian, Lutheran and Austin, and the other two
went to One went to Wharton and one went to Brazsport.
They have, uh, the twins, both and tolar twins. They
(13:33):
worked at the nuclear power plant. One is a mill right,
the other one is electrician.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Oh those are good jobs.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh yeah in chance. Uh the one who graduated from Concordion, Uh,
he works for Barri Kim, a chemical company here in
Bay City.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So they're all, sir, they're all sounds like they're all
doing well.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're doing they're doing two. I had
three National Honor Society students or kids in two Eagle Scouts.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh wow, well, hold on just a minute. I want
to hear about this feeder, right, all right, hold on
tell them, yeah, they may probably somebody else getting their
haircut by now. Cannonfeeder dot com. You've got dumb Michael
Berry Show. Denton Leisner is our guest. He's bohemian, falling
(14:33):
in from enormous barbershop. Didn't have you ever had a
straight razor shave? Yes, sir how long has it been?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
About the time I was in college? At its soul?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, you got to try another one, man, that's just
nothing like that. Let it grow real long and stubbly
and scratchy, and go in there and let them they
do the oils and the hot packs and the towels
and the creams, and you just, man, it's it's an indulgence.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That sounds great. Yeah, at sixty three years of age, though,
the hair grows longer on your ears than it does
on your head.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I went into Orange to see my parents this weekend
for Easter, and my mother pulled me aside like she
was going to tell me that one of my relatives
had died. She pulled me aside to tell me that
I had hair growing out of my ears. Mom. That's
you don't have to you don't have you know, that's
not a hushed tone. All right. So this cannon feeder,
(15:36):
it's expensive, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Sixteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh, I'll give you twenty bucks and you keep the change.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That comes with the two year warranty. Okay, all right,
and I'll save you trips going to your dearly All right.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Let's go through the features. Let's go feature by feature. Okay, okay,
the first thing that number one reason to build this
was because it's a self contained box and can't coons
or anything get in it? Right right?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It has a it has a barrel on it. This
is not a conventional theater where you have a spinner.
It has no moving parts like a spinner.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What's wrong with you? Your your website goes on and
on about the spinners, but the spinner. Everybody uses the spinner.
What's wrong with the spinner?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
The spinner is your coons can get up there and
spin it. Your feed falls out when it rains. Okay,
the birds bother it. I can just go on and
on and on.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But I wish you could find someone this one.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
This one sits on the ground. You're not climbing a
You're not climbing the ladder. You're not winching it up
and down. I almost killed two of my kids with
when my cable broke.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Nobody likes winches, no sir.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
They they have a tendency of breaking hands and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Can other parts too, But.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
In this climbing is not good.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
When you get you, then can I ask you a question?
Because you're a lot smarter stuff than me. Is there
a way we have on our back porch because we
had a bird problem coming up under there that we
had those those swallows that are protect nationally protected. You're
not supposed to kill them, right, So we we created
this system where when a bird flies up there, it
(17:27):
screeches like an owl and it's it has worked. But
I wonder if you could set up some sort of
a solar powered deal out there that would make that
sound because I love when we're when we're out at
the feeder waiting on the hogs. I love the sound
of the corn coming through the spinner. Could you set
something up like that for me?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, I tell you what with their you.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Know what I'm talking about, right, that rattling sound at
tinting king ding ding ding thing thinging the corn coming down.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Mine has My feeder has a compressor, has a twelve
O compressor and it makes the same noise as are
similar to what the spinner does. Doctor James kroll he
and Keith Warren said that the deer can fill the
(18:17):
vibration of this compressor and they will come to it.
All right, I was kidding on doctor Krolls feeder. I
put a golf cart back up alarm on it, so
it beat when it was going off.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh, I was told you put one at Ted Nugent's
house recently.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yes, Sir, I took one to Ted Nudges and he
was he's just appalled by this thing. I have units.
I've had these units out for years and they're they're
virtually maintenance free. I have had no problem. Now what
you you want me to describe the mechanisms how it works?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, but you have to do it slowly, okay? All right?
Like how why each aspect of it is important?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay? First of all, use V timer, the West Texas timer,
and that's about That is the best timer on the market.
It draws his least amount of current of any timeer
out there. Second, law, I use a there's an air
compressor in here. It's a by Air air compressor. It's
(19:34):
on it's a fortune five hundred comany all of California,
and it's very reliable. It has a five hundred hour
run time.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
What if I want none to have all Texas parts?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Uh? I don't know what it's about that, Michael.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Can't we find something from Texas?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Uh? Yeah, we can go to Walmart and get some
of these parts. You could. Basically, you could really build
this whole, this whole system besides the box out of Walmart.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't want to do that. I just call you.
Do you deliver set them up?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I can, yes, sir, I can, if you well, it
depends on how many you buy, if you buy more
multiples of three or more. Oh, come, I'll be glad
to come and set them up for you. Then a
reasonable you know, as long as it's in a reasonable distance,
not from here to New York.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
But what if that's the day you got to get
your hair cut?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Ah, just let it go.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, all right, okay, this is this.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
These things Michael. If you are you are you familiar
with what a potato gun could do? Um?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean not intimately, but I have an idea. It's
the same concept, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
This is the same concept. I shoot my corn the
theater up anywhere from forty to fifty yards.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Come on, now, yes, sir, yard, that's the two pounds,
that's the two pound pack. You got to all right,
hold hold on a second, then hold hold on, hold
on just all right, we'll get to that. We shoot
off a potato gun. So I come back with a
little more knowledge. This next second, the Michael Berry Show continues.
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