May 23, 2025 • 11 mins
John Berry of Berry Law joined me to invite you to SumTur Amphitheater in Papillion this Sunday from 3-7:30 for free food, live music, and a celebration of heroes over Memorial Day weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Sunday, Rain or Shine. You heard me talk the
other day with Dave Bray of Dave Bray USA, as
a military veteran, as is our guest in the studio,
part of the group responsible for bringing you this family
friendly fun and we're cheering on freedom event here and
it's absolutely free this Sunday and Papillion at Sumter Amphitheater.
(00:23):
We've got John Barry of Barry Law here in the studio. John,
it's good to meet you. Thanks a lot for coming in,
Thanks so much for having me. Did you bring your
warrior ethos into the studio here this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know that's something you can't lay behind wherever you go.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Dude, I'm so impressed by you because you've got the
best billboard face. I mean, we're radio guys here at KFAB.
They're not putting our faces on billboards. You don't see
us on TV commercials. For radio people, You've got a
fantastic billboard face. What's it like to drive around Omaha
and look up everywhere and go out there? I am
looking down on the traffic this morning. There are days
(01:00):
when I wish I had a face for radio. You know,
not every day goes well and not every day you
want to be up there. But I think it's a
matter of accountability.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When you know you're gonna be up there, you know
people are going to be looking, and it holds us
to integrity doing what we say we're gonna do when
we're saying we're gonna do it because everybody's watching.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I want to talk to you a little bit
about your career, both military and law. But let's first
talk about this event on Sunday. Slight chance for rain
on Sunday. You know in Omaha, that could mean it
rains for fifteen minutes in the morning or the evening.
I don't think we're looking at a full rain out
on Sunday. But this is a rain or shine event,
and this is going to be a really really cool event. Here.
(01:38):
We got free food, we've got great music. Tell me
about what we're doing on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, rainar shine, we will be there. Look, I just
came back from Nashville. We're supposed to go. I took
my team. We're gonna go the ECDC concert. It got
rained out.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What yeah, DC, you rained out?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah? It went the next day and actually, you know what,
in some parts there was hal but but you know, luck,
I had a friend who was a veteran who had
tickets to Hey, just come back the next day, come
with me. So my team missed out, and I thought,
I don't want someone to miss out, uh, because there's
a little bit of rain. And the military we used
to say, if it ain't raining, we ain't training, and
we just expect bad weather. We prepare for bad weather
and we suck it up. And I think it's important,
(02:14):
you know, this time of year that we honor our
gold star families are falling, you know, our first responders
and our veterans, and we and we and we have
that time together and we can't let rain stop. In
the fact, rain reminds us of a good time because
you got to embrace the suck when it was cold,
when it was raining, when it was hot. I mean
I think if Iraq when it was the wind would
(02:35):
have blow it felt like a hair dryer was blown
on you. Yeah, but it was so great to be
around those people. And that's what this really is about.
It's about bringing the veteran community together, the gold Star
family together. Uh. You know, our first responders, all of
those who serve, we all have that thing in common.
We all volunteered to serve, and we know those who
have made the ultimate sacrifice, and we want to we
want to honor our heroes. And there's no better way
(02:57):
to do it, and no better day to do it
than on a Memorial Day. And for us, yeah, a
lot of veteran suffered with PTSD and other things. That's
the team is gone, the mission's gone, and we want
to bring all that back and we're really excited. We've got,
you know, heroes encore South of Center and we're featuring
Dave Bray USA and Navy Corman, a Navy medic who
served with Marines and helped injured individuals in combat and
(03:19):
has seen his fair share.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How's that gonna work? Because we talked to Dave last week.
Super good dude, great musician. I love what he's done
in mixing both you know, some some good tender ballad
rock as well as some hard rock. Maybe not exactly
a CDC, but definitely some hard rock. I hear a
lot of Three Doors Down to Creed in some of
his music. That guy can absolutely wail. But he's a
(03:43):
Navy guy. You're an Army guy. How's that gonna go on? Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you know, joint service. I think there's there's a
level of respect, right and I look, when I deployed,
I was at Alisad Air Base. It was a marine base.
We were the army unit on base, and of course, yeah,
we got treated a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But in the end, you know, we're all brothers and sisters.
We all serve together. And while we like to joke
and rip on each other, you know, that's the thing
veteran Zoe get offended. And it's kind of funny. We
live in a society every gets depended about everything. But
I can tell you branch of service is just the beginning.
But it is that camaraderie where you can say anything
to me and I'm just going to say something more
offensive back because I love you, because you have my back.
(04:19):
And in the military, we don't worry about our difference.
Is what we really worry about is who's a high performer,
who has my back and who's a low performer And
high performers doesn't matter where you come, who you love,
what you want to do with your life. If you
are a high performer, you have my respect and I
will always have your back. And you know that is
the brotherhood and the sisterhood of the military is that
we trust each other with our lives. And for that reason,
(04:41):
it doesn't matter what branch of service are from, where
we're from, our race, our gender, we all serve together.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We all have that common purpose. It's like brothers. You know,
Brothers just beat on each other and rip on each
other all the time. But if someone comes along there
and picks on one of the brothers, you're picking on
all of them. And that's how it goes. That's how
that love manifests itself. We're talking here with John Barry
Barry Law here in Omaha. I love talking to people
who have enlisted in our nation's military about the day
they decided to do it. What was that day like
(05:09):
for you?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know, it was uh I had I played football
at College WAYA and Mary Now. I played with Mike
Tomlin and Sean McDermott, Steelers head coach and Bill's head coach.
Now I rode the bench, but I got injured pretty
bad by sophomore year and they told me I have
to sit out a year. And I started thinking about
what my future was going to be. And I knew
I'd go to law school eventually, but I wanted to
I wanted to serve, and I wanted to test myself.
(05:32):
And I saw this thing on the Army Rangers. My
whole college football career is about gaining weight, getting bigger
and faster, and I saw these guys eating, you know,
starving basically, you know, eating two meals a day, burning
off you know, five thousand plus calories a day, and
then getting no sleep, So no food, no sleep, the
toughest physical challenges. I'd have to transform my body. But
I got to be among the elite, our nation's heroes.
(05:54):
You know that the saying goes the reason why God
created the Army Rangers because Navy seals need heroes. I
like it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I don't know the Navy Seals will like it. In fact,
that reminds me I just saw the story a moment ago.
The Army has just required that all active duties soldiers
proved their physical prowess by passing a new rigorous fitness test.
Do you want to tick through these five components of
what is now Army strong to see if you can
still do them? You got to do the three repetition
(06:23):
maximum deadlift. That is the maximum weight possible three times
using the sixty pounds hex bar and plates. So you
got the three rep max deadlift. That's number one. Number
two hand release push up hand release push up is
that is that the clap not the clap, but you
know where you push up clap and then do I'm
(06:45):
not sure what hand release push up?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, you know, I have not seen the new standards.
I'll tell you this. I was a I did a
lot of lifting playing college. When that transferred my body
to be linked. I mean when I went through I
think they're only maybe two times when I did not
score the maximum out on the Army Physical Fitness Test.
It was a two mile run, push ups and setups,
but I lifted all the time, so uh yeah, I
mean this was nothing new and we deployed. Lifting was
(07:08):
part of it, and so yeah, I could bench press
four hundred pounds and run a sub twelve minute two
mile back in my heyday, so I'm sure I could
handle this.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, I think you'd be good for the two
mile run. That's on there as well. Plank you got
to hold a proper plank position for as long as possible.
And then there's the hand release push up. The three
rep maximum deadlift and then the sprint drag carry. Did
you have to do those?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
No? I mean that's all part of the new program,
and I think it's good. I think it's a better evolution.
We're not just it's not just about muscular endurance and
cardiovascal endurance. Now it's about strength and yeah, a lot
of these two. Back in my day, it was a
gut check if you were in good shape. I mean
I knew guys had gone and drink all night and
still max the physical fitness tests because they could smoke
like the smoke like a chimney, run like the wind.
And everybody that served knew those people. But I think
(07:54):
that No, I think it's a good evolution because reality
is this is that when we are actually doing the training,
we're pulling bodies out of buildings, we are carrying team member.
We never leave a fallen comrade. We're carrying people on
stretchers and one of our you know, the ranger Creed.
You know, we never leave a fallen comrade, and we
never quit. And I you know, I just read Stan
mccrystal's book and I had dinner with him and Alexandria
(08:17):
last summer and he said, you know, he ran into
a ranger and his was a footmarch carrying sixty eighty
pounds and he stopped, looked at the guy's foot. It
was all torn up and he just said and he
my Crystal said, I'll call the medics, and he said, no,
recognizing that I volunteered as a ranger, which is the
first stands of the ranger. Creed. You know, look all
(08:37):
these things. I think the training is important to support that.
Yet we need strong warriors. And now that we're wearing
the heavy iba, the heavy equipment, the heavy kit, you
got to have the strength to kick indoors, pull out hey,
subdue bad guys, and then also you know, yeah, save
your comrades.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Talking here with John S Berry Berry Law here in Omaha,
we see themmercials, the billboards, we hear it here on
news radio eleven to ten kfab that you bring that
warrior ethos from your time serving in the United States
Army into what you do at Barry Law. Before we
once again invite everyone to join us on Sunday afternoon
at Sumter Amphitheater talk about what Barry Law does there
(09:18):
for veterans in our community and why that's so important
to you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, you know, our nation has a promise to our veterans.
It's in our constitution. And you know all of us
have served had to take an oath to support and
defend the Constitution of the United States. Lawyers take a
very similar oath, and so now as lawyers, we support
and defend the constitution. One client as a time, whether
that's someone who's been seriously injured and the insurance companies
(09:43):
are not taking care of them and we have to
we have to hold them accountable, or a veteran who
has been injured has been not denied disability, been underrated
for that disability, or been given a wrong effective date.
We step in and hold the government accountable. I think
the saying is, you know, a government worth having it
the government worth holding accountable. And I can think of
no greater hero to represent than the American veteran. We
(10:06):
love to represent our hero because we get to be
a hero to our heroes when we went and there's
no better feeling.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You've got an opportunity to be a part of this
really fun event on Sunday afternoon, sumter Amphitheater, which is
an outdoor space there just south of Papelion La Vista
South High School about one hundred and eighth ish and
three seventy. It's an incredible space. It's going to be
a really fun scene on Sunday. We got some free
food out there starting at three o'clock. We got like
burgers and hot dogs and stuff like that. We got
(10:34):
at least one band taking the stage about three thirty
or so, and then you have your headliner, Dave bray Usa,
after the supporting bands of South of Center and Heroes,
and then Dave bray Usa He'll take the stage about
five five thirty or so. And I'm very lucky to
be a part of this event in the name of
America's veterans, of those we have lost. This what Memorial
(10:57):
Day weekend is all about. And thank you to you,
John and to your comrades at Berry Law for doing
what you do in our community, including this event on Sunday.
I'll see you there, see you there. It's going to
be a great time there. Sumpter Amphitheater gates open at
three live music from three until seven point thirty this Sunday.
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfab
On Sunday, Rain or Shine. You heard me talk the
other day with Dave Bray of Dave Bray USA, as
a military veteran, as is our guest in the studio,
part of the group responsible for bringing you this family
friendly fun and we're cheering on freedom event here and
it's absolutely free this Sunday and Papillion at Sumter Amphitheater.
(00:23):
We've got John Barry of Barry Law here in the studio. John,
it's good to meet you. Thanks a lot for coming in,
Thanks so much for having me. Did you bring your
warrior ethos into the studio here this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know that's something you can't lay behind wherever you go.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Dude, I'm so impressed by you because you've got the
best billboard face. I mean, we're radio guys here at KFAB.
They're not putting our faces on billboards. You don't see
us on TV commercials. For radio people, You've got a
fantastic billboard face. What's it like to drive around Omaha
and look up everywhere and go out there? I am
looking down on the traffic this morning. There are days
(01:00):
when I wish I had a face for radio. You know,
not every day goes well and not every day you
want to be up there. But I think it's a
matter of accountability.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When you know you're gonna be up there, you know
people are going to be looking, and it holds us
to integrity doing what we say we're gonna do when
we're saying we're gonna do it because everybody's watching.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I want to talk to you a little bit
about your career, both military and law. But let's first
talk about this event on Sunday. Slight chance for rain
on Sunday. You know in Omaha, that could mean it
rains for fifteen minutes in the morning or the evening.
I don't think we're looking at a full rain out
on Sunday. But this is a rain or shine event,
and this is going to be a really really cool event. Here.
(01:38):
We got free food, we've got great music. Tell me
about what we're doing on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, rainar shine, we will be there. Look, I just
came back from Nashville. We're supposed to go. I took
my team. We're gonna go the ECDC concert. It got
rained out.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What yeah, DC, you rained out?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah? It went the next day and actually, you know what,
in some parts there was hal but but you know, luck,
I had a friend who was a veteran who had
tickets to Hey, just come back the next day, come
with me. So my team missed out, and I thought,
I don't want someone to miss out, uh, because there's
a little bit of rain. And the military we used
to say, if it ain't raining, we ain't training, and
we just expect bad weather. We prepare for bad weather
and we suck it up. And I think it's important,
(02:14):
you know, this time of year that we honor our
gold star families are falling, you know, our first responders
and our veterans, and we and we and we have
that time together and we can't let rain stop. In
the fact, rain reminds us of a good time because
you got to embrace the suck when it was cold,
when it was raining, when it was hot. I mean
I think if Iraq when it was the wind would
(02:35):
have blow it felt like a hair dryer was blown
on you. Yeah, but it was so great to be
around those people. And that's what this really is about.
It's about bringing the veteran community together, the gold Star
family together. Uh. You know, our first responders, all of
those who serve, we all have that thing in common.
We all volunteered to serve, and we know those who
have made the ultimate sacrifice, and we want to we
want to honor our heroes. And there's no better way
(02:57):
to do it, and no better day to do it
than on a Memorial Day. And for us, yeah, a
lot of veteran suffered with PTSD and other things. That's
the team is gone, the mission's gone, and we want
to bring all that back and we're really excited. We've got,
you know, heroes encore South of Center and we're featuring
Dave Bray USA and Navy Corman, a Navy medic who
served with Marines and helped injured individuals in combat and
(03:19):
has seen his fair share.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How's that gonna work? Because we talked to Dave last week.
Super good dude, great musician. I love what he's done
in mixing both you know, some some good tender ballad
rock as well as some hard rock. Maybe not exactly
a CDC, but definitely some hard rock. I hear a
lot of Three Doors Down to Creed in some of
his music. That guy can absolutely wail. But he's a
(03:43):
Navy guy. You're an Army guy. How's that gonna go on? Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you know, joint service. I think there's there's a
level of respect, right and I look, when I deployed,
I was at Alisad Air Base. It was a marine base.
We were the army unit on base, and of course, yeah,
we got treated a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But in the end, you know, we're all brothers and sisters.
We all serve together. And while we like to joke
and rip on each other, you know, that's the thing
veteran Zoe get offended. And it's kind of funny. We
live in a society every gets depended about everything. But
I can tell you branch of service is just the beginning.
But it is that camaraderie where you can say anything
to me and I'm just going to say something more
offensive back because I love you, because you have my back.
(04:19):
And in the military, we don't worry about our difference.
Is what we really worry about is who's a high performer,
who has my back and who's a low performer And
high performers doesn't matter where you come, who you love,
what you want to do with your life. If you
are a high performer, you have my respect and I
will always have your back. And you know that is
the brotherhood and the sisterhood of the military is that
we trust each other with our lives. And for that reason,
(04:41):
it doesn't matter what branch of service are from, where
we're from, our race, our gender, we all serve together.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We all have that common purpose. It's like brothers. You know,
Brothers just beat on each other and rip on each
other all the time. But if someone comes along there
and picks on one of the brothers, you're picking on
all of them. And that's how it goes. That's how
that love manifests itself. We're talking here with John Barry
Barry Law here in Omaha. I love talking to people
who have enlisted in our nation's military about the day
they decided to do it. What was that day like
(05:09):
for you?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know, it was uh I had I played football
at College WAYA and Mary Now. I played with Mike
Tomlin and Sean McDermott, Steelers head coach and Bill's head coach.
Now I rode the bench, but I got injured pretty
bad by sophomore year and they told me I have
to sit out a year. And I started thinking about
what my future was going to be. And I knew
I'd go to law school eventually, but I wanted to
I wanted to serve, and I wanted to test myself.
(05:32):
And I saw this thing on the Army Rangers. My
whole college football career is about gaining weight, getting bigger
and faster, and I saw these guys eating, you know,
starving basically, you know, eating two meals a day, burning
off you know, five thousand plus calories a day, and
then getting no sleep, So no food, no sleep, the
toughest physical challenges. I'd have to transform my body. But
I got to be among the elite, our nation's heroes.
(05:54):
You know that the saying goes the reason why God
created the Army Rangers because Navy seals need heroes. I
like it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I don't know the Navy Seals will like it. In fact,
that reminds me I just saw the story a moment ago.
The Army has just required that all active duties soldiers
proved their physical prowess by passing a new rigorous fitness test.
Do you want to tick through these five components of
what is now Army strong to see if you can
still do them? You got to do the three repetition
(06:23):
maximum deadlift. That is the maximum weight possible three times
using the sixty pounds hex bar and plates. So you
got the three rep max deadlift. That's number one. Number
two hand release push up hand release push up is
that is that the clap not the clap, but you
know where you push up clap and then do I'm
(06:45):
not sure what hand release push up?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, you know, I have not seen the new standards.
I'll tell you this. I was a I did a
lot of lifting playing college. When that transferred my body
to be linked. I mean when I went through I
think they're only maybe two times when I did not
score the maximum out on the Army Physical Fitness Test.
It was a two mile run, push ups and setups,
but I lifted all the time, so uh yeah, I
mean this was nothing new and we deployed. Lifting was
(07:08):
part of it, and so yeah, I could bench press
four hundred pounds and run a sub twelve minute two
mile back in my heyday, so I'm sure I could
handle this.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, I think you'd be good for the two
mile run. That's on there as well. Plank you got
to hold a proper plank position for as long as possible.
And then there's the hand release push up. The three
rep maximum deadlift and then the sprint drag carry. Did
you have to do those?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
No? I mean that's all part of the new program,
and I think it's good. I think it's a better evolution.
We're not just it's not just about muscular endurance and
cardiovascal endurance. Now it's about strength and yeah, a lot
of these two. Back in my day, it was a
gut check if you were in good shape. I mean
I knew guys had gone and drink all night and
still max the physical fitness tests because they could smoke
like the smoke like a chimney, run like the wind.
And everybody that served knew those people. But I think
(07:54):
that No, I think it's a good evolution because reality
is this is that when we are actually doing the training,
we're pulling bodies out of buildings, we are carrying team member.
We never leave a fallen comrade. We're carrying people on
stretchers and one of our you know, the ranger Creed.
You know, we never leave a fallen comrade, and we
never quit. And I you know, I just read Stan
mccrystal's book and I had dinner with him and Alexandria
(08:17):
last summer and he said, you know, he ran into
a ranger and his was a footmarch carrying sixty eighty
pounds and he stopped, looked at the guy's foot. It
was all torn up and he just said and he
my Crystal said, I'll call the medics, and he said, no,
recognizing that I volunteered as a ranger, which is the
first stands of the ranger. Creed. You know, look all
(08:37):
these things. I think the training is important to support that.
Yet we need strong warriors. And now that we're wearing
the heavy iba, the heavy equipment, the heavy kit, you
got to have the strength to kick indoors, pull out hey,
subdue bad guys, and then also you know, yeah, save
your comrades.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Talking here with John S Berry Berry Law here in Omaha,
we see themmercials, the billboards, we hear it here on
news radio eleven to ten kfab that you bring that
warrior ethos from your time serving in the United States
Army into what you do at Barry Law. Before we
once again invite everyone to join us on Sunday afternoon
at Sumter Amphitheater talk about what Barry Law does there
(09:18):
for veterans in our community and why that's so important
to you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, you know, our nation has a promise to our veterans.
It's in our constitution. And you know all of us
have served had to take an oath to support and
defend the Constitution of the United States. Lawyers take a
very similar oath, and so now as lawyers, we support
and defend the constitution. One client as a time, whether
that's someone who's been seriously injured and the insurance companies
(09:43):
are not taking care of them and we have to
we have to hold them accountable, or a veteran who
has been injured has been not denied disability, been underrated
for that disability, or been given a wrong effective date.
We step in and hold the government accountable. I think
the saying is, you know, a government worth having it
the government worth holding accountable. And I can think of
no greater hero to represent than the American veteran. We
(10:06):
love to represent our hero because we get to be
a hero to our heroes when we went and there's
no better feeling.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You've got an opportunity to be a part of this
really fun event on Sunday afternoon, sumter Amphitheater, which is
an outdoor space there just south of Papelion La Vista
South High School about one hundred and eighth ish and
three seventy. It's an incredible space. It's going to be
a really fun scene on Sunday. We got some free
food out there starting at three o'clock. We got like
burgers and hot dogs and stuff like that. We got
(10:34):
at least one band taking the stage about three thirty
or so, and then you have your headliner, Dave bray Usa,
after the supporting bands of South of Center and Heroes,
and then Dave bray Usa He'll take the stage about
five five thirty or so. And I'm very lucky to
be a part of this event in the name of
America's veterans, of those we have lost. This what Memorial
(10:57):
Day weekend is all about. And thank you to you,
John and to your comrades at Berry Law for doing
what you do in our community, including this event on Sunday.
I'll see you there, see you there. It's going to
be a great time there. Sumpter Amphitheater gates open at
three live music from three until seven point thirty this Sunday.
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfab
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.