1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,159 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: Time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: So Michael Day Show is on the air. Hello, babe, 4 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: we got a full tank of gas, half a pack 5 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: of cigarettes. 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 3: It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it well. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: That's where we go, riding in the tent, a whopping 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: and a whooping. 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 3: Ever living thing it moves within an inch of its land. 10 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: Sorry, folks, parks closed the moves out. 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 4: You do for Jesus, make Mountha Berry Show. 12 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 3: For some reason or another, you signed a little toll 13 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 3: on radio. 14 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: There's a meme going around. 15 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 4: It's a fat guy laying on the couch, his T 16 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 4: shirt on halfway up his belly. You know he's been 17 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 4: watching TV all day, probably Cheetos and drinking cokes and 18 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,839 Speaker 4: switching it over to beers. It says, I'm just waiting 19 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 4: on RFK to make me healthy. 20 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: Secretary of State announced Anthony Blinkoln announced quote every dollar 21 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: at our disposed, we have at our disposal will be 22 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: pushed to Ukraine between now and January twentieth. That's great, 23 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: that's great. Our people are dying, can't afford their prescriptions, 24 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: or their food or their gas, and you want to 25 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: send more money to Ukraine. As one last ditch effort 26 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: of an f U boy. And that's something I posted 27 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: something yesterday. I got a lot of responses asking if 28 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: I talked about this on the air, and I haven't, 29 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: But it's kind of consistent with what I say all 30 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: the time. Usually when I post something like that, it's 31 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: because somebody has asked me something. And when I take 32 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: thirty minutes to answer somebody's question, I feel like, well, 33 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: we're in the content creation business. Let me just repeat 34 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: that to a broader audience. Somebody might need that, and 35 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: everybody else can go, do you want fries with that order? Sir? 36 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: Because it's so random, But I posted yesterday and I 37 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: believe this prune your friendship tree. Everyone you went to school, 38 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: are related to, or work with is not a friend. 39 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: Social media screwed up our use of this term. Focus 40 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: on people you deeply love who love you loyalty focus. 41 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: Spend your time and energy on people who are worthy, 42 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: prioritize them, Save all your time for the people who matter. 43 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: Block or ignore the rest. Years ago, I said, if 44 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: you don't know how to use the block function on 45 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: your phone, figure it out or ask your grandkids. And 46 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: when you have somebody who calls you, and every time 47 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: you're through talking to them, you realize they are not 48 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: enriching your life. They're making it worse. They always need something, 49 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: They always complain. They want you to listen to all 50 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: the problems they create for themselves. They criticize you constantly. 51 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: You don't need them in your life. I told you 52 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: again and again and again and again. One of our 53 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: problems on our side of the political spectrum is the 54 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: combination of naivete and niceness. You've always been told to 55 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: be nice. It's overrated. Nice guys finished last. It's true. 56 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: You can be kind, you can be generous, you can 57 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: be polite, but you have to stop being nice to 58 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: people who don't deserve it. You have to stop letting 59 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: people run over you, and you have to stop enabling 60 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: people who are parasites sucking the life out of you. 61 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes those people are family members, sometimes their neighbors. Sometimes 62 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: there's somebody you went to school with. Sometimes they're a colleague. 63 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: Stress and negativity is a killer. When you actually study 64 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: the things that kill the human body. We're all gonna die, 65 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: we're not built to live forever. But when you actually 66 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: study the things that kill us, particularly premature they're mostly 67 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: stress related stress and inflammation. Stress is terrible, and people 68 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: cause you stress. People think, for instance, that their job 69 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: is stressful. All right, why is your job? This happened 70 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: to me a couple days ago. Friend of mine said 71 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: he'd been at a dinner meeting that he had to 72 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: go to in Dallas and he had to have these meetings. 73 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: And he got home and he said, it's you know, 74 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: it was important that I make a good impression and 75 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: we get a lot done, have a few glasses while 76 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: I get back to my room. I got to get 77 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: up and drive back to Houston the next day and 78 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: it was ten thirty eleven o'clock and I'd had a 79 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: full day and I opened my computer and I had 80 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: four hundred emails that were unread. And I said, now 81 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: what am I going to do? And he was talking 82 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: about the stress, and I said, it's going to kill you. 83 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: This level of stress is literally going to kill you prematurely. 84 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: This is what And he has heart problems in his family, 85 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: and I said, it is funny because people that don't 86 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: live my life don't understand why I do what I do. 87 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,559 Speaker 1: You have to get to the point that you start 88 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: making decisions to enable you to navigate whatever world you're in. 89 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: If you serve in combat, you have to learn to 90 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: make decisions that I've never had to make. If you've 91 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: got thirty cars per day that you've got to change 92 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: the all on. You've got to make decisions and calculations 93 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: that I don't have to make. But I have a 94 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: lot of people coming at me, and I don't mind it, 95 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: because emails from listeners, for instance, is something I enjoy 96 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: a great deal and I get show prep out of it, 97 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: and I get a good sense of what people are 98 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: thinking about both the show and what's going on in 99 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 1: the country. But I'm also quite capable of turning it off. 100 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: And you have to learn to do that. And I said, 101 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and do a reset, delete 102 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,799 Speaker 1: every email. And he started into the why he couldn't 103 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: do that, and I said, do you want the problem 104 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: solved or not? And so he said, well, what if 105 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: I missed something? I said, there's a little trick I've learned. 106 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: If it's important, they'll email you again. So if you 107 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: cut those four hundred emails, a lot of which are 108 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: this is the worst an acknowledgment that they received an 109 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: email that you sent. I don't know why we need 110 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: to acknowledge the system works pretty well, that emails and 111 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: text messages go through a thumbs up exclamation. You don't 112 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: need all that. Those are things that take part of 113 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: your day, and you no longer have any parts of 114 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: your day. It's not that that person's a bad person. 115 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: It's just that you don't have time for that. You 116 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: can't stop and pick up every nickel along the road 117 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: or every stray dog that's Emily's problem, or you know, 118 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: give everybody a ride on the way to work because 119 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: your commute is now three hours each way. So you 120 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: get to the point that you start, you start learning 121 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: where you can. You can cut a corner, you can 122 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: cut back, you can simplify. And one of the things 123 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: is you don't have to read or reply to every email. 124 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: You don't have to read or reply to every phone call. 125 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: You don't even have to take every phone call. You 126 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: can block it. You don't have to respond to every text, 127 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: you don't have to take every meeting. That's something that 128 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: people the nice bug gets you, Well, what are you 129 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: doing today? I gotta go to this lunch? Well, this 130 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: guy trying to sell me insurance. Why are you going 131 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: to lunch with the guy that's on the insurance if 132 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: you don't need insurance. Well, he kept bothering me, and 133 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: he kept asking, and I kept putting him off. So 134 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: you don't know how to say no. You're a terribly 135 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: weak person. Other people pray on you. You are the 136 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: weak of the herd. Don't tell me you're a nice guy. 137 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: You're weak. You've got to be able to make decisions 138 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: for yourself, because now you're gonna spend more time dreading 139 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 1: the lunch than you're gonna spend at lunch. And by 140 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: the way, you don't even need insurance. 141 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 5: In sim. 142 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. 143 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 5: Simple Man, when I did Rocky, if you remember, the 144 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 5: first image was the picture of Jesus. 145 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: There is a resurrection ac club. I found a church 146 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 2: that had been converted to a boxing ring, so the 147 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 2: image pans down from Jesus onto Rocky being hit, and 148 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 2: at that moment he was a chosen person. And that's 149 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 2: how I began the journey. Something was going to happen. 150 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 2: This man was going to go through a metamorphosis and 151 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: change lives, just like President Truck. 152 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: And then the worst president in the history of our 153 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: country took over and look what happened to our country, 154 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: probably twenty million people. And you know that's a little 155 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: bit old. That chart, that charts a couple of months old. 156 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: And if you want to really see something that said, 157 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: take a look at what happened. 158 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: We are in the presence of a really mythical character. 159 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 2: I love mythology, and this individual does not exist on 160 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 2: this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off 161 00:10:49,640 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 2: when he pulled off, So I'm an auf. George Washington 162 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 2: defended his country. He had no idea that he was 163 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: going to change the world, because without him, you could 164 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 2: imagine what the world would look like. Guess what we 165 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: got the second George Washington congratula issues. Please welcome the 166 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 2: President of the United States, Donald Trump. 167 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: Holy wow, Ramon, I just got an email from a 168 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: fellow named Rocky Williams, subject line Republic Boot Challenge Czar. 169 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to go to Republic Boot Company at 170 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: your suggestion, to see if they can provide me with 171 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: a pair of boots that will be comfortable for my 172 00:11:55,160 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: jacked up feet. Now, at this point, I can see 173 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,599 Speaker 1: that there's a photo below because there's a link to 174 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 1: a file, and in my mind, I imagine how jacked 175 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: up his feet are. I assure you that your mind, 176 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: having now seen the picture, does not do justice to 177 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: how jacked up his feet are. They are ratchet, he says. 178 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: Both of my little toes curl up on the fourth 179 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: toe of each foot, which is true. That pinky toe 180 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: is up on that next toe like he's just getting 181 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: after it, like he's raping it. That pinky toe is 182 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:42,599 Speaker 1: all up on the next toe on my right foot. 183 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: My second toe was surgically butchered for hammer toe, so 184 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: it sits at a weird angle, does it? Ever? Looking 185 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: forward to a comfortable pair of boots, Rocky, let me 186 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: first say I love the boys at Republic Boot Company. 187 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: From the moment you walk in the door, the smell 188 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: of leather. It looks like a place that Jedge roy 189 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: Bean would hold. Forth, you might see my buddy Judge 190 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: ken Wise over in the corner sipping a bourbon. After hours. 191 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: They might have somebody Josh Fuller or Matt. What's Matt's 192 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: last name? Golly, no, no, it is a little skinny Matt, 193 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. What's his last name? 194 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: I think he spells it with one t too, like 195 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: a weirdo. What's his last name, Golee anyway, you'll think 196 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: of it in a second. He might be over there in 197 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: one of those little pretentious hipster kind of cowboy ish hats, 198 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: maybe a leather jacket, playing on the little stage. Matt Parrish, Yeah, 199 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: Matt Parrish. Yeah. Then they got the bar over there, 200 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: and they got jackets and boots, and then there's custom 201 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 1: boots you can have made if you don't buy one 202 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: off them. They're great guys. We just had our sponsored 203 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: party there last week. Everybody loved it. Half to people 204 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: ended up getting fitted for a pair of custom boots 205 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: while they were there. Love the place. They do, custom 206 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: hats now, all of it. They're great. Love those people, 207 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: and it's a great story. He's got him. Chris Conrad. 208 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: He's a fifth generation Texan. He worked in Kazakhstan. He's 209 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: done now. He took these very very very dangerous jobs 210 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: as a contractor with Exxon in a war zone. They 211 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: were trying to that they were protecting oil assets, and 212 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: he took these horrible jobs because he wanted to build 213 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: up to be able to renovate the store and make 214 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: this store a go. So he didn't get to enjoy 215 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: the store that he loves to be in all day long. 216 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: So Fireball Bill and all the others had to run 217 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: it for him. But he's back his recently he back 218 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: and he's back for good. And now he could just 219 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: be in the store. It's at eleventh in stood of 220 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: Wood and it's great. And I say all that to 221 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: say this. Those guys can do almost anything, but I 222 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: don't think they can help Rocky. I don't think there's 223 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: a pair of boots that this guy could get his 224 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: foot down into, you know what I'm saying. I saw 225 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: a documentary the other day about this guy and he 226 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: was he and his brother were they would go down 227 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: into these caves and they would go up in here 228 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: and they would explore and yes, speedlunkers, I know that's 229 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: the one word, you know. And he got himself up 230 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: in a hole where his body was contorted and they 231 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: could not get him out, and to try to get 232 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: him out would have to break his back and it 233 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: did and he died and all that. And I'm sitting 234 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: there and it just seems like if he could get in, 235 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: he could get out right, But he couldn't get out. 236 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: He's jammed up in there. And they showed you they 237 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: closed the They closed the cave. They closed the might 238 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: have been a mind shall anyway, it doesn't matter. They 239 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: closed it down. Nobody could enter it again because they 240 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: didn't want They couldn't get his body out, so in 241 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: honor of him, they did that. When I think about 242 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: they showed you a graphic rendering of what how he 243 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: got his body all up in there, which you're thinking, 244 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: you dumb ass, But when you look at how like 245 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: a snake wiggling up through a that is what I 246 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: think it would take for this guy to get his 247 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: foot inside a pair of boots. And I'm not even 248 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: talking I'm just talking about the upper. I think what 249 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: you'd have to do is a is a like a 250 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: t tops on the boots, you know, like a convertible 251 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: on the boots where the upper would be velcrode. And 252 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: it would it would you know, if you can imagine 253 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: on your calf all the way down to your all 254 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: the way down to the ball of your foot, you 255 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: would you would close it off and then you could 256 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: just peel it off, you know what I mean, like 257 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: the like the remember the ruse, remember kangaroo shoes. It'd 258 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: be like the little zipper on that you could just 259 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: velcrow it and peel it off. And that way, maybe 260 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: maybe we could do that with the whole back, the 261 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,239 Speaker 1: whole heel of the boot, so that all he'd have 262 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: to do like I do for my wife. You don't 263 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: want her trying to pull in at an angle, right, 264 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: you can line that thing up, set her up for success. 265 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: So she's going straight in. It's less likelihood that she's 266 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,199 Speaker 1: gonna mess it up. But if she got a whip it, 267 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: you know, turn a corner or where it, don't even 268 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: do it. So this way, maybe what he could do 269 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: is take the whole back of the boot off with 270 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: velcrow and then maybe try to get his foot jimmied 271 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: into something with some extra because look like a lumpy 272 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: pillow on the top. You're gonna have to have I mean, 273 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: you talk about a custom pair of boots, You're gonna 274 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: have to put some extra leather where those where that 275 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: one toe is up on top of the next toe. 276 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to put all sorts of just extra 277 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: leather there because otherwise the whole thing is just gonna 278 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: flap right. And then once he if he can get 279 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: his foot all the way in there, I can't promise 280 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: you I don't think they're gonna able to do it. 281 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: But this is the only way I can imagine do it. 282 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 1: And then you then once you got him in there, 283 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: it'll be like closing the back of the old wood 284 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: grain station wagon. You it would. It would be a 285 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: swinging door like that. That's all I can imagine. I 286 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: just I hate for this guy to take this pair 287 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: of I'm gonna post this to the website. This is 288 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: my goodness. That one toe that's rough. That's rough. Imagine 289 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: the first time you meet your wife. You see that. 290 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: Just sleep. Russell Wrights. A couple of years ago, you 291 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: got a lot of laughs in Mile Ledge on the 292 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 1: story of the fellow selling coon. If I remember correctly, 293 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: it was out of a car wash. About a week 294 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: after your story. I saw business in Beaumont selling coun. 295 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: I beaten myself up every time I drive past it 296 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: for not calling at the time. What makes the story 297 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: ironic is the location about a half about a quarter 298 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: mile past the Lamar baseball field, on the part of 299 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: Highway sixty nine they called Cardinal Drive. Westport Arthur Road 300 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: hits the highway coming from Port Acres on that corner. 301 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: Since a little store it's since been improved a bit, 302 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: but at the time it was hard to tell if 303 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: it was a convenience store, a fish market, or a 304 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: bait shop. Whatever it was, it was advertising coon for sale. 305 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: The fact that they were selling coon less than a 306 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 1: quarter mile from a mid major university is ironic itself. 307 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: But something else happened at the intersection of sixty nine 308 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: in Westport Arthur Road, directly across the store. Across from 309 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: the store, a literal stone's throwaway is the site of 310 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: the Lucas Gusher. If it was spewing all today, it 311 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: would be falling on this store. The closest business to 312 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: the major source of wealth between Houston and Lafayette in 313 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: the twentieth century was selling coon meat. Bonus points for 314 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: you and your listeners who know what this is. They 315 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: also advertised goo on the Marquee under coon. I'm not 316 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: sure it's that. I'm not sure it is that odd 317 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: that they were selling. You know, I loved that old man, 318 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: and I love the idea. That's why that story, That's 319 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: why we got so much mileage out of it. So 320 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: let me give you the context. I think that was 321 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: Jeff McShann's story. I remember correctly. Jeff has bounced around 322 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: in government work since then. But Jeff McShann used to 323 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: be at Channel eleven and he was a wonderful journalist. 324 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: Jeff McShann is the one who brought us the Elbert 325 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: Woods story. He called me one morning, it was about 326 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: seven forty five, maybe even seven fifty, and he said, Hey, 327 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: I got this old man. He's a marine. His wife 328 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: died two years ago. Oh two weeks ago. He was 329 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: driving into his uh no, he was driving. He'd driven 330 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: to the doctor's office and he comes home and they've 331 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: broken into his house, stolen stuff, graffitied everywhere, and he 332 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: had this old grandfather's clock and they've spray painted over 333 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: all of it, and they've trashed his house. This old 334 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: man and the house is in disrepair. He's eighty two 335 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: years old. It's your kind of story, mate, I said, 336 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: will you do it? He said, I'm doing it for tonight, 337 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: but it's your kind of story man, you, I said, 338 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: give me his number. So I called him and Albert 339 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: Wood was very old. Hell yeah, And so I started 340 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 1: talking to him and I said, I'm going to repair 341 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: your house. I'm gonna get it done on the air. 342 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: I need you to come on the air with me, 343 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: and he said, no, I can't come on the air 344 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: with you because I got some people from my church 345 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: coming and they're coming here to pray with me. And 346 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: I said, your prayers are answered, Elbert Wood, You're gonna 347 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: be on my show and we're gonna get your house prepared. No, 348 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: I don't believe I can do that. Well. By this time, 349 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: we're firing up the intro music. I'm on my cell phone, 350 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: so I can't put him on that way. I said, Elbert, 351 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: would you got to pick up the phone in two minutes, 352 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: I mean from a funny number, because the way our 353 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: system generates the number, it doesn't look right. So he 354 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,640 Speaker 1: doesn't answer. He doesn't answer. He doesn't answer, so I'm 355 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: telling the story instead. He's telling the story. Somebody calls him, 356 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: tells him pick up the phone. So I think it 357 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: was the second segment we had him on. I think 358 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 1: all in the amount of money raised, donated and equipment 359 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: and all that it was all done was in the 360 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: realm of four hundred thousand dollars. And we're talking about 361 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 1: a house that was worth less than one hundred thousand dollars. 362 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: It was so overbuilt for the neighborhood. Afterwards, I was 363 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: worried about it getting broken into again, but it just 364 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: galvanized the community. That's where I met Bert Harvey. That's 365 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: where I met where I met a lot of people 366 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: that had become friends since then. But that didn't have 367 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: anything to do with the coons. So back to the coon, 368 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: this little old man, Oh, Jeff McShann, that's I got 369 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: carried away with my Jeff mcshon story. So Jeff McShann 370 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: had this story of the guy. They had arrested him 371 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: and they put him in jail and he had a 372 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: little car wash which was basically a vacant lot in 373 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: somewhere near the Heights. But you know, there's a part 374 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: of the Heights. It's an old black part of the 375 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: Heights and I forget what it's called, and I don't 376 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: know if they still do, but they used to have 377 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: some old ran shackle It looked like it looked like 378 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: country black folk from the movie Sounder. But it was 379 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: in Houston, right, It was just northeast of the Heights, 380 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: and it had it had what you would expect in 381 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: in small town Mississippi. It was you know, ramshackle little 382 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: homes and you know some old, fat black guy sitting 383 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: out front shelling peanuts. He waved at you as you 384 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: go buy, and he might have coon for sale, and 385 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: he might have some catfish. And you know, you could 386 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 1: pull up a chair and talk to that guy for 387 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: five hours and he'd be glad to talk to you. 388 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: But anyway, so this was what that kind of gave 389 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: me the feel of do you have the audio? So 390 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: so Jeff McShann knew he had gold on his hands, 391 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: and he I think he did multiple interviews with this guy. 392 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: Here it is last time you had raccoon. 393 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 3: Met Yeah, I got raccoon. Well, police bank me raccoons 394 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 3: for me to clean one for them, and when they 395 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 3: gave me one, I clean one for them. I cook 396 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 3: raccoons from from Mississippi. I eat raccoon, squarees, rabbits, quails, pouts. 397 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 3: I eat that I was raised on for that a Mississippi. 398 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 6: But they said you were selling it without a permanent 399 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 6: and that. 400 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 3: Was so no, no, colah. 401 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: The rumor was they were selling drugs out of there, 402 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: and they had a they had a game of dominoes 403 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: that would go on at all times. I just hate 404 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: that I never got to hang out with them because 405 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: I think it would have been interesting to see because 406 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 1: you know there were transactions going on all day. Law. Yeah, 407 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: and you know that the young black kids in the 408 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: area worshiped this guy, mister Johnson, missus Johnson. Uh, would 409 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: you like to buy this bicycle? Where'd you get that bicycle? 410 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 3: Boy? 411 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 1: You steal that? 412 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 6: Boy? 413 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: You take that bicycle? Background, I'll give you five dollars 414 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: you take that by You know, he just dispensed wisdom 415 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: like the old man at the Michael Show. 416 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 7: Oh, I want to congratulate Michael Berre on interview and 417 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 7: George Farming grill yesterday. 418 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: That was good. 419 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: Uh, he got a lot. 420 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 7: Of information out of mind had not know it before 421 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 7: and things and Whatusie was over here just watering at 422 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 7: the mouth. 423 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 1: Judd up, know you was, you was wadding at the mouth. 424 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 5: You know you ain't hurt the end of that, honey. 425 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 3: They gonna be looping that over and over and every advertisement. 426 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 7: You remember how they wore out Elba woods. 427 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was so tired of hearing about 428 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: how they did that. Man, bless it's hard. 429 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 7: But come on, six months later, quit thinking yourself. 430 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 5: Come on, I know that's right. 431 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 7: Oh, Watusi was mocking Michael Berry this morning. 432 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: Whychosay come here? What do your Michael Barr adversation? 433 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 7: Come here? R uh? What is your passion? Go find 434 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 7: your passion? And that's what you need to do for anything. 435 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 7: It would always be picking up people yard, I know 436 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 7: that's right. Go and hug yo children and my wife 437 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 7: smoking hide. 438 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 3: If you don't think that's funny, I can't be your friend. 439 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: Oo who she nailed it? 440 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 3: Yr lord Ooh Batusta got that Shirley q Mount liquor 441 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 3: flowing in her blood stream? 442 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: How right? 443 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 7: And now back to Michael Beer program. 444 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: Skip rights El Casino. You didn't answer what goo was? 445 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: It's gasper goo, a bottom feeding fresh water fish. Daniel 446 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: writes Zar. My dad's side of the family are all 447 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: from the Golden Triangle. I have stopped at that Vietnamese 448 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: own seafood market for years on our way to Sabine 449 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: Pass for a day of fishing. My dad and I 450 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: have laughed at that sign reading fresh coon for years. 451 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: I love your show and listen daily. I'm also a 452 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: Coastguard veteran like your dad, and you should tell me 453 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: stories and used to tell me story Sir Coastguard doesn't 454 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: get enough recognition for the work and lives we helped 455 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: saved save. I was stationed in Astoria, Oregon, where Goonies 456 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: was filmed, and I also spent two years in Venice, Louisiana, 457 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: southeast of the best fishing in the world. Keep up 458 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: the good work, Daniel Garrison. I have been fishing in Venice, Louisiana, 459 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: and it is, in fact some of the best fishing 460 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: in the world. That is true. And I will tell 461 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: you the guy I went with. It's a story to 462 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: tell Ramon. Robert Wagner used to have big mortgage company 463 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: in town. I don't know if he still does. He 464 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: was business partners with my friend Jim McGrath's wife, Paulina. 465 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: I think it was Robert Wagner was his name. And 466 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: Robert Wagner was one of these guys that lived in Houston. 467 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: But he's one of these guys like wuld being a 468 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: Charlie Robinson song that he would party with the Laredo 469 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: always have bi go dipnish mouth. Short fellow, not very tall, 470 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: maybe five eight They go Dipney's mouth. But you know, 471 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: little guys stand up real tall, right, they stand up 472 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: real straight because they got to stretch over in kind 473 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: of kept his head cocked back a little bit. Dipny's mouth. 474 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: All the money in the world, but country as all 475 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: get out, and he embraced it. And a kind of 476 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: guy that probably had three ranches around around the state. 477 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: Loved to hunt, love to fish. So I get invited 478 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: on this trip by got named Butt homes in Venice 479 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: and he's got a houseboat. So we're going on for 480 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: the weekend. This is about twenty years ago, and I 481 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: can bring ten people with me, so one of the 482 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: so I bring Jim McGrath and I bring Robert Wagner 483 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: and we get there and I don't know who. I 484 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: don't know if it was Robert's hook or whose hook 485 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: it was, but we we're out. So you're on the houseboat, 486 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: obviously not fishing off of that, but he's got these 487 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: other boats that are tied up, and you're out there 488 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: and we're just slaying it. Oh, we're in a honey 489 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: hole and we are having a blast. And Robert's in 490 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: another boat for me, if I remember correctly, and he 491 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: gets somehow a hook gets gets in his arm and 492 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: it's so deep it's in the crook of his arm. 493 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: The bend of the elbow and they get back to 494 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: the houseboat later than us. It's dark and it's all 495 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: bandaged up because they're trying to keep it from bleeding. 496 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: And uh, some people want him to go to the 497 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: hospital because it's going to get infected, and he's gonna, 498 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: you know whatever, and he is not going to the hospital. 499 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: So he decides that what he wants is he wants 500 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: somebody to push it through. He just is going, We're 501 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: just gonna go all the way through. It's a big hook. 502 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: And so finally it wasn't me. Somebody steps up and says, 503 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: you know, all right, I'll be the guy that pushes 504 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: it through. I'd almost rather be the guy hurting than 505 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: the guy put him to push that damn thing through, right, 506 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: And so who he said. So he grabs a bottle 507 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: of jack and downs as much as he can. He 508 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: gets himself good and liquored up to minimize the pain 509 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: it's going to be. And we all watched, but it 510 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: was that kind of watching where you're watching and you're 511 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: turning away and you're puckering up and urner, huh, yeah, 512 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: it's like to see any port fiction. And then he 513 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: starts complaining that it's not going fast enough. But I 514 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: think what he's trying to do is minimize the damage. Right, Well, 515 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: everybody's worst fear was it somehow, some way it he 516 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: might actually pull back on it because it's got those 517 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: claw hooks that will I mean, this is a big 518 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: hook and it's doing a lot of damage. So after 519 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: a little while he gets it pushed through there and 520 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: it comes out, and uh, I think they had kept 521 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: the the line on there and for whatever reason, and 522 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: then they used to cut the line and pulled it 523 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: out and that was it. And then apparently that was 524 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: a great relief to Robert. But he went out and 525 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: fished the next day and just like it was nothing. 526 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: But on that day the legend of Robert Wagner was expanded. 527 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: I'll tell you when when uh, what's the line from 528 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: bager Vance when the truth is better than legend, print 529 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: the legend? What was it? I can't anyway, So that 530 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: was the legend of Robert Wagner, mortgage mogul and h 531 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: all around tough guy. That's my Venice, Louisiana story. It 532 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: was the point of all that. Jeane, you're on to 533 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: Michael Berry, show what you got? 534 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 6: Well, good morning, Michael. I'm first off want to say 535 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 6: it's great to be waking up in the It is 536 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 6: just an amazing time to be alive. And you had 537 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 6: a couple of guests say that you've said it Rocky's 538 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 6: introduction yesterday. I mean, it is just the thrill is 539 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 6: here real quick. I do want to say that it's 540 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 6: Lafitte's Blacksmith's shop. That is the oldest bar in Louisiana 541 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 6: down there at the end of Bourbon Street. The piano 542 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 6: bar I think you were talking about earlier is at 543 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 6: padd O'Brien, but I'm just not I'm not sure that's 544 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 6: just no. 545 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: No, padd O'Brien's. Yeah, I mean I know what Paddle 546 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: Brian's is, but the piano bar is Ramo said it's Lafitte. 547 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: I remember it being Blacksmith. I was introduced to it 548 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: by a fellow named Dwayne Hefley who used to own 549 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: the Firehouse Saloon, and he and his wife Sabrina frequented 550 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: either Lafitte or Blacksmith, whatever it's called. And I was 551 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: at a conference years ago, a radio conference in New Order. 552 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: Maybe I was just visiting one because because we're on 553 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: a station there wrn O Legendary station and he said, hey, no, 554 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: I need to said, you're in New Orleans, won't you 555 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: meet us? And he took me down there and the 556 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: dueling pianos. I love it.