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Speaker 1: It's that time, time time.

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Speaker 2: Time, Luck and load. The Michael Verie Show is.

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Speaker 1: On the air. Perhaps my favorite micro podcast, the beauty

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Speaker 1: of a micro podcast is following the model of Paul Harvey.

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Speaker 1: You don't know when he tells you the story about

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Speaker 1: this person who this person's going to turn out to be.

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Speaker 1: I think of the Van Halen story one of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: So you don't know what's going to happen in this

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Speaker 1: story the first time you hear it, and you never

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Speaker 1: get that experience back. But since the grocery store did close,

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Speaker 1: I thought we'd pay one final tribute to Mike Rowe,

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Speaker 1: paying tribute to Boris Yelson's visit to Webster he was

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Speaker 1: visiting clear Lake Area in his grocery store visit in

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Speaker 1: how that led to so much.

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Speaker 2: September sixteenth started off like any other day for the

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Speaker 2: employees at Randall's grocery store. They arrived at five am

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Speaker 2: and began prepping the produce and wiping down the cash registers.

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Speaker 2: The smell of baked goods filled the aisles as the

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Speaker 2: employees began the endless process of stocking and rotating thousands

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Speaker 2: of products on hundreds of shelves. It was really just

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Speaker 2: an average day at an average grocery store, until it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: The boss showed up anxious and frazzled. Apparently some big

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Speaker 2: was in town, visiting the nearby space center, and they

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Speaker 2: had just received word he was about to drop by

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Speaker 2: the grocery store for an unscheduled tour. Who could it

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Speaker 2: be some muckety muck from the home office, a shareholder,

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Speaker 2: maybe mister Randal himself coming by for a surprise inspection.

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Speaker 2: The boss barked orders to make sure the place was

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Speaker 2: tip top, and the employees took things up a notch.

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Speaker 2: A few hours later, the store was sparkling and the

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Speaker 2: mystery guest arrived. Whoever he was, he didn't work for Randall's.

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Speaker 2: Looking outside through the glass, the employees could see that

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Speaker 2: this was clearly a very powerful, very important man. He

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Speaker 2: had an entourage with security, and the media followed close behind.

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Speaker 2: He was smiling for the cameras, confident and sure. But

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Speaker 2: then he walked through those automatic doors and everything changed.

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Speaker 2: The man looked as if he'd seen a ghost. He

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Speaker 2: wandered up and down the aisles, slowly at first, and

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Speaker 2: then with increased agitation. His expression seemed to switch back

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Speaker 2: and forth between fascinated and demoralized. He paused to stare

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Speaker 2: in wonderment at the fresh fish, the meat selections, and

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Speaker 2: the produce department. He was enraptured, peppering the customers with questions.

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Speaker 2: At one point, the man asked the store manager what

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Speaker 2: type of advanced education was required to run a store

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Speaker 2: as magnificent as this. The manager blushed the employees, I

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Speaker 2: had never seen anything like it. By all accounts, though,

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Speaker 2: it was the site of frozen pudding pops that left

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Speaker 2: the visitor in utter disbelief. Like an indigenous member of

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Speaker 2: some forgotten tribe deep in the Amazon who glanced up

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Speaker 2: one day and saw a seven forty seven flying overhead.

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Speaker 2: This well dressed visitor, this highly educated, undeniably successful, and

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Speaker 2: clearly important individual, was left slack jawled by pudding pops.

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Speaker 2: There were just so many, in such a rich variety

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Speaker 2: of flavors. By the time he boarded his private plane,

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Speaker 2: he was unable to speak to his staff. His world

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Speaker 2: had been turned upside down in an instant. You see,

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Speaker 2: the man who visited the grocery store that fateful day

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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine had just been elected to the

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Speaker 2: new Soviet Parliament, and in all his years he had

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Speaker 2: never seen so much food in one place. He later said,

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Speaker 2: when I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons,

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Speaker 2: and goods of every possible sort, for the first time,

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Speaker 2: I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people.

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Speaker 2: That such a potentially super rich country as ours has

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Speaker 2: been brought to a state of such poverty. It is

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Speaker 2: terrible to think of it. And just like that, one

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Speaker 2: man's law loyalty to communism was completely destroyed. He returned

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Speaker 2: and then just two years later, under his presidency, the

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Speaker 2: Soviet Union would dissolve. True, Ronald Reagan told Gorbachev to

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Speaker 2: tear down this wall, But back in nineteen eighty nine,

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Speaker 2: that wall was still standing, and who knows, it might

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Speaker 2: still be there today if not for the hard working

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Speaker 2: employees at a Randall's grocery store in Clear Lake, Texas,

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Speaker 2: who kept the shelves fully stocked. So another Soviet, a

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Speaker 2: Soviet named Boris Yeltsen, could come face to face with

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Speaker 2: a freezer full of pudding pops and change the history

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Speaker 2: of the world anyway. That's the way I hired it.

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Speaker 1: Bob Clemens of the Clemens Law Firm, Rights Zar. My

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Speaker 1: first thought when you said Food Town had closed in

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Speaker 1: Webster was that this would be bad news for the area.

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Speaker 1: And I realized that h EB opened close by along

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Speaker 1: forty five a couple of years ago. With all the

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Speaker 1: new apartment developments. I go there from time to time.

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Speaker 1: That's probably what killed food Town. HB is a colossus.

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Speaker 1: Colossus is such a good word. It is such a

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Speaker 1: great word. I had to look up the etymology. I

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Speaker 1: thought it might be Greek, and it is through It

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Speaker 1: came through Latin from Greek meaning a larger than life

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Speaker 1: statues of Egyptian temples. The use of the word colossus

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Speaker 1: larger than life mammoth grand. I love colossus as a noun.

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Speaker 1: I love colossul as an adjective, And I got to

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Speaker 1: thinking about HGB. I still have a bad taste in

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Speaker 1: my mouth because the Butt family got very, very involved

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Speaker 1: on the issue of illegal immigration, against what I think

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Speaker 1: is in the best interests of our people and certainly

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Speaker 1: against our laws. But I have to say they run

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Speaker 1: a good grocery store. Their politics aside. They run a

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Speaker 1: good grocery store, a very good grocery store. Everybody I

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Speaker 1: know that is not extremely cost conscious, I mean working poor,

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Speaker 1: in which case it's it's food town or it's you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the one off stores. The people still shop

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Speaker 1: at Fiesta. We shopped in Fiesta in college. You remember

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Speaker 1: Oshan or Oshan, whichever one you call it on Beltway eight.

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Speaker 1: We used to go out there because you could get

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Speaker 1: all sorts of international foods. I thought that place was

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Speaker 1: man that was that was a big store. But everybody

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Speaker 1: I know that is buying groceries purely based on that,

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Speaker 1: isn't That isn't The working poort is at HGB Whole

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Speaker 1: Foods or what's the one you go to Trader Joe's,

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Speaker 1: do the watermelon crawl and listen to the tzar of talk.

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Speaker 3: My buddy, Michael Barry, you're trying to say I look

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Speaker 3: like bear White.

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Speaker 4: Please do not put me under oath at this time.

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Speaker 4: This is shady, cute licker, the leader of the Michael

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Speaker 4: Barrett Underground Railroad. Honey, that was both unhistorical and illiterate.

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Speaker 4: Other day, why TUSA thought she was dead man these

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Speaker 4: and she put a salad bowl on her head and

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Speaker 4: went out there and squatting in the front yard for

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Speaker 4: hours on end. She popped something out and now she

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Speaker 4: have to restart all over something. I think they're supposed

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Speaker 4: to give us a shot. Anyway. We've been getting a

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Speaker 4: lot of mail up here from these extremely large ladies

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Speaker 4: who say they're not only unemployed, they're also unemplorable. They

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Speaker 4: got no money, and they don't know where a good

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Speaker 4: club is for the larger lifestyle woman. I'm talking four

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Speaker 4: hundred pounds up. Okay, let's just get rier girls. Y'all's

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Speaker 4: prayers has been answered, announcing the opening of Club oh

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Speaker 4: b c T, a combination all you can eat buffet

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Speaker 4: plus all night liquor throwdown for the big girls and

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Speaker 4: the men's who is attracted to them. Thanks to a

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Speaker 4: generous grant from the Memory Foam Foundation and a very

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Speaker 4: generous bequeathing from the late doctor Curtis Jitter, who ran

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Speaker 4: range his own colored funeral home for the first two

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Speaker 4: hundred years. Blessed his heart, he made us two unbreakable

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Speaker 4: gigantic commodes out of some cemetery vaults, and we have

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Speaker 4: got those installed in the backyard, so y'all don't have

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Speaker 4: nothing to worry about. Yards and yards of paper towels

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Speaker 4: for y'all convenience, big ladies. Don't be ashamed the door.

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Speaker 4: It's been widening forty eight inches across. Plus we got

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Speaker 4: a ramp in two men's that can push show wheelchair

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Speaker 4: up in Uncle Henry's. Of course, we accept EBT card,

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Speaker 4: of course, that would be mail strippers, drink oh you can,

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Speaker 4: or byob a hey ride. We'll be provided at closing

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Speaker 4: time to get you back to your house. Get there

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Speaker 4: anyway you can, honey, but get there Uncle Henry's facts

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Speaker 4: a lady Lounge. And now back to maca Bear program.

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Speaker 1: We are one day into our second week back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and Ramon has finally contributed to the

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Speaker 1: show marked this on the calendar. He was laughing in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the last segment while we're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be doing a live show, and I asked him during

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Speaker 1: the break what he was laughing at, and he said

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Speaker 1: he was watching a video on Instagram. Now keep in

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Speaker 1: mind that's in the middle of the segment, and so

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Speaker 1: I said, well, is it at least something we can

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Speaker 1: hadn't thought about it, but yeah, it kind of is.

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Speaker 1: And uh so here it is.

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Speaker 5: Me and my father in law grunt went deer hunting

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Speaker 5: one evening, and years ago they weren't any of these

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Speaker 5: geese flew over.

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Speaker 1: Us about tree chopped level high.

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Speaker 5: Next day, we're sitting out there our turkey gun grunt

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Speaker 5: hit the lead goose and instead of folding up in

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Speaker 5: took an angle and about seven properties over that thing

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Speaker 5: hit the ground. Old grunt said, heim here, get that thing.

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Speaker 1: Get that thing.

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Speaker 5: He ruther get caught killing some people in the showble Counting,

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Speaker 5: and that thing he did us coming in your house

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Speaker 5: looking for parts of that. We went home and we

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Speaker 5: picked the thing. It comes five acres of fethers. We

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Speaker 5: come out with a black piece of meat about side

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Speaker 5: of the two fis and that was the breast. Now,

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Speaker 5: my mother in law, Brenda, he's the best cook.

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Speaker 1: Ont and she bawled on that thing. She bawled on it.

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Speaker 5: She put bacon and if she put bail pepper in,

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Speaker 5: she put onion.

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Speaker 2: In she bawled on some more.

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Speaker 5: She was so excited about cooking the goose, and she

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Speaker 5: handed a feast to my father in law Larry. We

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Speaker 5: called him Grunt and he gets it today and he

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Speaker 5: looked like a catfish on limb little and he said, Brenda,

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Speaker 5: they say that a goose he lived be forty one,

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Speaker 5: isn't he got to be thirty day year? Gerald from

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Speaker 5: mcnoia Wright Czar. My wife made me some fifteen bean

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Speaker 5: soup and halapano corn bread this weekend. Nothing more awesome

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Speaker 5: than soup when it's cold. I don't know if you

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Speaker 5: like soup like that, but I waited till the second

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Speaker 5: day to eat them. They had thickened by them and

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Speaker 5: were absolutely delicious. That's the kind of leftovers I don't

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Speaker 5: mind eating till.

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Speaker 1: They're all gone. Have a great day to you and

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Speaker 1: your team. Gerald from mac know you.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 1: Saturday. Nothing made my buddy Cody Johnson. They got a

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Speaker 1: big ranch out in Richmond Rosenberg area, fact the largest

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Speaker 1: ranch in Fort ben County and thousands of acres, and

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Speaker 1: he killed some hogs, had them butchered, brought them to me,

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Speaker 1: and they had made some sausage out of it, and

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Speaker 1: so she decided to put that to use, so she said,

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Speaker 1: so she made a soup with just sausage, cut up

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Speaker 1: potatoes and kale, and the point at which she told

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Speaker 1: me it was ten minutes from being ready, it was

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Speaker 1: too late to say, could you not put the kale

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Speaker 1: in there? Because I don't really see the point of that.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you this. Don't judge me. I'm

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Speaker 1: not go on soft. The kill was actually pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was like, you know, you putting spinach or anything

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Speaker 1: else in, you know, just to kind of feel like

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Speaker 1: you've done something. But it wasn't a real thick soup.

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Speaker 1: for her, and glad I did that for her. But

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Speaker 1: you don't get a chance to do anything nice for

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Speaker 1: that person again. It's gone forever, and it's man, it's

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Speaker 1: you know, people tell you that, but who man, I

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Speaker 1: have been for years trying to live my life with

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Speaker 1: everybody except for Ramon, where I try to say something

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Speaker 1: to them the last time I see him, that if

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Speaker 1: that's the last time, they will remember, you know that

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Speaker 1: that positive thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get your calls in on rushing them

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Speaker 1: ball real quick. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.

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Speaker 1: Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Uh, if

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Speaker 1: you were a rush baby, if you listen to Rush,

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Speaker 1: what Rush meant to you? Be ready? It's a lightning round.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with Richard, who's already on the line. Seven

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Speaker 1: one three nine nine nine one thousand. We got just

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left. Go ahead, Richard.

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Speaker 5: Hey, November twenty eleven, week before Thanksgiving, I called it

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Speaker 5: in rush.

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Speaker 7: And told can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Go ahead? Sorry, okay. And I called in and

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Speaker 1: told him something he didn't know that Obama has said.

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Speaker 7: And he sent me and I've had two sixty four gigs,

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Speaker 7: a case of a.

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Speaker 6: Two hit by team and a book called.

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Speaker 7: An Army at One, which are on page sixty.

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Speaker 6: You talked about where Ronald Reagan had wrote him a

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Speaker 6: letter thanking him for what he did on the radio

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Speaker 6: for informing on the public about the things he does.

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Speaker 4: There'll never be another Rush Limbaugh.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, But you know, I will tell you. You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes people will post to social media about I miss

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Speaker 1: Rush and nobody's that good anymore, and basically kind of

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Speaker 1: and then it's interesting because Ronald Reagan was a great president,

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Speaker 1: but we didn't say Reagan's gone. There'll never be another.

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Speaker 1: Trump's a great president, but there must be another otherwise

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Speaker 1: the movement dies. You don't have to say greatest ever,

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Speaker 1: There'll never be another. Everyone else is terrible as a

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Speaker 1: tribute to that person, and nor should you, because that

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Speaker 1: means the movement failed. Scott, you're on the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Scott, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm here. I hope you can hear me if

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Speaker 3: I'm Rush Limball on am Rady Old driving across this country.

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Speaker 3: And I love the man. He was so hilarious and

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Speaker 3: just amazing. I watched him go through her stuff and you,

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Speaker 3: Michael Berry, should have been his replacement. I found you

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Speaker 3: when I moved to Texas, and I really appreciate you

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Speaker 3: and all you do, and I think you took out

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Speaker 3: the mantle and God bless you both.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you something that I've never said before,

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Speaker 1: and I will say it now so I don't have

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Speaker 1: to say it again. A lot of folks have said

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Speaker 1: this across the country, and I can't say this to them,

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Speaker 1: but I will tell you now, because this is more

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Speaker 1: of a local show, even though we pick up Lubbock

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Speaker 1: and Oh, there's more of a Texas show in a

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Speaker 1: Houston and Texas based show. If I did that, it

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Speaker 1: would mean that we would lose the Houston Show, and

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Speaker 1: that would mean that Houston wouldn't have a big influential

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Speaker 1: show focused largely on Houston in Texas, because if you

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Speaker 1: listen to the Evening Show, that's a national show. That's

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Speaker 1: how I do the shows. Why we've be talking about

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Speaker 1: the Wildfast is why we're talking about the Wild Farst

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Speaker 1: this evening. And that would mean that there wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: an hour at a time to talk about Rodney Ellis

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Speaker 1: and Lena had to all go on Sylvester Turner and

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Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson Lee and what's going on here. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be able to profile a little burger joint all those things,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to give that up. I was

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Speaker 1: I've been told in the industry You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: if you want to, but I don't want to because

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Speaker 1: I love that part of what we do so much.

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Speaker 1: So just so you understand, Jay, you're on the Michael

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Speaker 1: Berry Show. Go quick, Jay, You're only Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Rick, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Michael, I want to say, Uh, I went to

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Speaker 7: Dan's bake sale out in Colorado. Uh. Where was it?

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Speaker 2: Was it the Colorida State?

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Speaker 7: And uh, I got to meet I got to meet

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Speaker 7: Boatly too, and he said that was the most professional

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Speaker 7: organization he ever worked for. That's what I remember.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. Uh, Steve, you're our last caller. Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I really loved Lush Brush Limbaugh and Sor did my son.

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Speaker 6: And when my son was eight years old having a

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Speaker 6: heart transplant here in the local hospitals, he actually did

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Speaker 6: a segment on my son on his show.

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Speaker 1: You Never Forget.

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Speaker 6: Man was very nice, very kind. I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 6: And I still have his email.

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Speaker 2: There you have it.

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Speaker 1: Those are the moments we remember, an army of one.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love the idea of each one

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Speaker 1: of us wherever we are placed as a receptionist, as

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Speaker 1: a small business owner, as a postal carrier, as a

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Speaker 1: copy as a firefighter, as a teacher, as a mommy,

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Speaker 1: as a daddy, as a grandparent. Each one of us

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Speaker 1: has a role to play in ensuring the greatness of

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Speaker 1: our people