1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. The movie industry 3 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: loves to write, loves to make movies about making movies. 4 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: Authors love to tell stories about authors. It's a natural tendency. 5 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: And I of course love the internal workings of the 6 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: media industry, particularly radio, because I think they're fun, and 7 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: I think radio is a unique medium in that the 8 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: audience is more engaged than anywhere else any other form 9 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: of media. This medium in particular, has a deep rooted connection, 10 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: particularly am talk radio. I get emails every day from 11 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: across the country from old radio heads who will say, Hey, 12 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: you were talking about this today, and this is my 13 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: opinion on this, and by the way, I used to 14 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: work at k EX eleven ninety in the seventies, or 15 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: by the way, I worked for WJBO and Baton Rouge 16 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: from eighty seven to ninety three. I get it from Houston, 17 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: where people will say, I work for the Buzz, I 18 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: worked for the Arrow, I worked for you know, k LOL, 19 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: obviously a station that held on to people's emotions for 20 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: a very long time. That's a much deeper connection than 21 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: just where you flip the station and listen so several 22 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: weeks ago there was, as there has been in media 23 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: across the country for many years, there was a blood 24 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: letting at iHeart, which is the core company that I 25 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: work for, the syndication of the show through Premiere. Premiere 26 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: is a company within iHeart, but it does syndication. Our 27 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: show does air on some non iHeart stations, but mostly 28 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: I think two thirds of our stations are iHeart. So 29 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: the news emerged that Sheriff Friar, well, the news never emerged. 30 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: It's not done that way. It's never done that way. 31 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: Sheriff Fryar was no longer appearing on KTRH, and I 32 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: started hearing from people, Hey, what happened to Shera And 33 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 1: the answer was I didn't know, and I didn't want 34 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: to bother Eddie Martini because he's just been put into 35 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: a position as part of those layoffs as some people 36 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: who were heads of market were removed. Eddie Martini, the 37 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: most successful market manager in the country, was put in 38 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: charge of all of Dallas and all Louisiana. So he's 39 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: traveling a lot, and he's working like a madman. And 40 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: I didn't want to know, or I don't want to 41 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: I always want to know I'm nosy. I didn't want 42 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: to reach out to shera during a tough time. I 43 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: will in time. We're friends. But like many people, Shara 44 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: is a friend that I don't get to talk to 45 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: very often. Greg Fountain, the guy just called as a friend, 46 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: I don't get to talk to him very often, maybe 47 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: a couple times a year. Same it's true of Shara. 48 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: But in time we will and we'll catch up. And 49 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: I love and adore Sharah. I've known her a very 50 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: long time, going back to her Channel thirteen Days, when 51 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: Eddie Martini was looking to bring Serff for her on 52 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: twelve years ago, he said, what do you think? And 53 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: I said, I think it is a brilliant choice. In 54 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: the old days, TV was much more glamor reston radio. 55 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: Now today, that's not necessarily true, and Rush Limbaugh changed 56 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: a lot of that. The dynamic that he created in 57 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: creating this sort of legendary I mean a sort of 58 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: the radio star, the audience, the cult following and all 59 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: that he created that whole phenomenon. It didn't exist before that. 60 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: I mean the Wolfman and Bob Grant. There were several 61 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: people that had big followings, but nothing Paul Harvey was 62 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: a little different because it was not interactive, but Rush 63 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: really created that and since then there have been others 64 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 1: to follow in his way. So the history behind Sheriff 65 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: Fryar coming to the station was some of you will 66 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: remember Lanta and JP, who were on for many, many, 67 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: many many years. Land and JP were let go and 68 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: they brought in. This was just after I left programming 69 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: the stations. I would not have wanted to letting JP go. 70 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be the one to do that 71 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: because They'd been on for so long and I'd been 72 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: a listener, you know, and you get You're still kind 73 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: of a fanboy, you know what I mean. When I 74 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: hang out with Dan Pastorini today, I'm still a fanboy. 75 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: We might be buds, he might ask my opinion on something, 76 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, I'm still a fanboy. 77 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: And you know, those two were legends of Houston Radio. 78 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: But as with every other as happens at your company, 79 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: people move on, people are moved on. These things happen. Now. 80 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: What's interesting is if the guy at the tube company 81 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: in the industrial park next to you gets laid off, 82 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: you don't spend a lot of time being mad about it. 83 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: We get mad about people being let go or leaving 84 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: because we connect so deeply with them. We grieve greater 85 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: at a funeral for a person with whom we had 86 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: a deeper relationship. The darn radio creates these very intimate connections, 87 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: even with people you've never met before. And in the 88 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: old days, guys that were good at TV did the 89 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: same thing. My friend and mentor, the beloved late Walter p. Zivy, 90 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: told me a story one time that he had met 91 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: Ron Stone at some businessman's lunch and he went up 92 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: and you'd have to understand Walter to understand this. He 93 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: was from Mineral Wells, Texas, and Walter went up, and 94 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: he was a very prominent Houstonian, very prominent lawyer, had 95 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: very famous clients. But he was a very all shucks 96 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: country boy with a shock of white hair and a 97 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: crooked eye and just a little pop belly in a 98 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: very unassuming manner. And everyone loved an adored Walter, always 99 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: in a suit. And Walter walks up to Ron Stone 100 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: and he said, hey, Ron, how are you doing. I 101 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: forget Ron Stone's wife's name, let's say it was Shirley. 102 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: How are you? And Shirley doing everything good, And he said. 103 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: Ron Stone looked at him as people as famous people 104 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: will do, because he knows he needs to know this 105 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: guy's name, because the guy obviously knows him as a friend. 106 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: And ron Stone said, I'm sorry, sir, can you remind 107 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: me your name? And this is Walter's I He's not 108 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: the kind of person to be a fanboy for anybody, 109 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: and he said, oh my god, we've never met. And 110 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: ron Stone looked at him, like, you weirdo? Then why 111 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: did you ack leg? He said, I'm sorry. I watch 112 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: you every evening and I felt like I knew you. 113 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to assume or presume anything. It just 114 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: now hit me. You don't know me. I just know 115 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: you. You're really really good at what you do. And Walter 116 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: turned and walked off. And that's a that's just a 117 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: Walter's a was always the butt of his own stories. 118 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: He never bragged on himself. But that is a connection 119 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: we have. So I received a number of emails from 120 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: folks regarding Sherah and I did I put two and 121 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: two together. There were a number of folks around the 122 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: country within our company who were laid off, and it's awkward. 123 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: I mean, there's just no way around this. It's awkward. 124 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: It's also a business. It's a very competitive business. People 125 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: are removed from television stations day in and day out. 126 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: And if you follow what is McGriff McGuff Michael McGuff, No, 127 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: not Fred McGriff, Mike McGuff. He does a blog on 128 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: Houston Media and if you like to keep up with 129 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: these things, it's the best blog on Houston Media. Unfortunately 130 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: he gets paid for it, but he does the comings 131 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: and goings of you know, who's on KPRC and who 132 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,599 Speaker 1: moves to KHOU and who retires and Dominique Socks that 133 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: went here. I have more to say about Sheriff, but 134 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: that was the reason I didn't respond, was because I 135 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: didn't know. But I would like to say a couple 136 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: of things about sheeryff Friar, who I love and admire. 137 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: Coming up, some beautiful Eastern Michigan's football team has signed 138 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 1: a recruit at linebacker that they were equally that they 139 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: were ardently recruiting. It's going to be very interesting for 140 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: sportscasters following Eastern Michigan football. The young man's first name 141 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 1: is spelled a H. His last name is spelled k 142 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: ni gga. That's uh going to be interesting. He has 143 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: been promised number ten Jersey number ten, because that's what 144 00:09:55,160 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: he requested. Mister Noah, I'm not really sure how you 145 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: pronounce his last nah pass for now A pass for now? 146 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: Caniga nieje? Perhaps it's Nieje did not know. Back to 147 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: the issue of Sheriffriar Our beloved Sheriffriar So anyway, Jimmy 148 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: Barrett had the unenviable task of addressing the issue of 149 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: Shara not being on the air. And look, I've been 150 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: through these things before. It's it's never easy. I remember 151 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: when Catherine came on the air to announce that Rush 152 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: had died. Sharah's alive and well, very much so. When 153 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: Catherine came on the air to announce that that Sherah 154 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: had died, but that that Rush had died, that was man, 155 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: we get so connected with people. Anyway, I thought Jimmy 156 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: handled it very well. Here's what he had to say. 157 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 2: I'm here on Houston's Morning News. Let's see how well 158 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 2: I can tackle this. This is this is not the 159 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 2: kind of duty I lect having, certainly, but I agree. 160 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: You know everybody's been asking where's Shriff Fryer, Where's Shara? 161 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: What's going on? And you deserve to know that Share 162 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 2: is no longer with our KTRH morning show with Houston's 163 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 2: Morning News. And if you're wondering why that is, the 164 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 2: best I can tell you is is that we are 165 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 2: in a business, a media business that is constantly changing, 166 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 2: and when that comes constant staffing changes, consolidation leads to changes, 167 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 2: and when the changes happen, then positions come and positions go. 168 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 2: You may have heard that Rachel Maddow, for example, just 169 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: took a big, huge salary hit over MSNBC. The media 170 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 2: business constantly goes through this and it's going through one 171 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 2: of those periods right now. And it's not just here 172 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: in Houston, it's all across the country. So with this reorganization, 173 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 2: Share is no longer our morning show, And like you, 174 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 2: I will miss not having her not only to just 175 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 2: be a co host, but also to talk to every morning. 176 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 2: I can tell you that I have talked with her. 177 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 2: I think she's fine. I absolutely believe that she will 178 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 2: probably come up with her next best life of what 179 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: it is that she wants to do. And I will 180 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 2: never forget how she welcomed me to Houston. You know, 181 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: gave me all the background information. Here's what you need 182 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 2: to know about Houston. Here's what's important, all this other 183 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 2: I couldn't have made the transition I made to this 184 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 2: new city of mine, my new hometown, without Shriff Fryer, 185 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 2: and I owe her a debt of gratitude for that. 186 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 2: We look forward to seeing and hearing whatever she does next. 187 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 2: And I hope you're going to continue to listen to 188 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 2: us here on KTRH. I promise you we will do 189 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 2: the best morning show we know how to do, and 190 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 2: Sky Mike and Cliff and myself will what put all 191 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: of our energy into making this show as good as 192 00:12:58,240 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 2: we can make it. 193 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: So the question becomes is do you replace her? No, 194 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: you don't replace Sheriff Fire. Sheriff Fryar was on. It's 195 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: been on the air for four decades between radio and television. 196 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: When Sheriff Friar came to kjr H. The credibility she 197 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: brought with her. Sheriff Friar, Dave Ward, Marvin Zendler, Wayne Oltrafino, 198 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: who's still doing great work. By the way, if you 199 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: get a moment, go to the YouTube page for Wayne Oltrafino. 200 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: He the guy is fearless. Well, that broadcast team. I 201 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 1: think Ed Brandon was their meteorologist. Is that right? Not 202 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: only were they the number one team in most watched 203 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: news station. When I was on City Council. If I 204 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: had to, if I had to manage time as to 205 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: which interview I did, Channel thirteen was so much head 206 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 1: and shoulders above everyone else. I think there are some 207 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: great journalists that were not on Channel thirteen. Wasn't their 208 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: fault they weren't number one, But it is. It is. 209 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: This It's an unspoken thing, but it's real. 210 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 2: It is. 211 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: There is a very deep connection to your TV news anchorman. 212 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: Now I don't watch TV like that anymore, so I 213 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: don't have those relationships the way I used to. Although 214 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: I kind of considered Tom Abram's a friend. I've known 215 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: him over the years. I like him. So if I, 216 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: you know, if after a ballgame he comes on, I'll watch, 217 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: and you know, I'll try to figure out how much 218 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: more gray his hair has become and send him a 219 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: little jab of a photo. He's one of the guys 220 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: that's been around since I was around there. But I 221 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: used to spend a lot of time in newsrooms because 222 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: I would go in as a guest, and so you 223 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: know you. I didn't I have a fob to get 224 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: in and out of the TV stations, but I might 225 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,479 Speaker 1: as well have, because I'd get there and the receptionists 226 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: would know me, and they wouldn't even come and get me. 227 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: I just go to the back, and you get to 228 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: know those people as human beings and you grow to 229 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: like them. Sheriff Fryar, I've been out in public with 230 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: Sheryff before she does the World Economic Forum. She is 231 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: so recognizable, far more than me, so beloved in the 232 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: greater Houston area, and as big as that is, it's 233 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: a blip on the map compared to Sheriff Friar. In Hallttsville, 234 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: she was I believe she was the homecoming queen. She 235 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: was the bell of the ball in Hallsville. But what 236 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: I love about her, I've never really mentally left Orange 237 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: because I have such a connection to the Golden Triangle. 238 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: She was always she'd come down to my studio and 239 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: tell me, Hey, I'm going to Halltsville this weekend because 240 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: she knew I loved that and she might be going 241 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: there because it was the sausage making festival. She'd get 242 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: in there and you know, she was the celebrity who 243 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: would come in and make sausage for everybody. She came 244 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: from a fiddle playing family and so what was the 245 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: guy Jimmy going? What was the great fiddle player? She 246 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: would always try to get me to promote and we 247 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: did multiple times the Fiddle Contest, and I think it's 248 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: the National Fiddling Contest. The whole movement to keep the 249 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: fiddle alive and the culture of the fiddle, it emanates 250 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: from Hollttsville, Texas, and Shara is a big part of there. 251 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: There's a guy named Ken Kopecney. I think she's named 252 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: Heckney Copeckney he stoked upon for me one time, but 253 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: he was he has the biggest fish hatchery in the area. 254 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: And if you buy a place out in Hallettsville or 255 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: Lagrange or pretty much anywhere that whole area from from 256 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: Houston to San Anton and all the way up to 257 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: maybe Fredericksburg, that's who most people will call on. My 258 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: friend Randy McDowell had bought a place out in I 259 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: think Belleville, and that was where I first met him, 260 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: and I said, say it was from Hallsville, And I said, 261 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: do you have to know Sheriff Fryar, And he said, Son, 262 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: anybody that's ever been to Halltsville knows Sheriff Fryar. She 263 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: was the belle of the ball. She was the most 264 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: beautiful young lady and she still is to this And 265 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: she's such a pretty lady. You know. I hate to 266 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 1: say the phrase for her age, but to me, it's 267 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: a whole lot easier to be pretty at eighteen than 268 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: it is at her age, and she manages to do it. 269 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: But what a consummate professional, a complete truth teller. And 270 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: I will tell you something, and I am not exaggerating 271 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,360 Speaker 1: when I tell you this. I have never met a 272 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: person in Houston Local News, and I've met all of 273 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: them who were on the air before. But between the 274 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: age between the years of ninety five to twenty ten, 275 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 1: there is not a more Maga America, first tea party, 276 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: American loving Christian values, rural values America than Sheriff Fire 277 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: And that's the greatest compline can give anybody. Love him. 278 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Jack Right, we have a dog 279 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: problem in the Magnolia area where I live. Called local 280 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: animal control. They show up in my driveway. Guy who 281 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: gets out is wearing a badge, a gun and a 282 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: bulletproof vest. I called animal control and this is a cop. 283 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: He's also a police officer. Worthless as tits on a 284 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: boarhog doesn't even catch the dogs. Tells me he can 285 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: set traps instead of catching them with the pole, which 286 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: is apparently now illegal. So needless to say, we still 287 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: have dogs running loose and breeding. They know exactly who 288 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 1: the problem is, but do nothing about it. I'm not 289 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: impressed with the cop slash dog catcher, as you can tell, 290 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: and they think should be doing more of an effort 291 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: to fix the problem them. I've had it out with 292 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: Montgomery County over this. Cats are also out of control. 293 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: They even printed letters in Spanish and mailed them in 294 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: the neighborhood with no resolve. Kevin Wrights, you were talking 295 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: about healthcare costs. I highly recommend this book is put 296 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: out by the Cato Institute. Overcharged, Why Americans Pay too 297 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: Much for Healthcare by Charles Silver. I read this because 298 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: this is a good point in a nutshell. Insurance companies 299 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: want medical costs to be through the roof. That way 300 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: people will buy health insurance. The insurance companies will negotiate 301 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: a price which makes consumers thankful they have insurance. Health 302 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: providers want to make money. Who doesn't. This was eye 303 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: opening to me to help me understand why a two 304 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: hour trip to surgic care costs nine thousand dollars, but 305 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: thanks to my insurance, my wonderful insurance, I seemingly only 306 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: pay eight one hundred and fifty dollars. You know what, 307 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: One of the we talk about our naive neighbors doesn't 308 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: mean they're bad people. They're good people. Good people can't 309 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: imagine that other people are evil, and unfortunately it's the 310 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: good people who get duped and scammed. Now I think 311 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,719 Speaker 1: they go to heaven, but I think that good people 312 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: often suffer at the hands of bad people, partly because 313 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: unfortunately they can't imagine that there are bad people. If 314 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: you're a good person, you think that other people are good, 315 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: and if you're a bad person, you think that other 316 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: people are bad. You know people that are engaged in 317 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: PONSI schemes and scams, and you know the type the 318 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: people that are churn and burn business owners. There's something 319 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: we've had to deal with over the years, at almost 320 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: twenty I is somebody will want us to speak for 321 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: their company and they're a high pressure sales. They don't 322 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: care if the experience is good for the customer, and 323 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: they think, well, we can sell them with a lot 324 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 1: of products, and you can spot them a mile away 325 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: because they'll want you to give discount codes. You buy 326 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: today is five percent off and then ten percent off, 327 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: will do this and thirty percent worth of this. They'll 328 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: want you to give discount codes, trash their opponents, their competition, 329 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: that's always a big one, and tell you that you 330 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: have to buy a day because if you don't buy 331 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: to day, everybody will die. And I said, that's not 332 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: what I do. It's not what I'm ever going to do, 333 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:47,479 Speaker 1: and I don't believe it. It's dishonest. So I believe 334 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 1: that you build your business on the basis of a 335 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: good reputation value added and you don't try to serve 336 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: every customer. It is that level of green that gets 337 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: people into trouble. I talk to a lot of small 338 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:09,199 Speaker 1: business owners, show sponsors and not every single day, and 339 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: many times they are frustrated. They are dejected because they 340 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: got a bad review. I tell people, don't read your 341 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: Yelp reviews if you want to know what people think 342 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: about your business. Restaurant's the easiest way to do it, 343 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: the easiest industry to do this. Then walk into your restaurant, 344 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: sit in the corner, and go up to every table 345 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: and say, tell me the honest truth, what could we 346 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: do better? Because if you go how's your meal, it's fine. 347 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: People don't want to have to say, well, I've been 348 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: waiting for fifteen minutes for your waiter to come back. 349 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: How tell me, honestly, what's one thing we could do better. 350 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: So Russell Lebara, who loves to eat out, loves to 351 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: study menus, pricing, food delivery, presentation on the plate, He 352 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: went to a mutual friend of ours restaurantll I'll tell 353 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: you and Iron Steakhouse. Our friend Michael Sambrooks of the 354 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:07,719 Speaker 1: Pit Room had opened this steakhouse on Alan Parkway, just 355 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 1: not an area I get to very often, and there 356 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: have been some new, very high end restaurants come along there. 357 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 1: And somebody told me the other day there are now 358 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: forty major steakhouses in the greater Houston area. That seemed 359 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: like a lot, but it might be true. And you know, 360 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: I remember a couple of years ago there was an 361 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: article the return of the Great Steakhouse to Houston, Texas. 362 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: The problem is everybody opens at the same time, So 363 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: you might have had a market that could absorb five 364 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: new high end fancy You're only going to go there 365 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: if you're using the company credit card, taking clients steakhouses, 366 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: and yet instead you got all these steakhouses that popped up. Well, 367 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: Michael sam Brooks entered that mart as well to a 368 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: lot of press because he was a little bit different. 369 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 1: But my god, you got Tilman's got Massros, which is 370 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: high end and I think executes on all cylinders. If 371 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: you want a solid, good steakhouse, Masstros is phenomenal. For years, 372 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: I went to Vic and Anthony's. I didn't go to 373 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: an Astros game without going to Vic and Anthony's first. 374 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: You could smoke inside back then, and we would have 375 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: we'd meet over in the little bar over to the 376 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: side and have a cigar and then start with a beer, 377 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: and then have never leave the bar and never go 378 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: into the main dining room and have a steak and 379 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 1: home fries. Them and Blake's, which is no longer around anymore, 380 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: were the best two home fries in town. Because I 381 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: like the thick cut home fries. I am the opposite 382 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: of shoestring potato. I don't understand what was those things 383 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: you used to get in a can ramone, the little 384 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: shoe string potato. Huh what popeyes? They were little sticks. 385 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: I never understood that anyway. So Russell went to and 386 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: Iron and wrote a long review just for Michael Sandbrooks 387 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 1: this morning, because he wanted to help him. You know, 388 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: here's what I think you're doing great. Here's what I 389 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: think you can do about it. That's what you want. 390 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: You can sit around and wait for the fall ner Rand. 391 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: The year was nineteen eighty eight. I was a junior 392 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: in high school. 393 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,120 Speaker 2: I want. 394 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: Looking back now in the arc of the careers of 395 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: people like Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, the Beatles, George Harrison, 396 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: e l Os, Jeffrey Lynn. I you know, there was 397 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: you got the Highwaymen, which was just and it was 398 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: this period of time we didn't know there would be 399 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: a resurgence in interest and bankability of the Willie Nelsons, 400 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard. We thought the world had just 401 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: changed and left them behind. And so it's it's rather sad, 402 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: you know. Johnny Cash was playing in Branson to shows 403 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: of between two hundred and three hundred people. Can you 404 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: imagine how shattered you would feel. You're still young enough 405 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: that you need to make a living, you want to 406 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: play your art, but the world had changed. It was 407 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: it was new wave, it was glam rock, it was 408 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: a hair metal, it was GNR, and then it was 409 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: it was going to go from there to grunge, and 410 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: then it was going to go to this pop of 411 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: Hoody and the Blowfish and a new style of music, 412 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: and then the Beastie Boys, and now what would become 413 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: hip hop at the time was rap. And there just 414 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: wasn't a place for the singers songwriter of the sixties 415 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: and seventies. And yet they were still weren't that old? 416 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 1: So nineteen eighty eight the Traveling Wilbery's Gather, the supergroup 417 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: high women style supergroup, and we thought they were so old. Ramon, 418 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 1: how old do you think Tom Petty was in nineteen 419 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 1: eighty eight when Traveling Wheelbars got together? Not thirty eight, 420 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: thirty seven? Very good? How about the old Beatle Beatles 421 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: had been split up for going on twenty years. George Harrison, 422 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: he was a whopping forty five, The old man Bob Dylan, 423 00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: long gone from the acoustic to electric days with the 424 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: band back in he was a whopping forty seven. Jeffrey 425 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: Lynn of Elo ELO's best days were long gone. He 426 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: was only forty one, and the old man who would die. 427 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: They would have the rocking chair without him in it, 428 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: rocking as if he was. That most poignant moment in 429 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: the video, Roy Orbison, I thought he was seventy five. 430 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't consciously think how old he was. 431 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,239 Speaker 1: I just knew he was the elder statesman of the 432 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: group fifty two he is, he was two years younger 433 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: than I am. Now I'm fifty four. And what's weird 434 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: is I haven't so my birthday was November tenth. It's 435 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: almost it's been a month. I haven't had a need 436 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: to answer the question as to how old I am 437 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: on any documents or you know, to get in to 438 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: a bar or anything like that. So I haven't had 439 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: to say I'm fifty four. So I'm still in my 440 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: mind fifty three. And it's not like there's a huge 441 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: difference at this point that it all kind of blends together. 442 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: It's just weird because our age is one of our 443 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: forms of identity, and I haven't had to say to anyone, 444 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: so how old are you? Fifty four? I ask people 445 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: how old they are all the time. My wife's trainer 446 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: before Michael Petro. She lives in Costa Rica now and 447 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: she's her best friend and she's in town. She comes 448 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: up once a year and they go for lunches and 449 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: hang out and you know, do girly stuff. And I 450 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: asked her yesterday because she has the most smoking body 451 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: you've ever seen in your life. I mean, she's just incredible. 452 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: If you meet her one time, you remember for the 453 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: rest of your like, you've never seen a woman so 454 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: fit as this. And I said, Michelle, how old are you? 455 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: And she looked at me, and she wears these eyelash 456 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: extensions and she bats them Indian just like the peacock, 457 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: you know, ascending to the roof every night. The wind 458 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: blows when she does this. She says, these big expressive eyes. 459 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: You can't ask a lady, I said, Michelle, I ask 460 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: everybody their age. You know this, I've asked you before. 461 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: So I'm sixty four. And I said, you know what, 462 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 1: I don't understand. Why wouldn't you brag about that. I 463 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: think women have had this idea that you don't tell 464 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: your age. I was thinking about this other day. If 465 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: you're forty and look fifty eight, you don't want to 466 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: be asked your age because you know, you know what 467 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: people think you look like. If you're forty and them's 468 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: hard miles and you look fifty eight and someone says 469 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: holder and you go, I know you're thinking, I'm almost sixty, 470 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: but I'm only forty. Ah, that's weird. I'm going to 471 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: tell you something. If you're Michelle Rogers or I asked 472 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,719 Speaker 1: Mary tally bout another day. She opened up her clinic 473 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: on Sunday to see me because so I wouldn't have 474 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: to because she was stacked all day Monday because she'd 475 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: been out for vacation. And she said, you I can 476 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: hear she's the steroids have done a lot. Are good. 477 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: I didn't sound like this. I'm not saying I sound great, 478 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: but you you would hear me wheezing like I had emphysema. 479 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: I may for that matter. But she said, you have 480 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: a lot of fluid on your lungs and she hit 481 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: it with the steroid and it has. I've been doing 482 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: a nebulizer and the whole Let me tell you something, 483 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: if you got if you got breathing issues or sleeping issues. 484 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: Go see Mary Tallyboude and she is she I mean, 485 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: by Monday afternoon. In fact, Eddie Martini said, what are 486 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: you talking about? You sound just fine on the air. 487 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: I said, if you had heard me yesterday, you would 488 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: not have believed it. She hit this thing with everything, 489 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: and my wife was insistent, you're not waiting another day. 490 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: You're going in there. I'm worried about you. Her mom 491 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: died of pneumonia, so she has a kind of a 492 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: little bit of a you know, a little bit of 493 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: a thing on that. And I said, okay, I owe 494 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: you that. But I asked her because she's a very 495 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: attractive woman. She was going to be doing a big 496 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: interview yesterday for some national TV show about the vaccine 497 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: and COVID treatments and all that. I said, how old 498 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: are you again? And she kind of puckered her face up, 499 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: and you know Jack Nicholson in the shining and I said, well, 500 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: I guarantee you look younger than you are, so just 501 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: tell me your age and I'll tell you look younger 502 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: than you are. So I'm fifty two. I said, listen, 503 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: it's not easy with your schedule, four kids, single mom 504 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: hard working Texas Medical Board out to destroy you. To 505 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: look as good as you do at fifty two, you 506 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: should be proud of that. And we close our show 507 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: with a little bit of a tribute to our buddy 508 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: sky Mike, because he's the one that always played the 509 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: Sheriff Friar clips in his morning Traffic report, and I 510 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: thought it was that was my favorite part of the 511 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: Morning News. I loved it so clever. But Aiemy Barrett 512 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: will tarry on. He will do a fantastic job, and 513 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: he will get through it, and Sheriff Fryer will pop up. 514 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: Somebody smart's going to hire her, maybe in media media, 515 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: may be in media consultation, maybe as an executive, which 516 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: she could well do. But we close our show with 517 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: a fun little tribute to our dear friend, Sheriff Fryar. 518 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: I had a possum in my fan belt. I had 519 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: a possum in my fan belt.