1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm a Jeopardy nut, absolute nut, and when Alex and 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: now Ken Jennings, I hate Ken Jennings politics, I hate him. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: But Ken Jennings is an amazing host of Jeopardy. And 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: you have to understand for me to say that, I 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 1: never wanted to say that Ken Jennings does a phenomenal judge. 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: There's only one Alex Trebek. You can't criticize a guy 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: because he's not Alex Trebek. You know, people will tell 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: me that that that Klay and Buck are not rush Limbaugh. 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: They know that somebody had to do the show, and 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: no matter who you are, you're not Rush Limbaugh. And 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: they're not saying they are. So it was. It was. 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: It's always interesting to me when they come back after 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: a break and the judges have conferred and they announced that, 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: oh no, no, you did get the answer correct or 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: the other one is are you know the the analytics 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: team has done the research and this is the first 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: time and so our analytics team has done the research. 18 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: Ramon has been consulted in San Diego where he is. 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,199 Speaker 1: Jim has led the investigation. Chad is in Hawaii working 20 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: on the back porch of a beautiful Lenai everyone agrees. 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: This is the first intro to a segment that Kunda 22 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: both created, the segment idea and the intro music for 23 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: the Bad Name Game. I think he's got a relative 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: with a bad name. And here we go, Colley, bad name, ladys. 25 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: It's America's favorite game of shame. 26 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: You married a prince with a last name full of stitch. 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 3: Bad name shame game. 28 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: All right, to the phone lines we go. It's the 29 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: bad name shame game. But it could also be someone 30 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: with a fancy name like Langston, Willcox Turner. Greg, you're 31 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: on the Michael Berry Show. Let me try these gim 32 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: Let's see if I can get on. If I can 33 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: get there, we go. Go ahead, Greg, you're okay? 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 4: All right, I'm not okay. Well, I had a guy 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 4: I worked for named Sass and so I can just 36 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 4: imagine his girlfriends telling her girlfriends and last night I 37 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 4: had a date and night kissed Bill's ass. 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: See, that's the kind of stupid stuff. The first time 39 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: I hear that someone's last name is zas that I 40 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: think up And I can't say most of them, because 41 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: you know, it's not a political correctness. I end up 42 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: hurting a lot of people's feelings because I think I'm funny, 43 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not. It's you know, the person is 44 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: sensitive and the rest of the people in the group 45 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 1: think I'm an ass. Pete, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 46 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: What's yours? 47 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 2: Hey, Michael. 48 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 5: I worked in customer service for twenty years, and undoubtedly 49 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 5: when a woman will walk up and I would say hi, there, 50 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 5: what's your name? And they would say Rebecca Cox Cox, 51 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 5: they always had to spell it. They always had to 52 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 5: make sure you knew it was Cox. 53 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 1: Yeah. 54 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 5: I mean, if if I ran into two hundred people 55 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 5: like that, it was two hundred for two hundred, which. 56 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: It was crazy. Can you imagine how awful that was 57 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: with them? Where did you work? 58 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 5: I worked for a automotive repair shop here in the 59 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 5: Houston area. It's a it's a big franchise. 60 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. Do you still work there? 61 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 6: Yeah? 62 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 5: Uh no, I'm retired. Retired twenty years government, twenty years with. 63 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: Them, right on. And were you a mechanic? 64 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 7: No, I was. 65 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 5: I was a management type thing. 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: I kind of Oh, sorry, I cut it too early, 67 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: My bad. Oh, Jim, what does it have to do 68 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: whether they were black or not? John, You're up? Go ahead? 69 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 7: Yes, custy Western legend Pasty Kline. Her second husband name 70 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 7: was Charlie Dick. 71 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: Is that who she was married to when she died? 72 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 8: Yes? 73 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 7: Yes, and he's still alive today. 74 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: I don't know that I knew that. I don't know 75 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: that I knew that. Christine. You're on the Michael Berry Show. 76 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: What's yours? 77 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 6: Hi, Michael? So I'm just passing us coins right now 78 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 6: on itn C If I see Kenny Duncan, I'm as 79 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 6: trainer anyway. 80 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hear about you. 81 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he's in great shape. Several decades ago, I 82 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 6: was in pharmacy school at u of H College of Pharmacy, 83 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 6: and I had a couple of kids in my class 84 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 6: that we would sit up in the front of the class, 85 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 6: and one of them's name was Lena Wong. And then 86 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 6: the guy that sat behind us, name was Robin Watt, 87 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 6: and he would always kid Lena because he was so 88 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 6: studious and he was barely scraping by. And he told 89 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 6: her one day, you know what, Lena, after we graduate 90 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 6: and we become pharmacists, we're going to open a pharmacy 91 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 6: and we're gonna call it what long Pharmacies. I just 92 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 6: don't remember that after all. 93 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: These years Asian names are. She was so much fun 94 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: because you get you know, the hung lows and all those. 95 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: But I grew up in Orangefield, which was a high 96 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: school I went to, had a large Vietnamese population, and 97 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: they had everyone in the community worked either in shrimping 98 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: or in a nursery. They had a big plant nursery there, 99 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: and as is common, most of their last name was Win. 100 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: And I was a kid with no filter, and I 101 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: created every win joke. You can imagine. If you were 102 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: to ask my classmates, my high school classmates, who some 103 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: of whom I still keep up with tweet win twe 104 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: would say how many? He said, how many win jokes 105 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: did Michael Berry have when y'all are in high school? 106 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: She'd say, have to be one hundred, And that's not 107 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: an exaggeration. I would say. You know, the kids would 108 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: named who what, when, who when and what when they 109 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: lived in a Winnebago. They were all these sorts of jokes. 110 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: But I will tell you, as a group, by far 111 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: as an immigrant group after Indians, the most successful Indian 112 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: group ever. And I don't say that to cover my 113 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: tracks because I have so many good wind jokes I 114 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: say that because I've always been in deep admiration of 115 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: Vietnamese Americans. But at some point when I've had a 116 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: couple of drinks, so some of my Vietnamese friends from 117 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: from school will remind me of the jokes I came 118 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: up with that I didn't remember of varying quality. But 119 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do when you're young. You're 120 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: supposed to make you're supposed to I had to live 121 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: through the Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, which I thought 122 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: was the stupidest. I mean, that's lame, that's not even 123 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: that's not even funny. Or give it to Mikey. He'll 124 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: like it. He likes everything. Okay, well us, I mean 125 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: you're not even creative now, Barry. Yeah, you can imagine 126 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: with guys in a locker room. What what? What kind 127 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: of stuff? I heard on that? 128 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 9: All right? 129 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Your highly pretentious, 130 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: precocious names are really really bad names coming up. 131 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 10: You are listening to Michael Barry's Shaw night. 132 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: I worked for Bdo Sideman and we had an accountant 133 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: named how Duke Doe. Doe actually rhymes with so although 134 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: it's spelled do. When he submitted his resume, the HR 135 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: director read howdy do do? Rhyming with two and thought 136 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: it was a fake resume phonetically how do you do? 137 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: He applied three times before he got hired. He was 138 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: awesome and our go to it guy, in addition to 139 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: being one of the best accountants at the firm. And 140 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: there you have it. I'm going to have to get 141 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: through some of these emails because some of them are 142 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: just they're just too good, not too Let's start with Ruth. 143 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: You're up, sweetheart, Go. 144 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 10: Ahead, Michael. I worked in the staffing and placement industry 145 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 10: for thirty four years and we ran into a lot 146 00:08:54,520 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 10: of entertaining names. Our top four were Mercedes Speed, Princess 147 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 10: High Tower okay, and the last two, which are slightly inappropriate, 148 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 10: are Anita Dick and our top favorite, Rhoda Glasscock. 149 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: You know them. The name Glasscock is not so uncommon. 150 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: I will hear it mentioned or see it written. And 151 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: I've always thought that's an interesting name to go through 152 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: through life with, especially a lot of old English names. 153 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: They're they're they're pretty interesting. How old are you writ 154 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: Ruth sixty sixty. You may be the youngest Ruth ever met. 155 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 10: You don't run into many outside of a nursing home. 156 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 8: No. 157 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: My grandmother was named Ruth Barry and she passed at 158 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: ninety nine, just short of one hundred. Oh shoot, my 159 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: dad's eighty five. I bet you that's been ten years ago, 160 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: so she'd be one hundred and ten. So she's got 161 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: fifty years on you. But you just don't. That's not true. 162 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: I had a college classmate named Ruth what was her 163 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: last name? But you just don't. You don't hear Ruth 164 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: one of those names. It just kind of went away. Mark, 165 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 166 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 11: Go ahead, yeah, Mark, Michael. Our daughter, her name is 167 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 11: was Skyler man Amn. She married a gentleman with the 168 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 11: last name Hacker, and I asked her she should hyphenate 169 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 11: her name because she's a nurse at a urologist, and 170 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 11: it would be She's. 171 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: I love it. 172 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 11: And my brother in Austin went to the top eurologist 173 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 11: for vasectomy that you can look us up. His name 174 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 11: is doctor Richard Chopp. 175 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 5: Look it up. 176 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,199 Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. Hey, Jim, make sure they're not 177 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: on speakerphone or bluetooth. Just remind them when you when 178 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: you pick it up, because I get I can hardly 179 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 1: hear them. When you do, Mike, you're up. Go ahead. 180 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 9: Hey, it's kind of hard to follow, Ruis. Those are 181 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 9: some good ones. But I'm sure you've heard of the 182 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 9: millionaire over here in San Antonio, that it was named 183 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 9: Dick Tips. 184 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: No, well, no, I have not. What's he famous for? 185 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 9: He owned some cemeteries. He owns a couple. Well, I'm 186 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 9: sure he's got his hands and everything, but he owns 187 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 9: a couple of cemeteries. You're in San Antonio, I'm sure 188 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 9: with some other stuff. 189 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: Well, I've always thought that HB would be named after 190 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: the last name of the owner, but for the fact 191 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: that it was Butt and Uh. I had a law 192 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: school classmate named named Eric Haidu. Eric is a lawyer 193 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: in Austin these days. And Eric had come down from 194 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: Indiana and he'd gone to the University of Indiana. He 195 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: was the biggest Bobby Knight fan you'll ever meet. And 196 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: he the first day we're all hanging out, and he said, y'all, 197 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,959 Speaker 1: I've got a grocery store. It must be Jewish because 198 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: it's called Hebe. And he thought that was the funniest thing, 199 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: like that was some short form of Hebrew. Well, I 200 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: didn't know chib. I don't think i'd ever seen an chib. 201 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: This was nineteen ninety three, but we had classmates that 202 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: were from parts of Texas that had an HIB and 203 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: they said, no, you goof, it's Howard E. Butt. And 204 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: then he really busts out laughing and he says, so 205 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 1: it's not heb it's Howard E. 206 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 7: Butt. 207 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: And they said yes. And for weeks to this day, 208 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: I still kid him about. You know, this was his 209 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: introduction coming down to Texas to a grocery store and 210 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: all the humor it gave him. Craig, you're on the 211 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir. 212 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 12: What's up, Michael? 213 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: How you doing good? 214 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 3: You got me? 215 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 2: I'll went to high school. 216 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 12: With a girl named Bunnie Bell, and we went to 217 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 12: see Eddie Rabbit. After the show. We met him and 218 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 12: she said, Eddie, my name is Bunny Bell, and if 219 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 12: you marry me, my name will be Bunny Rabbit. 220 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 13: That's right. 221 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming. I like his particular storytelling style. Colleen, 222 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 223 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 14: Go ahead, sweetheart, Hi Michael, good morning. My last name 224 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 14: is Has and it's spelled h A s. Everybody always 225 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 14: gets it wrong. And I real quickly say, hey, don't 226 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,599 Speaker 14: make an ass out of Hoss, because a lot of 227 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 14: people go, h A S S. 228 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: Are you really my ownership? 229 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 14: No, I am not. So we're on our own out 230 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 14: here where is out here? And Montgomery? Oh okay, and 231 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 14: we live up to Montgomery. 232 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: I met Fred, he said, Hass, But I don't know 233 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: if that was because it was easier as a retail 234 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: named Fred Hass, Toyota and all of those. And I 235 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: think Jay, his son, took over. So I don't know 236 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: what became of all that, but I think it was 237 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: Fred Hass who had started in Orange. And so I 238 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: was at Formula one or one of the race car 239 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: deals they had in downtown Houston, and he was sitting 240 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: in front of me, and I had been invited as 241 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: his guest, but I didn't know I was his guest. 242 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: I was invited by someone else, but it was his tickets. 243 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: And so he sat down right in front of me 244 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: and he says, nice to meet you, and big fan, 245 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: thank you. And I have an Orange, Texas connection. I said, okay, 246 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: well at least he knows I'm from Orange. Okay, what 247 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: is that? And he said, I started my first business 248 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: in Orange, I had the CON's Appliance Store. I believe 249 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: it was Consaplance store, and I think it was Fred Has. 250 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: It was one of the car news but I think 251 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: it was Fred Hass. But he pronounced it Hass instead 252 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: of Has, although I've heard it pronounced both ways. Scott, 253 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: You're go ahead. 254 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 3: Hey, Michael. Uh. Back in the seventies, when I was 255 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 3: working in Houston here, I worked as a fella in. 256 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 3: His uh given name was Flint Sparks and he was 257 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 3: from Kentucky hillbilly from Kentucky. 258 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: Flint Sparks. You got to think that his parents had 259 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: a sense of humor, right, because that doesn't First of all, 260 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: Flint's not a regular name. I mean, that's somebody that's 261 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: making a memorable name. Delinda, you're up, sweetheart. Go ahead, hey, Michael. 262 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 15: I have a neighbor. 263 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 9: Her name is Hailey Raper R A P. E. R. 264 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 15: And she married a gentleman. 265 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: His last name is Gay Raper Gay Hale Gay out 266 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: of the frying pan into the fire right there. I mean, 267 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: she's just that poor woman is that's Let's go to 268 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: Julie real quick. Julie, Oh sorry, can you get it 269 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: in Julie, go ahead, allow me to introduce myself. 270 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 8: My name is Mitt. 271 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: We'll come Michael Genius. Well, today we have several meetings 272 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: with heads of state on the schedule for today, we're 273 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: talking about bad names you marry into or out of, 274 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: or that you knew, and how someone handled it. I mean, 275 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: the only way to handle it is is to make 276 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: it a joke. It's part of your identity. Some people 277 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: change their names because I look back now to how 278 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: nervous kids are. We had a classmate he passed in 279 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: his forties, much too soon. His name was Craig Hobbs. 280 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: Everybody loved Craig, and Craig's legal name was Dustin. So 281 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: I guess when his mother would sign him up. Every year, 282 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: she would sign him up under his legal name. Although 283 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: back then it wasn't like today you could make up 284 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: any name. Nobody cross referenced anything. You didn't have a 285 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: database where you could look and see he could have 286 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: been Joe Smith. So every year, on the first day, 287 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: when the teacher would call out the names, we'd start 288 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: getting to h and all of the guys. We ran 289 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: around together a group of us, Toby Schultz, Ben Wernig, 290 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: Craig Hobbs, Stephen Bradley. You know, there was a there 291 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 1: was a whole group of us from from elementary all 292 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: the way up, and I can remember, especially in elementary school, 293 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: let's say third grade, where little boys are trying to 294 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: be real tough, especially around the other little boys, and 295 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 1: we'd get we'd start going through and we'd go to B, C, D, E, 296 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: F G, and we'd all be a twitter, like we 297 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: couldn't wait because I bet it was gonna be Dustin Hobbes. 298 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: And the teacher would say, as she would go to 299 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: say Dustin Hobbes, he'd say, it's Craig, and we would 300 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: all go, Craig, don't interrupt, yes, ma'am, could he what's 301 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: the name? And they'd say what, she'd say what? She 302 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: wouldn't know, And we already knew we'd been doing this 303 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: a couple of years now. We knew the whole drill. 304 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: And he was so embarrassed of the name Dustin being 305 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: his legal name. Probably name for Dustin Hoffman, I don't know, 306 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: but you think about this, yeah, because we were born 307 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: in seventy and what was the graduate sixty nine? I 308 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: bet you that's who he was named for. But it's 309 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 1: not like Dustin was a bad name. But at that age, 310 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, it was a bad name because it 311 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: wasn't his name. His name was Craig with a K, 312 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: K R E G, and we would jokingly call him 313 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: Dustin for the entirety of our school time. And it's 314 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: so silly now, but at that time, for some reason, 315 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: that was really embarrassing. You look back now and it's 316 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: just funny. Janice, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go aheads. 317 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 11: We heard. 318 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 12: Hi. 319 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 11: Yes, my main name was bald b A L L. 320 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 3: And I'm married the guy with the last name. 321 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: Oh, well, there you go. Do you hyphenate your last name? 322 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 16: No, I don't even use that name anymore. 323 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: We move on. You know, it's crazy because women go 324 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: by different names in the course of their lives. Most 325 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 1: of us don't. I've been Michael Berry since you know, 326 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: I can remember, and that's just kind of who I am. 327 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: I can't imagine my wife went from nonea the Vencatationwitin 328 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: to Nandida Berry. It's like a whole new identity and 329 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: women do it every day. It's crazy think about it. 330 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: Of course, they wear high heels too, and I can't imagine. 331 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: That's the whole thing about men cross dressed, and I 332 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: ever understood they got the short end of the stick. Literally, 333 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: we got the good one. We get to go straight 334 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: into the bathroom. We don't have to wear a makeup, 335 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: We don't have to do our hair. We can roll 336 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: out of bed, run a comb across our head, and 337 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 1: go out in public. We don't have to wear makeup. 338 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: Why would anybody? Nobody thinks to themselves, man being a 339 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: dude is such a drag. I want to live a 340 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: woman's life. That's insane. Why would you do that? Anyway? Champ, 341 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: you're up. 342 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 8: Our accountant had a wonderful secretary with the great sense 343 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 8: of humor. And her last name was Pittsworth. 344 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: Oh okay, was she cute? 345 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 8: Yes? She was very pretty. 346 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: Is Champ your Christian name your given name or is 347 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 1: it a nickname? No, that's my real name, and it's 348 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: just Champ, not Champion. 349 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 8: No, it's just Champ. And that's my oldest son's name too. 350 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: Okay, Well there you go. I like that interesting. Charlie. 351 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. What you got, sir? Yeah? 352 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,399 Speaker 17: When I was ten or eleven, when I had a 353 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 17: friend his name was Peter Bender. And then when I 354 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 17: got a little older, I had another friend. His name 355 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 17: was His name was Kevin bus and he always told 356 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 17: me that if you ever had a boy, he was 357 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 17: going name Harry Harry Buds. 358 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: Well, there you go, let's go to Roberts Robert. You're 359 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: only Michael Barry show. 360 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 3: Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I was. 361 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 15: I grew up in Indiana. I went to high school 362 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 15: and there was a girl, probably a couple of years 363 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 15: in front of me. Her first name was Candy, Candy Lawrence, 364 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 15: beautiful girl, corn corn bread. And right after she graduated 365 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 15: she was gonna get married. And I was crushed, you know, 366 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 15: because I thought I had a chance, right, But she 367 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 15: must have really loved the guy because his name was 368 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 15: Jeff Peters. So her name was Candy Peters. 369 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: Well, it's not the worst one we've heard today. Reminder, folks, 370 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: please don't be on speakerphone or bluetooth. I know you 371 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: have to wait for a minute, but we can't hear 372 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: you when you're on the line. Randy. Go ahead. 373 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 11: Yeah. 374 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 16: So it was in the late eighties and we were 375 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 16: at the Houston Rodeo and we're about eight nine years 376 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 16: old than me and my cousin are just little Hellion 377 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 16: and we're running around and my aunt yell Randy Travit 378 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 16: get over here. And we were there to see Randy 379 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 16: Travis and everybody turns around. He looks at her like 380 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 16: it looks at us like we're Randy Travis running around 381 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 16: be a bunch of heathens. 382 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, or Hellion's which you first said, which is one 383 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: of my favorite words. And you've ever been around little 384 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: boys running around together, Helen's is a perfect word, Scott, 385 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: you and to Michael Berry show go ahead. 386 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. When I was an elementary school in the sixties, 387 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 3: my teachers wouldn't let me use my middle name, and 388 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 3: my first name is Dale. So these kids come up 389 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 3: to me and they call me Dale Evans. And the 390 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 3: way I handled that, I just tell him they could 391 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 3: kiss my last. 392 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that, Scott, is probably ninety 393 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: percent of our audience has no idea who Dale Evans is, 394 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: But when you were I do. But when you were 395 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 1: a kid, I guess some of our older folks would. 396 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: I would be interesting to know what the age cutoff 397 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: is for people who would know who Dale Evans is. Lisa, 398 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: You're own to Michael Berry, show go ahead. 399 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 11: Hi, Michael, thank you for having me on the show. 400 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 14: I went from Newberry to Barry when I got married. 401 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. That's not a big change. That's 402 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: not a big change. But you know, I'm fascinated by 403 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: this concept that we take for granted that women just 404 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: changed their name. That's part of getting married. And you 405 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: know that the modern woman, which was began in the seventies. 406 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: This was Hillary Rodham who didn't take Bill Clinton's name. 407 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: Didn't do that because somehow that was subjugating yourself. But 408 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: she sure did when she ran when he started running 409 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: for president, didn't she. Chris, you own to Michael Berry, 410 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: show go ahead. 411 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 412 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 13: Back in high school, my freshman year eighty three at 413 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 13: Conra High School, we had to go get our pictures 414 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 13: taken for the yearbook. And I don't know if it 415 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 13: was the guy himself or somebody did it for him, 416 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 13: but you have to fill out a card to associate 417 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 13: your picture with the name. And anyway, he put down 418 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 13: Jack and then the last name M. 419 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 7: E O F F. 420 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 13: And it wound up in the yearbook. It didn't uh, 421 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 13: it didn't get cut out. You know. 422 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: That's one of those that you see on social media 423 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: sites for the little clip where you know they'll go 424 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,479 Speaker 1: up and ask, you know, could you call for so 425 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: and so to meet me at the at the customer 426 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: service desk and in this week little old lady, and 427 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,479 Speaker 1: she has no idea and she reads it. That's one 428 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: of the names that's always that's always read off you. 429 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: You probably never have fun again like you did in 430 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: high school over the what kind of stuff can we 431 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: get in the high school yearbook? Well, that's the kind 432 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: of thing that when you're at that age you could 433 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: laugh for the game everything. Joe Wright, I am reminded 434 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: of the incredibly bad name of Houston's own I'm a Hog. 435 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 1: Her parents were quite cruel. Also, I had a proctologist, 436 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: now retired, named doctor Butts. What a perfect name for 437 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: a proctologist. Anytime I mentioned I'm a hog, my mentor 438 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 1: Walter Zivily. His mother, Jane Bieler Zively, was the personal 439 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: assistant to I'm a Hog and ran her office for 440 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: many many years. I mean maybe fifty years, I don't know, 441 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: some high number of years. And folks every time I 442 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: mentioned I'm a hog will say, you know, she has 443 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: a sister named Eura. No, she did not have a 444 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: sister named Era. That's the joke. She also didn't have 445 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: a sister named Husa, which is another one. She did 446 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: have a father who was governor of Texas, and he 447 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,719 Speaker 1: would campaign claiming and he would rattle off a series 448 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: of hog names. But it was not. It was not 449 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: as many people believe. It's one of those things that 450 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: if you've heard it enough times, you might actually start 451 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: to believe it. Delenda says, I have more bad names 452 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: I've run across. I went to school with Dusty Weathers 453 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: and his sister is Wendy and brother Stormy Katie High School. 454 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: At Katie Junior High, I had a friend named Penny Nichols. 455 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: Her dad called her sixth sense. My married last name 456 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: is McPhail. I guess it's better than my maiden name. 457 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: No whack. Kyle writes. There was a lady named Julia 458 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: Sullivan who was about to marry Glenn Gully, and her 459 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: name would be Julia Gully, but Julia Gully, but her 460 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: wedding singer, dude Robert Hart, broke that marriage up before 461 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: the wedding. Oh my, there's the story. What's that? Oh 462 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: that's the move from the movie The wedding singer Okay. 463 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: I hadn't seen that. Okay had some good friends that 464 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: got married, Ryan Stiff and Melanie Cram. It was the 465 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: Stiff Cram wedding. Keith writes. In the military, I met 466 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: a young lady who had enlisted in the Navy. Lower 467 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: enlisted personnel in the Navy are called by their rank 468 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: of seamen, then her last name. This young lady's last 469 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: name was Swallow, so she always addressed herself as Seaman Swallow. 470 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: I would have joined a different branch of service if 471 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: I was her. Harry writes, Our secretary treasurer at AFM 472 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 1: in Nashville is named Will Barrow. I think it's Harry Wilkinson. 473 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: I think he's dead. Series Rogers says, great music, except 474 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 1: maybe for the last Beatles song Let's See. Jonathan says, 475 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: in the earlier eighties, my family went to visit our 476 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: relatives in New Jersey. While having dinner, they were talking 477 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: about a cousin out there named Roseanne who was going 478 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,959 Speaker 1: to marry a man with the last name Dana. Due 479 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: to Saturday Night Live, there were a lot of jokes 480 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: going on about her Rosanna and Rosanna Dana was such 481 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: a great character on those early seasons. My wife's uncle's 482 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: last name is Carol, and he married a woman named Carol. 483 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: You know, we had a couple. He was a deacon 484 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: and she was a leader amongst the ladies at Old 485 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: First Orn Baptist Church. Beloved couple. And his name was 486 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: Archie Jones. And when she married him, her name Archie 487 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: became Archie Jones. And so when somebody was referencing them, 488 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: which you did often, it would be Archie boy and 489 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: Archie girl. And I've known of other couples where they 490 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: were Tracy's or Kelly's and they get married. Let's see here, 491 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: Kimberly says. My next door neighbor's given name was Candy Box. 492 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: My brother had a high school friend last named Mountain. 493 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: The kid's names were Cliff, Rocky, Smokey, and Candy. My favorite. 494 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: A customer at the bank was Middle Eastern. He was 495 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: a sheikh named Ma Boob my Boob. I had a 496 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: friend named Dick, Tip says Triumph. One't year, on the 497 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: first day of school, the teacher was calling names and 498 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: she said she was going to change his name to Rick. 499 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: He responded, no, thanks, I've always been Dick, and I 500 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: will always be Dick. He would introduce himself as Dick Tip. 501 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: The person would repeat the name, and he'd respond, Yep, 502 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: that's me, always on point. You know, the fact is, 503 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: if you're gonna have a funny name, you better just. 504 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 13: Is. 505 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: You better just embrace it. There's just no way around that. 506 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: Gay Adams was gay. Snowball owns Pooky's Cafe in Beadias, Texas. 507 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: Josh writes, Hey, Michael, the subject of last names, find 508 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: my father before me and my daughter have heard the 509 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: same joke. You ought to do that, and I do 510 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: believe you have used this on your show. The most 511 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: interesting combination name I've seen has been a lady running 512 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: for some type of office. Her name was Robin Rape, 513 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: rob oh Rob Robin Rape for Rob n Rape. Okay, 514 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: that's like Dewey Cheataman. How there used to be a 515 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: Brazoria County official with a name Jackie Moff. That'd be 516 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: interesting to know. Jason writes, Goodyear, I was one of 517 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: the guys business cards, Scott Dumbcomb, poor fella. I asked 518 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: the chick I was dating at the time if she 519 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: would date me if I had that last name. She 520 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: said no. I dodged that bullet with her anyway, So 521 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: I guess he didn't end up marrying that girl. Kenneth writes. 522 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: When I was in the Air Force, I was a 523 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: medic and there were two doctors, a urologist named doctor 524 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: Clapp and another named doctor Bill's. Well, that's an interesting 525 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: group of folks there. Let's go to Philip, Philip, you're 526 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: old Michael Berry Show. What's yours? 527 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 6: Man? 528 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 9: I got a buddy of mine is dad's a psychiatrist 529 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 9: and his name is doctor Looney. 530 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's almost as if people gravitate toward a 531 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: career like that when they have a funny name, like 532 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: wouldn't it be funny or ironic? And maybe subconsciously they do. 533 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, but it does seem to happen a lot. Rick, 534 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, yo. 535 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 11: Michael was working as a maintenance man and I went 536 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 11: to work on a unit in the lady's name was 537 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 11: Douanna do wanna dick? 538 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Dan Pastorina Pastrina told me that that 539 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: that Anita Martin, that Anita Martini's name was really Anita Martini. 540 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: I want to say. He told me that was the case. 541 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but I believe he 542 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: said that. You never know with him because he kind 543 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: of says things and then you ask if he's telling 544 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: the truth. Then he kind of sort of gives you 545 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: a ry smile, so you gotta check, you gotta fact 546 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: check everything. Not that he would lie, but that he'd 547 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: make a fool out of you by getting you to 548 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: go off and say that, and then it wouldn't be true. 549 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: Don You're up. What you got? Don has nothing? Don 550 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: has absolutely nothing? Rick, what you got? 551 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 2: Man got two things. Got a buddy mine that was 552 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 2: going to go in the Navy, but he decided to 553 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 2: go in the army because his last name was Spiller 554 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 2: and he didn't want to be Semen Spiller. Yeah, and 555 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 2: then the other one that was the lady used to 556 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 2: work for the state of Texas and her name was 557 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 2: Sarah Baumfalk. That was funny back twenty years ago. 558 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, well there was one here. Let's see if I 559 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: can find this before before the show was over there. 560 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: It was a pretty good one, and I got a 561 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: kick out of this guy's a good story teller. Here 562 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 1: he says, this is from Patrick Eppler when I was 563 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: a young elementary school boy. I was going to school 564 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: with a kid and his name was Archibald stink Finger. 565 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: He was so ashamed of his name growing up that 566 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: whenever he turned eighteen and became a legal adult, he 567 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: went to court and had his name changed to John 568 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: stink Finger. Now, if that's not funny, I don't know 569 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: what it is. That's that's quality right there. Wherever you are, 570 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: Patrick Eppler, I think you win the name game for today. 571 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: If he didn't get a chance to get in, or 572 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: if I left you on hold, apologies, you can email 573 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. 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