1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: The Michael Varry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 3: On the air. 4 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 4: You know, they say you can never go home again. 5 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 4: At least that's what my parents say. At least that's 6 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 4: what the letter from their lawyer said. I'm adopted, and 7 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 4: I'm glad that my parents were honest enough with me 8 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 4: to tell me that I'm adopted. 9 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: But why every day that seems excessive? 10 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 4: That seems uh And I'll never forget when my parents 11 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 4: first told me I was adopted, because it was a 12 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 4: very emotional day for everyone in my whole family because 13 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 4: that was the same day my parents decided to tell 14 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 4: my brother he was gay. 15 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: That's rough of five year olds. 16 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 2: Ramon said, I have not noted that it is sit 17 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: around and get fat and sassy weather. It was forty 18 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: three degrees this morning at seven point thirty before we 19 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 2: came on the air. But yes, it should be noted. 20 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: You know, I grew up in Oranges, you know, as 21 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 2: I talk about it incessantly, but I have lived in 22 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: some crazy cold places, and in crazy cold places, people 23 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 2: hate the winter. They despise it, and they almost universally 24 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: use the adjective bitter to describe it. When I was 25 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: a kid, I desperately wanted snow and always disappointed. I 26 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: dreamed of snow. So when I went to live in England, 27 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: people said, you're gonna hate the winter. Noah, you are, 28 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: trust me, you are came back. Do you hate the winter? Nope? 29 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: I loved it. What about the rain? All the time? 30 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: Loved it. It was dreary and cold, like a Dickens novel, 31 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: which is exactly what I wanted it to be. That 32 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 2: being said, our winters in days like today, I could 33 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 2: do without it, going up into the high seventies. But 34 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 2: mornings like this morning, where you can put a little 35 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 2: he little space heater in my studio, Oh, right on 36 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 2: my naked feet. Oh, it's a wonderful thing. It's a 37 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 2: glorious thing. I asked for only to come in here 38 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: and see my heater, and how close I have it 39 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: to my feet, and how that my parents would not 40 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 2: have allowed that this date. It must be dangerous. And 41 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 2: he refused to come in here because he didn't want 42 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: to see my naked feet. So I took a photo 43 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 2: of him and send it to him and made him 44 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: look at that. Let's go to did you play fat 45 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: and sassy? Cause it's cold. Well, this is sit around, 46 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: get fat and sassy weather. 47 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 5: We'll probably sit around and cook some soups and. 48 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 6: Eat bread and desserts and just get on fat and sassy. 49 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: You know that woman can cook, My God, she can cook. Marie. 50 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 2: You're on the Michael Berry Show Annual Adoption Special. Go ahead, sweetheart, Marie, Marie, 51 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: give me the first last name that comes to mind 52 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: for you when I say the name Marie should be Levo. Yeah, 53 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: and Bobby Bear's version of Marie Levo. That's his kid 54 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 2: who's screeching, you know that in that song. All right, 55 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: let's go to Laura. Then Marie has missed. Do we 56 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 2: talk to Laurai. Let's go to Chris. Chris, you're on 57 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: the Michael Berry Show. 58 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning brother, how are you good? 59 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 2: Go ahead? 60 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna make this short and sweet if I can. 61 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 3: But I have a nineteen year old daughter. 62 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: Now. 63 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 3: When she came into my life, she was four years old, 64 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 3: and her. 65 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 6: Biological father would not sign off from the adoption papers. Uh, 66 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,679 Speaker 6: long story short, she calls me Dad, and she called 67 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 6: him by his first name, and so I felt like 68 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 6: I won that one. So she might not have my 69 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 6: last name or my blood. But that's my girl, she 70 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 6: grew up. 71 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 3: He's my she's my hunting buddy and stuff like that. 72 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 6: And and the coolest part about it is she was 73 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 6: four years old when her mama and I got married. 74 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 6: And when I asked my wife to marry me, I 75 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 6: gave her a ring, of course, but I had a 76 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 6: little one made so my daughter her name Drily and 77 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 6: uh so I asked her to marry me too, and 78 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 6: I was all, my need a whole nine yards. And 79 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 6: when she put that ring on, she was so happy. 80 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 6: She said, can I can I'll call you dad? And 81 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 6: I said, I tell you what, you just I didn't 82 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 6: know how to answer that, honestly, he caught me off 83 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 6: bard but it was a beautiful moment. 84 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 3: I said, I tell you what. The minute were married, 85 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 3: you can call me dad and it's not a problem. 86 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 6: So and always, uh we were taking pictures that she 87 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 6: was getting on my knee and she's like, can I 88 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 6: call you Dad now? And uh, well, I'll get a 89 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 6: little choked up thinking about it, but I said, baby, girls, 90 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 6: you can call me dad the rest of your life. 91 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 6: And so I didn't get to go through the adoption 92 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 6: part of it, but uh, I feel like I did anyway. 93 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: In spirit, it's nothing else, you know what I mean. 94 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 2: I do know exactly what you mean, brother, and I 95 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 2: will tell you this I have. I'm a big believer 96 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 2: in the institution of marriage. I think it's important. But 97 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 2: I have known people who, for whatever reason, I know 98 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 2: a couple right now that comes to mind who are 99 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 2: not married. They're they're Ron Paul Libertarians. They don't they 100 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 2: don't participate in anything government related. They're almost entirely off 101 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: the grid, and they do not get married because they 102 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: don't want documentation with the government. But they love each other. 103 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: They care for each other, and to me, that's what's important. 104 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 2: And you know, whether documents are filed with a governmental 105 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 2: entity does not affect what is important in life, which 106 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 2: is love, sacrifice, care, kindness, generosity, the things that we 107 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: do for other people. And there's no government body that 108 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 2: can sanction that. So that's how I look at that. 109 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 2: I've got one minute for Gary. Gary, you're only Michael 110 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: Berry show. You are the minute man, Go. 111 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 3: Thank you. 112 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 7: We'd adopted by daughter who's now thirty five. We had 113 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 7: doctor from Romania and she has been an absolute blessing 114 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 7: thing her whole life. 115 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: It's a. 116 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 7: People that don't you know why not great boys there, 117 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 7: you know, biological but my daughter. People find it hard 118 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 7: to believe that she's adopted because she is just one 119 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 7: of the. 120 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 3: Thank God, that's what it's all about. 121 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: That is what it is all about. The important things 122 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 2: in life cannot be manufactured, shipped in a container, put 123 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: on sale. They just can't good company. But Conki is 124 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 2: very Yes, I will agree it is. It is not 125 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: a substitute, but it certainly doesn't attract We will admit to. 126 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 7: That, Michael Berry. 127 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 5: So you know, so be careful. 128 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: I apologize in advance for this next one. Absolutely uncalled 129 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: for to play that. It's a news report from w 130 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: zz M TV. This little boy is so excited about 131 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: his adoption that he invites his entire class to his adoption. 132 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 2: Hearing this one gets me every time. 133 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 8: Family, a big family is support in love with an 134 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 8: even bigger heart. Michael Orlando Clark Junior. He is a 135 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 8: very active and silly, silly kindergartener invited his entire class 136 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 8: to watch this moment. 137 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 9: It is ordered Michael that your forever mom and dad 138 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 9: will be David Andrew Eaton and Andrea Louis. 139 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 8: Melvin and cheer him on. 140 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 9: One, two, two three. Sometimes their journeys have been very long. 141 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 9: They've included miracle and change for the children and family, 142 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 9: and incredible community support, as you were able to see 143 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 9: today in Michael's adoption hearing with his whole kindergarten, glass 144 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 9: and school being here to say we love you, we 145 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,719 Speaker 9: support you, and we'll be here not only today but 146 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 9: in all the years in the future. 147 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 8: It's safe to assume how Michael feels. 148 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 4: We've been working with Catholic charities and the workers there 149 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 4: have just been amazing. 150 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 2: I love my daddy. 151 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: Wow, I love my daddy so much. This is just 152 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: too much. 153 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 2: This is just too much. 154 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been amazing obviously, how supportive. 155 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 2: They've all my daddy too much? Marie, you're on the 156 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show. Where were you when we went to 157 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 2: you for Marie? 158 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 5: You mean this today? 159 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 2: Yeah? 160 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was walking around my house and I have 161 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 5: very spotty internet. 162 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: Well how comeed you were walking around your. 163 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 5: Ey I go into a certain room like over by 164 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 5: my garage and I just it drops calls. So I 165 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 5: have very spotty internet in my own freaking house. 166 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 2: But anyway, well, hold on, do you do you just 167 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 2: do you just walk around the house like when you're 168 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 2: on hold like that, you just walk around the house. 169 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 2: You pace. 170 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 5: With that too, And I was doing things like empty 171 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 5: dishwashers and stuff because I have five hours to go 172 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 5: before I go back to work, so I have to 173 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 5: get stuff done before I have to go back to work. 174 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: So you have to in between shifts like you're off 175 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: and then you go back. Uh huh, what do you do? 176 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 5: I'm a crossing guard. 177 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 2: Oh well, have you called the show before? 178 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 5: Yes, I called for the twin. I'm a twin also. 179 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 2: Okay, so so you do the morning crossing, which finishes 180 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 2: up at what time? 181 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 5: Nine o'clock? 182 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 2: I am oddly fascinated by this. I just oddly fascinated 183 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 2: by this. Okay. So then you get off at nine, 184 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 2: and then you come home and you've got five hours 185 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 2: where you can do your things, and then you need 186 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 2: to be back at what two? Yeah, and then how 187 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 2: long do you does that shift? 188 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 5: That's about two hours when I get home about four 189 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 5: point thirty. I'm really close to school anyway, so it's 190 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 5: not a big deal. But no, I could tell you 191 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 5: stories that would turn your hair gray. 192 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 2: Do you do you walk to the school or do 193 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: you drive to the school? 194 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 5: I drive. 195 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 2: You had the sign that wouldn't hold up, and we 196 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 2: got Sparks Engineering to redesign it so it would it 197 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 2: wouldn't get blown out of your hand. Are you. 198 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 5: They gave us newer signs. When I first started, it 199 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 5: was a cardboard thing, but now they're heavier. They're still cardboard, 200 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 5: but now they have a heavier handle on them. 201 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 2: Oh it wasn't you, then, I don't. We had someone 202 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 2: I think she was Uh no, it might have been 203 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 2: a he and maybe it was a listener who was 204 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 2: a parent at the school, or a teacher or something. 205 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 2: But the wind would blow this stop sign when the 206 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: guy would hold a sign up, and it was an 207 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 2: older man and it would push him back, and it 208 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 2: was all this resistance. So I asked Sparks Engineering to 209 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 2: get involved, and they wrote up a whole report, like 210 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 2: I was a paying client on the wind coefficient and 211 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 2: the resistance and all this stuff, and they designed a 212 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 2: sign that would you could still read it as stop, 213 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 2: but it had proper slits in it to allow, you know, 214 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: the wind to go through it, so you could hold 215 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 2: it as if you weren't, you know, being blown over 216 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 2: like a sail in the wind, and it was amazing. 217 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 2: If you will email me, Marie, I will ask them 218 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 2: they had they had about one hundred made sparks did 219 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: at their own expense. It weren't cheap. They had about 220 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 2: one hundred made sparks SPA r Ex Engineering, Oh sparks. 221 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 2: But if you email me when we get off Michael 222 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: Berryshow dot com and it says sin Michael's email, I'll 223 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 2: see that they had about one hundred maid and they 224 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 2: because to do one pressing of them cost a certain 225 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 2: amount of money, and so they they had them all 226 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 2: made and they donated them to the local school districts 227 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 2: and uh, I had I got emails from people who 228 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 2: were so happy at what Sparks Engineering had done. It 229 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 2: was it was just incredible. It was incredible. 230 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 5: Yes, it does get very windy. I've actually smacked myself 231 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 5: in the head with it when it's been so windy. 232 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 5: I'll have it up and I'll come back and hit 233 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 5: me in there. 234 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 2: What is your school, Marie? 235 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 5: It is conro ISD. 236 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: Conroe ISD. Okay, And how did you get involved doing that? 237 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 7: Well? 238 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 5: I wanted something so I could take my kid back 239 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 5: and forth to school and you know, just have the 240 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 5: same hours and suck and I just and everybody thinks 241 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 5: it's a volunteer. No, no, no, you get paid for it. 242 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 5: You get paid about fourteen bucks an hour. 243 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: Fourteen But I work three hours a day. 244 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 5: Huh No, No, but I work about three hours a day. 245 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 2: So forty bucks a day. You know, you are kind 246 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: of tied to it. You can't go do something else. 247 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 2: You can't you know, move around. I think that's two 248 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 2: hundred and eight hondreds. So so eight yeah, eight a year. 249 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 2: Are you married? 250 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 5: Yeah? 251 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 2: Yes, And he's okay with you doing this. 252 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 5: Yeah. In fact, I would think he got tired of 253 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 5: me because I'm always coming home whining because I don't 254 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 5: understand exactly why people think it's okay to talk on 255 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 5: your phone each put makeup on in the school zone 256 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 5: and not stop. No one stops at stop signs, are 257 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 5: you kidding? 258 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 2: Yeah at all. 259 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 5: I have three stop signs I'm working with, and they 260 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 5: don't stop at any of them because you know, the 261 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 5: ones on the road which is supposed to stop that 262 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 5: the one I got my hand and so yeah, no, 263 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 5: no one stops at stop signs. The I didn't see you, Well, 264 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 5: maybe if you were on your phone. 265 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 2: The lectures I've given my kids as preparation for driving. 266 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 2: One of the top, you know you don't you don't 267 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: consume alcohol and ever get behind the wheel. I will 268 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 2: never question if you say I can't drive, you can 269 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 2: take an uber or I'll come. 270 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 5: And get you sure. 271 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 2: Number two is you don't speed because there's no excuse 272 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 2: for it, and then you're asking for a problem. And 273 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 2: number three, you're uber careful when you are around school 274 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 2: zones because not only is it a criminal offense, but 275 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: your conscience would eat you for the rest of your 276 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 2: life if you ever hit and hurt a kid. And 277 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 2: my kids take that very, very very seriously. But I 278 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 2: see that when I've done kid pick up, I see 279 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 2: these moms and they have their own kids, and you know, 280 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: these kids are darting. They have no appreciation for the 281 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 2: danger of what's going on, and and the moms are 282 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 2: on the phone and distracted and driving their big tank 283 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 2: suburban through the through the school pickup zone. And sometimes 284 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: there's only one lane available because the moms get there 285 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: and squat on the on the various lanes, so none 286 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 2: of the traffic can move. It's the craziest damn thing. Anyway, 287 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 2: hold on the ray. I'll come to you first. 288 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 7: I sport flop Michael Ferry seaching. 289 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 2: People the general giant he. 290 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: Knows and does and doesn't care. 291 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 10: And I'm man. 292 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 2: Flopping around those gimmicks who I am? But I believe 293 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 2: all my Nashville friends and classic country friends sending me 294 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: emails about it the Country Music Awards. Oh was I 295 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 2: watching it? You see that look on George Streets. No, 296 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 2: I'm not watching it. I don't need to walk into 297 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 2: a viper pit to know there's vipers in there, and 298 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 2: I don't want to be bitten. Buddy of mine on Twitter, 299 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 2: pretty clever post under an alias, but he said, we 300 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 2: won the House, we won the Senate, and we won 301 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 2: the presidency, but we lost country music. And that's the 302 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 2: damn truth when you look at who they were promoting 303 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 2: as being the presenters and the performers last night. I 304 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 2: didn't watch it, and I wouldn't watch it because we 305 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 2: lost country music with Luke Bryan. Anytime somebody tells me 306 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 2: like Luke Brian, I go, well, then you don't like 307 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 2: country music. People will often say to me, people's wives, 308 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 2: usually that they like who's Keith Urban. They'll say, oh, 309 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 2: I hear that you love country music. I do too. 310 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 2: Mm okay, uh, Keith Urban and Luke Bran keep going 311 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 2: because we're not to country music yet, we're not anywhere 312 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 2: near country music. If that person cannot off the cuff 313 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 2: sing three Merle Haggard songs without googling the words, that 314 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 2: is not country music, Drenda, you're on the Michael, Oh 315 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 2: did we get We didn't. We didn't let Marie finish Marie. 316 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: You go ahead, Okay. 317 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 5: I have a quick story. When I was adopted, my 318 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 5: parents adopted to boys and then my dad, my adopted 319 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 5: dad was a twin, so his mother said, you can't 320 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 5: have one, you have to have two. So when we 321 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 5: were adopted, we were adopted at six months and so 322 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 5: by my parents, and so they put us in separate homes, 323 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 5: and the people who had us said, oh, they're fussy, 324 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 5: fuss horrible fussy babies. And as soon as we got 325 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 5: back together, we weren't fussy. My mom's like, you're like 326 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 5: the best ever. So the reason we were fussiest because 327 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 5: we were separated. 328 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 2: So it's meant to be. I got an email from Oh, oh, 329 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 2: this is unrelated, but I wanted to read this. It's 330 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 2: from Daniel eurebe Czar. I hear the military service men 331 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 2: and women saying hello for the holidays during your show commercials. 332 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 2: I missed those days of watching local TV and seeing 333 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 2: them wish us well. Maybe a show idea when your 334 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 2: listener's kids are family members from the military, say hello 335 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 2: from your radio show, just like your adoption show that 336 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 2: I love, Eltessino. Thanks for reading, have a great day, 337 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 2: Keep sharing the family stories. The reason I bring that 338 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 2: up is because you're going to have family members in 339 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 2: during the Thanksgiving break from the military, and I want 340 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 2: you to just take out your phone and hit record. 341 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 2: I'm not the one to do this because remember the 342 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 2: first time I met William Nelson, I couldn't get to 343 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 2: the voice memo function. If you have an iPhone, there's 344 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 2: a voice memo button. It looks like an EKG. It 345 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 2: looks like a sound file, I guess technically. But if 346 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 2: you go find that, then you just push it and 347 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about editing and all that. 348 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 2: And then if you send me an email with it, 349 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 2: I'll respond, and then that'll give you my direct email address, 350 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 2: which is Michael at Michael Berry Show dot com. And 351 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 2: then you'll be able to send them to us, and Jim, 352 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 2: our creative director, can make magic out of those. I 353 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 2: don't know how he does it, but he just does 354 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 2: it and have them do a You know. This is 355 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 2: John Smith from Kirbyville, Texas, serving in So and So Iraq, 356 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 2: and Merry Christmas to all or whatever whatever message you 357 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 2: want him to send. Debbie wrote me an email that says, zar, 358 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 2: I intended to email you yesterday, but like most things today, 359 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 2: I forgot. My adoption story is like so many others 360 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: from the fifties. I've always known I was adopted and 361 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 2: I haven't adopted non biological sister who found her bio 362 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,959 Speaker 2: family twenty five plus years ago. My adoption papers were 363 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 2: sent to my sister by mistake during her search, and 364 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 2: I knew my last name for the first time, Jackson. 365 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, missus Jackson. I joined ancestry and dabbled for 366 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 2: years looking for clues without many answers, but then close 367 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,959 Speaker 2: matches to my DNA close like sister nephew close were added. 368 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: I continue to email those on match lists, and I 369 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 2: finally found a young girl who emailed me back. Apparently 370 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 2: she didn't know I was a secret and offered information 371 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 2: on my biological dad and mother. I was told she'd 372 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 2: follow up after asking her mom. I knew then I'd 373 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 2: never hear back from her, but this gave me the 374 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,719 Speaker 2: names of my biological mother and father. I located them 375 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 2: after sixty six years, both alive and well, living fifteen 376 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 2: minutes apart from each other. Both remarried. I reach out 377 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 2: to my biological mother via letter, and I was answered 378 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 2: bioparents age ninety two and ninety three were still alive. 379 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 2: Then also, I am still secret after sixty eight years. 380 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 2: She goes to this whole thing. This is why I say, 381 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 2: and I mean, don't validate yourself based on what anyone 382 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 2: else thinks of you. Nobody else can make you illegitimate, 383 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 2: Nobody else can make you a shamed A buddy of 384 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 2: mine emailed and said, adoption used to be shameful. But 385 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 2: when I get through listening to your show every year, 386 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 2: I wish I was adopted. Good. That's the point you 387 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 2: the only smell mister bid. 388 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. 389 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 2: It's so Marie email me. She says she works for 390 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 2: the Conroe Police Department. I thought she worked for the 391 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 2: school district. I got I got a message from Brett 392 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 2: Legan yesterday. He said, hey, the uh, I guess Conroe 393 00:24:53,640 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 2: does a h an annual parade in December, and they 394 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 2: asked me to be the grand Marshal. And if I 395 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 2: wouldn't do it, would I invite you? And he said, 396 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: I got a big old gord and you got a 397 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 2: much smaller, shapely, handsome gourd. So you and Trump would 398 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 2: just get nicked on the ear. Would be my big 399 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: old gourd there I'd be just sitting duck as the 400 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 2: Grand Marshal of Conroe parade. And wouldn't that be a 401 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 2: wet blanket on the experience. So he gave me the date. 402 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 2: I think it was December fourteenth, and I said, well, 403 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 2: number one, I rarely go out in public, certainly not 404 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 2: if I tell where I'm going to be in advance, 405 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 2: because people are just too weird. And number two, as 406 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 2: luck would have it, I'm out of town. So you're 407 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 2: going to drag your big gourd through Conra and be 408 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 2: the grand Marshal of the parade. And he said, man, 409 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 2: I've been however long, he's been district attorney for twenty years. 410 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 2: I've been locking up criminal I've been doing this I've 411 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 2: been doing this. Nobody wants the district attorney as the 412 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 2: grand marshal of the parade. I said, well, Brett, you 413 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 2: are an elected official and you could use the publicity 414 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 2: at least this one time. You're doing something that people 415 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: don't hate, so enjoy and send me a picture. And 416 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 2: that's where we left it. John writes. If she motions 417 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 2: to step into the roadway, it invokes a reaction from 418 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 2: the driver to pay attention and stop. I used to 419 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,199 Speaker 2: train flaggers for a traffic control on highway and local roadways. 420 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 2: It has a ninety percent efficiency of getting them to 421 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 2: stop or at least to get their attention, because nobody 422 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: wants to hit somebody with their car. Old Contrari's some 423 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 2: people i'd like to I will say this, mister Racindez, 424 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 2: I appreciate your commentary, but if you are the person 425 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 2: who's training the road crews that I've seen, I would 426 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 2: not be telling that because generally it is about a 427 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 2: fifty two year old meth head, skid row alcoholic. It's 428 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 2: one of three things. It's a skid row alcoholic, white 429 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 2: dude whose nose has just all the bloodvelts just exploded, 430 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 2: and he's got a beard because he's too lazy, and 431 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 2: he's sunbeating and he's sitting there and he has no 432 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 2: interest in what's going on, and he's mad at everybody, 433 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 2: but at least he'll move around a little. Then there 434 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 2: is the black guy. He's about twenty eight. He's done 435 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: some time, but he's not a horrible guy, and he 436 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 2: ain't trying to bother anybody, and he ain't trying to 437 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 2: do much, so he's leaning on the sign. And then 438 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 2: there is the Hispanic dude, his first generation may or 439 00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 2: may not be legal, doesn't speak English at all. He's 440 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 2: not thrilled to have this job, but he doesn't want 441 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 2: to lose it, so he'll put a little effort into it. 442 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 2: But he doesn't know what the hell's going on. He 443 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 2: has no clue who's coming, who's going, you know what, 444 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: so he just kind of stands there and waits. Well, 445 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 2: he is the worst person to put on the job. 446 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 2: When I'm coming up, because what I learned a long 447 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 2: time ago is the confident animal tells the other animals 448 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 2: what to do. That's the alpha. So I pull up 449 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 2: with a lot of confidence and I go, yeah, I'm 450 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,959 Speaker 2: going through it, and he go, oh yeah, okay, and 451 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 2: then he tries to tell him down at the other 452 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 2: end that you know, this one's coming. We got a squirter, 453 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 2: as they say in the military when they got the 454 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: al Kada on the run, you got a squirter that 455 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: comes out of the crowd and we got to get him. 456 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 2: So they go, oh, we got a squirter. So he's 457 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 2: trying to yell that down to him, but the problem 458 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 2: is they got him on one end and they got 459 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: the old white guy down on the other end. They 460 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: don't speak the language, and the old white guy resents 461 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,959 Speaker 2: the Hispanic dude, and so he's like, what what are 462 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 2: you saying, Petro Way, You're not supposed to let him curt, 463 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 2: You're not supposed to let him through. And then I'm 464 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 2: coming up on that guy. Well, this bullying technique is 465 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 2: not working on the old white guy. He's aggravated, and 466 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 2: there's a very good chance he listens to the show, 467 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 2: but at that moment he doesn't know it's me, and 468 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 2: he wants me to know, you know, run. He's very 469 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: aggravated to be out there because it's hot out there. 470 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: It's always hot out there. Now. The other option is 471 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 2: he yells down there to the black dude. The black 472 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 2: dude does not give a damn. So just for fun, 473 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 2: you pull up once you've squirted through and you got 474 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 2: down to the end, and you roll it down and go, Hey, 475 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 2: what's that guy back there saying? Because you're curious what 476 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 2: he took away from the experiences? Hell if I know 477 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: he does that all day. I don't know why they 478 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 2: got he don't know what the laws or nothing. Well, 479 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 2: I appreciate your servicer. You got it all right, And 480 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: then you drive off and he kind of feels like, yeah, 481 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 2: I mean, he's kind of my service. I'm kind of 482 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 2: you know, this is the thing I'm doing. It's a thing. Ted, 483 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 2: You're on my mind, Barry Show. What's the use sir? 484 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 10: Good morning, Michael, first time to call and talk to you. 485 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 2: Fantastic. 486 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 10: I was adopted at birth. I'll be soon to be 487 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 10: fifty one years old in. 488 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 5: A month and. 489 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 10: About a year and a half ago, I decided to 490 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 10: get both the twenty three and me and ancestry DNA KITS. 491 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 10: I have always known I was adopted, and I always was. 492 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 10: It was never a secret to me that I was adopted, 493 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 10: nor was it ever a secret that after being diagnosed 494 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 10: with retinitis pigmentosa that I would eventually be blind, and 495 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 10: I indeed was in my twenties. RP is a degenerative 496 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 10: hereditary I disorder, and I did a couple of term 497 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 10: papers in high school on RP and it made me 498 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 10: want to find my biological parents. But as a disabled 499 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 10: individual growing up in Magnolia, Texas and then later moving 500 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 10: to Houston, and my disabilities besides my goodness ever getting 501 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 10: worse through the course of my life, it was not 502 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 10: easy financially or physically to do the research. 503 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on, I'm gonna talk to you off air. 504 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 2: Hold on, we'll record it and play it as a podcast. 505 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 2: We're almost out of time. Let me close by saying this, 506 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: Be proud of who you are. Be proud of how 507 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 2: you got here. A lot of you did build that. 508 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: I'm gonna say you didn't build that, But a lot 509 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 2: of people from before you can remember, have been wiping 510 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 2: your button, putting food down your gullet, providing for you, 511 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 2: caring for you, sacrificing for you. Be proud of that 512 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 2: and thank those people for who they are. And you 513 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 2: might have been an imperfect mother or father at some 514 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 2: point in your life, all the way up till ten 515 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 2: minutes ago. But that doesn't mean you can't fix it 516 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 2: starting today. Life is not perfect, None of us is perfect. 517 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 2: If you knew my whole story, you'd say, oh, why 518 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 2: didn't you tell us that none of our lives are perfect, 519 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 2: how we ended up here, our childhood and all of that. 520 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 2: Just do what you know is the right thing to do.