1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the. 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: Air on this day. 4 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty nine, President Richard Nixon and Vice president'spirot Agnew 5 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 3: and forty US governors viewed quote simulated acid trip films 6 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 3: and listen to rock music in order to comprehend the 7 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 3: generation gap. 8 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 4: Can you can you? 9 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? 10 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: Oh? 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 3: So, so this is what this is what an acid 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: trip is like. Look, mister President, just go ahead and 13 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: drop a little acid and see what it is. I 14 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 3: don't think they're simulating what an acid trip is like. Wow, 15 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 3: that was crazy, mister president. What did you think? You're 16 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: out of touch with the youth and you need their 17 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 3: vote for reelection. I found the experience to be groovy. 18 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 3: I mean, what can you imagine the setup for this? 19 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: How that looked? 20 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 3: In Orange County, California, a group of eighteen year olds 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy six made a pact with each other 22 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 3: to gather once a year as part of the Last 23 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 3: Man's Society until the last man was standing, until he 24 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 3: was the last one alive. 25 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 1: They bought a bottle of cognac and that. 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,279 Speaker 3: Person was to drink or is to drink that bottle 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: of cognac by toasting each of the members in turn, 28 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: as he will have been the last surviving member. We 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 3: thought that was pretty cool, so we asked you about 30 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: how you gather with folks from your youth and what 31 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 3: pack you've made or where you gather or what you 32 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: find out of the experience. Catherine, you're up first. Go ahead, sweetheart. 33 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 2: My husband is the class of sixty four from Elcampo 34 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: High School and we, I say we, I'm not part 35 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: of that class because I graduated in sixty eight from Walthrop. 36 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 5: In Houston. 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: But they get together about every six weeks, maybe eight weeks. 38 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: They meet at a restaurant, and I would say ninety 39 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 2: percent of this group, it's usually average twenty twenty five. 40 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 2: They have known each other since first grade, being in 41 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: a small town, and they are hilarious. And I've gotten 42 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 2: to hear a lot of stories about my husband when 43 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: he was younger that he didn't even remember. And so, 44 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 2: but they're all like seventy nine. My husband will be 45 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: eighty this early next year, and they still get together 46 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 2: and they have a great time. And sadly some of 47 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 2: them have passed away, and not everybody gets to show 48 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 2: up because some of them have moved to be near 49 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 2: there with their children because the children had left El Campo. 50 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 5: But we drive in. 51 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 2: We live in Cyprus, and so we drive in every 52 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: six weeks, maybe seven weeks whenever they call for the 53 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 2: luncheon gang to get together and they put an email 54 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: out to all of the class. I believe there was 55 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: a little over one hundred that was in the graduating 56 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 2: class in sixty four, and a lot of them, like 57 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 2: I say about average about twenty twenty five, still show 58 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: up and they have a great time, and they've really 59 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 2: made me feel like I was part of that class. 60 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 3: Also, since you're a one degree removed of the class, 61 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: that's really cool. 62 00:03:59,040 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing that. 63 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 4: Walt. 64 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: What's your story? Hello, yep, you're up, Walt. 65 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 4: Okay, sorry about that. Graduating cares classtests together all about 66 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 4: every few years. We had fifty year reunion two years back, 67 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 4: and this year instead of reunion, the class reunion, they 68 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 4: had a said this this year seventy five year birthday 69 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 4: party for the whole class. 70 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: And where is the class from what. 71 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 3: School Southew said, Hi, right on, that's fantastic, And how 72 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 3: many of y'all. 73 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 6: Showed up, I'd say about fifty or so. 74 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: And how many do you think y'all graduated with? 75 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 4: Oh, probably about three hundred. I'm not really sure. 76 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to know what the numbers are 77 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 3: of what you can expect as a percentage of the class, 78 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: because it feels like one in six so sixteen percent. 79 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: It feels like that's low. But I wonder, you know, 80 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 3: people died, they move on, they lose touch, they go 81 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 3: to prison, they whatever else. I wonder, I wonder what 82 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 3: that number you should expect it to be? 83 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: Be interesting to know. Ed you're on the Michael Berry Show. 84 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: Go ahead, sir. 85 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 7: Yeah. We have a group of us that all went 86 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 7: to high school together in different high schools Westbury, ros Sterling, Jessey, Jones, Walterrup, 87 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 7: all of them around South Houston and Southwest Houston, and 88 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 7: we all served while we were in high school, and 89 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 7: we would meet at surf sides practically every weekend, and 90 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 7: then if we could skip school, we'd do it during 91 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 7: the week but es that's when we got to be seniors. 92 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 7: But it was a pretty good sized group. We started 93 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 7: meeting about about fifteen, sixteen years ago down there for 94 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 7: three or four days, and everybody would get rooms or 95 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 7: rent beach houses. And we have a memorial down there 96 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 7: at the Jetty that we paid for and had put up. 97 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: And during this. 98 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 7: Three or four days we have all kinds of different 99 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 7: events going on. We raised money for the community. We 100 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 7: always donate money to the volunteer fire departments there for 101 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 7: money we raise. We also give a clothes and a 102 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 7: food bank. Anyway, we helped support the city of Freeport 103 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 7: down the surf side and we have a paddle out 104 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 7: where there's started off with several hundred and we're still staying, 105 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 7: you know, above one hundred, even though a lot of 106 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 7: us are in our seventy but a lot of them 107 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 7: have their kids. They are starting to show up and 108 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 7: their grandkids. 109 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: Right, so you got. 110 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 3: A generational thing. Let me get one more call in here, John, 111 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 3: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 112 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: You got one minute? Go ahead? You say, John, Yes, 113 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: go ahead? 114 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 8: Hey, Heyboddy, Yeah, mi'ms John bevil Gosh. Back in seventy 115 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 8: one or seventy two at youth groups at church, three 116 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 8: new brothers came in that night and we hit it off. 117 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 8: Walked down in the parking lot. Our parents are hitting 118 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 8: it off and they invite us over to their house 119 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 8: and we have been going. Our two dads took us 120 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 8: camping the following year, and then the next year and 121 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 8: after that, the six of us have been camping together 122 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 8: every single year. Back we go again in February, rain, 123 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 8: snow shine. We go out on a piece of land 124 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 8: currently outside of Henderson. We sit around the fire. We've 125 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 8: invited friends to join us, so our group's about ten. 126 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 8: But we have the same thing where the first one 127 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 8: to pass away we'll have an empty chair there each 128 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 8: night and and toast that person. But so far it 129 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 8: on which passed away. But we have been the closest. 130 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 8: You wouldn't just believe we've just stayed together this whole 131 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 8: time and they're still my two best friends. 132 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: And that's what you Brothers. 133 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 8: Nineteen seventy two in Spring Branch at Spring Resch Christian 134 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 8: Churches where we met. 135 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: Oh well, right on, So. 136 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 8: Fifty something years we've been doing this. 137 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: And we got something to be proud of. If you 138 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: want to tell your story. Seven one three nine nine 139 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. 140 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of talk radio 141 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: that Rud roofs you can't make old friends. 142 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 3: Of graduates in nineteen seventy six decided that they would 143 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: meet once a year to toast each other until there 144 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 3: was but one of them left alive, after which they 145 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 3: named it the Last Man's Society. The last man standing 146 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 3: would open the bottle of tequila they bought or cognac 147 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 3: they bought nineteen seventy six, and toast each of the 148 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 3: members who had passed. So we asked the question of 149 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 3: how you gather with people from your high school or 150 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 3: your youth, and about that experience. 151 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: Linda, you're up next, sweetheart. 152 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hi, Michael, I live in Lubbook and I'll 153 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 9: make this really quick. I graduated from Fort Stockton and 154 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 9: we had exactly one hundred students graduate that year. And 155 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 9: our ladies have gotten together every year. We've named ourselves 156 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 9: Old Broad's sixty five. We graduated in nineteen sixty five, 157 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 9: and we try to get together every year somewhere in 158 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 9: Texas and we just have a great time. We've lost 159 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 9: a few of our girls, but not bad, but we've 160 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 9: been lost a few, but we celebrate them every year 161 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 9: when we get together that they're not there, and it's 162 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 9: just a wonderful camaraderie. We love each other. I didn't 163 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 9: move there till the fourth grade, but most of these 164 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 9: girls were in school from the first grade all the 165 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 9: way through school. Yeah, so it's really fun. It's really 166 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 9: refreshing and fun and enjoyable to be with them and 167 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 9: all of our lives. We share all of our experiences 168 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 9: and it takes a lot of pictures and it's just 169 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 9: it's just fun. I just want to share that and 170 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 9: thank you. 171 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 5: I love your show. I love you, thank you, Thank 172 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 5: you so much. 173 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 3: Very sweet. Linda kind of hit me there. I didn't 174 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 3: expect that. David, you're up, go ahead by man. 175 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 9: Hi, Michael. 176 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 10: My name is David Merritt. I'm a military brat. So 177 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 10: I went to high school and kaiserslaughter in American high 178 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 10: school and Kaiserslaughter in West Germany. And what we do 179 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 10: for reunions is they host them just different places all 180 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 10: over the United States at Donald Cruise ships. So that's 181 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 10: how we all get together. We keep in contact your 182 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 10: Facebook and other stuff. 183 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 4: You know. 184 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. 185 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 3: There's a lot of criticism of how Facebook operates and 186 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,839 Speaker 3: how Facebook disappoints us, and it does, but that's it 187 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 3: wouldn't have the ability to disappoint us if we didn't. 188 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: Use it so much and it wasn't so useful. 189 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 3: It has allowed a lot of connections with people we 190 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 3: haven't seen in a very long time, and we can 191 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 3: see what they look like. 192 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: Who don't want to know what they look like. 193 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: I remember when Facebook got really hot. I remember people's 194 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 3: people having divorces because they would reconnect with someone from 195 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 3: there from their high school years, or their wife would 196 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: reconnect with someone from their high school years, and there 197 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 3: would be stories about you know that person, and that 198 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 3: I know people that I know. Marriage is where the 199 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 3: wife left the husband or vice versa. 200 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 4: Uh. 201 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 1: One in particular comes to mind very point. I never 202 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: would expected, I haven't, but she somehow. 203 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 3: Reconnected with old Bobby Smith or whatever his name was 204 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 3: from Lufkin or Lumberton or wherever he was from, and 205 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 3: it was on and it was over for that marriage. 206 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: Never would have expected that. Did not see that coming, Larry, 207 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 3: what say you, sir? 208 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 6: I am seventy years old as of Sunday. We have 209 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 6: a group that gets together on the first Friday of 210 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 6: every month for breakfast in the Big City at mass Hill, Texas. 211 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 6: All right, we're all from a Harden, Texas. There was 212 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 6: thirty eight my graduating class, and it is an absolute 213 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 6: who how old are you? Larry seventy years old? 214 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm fifty five. 215 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 3: We played against I guess half of y'all school. 216 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: It had become Hardened Jefferson by then. 217 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 6: Yes, we played Harden Jefferson. 218 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 3: Also, okay, so Harden is different than Harden Jefferson. Yes, 219 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 3: oh okayrd okay, yeah, I remember. 220 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 6: Harden's just just law the liberty. 221 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, yeah, okay, I did not realize that 222 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 3: Larry so the best player in our class. He ended 223 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 3: up going on to beat to play college football, but 224 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 3: he was the biggest kid even in seventh grade. His 225 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 3: name was Toby Schultz. I we're still friends to this day. 226 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 3: He's he's in the oil past. He's Billy Bob Thornton, 227 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 3: in landman out in middle. He just brought brought a 228 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 3: little hunting ranch out there. I'm so proud of him. 229 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: But he's a great, great guy. 230 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 3: He's he's he's uh, he's as solid a human being 231 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 3: as you would you would ever want to meet. But 232 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 3: Toby was our middle linebacker. He was in our in 233 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 3: our running back. He was the fastest, biggest kid on 234 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 3: the team, and the toughest and the meanest on the field, 235 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 3: and then off the field the nicest guy. But I 236 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 3: remember our first game and we go to Hart and 237 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 3: Jefferson and they're all black, we're all white, and they've 238 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:49,959 Speaker 3: got some kids that are really fast, and we don't 239 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 3: except for Toby. And they had a kid, the running 240 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 3: back whose dad was in the was in the was 241 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 3: on the mic, and he didn't call on the Hard 242 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 3: Jefferson Hawks. He called him Hard Jefferson Hoggs and he 243 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 3: said number twenty. 244 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 11: One for the heart Devison holl had broke clues again, 245 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 11: looks like he's gonna score him. Oh no, Big number 246 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 11: fifty five has run him down, and Toby comes up 247 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 11: behind him and horse collars him and throws him to 248 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 11: the ground, knocks him out of the game. 249 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: Chest the Harden Jefferson Hogs was no more after that. 250 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: So the folks that were public brand. 251 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 3: Ranch went out to Gary Summer and his team send 252 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 3: Hi about twenty five thousand dollars each quarter to Camp 253 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: Hope and they do a promotion in December every year, 254 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 3: which has begun now that for anyone who visits Camp Hope, 255 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 3: they will add another one hundred dollars to an additional donation, 256 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 3: which ends up being about another ten thousand dollars, which 257 00:14:53,200 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 3: is pretty significant and pretty amazing. There is the only 258 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: sad thing I have to say about Camp Hope I 259 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 3: mean about Camp Hope about Republic Grand Ranch, is that 260 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 3: we have sent so many of our listeners out there 261 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 3: that we are approaching the end times. It will have 262 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 3: been sold out, and I would love for them to 263 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 3: find another community, but it's hard to find like that. 264 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: Again. There was Texas Grand Ranch. We sold that out. 265 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: It was a Republic Grand Ranch, and we have almost 266 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 3: sold that out. And it's unfortunate because they've been such 267 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 3: good partners for us with Camp Hope and everything we've 268 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 3: ever asked of them, they've always done it. And so anyway, 269 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 3: but you know, be grateful for what we have had 270 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 3: so far. If you go out in the month of December, 271 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 3: then you will have contributed one hundred dollars to Camp 272 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 3: Hope without having to put money in your own pocket. 273 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: It's just pretty cool to see. 274 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: I think Russell Lebarro mentors a fella who owns a 275 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 3: restaurant relatively young restaurant on the north side of Houston 276 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 3: called Poyo Loco. I need to find where exactly that's located. 277 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 3: But part of learning from Russell is that you should 278 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 3: give back to the community. So he patterned after his 279 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 3: after Russell's Plato Soldado the Soldier Plate, which sends two 280 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 3: dollars to Camp Hope for every time it's ordered, which 281 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 3: will have which will soon. 282 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: It may have as of last month, but I haven't. 283 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 3: Probably by this month will surpass two million dollars that 284 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 3: will have been given to Camp Hope by Green Goes, 285 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 3: just as part of the Plato Soldado. That's separate from 286 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 3: all their other other donations, which is pretty amazing, which means, 287 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 3: of course that's a million of those places that will 288 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 3: have been ordered. So Poyo Loco has started that program 289 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 3: at their restaurant as well. If you end up out there, 290 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: Federal American Grill gives based on their Freedom Burger and 291 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 3: they give I think Matt makes that check every month 292 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: because he likes writing that check. For every one of 293 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 3: you who your charity, your cause, your company, whatever you 294 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 3: do to tribute to Camp Hope and our veterans saving veterans, 295 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 3: thank you because it makes a huge difference. Jason, what's 296 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 3: your story of reconnecting with folks from your youth. 297 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 12: Michael, In twenty sixteen, I went to prison behind an 298 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 12: alcohol related event and I'll spend seven years, nine months 299 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 12: and twelve days there, And what I began to realize 300 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 12: real quickly is that there's once you take away the 301 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 12: alcohol and the drugs, there's a lot of really, really 302 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 12: good people there. And I was privileged enough to go 303 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 12: through a program on the Carol Vance, you know, called 304 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 12: Prison Fellowship Academy, and one of the core values of 305 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 12: that program is community. And I believe that the Lord 306 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 12: throwed on my heart while I was there to continue 307 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 12: that core value and that experience. So what we do 308 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 12: is we have monthly reunions in the Houston San Antonio 309 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 12: area where we get together as men that have gone 310 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 12: and women who have gone through something. And the closest 311 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 12: thing that if you know, if you've never experienced prison before, 312 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 12: the closest thing that I can really attribute it to 313 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 12: is kind of military service, and you really go through something, 314 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 12: you're in the belly of the beast, and you're surrounded 315 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 12: by thousands of your your closest enemies, and the men 316 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 12: and women that we've seen be so successful post prison 317 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 12: is those who stay in community with one another. So 318 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,959 Speaker 12: these these reunions and these fellowships that we do are 319 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 12: really important to us. 320 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 3: Jason, I am incredibly proud of you, and I know, 321 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 3: I know you understand what a big deal it is 322 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 3: what you've done. It's you're You're You're the exception, not 323 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 3: the norm, and it's a sign of great character. 324 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: Everybody makes mistakes. 325 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 3: The fact that you have come through that gives you 326 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 3: one heck of a testimony, and I hope you share 327 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 3: it everywhere you can. 328 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. Charles, you're on the Michael 329 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: Berry Show. Let's say you, sir, Michael. 330 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 13: Yep, you don't know me, but you know my son 331 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 13: tom boyd. 332 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I just saw your son at the funeral 333 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: this week, right, Yeah, that way. I graduated Larry. 334 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 13: Harr High School in nineteen fifty. I'll be ninety four 335 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 13: next month. I went to the last high school reunion. 336 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 13: There were twenty four people there. Obviously a lot of 337 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 13: people weren't driving anymore at that age, but I thought 338 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 13: kind of an interesting story. There was a guy sitting 339 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 13: across the table from me at the we had a 340 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 13: little dinner, and he had gone to bel Air Elementary School. 341 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 13: And I thought in the in the forties when he 342 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 13: was in elementary school, he probably took a school bus. 343 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 13: And I asked him if the bus went out into 344 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 13: the county and picked up people they were going to 345 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 13: bell Air, because bell Air was a separate town in 346 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 13: those days. He said no, He rode his horse to 347 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 13: school every day, and they tagged the horses up underneath 348 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 13: the water tower and they stayed out of you know, 349 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 13: stayed in the shade and the head water, which I 350 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 13: thought was kind of an interesting story. 351 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 3: You know, It's interesting, mister Boyd, how for my father's 352 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 3: generation you had an overlap there. You know, we think 353 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 3: of riding horses into town to do business as being 354 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 3: a thousand years ago, or having an outhouse having no 355 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 3: indoor plumbing. But that is, you know, at fifty five, 356 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 3: I'm still connected to the generation of people who do that. 357 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: I watched an interview the other day that was done in. 358 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty nineteen fifty four. Man was ninety eight years No, No, 359 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 3: fifty eight. He was one hundred and two years old. 360 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 3: He was born in eighteen fifty six, so he remembered 361 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 3: the early day, the final days of the Civil War 362 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 3: as his childhood, you know, being five, six, seven years old. 363 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 3: And there's just that connection because of that overlap when 364 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 3: someone when someone makes it a long way, it's I 365 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 3: find that incredibly fascinating, which obviously you do too, which 366 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 3: is why you shared it. I saw your son Tom 367 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 3: boyd At. We had a mutual friend in Larry Hoffman, 368 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 3: and I saw him Monday night. 369 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 13: Oh great, great, haven't I haven't talked to Tyler. We 370 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 13: you if you have breakfast every Sunday morning. But I 371 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 13: missed him. I was out of town. I went to 372 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 13: Arkansas to see my sister in law for thanks. Good. 373 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 3: Well, when you call him next and he picks up 374 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 3: the phone, say hi, Stepper, because that's what he calls 375 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 3: me when he when he sees me or texts me, 376 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 3: he'll say high stepper. He'll know that we've been talking. Well, 377 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: you got a good kid. I've known him for about 378 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 3: twenty five years. He's a good man. 379 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 13: He's a great he's a great guy. I think a 380 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 13: lot of him. Well, you're a hard working guy. 381 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 3: The fruit doesn't fall very far from the tree. Thank 382 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 3: you for the call, mister Boyd appreciate it. I can 383 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 3: call anybody by their first name that calls into the show, 384 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 3: that's the rule. But if you're somebody's daddy, you got 385 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 3: to be mister so and so. I go back into 386 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 3: Eddie Haskell. You know what Eddie Haskell did when he 387 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 3: left Leave It to Beaver, became an. 388 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: L a p D officer. True story. I know you 389 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: thought there was gonna be a punchline. No punch line. 390 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 2: You know. 391 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 3: Crockett the other day was criticizing Jim Morrison, and I said, 392 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 3: you can go to your room, because around this house, 393 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: we don't slam the doors. This is Tracy Birr and 394 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 3: welcome to the Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous, 395 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 3: or as I call it, the Michael Berry Show. As 396 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 3: you start preparing, and then and before you know it, 397 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 3: we're into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty. 398 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,719 Speaker 1: Five just arrived. I used the new year as an 399 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: opportunity to do a reset. That's when I do my 400 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: my tests. 401 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,919 Speaker 3: That's when I go see Stan Duckman, my cardiologist, and 402 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 3: do my stress test, have him poke around and look 403 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 3: around at my at my inner pipes. I go see 404 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 3: mo Hit Kara and we talk about my plumbing, and 405 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 3: he asked the awkward question with his hand as if 406 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 3: he's about to, you know, threaten somebody with a fist. 407 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 3: This is everything working out? Or just go yes, mo, 408 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 3: hit this? How about how about I just tell you 409 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 3: if it's not because having another man. I mean, I'll 410 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 3: be honest with you. It's doing fine, but it ain't. 411 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: It ain't like back good know, it's not like that. 412 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 5: You know. 413 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 3: He he does his He does his in a in 414 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 3: a firm grip, bends his elbow upward like he's just 415 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 3: you know, get about ready to punch someone in the face. 416 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: It said work, you know, I mean it's good. Don't 417 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: get me wrong. I don't know if it's it's that good. 418 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: You know, I'm fifty five. But it's not. 419 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,199 Speaker 3: You know, it's not hanging down you know to my 420 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 3: side like Stephen Hawking. 421 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it's somewhere between. 422 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It's it's uh, it's good. 423 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 3: It's a thank you though, it's We're all right on that. Anyway, 424 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 3: as you prepare for the new year, it's a great 425 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 3: opportunity for a reset to start eating the way you'd 426 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 3: like to eat, to drink the amount you would like 427 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 3: to drink, or not drink more than that amount to 428 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 3: get your exercise. Yesterday, Petru sent me a message. Kemerrif 429 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 3: was a man or a woman eighty seven years old 430 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,719 Speaker 3: going to treatments at MD Anderson. 431 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: Wants to get stronger. 432 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 3: Listen, this wants to get stronger so they can walk 433 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 3: into MD Inerson not have to take a walker. You know, 434 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 3: people think of working out getting stronger as going to 435 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 3: the gym and flexing and grunting. And for Petrew's people, 436 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 3: and I guess I'm want to I mean, I am 437 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 3: a petro clent, but for Petrew's people, it's just getting 438 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 3: stronger for life. You know, you there're somebody in their 439 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 3: nineties who just says, I just want to be able 440 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 3: to get up and walk to the restroom on my 441 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 3: own and not have to have assistance or having had 442 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 3: a stroke, I want to be able to do that. 443 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 3: This one was This one was rough. There was somebody 444 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 3: mother and her teenager. Her teenager had had a stroke 445 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 3: and wanted to get this teenager stronger. And yeah, it's 446 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 3: it's it's amazing. But anyway, as you think about those things, 447 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 3: email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com and 448 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 3: sign up for our daily email while you're there, and 449 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 3: I am happy to connect you with our show sponsors directly. 450 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 3: It is not a problem, but I know you're so busy. Look, 451 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 3: that's the business side of our show, and I am 452 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: mindful that there is a business to operate so that 453 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 3: we get to do the show. And I like helping 454 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 3: our sponsors and I like helping our listeners. I love 455 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 3: to connect people. It's a Malcolm Gladwell thing. It's it's uh. 456 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 3: It gives me a lot of joy to I Just 457 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 3: during the break a friend of mine needed plumbing and 458 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 3: he needed some foundation work done because the plumbing. 459 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:21,719 Speaker 1: Had had cracked. 460 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 3: So I get on the phone with Rob Dechaser, the 461 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 3: head of Atlas Foundation Repair. Hey, Rob, can you take 462 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 3: good care of this person? And they always do. I 463 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 3: send people to to Tom Haynes, the car pro every day, 464 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 3: or Mike Bachiss at lone Star Chevy every day. 465 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: I love doing that. So it is not a problem. 466 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 3: And as you think of things that you need, whatever 467 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 3: that might be getting ready for your financials for the 468 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 3: first year, your health and wellness for the for the year, 469 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 3: your medical, home improvement, you name it. 470 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: I love to help you with that. I trust trust me. 471 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: It is not a a an imposition. Karen, you're on 472 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, good. 473 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 14: Morning, Michael Berry. 474 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: Ma'am. 475 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 14: So, I graduated from high school in nineteen seventy one 476 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 14: in a small town in Kansas. It's about halfway between 477 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 14: which time Dodge City. We have reunions every five years, 478 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 14: so a lot of us still show up. But one 479 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 14: of the guys in our class would come to our 480 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 14: pep rallies and he would come as John Wayne or 481 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 14: you know, always entertaining doing voices. He's now the voice 482 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 14: of Goofy. 483 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 5: He works for Warner Brothers and Disney. 484 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 8: Yeah, and so he. 485 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 14: Will em see a lot of our reunions and they're 486 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 14: just so much fun. But we all still there's many 487 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 14: of us that still stay in touch on a regular basis. 488 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 3: So you're seventy two, yep, sweetheart, you sound about thirty five. 489 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 14: Well, I think you know. I've been told that when 490 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 14: you do drugs when you're young, you don't mature. 491 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: Okay, well, maybe that's a class motto. 492 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 14: Our class motto is sensex beer. 493 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 10: Fine. 494 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 5: Were the class of seventy one. 495 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: I mean it was. 496 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 3: It was the zeitgeist. You're a great caller, Karen, Thank you, sweetheart. 497 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: Chuck. You're on Michael Berry Show. What say you? 498 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 15: Hey? 499 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: How you doing Michael? You are good? 500 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 6: Hey. 501 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 15: I was my mom's class was were out of Glena 502 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 15: Park area, and they were a junior high and they 503 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 15: started a class reunion back in that eighties. Now they've 504 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:36,120 Speaker 15: all since have passed except for one, and I call 505 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 15: that one every year, Color several times a year. She's 506 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 15: a huge Astros fan. But it was kind of crazy. 507 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 15: They were Woodland Hill Junior High because back then and 508 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 15: Gleena Park was kind of like North Shore. You had 509 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 15: all your junior highs, and then they all mixed them 510 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 15: into the Gleena Park School district. So but they had 511 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 15: a lot of fun they went. As they all retired 512 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 15: to the Hill country, they would meet out in the 513 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 15: hill country every summer. 514 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: It's hopefully we have spurred some people to reconnect with 515 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 3: old friends, because it's pretty cool. You know, I had 516 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 3: forgotten I did this. But Larry Hoffman, who passed on 517 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 3: my birthday, he gets to last laugh on that one. 518 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: On November tenth, at. 519 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 3: His memorial this Monday, I spoke and After I got off, 520 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 3: one of his friends came up and said, you know, 521 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 3: sometimes I'll call his number and listen to his voicemail 522 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 3: because I get such a kick out of out of 523 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 3: you having left it, and I had forgotten. He loved 524 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 3: my voicemail so much that he said, will you record 525 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 3: me one? And I said no, Larry, I'm not recording voicemails. 526 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 3: But I couldn't say no, so I did, and this 527 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 3: was it. 528 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: You got it. You've reached Larry's voicemail. 529 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 3: Larry is a very important man and he doesn't have 530 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 3: time to review voicemails. 531 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 6: Send a text. 532 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: If you leave a voicemail, he won't. 533 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 5: Listen to it, so just be deleted. 534 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 8: If you send a text, make it very clear. 535 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 13: What you need. 536 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: He may respond or not. 537 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 4: Mike will very can leave a message. 538 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 3: It's always weird when you hear the voice of someone 539 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 3: who has passed, because you heard that voice a million 540 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 3: times and you take it for granted. Man, don't take 541 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 3: anything for granted. I'm increasingly of the opinion we're all 542 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 3: gonna die. 543 00:30:44,560 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: Who knew? So live life to the fullest. Oh, Ramona, 544 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: I was gonna tell you, remember when I said earlier, 545 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: I was going to make an announcement