1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,519 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time. 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: Lock and load. So Michael darry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: On the air now, ladies and gentlemen. 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, elbot redly. 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 4: This is my bed level for the fight, A new 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 4: place to dwells downend of the lone street. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: That's hotby Couto. 8 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 4: Well that's all riding, mama, that's all right to you, 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 4: that's all ride and mama say anyway into. 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: That's all right. You ain't loving bar the cry time. 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: But it's one full of money for the shower. But 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: get a ready and I gold cat over. 13 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 4: But don't you step on my blue sway shoe. Well 14 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 4: you can do anything with the deal over my blue swashoe. 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 4: If you can't call wrap that police, please tell my 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 4: p don't beat crud who hard? 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: It's true? What the bliss of my hussle? What's wrong 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: with me? I met you? I command on the fuzzy tree. 19 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: My friend say, I'm back then? Why is a book? 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: I'm in love? 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 2: I'm all shook up? 22 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 5: One through a party in the county jail, the prison 23 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 5: man's dada began wi. 24 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: The man's jumping down the jump again to swing You said, 25 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: I had his loft down jail part sing that. 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: What is man say only fools? 27 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 4: But can. 28 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: Fall in love? 29 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: Where if I can't dream of the sun where hole 30 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 2: keeps shining. 31 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 4: On eververone tell me, why, oh, why oh, why want 32 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 4: that sign? 33 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: I want to cold m Gray Chicago morning. A poor 34 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: little baby child is born in the gettle. 35 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 2: We can't go together, missus us, and we can't be 36 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: up ass picious. 37 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: And foggy rain keeps for him. 38 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 5: And never heard the town. 39 00:02:52,919 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: Walking ile's fool. I traveled and every time much more 40 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: I didn't matter. 41 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 6: All right, my office has left the building. I've told 42 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 6: you absolutely straight up to this point. You know that 43 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 6: he has left the building. He left the stage and 44 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 6: went out the back with the policeman, and he is 45 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 6: now gone from the building. 46 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 3: I can't help but think, because the most underappreciated artists 47 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: in American history is the songwriter you know who wrote 48 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:27,119 Speaker 3: always on My Mind? Good guess Barry Gibb is actually 49 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 3: a very very good guess. It's a little early for 50 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 3: Barry Gibb. But considering, I mean, the best answer if 51 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 3: you don't know who wrote a song is Barry Gibb 52 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 3: of that era? Yeah, Wayne Carson, who most people aren't 53 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 3: going to know Johnny Chstopher, who most people an't gonna know. 54 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 3: But the third name you will, and that is Mark James, 55 00:04:51,640 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 3: the Great Mark James appears again. When I was a 56 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 3: little kid, you know, there are certain things you pick 57 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 3: up from your parents. My mother was the most fanatic 58 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: Elvis fan. We were an Elvis fan, I mean fanatical 59 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 3: Elvis fan, and I picked it up. Elvis was revered 60 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 3: in our home. I wasn't around when JFK passed. She 61 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 3: tells me that was a sad moment. But I assure 62 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 3: you not nearly as sad as a decade and a 63 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 3: half later when Elvis passed. I remember going into my 64 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 3: grandmother's trailer, walking in, and you've ever been in the 65 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: trailer of that time? You had everybody had the same 66 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 3: front door on it, and that little a little hinge 67 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 3: or whatever you call it, that would that would pull 68 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: it back closed, and it had a certain it had 69 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 3: a certain refrigerator door closed sound to it. And I 70 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: remember walking up the steps into her trailer toward her 71 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 3: and she just collapsed. 72 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: It was. 73 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 3: You have no idea, right, but as a wee willie kid, 74 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 3: I remember thinking that at some point in my life. 75 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 3: What I was meant to do was I was going 76 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 3: to be on stage, and I was going to enter 77 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 3: the stage to Elvis's intro music, which of course, as 78 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: you know, is what we use two thousand and one, 79 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 3: and then into CC Rider, And I didn't know what 80 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 3: I was going to do on stage. I was going 81 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 3: to be on stage and I was going to enter 82 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 3: to Elvis as Elvis would do. And here we are 83 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: on Elvis's ninetieth birthday. A restaurant is such a dream 84 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 3: come true. It's such a passion project. Nobody goes into 85 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 3: the restaurant business to make money. Nobody anybody goes into 86 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 3: the restaurant business to make money is a fool. There's 87 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: better ways to do it with a lot less worries. 88 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 3: It's a passion project. And I am a sucker for 89 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: the locally owned passion project restaurant and I will always 90 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 3: do my best to support them. Now the Darden's restaurants, 91 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 3: or you get Johnny Carroba to tell you sometime about 92 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: why he sold out to Darden and walked away from 93 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: the Carabas. He has the Kirby and Voss locations, which 94 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 3: are fantastic, but you get him to tell you sometime 95 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 3: about why he stepped down. He was part of the 96 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 3: when Darden when they bought him out, it was an 97 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 3: ongoing relationship. And when he's sat when he sat with 98 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 3: their corporate types and they start asking him, does he 99 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 3: know how many pennies go into how much Caesar dressing 100 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 3: they put on the caesar salad And he says no, 101 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 3: and he and they say, well, it's a million and 102 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: a half if we cut that, and he says, no, 103 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 3: I'm not going to do it anyway. Some restaurant closings 104 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: can tell you about bummer coming up. 105 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf 106 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: of Mexico to the Gulf of michael Berry, which has 107 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: a beautiful. 108 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 3: Interestingly, I live on the Gulf of America. When you 109 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 3: look at the Gulf of America, it is the water body. 110 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 3: For those of you not in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida. 111 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 3: First of all, I feel bad for you, because this 112 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 3: is God's chosen country. We are better for our suffering. 113 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 3: It is a war zone like existence because of the 114 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 3: hurricanes that come through here. But you know it is 115 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 3: through that suffering. I believe that people learn to rely 116 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 3: on each other. People learn you can't afford not to. 117 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 3: It builds an incredible sense of community. 118 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 2: But living on. 119 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 3: The Gulf of America as I do, the reality is 120 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 3: this should be named for our great nation. We should 121 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 3: be willing to plant our flag wherever we go, to 122 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 3: fly it high, to boast, to brag, to be proud. 123 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 3: That's what people do who confident in who and what 124 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 3: they are. Don't let anyone steal that confidence from you. 125 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 3: Trump saying it is now the Gulf of America and 126 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 3: not the Gulf of a third world, broken, corrupt, cartel 127 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 3: ridden country is yet another sign of a man who 128 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 3: is proud of this country and wants to promote it. 129 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 3: He's a promoter, and there's nothing wrong with that. Americans 130 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 3: are the best salesman in the world. And I don't 131 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 3: know why when I say that people are ashamed around 132 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 3: the world they want to hire Americans as salesman. We 133 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 3: sell better than anyone. What's wrong with selling, persuading, convincing, arguing, winning, 134 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 3: Because in order to sell, you have to close. Don't 135 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 3: make me go Glengarry Glenn Ross. And you don't make 136 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 3: me do it, you'll be stuck with the steak knives. 137 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 3: Don't make me do it. But you know, this whole 138 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 3: concept of the Gulf of America and not the aforementioned, 139 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 3: well you know what it was called. It got me 140 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 3: thinking because people keep telling me that we should take 141 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 3: in Mexico. You don't want Mexico. You haven't been there obviously. 142 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 3: First of all, if you're going to take in Mexico, 143 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 3: you're going to have an actual war with the cartels. 144 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 3: Now Trump has said he would like to have that war, 145 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 3: and I'm comfortable with that, but you've got to it 146 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 3: can't be like Iraq. You can't go in there and 147 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 3: violate the Powell Drop doctrine because you break it, you 148 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 3: own it. Just like at the store. When you go 149 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 3: into Mexico and you take on the cartel, if you 150 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 3: go for the king to take him out. I don't 151 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:11,719 Speaker 3: think Americans understand how powerful the cartels are. The firepower 152 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 3: they have, the number of men and women they have, 153 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 3: the equipment, they have, the sophistication of their drones, of 154 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 3: their communication systems. But they have something even more powerful. 155 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: They own. 156 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: The government. They own the government, which means that if 157 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 3: you go in and you get the local town mayor, 158 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 3: I'll call they behind you and you're going to reform 159 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 3: that community. The cartels just call up the governor and 160 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: they met. The mayor is dead. By tomorrow, you get 161 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 3: the governor on your side, they call up the FEDS, 162 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 3: and by tomorrow the governor's dead. They don't just kill 163 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 3: people the way the mafia did. The mafia steered clear 164 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 3: of famous people. They made it a point not to. 165 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 3: The cartels make it a point to kill famous people, 166 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 3: to kill powerful, prominent people, and to put their fingerprints 167 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 3: all over it. There was a mayor in Mexico last year. 168 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 3: He ran on a on a reform platform. He got elected, 169 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 3: and within the week his head was placed on top 170 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 3: of his car. It's uncanny. You see the picture. It 171 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 3: looks like it's photoshopped. It was real. They hang the 172 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 3: heads of journalists who are writing stories about them, investigating them, 173 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 3: and judges. They hang them from the from the overpass. 174 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 3: You're driving along and they're dangling down is the head 175 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 3: of a prominent person. It's a powerful message. How you 176 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 3: think about that, it's a very powerful message. Hey, you 177 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 3: want to mess with them, you want to mess with them, 178 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 3: this is what will happen to you. It's a scarecrow effect. 179 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 3: I don't want Mexico. You might go down to Cancun 180 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 3: and have a nice time at a wet hang, or 181 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 3: you might go down to one of your favorite beaches 182 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: and have a hell of a good time. But you 183 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 3: want to come back home. You might go down to 184 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 3: Cabo for a period. You don't want the burden of 185 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: the corruption, because you don't want the Mexicans running their 186 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 3: own government. There's too much corruption within it. Of course, 187 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 3: Ron White had a Ron White had an interesting idea 188 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 3: on what to do with Mexico. Since we're we're since 189 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 3: we're moving our chest pieces. 190 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 5: Here, and we take the money we make from selling 191 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 5: the rest of Florida to Israel, we buy Mexico, fix it. 192 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: Up and flip it. 193 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: Now. 194 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 5: We'll have to send down some painters and landscapers because 195 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 5: they're all up here, and when they're gone, you're gonna 196 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 5: wonder where they went, because you ain't gonna want to 197 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 5: do this shit yourself, not if you're anything like me. 198 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 5: We sell Mexico to a country that can put a 199 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 5: ton of cash down, but you know they can't make 200 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 5: the payments. 201 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 7: Like Peru. 202 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 5: Peru has trillions of US dollars in cash, and banks 203 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 5: all over Peru. That's your cocaine money they chocked you 204 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 5: out of. We get all that money back. We financed 205 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 5: the balance of Mexico to Peru. We let them get 206 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 5: behind on the payments. We repossess Mexico. Now we have 207 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 5: Mexico free and clear, new paint, new shrubs. Now with 208 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 5: all that cocaine money, we start buying countries south of Mexico. 209 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: We buy them all. We buy Belize, hon. 210 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 5: Duris, Nika, Roguell, salvad Or Costa Rica. And every time 211 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 5: you buy one of those countries, that long ass wall 212 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 5: this country needs to build gets a little and shorter, 213 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 5: doesn't it, until eventually we buy back the Panama Canal, 214 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 5: which we built. Anyway, stand there and go swim this 215 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 5: and you know what, we'll call it North America. 216 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: If you can't say something nice, you can always say 217 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 3: it on the Michael Berry Show. We will close the 218 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 3: show today, which will be in an hour. Listen carefully 219 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 3: where you call with your reminiscences of seeing Elvis in person. 220 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 3: So that doesn't mean your mom saw Elvis. That doesn't 221 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 3: mean you almost saw Elvis. I mean you were gonna 222 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 3: go but had to work overtime. It's gonna be my 223 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 3: little old ladies, a little old lady brigade out there. 224 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 3: You may have to call mom if she's not already listening. 225 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 3: Make sure she's tuned in. You might be at the 226 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 3: doctor's office. What times she'll be out. She's part in 227 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 3: the waiting room right now. And at ten point thirty 228 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 3: we will put out the call. At ten thirty will 229 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 3: put out the call. If you saw Elvis live in person, 230 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 3: I want you to tell me where it was. And 231 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 3: I expect to only have little old ladies because we're 232 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 3: talking about fifty years ago, and unless you're there, maybe 233 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 3: some maybe some sixty eight year olds that were there 234 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 3: could be could be. I told you restaurant news. I 235 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 3: got news that our friend John mclere and his bride 236 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 3: Jessica were closing the eighteen seventeen Steak and Seafair and 237 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 3: Little Buffalo Grill. He had opened that in a community 238 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 3: called Evia in Galveston. And it's a neat little community. 239 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 3: It's just west of town in a little development looks 240 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: like I don't know Charleston, South Carolina, or it's it's 241 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 3: whoever conceived of it. I think it's Rocky Sullivan. And 242 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 3: in that group that that built that. I'm not positive 243 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 3: on that, but they they were created with their detention. 244 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 3: They've got a they've got a water body and in 245 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 3: the middle of the community. It's kind of self contained community, 246 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 3: which is sort of a neat deal. You can you 247 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 3: can walk through it, and they put some retail there. 248 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 3: It's hard to make retail work in a little community 249 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 3: like that. It's perfect when it does, but the community 250 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 3: has to support it, and they have to really support 251 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,239 Speaker 3: it when in the community is relatively small, which that 252 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 3: one is, and and the economics you're just never going 253 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 3: to get rich on a deal like that. But McLear 254 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 3: had sold Buffalo Grill, a concept I think his father 255 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 3: had developed many many years ago, Buffalo Grill. When I 256 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 3: ate breakfast, Buffalo Grill was was one of my hotspots 257 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 3: for many many years. In fact, during my political years, 258 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 3: I would eat at Buffalo Grill or avalon Diner nine 259 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 3: out of ten weekday mornings. And my scheduler, Monica Ipudua, 260 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 3: who turns forty nine on Saturday every monk. Can you 261 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 3: believe that Monica's old? Who would have guessed Monica could 262 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 3: old could get old? She'd started working for me when 263 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 3: she was twenty six godmother to my kids. Anyway, Monica 264 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 3: scheduled all my meetings and I would do a breakfast 265 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 3: meeting before council, then city council, than a lunch meeting, 266 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 3: then meetings after that, usually city council committee meetings, and 267 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 3: then and then I might repair to some meetings slash 268 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 3: socializing at Downing Street. Good times, good times. Probably better 269 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 3: for my health that I was term limited, because six 270 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 3: years was about long enough to do that. But Buffalo 271 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 3: Grill was my hotspot, and it was mostly the one 272 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 3: over on Biscinette. They moved it during that time it 273 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 3: was on Bissonet and they moved it just down the 274 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 3: road further moved it a little west on Bisonette, But 275 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 3: that was a spot for me. Nobody wants to hear 276 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 3: my breakfast order or more. You just want to hear 277 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 3: my breakfast order, all right, three eggs over medium bacon, 278 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 3: I think, and I don't. I don't want to say 279 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 3: something without thinking about this, and then I gotta eat crow. 280 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 3: But no, I'm gonna stick to it. I think they 281 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 3: had the best bacon in town. Now. The problem with 282 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 3: bacon is that people like their bacon differently. So if 283 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 3: you say something is the best right, who throws the 284 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 3: tightest spiral, who is the most accurate pastor who throws 285 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 3: the football the furthest down the field. Those are verifiable facts. 286 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 3: But when you say who makes the best bacon depends 287 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 3: on what kind of bacon you like. I don't normally 288 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 3: like crispy bacon. My kids do. I don't, but the 289 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 3: Buffalo grill bacon was a perfect blend of crispy but 290 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 3: still moist. Because a lot of crispy bacon loses its flavor, 291 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 3: it becomes, you know, beef jerky, and I don't want that. 292 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 3: They had the best bacon in town bar none. So anyway, 293 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 3: you asked for this three eggs over medium bacon, extra 294 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 3: order of bacon sausage. They did a pan sausage. I'm 295 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 3: not a linked sausage guy. I'm a pan sausage guy. 296 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 3: They did a pan sausage with an apple no something apple, 297 00:21:52,720 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 3: and white toast grits, And because I've such a regular, 298 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 3: they would put the butter in the grits for me, 299 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 3: so I didn't have to do it myself. I appreciate 300 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 3: that you had little things in life, little things, you know, 301 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 3: little things like that glass of grapefruit juice and a coffee. 302 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 3: That was my breakfast. Yes, there is something else which 303 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 3: was the coup de gras of the whole breakfast. They're oatmeal. 304 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 3: And the guy that worked there, I forget his name. 305 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 3: He wore a uh what do you call that? Things 306 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 3: like a stitched cloth. No, no, no, not a yomaha 307 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 3: that black guys in New York would wear. They'd have 308 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 3: the big hair and they'd have the dreads coming out 309 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 3: the back, and they have that stitch cloth kind of 310 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 3: a toboggan type thing that they'd put over it. You 311 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 3: remember he wore that, I thought what was his name? Anyway, 312 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 3: he would keep an eye on how far along into 313 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 3: my breakfast I was, and because I would be in 314 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 3: a meeting, it would be a conversation going, and at 315 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 3: just the right moment he'd come over without ever saying 316 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 3: a word, and he bring me my piping hot oatmeal, 317 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 3: and he had already put inside it for me my 318 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 3: brown sugar, a lot of brown sugar, woo, and some 319 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 3: walnuts and peanuts cut up. Anyway, so they've closed that, 320 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 3: But apparently Dennis Bird, who everybody that closes in Galveson 321 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 3: now goes to work for Dennis Burg. He's opening two 322 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 3: concepts there. I don't know which ones, but so that's 323 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 3: good for the employees. We're going to be changing the 324 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 3: name of the Gulf of Mexico to. 325 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 5: The Gulf of Michael Barry. 326 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: Which has a beautiful. 327 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 5: Get things straight here, or I'm walking too. 328 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 8: I don't work on January the eighth because that's the 329 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 8: eldest's birthday. I was holding down, man, somebody. 330 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 3: Talking to a friend of mine the other day about 331 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 3: Elvis and I had. On the flight to Japan, I 332 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 3: watched True Romance for the thirty seventh time. Again. God, 333 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 3: that's a good movie. God, that's so good. And I said, 334 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 3: you know, I think that's Val Kilmer's most underappreciated role. 335 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 3: And he said, Valcilmer is not in True Romance. 336 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: Yeah he is. 337 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 3: No, I've seen it probably ten times. 338 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: I've seen it thirty seven. 339 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 3: If I tell you he's in it, he's in it. 340 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 3: I love Val Kilmer. He said, all right, let's go 341 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 3: through the scenes. Okay, here we go. You want the 342 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 3: sound track to each scene. You want the soundtrack that 343 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 3: Dennis Hopper is introduced to when he puts his his dog. 344 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 3: You want to know the name of his dog. I'm 345 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 3: obsessed with the movie. Val Kilmer's in the movie, Tony. 346 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 3: He's not in the movie. That's not Val Kilmer. That 347 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 3: he goes in to get Alabama Worthy stuff back. That's 348 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 3: not who that is. I know who that is, and 349 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 3: I know that's not Valkilmer. Val Kilmer played Elvis. What. Yeah, 350 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 3: remember before Clarence Worthy would make any decision, he would 351 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 3: go to the bathroom and his mentor, as he's described 352 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 3: in the credits, would appear over his shoulder. That was Elvis, 353 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 3: and Elways tells him, you got to go. You got 354 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 3: to put a bullet That guy cannot breathe the air 355 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 3: you're breathing. You've got to put a bullet in him, Drexel. 356 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 3: And he said, Okay, that's what I gotta do. He says, 357 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 3: I like you, Clarence, always have, always will. That's Valcomer. Yeah. Yeah, 358 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 3: yesterday we discovered uh mailman stealing your mail? When what 359 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 3: did we spy on the black Line? But Mailman Vaughn 360 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 3: who called to offer his expert opinion on the subject. Well, 361 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 3: later in the day, Jim was pulling audio from the 362 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 3: show and we often go back and listen to things 363 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 3: and talk him over and he said to me in Ramon, 364 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 3: did you notice that Mailman Vaughn was the black version 365 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 3: of Shelby Foot? And I thought he must have the wrong. 366 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 3: He must not know who shelby Foot is. You mean 367 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 3: the Civil War history, the great Civil War historian, Shelby Foot. 368 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 3: I could listen to show shelby Foot talk for hours, 369 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 3: and I think everybody could. He'd sit there on those 370 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 3: ken Burns document. Thank God for ken Burns, or we 371 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 3: wouldn't have all the footage we have of shelby Foot 372 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 3: because he was at the end of his life. Shelby 373 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 3: Foot would unapologetically, unerringly explain the Civil War from a 374 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 3: Southern perspective, which is the factual perspective, which nobody dares do. 375 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 3: And today that managed to cancel the man. But at 376 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 3: the time, just font of wisdom, just rolling off his 377 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 3: lovely tongue, was this glorious Southern accent, dripping with confidence 378 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 3: and unerring accuracy. I am homeo for shelby Foot, if 379 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 3: you must know, he's fantastic, the late great. But Jim said, 380 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 3: our creative director said, did you notice that Melman Vaughan 381 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 3: was the black version of Shelby Foot? And it had 382 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 3: not crossed our minds, so we thought this would be 383 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 3: a good time to debut a new segment. And you 384 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 3: decide it's called Decision twenty twenty five. The Fox News 385 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 3: Decision Desk can now officially project CBS News now project 386 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 3: Here's the Call of the Night. We can project now. 387 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 3: It is now official CNN projects. 388 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show presents Decision twenty twenty five. 389 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 3: You decide this is historic. All right, We're going to 390 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 3: play an example of both men in you shoot me 391 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 3: an email and you tell me he does or he doesn't. 392 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 3: So first we'll play Mailman Vaughn Fromyes, Can I say 393 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 3: this from one before you play it? That dude calls 394 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 3: it on the black line, says he's a Did he 395 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 3: first say he was from Beaumont? Or he say it 396 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 3: was a mailman used to be a mailman. He didn't 397 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 3: even say Beaumont. No offense. But I'm much more interested 398 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 3: in the fact that you were a mailman in Beaumont 399 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 3: than Houston. I'm still a Golden Triangle boy. And then 400 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 3: just out of nowhere, if I hadn't asked him seventeen questions, 401 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 3: because it was on number seventeen that he goes, yeah, 402 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 3: I started in Orange. I don't think there's but one 403 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 3: post office in Orange. So I asked him which post 404 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 3: office and he just glossed over it. And I went 405 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 3: back and I thought, I mean, because he knows I 406 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 3: don't maybe there's another post office. Which post because only 407 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 3: one that I know of which post office, but there's 408 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 3: only one. That's what I thought. Do you do you 409 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 3: realize how small Orange is are? Like you delivered You 410 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: probably delivered mail to my grandmother. My grandfather probably delivered 411 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 3: mail to me. Huh, and he just like it was 412 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 3: nothing anyway. Here is mailman Vaughn will start. 413 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 7: With him with Cornelia's he should know better. 414 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 4: Uh. 415 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 7: You know, each particular mail is photographed and then automatically 416 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 7: trade so you know according to delivery sequence and about 417 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 7: more than ninety five percent of the mail you know, 418 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 7: is done that way. You know sequence and uh and everything, 419 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 7: and you know each trade go to a carrier so 420 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 7: they know exactly, uh, you know, the order of that 421 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 7: mail and who's caring it all. 422 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 9: Right, Now, here's Shelby Foote is one of the things 423 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 9: that person deals with in his life. It's one of 424 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 9: the things that's bound the interest or write or in 425 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 9: writing about the people who live with it most often. 426 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 9: I suppose Cerly, in my case, it's the failure to 427 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 9: measure up to the tradition that makes the tragedy. Sometimes 428 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 9: that involves an examination of the tradition itself, which you 429 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 9: find out is false or inflated. 430 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 7: With Cornelia's h, he should know better. You know, each 431 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 7: particular male is photographed and then automatically trade, so you 432 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 7: know according to delivery sequence. 433 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 9: Tradition is one of the things that person deals with 434 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 9: in his life. It's one of the things that's bound 435 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 9: the interest or writer or in writing about the people 436 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 9: who live with it most often, I suppose Cly, in 437 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 9: my case. 438 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 7: With Cornelia, failure no measure up to the tradition that 439 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 7: makes the photograph was an example delivery inflated and about. 440 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 3: Well, you know, that's pretty good. Crockett had a soccer 441 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 3: game last night and they had an announcer for the 442 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 3: soccer soccer game that didn't normally happen. 443 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 4: And. 444 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 3: It was the best announcer for soccer game I've ever heard. 445 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 3: Because he was a stoner. I recorded, h, I'm going 446 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 3: to play for a Jimmy Carter is laying in state 447 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 3: in Washington, d C, the first time he's been in 448 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 3: d C and not screwed things up.