1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. Ah, yes, it's Friday, 3 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: and it's a special edition. It is Father's Day Sunday. Well, 4 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: we think is incredibly important in this country, and as 5 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: always we pay tribute. 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 2: Today, heavy ded. 7 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 3: Happy day, when do war, whenny war? When war. 8 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 2: She is away? He loves me happy day or happy 9 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 2: d happy or happy day. 10 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 4: When Jesus war, Oh pitty war, when Jesus war. 11 00:01:30,520 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: She is away? He loved the abby day. 12 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 3: Happy day, a happy day. 13 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 4: Winter, those wars, oh whitty war, windy those war fut. 14 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 3: Three years away? 15 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: He did? 16 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: He love. 17 00:02:37,639 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 5: Happy day, oh happy or happy deal? 18 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 6: Taking the. 19 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: Happy day? Oh habit. 20 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: When Jesus wall wait he w was when Jesus war 21 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 3: three yets away? He need to look I have it? 22 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 3: Oh long, good god. 23 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: Oh yes. One of my favorite shows of the year 24 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: where we pay tribute to fathers seven one three nine 25 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: ninety nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine 26 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: one thousand. Don't just say your father was great, wonderful, awesome. 27 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: Those are adjectives, but they're not descriptive. What specifically did 28 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: your father do that you remember that meant a lot 29 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: that you look back on that at the time you 30 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: understood that was a show of his love and sacrifice. 31 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: That was his gift to you, of his time, his energy, 32 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: his effort, his patience is kindness seven one three nine 33 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine 34 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine one one thousand. 35 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: To get a started, as we always do, go to 36 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: see of the greatest executive producer in all the land, 37 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: Chattiko Nation. You're a week in review. 38 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 6: I Love bar is It. 39 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: You're going to have some dif from Saint Luis p 40 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: to see carrying a Hamas flag, and it's supposed to 41 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: give you the image that, look, wherever we're from, we're 42 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: all angry at this country. We refuse to leave from 43 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: I Love bar is It. 44 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 7: Anti Ice protesters clashing with the National Guard troops outside 45 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 7: of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center. 46 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: Cars being sat on fire, fireworks being shot off at 47 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 2: police officers, protesters blocking roadways. 48 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: You'll notice it's all foreign flags. 49 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 6: It's all Mexican flags, Palestinian flags. 50 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 8: Flags from like El Salvador, it's all four it. 51 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: When you're carrying the Mexican flag in Los Angeles protesting 52 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: that you don't want to be sent back to Mexico. 53 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: I am very proud Mexican. You can't send me back 54 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: to Mexico. Well, perhaps you're not as proud a Mexican 55 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: as you claim to be. 56 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 7: For a lot of high school seniors, at the end 57 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 7: of the school year senior pranks. Two Sealy High School 58 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 7: seniors put up a coming soon sign for fake HB. 59 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 9: Well, they're posts on Facebook has people celebrating, sharing and 60 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 9: tagging their friends. 61 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 7: But according to Facebook comments, people really want one. 62 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: This is the best pr HGB could ever hope and 63 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: it's funny and it's young people. When young people think 64 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: you're cool, that's rare. You're a grocery store Ladies and gentlemen, 65 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: boys and girls, please rise for the zame bone. I 66 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: can't speak for girls because they're wired different, and thank 67 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: God for that. But what dude hadn't wanted to drive 68 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: the zambone? And I bet a good number of men 69 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: listening to the to the show. Maybe women too, I 70 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: just don't know thought for themselves now. I like drive zambone. 71 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: I'd go work on Saturny one. Just drive zambone. It'd 72 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: be fun. Why this game now? 73 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 3: Ol Man. 74 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 2: Feel the chass on his hands. 75 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 10: Dusty overall. 76 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 3: My man now understand. 77 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 7: EHS the four hour System from the Michael Very Show 78 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 7: and other leading companies. 79 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 3: Sixteen alarm clock won't stop going. 80 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: I'll stumble to the same, Try to think. Fill the 81 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: coffee pot, Mmm, coffee. 82 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 7: Get the sleepy heads out of bed, get them fed, 83 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 7: get them dressed, hurry up, get your stuff in the truck. 84 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 10: Blow them both to kiss when you drop them off. 85 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 3: If I kill the fields died a month of Monday, 86 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 3: since I had a break. Sometimes to tell myself when 87 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 3: I had all. 88 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: I could take Fridays, come here. Tomorrow is the birthday 89 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: of the United States Army. It's a very special birthday. 90 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: It's a quarter century, two hundred and fiftieth birthday of 91 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: the United States Army. Our army actually precedes our independence 92 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: from the Fatherland, it precedes our constitution, it precedes America 93 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: as we know it, and we will be paying tribute 94 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: to that tomorrow on a special Saturday Bonus podcast. We 95 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: always do a Saturday Bonus podcast. Tomorrow's topic will be 96 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: the United States Army and will include the speech President 97 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: Trump gave it Fort Bragg earlier this week to the 98 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: United States Army. Heck of a speech. He had a 99 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: lot of fun doing that. You could tell, you could 100 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: really see that he thrives on it. He thrives on 101 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: that energy that he gets from a live audience like that, 102 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: especially one that he has such respect for like that. 103 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: So that'll be the bonus podcast tomorrow. If the person 104 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: about whom you are paying tribute is the United States 105 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: Army veteran, be sure to mention that as well. All Right, 106 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand or more. 107 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: I will handle the calls. Let's see how that works 108 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 1: out here. Mark, you're up first, sir, Go ahead. 109 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 8: Morning, Michael. I got three brothers, and our dad did 110 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 8: many things for us, But the two most important things 111 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 8: he did was he kept us in church as a family. 112 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 8: And then secondly, Buddy, he taught us how to work, 113 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,599 Speaker 8: and I mean weren't hard. He taught us skills, and 114 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 8: those skills have carried all four of us way down 115 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 8: the road in life. 116 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: Interesting you should say that, Mark, thank you for the call. 117 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: We've been talking. We've been talking about that this week 118 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:20,719 Speaker 1: on the show. And I study people, families, cultures, personalities, policies. 119 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: These these are things that I don't have a hobby 120 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: in that sense. That's what I do, that's what I study, 121 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 1: that's what I'm constantly trying to understand. And I have 122 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: noticed that well to do families, their kids do not 123 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: sit around all summer. They put their kids to work 124 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: doing things. As they get older, they put them in 125 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: office environments where they're you know, whether they're at trans 126 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: Western or one of the energy companies, or a downtown 127 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: law firm, or when they're younger, they have them doing 128 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: things like manual labor, whether that's on a farm, whether 129 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: that's in a restaurant kitchen. I think you learn so 130 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: much from that. And it's not that they need the 131 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 1: money or the kid needs the money. It's that it's 132 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: an important trait to learn. Happy Father's Ay to your father. 133 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: Mark stand Low, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 134 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 6: Go ahead, Good morning, Michael. I wanted to talk about 135 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 6: several dads in my life because my dad died when 136 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 6: I was thirteen, and he was a pastor, and he 137 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 6: was a wonderful dad. He did all sorts of things 138 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 6: for us, and I could still remember the steel of 139 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 6: his coat on my cheek when I would stand next 140 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 6: to him, when he would shake hands with people on 141 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,319 Speaker 6: the way out. He just was a great guy and 142 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 6: I just lost him way too soon. But I had 143 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 6: four uncles that stepped in and you know, rode in 144 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 6: my first truck to decide if it was going to 145 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 6: be good, or or brought me a tobacco leaf from 146 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 6: his vacation because every girl should have tobacco in a pouch, 147 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 6: tobacco in her truck, and little stuff like that. You know, 148 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 6: they were they were always there to help me with everything. 149 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 6: And uh, my husband had been raised without a dad, 150 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 6: and so they kind of took him under his there 151 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 6: his wing as well. And so now, when uh we 152 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 6: became parents, we really decided the things that we missed 153 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 6: most about our dad was things that we were going 154 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:46,839 Speaker 6: to pour into our son. And my husband, Larry is 155 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 6: the greatest dad. He's just an awesome dad, and uh 156 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 6: an awesome grandpa. And now I watched my son. He's 157 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 6: a fifth grade teacher and he's a dad three children, 158 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 6: three daughters, and I just see that, you know, sometimes 159 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 6: even when you start with hard times, you can learn 160 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 6: to be a good dad if you want to be 161 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 6: a good dad. And I just think, you know, a 162 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 6: lot of times people don't realize that if they're a 163 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 6: Sunday school teacher or a ball coach or something like 164 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 6: that and they see a kid that doesn't have that 165 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 6: in their life, they have an opportunity to make that 166 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 6: extra space. 167 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 9: You know what I mean? 168 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 6: I do. I do, And I just wanted to say, 169 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 6: you know, not only a really special because I'll also 170 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 6: my dad very tragically and it was very traumatic, and 171 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 6: it was at a time me being thirteen, you know, 172 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 6: it was at a time where a girl needs her 173 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 6: dad and so and you know, they talk about boys 174 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 6: being their dads, but girls need that, you know, to 175 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 6: see how a dad loves his mom, you know, and 176 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 6: stuff like that. And uh but I think that when 177 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 6: you go through trauma like that, because my husband and 178 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 6: I both went through different kinds of trauma, but both 179 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 6: of our homes were broken in different ways, and the 180 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 6: people around us that picked up the slack. You know, 181 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 6: I feel like I had many fathers in a lot 182 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 6: of ways, even though the one I wanted the most 183 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 6: I didn't have for as long. So that was kind 184 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 6: of wanted what I wanted to share. He had a well, 185 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 6: they they they didn't do an autopsy. We were we 186 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 6: went to bed one night. My mom worked night, and 187 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 6: when we were when the three of us woke up 188 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 6: to go to school, he was hunched over in the floor, 189 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 6: dead in the floor. Uh, and had probably been dead 190 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 6: for about four or five hours. So us three kids, 191 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 6: we were sixteen, thirteen, and eleven, we're there with the 192 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 6: body for several hours. And uh, it was pretty it 193 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 6: was pretty tragic. So yeah, and so you know, but 194 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 6: my mom was good about you know, she was very 195 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 6: open about everything. And like I said, she had she 196 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 6: had three outstanding brothers that just kind of you know, 197 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 6: surrounded us with good male role models. But you know, 198 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 6: it's a little PTSD, you know what I mean. 199 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: Thirteen years old. Thank you for the call. Stamna beautiful. 200 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: If you're on hold, hang with me. We will get 201 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: to you. Stay right there. 202 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 3: Now, only. 203 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 9: Many more fast, a million dollar rested tail. We'll go now. 204 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: Thank you for the emails you have sent, for the 205 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: voicemails you have left. By the way, you can always 206 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: leave a voicemail for the show when we are not 207 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: on the air. It'll go it's the same number seven 208 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: one three one thousand, seven one three one zero zero zero, 209 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: and it'll go to a voicemail and you can leave it. 210 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: You can leave it. 211 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 9: Then. 212 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: People leave us voicemails at all hours of the day, 213 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: and we occasionally use those on the show, and we 214 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: don't take calls very often on the evening show, and 215 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: sometimes we will we will splice those in there just 216 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: to get more voices on the show. I think it 217 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: makes I think makes for a better sound, better feel. 218 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: But you're always welcome to leave a voicemail for the 219 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: show when we are not on the air. The phone 220 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: line is always open for that. For those of you 221 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: who did take time to email and leave voicemails, those 222 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: will be used both on this the morning show and 223 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: on the evening show. So thank you all for that. 224 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: You know, it's a very interesting thing that happens. I 225 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: noticed that on Father's Day I tend to get almost 226 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: exclusively calls from men, and on Mother's Day it's about 227 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: sixty forty from women. I don't know why that is. 228 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 1: It's a really really interesting phenomenon, but I do note it. Charles, 229 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 230 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 10: Go ahead, sir, Thank you, Michael. I'm really grateful for 231 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 10: this opportunity. It's my first time ever calling to your show. 232 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 10: Or to any kind of show ever. But I'm grateful 233 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 10: that I use it to appreciate my dad in some way. 234 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you d him. 235 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 10: Losing him as the Weston that ever happened to me 236 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 10: as specific Michael. And what my dad did specifically was 237 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 10: he instilled in me and my siblings, you know, the 238 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 10: discipline to be hard working and truthful. And the one 239 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 10: that affects me directly was his physical expression of confidence 240 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 10: and loving me publicly, which she did in an event 241 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 10: family battering event where I had to speak and people 242 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 10: try to shut me down, and he stood up and 243 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 10: he said, I believe in that sixteen year old boy. 244 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 10: He's very confident and he's very smart. You guys should 245 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 10: listen to whatever ideas he might have to whatever he 246 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 10: wanted to contribute. And that has kept me going all 247 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 10: my life, has sent me through all my success in 248 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 10: life after this day, and I'm so so grateful to him. 249 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 5: Charles. 250 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: Where are you from? Where were you born? 251 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 10: Geria? 252 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: Mm hm where legos oh? 253 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 10: No I was born in the north, a place called 254 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 10: Bauchi was pretty dominantly. 255 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 9: Ebo. 256 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: Were you adopted? 257 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 10: No uh I moved here permanently sixteen years ago, okay, 258 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 10: and uh, I've ever since lived here in America and 259 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 10: I currently have families. I have two boys and two girls, 260 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 10: and every day I pray to God for the grace 261 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 10: to give them what my dad gave me. 262 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: What do you do for a living? 263 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 10: Yeah, uh, I'm an engineer with an oil company in 264 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 10: Houston here. 265 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: It's not Shell, is it. 266 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 10: Uh No, it's one of the indigenous. 267 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: Companies, Indigenous LA. 268 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 2: I like that. 269 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: I was living in England when kin Sara Wewa was executed, 270 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,360 Speaker 1: and it was for several months it was the hottest 271 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: issue in English politics because obviously, if you know the story, 272 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: he had studied in London and he'd gone back to 273 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: be an activist there, and the British government was doing 274 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: everything they could to save his life. But I did 275 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: a deep dive into Nigerian politics and culture and tribes 276 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: and languages and the Muslims and the Christians, and it's 277 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: a really really interesting, very very interesting place. Charles, wonderful call, sir, 278 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: I think thank you for that wonderful call. Call back 279 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: again sometime. Let's go to Philip. Philip you're on the 280 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 281 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 7: Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning, Michael, first time caller 282 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 7: as well, and appreciate the time you're giving me. So, 283 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 7: you know, I lost my dad ten years ago. I 284 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 7: was about fifty forty two at the time when when 285 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 7: he passed away. But my dad, you know, was was 286 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 7: a provider. You know, he was the foundation came and 287 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 7: my mom both they were a team. And my mom 288 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 7: she's still alive. She's already eighty one, and thank god 289 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 7: she's you know, she's well and able. She does for herself. 290 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 7: She still drives, she still goes to the grocery store, 291 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,239 Speaker 7: and you know, I'm grateful for them. But they were 292 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 7: a team, and they were providers, and they instilled a 293 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 7: lot of a lot of values in us. You know, 294 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 7: my dad was not the kind of guy that was 295 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 7: going to take you and say, hey, I want to 296 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 7: teach you this, Come watch and you know, come learn. 297 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 7: He was going to just do something and you would 298 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 7: just have to kind of see what he was doing. 299 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 7: And the biggest thing for him was he was a 300 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 7: hard worker. You know, my dad had had had a 301 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 7: regular job money dough Friday, he was a machinist in 302 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 7: a machine shop and on the weekends, you know, he 303 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 7: would cut grass on Saturday, sometimes Sundays. But he was 304 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 7: also a musician, uh in the spare time, you know, 305 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 7: so on the weekends, Friday night, Saturday night, he would 306 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 7: go out with you know, with his little group and 307 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 7: they would play in these little places. And it wasn't 308 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 7: really for him making the money for himself because my dad, 309 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 7: you know, like I said, you know, he heard, he 310 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 7: worked hard and he provided. So my dad was the 311 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 7: one that had all the equipment, he had all the setups, 312 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 7: he had the transportation, so he would pick up his 313 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 7: group members and they would go to these little establishments 314 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 7: and you know, play their music. And my dad was 315 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 7: split the money evenly with them because he knew that 316 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 7: they weren't you know, they weren't more in need than 317 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 7: he was, which was to me that that that's you know, 318 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 7: something you don't see a lot. But you know, my 319 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 7: dad worked all the time time, you know, no matter 320 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 7: what time he went to bed, what was going on 321 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 7: the night before, he was going to get up and 322 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 7: go to work the next day on time, and you know, 323 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 7: working where he did. You know, he would be at 324 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 7: work sometimes three in the morning to six in the morning, 325 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 7: just depending what kind of what kind of jobs they had, 326 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 7: you know, lined up. But you know, like I said, 327 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 7: he's he's gone now, but you know he's he's instilled 328 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 7: a lot of those values in us, you know, and 329 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 7: my parents were They were stable, very stable, and they 330 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 7: believed in putting the time in and and and being 331 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 7: being grounded. You know, my dad worked for at the 332 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 7: job where he worked for over thirty five years. And 333 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 7: you know, growing up, you know, we always had what 334 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 7: we needed. You know, we didn't grow up in the 335 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 7: best area, but you know, we always always had electricity, 336 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 7: We always had water, We always had a telephone, We 337 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 7: always had gas, you know, the natural gas. You know, 338 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 7: we had neighbors sometimes that would get their electricity turned 339 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 7: off or their water turned off. But you know, we 340 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 7: always we always had and my parents, like I said, 341 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 7: always gave us what we needed. And sometimes we got 342 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 7: some of the things that we wanted, but not often. 343 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 7: But you know, we we had a I tell people 344 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 7: I had a great childhood. Uh it's the best that 345 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 7: you know. 346 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: Sorry about that, don't be great. Call Philip, thank you 347 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: for calling. Victor, Mike, will all of you hangtut to 348 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: get right to you seven one three nine nine nine one. 349 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 8: I used to do aerobics till I dropped and then 350 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 8: I found you, Michael Very Joe. 351 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 9: I recommend that all. 352 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: I had heard this song before. It wasn't that I hadn't, 353 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: but I hadn't really really focused on it and studied 354 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: it looked in the history of it. But it's one 355 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: of Ramon's favorites. And so twenty years of doing this 356 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: every year at Father's Day, he would play the song 357 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: and talk about how special it was to him, and 358 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 1: I came to understand there's so much to that song. 359 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: It comes out in nineteen sixty nine, height of the 360 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: Vietnam War. We would end up losing fifty eight two 361 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty men in Vietnam, and those were the years. 362 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 1: You know, people believed the election of Nixon in November 363 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: of sixty eight would lead by sixty nine to a withdrawal, 364 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: and that's not what happened. He was duping people, and 365 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: that's when you begin the Cambodian bombings on the west 366 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: side of Vietnam to keep that Ho Chi Minh trail, 367 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: to try to disrupt the Ho Chi Min Trail. A 368 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: lot of Americans getting killed at that time. And in 369 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: that song, it's not just some Diddy. It's a song 370 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: the dad of these seven kids has been killed in 371 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: the war, which you know, because of Vietnam, and this 372 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 1: was happening. You know, dads were being killed in the war, 373 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: and so basically I hate the word. But the man 374 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: he's talking about coloring his father is his stepfather, who 375 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: you know, steps in and becomes his dad. Just such 376 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful message because life is not perfect. You know, 377 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: blind Victor didn't choose to be born or to develop blindness. 378 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: We don't choose to be born with thyroid disorders or 379 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: as a midget, or who knows what other conditions people have, 380 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: or how things happen, or parents split, one dies, one 381 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: gets cancer, But you make the most of. 382 00:27:59,359 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 6: What you have. 383 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: A guy who wrote that is Richard Lewis Spencer. He 384 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: was a tenor Sacks for Otis Redding. Of course had 385 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: to move on and he played backed up Curtis Mayfield 386 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: with the Impressions and then of course the Winstons great 387 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: song Color Him Father by the Winston's Denise, I'm moving 388 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: you to the front of line because you're the first 389 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: girl to call in this week. You're on the Michael 390 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: Berry Show. 391 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 9: Sweetheart, go ahead, Hi, Michael. I'm so excited that I've 392 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 9: listened to your show for years as I used to 393 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 9: drive to work, and thank you for having me on. 394 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 9: My late dad was a surgeon. I was raised in 395 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 9: South Africa and has lived in this beautiful country since 396 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 9: nineteen seventy nine. He was this big, fat, jolly, technically 397 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 9: brilliant surgeon who had the best sense of humor and 398 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 9: treated everybody from the scrub nurses to the guys cleaning 399 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 9: the garage the same. He had no a level of 400 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 9: importance about him and he was adored by everyone. Unfortunately, 401 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 9: he was killed in a head on collision at the 402 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 9: age of sixty, leaving my mom, who was an absolute 403 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 9: darling who've passed away in March this year as a widow. 404 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 9: And he taught me several things. First of all, instilled 405 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 9: the love of medicine, which have followed as a career 406 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 9: and two of my kids have followed as well. He 407 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 9: taught me how to laugh. He taught me a sense 408 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 9: of humor and looking at the world and seeing humor 409 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 9: in sometimes some of the most desperate situations, which has 410 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 9: helped me deal with so many other traumas that have 411 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 9: occurred in our family. And most of all, he taught 412 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 9: me about compa and having respect for other human beings 413 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 9: and respecting anyone who went out and did a job 414 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 9: of work, never mind what it was, because his work 415 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 9: ethic was very strong, which was instilled in all of us. 416 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 9: And I've never ever made a tribute to him, but 417 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 9: I thank you for this opportunity. 418 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting the things we remember about our 419 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: dads that maybe at that time we would not have 420 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: appreciated their prowess for fixing things, how hard they work. 421 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: Reading the emails laid into the night last night and 422 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: early this morning, how many people talked about the multiple 423 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: jobs their fathers worked. It's really interesting we come as adults, 424 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: we come to appreciate our fathers in a different way 425 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: for things that maybe as a child we would not have. 426 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: Where in South Africa are you from, Denise? 427 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 9: I was born and raised in Johannesburg and have lived 428 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 9: in Houston since seventy nine, where my husband is also 429 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 9: South African and I were his three amazing kids who 430 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 9: all went to hisd UT. Two of them are practicing 431 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 9: physicians in Houston at the moment, and the third lives 432 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 9: in New York. Is a systems analyst, and our kids 433 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 9: knew from day one when they went to school much 434 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 9: to try and get the initial of the subject that 435 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 9: we're studying, not to come back with them F for 436 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 9: French and G four history and and H for history. 437 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 9: I mean a G for geography and H for history. 438 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 9: They called me a lion mother or lion parents because 439 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 9: we kind of instilled upon them that they're better come 440 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 9: back with a A well, otherwise I have to do 441 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 9: some explaining. So we laugh about it because we're very 442 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 9: close and appreciated living here and enjoying this wonderful country.