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Speaker 1: What it's that time, time, time, luck and load. The

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Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show is on the air. Good morning Michael Berry,

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Speaker 1: but no you cannot use my bathroom. Hello, good ever, Bunny.

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Speaker 1: This is mile Old Hamilton Astros win again and a

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Speaker 1: good morning to the TZAR.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Michael Berry. It's seton Connery. But you had

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Speaker 2: a little radio show. Pity, I wash it and to

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Speaker 2: find it. Good morning, Michael Berry. I'm all jaked up

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Speaker 2: on Mountain Dew. This is the Thornton Finch wishing you

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Speaker 2: a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry, God morning, Michael Berry.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Zar, Good morning, Michael,

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Speaker 2: Zay Sailor. Good morning at Asina, Good morning, Michael. Hello,

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Speaker 2: Hello are you there? Good morn you Michael Bear. How

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Speaker 2: you learned that? I read it tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Mone Good morning, Texas, listen to this. Good morning Texas

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Speaker 3: in your car. Good morning, Texas is.

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Speaker 2: On his day. We're happy to be here to talk

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Speaker 2: about everything. Good morning, We're not wearing pants.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Texes, Good morning Texas.

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Speaker 2: Good bring Texas.

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Wake God. Let's be goddamn all right. I need something.

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Speaker 2: We got to crowdsource something here. Good morning, We got

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Speaker 2: a crowdsource something. I don't know the answer to this,

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Speaker 2: but if you can email me through the website Michael

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Speaker 2: Berryshow dot com, somebody out there will know this. Apparently

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Speaker 2: it's illegal to kill a seagull. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: that's a federal statute, so that would be across I

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Speaker 2: was talking to a friend of mine who said he

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Speaker 2: believes it's illegal to kill seagulls. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: that's in the state of Texas everywhere. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking is that true. But the question is my

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Speaker 2: friend believes he heard somewhere that if you kill a seagull,

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Speaker 2: all the other seagulls will leave and not come back.

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Speaker 2: That's like a bad sign, bad juju. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: that's their self preservation. I don't know if that is true.

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Speaker 2: So somebody out there will know, will has seagull knowledge,

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Speaker 2: surprising seagull knowledge, And if you'll email me and I

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Speaker 2: will read that on the air, it would. It was

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Speaker 2: a long discussion about seagulls and why it came up,

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Speaker 2: But the reason was that my friend had read that

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Speaker 2: in the olden days, if you didn't want the seagulls

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Speaker 2: leave it out there where the others could see, and

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Speaker 2: Don't know interested to know you ever eat seagull ramon? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: that's your story, and you're sticking to it. You're waiting

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Speaker 2: you don't want to anyway. The meat's not any good.

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Speaker 2: Like the guy that asked, you're really going to eat

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Speaker 2: that endangered species? He said, yeah, what does it taste like?

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Speaker 2: All across between a whooping crane and the California condor,

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Speaker 2: those are other extinct species. That joke required the listener

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Speaker 2: We got rain coming today. For those of you who

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Speaker 2: the little, the very natural flip of your fingers as

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Speaker 2: I didn't wrap that discussion up yesterday. There was no

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Speaker 2: point to my pickleball discussion of the Selarium pickleball place

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Speaker 2: I don't care what other activities you have there, you

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Speaker 2: Like poor Paul Jacob over at Jacob's Barbecue, He's got

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Speaker 2: one year it's axe throwing. Remember ax throwing was a

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Speaker 2: But all of those are reasons. That's all I was

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Speaker 1: Pretty solliber glass hood with air grabbing scoops.

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Speaker 2: With the Michael Berry fucking hood Benssbill escaped from the

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Speaker 2: The guy told me the other day that I have

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Speaker 2: Was he a Vietnam veteran? Mike, my apologies. I kept

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's ever been a proper apology to

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Speaker 2: Well, then the start with Mike. Mike, you're on Michael

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Speaker 6: Are you Mike Barnes? I didn't call you. I didn't

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Speaker 6: I'm uh okay anyway, why come on, man, I'm seventy

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Speaker 2: In case. Hey, hey, Mike, Mike, hold on a second, Mike,

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Speaker 2: We'll come back to Mike in just a moment. Bill,

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Speaker 6: Hey, Michael.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm seventy nine years old, and I avoided the

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Speaker 5: You know, War's just not you know, popping a gun

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Speaker 2: That's interesting. You know, I suspect you are in the

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Speaker 2: What about war do you feel like you were good.

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Speaker 5: At You know, I could anticipate needs, so I was

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Speaker 5: It's addictive, you know, It's like that you crave it.

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Speaker 2: Very interesting, Bill, thank you for the call. Very interesting.

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Speaker 2: That's a rare perspective, or rare that someone would hear that.

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Speaker 2: Who said I think I was good at war? Did

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Speaker 2: to myself, I'm going about my day and you going

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Speaker 2: about your day. Most of us have a similar set

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Speaker 2: of circumstances, fears, assets. You know, one guy can do

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Speaker 2: you got these outliers, right, you got these people like

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Speaker 2: Bill and thank God for it. Can you imagine? You know,

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Speaker 2: you see things that are done, you know, bomb texts,

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Speaker 2: how do you learn to do that? You don't ever

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Speaker 2: get to mess up. You can't mess up even one time,

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Speaker 2: So you know, you think about okay, you understand that

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Speaker 2: you never get to learn from your mistake. And you

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Speaker 2: disable ninety nine successfully in the hundredth one and they're

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Speaker 2: having a funeral for you. Imagine the mindset to stay calm,

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Speaker 2: like that guys that walk on a high wire. You

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Speaker 2: know that guy that did it in New York that

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Speaker 2: met a movie on him man on wire, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: They remind you of yourself. What exactly do you have

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Speaker 2: that be cool in the pocket. See the problem is,

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Speaker 2: I think the moment you say to yourself, be cool

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Speaker 2: my highlights like things that I go, you're a bad MF.

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Speaker 2: I managed to stop biting my fingernails. That's pretty much

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Speaker 2: where I am, you know what I mean. At some

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Speaker 2: my fingernail. Now I still chew the cuticles. That's kind

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Speaker 2: of while you know you did that. I lost seventy pounds.

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Speaker 2: Woo hoo. These people face death and deliver death daily.

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Speaker 2: I mean, man, that's a We will get back to

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Speaker 2: our seagull discussion in a moment. I got a lot

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Speaker 2: of comments on that that you're gonna want to know

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Speaker 2: about the Migratory Bird Treaty of nineteen eighteen. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you know this, ramon, you know why seagulls

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Speaker 2: fly over the sea, because otherwise they'd be bagels. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be a bills. Did we get

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Speaker 2: Mike on a good line?

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Speaker 6: Mike, Hey, thank you sir for the other for the

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Speaker 6: next try.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, we got this joining, but go ahead, mom, okay.

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Speaker 6: All right. Anyway, My story is I was drafted in

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Speaker 6: seventy served in seventy one, returned early seventy two. But

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Speaker 6: it was a non typical return story. My company, a

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Speaker 6: of one hundred fourth first Airborn was brought in and

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Speaker 6: we were known as the Sons of San Mateo. That

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Speaker 6: was in California, of course, and they gave us a parade,

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Speaker 6: treated us to the town for three days. I spent

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Speaker 6: the night at the home of a former mayor of

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Speaker 6: San Mateo. Everything was great. So this return formed my

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Speaker 6: perspective on things differently, maybe than others. So that's pretty

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Speaker 6: much a story.

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Speaker 2: That's a great story. I'm glad you shared it. Yeah, wow,

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Speaker 2: I am thank you for calling, sir,