1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 2: How you're doing and this is Shirlott Q Liquor. Well, honey, 4 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: you meet all kinds down here in the hood. I 5 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: was at the check gashing place yesterday, going in there, 6 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: and I was standing behind what I thought was a lady, 7 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: tall lady, and I was staying her down, and she 8 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: had on heavy, heavy perfumes, and her hair looked good, 9 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: but it looked a little too good. 10 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: If you know what I mean. 11 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: And I glanced at it down with her and caught 12 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 2: sight of her muscular. 13 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: Legs, and that gave it away. 14 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,639 Speaker 2: She was a drag queen, and so I started looking 15 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 2: around trying to catch her eye, and she looked at 16 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: me and I said, who is your mama? 17 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 3: Oh? 18 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: She went off on me. She read me for fear. 19 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 2: She's talking about you don't just come up to a 20 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 2: lady and started asking them quote. Oh, she just went 21 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: crazy up and then I told her, I said slow down. 22 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: I said, cause my brother in law he fooited and 23 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: I said, you look just like him, and she said no, 24 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 2: she wasn't no king, except that was her baby dad. 25 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: And then I got confused. I didn't know what she's 26 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 2: talking about them. See, I'm from a day in the 27 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 2: old days wherever a town had one drag queen, but 28 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 2: they didn't have children. But now they with the technologies 29 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: and the test tube and things. You just don't know 30 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: what you're dealing with till you look up under their dress. 31 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: Oh well tell you, mama, if that is your mama? 32 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: Did I ask the how shit did behind it? It's 33 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: little gray queen wiggling and her lips in my face. 34 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: CF Beasley writes, like play, Travis, you said some dumb 35 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: things on the air. I guess because it's hard to 36 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: avoid when you spend so much time talking. You obviously 37 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: don't cook much because you don't mention roasted red or 38 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: yellow bell peppers, which have an intense sweet flavor, especially 39 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: when you're doing with onions and garlic. By the way, 40 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: Reano's are made with peblano peppers, not bell peppers. Bell 41 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: peppers come with fajitas. Then he insults the restaurants that 42 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: I speak for, But I'm not going to repeat that. 43 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: But he's a miserable person. Lisa writes, zar My first 44 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: shop at thirteen was working in an ice cream shop 45 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: in Austin. I worked for a few months until the owner, 46 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: an older man, attempted to kiss me. He was a 47 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: pervert who was later arrested for child molestation. Later went 48 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: on to work at Churches, Fried Chicken, Sonic and Waterburger, 49 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: where we had a late night burglary and the burglar 50 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: made me leave the restaurant with him. He came in 51 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: with a gun wearing a black ski mask, made us 52 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: three employees get on the floor while we had the 53 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: manager get all the cash. He then said, you, chicken 54 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: in the middle, come with me. I was a chick 55 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: in the middle. He took me out the back door 56 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: of the restaurant and then said you can come with me, 57 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: or turn around and don't look back at me, or 58 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: I'll shoot you. I said, I'm staying here. He ran 59 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: off to the woods behind the restaurant. I quickly peeked 60 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: and went back and say, he just told you, you're 61 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: gonna turn to a pillar assault. But what did she do? 62 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: What did she do? It was the scariest experience. It 63 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: was reported the next day in the newspaper and they 64 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: mentioned me by a name, which kind of traumatized me more. 65 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: That's my fast food restaurant worker story. Well, Lisa Federico, 66 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: that's a great story. I'm glad you. Isn't it a 67 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: good story. That's a good story. That's a solid story 68 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: right there. Michael, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Let's 69 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: hear your conspiracy theory. 70 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 4: Oh well, no conspiracy theory. But I just want everybody 71 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 4: to know that they can vote. I just heard the 72 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 4: man that didn't know what to do. And everybody that 73 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 4: goes in and goes up. My wife's been working the 74 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 4: polls for the last three or four years now, and 75 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 4: they can vote. If they take their ballot in with 76 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 4: a that they've gotten to mail the wrong way or whatever, 77 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 4: they can turn it in. They'll be disposed of. And 78 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 4: they can vote. If they have one and they don't 79 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 4: take it in or there's any other problem, they vote 80 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 4: a provisional ballot and they have to go downtown to 81 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 4: make sure everything's right before it's counted. But everybody that 82 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 4: shows up there is going to be allowed to vote. 83 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: Amen. Robert, you're on the Michael Barry shall go ahead. 84 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 5: Like me? 85 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: Yeah you are you? 86 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 4: Robert? Oh? 87 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 6: Yes, I actually don't know exactly what they tell you. 88 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 6: I mean, I've never actually called in and got you 89 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 6: to get me on the air. So thank you for 90 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 6: this opportunity. 91 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: And I really feel your day. I thought this would 92 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: be a good opportunity for you. You were ready to 93 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: step out. You you you've prepared. 94 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 5: To appreciate that. 95 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 6: Yeah, I was actually just hearing you read that story 96 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 6: about the lady and her first jobs and everything, and 97 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 6: it just kind of prompted me that my first job 98 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 6: was at like fourteen, going, I'm fifteen years old. I'm 99 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 6: forty now, but it was McDonald's and I worked at 100 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 6: the McDonald's like it here on West Road and forty 101 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 6: five and it was at the Walmart. And I don't know, 102 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 6: I just that was my first job. And I kind 103 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 6: of appreciate that President Trump went out there and did 104 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 6: his whole fries thing. I mean, we don't eat that, 105 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 6: My family doesn't eat that kind of food, but I 106 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 6: can appreciate him getting out there and you know, doing 107 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 6: that for us and everything. I thought that was pretty cool. 108 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 6: Seeing at this weekend and yesterday I was my first 109 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 6: time ever doing first time voting the first day and 110 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 6: even opened, so I was really I was happy to 111 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 6: be off of work and get out there and vote 112 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 6: and everybody I talked to in the line was this 113 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 6: is the first time I ever did it too, And 114 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 6: they can't believe how long the line was. And it 115 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 6: took me an hour and. 116 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 4: A half to vote. 117 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 6: And when I got out of there, I felt so 118 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 6: encouraged just to wait in line, you know, And it 119 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 6: felt really good to get out there and vote for 120 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 6: the first time. And as far as like, you know, 121 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 6: the first day of election, you know. 122 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: So was that your first time to ever vote at all, 123 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: or just the first time on the first. 124 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 6: Day, first time on the first day, But the first 125 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 6: time I ever voted was when President Trump ran in 126 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 6: twenty sixteen. 127 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: Interesting, what do you do for? 128 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 6: I actually voted for I'm a CSA SO customer service analyst. 129 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 6: I worked from home on a computer and just take 130 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 6: calls and troubleshoot dealership technology website platforms, so for JAT power. 131 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: So you had a rough go of it when they 132 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: crashed those car dealership that car dealership website system. Were 133 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: you was that? Did that hit on your lap? 134 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 6: I was more for like customer service and everything. So, 135 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 6: but I'm pretty sure the agent's out there that you know, 136 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 6: they utilize that for the dealerships and. 137 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 4: Stuff like that. 138 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 6: They got hid and I will say that like I 139 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 6: used to work for Assurance and then I was there 140 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 6: for like fifteen almost fifteen years, and I moved to 141 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 6: JD Power. It was like a this was right after 142 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 6: twenty twenty, right just right after twenty twenty. We didn't 143 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 6: really see the inflation. And it's so ironic that I 144 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 6: was able to move up get a twenty five percent 145 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 6: raise by moving from one company to another, and all 146 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 6: of a sudden, I'm back to equal it And it 147 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 6: sucks because you know, the inflation came up. I started 148 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 6: doing calculations. I was like, even with my twenty five 149 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 6: percent raise, I'm still back in the same both. 150 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: A lot of people are going through what you're going through, 151 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,599 Speaker 1: aren't I was in a mood to mess with you 152 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: because I was in a mood, but wonderful call. Thank 153 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: you for calling me. 154 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 6: Gone. 155 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 7: And today everyone's thinking they could actually live the American Traoch, 156 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 7: the Michael. 157 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: Barry Show, for the show Baby down across the Thames. 158 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: I see. 159 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 6: That mule or Rivers and me. 160 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: When you go back and study the influence of things 161 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 1: you didn't realize have affected your life, and you may 162 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 1: not have known it. 163 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 3: That was. 164 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: Common every day to your grandparents. If you remember the 165 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: song by Alabama Mountain Music, they used the line one 166 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: of these days, I'm going to climb that mountain. And 167 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: their guitar technician, a guy named Bob Martin, does an 168 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 1: impersonation of Walter Brennan in that song. When he does that, 169 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: that was their tribute to the song Old Rivers. Oh 170 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: play me some mountain music. My grandma Grandpa used to play. 171 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:34,719 Speaker 7: Then I'll flowed on down the river, took John hadeaway 172 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 7: away like Tom Sawyer, ride around with old Hugby Bacon 173 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 7: night black gripman winkle. 174 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: The stream man again. Oh play me some mountain music. 175 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 7: My grandma, Grandma Paul used to play. 176 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 5: And I'm blowed on down the. 177 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 8: River took j had a lay swim across the river, 178 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 8: just to proove that I'm a man. Spend the baby 179 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 8: being lazy, just be nature spriend. 180 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 9: I'm a lot tall, he gray bending over skinning cats, 181 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 9: being baseball shirt rocks. 182 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: He's in some mislassle bads played him back home. Come 183 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 3: on music that comes from home says something lots fee there. 184 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 8: Because that's swimmsy cast to start. 185 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 7: For baby. 186 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: Some mopping music. 187 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 7: My grandma Grandpa used to play Then I'll Float on 188 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 7: down the River, two Kids, John hide Away. 189 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 6: Hey, Hey. 190 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: It was meant to be an impersonation of Walker Brennan. 191 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 6: The voice. 192 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 1: He headed odd voice, but his voice actually changed, you will. 193 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: He served in France or World War One, and chemical 194 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: agents were used on his unit, and it actually altered 195 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: his voice, made it a higher pitch and raspy and reedy, 196 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: and that was kind of his distinctive thing. If you 197 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: ever saw the real McCoy's, I think that's the last 198 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 1: thing he was in and that's the thing that first 199 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: exposed me to Walter Brennan. Just an American icon. Chris, 200 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 201 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir, Good morning Michael. Before I even start, 202 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 5: I just wanted to say, a couple of weeks ago, 203 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 5: maybe a month ago, you had somebody call in and 204 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 5: complain about your music and your music trivia. Let me 205 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 5: tell you it is absolutely my favorite part of the show. 206 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 5: It's like a bonus feature. 207 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: Thank you. Can I give you Naddie Martinez cell phone 208 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: numbers so you can. 209 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 5: Tell him that, absolutely you can. 210 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: I'll tell you funny, Yeah, I'll tell you a funny 211 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: story Chris Win years ago. Once you're successful, then whatever 212 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: you do is the right thing to do. But before 213 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: you're successful, then a lot of people who don't know 214 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: how to do what you're doing, whether that's swing a baseball, 215 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: batter through a football, or sing a song or do 216 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: a radio show. They all feel certain that they know 217 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: what you should and shouldn't do. This is not an 218 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: Eddie Martini shot, by the way, and but those people 219 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: have jobs, and their job is never, ever in the 220 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: entrepreneurial way to step out and take a chance, never 221 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: to challenge the norms. They tell you this is what's done, 222 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: and this is what works, and anything else won't work. 223 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: Everything else is done until someone challenges that norm and 224 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: has great success, and then they immediately say that's what 225 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. That right over there. They're never 226 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: on the front end of it. So when we first 227 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: started adding stations, the new stations loved us. But there 228 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: was a while there, a couple of years into it, 229 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: and we were beginning to build an audience, and we 230 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: were having success with each new station, and for the 231 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: first time I didn't have the time to talk to 232 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: the new station a minute. We got them on and 233 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: really kind of you know, prepare them for what the 234 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: show was going to be about. They would just flip 235 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: the switch and our show would be on. And we 236 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: heard from programmers around the country too much music. And 237 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: I remember thinking, well, what's the problem with music? I 238 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: use music to tell stories the way a lot of 239 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: people do. I mean, it might shock you to know, 240 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: but most people listen to music in one way or another, 241 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: on the back porch when they're not listening to talk 242 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: radio at a dance. Music is a powerful thing. It's 243 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: a wonderful It was as if they had been told 244 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: no music, will not have music. And now that's the 245 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: thing that people tell us they love more than anything else. 246 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: Hang right there, Chris, you're up first. 247 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 5: This. 248 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 6: You've got Tom Country, Michael Arry, we drink sweet tea. 249 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: We don't think so, Charlie Rish Silver Fox. That Walter 250 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: Brennan's own Old Rivers. He didn't write it. Several people 251 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: recorded it. Red Skeleton recorded. 252 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 6: It. 253 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: Always gets me and I'm reminded that there was a 254 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: time where most people listen to the same music across 255 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: the spectrum, young people, old people. I grew up listening 256 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: to the same music my parents did, my parents had 257 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: a little eight track and my mom would listen during 258 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: the day while she cleaned to Charlie Pride, so did I, 259 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: Charlie Rich, John Denver Conway, Mickey Gilly. I can remember 260 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: the color of the eight tracks as they would be 261 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: sitting there, and that that horrible kind of old milk 262 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: carton cover, the sticker that they would put on it 263 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: to tell you what was on that set. It would 264 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: it would crinkle and peel off. But the thing about 265 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: the song Old Rivers is it's a song about a 266 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: young man remembering an old man in a mule when 267 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: he was a kid. And I think garbage in, garbage out, 268 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: or healthy in healthy out. And you think about what 269 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: children consume today, what they're exposed to. That shapes so 270 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: much of your thought pattern, shapes how you react to things, 271 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: how you form opinions, your view of the world. And 272 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 1: so few people are having any influence on their child's 273 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 1: development in that way. And then they're surprised when their 274 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: child comes home from college that they themselves are paying 275 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: for their kid to go there, and their kid hates 276 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: them and has taken on some identity that they don't recognize. Well, 277 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: why wouldn't they are you a great influence on their life? 278 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: Because if you're not, somebody else will be. The void 279 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: will be filled. It always has been great cultures, and 280 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: historically every culture raised their children with their values. So 281 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: we shouldn't be surprised that some of the children in 282 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: our society don't share our values because many parents have 283 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: never taken the time to instill them. They don't think 284 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: they should. They've been convinced by some PhD man hater, 285 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: woman hater, self hater that you shouldn't do this, that 286 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: your childish king, that you should beg for their approval, 287 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: that they are the be all and end all. This 288 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: worship is fetishistic worship of children. I see parents in 289 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: public who don't discipline their children. They whine and beg 290 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: their child like their childish cecil roads. And there's some 291 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: lowly tribesmen. It's disgusting. But anyway, Chris, you're on the 292 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 293 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I guess back to my first job. My 294 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 5: first job was in a place called Merv's ice Cream 295 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 5: and it sat right there. The building I think now 296 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 5: is a place called Dodo's Chicken or Doodo's Chicken. It's 297 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 5: on Westerland in Richmond, Westerland and Richmond, which would be 298 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 5: between Guestner and Fondering. It's down there. There's a strip 299 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 5: center at. 300 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: The time, yes, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, exact. 301 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 5: Way back when this would have been This would have 302 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 5: been nineteen eighty sixish. That strip center had an apple 303 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 5: Tree grocery store, had all kinds of stuff and right 304 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 5: there on the corner actually the original South welles Hamburgers 305 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 5: was right next door to that. But so this place 306 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 5: was called Mervs and it was owned by these two 307 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 5: guys that were in their mid to late twenties twenty 308 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 5: six twenty seven years old, and then they had their 309 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,479 Speaker 5: friend helping him run it. And the two of them 310 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 5: had left I guess entry level corporate careers. One of 311 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 5: them actually he was a relative of the Hawfine somehow. 312 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 5: He had been a stockbroker. The other guy, his name 313 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 5: was Doug. He had been an accountant, Arthur Anderson. And 314 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 5: then they had their friend Duncan, And Duncan was kind 315 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 5: of like their friend that was just kind of a 316 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 5: you know, a goof off. He drove a big black 317 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 5: Dodge and he looked like John Belushi, and he was 318 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 5: the guy that ran the place. For him, so anyway, 319 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 5: neils to stay. The only thing they really hired there 320 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 5: were good looking college girls. I showed up the job. 321 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 5: I'm now, you know, surprised that they hired me. I 322 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 5: think I understand why. But I mean I was this, 323 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 5: you know, messy, bleached blonde hair kid on a skateboard. 324 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 5: That was I just wanted a job. I was fourteen 325 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 5: years old. So they hired me, and you know, they 326 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 5: they trained me to do everything there. This was a time, 327 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 5: this was nineteen eighty six, and one of them had 328 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 5: been over to Italy at one point and they liked 329 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 5: cappuccino and espresso, so they had a manual espresso and 330 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 5: cappuccino maker in there. I had to learn how to 331 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 5: make that. But I think really the best takeaways I 332 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 5: had from that job was, you know, number one, I 333 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 5: get some retrospect somebody like that investing in me. That 334 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 5: I thought was great because by all means, you know, 335 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 5: showing up is you know, a tussle haired kid on 336 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 5: a skateboard. I don't think most places would have hired me. 337 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 5: I think in retrospect respect, they probably thought, you know what, 338 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 5: let's keep this kid out of trouble. Even though I 339 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 5: looked like I was probably in more and I was 340 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,719 Speaker 5: actually in the Second thing was, uh, you know, at 341 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 5: that age, I would have to deal with customers. Most 342 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 5: of them were adults. A lot of them were adults 343 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 5: that were bringing their children in there, that were whining 344 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 5: and complaining, and it's it's always neat when you are 345 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 5: a child yourself, but you have to deal with adults 346 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 5: and help them work through the adult problems they're having. 347 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 5: That served me well as a problem solving mechanism. And then, 348 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 5: of course, everybody else that worked there except for these guys, 349 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 5: was female. Now granted they were all older than me. 350 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 5: They were all college age girls, and I don't think 351 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 5: you know one of them was less than a nine. 352 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 5: But it was great because it taught me a lot 353 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 5: about how to interact with women. And you know that 354 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 5: in and of itself was great. 355 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: It's fantastic, call Chris, it was fantastic. They remained scared 356 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: to death of you, and they remained scared to death 357 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: to Michael Berry show. You're not going anywhere even if 358 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: Trump does. You're not by how you doing, big man? 359 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: Still got your ears there in your head. I was 360 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: watching the documentary on smoking the Bandit last Night and 361 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 1: Burt Reynolds requested six transamps be sent for the movie. 362 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: They only sent him three. So they did every stunt, 363 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: they did everything in that movie with three transamps. They 364 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: didn't have the horsepower to jump the bridge. I'm gonna 365 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: get the numbers wrong on this and I want Skip 366 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: Hardly to email me and tell me how wrong I am. 367 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: They put a five twenty nine and they dropped a low. 368 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: I don't know engines. There's certain things you just don't 369 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: mention because a guy out there knows a lot more 370 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: about them than you, and they're gonna tell you, and 371 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: that's engines, guns, airplanes. So anyway, they had they just 372 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: had the three and sorry, they had four trans ams 373 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: and they had two of the Bonneville's Pontiac sent them 374 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 1: to him. Well the movie was so good for sales, 375 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: as you might imagine that he had ten cent to 376 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 1: him and a personalized single addition given to Burt Reynolds 377 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: as a present after the movie. Did you know that 378 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: originally the character played by Burt Reynolds was the person 379 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: cast for that was Jerry Reid. When Burt Reynolds agreed, 380 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: when how needam got Burt Reynolds to agree. Jerry Reid 381 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: became the Snowman and Jackie Gleason's character, the Sheriff, was 382 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: originally going to be who was it? Bo Needham felt 383 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: that the sheriff should have a greater comedic presence, and 384 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: Jackie Gleeson turned out to be just what the doctor ordered. 385 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: Jackie Gleeson. He said that eighty percent of the words 386 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: that came out of Jackie Gleeson's mouth were not in 387 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: the script. Remember when he comes out from getting a 388 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: die blow sandwich and the toilet paper is streaming behind him. 389 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: He did that whole thing on his own first time 390 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: on the fly. The love interest was not supposed to 391 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: be Sally Field. It was meant to be some beauty queen. 392 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: I forget who it was. But Burt Reynolds called Sally 393 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: Field and wanted her to do it. And she had 394 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: been and Sybil, and she felt that she was being 395 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: typecast as this plain, homely woman. She wanted more of 396 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: a sexual role. She's not a naturally striking you know, 397 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: Hollywood damsel. 398 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 6: So it worked. 399 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: They didn't have a budget for animals. You remember, the 400 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: Snowman had his dog. It was with him the whole time, 401 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: so they put the word out on the radio in 402 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: some town. I guess it was in Hollywood that that 403 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: Burt Reynolds was going to judge a contest for the 404 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: best trained dog, and that basset hound is what won. 405 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: They spent no money on it. It was apparently Alfred 406 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: Hitchcock's favorite movie. When he died. Every Wednesday night he was, 407 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: you know, his favorite movie was changed. But every Wednesday 408 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: night he would screen movie in his house and have 409 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: people come over. And the last movie he screened was 410 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: one of his favorites, which was Smoking the Bandit, which 411 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: he watched quite often. Jerry Reid was commissioned with writing 412 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: east Bound and Down, writing a song, the theme song 413 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: for the movie. And he was a hard partier and 414 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: kind of a Kenny Stabler kind of guy. Kind of 415 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: a Kenny Stabler story because he he heads home for 416 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: the day and he's supposed to lock himself in and 417 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: figure out this song and have it ready in the morning, 418 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: and he goes out partying and while he's out there, 419 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: comes up with it, comes in the next morning and 420 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: sings it for how Needham and it do not change 421 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: a word. It is perfect. It was Jackie Gleeson's idea 422 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: to have his sidekick remember his son, because he said, 423 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: I can't just say these lines to again mutter these lines, 424 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: so he needed a foil and his son ended up. 425 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 1: Ain't that and the sun Oh I can't remember his name. 426 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: That soun was was a sex symbol. He'd been Tarzan. 427 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: He was a college football player. He was a stud. 428 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: He played. You know, I think that kind of made 429 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: that character work, that he was. You know, he's a 430 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: good looking guy. He's a big, strapping guy who's just 431 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 1: dumb as a box of rocks, a Hunter Biden kind 432 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,959 Speaker 1: of guy. Speaking of which, you think people still buy 433 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: a Hunter Biden's art. Remember when they told us, yeah, 434 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: it's very natural people will pay a million dollars for 435 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's fingerpainting. He's really really talented. Remember they they 436 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,400 Speaker 1: did that. We just pretend that didn't happen.