1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 2: Heavy day or happy day when. 4 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 3: Those war, when he war, when those war. 5 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 2: See the way he loves. A happy day or happy day. 6 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 3: Or happy day when those walls, pretty boy, when those. 7 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 4: War see the way he loves. That's a happy day, 8 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 4: a happy day or a happy day. Winter of war, Oh, 9 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 4: whendy war. 10 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: Winter of war three years away. 11 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 5: He gave me a luck. 12 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 2: Happy day. 13 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 6: By day. 14 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 2: Happy what have you de? 15 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 6: Oh happy day? Oh happy day. 16 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 3: When those walls, when it was, when those walls. 17 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 6: Was the way he needed to. 18 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 2: The habit. 19 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 7: Oh good god, Oh yes, it's Friday, open line Friday. 20 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 6: What did you not get to say that's been on 21 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 6: your mind? Seven one three nine one thousand, seven one 22 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 6: three nine nine nine one thousand. How inflation is affecting 23 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 6: your business? Something you saw in the campaign? You hope 24 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 6: others saw something you'd like to see done to win 25 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 6: this election? Whatever it is. Seven one three nine nine 26 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 6: nine one thousand. 27 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 8: You can email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. 28 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 6: And now to get us started, as we always do. 29 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 8: Curtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land 30 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 8: chatakoni nakanishi yo wee can. 31 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 9: Meet away with us. 32 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 8: When you first walked into that part, when you first 33 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 8: walked into Astroworld and you got through the gates, man, 34 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 8: there is no drug that could replace that you were. 35 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 6: I mean, the world is yours, like life could not 36 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 6: be an even it's called no tax on tips, No tax, 37 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 6: no tax on tip. Trump took the truth social, he said. 38 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, whose honeymoon period is ending, just copied my 39 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: no tax on tips policy. 40 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 6: The difference is she won't do it. 41 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 8: Very woman, who arguably had the most important vote on 42 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 8: taxing tips in American history, is now promising. 43 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 6: Algharyl's darn taxes on tip that you imposed. 44 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 8: A school worker has been jailed for stealing one point 45 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 8: five million dollars worth of chicken wings. Sixty eight year 46 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 8: old very Little was charged with theft and operating a 47 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 8: criminal enterprise. 48 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 6: She was the food service to director for the district. 49 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 8: He ordered more than eleven thousand cases of chicken wings 50 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 8: from the school district's food provider. Defensive in Chris Jones, 51 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 8: he says he will pay for the wings to get 52 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 8: her out of jail. 53 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 6: Not quite that easy, sir, what the garbage man can o. 54 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 6: They're filling the trash dumpster out Friday. He's fascinating to 55 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 6: watch because, yeah, I like two dudes hanging off the back. 56 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 8: They're never Hispanic, they're never white, they're never Asian, they're 57 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 8: never Indian. 58 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 6: Seekh always two black dudes. Always what it is, Oh 59 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 6: the gardens. 60 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 9: I'll remember you. 61 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 3: Lo Chritas. 62 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 9: Gave us song. 63 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 6: Cause you go. 64 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 9: Love also love. 65 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 3: Cleaning the. 66 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 6: Turing here it was on this day, forty seven years 67 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 6: ago the king was taking price. 68 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 9: I'll remember two yo. 69 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 6: You still get choked up thinking about it. 70 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 9: For a month. 71 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 7: That was like. 72 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 10: Like I made Choco and freedom, I'm married. 73 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 6: I'm a chocolate Greek freak. 74 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 9: How low the river's fall to the sea. 75 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 6: To the sea. 76 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 9: To the ovenal. 77 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 8: Trailers aren't called trailers, rivers called manufactured homes now. 78 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 6: But when I was growing up, you walk into the 79 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 6: front door of a trailer, they would build a little. 80 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 8: Porch on the front of it, or they may just 81 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 8: have one of those blocks that was just three concrete steps. 82 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 6: But my grandmother they had a little porch. 83 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 8: On the front, just plywood porch with screen, and you'd 84 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,599 Speaker 8: walked in and when you walked in, you turned to 85 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 8: the left, you could see all the way down. 86 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 6: Turned to the right, you see all the way down. 87 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 6: My aunt Gail, who I've told you. 88 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 8: Severe severely mentally and physically retarded, who I was very 89 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 8: very close to because she and I shared the same passion, 90 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 8: which was seventies country music, and she loved still does Elvis. 91 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 8: And when you would turn down the when you would 92 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 8: turn to the right and look, her room was down 93 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 8: at the end because she couldn't live on her own. 94 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 8: Her room was down the end, and the bathroom to 95 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 8: her room was the shared bathroom for the whole trailer. 96 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 8: That was kind of like how you'd have a half 97 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 8: bath today. So she could walk in from her room, 98 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 8: or you could walk down the hallway and go in, 99 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 8: and her room could be closed, so that door stayed 100 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 8: closed and she just entered from her bathroom. All that 101 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 8: to say that that door, when you turned to the right, 102 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 8: you would see that closed door, and there was a 103 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 8: velvet Elvis from Florida ceiling on it. And when I 104 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 8: think of Elvis, that is the visage I always think of, 105 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 8: was Elvis. 106 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 6: On that wall. 107 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 8: When you would enter my grandmother's trailer. It's very very 108 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 8: happy memory for me. So yesterday I had a friend over. 109 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 8: I'm not authorized to tell their stories, so I'm going 110 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 8: to just leave it as a friend. And his mother 111 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 8: in lawn just passed ten days ago, a week ago Friday. 112 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 8: I guess it was no a wee could go so 113 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 8: sorry a week ago today, and he was telling me 114 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 8: about how peaceful it was because his wife it was 115 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 8: her mother and they're in the room with her when 116 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 8: she literally takes her last breath. And that's a very, 117 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 8: very difficult thing to go through, but it's also, I think, 118 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 8: long term, a part of the healing that you got 119 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,719 Speaker 8: to be there when they take their last breath. And 120 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 8: I am listening to this story and I'm feeling for 121 00:11:52,640 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 8: his wife terribly, and he's describing the scene and he said, 122 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 8: and you know we had with Elvis playing, and that 123 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 8: was the moment I just thought, that's how we should 124 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 8: go out, surrounded by our adult children who love us, 125 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 8: holding our hands, telling us what a good mother or 126 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 8: father we were, and. 127 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 6: Elvis playing, Oh my goodness. 128 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 8: Of course it was later, Ellis, we're not playing fifties 129 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 8: sound dog, Yes, but you know what, You're right, Ramona, 130 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 8: I shouldn't snap at you. I'm very emotional. I shouldn't 131 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 8: snap at you. You are right, it should be so. 132 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 8: My private investigator slash good friend Paul Baker. Every year 133 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 8: I asked him to write up a very short rite 134 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 8: up on a different aspect of Elvis. 135 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 6: And I asked him to do that again this year, 136 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 6: and I will read that to you now. 137 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 8: Nineteen sixty eight represented a career directional change for Elvis. 138 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 6: Don't call it a comeback. He'd been here for years. 139 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 8: He was nearing the end of the movie era and 140 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 8: itching to perform live in front of an audience again. 141 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 8: Enter the nineteen sixty eight singer Sewing Machine Christmas television 142 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 8: special that aired December third, nineteen sixty eight. The success 143 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 8: of that television show opened the door for live concert performances. 144 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 8: The International Hotel in Las Vegas was recently built, featuring 145 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 8: a beautiful concert venue within the hotel that seats two 146 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 8: thousand people. Connections were made offers, tender agreements were signed. 147 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 6: In July sixty nine. 148 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 8: A revigorated, reinvented Elvis Presley, the king of rock from 149 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 8: the nineteen fifties, became a genuine mature superstar. 150 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 6: Paul a documentary motion picture was. 151 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 8: Filmed, offering a look behind the scenes as Elvis prepared 152 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,839 Speaker 8: for the return to live performances called Elvis That's the 153 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 8: Way It Is the success of the Elvis Show at 154 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 8: the International Hotel led to another live concert opportunity, this 155 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 8: time down in Houston at the Astronaut for the Houston 156 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 8: Livestock Show in Rodeo, appearing for shows from February seventh 157 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 8: sorry February twenty seventh through March first, nineteen seventy. Other 158 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 8: entertainers that year Charlie Pride, Bobby Goldsborough, Buck Owens, Roy Clark. 159 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 8: September ninth through the fourteenth was Elvis's first real tour 160 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 8: in the seventies, starting in Phoenix, Saint Louis, Detroit, Miami, Tampa, 161 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 8: and finishing up in Mobile, Alabama. As the nineteen seventies 162 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 8: moved on, Colonel Tom Parker worked the phones and lined 163 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 8: up tours for the Elvis Show, generally fifteen cities in 164 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 8: fifteen days. The machinery that was the Elvis Presley Tour 165 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 8: had many moving pieces and became almost automatic in how 166 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 8: it operated with it with the advanced team traveling ahead 167 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 8: of Elvis to plan for his security at the hotels, 168 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 8: routes for his motorcade to the venue, and then the 169 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 8: route to the airport to blast off and do it 170 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 8: all again the next city. Elvis was protected better than 171 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 8: the President of the United States. The thirst for Elvis 172 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 8: concerts continued to explode throughout the seventies. Every show he 173 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 8: played was a complete sellout. In seventy two, another documentary 174 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 8: was filmed, Elvis on Tour, which is arguably the best 175 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 8: view into what it was like to be on tour 176 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 8: with Elvis, everything from the sound systems, the instruments, the costumes, 177 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 8: the backup singers, even the sodas and popcorns being sold 178 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 8: at the shows. The costumes he wore on stage started 179 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 8: as an idea Elvis had as something he could move in, 180 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 8: sorry that he could move in, using the basic design 181 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 8: of a karate ghee. As time went on, the jumpsuits 182 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 8: became more elaborate in their decorations, some weighing as much 183 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 8: as sixty pounds. The most iconic suit is the American 184 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 8: Eagle suit he wore in seventy three, the first of 185 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 8: its kind worldwide satellite broadcast seen by over one billion people. 186 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 8: The grind of touring began to wear on Elvis Aaron 187 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 8: Presley the Man. He and Priscilla divorced in seventy three. 188 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 8: He began to use prescription drugs to get up for 189 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 8: a show that another prescription drug to sleep once he 190 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 8: was on the plane heading to the next city. When 191 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 8: he was not on tour, he was at Graceland, his 192 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 8: mansion in Memphis. 193 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 6: His refuge. 194 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 8: Reports are he would stay in his suite for a 195 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 8: week at a time, Meals would be taken upstairs. The 196 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 8: occasional family member or close friend would be called up 197 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 8: to his room just to talk, and then it would be. 198 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 6: Time to do it all over again. 199 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 8: The seventies saw Elvis reach a level of stardom that 200 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 8: no one had ever seen before or since. Elvis went 201 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 8: on tour for the last time in the late spring 202 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 8: early summer of seventy seven, CBS filmed a series of 203 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 8: those shows for a television special to air in the 204 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 8: fall of that year. As the familiar haunting sound of 205 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 8: the two thousand and one A Space Odyssey theme began. 206 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 6: Which by the way, is our opening song. 207 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 8: The anticipation of seeing Elvis hit the stage with the 208 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 8: full orchestra playing his opening rift a bloated out of shape, 209 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 8: seemingly a bit ashamed of his condition, Elvis would appear 210 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 8: he looked ghastly, having a difficulty moving, difficulty speaking, But. 211 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 6: Oh mys and his voice never let him or us down. 212 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 8: A mayor, six weeks after his last concert, he left 213 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 8: this world at only forty two. 214 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 6: Not know much about it. Art a great artists, little tetles. 215 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 8: You know anything about Rembrandt? You know why he didn't 216 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 8: have any money. It's an interesting story. Like most artists 217 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 8: of his period, he was baroque. Rocket is seventeen. Unlike 218 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 8: many young people his age, has no interest in driving. 219 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 8: So he's finally decided, Okay, I'll drive, So we're gonna 220 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 8: get him a car. We've been out looking at cars. 221 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 8: That's that's an interesting because we didn't know the car market. 222 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 8: I've my last I have for twenty five years, drove 223 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 8: a Chevy Tahoe. I buy them from Classic Chevy sugar Land. 224 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 8: I call, I tell them what I want. They tell 225 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 8: me how much it is. I bring a check, sign 226 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 8: the documents. I drive away. We're out of the car business, 227 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 8: but it's interesting to go out and look at cars. 228 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,719 Speaker 8: Do you know that there is a car that has 229 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 8: a belly button an audi one. 230 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 6: You're on the Michael Berry Show. What say you've on? 231 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 10: Hey Mike, Uh yeah, I went over to Grangeres the 232 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 10: other day, real friendly people. I mentioned your name, but anyway, 233 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 10: I was calling. 234 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 6: Did you buy anything? 235 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 10: Well, I went to the ports department and uh, you know, 236 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 10: I was just getting something. But you know, I live 237 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 10: in Beaumont, so I just made a little short drive 238 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 10: over there to you know, to get something. Uh, and 239 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 10: you know they helped me out. They were real friendly. 240 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 10: Before your program, I did call before. I told you 241 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 10: I was a mailman in Orange and uh before then 242 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 10: I told you that I called act and like I 243 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 10: was a ninety two year old man, and I decided 244 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 10: to hang up because I said, well I'm not going 245 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 10: to do that. 246 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 6: You know, did I tell you the last time you 247 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 6: called that you sound like Alan Tusson? No, you did not, Ramon. 248 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 8: Pull up Alan Tusson Southern Nights, the fourteen minute edition. 249 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 8: What Vaughn, You sound like Alan Tucson telling the story 250 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 8: about how he lived. 251 00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 6: I never heard that person. 252 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 8: Oh my, go goodness, this is a very very high 253 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 8: honor I'm giving you. Alan Tucson. 254 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 6: You got it. 255 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 8: Okay, listen, listen listen. Is that the fourteen minute version? 256 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you got you gotta pull the fourteen because 257 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 8: he tells the story about going out to see his 258 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 8: cousins in the country and floy you went to the 259 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 8: further they were. Probably most people know this. As Clint 260 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 8: camelsmon into a song about. 261 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 6: He tells you what the song's about. 262 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 9: So have you you gotta heard? 263 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 6: Talk fast forward a little bit. 264 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 5: This piece is about growing up, being born in New 265 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 5: Orleans and taking rides out in the country on some 266 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 5: weekends with my father. He pack us up in the 267 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 5: car and take us for a ride out to visit 268 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,479 Speaker 5: the old falk in the country who never would come 269 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 5: to the city. They wanted nothing to do with the 270 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 5: city except us, so we came to them. My father 271 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 5: thought we had to go to know where we came from, 272 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 5: to know where we were gone. We didn't care about 273 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 5: this philosopher, but we'd love to ride. But we'd take 274 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 5: that ride. And as we'd ride out of town, the 275 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 5: further we get out of town, the further and further 276 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 5: the houses were apart. 277 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 6: After a while, they were very far apart. 278 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 5: I mean in a long distance, like a shotgun apart. 279 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 6: You know, maybe that was the point. You know, that's you, 280 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 6: Vonne sound. He sounds a whole lot better than that. Dude. 281 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 8: Well he's got he's playing the piano underneath it. You know, 282 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 8: von Do you play the piano? 283 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 6: No? 284 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 10: But I'm left handed. And music was always something that 285 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 10: you know, I desired. I wanted to play the drums, 286 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 10: but uh wellma never bought a drum set for me. 287 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 6: Well we can fix that now. But it's hard to 288 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 6: play the drugs. No, you really need to play them. 289 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 10: Yeah, but I you know, it's like, well, you know, 290 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 10: back in high school and elementary, no drums. I used 291 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 10: to beat on the desk all the time, you know, 292 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 10: and always was real good, you know at that, always 293 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 10: on time with. 294 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 6: It and everything. Where'd you go to high school? Yeah? 295 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 6: I went to Hebert Hebert Hebert h Did I tell 296 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 6: you that? I was at the last Hebert ballgame. My 297 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 6: grandfather drove the bus for Hebert. Oh really the Hebert 298 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 6: huh uh huh. 299 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 8: That went back to the original segregated days and they 300 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 8: So this would have been I was young, I mean this, 301 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 8: but it must have been mid seventies maybe, but yeah, 302 00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 8: my grandfather. 303 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I was in I was at hebe at 304 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 6: that time? Were you there? My uncle drove the bus also, 305 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 6: who did No? I graduated. 306 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 10: I graduated in nineteen seventy seven. 307 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 6: Man, this would have been about that time. It was 308 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 6: maybe it was seventy eight, Yeah, right about that time. 309 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 10: Huh, you're right, I just wasn't familiar with Yeah, yeah, 310 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 10: it was a male man for uh. Well, you know, 311 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 10: I worked in Port Author as a male man for 312 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 10: about twenty nine years, and then I transferred to Orange 313 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 10: because they were getting a little crazy at in Port 314 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 10: Author and uh I stayed in Orange maybe. 315 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 6: About two years. I knew a few of the fellas 316 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 6: from Orangefield and Orange Texas? Did you know from Orangefield? 317 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 10: I think Clay Mott. Well, I've been and I mentioned 318 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 10: that first name was Mott's and Kirby's. 319 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 6: Hold on say or Marco Berry brings your bias. 320 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 8: So the story goes that Glenn Campbell heard that song, 321 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 8: and Glenn Campbell had grown up on a farm in 322 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 8: a small town in Arkansas, and he identified with that song. 323 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 8: But when they recorded it, they needed it. They felt 324 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 8: that the industry, the label thought it needed to be 325 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 8: more upbeat, fast paced, and they made it seem more 326 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 8: big city La bright Lights Vegas, New York, because that's 327 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 8: where the bigger audiences were. So that's probably why you 328 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 8: thought of it as meaning that as opposed to this 329 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 8: very slow, beautiful storytelling of growing up out in the 330 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 8: country as a poor black kid, not knowing the report 331 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 8: in the country, in the backwoods of Jentan. 332 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 6: Glenn Campbell took that song at number one. It's a 333 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 6: huge hit print at nineteen. 334 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 8: Seventy seven, which, as it turns out, was the year 335 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 8: that Vaughn graduated from All Black formerly segregated He was 336 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 8: high school from Bromont, Gon. 337 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 6: Hang on, we'll get to you in just a moment. 338 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 2: He's Jils has good going, thank you, and good guys.