1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: Varry Show is on the air. Well, it's our day 3 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: of thanks So if ever you should let this wash over. 4 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 2: Use today, Happy D, happy D. 5 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 3: When does war? When he war? 6 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 4: When do wardres away? 7 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: Love? 8 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 4: Happy day or happy d happy. 9 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 5: Or happy Dad? 10 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: When Jo's warm? 11 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 4: A witty war, when Jo's ward away? 12 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 6: He loved. 13 00:01:35,720 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 5: The habit day, happy day? Or a happy day? 14 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: Winter? Those wars, oh whitty war winter, those wars of. 15 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 5: Three away. 16 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 6: You need to luck. 17 00:02:37,840 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 4: Happy day, happy de, happy day, Oh happy. 18 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 3: When Jesus war wait it w was when je thos 19 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: war three years away? He needed to look. 20 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 4: The habbit. 21 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 3: Oh long, good God. 22 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: Lo Well. Every Friday before Thanksgiving for the last ten 23 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: years or so, we do our Thanksgiving special. The lines 24 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: are open and you can call about anything you want, 25 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: with preference for that for which you are thankful. Maybe 26 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: you beat cancer, maybe you found the love of your life. 27 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: Maybe your business has flourished. Whatever that may be, it's 28 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: just the time to tell it. Seven one three nine 29 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. 30 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: Man now to get us started as we always do. 31 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: Courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land, 32 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: Chattconi Knakaichi your Weekno, So here's the white people ad 33 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: over here, and then here's the script for the black people. 34 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 4: Burger King. 35 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: Maybe you got some big old hot hips on your as. 36 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: Could I give me a whappa back there? 37 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 4: Why? 38 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 6: Sure, honey, you could have a wop. 39 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: Well that's not all I. 40 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 7: Want a major change for the home of the Houston Astros. 41 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 4: For twenty two years, this has been minime Park. But 42 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 4: soon that'll change. 43 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 6: Greetings from Diking Park, dik In Park. 44 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: Dike In Park. With dike In the air conditioning manufacturer 45 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: getting the naming rights, it will be called the Ice Bots. 46 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 8: Somo president Like Donald Trump's cabinet pics are on Capitol 47 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 8: Hill today, trying to show up support among Senators for confirmation. 48 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: One, already drawing criticism from Senate Republicans Matt Gates for 49 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: Trump's pick for attorney general. Just getting word that Matt 50 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: Gates has taken himselves out of the running to be 51 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's attorney general. 52 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 7: In order to. 53 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: Reform our government, you're gonna have to have some people 54 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: who are going to go in there who were Devil 55 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: may Care. They're not just fearless they're actually reckless. Are 56 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: the type of people who feed off of this intense 57 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: hatred that they engender and don't care who likes somebody. 58 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: Our Adoption Special Jeff ere upsar. 59 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 9: Yeah, we adopted our two sons from Russia. 60 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 10: We just celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of them being here. 61 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 11: What a blessing they are. 62 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 3: Laura, you're on the. 63 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart. 64 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 12: I'm an adopt the back from the sixties. About thirty 65 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 12: years ago did search for my birth parents. It doesn't 66 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 12: mean anything about how much you love your parents if 67 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 12: you do decide to search for your roots and your identity. 68 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: Adoption for me is the idea that a child deserves love. 69 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: If the traditional relationships are not in place, for whatever reason, 70 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: then someone else steps in. 71 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 6: Body unbody, all right. 72 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: Phone lines were open seven one three, one thousand. You 73 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, 74 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: Michael Berryshow dot com, or directly Michael at Michael Berryshow 75 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 1: dot com. It is the Thanksgiving Special. It doesn't just 76 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: mean today that we Turkey. That means the time at 77 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: which we are grateful and count out of the. 78 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 9: Blessings to both sessions of your show every day, Michael, Mary, 79 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 9: get the most pleasant boy. 80 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 11: Sixteen alarm clock won't stop going. 81 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: I'll stumble through the same, try to think. 82 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 3: Fill the coffee pot, m. 83 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 11: Coffee, Get the sleepy heads out of bed, get them fed, 84 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 11: get them dressed, to ready up, get your stuff in 85 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 11: the truck, blow them both to kiss when you drop 86 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 11: them off. 87 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 3: By kids. 88 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 6: It feels like a month of Monday since I had 89 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 6: a break. 90 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 11: Sometimes I tell myself when I had a all I 91 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 11: could take. 92 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 6: Fridays come in, just slip back. It's gonna come back 93 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 6: and around. Gotta keep on running. 94 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 8: Can't let trouble me the ground out, ready to. 95 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 4: Feel that feeling? 96 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 6: Not then? 97 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 3: What's the chants? 98 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 7: Back? 99 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 8: Singing? 100 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 11: Damn a torpedos, cool little titles, Friday'sier Games, traffic gives 101 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 11: a mess through the stress and my brain want to 102 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 11: flip the moth, But I do my. 103 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: Best to free. 104 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: Melanie. You're on the Michael Berry Show Thanksgiving Special Go ahead, sweetheart? 105 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 7: Sure who supports his family not only immediate but also 106 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 7: extended family? 107 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: Who is this? I'm sorry that Mike wasn't on. 108 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 7: This is Melanie? 109 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: No, no, But who is the person you're talking about? 110 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 12: Oh? 111 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 7: My husband. I am very thankful for my husband, Neil Biser. 112 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 7: He supports his immediate family and he supports his extended 113 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 7: family with a small family business. And it doesn't get 114 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 7: said enough. 115 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: Funny that you would be the first call of the day. 116 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: I was talking to an old friend. I hadn't talked 117 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: to it in quite some time this morning on my 118 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: drive in, and he was talking about a friend whose 119 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 1: wife just gives him nine kinds of hell and he 120 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: takes care of her and her children and her extended family, 121 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: and she just rides his ass, saying, you know, you 122 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: don't do enough. You don't do enough for us. And 123 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: I can't tell you all the things he does for them. 124 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: It might give away who that was, but it is 125 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: such a Having a grateful spirit puts such good energy 126 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: in the world. It's such a positive thing. Whether someone 127 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: is grateful for what they have and content with what 128 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: they have. Happy, we use the word is very rarely 129 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: related to how much they have. It's related to the 130 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: spirit they bring to the measure. Because there are people 131 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 1: who are very content, joyous with their eight hundred square 132 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: foot house in little Toyota Corolla and you know, tiny 133 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: little lot, and then they're and they're happy. And then 134 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: there are people who they've got the biggest house in 135 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: the private planes and travel all over and if they 136 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: could just get this one more thing, they would be happy. Leslie, 137 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, Leslie. 138 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: Leslie might be in a bad saleszone. Let's go to Alex. Alex, 139 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. 140 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 13: Good morning, Michael. I am so thankful for my daughter. 141 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 13: Her name's Jacqueline. She's in her second year at the 142 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 13: United States Air Force Academy, and she is happy and thriving. 143 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: And Colorado Springs, Yes, sir, we are on in Colorado Springs. 144 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: In fact that the station owner is a former Air 145 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: Force is former top air Force. Do you go up there? 146 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 9: Yes? 147 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 13: Or very often? 148 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: It's a nice town. 149 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 13: I love it, you know down Manitou Springs is real nice. 150 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,599 Speaker 13: We like everything around it. 151 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 1: Do you know what former baseball star with a great 152 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: mustache lives in Colorado Springs? 153 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 13: Rich you're going to say mustache? 154 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: Oh sorry, who are you gonna say? Rodley fingers? 155 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 13: Yes, I was gonna go as singers if we were 156 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 13: thinking muscle. 157 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a great mustache too. Pete Vukovich had 158 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,599 Speaker 1: a hell of a mustache as well. Remember Vukovich with 159 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: the Brewers. 160 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 13: Yes, sir, that was absolutely Phil Garner. 161 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: Let's put Phil Garner in there. It's a different kind 162 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: of mustache, but it's a heck of a mustache. Let's 163 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: go to Allen the Trucker, because he's a trucker coming 164 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: up next. You're up, Mike, You're up, Allen. 165 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 8: Hey, Michael, I'm in this, y'all. And alex is his 166 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 8: daughter's in military. My daughter's in military, and I got 167 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 8: so much to be tyful for her before the show 168 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 8: come over this morning. I was always thanking God for 169 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 8: another day of living and looking forward to the show. 170 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 8: And the Holy Spirit of God speaks through you, Michael Berry. 171 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: Hold on, Alan, are you the one? You the one 172 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: can get me from Dayton up to Rochester, New York 173 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: with the Rhodes. 174 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 5: God, Yes, I am the one. 175 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 8: I've called you several times there. And my kid wrote 176 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 8: on at Willard for seventeen years of her life, she 177 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 8: can make your work. And every day she saw me 178 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 8: hit that floorboard before my feet hit the ground. Thank 179 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 8: God for another the truck. Thank God that I live 180 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 8: in America, and I serve America, and she saw me 181 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 8: work my ass off there shoes almost ten years. 182 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: Right now and the army from Alan. Hold on, I've 183 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: got to shop you. I've got to stop you. I 184 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: get I get emails asking when you're gonna come back 185 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: on and if I can get you so you can 186 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: take somebody from here to there. All right, here we go, 187 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: you ready? 188 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 8: Oh god? 189 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 4: Oh all right? 190 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 10: Go ahead. 191 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: I want you to get me from Orange, Texas. We're 192 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: not going to use any major freeways, no I ten okay. 193 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 8: Oh god, how do you make it hard? 194 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: You're the man for this. You've you've got this task. Okay. 195 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: I want you to get me from Orange, Texas to Seattle, Washington, 196 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: and as much as possible to stay off the main freeways. 197 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 8: Go oh god, lady, I mean, first of all, the 198 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 8: mileing from ours to Seattle's about twenty five twenty six. 199 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 8: I don't think I got to get there. 200 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: Rise to the occasion. We got people counting on you. 201 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: Now take a moment and compose. 202 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 8: All right, from Orange, let me start off from there, 203 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 8: go out to Baumat and they take an old highway 204 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 8: fan up there to Winnie and then go to deck 205 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 8: of What the hell I'm just exactor that rose over 206 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 8: there to Antalaci, goll Its and them longway. It takes 207 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 8: me too long to get there. 208 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: All we got a way to go in a short 209 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: time to get there. 210 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 8: And then come on, okay, okay, all right, we're going 211 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 8: to go from Houston. We're going to go out to 212 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 8: all to eighty seven out to forty out forty to 213 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 8: forty four Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's actually right now. And 214 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 8: you go out to Farmington, Courtess, Colorado, Montchelo, Utah, go 215 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 8: up to my wab Utah and there's a divide there, 216 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 8: a prish canny. You go to the west of a 217 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 8: Soldier summit and you'll come into Salt Lake City, going 218 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 8: north over there to a fourth eighty four, and you'll 219 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 8: go over there into a Utah all the way up 220 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 8: into a Snowville and to Idaho and to Ontario, organ 221 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 8: and going up into a Yakama yakamall Washington, go all 222 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 8: the way up there to night Nik what the hill 223 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 8: is Nighty And then you go over there to Seattle, Washington. 224 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 8: It's about twenty five twenty six hundred miles to get there. 225 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 8: And uh, when I was an outlaw, Tucker, I would 226 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 8: do it in a couple of days. 227 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, Alan, that is amazing. 228 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, oh yeah. And I can describe. I'll tell 229 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 8: you something else. I flew with my mama backwood to 230 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 8: see it from Seattle down here, and I were sitting 231 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 8: I want a window seat, and I described the country 232 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 8: all the way from Seattle, Washington, down to Intercottinental Airport. 233 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 8: I could I could identify all the landscape exactly from 234 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 8: thirty thousand feet, no doubt. 235 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: What time is Waston? 236 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 14: What? 237 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 10: What? 238 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 2: What time is? 239 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: Wapner? Judge Wapner? No, yeah, yackamal No, Alan, I am 240 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: your knowledge of roads, you know, you know what's amazing. 241 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: While you were doing that, I was thinking of a 242 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: further place I could get you to drive. You make 243 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: the country seem so small with your knowledge. It's it's amazing. 244 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: I'm so glad you called so. 245 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 6: Totally wago that everybody has a fight. 246 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: He's the Michael Berry Joe. 247 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 6: I've got a hundred dollars walking my hole. 248 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 3: I know all I'm saying. 249 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 4: Anybody's burning in. 250 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 10: The hole right through my fock. 251 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 6: Sure how you doing? 252 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 15: And this is missus Shirley q lickor well the other day, 253 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 15: my little nine you old boy assist came up to. 254 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 3: Me telling about this Mama, He's sick. What do we 255 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 3: have to be thankful for? They's giving? I said, what 256 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 3: you're talking about? 257 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 15: Assis, And he said, well, they call it Thanksgiving? He said, 258 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 15: but what do we have to be thankful? 259 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 3: Fuck? 260 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 15: And I say, child, hadn't you been paying attention? 261 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: See that's the problem with the children today. 262 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 15: They be out there hanging with they homies and they 263 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 15: don't be up on their currents and they events and 264 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 15: things like us more intelligent older folks. Is so Anyway, 265 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 15: I told him, I say, Aci, this Thanksgiving, I have 266 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 15: so much to be thankful. 267 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: Fuck. I'm thankful that that cute little Will Smith. 268 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 15: Did another rap record. I'm thankful that they don't increase 269 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 15: the strength of that road. 270 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: Game heir growing product. 271 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 15: And I is thankful to President Clifford and his wife 272 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 15: Hillary Clifford Ridman have not gone to prison yet, honey. 273 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 15: But most of all asked adopts. I is thankful that 274 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 15: Swanson makes a really nice frozen turkey TV dinner so 275 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 15: your mama don't have to cook on Thanksgiving. 276 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 4: That's right, honey. 277 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 15: Oh look tell you mama and my asking how she 278 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 15: during and look if they got any leftovers? Actually, if 279 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 15: she mind dropping them by over here later by Huney. 280 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: When I think of the cast of characters who have 281 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: called over the years, Joyce, the son of Saga's Sunnyside Chaos, 282 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: who we played yesterday from his adoption call, I have 283 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: to put Allen in the top ten because he's just 284 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: something else, and he's kind of gott An all Shu 285 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: Gfall can't really you know, Gumer Paul Golly, he can't 286 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: really believe that we're that impressed with what has come 287 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: naturally to him after what forty years are driving a truck? Corey, 288 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. You're up, sweetheart. 289 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 9: Go ahead, hi, Michael nacall and tell you that I 290 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 9: am very, very thankful for my job. I'm seventy one 291 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 9: and I'm a waitress at the Texas Roadhouse up in Kingwood, 292 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 9: and it's a pretty hard job, real dis appoint God, 293 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 9: be on your feet the whole time, no breakroom, no 294 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 9: sitting down, go go go. But I make real good 295 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 9: money and I'm real happy there. I've been there almost 296 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 9: ten years, so that's what I'm thankful for. 297 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: You have such a chirpy little attitude. What time do 298 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: you go to work today? 299 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 9: Today? I go at five. A lot of days I'll 300 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,360 Speaker 9: go in at five point thirty, but sometimes at four, 301 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 9: and then I'm there until close, so tender in the 302 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 9: week and eleven on the weekends. And you know, I 303 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 9: work a full forty hours and I love it. 304 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: So so do you go so you always work evenings? 305 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 9: Yes, And that's one of the things I really like 306 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 9: about it. I'm home during the day. My daughter and 307 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 9: my granddaughter and I live together. We have a nice 308 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 9: house in a Taska seat of two stories, real pretty 309 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 9: and I can be here for anything that needs to 310 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 9: go on. So if somebody has to come and do 311 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 9: some work, or the lawn guy or whatever, I'm always 312 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 9: home to take care of all of that. And then 313 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 9: I work at night and I make good money. 314 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: How much is good money? What would you make on 315 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: today's a Friday? What would you make on a Friday? 316 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 9: I should do one hundred and fifty, but if I 317 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 9: get real lucky, I'll do closer to two hundred. And 318 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 9: that's take home. 319 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, yeah, it's good. What do you get 320 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: per hour? Like your your paycheck? Wags? Is it is 321 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: three thirty five? Is it two? Was it too? No, 322 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: it's two thirteen thirteen. Okay, so that's thirteen. 323 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 9: But at all every bit of it goes to taxes 324 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 9: because anything that you get, any tip that you get 325 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 9: on a credit card, has to be taxed by the restaurant. 326 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 9: So my paycheck is generally zero. 327 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: But that's okay. 328 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 9: I'm not working for the paycheck. I'm working for the tips. 329 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 9: And the tips are good. 330 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 1: Now it sounds like it. Now when you if someone 331 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: tips in cash, can you take that straight out or 332 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: do you have to put that in the till and 333 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: then get paid at the end of the night and 334 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 1: it all has to go through your paycheck. 335 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,719 Speaker 9: No, no, you keep all your cash, and so at 336 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 9: the end of the night when you do a checkout, 337 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 9: if your credit card tips are a lot more, then 338 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 9: you're going to pay in and we have a cash 339 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 9: drop machine. Or if a lot of your tables have 340 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 9: paid you in cash, well, then you'll have more cash 341 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 9: than you've earned, so you'll drop that in the drop 342 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 9: machine and you'll take home whatever's left, which is your tips. 343 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 9: But a lot of times it's real funny, like you'll 344 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 9: have a night when you're all cash and the night 345 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 9: when you're all credit, and on the nights that you're 346 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 9: all credit, that comes to your Texas Road Have card 347 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 9: the next morning. 348 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,360 Speaker 1: So what time will you typically get out of there? 349 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 9: They don't take what time between ten thirty and eleven thirty? 350 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: Okay, that's not as bad as I would have thought. Okay, 351 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: so y'all close it? 352 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 9: What no ten, ten during the week and eleven on 353 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 9: the weekends. And then you got to clean your tables 354 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 9: and sweep underneath them. And that's really all the work 355 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 9: we have. We don't do a lot of side work 356 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 9: because we have bussers who do who all are allocated 357 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 9: different parts of the sidework and they do all the 358 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 9: back of the housework. So we just cleaned the front 359 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 9: of the house, clean your tables, set them up for 360 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 9: the next day. 361 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: So can somebody come in tonight and say I'd like 362 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: to sit in Corey's section and they'd put them there. 363 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 9: Yes. Absolutely. I have a lot of regular customers because 364 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 9: I've been there so long, and so I even have 365 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 9: people who do the call ahead, which you can do. 366 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 9: You can it's called call ahead to get on the weight, 367 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 9: but it's not really like reservations. It's just hey, we're coming. 368 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 9: We're going to be there in thirty minutes. 369 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 11: You know. 370 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 9: My name's John Party five. We want to sit with 371 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 9: mimss Corey and then they'll put him in my section 372 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 9: and they get there. 373 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: How old are you. 374 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 9: Seventy one? 375 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: Oh my god, are you serious? 376 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 3: Yeah? 377 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: I thought you were going to be fifty two. 378 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 9: No, seventy one. I was born in nineteen fifty three. 379 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 3: I believe you. 380 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: But my goodness, that is incredible. You are wonderful. And 381 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: how old is your daughter that lives with you? 382 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 9: Oh? Thank you. She's thirty one because she I had 383 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 9: her when I was forty. Wow, so she's thirty one. 384 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 9: And then she has a little girl who is turning 385 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 9: eleven next weekend. 386 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: And it's just a three of y'all's. 387 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 8: It is. 388 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 9: Yeah, but we do real well. We're real happy. 389 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: We're not feeling sorry for it. I mean, you've got 390 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: them just a beautiful spirit. No wonder you get tipped. Well. 391 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: People don't want to go out and hear somebody's problems. 392 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 1: They want they want positive and happy, and you can 393 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: tell yours is real. Oh my goodness. What color hair 394 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: do you have? 395 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 9: Coy gray? 396 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: And how do you wear it? 397 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 9: It's very gray. It's cutting a little bob. I like 398 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 9: to keep it short because it stays out of the 399 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 9: food and it's a little bit more flattering when you're older. 400 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: You know, Corey, I want you to send me an 401 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: email this weekend because I guarantee you somebody's going to 402 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: come in tonight and they're going to do their normal 403 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: tip of twenty two percent or whatever, and they're going 404 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: to give you a separate hundred dollars Bill. I know 405 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Is it that the most dangerous place 406 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: is between Sheila Jackson Lee and the camp Michael Verry 407 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: and the Triple Crown Weave is, you know, tilting to 408 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 1: the side, the leaning tower of Weaver. 409 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 8: I want everybody to get them off your seat and 410 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 8: get your arms together and your hands together, and give 411 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 8: me some of at all. 412 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 4: So did you did? 413 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 6: Bunk? You did? 414 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 3: You didn't have to see them like you did. 415 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 8: What you did? 416 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 4: What you did? 417 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 3: I thank you. 418 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 8: If you did to love somewhere else, I wouldn't know 419 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 8: what admited love to death. 420 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 6: You made me feel like I'm never a FLT said 421 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 6: so good. 422 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: I have to holler for help to come. 423 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 6: To speak like you did, but you did. 424 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 3: But you did. You didn't have to hold man. 425 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 12: You did that. 426 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 3: You didn't. Can I thank you day for something Loop you. 427 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 14: Pull out your back and you're bad. You got to 428 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 14: try new things too. That's so you did that, wy 429 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 14: you You didenough to shake that. 430 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: My message from David Malsby, whose ministry is leading Camp Hope. 431 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: Most of you you know he was a pastor before 432 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: Camp Hope, and he is a pastor today. The combat 433 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: veterans beating PTSD day in and day out, referred to 434 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: him as Pastor Malsby, not as the executive director of 435 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: the organization, because it is truly a ministry, a faith 436 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: based ministry. But he shared with me the message that 437 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: goes out to folks who have supported Camp Hope and 438 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: over the last year. Here are some of the numbers 439 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: since last Thanksgiving, just from the interim housing programs. Ninety 440 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: four graduates sorry ninety four veterans graduated from Camp Hope. 441 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: One ninety two classes taught, one hundred two warrior groups, 442 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: four one hundred and sixty one on ones with a mentor, 443 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: sixty two thousand, four hundred meals, served, three hundred forty 444 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: two legal appointments, four thousand individual counseling sessions, seven hundred 445 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: ten VA medical trips, nineteen thousand, two hundred and fifty 446 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: medical services provided over the last year. This list could 447 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: go on and on, as you know, but you get 448 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: the point. One such veteran as Derek, whose life and 449 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: family have been greatly transformed. An Army veteran, Derek stepped 450 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: into Michael Barrett stepped into Barry Brigade Boulevard into the 451 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: Camp Hope program. This past January. Derek took full advantage 452 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: of the opportunity given to him through the class as 453 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: one on one's Warrior groups, counseling sessions, meals, and so 454 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: much more to change the trajectory of his life. In August, 455 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: Derek became one of the ninety four graduates from this 456 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: past year and moved back home with his wife and 457 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: his family. Derek said, without hesitation, Camp Hope saved me 458 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: and my family. Derek and his wife are organizing a 459 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: fundraiser in December benefiting Camp Hope. It says, I love 460 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: giving back after taking so long. How beautiful as that 461 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: A lot of you will be considering end of year 462 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: charitable gifts this year. I would encourage you to make 463 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: that to Camp Hope. By the way, I'm overdue telling you. 464 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: I just checked online for the michael Berry Family Foundation 465 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: and a number of you have started contributing to the 466 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: Family Foundation, and some of you on a monthly donation, 467 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: and we appreciate you. Most of those donations go to 468 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: Camp Hope, but not all of them. This past year 469 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 1: we have contributed to the Chance for Hope, which is 470 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: housing for families who it's kind of a Saint Jude 471 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: on a local level. Some of that has gone to 472 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: assist the officer for officers who have been injured in 473 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: the line of duty. You remember Officer Durfrey who was 474 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: shot in Spring Branch when he went in and saved 475 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: the mother and her two kids. Those are the primaries 476 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: there are. So I think we gave five thousand to 477 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: another charity and I can't remember, but it is usually 478 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: a one time spot contribution for something that is happening 479 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: that we consider important at that time. So for all 480 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: of you who have supported the michael Berry Family Foundation, 481 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: I appreciate you. If you would like a link to that, 482 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: you can email me and I will send it directly 483 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: to you. Yes, it is a charitable donation because it 484 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: is a charitable entity. I have a nonprofit organization that 485 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: administers the checks because that keeps me from getting in trouble. 486 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: I don't ever touch the money. Let's go to Carlos 487 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 1: on the Brown line. 488 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 8: You're up, sir, Hey, how are you brother? 489 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 10: I mean, yes, I'm sorry. I suppose that good. I 490 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 10: know you're good. 491 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 8: iPods. 492 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 10: Hey, I am a permanent resident alien. I am thankful 493 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 10: that I am here. I've been a permanent resident alien 494 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 10: for fifty three years. I'm not allowed to vote, although 495 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 10: when I went to some of the polling side they 496 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 10: said that I could vote. Some Democrat people wanted me 497 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 10: to vote, get a voter registration or whatever it was. 498 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 10: But I encouraged a bunch of people as many as 499 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 10: I could. My girls from here, I encouraged her to 500 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 10: vote and all that. So I got a lot of 501 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 10: people to vote, and I am thankful for that. I'm 502 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 10: also thankful that God gave me twenty years with my daughter, 503 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 10: and she's the color of my world and everything that 504 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 10: was good in me, and I am thankful. 505 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 1: What do you do for living, Blarlos to your family. 506 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 10: I have a very small painting business. I'm a lowly painter. Uneducated, 507 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 10: lowly painter, immigrant guy. 508 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: You know, I've always thought, Carlos, of the of the 509 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: jobs that someone could get if they're willing to work 510 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: and start that people need that, you don't need a 511 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: licensed certification, a lot of capital. I've always thought that 512 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: would that would be one of them. I have a 513 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: friend named del Busik who owns cert of Pro Painters, 514 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: and they are very successful, and they have locations all 515 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: over and they're very high end. They do a lot 516 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: of interloot. But I've always thought, you know, even being 517 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: a handyman, you've got to learn some basic skills. There 518 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: is so much opportunity, and you're proving that for guys 519 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: who just if you can just keep the drugs and 520 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: alcohol under control and get up every morning and show 521 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: up to a site where you're expected to work for individuals, 522 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: families will tell other families and they will you know, 523 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: that will spread the business. It's amazing to me how 524 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: many people I see who do that. And then you 525 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: buy astro van because you're Hispanic. That's what you do. 526 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: You buy a Chevy astro Van, a nineteen eighty astro van, 527 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: and you put the astro stickers on it and eventually 528 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: you find somebody else maybe to help you, or do 529 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: it yourself and keep it lean. You take care of 530 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: Miss Smith and she tells Miss Jones, I got a 531 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 1: good guy that campaign. And he shows up and he's trustworthy, 532 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: he's a nice guy. And you know he helped me home. 533 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: My grocery is in because he was there when I 534 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 1: did it. And you charge a fair amount. You don't 535 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: fight with people. It's amazing people that I know who 536 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: do that. They stay. Bert Harvey stays busy year round. 537 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: He has more work thing and possibly say grace over 538 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: because if you just do a good job for people. 539 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: Now it gets harder when you get bigger and you 540 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 1: have a company, because you have to keep a lot 541 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: of guys busy. But for a one off guy like that, 542 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: as you say, a lowly guy like that. Not to 543 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: say it's not hard work, because obviously it is, but 544 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: there is so much opportunity out there. It's amazing to 545 00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:00,720 Speaker 1: me that people are not able to see that. Ramon. 546 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: You know, Mozart was Mozart was very jealous, right, you 547 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: know why he got rid of his chickens because they 548 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: kept going by. I wasn't throw Oh go ahead, you 549 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: go ahead, you hear about the cross eyed teacher at 550 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 1: the school that was fired. She couldn't control her pupils.