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Speaker 1: Michael Verie show is on the air, pops up on

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Speaker 1: my calendar or memories. I guess it's called an email

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Speaker 1: I received a year ago today. It said, good mornings

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Speaker 1: are three days out from open heart surgery and here's

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Speaker 1: City Christmas Parade on Saturday evening. He never stops, he

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Speaker 1: never stops supporting the community. May God watch over him

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Speaker 1: and his medical team. We have been able to track

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Speaker 1: him down. He was somewhere between couches and love seats

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Speaker 1: on the sales floor. I'm sure our guest is the

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Speaker 1: honorable Mattress Mac. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Mister Barry, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: One year in, three days after open heart surgery? How

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Speaker 2: I feel great? You know, the recovery time was its

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Speaker 2: first couple of months, a little rough after that. Great.

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Speaker 2: I was taking thirty meds a day. Now I'm taking zero,

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Speaker 2: so Byby Kennedy would be proud of me.

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Speaker 1: I guess you were taking what per day?

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Speaker 2: Thirty meds a day of what? All sorts of stuff?

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Speaker 2: I can't pronounce the names.

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Speaker 1: Oh, oh, okay, okay, okay? And how long? How long

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Speaker 1: was how long did it take until you felt like, okay,

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Speaker 2: You know, I went to work about five days after

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Speaker 2: After about after about three months, I was good. I

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Speaker 2: certainly a blessing in disguise. The hardest part was when

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Speaker 1: That reminds me of the old Ronald Reagan when he

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Speaker 1: No, you had said, I said, let me know when

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Speaker 1: And I had a lot of people, including Russell Leaborrow,

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Speaker 2: Well, I had to get back to work and take

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Speaker 2: I'm still at it every day, but I'm only working

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Speaker 1: But back, what are you seeing retail trend wise this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we see a lot more should I say older

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Speaker 2: I think they have less children and they're not They

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Speaker 1: Leslie Peru, who handles your account at iHeart, told me

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Speaker 2: They paid for the engine, the motor that fuels it.

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Speaker 2: So we're in the business of changing and improving people's lives.

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Speaker 2: The temper Peede match his Maxique coiners and whatever we

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Speaker 1: More families have a situation like that than you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: What a great season for that team. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show New Laws. It took effect December fourth,

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having Michael.

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Speaker 1: What exactly are you mad at the Houston Chronicle about?

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Speaker 3: Well, they decided to go away from doing real journalism,

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Speaker 1: There was a walk these back.

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Speaker 1: Well, I could live with an occasional mistake. You're typically

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Speaker 1: you intrepid overnight crime reporter, like, uh, what was his name? Jack?

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Speaker 1: It's going to fact check an editorial.

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Speaker 3: Good question, it's your opinion.

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Speaker 1: Find out when you call her a lady. You don't

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Speaker 3: No, Michael, I do not. She's She's probably a very

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Speaker 1: I had somebody at City Hall tell me that Houston

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Speaker 1: Michaels, sorry because you're under other because you don't know Dougs.

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Speaker 1: Doug Griffith Griffith, President Houston Police Officers Union, Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm on the highway and you're going

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Speaker 1: along and I don't know why, but I was sleepy

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Speaker 1: going and sleepy coming. I pulled over and got coffee

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Speaker 1: twice each way, two times each way. Stretch walk around.

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Speaker 1: It's dangerous, right. My wife was wanting to take a nap.

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Speaker 1: She kept saying, you all right, yeah, I'm all right,

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Speaker 1: Why I won't take a nap? So she would, and

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Speaker 1: then she pop back up again and then be worried.

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Speaker 1: I might have fallen asleep too. But you're pulling up

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Speaker 1: beside those eighteen wheelers, and you think to yourself, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: that cannot be easy. And we do a lot of

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Speaker 1: stops because I have a peanut size kidneing. But I

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Speaker 1: just think, you know, those guys drive for such long

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Speaker 1: periods that they'd drive longer if they could. My little

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Speaker 1: peadly four hour drive is like they're commute, and those

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Speaker 1: guys are out there for hour after hour after hour,

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Speaker 1: and that cannot be easy because people, I don't think

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Speaker 1: people understand how hard it is to slow one of

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Speaker 1: those things down. You see people dart in front of

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Speaker 1: them coming up on a hill. If the traffic is

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Speaker 1: stopped up on the other side, he's crashing into you,

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Speaker 1: and you're the one gonna die. And I can't say

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Speaker 1: that I blame him. And so you've got to deal

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Speaker 1: with all these jugheads out there acting like complete and

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Speaker 1: utter fools on the highway. I sometimes wonder do people

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Speaker 1: realize how heavy that piece of machinery is that they're

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Speaker 1: operating at such a high rate of speed. Speaking of wish,

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Speaker 1: did you see Petris hit on King City Chiefs last night?

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Speaker 1: I mean that is two objects in motion, one of

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Speaker 1: them at a very high rate of speed going a

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Speaker 1: different direction. That is a physics class waiting to be studied.

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Speaker 1: That was a collision. My goodness, that was that was

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Speaker 1: something else. Yeah, that was absolutely something else. But I

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Speaker 1: have nothing but respect for truck drivers. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we think of goods coming to the United States from abroad,

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Speaker 1: primarily China, in a container, which they do, and then

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Speaker 1: when they arrive at the terminal, they go typically onto

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Speaker 1: a rail yard a railcar, and that sends them for

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Speaker 1: the thigh the final and most complicated of the route,

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Speaker 1: and that's to put them in an eighteen wheeler and

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Speaker 1: take them to your retail store or to the distribution

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Speaker 1: center or wherever they go. And that turns out to

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Speaker 1: be a very very important part of everything we buy

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Speaker 1: that is imported into this country, and even the finished

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Speaker 1: goods that are not imported, a lot of the components are.

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Speaker 1: So for every one of you eighteen wheeler drivers out there,

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Speaker 1: hats off to you, God bless you. You do us

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Speaker 1: all a favor. And it cannot be easy, I've said

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Speaker 1: over the years, and it's true that some of our

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Speaker 1: most thoughtful callers over the years, and relatively consistently so,

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Speaker 1: are truck drivers. And I have a theory for that

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Speaker 1: they tend to have far less formal education then people

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Speaker 1: who call in and aren't nearly as clever as they

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Speaker 1: think they are. But truck drivers don't have the distractions

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Speaker 1: the rest of us do. They can't, so they got

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Speaker 1: windshield time, and they think. Truck drivers formulate their thoughts.

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Speaker 1: They structure their argument when they call, and so you

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Speaker 1: get guys to say, it might have be named Earl

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Speaker 1: and be from Liberty, and don't you have a deep

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Speaker 1: East Texas accident? But the point they make is of

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Speaker 1: greater depth than the people who call in and think

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Speaker 1: they're so clever. Anyway, that fella's been driving for sixty years.

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Speaker 1: If he'd started when he was young, he'd be driving

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Speaker 1: for seventy two years. That's incredible. Well, let's take one

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Speaker 1: call from a truck driver, whoever's the first one to

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Speaker 1: call in, just where they are, especially if they're out

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Speaker 1: on the open road. One thing about truck driving, we

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Speaker 1: wouldn't know. Ramone wants to know what a lot lizard is.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea seven one three nine nine nine

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Speaker 1: one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand