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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
All right, we're making some things happen. Lewis Flory is
in for five hundred. We're in for a thousand, Moro,
will you contribute part of a thousand or I had
to do it all myself?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You will? I said not? And you know this fella.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Ben Barlow, I don't know how he got hooked on
our show. He has a company called Hervey Barlow Specialty Contractors,
LLC on Grant Road in Cyprus. He sends me a
message and he says, Michael, I don't know what you're doing.
I just caught the tail end of it. I just
got in the truck. But whatever it is, I know
it's a good cause and I like to contribute a thousand.
(01:03):
Will that work?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hell yeah? So that's twenty five hundred. So I'm trying
to get Lewis Floyd to meet us over there this afternoon.
And I'm trying to get somebody. He's at one five
one three four Grant Road in Cyprus. I need somebody
who is in Cypress headed inward. I know if RJ
on the Black Line or who that would be but
(01:26):
somebody that's in Cyprus that can come to We will
be before we leave there. We will be near kind
of near west side, kind of galleria ish, and this
afternoon we can meet you. I'd like to bring all
twenty five hundred over there, because I just got off
(01:46):
Vona Paul and I said, feed the officers up to
twenty five hundred. If we raise Tomorro'll give you the
rest of it. But put some more food on the
grill on the pit. On the pit, because ray Hunt said,
you do realize when we unlease the officers, they will
be that they will be ready to eat. There's one
call the officers are going to respond to. See, that's
(02:08):
the trick. That's the old that's the old trick. You say,
you called nine one one and say, hey, there's a
dude breaking into my house. Yeah, there's five thousand of them.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's us. I'm sorry, Who am I kidding? I got
barbecue over here waiting on.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh oh, we're on the way. Yeah, that's my brother,
my brother. I used to call him in the morning
when I was on my way into the station and
he started his shift at six, and I said, what
are you eating? What are you talking? About what are
you eating? First of all, I can hear you smacking,
And secondly it's you know whatever, six thirty or whatever
it was.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And he said, I'm having donuts.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And he would stop at the places that had half
off her. Cops eat for free. You can't blame a
cop for that, you cannot.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
My brother's like me. He loved to eat.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So my buddy, the aggie plumber said, at the going
into the first break, he said, did you hear the
fellow say welded it a loose? He said, that is
a country boy right there. I don't care what you say,
so we cut it. Listen to it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I'm not worried about the I'm not worried about it
now because that pit is sealed and it will take
you have to bring up well, you would have to
come in like welded a loose to get.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
In that head.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I love that dude so much. You would have to
weld it a loose. Welded a loose.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
See, that's that's my kind of people. If you say
you'd have to weld it a loose, I can already
tell you a lot of things about that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
He loves his wife. He will cull you for his kids.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That Amayah has got him wrapped around her finger. She
can have anything she wants. She just has to blood
those eyes to daddy. And you know black girls, although
a lot of girls now, but especially black girls, they
do those long nails. Those things are dangerous. It's like
a You know, when you get out of a helicopter.
It's not going to cut your head off, but you're
(03:58):
conscious of it. So you you see people that that that,
you know, us amateurs, you get out of a helicopter,
you ducked down. You know, you see jd. Vance or
or the President get out of helicopter. They get out smooth.
You know, they stand straight because it's not gonna cut
your head off. But sometimes those girl the long lashes,
those things get to flapping. You work. When it hits you,
(04:19):
you could put your eye out anyway. You know, she's
got her daddy wrapped around her finger. He's got his employees,
his business. He's proud of his his barbecue. You can
tell he is very proud of his barbecue. I love
that play that again, the long clip. I like that
waiting on Ramon.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I'm not worried about the I'm not worried about it
now because that pit is stilled and it will take
you have to bring up well, you would have to
come in like well to loose to get in that pit.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's my kind of that's my kind of storytelling. Janet,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. You know why you're
on the show. No, you weren't taking calls. But Ramon
said that you called him sugar, and so I had
to take the call.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Well, guess what your sugar too.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It's too late now, too late.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now you had already made your own sugar.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
There's plenty of sugar to go around in Pasadena, Texas.
And said, let me tell you something. You're talking to
a seventy seven year old born and raised Pasadena, Texas
girl who loves to listen to your morning show because
it is so darn community service oriented.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Oh sweet, that is a Ramon said, you were in
the line at McDonald's when you called. Is that true.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I'm as sitting I go to breakfast in my car
in the morning and listen. I binge watched your show
for as long as I could stretch my breakfast out
because I'm home alone. I'm seventy seven, Like I said,
I'm still what you would call venging myself on the
city of Pasadena as a vetted volunteer and working on
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our mayor old thing right now. And I love the
part where you talk to people and you ask them
how they started for when they were young, young young.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I love that well. I just I asked the questions
I want to know. I like to break people apart
and put them back together. I think that people are fascinating.
And the guy in front of you or behind you
at the HB, it could be Marcus Ltrel, it could
be Dakota Meyer, the only in the modern era, the
only Medal of Honor recipient who has now relisted. You
(06:44):
see this from them after fifteen years. He's relisted in
the in the Marines. I keep meaning to call him
Dakota Meyer has re enlisted to go back and serve.
It's just incredible. But anyway, my point is, you know,
people have interesting stories. One guy been in prison for
ten years and now he's running a small business and
mentoring kids. It's just people are so fascinating me. Janet
(07:06):
so fat, what did you get.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
At McDonald You, Well, I just got one of their
big breakfast and ate it real slow. So I could
make sure it hurts.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
When Big Breakfast. Tell me exactly what you got, give
me your exact order.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Okay, I got the scrambled eggs, a piece of bacon,
a ba biscuit, the hash brown that I didn't eat
to the suk Rice creator.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Why would you?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Because hash browns are gross?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Yeah, go ahead, well unless you'll make him at home
or something. But oh they're gross.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah. I just think it's the lowest and worst use
of a potato. I don't understand how. I don't understand
how bored the Irish had to get to go. All right,
we've made French fries, mashed potato, we've made everything with vodka,
we've made everything else.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
We still got potato left.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
This wasn't during the family money And somebody said, well,
what if we were to eat them raw, but just
brown the outside of them, and we'll put that with
breakfast as it'll be like the seventh best thing on
the day. I guess, so I mean sell it to
the Americans. I don't understand the hashbro Then.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Did you get caught what I do with mine?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I didn't get coffee, so I already had that at home,
but I had orange and what I leave here and
I love about you botton at a little condo and
I'm gonna throw my uh.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
My wife told me something about they got a Dolly parton.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's what I'm cake batter now or cake?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I said, do you know about this? And you don't.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, I'm not sitting up a joke. It's a real.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
So my wife laughs because she will, you know, there's
so much on the internet now, and she will go,
what is the place in France that that was, you know,
kind of the gold standard of what no not?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Let crusee h is the Sorbonne?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What is the no?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
What is the tucket?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The culinary school in Paris? Anyway, so she will go
and find recipes for salmon, And y'all need to stop
telling her stuff, I say, because you get me in trouble.
And salmon is like my three hundred and eighty eighth
favorite food and my list stops off at three eighty five, right,
but I know it's a super food, it's healthy and
(09:42):
all right, misteake.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So anyway, she will go on.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And she will find these desserts, and she will find
all the ingredients and she's so sweet about it, and
she will make these these French pastries or cakes or
some Italian disc or something I never heard of, and
it's amazing and all of that, but she says, you know,
you're never happier than when I make a Duncan Hine's
(10:08):
sheet cake with a blonde sheet cake, or with chocolate
icing on top. And so she made that for Easter
because Michael was coming in. That's what he likes. And
she said, of all the things I do for y'all
to try to make it so special, and y'all liked
the simplest stuff years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's probably been ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
She said, I'm gonna make you something from your childhood
that you haven't had since your childhood. What do you want?
I said, hamburger helper. She said, okay, I'll have to
call your mom and ask her how to make it.
I said, I can actually tell you this one.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It goes like this.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You pull the ground round out, because well, my dad
would get paid. My mom will go stock up on
ground round. You can freeze ground round last, you know,
last forever you cook. Ramone cooks entered his house more
often than not, so I can give him credit. I don't,
so I'm running, but I know this you take the
ground round out. Now, you know what I used to
enjoy doing if I was helping my mom cook, which
I enjoyed doing.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Take the ground round.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now it's under that little styr it's in that styrofoam
thing with the clear They still make it exactly the same.
And then you drop that as a as a hunk,
clunk down on the teflaw and teflon was a big
deal at that time. We'd gone back to the skillet,
but then it was a teflon and pay them, you know,
you just spray to pay them anyway. So I enjoyed
turning it on high heat and putting it on there
(11:23):
and scraping it off as the meat got warm, scraping
it off. That was that was my contribution. But I said,
it's very simple. You put ground round. You got some
cheap pasta shells and they got a little sauce in there,
the same way Kraft mac and Cheese does. And you
got and if you make my grandmother's corn bread, you
will make me very happy. And she could not believe
how much I loved it. She said, of all the
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food you have been exposed to, I've never seen you
eat like this, And When I really like something like that,
I eat to the point I'm sick. I'm not proud
of it. It's like a dog. I'm not saying it
makes me a good person. It makes me a very
weak person. But that's what I do. And so anyway,
she made a Duncan Huns or Betty Cracker or something,
you know, one of those out of a box cakes.
(12:06):
And I don't care what anybody says. That out of
the box cake and then that little can of icing.
There's no cake I like better than that. Carabas makes
a Italian cream cake that will change your life. But
don't tell Mama Rosie. I still think I on most days,
I just like my basic little sheet cake with the
chocolate icing on the top. And by the way, I
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don't understand what people do a cake. If you got
chocolate icing on top, don't make the cake itself chocolate.
That's dumb. Why do people do that. You go to
a birthday party or something and you think.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Gosh, chocolate cake. Oh you got the cake being chocolate.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That's no, no, no. And I'll tell you the other
thing that doesn't get his due in cakes is strawberry.
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Ty Strickland of.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
What's the name is his company? He's your show sponsor,
he's not. He dun't you for who? For himself? He
does his own ads. He does a pretty good ad, though,
he does a good ad. Where did I see that message? No,
he's fixed my slab. Okay, I'm Atlas Foundation with the decisions.
(13:14):
You know, they're all buddies.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You're at List too. How'd you get at Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look at you?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Connie Stagner's in for three hundred. Tie's gonna go by
Ben Barlow's place on Grant pick up the check for
a thousand, and Tie's adding another five hundred because he
got a lot of money and he's gonna meet us
over there this afternoon. And Ramone's sponsor, AWP Advanced Window Products,
Debbie and Mike Wright are in for five hundred. I
think that puts us I get thirty three hundred. At
(13:43):
thirty eight hundred, I'll have to recalculate. AWP Windows is
ramone sponsor. My sponsor is Allied Siding and Windows, So
we had to keep that separated. Ramone, you stay on
that side of the glass. I'll stay over here anyway. Janet, Yeah, Oh,
hold on Oh we lost our dad. Comment, aren't you
(14:06):
on the black line? Yeah? So anyway, sorry, how come
you don't do coffee?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I want to do coffee this more. I do coffee
first thing, go out of bed, and then uh. But
then I was very kind of like sitting there all alone.
I thought, I got to get out of this place
and I'll just go get my breakfast and.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Listen to Michael.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But that's what I did.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And the thing I wanted to tell you now, I've
already told you about the community stuff. I love it,
and at seventy seven years old, I can't do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I do a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I volunteer. I'm a vetted volunteer for the City of Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well that's nice.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
That means I can work.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Who are you voting for?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I don't want to let you to tell you what
I work at his head walk Rex he Rex Rex Lindbergh.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yes, sir, so I got in trouble with them May yesterday.
He sent me a message last night because I asked
for the Harris County Republican Party endorsements and I just
read those out. I didn't know there were two Republicans
running and the Harris County Republican parties supported Thomas Thomas Shanebine.
I guess is his name, and but the mayor and
(15:21):
I are very close friends for many many years before
he was the mayor. And he said, just to let
you know, we are supporting Rex Lynn Bergh for mayor,
not the other one.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Love you, my brother.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That was a nice way of saying, I'm not scolding
to him, just letting you know. And then he let
me know that my my good friend JJ isbel is
supporting Rex as well.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
So anyway, I used to work with Johnny, you know,
when Johnny was mayor, not his son, but I which
run the city of Pasadena. You're not gonna believe this.
I started working for the City of Pasadena when I
was sixteen and a half going into seventeen high school.
Here Clyde Dowell on my five D and I went
to the city for twenty years. The US to the wall.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I want all the mold off, the Berry Brigade, activate
the Michael Berry Show. Oh you know what, Julius Brown
sent me a message that says on your phone you
(16:29):
can get the full menu.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So he does more than brisket.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The website doesn't show the website only shows brisket on
your phone.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
They got pork steak.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And fries for eleven ninety nine, one whole pork steak.
They got chopped chicken and fries, one leg quarter hamburger
and fries. Ten ninety nine, they got brisket and fries.
You know what I love? I love top beef sald.
My goodness, I can't eat barbecue every day. I don't.
You're welcome to call me a sissy, or whatever you
(17:06):
want to say you can send. I am very well
aware that whatever I say is going to elicit certain reactions,
so you're not gonna hurt my feelings. Like I thought
I was being tough, and you go, you can't have
barbecue every day. You ain't real man. Okay, I ain't
a real man. I'm an old man. And somewhere along
the way there's things that I just my little tummy
can't process like I used to could. I'm fifty four,
I'm not thirty four. All out by way, I was
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saying I can't eat barbecue every day. And I would
walk into the RCC where we had Republic barbecue, and
they had Uncle Jerry and all the guy Andre and
all had tried out some new recipe and they were
dying for me to try something. I'd say, Man, can
I just uncle Jerry, you got the taste budds of God?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You just tell me I.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Feel like it. No, No, you have got to try this.
We tried a new crack pepper. Once you try, you
got to try this. Man, My little tummy will be
torn up all day. I can't do it every day.
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
When I was younger, I could eat barbecue every day.
I can't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, so apparently they got all sorts of stuff. I
think we're at thirty five hundred dollars Platinum Environmentals in
for three hundred. Better be he got my tickets to
the Astros the other day. That's my buddy, Chris. He's
got the Mold Inspection Company.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
A great guy. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's got a he's got a contract on the border wall. Yeah,
I guess they have to inspect the border wall or whatever.
Every new contract he sends me a mess. He got
h Some guy got a big government building the other day.
It was like hundreds of thousand square feet and it's
a building that's been there since the sixties.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And they're renovating. They're gutting it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So they have. So he goes in and says, all right,
you got asbestos over here, you got rat turns over here,
you got mold over here.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You got this, you got this, you got this. Yeah,
it's uh. His business has blown up.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm not going to say it's only because he's a
show sponsor, because I'm sure at least one percent is
you know, he's probably responsible for. But I think most
of it is h our listener, which is pretty awesome
if you ask me.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So, if he's in for three hundred, I think that
gets us a four thousand.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And let's see Connie Stargner with the Corey diamonds.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Let's see here.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It was somebody else that came in, and I want
to make sure that guy, okay, that Dolly Parton deal
is h is So this was fabulously double fudge. That's
Duncan Hines. Is that partnership. That's what we needed wrong.
We need some big brand that we don't have to
do anything right. We just kind of become the spokesman.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
We get a tea interesting story.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So I don't know what year it was, but Hulk
Hogan was at his peak can I get my Hulk
Hogan theme song? See, if Jim Mudd was here, he'd
already when I said by before I hit the end
on Hulk Hogan, he would have already hit Hulk Hogan's
theme song. And they Hulk Hogan's agent gets a pitch
that they wanted him to be the spokesman for this
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grill okay, And this grill was an affordable grill, could
be used anywhere, and the engineering design meant that the
whatever you were cooking, the grease would run off. But
at the same time they were pitched a I think
it was a home waffle maker or a home meat
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forgetting a meatball maker, some little product, and his agent said,
that's the winner right there, that's what people want. So
he passed on that grill because the grill market he
felt was saturated. So they said, oh, we didn't get
Hulk Holgan, what are we to do? So they go
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to the champ George Foreman, we got this grill. People
like you. They don't tell him. Hulk Hogan was first
pitch that product, and George said, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It did okay.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He made fifty millions the first year they saw the
trajectory of this product being able to last a long time.
And they said, we'll give you two hundred to buy
you out. He was going to get X percentage. The
percentage was so high that he got that. They said,
we're going to make more than two hundred Are we
going end up paying him more than two hudred? They
pay him two undred million dollars and bought him out.
(21:20):
He got almost two I think it was two hundred
and ten total he got, so maybe it was one sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Whatever the payout was. I think it was two hundred
and ten.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And there's Hulk Hogan over there with the you probably
remember with the Hulk Hogan wafflemaker.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, he didn't make that kind of money, but he
sued Vice and he bankrupted him, so that was good.
That was good. George went on to be the spokesman
for invent Help. I mean he did all sorts of things.
He uh, I was proud to see that the city
did right. I give John Whitmark credit. Beautiful funeral for him.
(21:53):
It was a week or two ago. Is it Worthym Theater?
The first time I've been in Worthm Theater. I don't
know how long it's been since I've been in worthym Theater.
You know, before we had kids, we had the season
tickets to the Alley. We used to love to go
to the Alley. Except for some reason. Look, I'm not
bothered by homos. That's what pissed me off. They said
I was anti gay. I'm not anti gay, but I
don't think every scene needs to have butt sex and
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and the alley. For years, they would, you know, they'd
take Hansel and Gretel and then all of a sudden,
Gretel would say, Hansel, where are you going? I'll just
go over here to see a man about a horse, okay,
and go over there and have butt sex with another
dude and come.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Back like, whoa, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What in the world? Romeo and Juliette Romeo Romeo, where
art now? Hold on, I'm having butt sex? What are
we doing? And it just kind of got to where
it felt like the art was lost. Look, if you
got a scene where there's too homos, fun, but you're
just like crafting homos and everything, like Disney puts black
people in every white role.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's it's too much. It's too much.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You go too far and you make people into people
that were like that would say, you know, artist art,
I'm comfortable art will be. It'll be some things that
are a little different. Okay, you know, Robin Williams wants
to dress like misdoubt fire. That's fine, but we're not
going to worry. It's end of the world. But then
when you start making everything into that, Okay, Dustin Hoffman,
you're gonna do TOTSI y'all. Okay, Tyler Perry, Okay, y'all
(23:13):
have a whole big thing and want to dress up
as women. I kind of find it weird. I'll be honest,
I kind of find it weird. But anyway, we used
to go to downtown events all the time, and we
went to speaking of we went to see Johnny Mathis
as Barry Mandel's guest. Barry and Scott and we go
(23:33):
see Johnny Mathis and there was a crowd to see
Johnny Mathis with the Houston Symphony, and the crowd was
all gay men and people over one hundred years old.
And we were looking around like I was, you know,
thirty two thirty three just went on to city council,
and Barry was head of the downtown district, so he
would always whatever we wanted to go see, we would
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go see, and then we ended up buying tickets to
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Great guy. I don't know whatever happened to Barry.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
He ended up running Legacy Center in Montrose when he
left the city. I don't know whatever happened from there.
He was a great guy though, a good friend, wonderful person. Anyway,
the city did right by George Foreman with a beautiful,
beautiful funeral at Wortham Center, and he deserved that. Tell
r J to hold on just a second. Think let's
(24:22):
set a goal.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
For five thousand. That's doable. I think we can get that.
Dude the like old Ferry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Okay, So this just hit Chad's and nowher of things
like he listens to podcasts about things that nobody else
listens to. I asked him yesterday about Mui Thai, the
fighting style in Thailand, because Chad trains and fights and
all that sort of stuff. He starts telling me stories
and he said, you know, they have kids on the
(24:49):
streets in Thailand and they fight for money. The tourists
will bet on them fighting in the streets.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Young kids. And he sent me a video of it
and they were just out there.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I mean, I guess it's better than you know, having
to pretend you're a girl, the stupid stuff you got
to do for American tourists, But he said. The Hulk
Hogan George Foreman grill story is a lie told by
Hulk Hogan. The family of Michael Bame, the inventor of
the grill, has called out Hogan for lying about being
pitched the grill. The Bame family said George Foreman was
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the only celebrity our dad approached about endorsing the grill.
We don't know who started the story about Hulk Hogan
being approached, but it is not accurate. After Foreman died,
ESPN's Pablo Torre did a good podcast about Hulk Hogan
lying about George foreman grill endorsement. Hulk Hogan is infamous
for his numerous flat out lies. Huh, Well, you don't
(25:48):
believe Hulk Hogan. You believe George Foreman. And if you don't,
I'll tell Leola and Big Wheel in the whole family
and you'll be cut out. You'll be cut out of
the family. Thanksgiving r J on the Black Line, go on, Mike,
how are you gonna call up here? And then when
I go back to Janet, who's a line at the
McDonald's seventy seven year olds, spunky little Pasadena woman, you
(26:11):
just gonna hang up?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You think I didn't see that.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I didn't hang out there. I really say it. I
was previously Uh yeah, how go.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Mike, you doll right?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'm good. Hold in just second round. Play that hurt
that Jim just sent. It's a scene from the office.
Michael burns his foot on the George foreman grill. Listen this, Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
God, Hey, whoa Michael God. It's okay, it's Jim. Just
say again, really loudly, what happened?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, I burned my foot very badly on my foreman grill,
and I now need someone to come and.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Bring me into work.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You burned your foot on a foreman grill.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I enjoy having breakfast and Ben I like waking up
to the smell of bacon sue me. And since I
don't have a butler, I have to do it myself.
So most nights, before I go to bed, I will
lay six strips of bacon out on my George foreman grill,
and then I go to sleep. When I wake up,
I plug in the grill I go back to sleep again.
Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon.
(27:09):
It is delicious, It's good for me. It's a perfect
way to start the day today. I got up, I
stepped onto the grill, and I clamped down on my foot.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's it. I don't see what's so hard to believe
about that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know the guy, Rain Wilson, I don't know what
you know, what role he plays. He's like the cramer
of that show. He's the cramer to the dude that's
the star, the white guy with the black hair. I
never watched it, but I know who the characters are anyway.
Rain Wilson came out this week in an interview and said,
the problem in this country is the liberal media covering
for the Democrats, and they're all losing their minds because
they assume if he's a character they like on TV,
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that he's supposed to share their stupid politics or he'll
get criticized, which kind of, by the way, is what
Larry David did to.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Who did Larry Davis.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Larry David came out and trash Bill Maher. That's their
gatekeeping mechanism. You can't have an independent thought that's what
they do to black people.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
R J.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You come out and report Trump and they start calling
you a house negro and a lot worse and and a.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Sellout and this and that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's how they that's how they keep That's how the
Sheila Jackson Lee keep power.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That's plan to take some mentality. That's exactly. But I heard,
I heard that's it. I heard the black signal went out,
and uh, I'm I could definitely donate one hundred dollars
to my brother that uh unfortunately, Uh you know, he's
just trying to work for a living, doing everything he
can to raise his family. And I promise you it's
going to be somebody from the community that's tied to
this foolishness.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
But uh yeah, I want to want to. I mean
we're brothers, so I mean, you know, all brothers.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Are related, you know, with an A I thought e
R he said, like a nice he did. You know
what he reminded me of how they found if a
black guy served in the military, they have a different
bearing about them. And I thought he was That's why
I was pushing for a background. I thought he was
going to say I went in the army. I went
in the Marines. I thought he was going to have
(29:05):
a similar story to yours, but he didn't. It surprise me.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Actually, yeah, you know what good man out there by,
and it's it's it's just heartbreaking to hear that he's
just doing what he sees fit for his family, to
sustain his family, to take care or buy for his family,
and someone else wants to just come and take from that.
It's it's the same man that we see this so
so have to so frequently. I need to get him
some some massives or some some Doberman and something to press.
(29:28):
That's the first.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Thing, r J. That is the first thing.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
He needs.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Want to jump our dog up.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
There, That's what it is. J throw him back there.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh, don't bring up J I D that's my man now, Sylvester.
Jim Farrar with a D A S. Specialists of Texas says,
I'm in for five hundred dollars. How can I get
you the money. I'll be off the air to eleven
and I will coordinate all of it. That puts us
over four thousand. I think we're going to hit five
thousand before it's over. You know, RJ, you know you do,
You're you're a driver, a hot I don't know what
(30:03):
you call exactly what you do, deliveries somebody was to
if somebody was to to you know, steal your vehicle,
I mean that that that hits you and your whole
family and you're just out here trying to.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Work for a living. And then that's it. That is
the guy's down a true that's my livelihood and that's
what it is. I mean, we we find avenues that
we can use that it also gives us the luxury
like you were speaking of his daughter, the opportunity to
spend time with our with our loved ones, and we're
not slaving away at the factory. You know. We we
actually have these opportunities and we still work hard at
what it is that we do. But it's something that
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we chose to have the freedoms that we have and
just to have it taken by someone that's gonna sit
under duff, you know, doesn't want to put in the
hard work. You know, it's it's the same man. It's
you know, like I said that that's some of ours
and eventually they're going to run across the wrong one.
You know, I'll be the huckleberry, Come take my truck.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You know, Max said yesterday, and he said it over
the years.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Work gives purpose and meaning to life, not always joy,
purpose and meaning. And I find our Jay, that what
people are in search of. We think we want contentment.
But if you are content repeatedly, consistently, and only exclusively,
I find that that contentment leads to boredom, leads to
awii leads to all sorts of bad habits and unhappiness.
(31:15):
I don't think that contentment or quote unquote happiness. You know,
people think if I'm retired, I'll play golf and go
on cruises all the time. You need purpose and meaning,
And I think that you not to sound like Jordan Peterson,
but I think you need adversity.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
You need challenge.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You need to find somebody in a bad situation and
lift them, you know, be able to lift them up
a little, even if you don't have money to give
to help them in some way or another.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, you're the best. RJ.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
We're gonna meet over there this afternoon if you'd like
to meet us.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We got some different people. Oh, Jeff Davies, Jeff the
builders over there.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I think I need about five hundred more bucks if
you want to email me. Don't worry if y'all don't
know how to get it there or whatever, I will
send somebody to pick up a check from y'all, whether
it's RJ or somebody else. I'd love to be able
to hit five thousand. And by the way, every police officer,
every law enforcement, not just HPD. If you swing by
Jacob's Barbecue one four, one five, one Highum Clark, you
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will be fed today all the way till seven. I
think five thousand will cover our cops today.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Everyone I do.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I told I called Paulder in the break, I said,
you better put some more food on the grill.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The pit. Put on a pit.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I'm used to saying grille. I hate Hash Browns. R J,
you love Hash Browns. Y'all email me through the website
Michael Berryshow dot com if you want to help, and
you don't have to just go today, you can go
tomorrow or the next day.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I love you guys. Y'all are so awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You made that guy and his whole family happy today,
and that's that's y'all.
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
All right, we're making some things happen. Lewis Flory is
in for five hundred. We're in for a thousand, Moro,
will you contribute part of a thousand or I had
to do it all myself?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You will? I said not? And you know this fella.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Ben Barlow, I don't know how he got hooked on
our show. He has a company called Hervey Barlow Specialty Contractors,
LLC on Grant Road in Cyprus. He sends me a
message and he says, Michael, I don't know what you're doing.
I just caught the tail end of it. I just
got in the truck. But whatever it is, I know
it's a good cause and I like to contribute a thousand.
(01:03):
Will that work?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hell yeah? So that's twenty five hundred. So I'm trying
to get Lewis Floyd to meet us over there this afternoon.
And I'm trying to get somebody. He's at one five
one three four Grant Road in Cyprus. I need somebody
who is in Cypress headed inward. I know if RJ
on the Black Line or who that would be but
(01:26):
somebody that's in Cyprus that can come to We will
be before we leave there. We will be near kind
of near west side, kind of galleria ish, and this
afternoon we can meet you. I'd like to bring all
twenty five hundred over there, because I just got off
(01:46):
Vona Paul and I said, feed the officers up to
twenty five hundred. If we raise Tomorro'll give you the
rest of it. But put some more food on the
grill on the pit. On the pit, because ray Hunt said,
you do realize when we unlease the officers, they will
be that they will be ready to eat. There's one
call the officers are going to respond to. See, that's
(02:08):
the trick. That's the old that's the old trick. You say,
you called nine one one and say, hey, there's a
dude breaking into my house. Yeah, there's five thousand of them.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's us. I'm sorry, Who am I kidding? I got
barbecue over here waiting on.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh oh, we're on the way. Yeah, that's my brother,
my brother. I used to call him in the morning
when I was on my way into the station and
he started his shift at six, and I said, what
are you eating? What are you talking? About what are
you eating? First of all, I can hear you smacking,
And secondly it's you know whatever, six thirty or whatever
it was.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And he said, I'm having donuts.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And he would stop at the places that had half
off her. Cops eat for free. You can't blame a
cop for that, you cannot.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
My brother's like me. He loved to eat.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So my buddy, the aggie plumber said, at the going
into the first break, he said, did you hear the
fellow say welded it a loose? He said, that is
a country boy right there. I don't care what you say,
so we cut it. Listen to it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I'm not worried about the I'm not worried about it
now because that pit is sealed and it will take
you have to bring up well, you would have to
come in like welded a loose to get.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
In that head.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I love that dude so much. You would have to
weld it a loose. Welded a loose.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
See, that's that's my kind of people. If you say
you'd have to weld it a loose, I can already
tell you a lot of things about that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
He loves his wife. He will cull you for his kids.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That Amayah has got him wrapped around her finger. She
can have anything she wants. She just has to blood
those eyes to daddy. And you know black girls, although
a lot of girls now, but especially black girls, they
do those long nails. Those things are dangerous. It's like
a You know, when you get out of a helicopter.
It's not going to cut your head off, but you're
(03:58):
conscious of it. So you you see people that that that,
you know, us amateurs, you get out of a helicopter,
you ducked down. You know, you see jd. Vance or
or the President get out of helicopter. They get out smooth.
You know, they stand straight because it's not gonna cut
your head off. But sometimes those girl the long lashes,
those things get to flapping. You work. When it hits you,
(04:19):
you could put your eye out anyway. You know, she's
got her daddy wrapped around her finger. He's got his employees,
his business. He's proud of his his barbecue. You can
tell he is very proud of his barbecue. I love
that play that again, the long clip. I like that
waiting on Ramon.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I'm not worried about the I'm not worried about it
now because that pit is stilled and it will take
you have to bring up well, you would have to
come in like well to loose to get in that pit.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's my kind of that's my kind of storytelling. Janet,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. You know why you're
on the show. No, you weren't taking calls. But Ramon
said that you called him sugar, and so I had
to take the call.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Well, guess what your sugar too.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It's too late now, too late.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now you had already made your own sugar.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
There's plenty of sugar to go around in Pasadena, Texas.
And said, let me tell you something. You're talking to
a seventy seven year old born and raised Pasadena, Texas
girl who loves to listen to your morning show because
it is so darn community service oriented.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Oh sweet, that is a Ramon said, you were in
the line at McDonald's when you called. Is that true.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I'm as sitting I go to breakfast in my car
in the morning and listen. I binge watched your show
for as long as I could stretch my breakfast out
because I'm home alone. I'm seventy seven, Like I said,
I'm still what you would call venging myself on the
city of Pasadena as a vetted volunteer and working on
(06:09):
our mayor old thing right now. And I love the
part where you talk to people and you ask them
how they started for when they were young, young young.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I love that well. I just I asked the questions
I want to know. I like to break people apart
and put them back together. I think that people are fascinating.
And the guy in front of you or behind you
at the HB, it could be Marcus Ltrel, it could
be Dakota Meyer, the only in the modern era, the
only Medal of Honor recipient who has now relisted. You
(06:44):
see this from them after fifteen years. He's relisted in
the in the Marines. I keep meaning to call him
Dakota Meyer has re enlisted to go back and serve.
It's just incredible. But anyway, my point is, you know,
people have interesting stories. One guy been in prison for
ten years and now he's running a small business and
mentoring kids. It's just people are so fascinating me. Janet
(07:06):
so fat, what did you get.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
At McDonald You, Well, I just got one of their
big breakfast and ate it real slow. So I could
make sure it hurts.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
When Big Breakfast. Tell me exactly what you got, give
me your exact order.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Okay, I got the scrambled eggs, a piece of bacon,
a ba biscuit, the hash brown that I didn't eat
to the suk Rice creator.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Why would you?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Because hash browns are gross?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Yeah, go ahead, well unless you'll make him at home
or something. But oh they're gross.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah. I just think it's the lowest and worst use
of a potato. I don't understand how. I don't understand
how bored the Irish had to get to go. All right,
we've made French fries, mashed potato, we've made everything with vodka,
we've made everything else.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
We still got potato left.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
This wasn't during the family money And somebody said, well,
what if we were to eat them raw, but just
brown the outside of them, and we'll put that with
breakfast as it'll be like the seventh best thing on
the day. I guess, so I mean sell it to
the Americans. I don't understand the hashbro Then.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Did you get caught what I do with mine?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I didn't get coffee, so I already had that at home,
but I had orange and what I leave here and
I love about you botton at a little condo and
I'm gonna throw my uh.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
My wife told me something about they got a Dolly parton.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's what I'm cake batter now or cake?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I said, do you know about this? And you don't.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, I'm not sitting up a joke. It's a real.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
So my wife laughs because she will, you know, there's
so much on the internet now, and she will go,
what is the place in France that that was, you know,
kind of the gold standard of what no not?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Let crusee h is the Sorbonne?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What is the no?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
What is the tucket?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The culinary school in Paris? Anyway, so she will go
and find recipes for salmon, And y'all need to stop
telling her stuff, I say, because you get me in trouble.
And salmon is like my three hundred and eighty eighth
favorite food and my list stops off at three eighty five, right,
but I know it's a super food, it's healthy and
(09:42):
all right, misteake.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So anyway, she will go on.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And she will find these desserts, and she will find
all the ingredients and she's so sweet about it, and
she will make these these French pastries or cakes or
some Italian disc or something I never heard of, and
it's amazing and all of that, but she says, you know,
you're never happier than when I make a Duncan Hine's
(10:08):
sheet cake with a blonde sheet cake, or with chocolate
icing on top. And so she made that for Easter
because Michael was coming in. That's what he likes. And
she said, of all the things I do for y'all
to try to make it so special, and y'all liked
the simplest stuff years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's probably been ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
She said, I'm gonna make you something from your childhood
that you haven't had since your childhood. What do you want?
I said, hamburger helper. She said, okay, I'll have to
call your mom and ask her how to make it.
I said, I can actually tell you this one.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It goes like this.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You pull the ground round out, because well, my dad
would get paid. My mom will go stock up on
ground round. You can freeze ground round last, you know,
last forever you cook. Ramone cooks entered his house more
often than not, so I can give him credit. I don't,
so I'm running, but I know this you take the
ground round out. Now, you know what I used to
enjoy doing if I was helping my mom cook, which
I enjoyed doing.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Take the ground round.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now it's under that little styr it's in that styrofoam
thing with the clear They still make it exactly the same.
And then you drop that as a as a hunk,
clunk down on the teflaw and teflon was a big
deal at that time. We'd gone back to the skillet,
but then it was a teflon and pay them, you know,
you just spray to pay them anyway. So I enjoyed
turning it on high heat and putting it on there
(11:23):
and scraping it off as the meat got warm, scraping
it off. That was that was my contribution. But I said,
it's very simple. You put ground round. You got some
cheap pasta shells and they got a little sauce in there,
the same way Kraft mac and Cheese does. And you
got and if you make my grandmother's corn bread, you
will make me very happy. And she could not believe
how much I loved it. She said, of all the
(11:43):
food you have been exposed to, I've never seen you
eat like this, And When I really like something like that,
I eat to the point I'm sick. I'm not proud
of it. It's like a dog. I'm not saying it
makes me a good person. It makes me a very
weak person. But that's what I do. And so anyway,
she made a Duncan Huns or Betty Cracker or something,
you know, one of those out of a box cakes.
(12:06):
And I don't care what anybody says. That out of
the box cake and then that little can of icing.
There's no cake I like better than that. Carabas makes
a Italian cream cake that will change your life. But
don't tell Mama Rosie. I still think I on most days,
I just like my basic little sheet cake with the
chocolate icing on the top. And by the way, I
(12:26):
don't understand what people do a cake. If you got
chocolate icing on top, don't make the cake itself chocolate.
That's dumb. Why do people do that. You go to
a birthday party or something and you think.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Gosh, chocolate cake. Oh you got the cake being chocolate.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That's no, no, no. And I'll tell you the other
thing that doesn't get his due in cakes is strawberry.
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Ty Strickland of.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
What's the name is his company? He's your show sponsor,
he's not. He dun't you for who? For himself? He
does his own ads. He does a pretty good ad, though,
he does a good ad. Where did I see that message? No,
he's fixed my slab. Okay, I'm Atlas Foundation with the decisions.
(13:14):
You know, they're all buddies.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You're at List too. How'd you get at Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look at you?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Connie Stagner's in for three hundred. Tie's gonna go by
Ben Barlow's place on Grant pick up the check for
a thousand, and Tie's adding another five hundred because he
got a lot of money and he's gonna meet us
over there this afternoon. And Ramone's sponsor, AWP Advanced Window Products,
Debbie and Mike Wright are in for five hundred. I
think that puts us I get thirty three hundred. At
(13:43):
thirty eight hundred, I'll have to recalculate. AWP Windows is
ramone sponsor. My sponsor is Allied Siding and Windows, So
we had to keep that separated. Ramone, you stay on
that side of the glass. I'll stay over here anyway. Janet, Yeah, Oh,
hold on Oh we lost our dad. Comment, aren't you
(14:06):
on the black line? Yeah? So anyway, sorry, how come
you don't do coffee?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I want to do coffee this more. I do coffee
first thing, go out of bed, and then uh. But
then I was very kind of like sitting there all alone.
I thought, I got to get out of this place
and I'll just go get my breakfast and.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Listen to Michael.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But that's what I did.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And the thing I wanted to tell you now, I've
already told you about the community stuff. I love it,
and at seventy seven years old, I can't do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I do a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I volunteer. I'm a vetted volunteer for the City of Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well that's nice.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
That means I can work.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Who are you voting for?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I don't want to let you to tell you what
I work at his head walk Rex he Rex Rex Lindbergh.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yes, sir, so I got in trouble with them May yesterday.
He sent me a message last night because I asked
for the Harris County Republican Party endorsements and I just
read those out. I didn't know there were two Republicans
running and the Harris County Republican parties supported Thomas Thomas Shanebine.
I guess is his name, and but the mayor and
(15:21):
I are very close friends for many many years before
he was the mayor. And he said, just to let
you know, we are supporting Rex Lynn Bergh for mayor,
not the other one.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Love you, my brother.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That was a nice way of saying, I'm not scolding
to him, just letting you know. And then he let
me know that my my good friend JJ isbel is
supporting Rex as well.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
So anyway, I used to work with Johnny, you know,
when Johnny was mayor, not his son, but I which
run the city of Pasadena. You're not gonna believe this.
I started working for the City of Pasadena when I
was sixteen and a half going into seventeen high school.
Here Clyde Dowell on my five D and I went
to the city for twenty years. The US to the wall.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I want all the mold off, the Berry Brigade, activate
the Michael Berry Show. Oh you know what, Julius Brown
sent me a message that says on your phone you
(16:29):
can get the full menu.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So he does more than brisket.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The website doesn't show the website only shows brisket on
your phone.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
They got pork steak.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And fries for eleven ninety nine, one whole pork steak.
They got chopped chicken and fries, one leg quarter hamburger
and fries. Ten ninety nine, they got brisket and fries.
You know what I love? I love top beef sald.
My goodness, I can't eat barbecue every day. I don't.
You're welcome to call me a sissy, or whatever you
(17:06):
want to say you can send. I am very well
aware that whatever I say is going to elicit certain reactions,
so you're not gonna hurt my feelings. Like I thought
I was being tough, and you go, you can't have
barbecue every day. You ain't real man. Okay, I ain't
a real man. I'm an old man. And somewhere along
the way there's things that I just my little tummy
can't process like I used to could. I'm fifty four,
I'm not thirty four. All out by way, I was
(17:28):
saying I can't eat barbecue every day. And I would
walk into the RCC where we had Republic barbecue, and
they had Uncle Jerry and all the guy Andre and
all had tried out some new recipe and they were
dying for me to try something. I'd say, Man, can
I just uncle Jerry, you got the taste budds of God?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You just tell me I.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Feel like it. No, No, you have got to try this.
We tried a new crack pepper. Once you try, you
got to try this. Man, My little tummy will be
torn up all day. I can't do it every day.
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
When I was younger, I could eat barbecue every day.
I can't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, so apparently they got all sorts of stuff. I
think we're at thirty five hundred dollars Platinum Environmentals in
for three hundred. Better be he got my tickets to
the Astros the other day. That's my buddy, Chris. He's
got the Mold Inspection Company.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
A great guy. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's got a he's got a contract on the border wall. Yeah,
I guess they have to inspect the border wall or whatever.
Every new contract he sends me a mess. He got
h Some guy got a big government building the other day.
It was like hundreds of thousand square feet and it's
a building that's been there since the sixties.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And they're renovating. They're gutting it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So they have. So he goes in and says, all right,
you got asbestos over here, you got rat turns over here,
you got mold over here.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You got this, you got this, you got this. Yeah,
it's uh. His business has blown up.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm not going to say it's only because he's a
show sponsor, because I'm sure at least one percent is
you know, he's probably responsible for. But I think most
of it is h our listener, which is pretty awesome
if you ask me.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So, if he's in for three hundred, I think that
gets us a four thousand.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And let's see Connie Stargner with the Corey diamonds.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Let's see here.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It was somebody else that came in, and I want
to make sure that guy, okay, that Dolly Parton deal
is h is So this was fabulously double fudge. That's
Duncan Hines. Is that partnership. That's what we needed wrong.
We need some big brand that we don't have to
do anything right. We just kind of become the spokesman.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
We get a tea interesting story.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So I don't know what year it was, but Hulk
Hogan was at his peak can I get my Hulk
Hogan theme song? See, if Jim Mudd was here, he'd
already when I said by before I hit the end
on Hulk Hogan, he would have already hit Hulk Hogan's
theme song. And they Hulk Hogan's agent gets a pitch
that they wanted him to be the spokesman for this
(19:59):
grill okay, And this grill was an affordable grill, could
be used anywhere, and the engineering design meant that the
whatever you were cooking, the grease would run off. But
at the same time they were pitched a I think
it was a home waffle maker or a home meat
(20:21):
forgetting a meatball maker, some little product, and his agent said,
that's the winner right there, that's what people want. So
he passed on that grill because the grill market he
felt was saturated. So they said, oh, we didn't get
Hulk Holgan, what are we to do? So they go
(20:44):
to the champ George Foreman, we got this grill. People
like you. They don't tell him. Hulk Hogan was first
pitch that product, and George said, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It did okay.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He made fifty millions the first year they saw the
trajectory of this product being able to last a long time.
And they said, we'll give you two hundred to buy
you out. He was going to get X percentage. The
percentage was so high that he got that. They said,
we're going to make more than two hundred Are we
going end up paying him more than two hudred? They
pay him two undred million dollars and bought him out.
(21:20):
He got almost two I think it was two hundred
and ten total he got, so maybe it was one sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Whatever the payout was. I think it was two hundred
and ten.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And there's Hulk Hogan over there with the you probably
remember with the Hulk Hogan wafflemaker.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, he didn't make that kind of money, but he
sued Vice and he bankrupted him, so that was good.
That was good. George went on to be the spokesman
for invent Help. I mean he did all sorts of things.
He uh, I was proud to see that the city
did right. I give John Whitmark credit. Beautiful funeral for him.
(21:53):
It was a week or two ago. Is it Worthym Theater?
The first time I've been in Worthm Theater. I don't
know how long it's been since I've been in worthym Theater.
You know, before we had kids, we had the season
tickets to the Alley. We used to love to go
to the Alley. Except for some reason. Look, I'm not
bothered by homos. That's what pissed me off. They said
I was anti gay. I'm not anti gay, but I
don't think every scene needs to have butt sex and
(22:13):
and the alley. For years, they would, you know, they'd
take Hansel and Gretel and then all of a sudden,
Gretel would say, Hansel, where are you going? I'll just
go over here to see a man about a horse, okay,
and go over there and have butt sex with another
dude and come.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Back like, whoa, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What in the world? Romeo and Juliette Romeo Romeo, where
art now? Hold on, I'm having butt sex? What are
we doing? And it just kind of got to where
it felt like the art was lost. Look, if you
got a scene where there's too homos, fun, but you're
just like crafting homos and everything, like Disney puts black
people in every white role.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's it's too much. It's too much.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You go too far and you make people into people
that were like that would say, you know, artist art,
I'm comfortable art will be. It'll be some things that
are a little different. Okay, you know, Robin Williams wants
to dress like misdoubt fire. That's fine, but we're not
going to worry. It's end of the world. But then
when you start making everything into that, Okay, Dustin Hoffman,
you're gonna do TOTSI y'all. Okay, Tyler Perry, Okay, y'all
(23:13):
have a whole big thing and want to dress up
as women. I kind of find it weird. I'll be honest,
I kind of find it weird. But anyway, we used
to go to downtown events all the time, and we
went to speaking of we went to see Johnny Mathis
as Barry Mandel's guest. Barry and Scott and we go
(23:33):
see Johnny Mathis and there was a crowd to see
Johnny Mathis with the Houston Symphony, and the crowd was
all gay men and people over one hundred years old.
And we were looking around like I was, you know,
thirty two thirty three just went on to city council,
and Barry was head of the downtown district, so he
would always whatever we wanted to go see, we would
(23:55):
go see, and then we ended up buying tickets to
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Great guy. I don't know whatever happened to Barry.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
He ended up running Legacy Center in Montrose when he
left the city. I don't know whatever happened from there.
He was a great guy though, a good friend, wonderful person. Anyway,
the city did right by George Foreman with a beautiful,
beautiful funeral at Wortham Center, and he deserved that. Tell
r J to hold on just a second. Think let's
(24:22):
set a goal.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
For five thousand. That's doable. I think we can get that.
Dude the like old Ferry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Okay, So this just hit Chad's and nowher of things
like he listens to podcasts about things that nobody else
listens to. I asked him yesterday about Mui Thai, the
fighting style in Thailand, because Chad trains and fights and
all that sort of stuff. He starts telling me stories
and he said, you know, they have kids on the
(24:49):
streets in Thailand and they fight for money. The tourists
will bet on them fighting in the streets.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Young kids. And he sent me a video of it
and they were just out there.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I mean, I guess it's better than you know, having
to pretend you're a girl, the stupid stuff you got
to do for American tourists, But he said. The Hulk
Hogan George Foreman grill story is a lie told by
Hulk Hogan. The family of Michael Bame, the inventor of
the grill, has called out Hogan for lying about being
pitched the grill. The Bame family said George Foreman was
(25:22):
the only celebrity our dad approached about endorsing the grill.
We don't know who started the story about Hulk Hogan
being approached, but it is not accurate. After Foreman died,
ESPN's Pablo Torre did a good podcast about Hulk Hogan
lying about George foreman grill endorsement. Hulk Hogan is infamous
for his numerous flat out lies. Huh, Well, you don't
(25:48):
believe Hulk Hogan. You believe George Foreman. And if you don't,
I'll tell Leola and Big Wheel in the whole family
and you'll be cut out. You'll be cut out of
the family. Thanksgiving r J on the Black Line, go on, Mike,
how are you gonna call up here? And then when
I go back to Janet, who's a line at the
McDonald's seventy seven year olds, spunky little Pasadena woman, you
(26:11):
just gonna hang up?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You think I didn't see that.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I didn't hang out there. I really say it. I
was previously Uh yeah, how go.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Mike, you doll right?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'm good. Hold in just second round. Play that hurt
that Jim just sent. It's a scene from the office.
Michael burns his foot on the George foreman grill. Listen this, Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
God, Hey, whoa Michael God. It's okay, it's Jim. Just
say again, really loudly, what happened?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, I burned my foot very badly on my foreman grill,
and I now need someone to come and.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Bring me into work.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You burned your foot on a foreman grill.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I enjoy having breakfast and Ben I like waking up
to the smell of bacon sue me. And since I
don't have a butler, I have to do it myself.
So most nights, before I go to bed, I will
lay six strips of bacon out on my George foreman grill,
and then I go to sleep. When I wake up,
I plug in the grill I go back to sleep again.
Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon.
(27:09):
It is delicious, It's good for me. It's a perfect
way to start the day today. I got up, I
stepped onto the grill, and I clamped down on my foot.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's it. I don't see what's so hard to believe
about that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know the guy, Rain Wilson, I don't know what
you know, what role he plays. He's like the cramer
of that show. He's the cramer to the dude that's
the star, the white guy with the black hair. I
never watched it, but I know who the characters are anyway.
Rain Wilson came out this week in an interview and said,
the problem in this country is the liberal media covering
for the Democrats, and they're all losing their minds because
they assume if he's a character they like on TV,
(27:44):
that he's supposed to share their stupid politics or he'll
get criticized, which kind of, by the way, is what
Larry David did to.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Who did Larry Davis.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Larry David came out and trash Bill Maher. That's their
gatekeeping mechanism. You can't have an independent thought that's what
they do to black people.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
R J.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You come out and report Trump and they start calling
you a house negro and a lot worse and and a.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Sellout and this and that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's how they that's how they keep That's how the
Sheila Jackson Lee keep power.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That's plan to take some mentality. That's exactly. But I heard,
I heard that's it. I heard the black signal went out,
and uh, I'm I could definitely donate one hundred dollars
to my brother that uh unfortunately, Uh you know, he's
just trying to work for a living, doing everything he
can to raise his family. And I promise you it's
going to be somebody from the community that's tied to
this foolishness.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
But uh yeah, I want to want to. I mean
we're brothers, so I mean, you know, all brothers.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Are related, you know, with an A I thought e
R he said, like a nice he did. You know
what he reminded me of how they found if a
black guy served in the military, they have a different
bearing about them. And I thought he was That's why
I was pushing for a background. I thought he was
going to say I went in the army. I went
in the Marines. I thought he was going to have
(29:05):
a similar story to yours, but he didn't. It surprise me.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Actually, yeah, you know what good man out there by,
and it's it's it's just heartbreaking to hear that he's
just doing what he sees fit for his family, to
sustain his family, to take care or buy for his family,
and someone else wants to just come and take from that.
It's it's the same man that we see this so
so have to so frequently. I need to get him
some some massives or some some Doberman and something to press.
(29:28):
That's the first.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Thing, r J. That is the first thing.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
He needs.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Want to jump our dog up.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
There, That's what it is. J throw him back there.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh, don't bring up J I D that's my man now, Sylvester.
Jim Farrar with a D A S. Specialists of Texas says,
I'm in for five hundred dollars. How can I get
you the money. I'll be off the air to eleven
and I will coordinate all of it. That puts us
over four thousand. I think we're going to hit five
thousand before it's over. You know, RJ, you know you do,
You're you're a driver, a hot I don't know what
(30:03):
you call exactly what you do, deliveries somebody was to
if somebody was to to you know, steal your vehicle,
I mean that that that hits you and your whole
family and you're just out here trying to.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Work for a living. And then that's it. That is
the guy's down a true that's my livelihood and that's
what it is. I mean, we we find avenues that
we can use that it also gives us the luxury
like you were speaking of his daughter, the opportunity to
spend time with our with our loved ones, and we're
not slaving away at the factory. You know. We we
actually have these opportunities and we still work hard at
what it is that we do. But it's something that
(30:34):
we chose to have the freedoms that we have and
just to have it taken by someone that's gonna sit
under duff, you know, doesn't want to put in the
hard work. You know, it's it's the same man. It's
you know, like I said that that's some of ours
and eventually they're going to run across the wrong one.
You know, I'll be the huckleberry, Come take my truck.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You know, Max said yesterday, and he said it over
the years.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Work gives purpose and meaning to life, not always joy,
purpose and meaning. And I find our Jay, that what
people are in search of. We think we want contentment.
But if you are content repeatedly, consistently, and only exclusively,
I find that that contentment leads to boredom, leads to
awii leads to all sorts of bad habits and unhappiness.
(31:15):
I don't think that contentment or quote unquote happiness. You know,
people think if I'm retired, I'll play golf and go
on cruises all the time. You need purpose and meaning,
And I think that you not to sound like Jordan Peterson,
but I think you need adversity.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
You need challenge.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You need to find somebody in a bad situation and
lift them, you know, be able to lift them up
a little, even if you don't have money to give
to help them in some way or another.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, you're the best. RJ.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
We're gonna meet over there this afternoon if you'd like
to meet us.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We got some different people. Oh, Jeff Davies, Jeff the
builders over there.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I think I need about five hundred more bucks if
you want to email me. Don't worry if y'all don't
know how to get it there or whatever, I will
send somebody to pick up a check from y'all, whether
it's RJ or somebody else. I'd love to be able
to hit five thousand. And by the way, every police officer,
every law enforcement, not just HPD. If you swing by
Jacob's Barbecue one four, one five, one Highum Clark, you
(32:16):
will be fed today all the way till seven. I
think five thousand will cover our cops today.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Everyone I do.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I told I called Paulder in the break, I said,
you better put some more food on the grill.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The pit. Put on a pit.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I'm used to saying grille. I hate Hash Browns. R J,
you love Hash Browns. Y'all email me through the website
Michael Berryshow dot com if you want to help, and
you don't have to just go today, you can go
tomorrow or the next day.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I love you guys. Y'all are so awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You made that guy and his whole family happy today,
and that's that's y'all.
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