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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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woman speaks. Ladies choose, let's carefully. The others just talk
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to you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Lee Majors, Hollywood superstar, Lee Majors, Lee Majors, Lee Majors.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He was Heath Barkley, Steve Austin and Colt Seavers. It's
Lee Majors.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
As I told you yesterday, I was going to be
speaking to Lee Majors this morning, and I did. Here's
our conversation. A six million dollar man. Lee Majors is
our guest. Welcome to the program Sir.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well Sir Michael. Introduction feels honored. There. I thought, Wow,
what the heck is going on?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well this this was a group project, Lee.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I got to tell you, so Chad Nakanishi, our executive director,
Ramon Roeblis who you know, and Jim mud.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
More or less.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah, everybody was arguing over who got to do the
Lee Majors intro because that meant we could go back
through the body of work of stories on you. In fact,
there was a news clip of you I think it
was nineteen eighty four and the Los Angeles Express I
can't remember the name of the football team that you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Owe, yeah, La Express.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And there was a whole clip on that.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But we Jim couldn't figure out how to reduce it
down so that we could add it to the thing.
But I mean, people forget all the cool stuff you've done,
all right, So you mentioned that this guy or you
consented when I asked you.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
About it that I just don't start on that. Let's
don't get on that real quick. Oh okay, let's visit
for a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You got a whold of don't rush me. Yeah, I'm sorry.
I was trying to let it, let it, let it
breathe like a fine wine. But Ramon was excited.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I said, go, you know, you got a light first,
So what are.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You doing today? Tell me what is on the right now?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Let me tell you, uh, you know, I want to
talk about our fire, our snow. Actually, isn't that wonderful
snow day we had?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
So like you from Colorado and you said, I said,
look at this beautiful snow, And you said, I'm sitting
in Houston and I got this snow.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
No what I said that I went to bed in
Houston and woke up in Colorado and yeah, you know what,
you know what ye say, here we go again. But
you know it didn't It wasn't like the last one
we had where we had it was frankling of snow
and it froze and we lost power for more people.
That was over almost two weeks. And and then you
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know that one was a terrible one, and there you know,
it kept icing over, icing over. Anyway, this one was
so beautiful. It was what a snow day, and what
a beautiful Christmas. It seemed like a Christmas day that
the Lord gave us there. And I just was very
pressure to that. And you know what, it was gone
in a day and a half.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
How about Lilla, if I remember correctly, and I didn't
look it up. I think you were raised in Kentucky,
but ill.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And if we saw snow out the window, mommy, mommy,
I want to go, go exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
You remember, I was raised in Orange, Texas, on the
Louisiana born. We didn't have snow. So so for us,
if we in my life as a kid, in my
entire childhood, if we had had the snow that we
had here last week, I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It would have been so exciting.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah you weren't here, right, Uh, yes, I'm here. You
were in Astida, right. Well, you know what, it was
just so beautiful. I knew said something was coming, but
I didn't think it. You know. It woke up the
next morning and I looked out the window and my god,
what a beautiful view.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
My wife said, we're going to have stranges. Yeah, we're
going She said, we're gonna have six inches of snow.
And this was like on Thursday, and it was going
to happen on Sunday or Monday. And I said, sweetheart,
I've lived in this part of Texas my entire life,
and they promise us that every year, and it's nothing
but disappointment. We're not going to have snow and lo
and behold what did we have but glorious for this
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part of the world. Glorious snow.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well, you know, Ustonians just don't pray enough.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right for what year did you come to Houston.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
About thirteen years ago? Twenty twelve? Well, twenty eleven is
when I looked around and you had one hundred straight
days over one hundred degrees over it was hot, and
you still can and I still came. I closed on
a place here in twenty twelve, and then you know,
I said, hey, it can me in hot, but heck,
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it's not the burning hot like you get you know
in an Arizona or up in Nevada, you know, in
Las Vegas or somewhere like that where just you can't
touch a door handle. Anyway, Now we can get on
a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yes, I'm up against you break in about a minute.
I don't want to have to interrupt you. Let me
ask you.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No, no, no, you can interrupt.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, I'll have to interrupt to go to break.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
But let me ask you, since we're on the subject,
thirteen years into it, what are your Obviously you could
live anywhere you want and have lived all over the world.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
What do you like about living in Houston? Why do
you stay here?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, first of all, it's the people. I mean the
hospitality here. There's wonderful people here and everybody's friendly. Nobody
bothers you, you know, except if you're going the wrong area.
But I just love it. I had a great friend
here named Charlie Thomas before I moved here. He had
the Houston Rockets and he's a great friend. He got
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me here. He kept saying, come to Houston because I
was going to go back to Florida. And anyway, that's
how I got here.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And we are glad you were here. Ramon, you know who.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Charlie Thomas was passed away a couple of years ago,
but Charlie Thomas was a legend in me on.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The Houston Rockets. There. I'm in one of the biggest
car dealers in the country.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
And I never got invited to the ranch, but I
always wanted to. But my understanding is that he and
you held forth or some EPICU poker games at his ranch.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
No, actually it was a little dice game which was
very simple, and wed ten or twelve people come up
there and they have a big dinner and then mokeall guys,
and then we said out and do this the game
around the table, and it was just so much fun.
You know. He had he had a beautiful place there
and he had his house of course, he had a
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little monkhouse, and he had a saloon that was as
big as the one they had over in Brennan or
Brenna we're over somewhere and he't copy it. It was like,
and he'd have over one hundred people up there every
year from the locals and all of his friends. And
you have a big pequin, and I know I got.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To go now hold on this moment. Lee Majors is
our Guests. Bizar is on.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well done, So this is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Lee Majors is our Guest.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I told folks you would be on the show and
to feel free to send me a message. And this
was one of many from Jim Adare. I received a
very special birthday gift last August. It was a video
message from Lee Majors wishing me a happy birthday. We
have a mutual friend and I told her I would
love to say hello to him one day because I
was such a big fan. And this guy got Lee
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to do this for me and my wife played the
video message to me and on my birthday and don't
think less of me or don't think I'm less a
man or think less of me. But I have to
admit teared up imagining that he took the time to
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
How nice is that?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Are you talking to me?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, that story was about you.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You didn't send me a video message on my birthday?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
You know, I do a lot of those time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What's the point of having celebrity if you're not going
to share it with people like that?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's you're putting it to good use.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, no, I understand that, And that's the m key
is just be nice to people. Of course, be nice
to people on the way up because you you might
not see them on the way down.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, let's talk about that, because most people are supposed
to have this twilight period where they're forgotten about and
then you know, their name pops up and we go, oh,
whatever happened to that guy?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You're eighty five and you are maybe you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, just that's correct you No, No,
I'm fifty eight, fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Eight, I'm sorry. You know what I got dyslexia?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Well, no, Biden had dyslexia. Turned I turned it around
because it sounds better.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
You weren't supposed to tell that I was doing the
show from Aspen because people didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You outed, Well, okay, so let's talk about that.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I think this is well, you were only there a
couple of days out of yourself, I was in Aspen.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yes, let's talk about this exhibit in California because this
is cool.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Okay, all right, Well, well, first of all, you know,
I'm I had I had a daughter out there. You know,
all the fires that are going on, and she's in there.
She has like, you know, four kids and three dogs,
and she who was in the Palisades and they had
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to evacuate. And of course you saw what happened in
the Palisades, but it almost burned everything out of ballisades.
But you know what I see. After she exactuated, she said,
I think it's it's gone, dad, you know. And I said, well,
I'm praying to God that he made a miracle and
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it will still be standing. You know. Well, she got
a chance later a couple of days later to go
in with a fire patrol her and her husband, and
I believe it or not, it was still standing. And
what do you say to that. You know, it was
a lot of mess, you know, but you know, the
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smoke mess and stuff like that. But at least the
structure was still there, you know. And it just amazes me.
When you do a good prayer, miracles do happen. And
my friend, anyway, I've been, I mean praying for another
friend named Terry Kaiser. I don't know if you can
remember him. Well, he uh, he was Bernie and Weekend
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at Bernie's. He was a lead at the star of
two Weekend at Bernie Movies. And he was a fabulous
that and he isn't known for that for many many years.
And he's the same age as me, he is eighty five.
And he was away and he had a phone call
that his house was on fire. And I don't know
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where he was, but by the time he was a
get there, he didn't burn to the ground. And it
was a place that he lived there in Colorado and
in Ridgeway. It was his little town and near Erat
and across over the mountain there was you know, all
the snow ski resorts and stuff, but this was just
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out in the country kind of thing. That's all he had.
And I said, well, what do you need? He said,
where you got? He said, well, I got two pair
of socks, three pair three T shirts, maybe four pair
of underwear, and my golfuse. I went to bed and
I I woke up at three in the morning. I
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couldn't take it. So I went in and grabbed a
bag and I to underwear, socks, T shirts, heavy, some
more heavy stuff and me and anything I could put
in there. And I got a ship to him within
two days, and so, oh my god, thanks, I got something.
And then I did another box much later. But he's
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doing well. He's staying at a place and they're going
to rebuild his insurance company they got he hit fire insurance.
So anyway, moving on the Palisades fire and all those
signed Altadena and Abassady everywhere, there was fires all over
the place. I'd never heard of anything, seen anything like that.
I mean, I mean those people have I say, they
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don't pray enough. And it just happened. It just happened.
And my daughter was in the middle. But I remember,
and I sent her. I say, but I'm thinking, here's
the story on this banana deal. Okay, you heard the
guy that the guy that sold a banana for six
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million dollars. Uh. Anyway, Uh, he has a gallery out there. Well,
he sold his to a crypto entrepreneur and he's he's
in his studio. The gallery is in the Venetian Resort.
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And so I guess this crypto guy came in there
and he bought it. And then I heard not long
ago he ate it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
He invited the press to come watch him he in.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Banana, Yeah, and actually say.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
In front of him yeh. I mean, but here's the
thing we're talking about it. So he spent six million
dollars advertising for everybody to know he's got a crypto fund,
and he probably made six sixty million dollars off of
the publicity.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Because the end of the day, it's all about the publicity.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
I'm filibustering you because I want you to tell the
story we were about. We're up against a break, so
I wanted you to have a full segment to tell it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
So hang with me.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
First, Steve Austin, Heath Barkley, Coult Seavers and however else
you know, the great Lee Majors.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
He's our guest.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
More with him, Lucky you. The Michael Berry Show continues day.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
The multi talented originally trained as a theater actor, as
all the greats are.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Lee Majors is our guest.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
My friend Rick Doak, who's a farm and ranch realtor,
lives in Chapel Hill, but he sells a lot of properties.
His partner sold Charles Thomas's ranch and he sent me
the listing. If you have thirty seconds, I read it
to you. Welcome, Welcome to Twin Oaks Ranch. This ranch
is offered for the first time and has so much
to offer for every buyer. The iconic ranch has been
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published in the Wall Street Journals, The Chronicle and many
others as it has made the list for its beauty,
location and amenities it offers. This was the family ranch
of a legendary man, Charlie Thomas and his wife Kitsey.
They created a retreat as well as a place for recreation.
It was also a place to call home to their
infamous collection of antique cars. Once you arrive and drive
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through the gated entrance, you will be amazed what lies
beyond enough space to describe this ranch in one paragraph.
You must see for yourself from the custom green hall.
That's what you're talking about. Replica that they took it
from New Bronfels, the Green Hall Replica movie theater, Grand
Prix go kart track, to several large climate controlled industrial buildings,
the main home, guests homes, covered arena, back, sketball court,
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an almost six acre rated lake with fishing cabin. If
you have an imagination, this property can take you there.
They should have said, this is where Lee Majors used
to hang out.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Well, I only hung out there mainly for get fishing
that little bitty lake head.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, and the picture.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know what's funny of all the glorious things at
that property, the picture they chose is that is that
antique little cottage cabin on the lake with the little
dock out in front of it, which is where you
would have.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, No, it's just a little bitty, small little places
and it's not you couldn't spend the night there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It looks like you've gone out to Walden to meet
Henry David Thureaux.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's just gloriou Yeah picture.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Well, I'd love to have a copy of that if
you'll send it to that up for me. It's great
and I was so good. You can put that thing
you put together.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
There for me, I would be aling.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I haven't heard those songs in one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know. You said that when you came in last time, and.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I know we're going to do it, but you never
did it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was mealy.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
It was Jim Mudd and all he does is tell
us what a big fan of Lee Majors is and
then you give him a task and he didn't do it.
Fired save us a lot of money, So tell me
about Yeah, well, uh we got it. You know what,
we got to trim the crowd here, we gotta we
got to reduce payroll. You know, it's tough times. Hey,
By the way, you are so relevant, uh Donald Trump.
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You know who Jim Acosta was. He was the one
at uh uh CNN who was always yelling at Trump. Yeah,
so he he was, yeah, well he's just got fired.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
He's calling it being laid up.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
So Trump, the President tweets, wow, really good news.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Jim Acosta, one of the.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major
sleeves bag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to
the Midnight Hour Death Valley. He put that in quotes
because of extraordinarily bad ratings and no talent. Word is
that he wants to quit, and that would be even better.
Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter
where he ends up.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Good luck, Jim.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Wonderful story.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah yeah, how about Hey, how about the Death Valley reference?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yeah? Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
All right, So tell about I didn't want to have
to interrupt you in the middle of the story.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Tell the story about what's going on in Hollywood, the
Hollywood Museum, because I think this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, no, this is going to be Let me tell
you the guy this is not the same guy that
sold the other banana. This is a guy who has
an amazing and it's called an a an amazing gallery
and it's in the Grand Canal shops at the Venetian
Resort in Vegas. Okay, he put a playful twist on
this Virol phenomenon. And they just unveiled a new piece
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that features a vintage I say, nineteen seventy three Kenner,
a six million dollar man action figure holding an acrylic
banana which is taped to a piece of white or
a foam board and measuring eighteen inches about thirteen inches
And anyway, it's turning his up there and it's going
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to go to auction. I don't know exactly why i'd
been coming up Fairy Queer, Hey, the other one was it?
So I think somebody said this was a Christis anyway,
let me get it down to you what the reason is.
I got contacted by him, and he wondered. He told
me about it, and he wondered if I would fly
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up and he'd fly me there and put me up
and to sign when I signed in his studio, and
I thought, well, you know, I don't do stuff like that.
I really don't like to do that stuff. But anyway,
that's you know. Then the fire happened and he called
me back after he said have you thought it over?
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And I said, yeah, you know what, I'll do that,
but you got to guarantee a portion of the the profits,
so whatever the amount of it is to go to
the American Red Cross in the Palisades, you know, in
that area, to help help people there. So that's so
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I'm doing that, and I'm flying out of here on Thursday,
and I'm going to be there on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
How long will it be at the Venetian, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Well, he'll probably leave it on for a while after.
You know, he just kind of unveiled it so that
people will come and see it and everything, and then
he put it on the auction. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are you a fan of the Eagles?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Sure? I remember I haven't had a dinner once. Oh
what's the lead Saturday? Yeah, Don Henley, Don Henley.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You've had dinner with everybody?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Oh no, no, come on, well a lot of people.
But let me tell you. You know, I hate the
title of that series that they gave, The six million
Dollar Man, because you know, people are that said. I'll
never get away from that title, you know, and you know,
people think I made a lot of money on that show.
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We're talking way back, you know, in the seventies. The
big value was in the sixties, and didn't I didn't
get a penny from that, and it's run reruns every day,
but I don't get anything from that. And because there
were no residuals back then, and you know, everything else
was under a contractor universal and the deals weren't very big.
So you know, people, oh, read the six million Dollar Man.
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Ever hear in a crange because I'm not sixty dollar man.
You think you know. So I'm still doing old comic
cons here and there that kind of pay the bills.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
And anyway, I've never been to comic con, but I
am told by my friend Kim Webster, who does go
and who is one of these I he's really really
into it and he says that amazingly but not surprisingly,
you are one of the top draws to this day.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
People love you at that event.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
No, no, you know who's the top draw or less,
it's we've patting my buddy, my friend.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I would believe that. I would believe that.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, you know they so some of us say
so some of the stuff had a you know, like
I can't remember what all these figures were, but you know,
you had a lot of memorabilia stuff, but actually stuff
that they used in the show.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
And that's because Shatner has what you have and very
few people have, which is, no matter what you do,
it's cool and cool is not something you can you can.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Create or build or buy it. You just are or
you're not. Lead majors. I love you to death. Thanks
for being our guests.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 2 (27:18):
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iHeart Spotify, iTunes, wherever else you get your podcast. And
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people tell me every day they just discovered our podcast
and they just discovered the concept of podcasting. There is
such a wonderful world of content out there that you
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that I'm in the radio business. Not in the radio business,
I'm in the entertainment business. And other people will say, oh,
did I think that cheapens what you do?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, no, no, no, no no no no. Rush was in the
entertainment business.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
There are a lot of people screaming into the microphone
and that's not very entertaining. In the sense that it's enjoyable,
but it is entertaining in the sense that it some
people like that. I mean, there's been talk show hosts,
and you know who they are. Most aren't around anymore.
Who all they do is is what I call angry
white man radio.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
They just scream, there's mad at everybody all day long.
I life's too short.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I got enough things to worry about that I don't
need to turn it on and hears some guys scream
and holler and be mad all the time.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Rush was able to lay out what was.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Going on and explain makes sense of the crazy things
that were going on in the world, but do it
in a way that didn't make you want to take
your own life or drown yourself in a bottle. He
did it in such a way that we could learn
to laugh at things around us that we don't like.
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And many people never grasp this, this life lesson and
hear me out. When you can laugh at something, you
own what you laugh at. When something makes you angry,
that thing, person, idea, concept, action owns you. Many people
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will never get that. They'll argue with me, well, I'm
never going to be happy about the point at which
you learn to laugh at it is the point at
which you exercise dominion over it. When you tell me
that this person comes on TV and you get so
mad that you have to turn the TV and walk
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outside and yell at your dog and kick your cat,
that is the moment that you have lost perspective and
control over it. And I'll tell you this, if you
want to make a liberal mad, you can argue with them,
you can insult them, but when you laugh at them,
that's when they'll start swinging.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That's when they grow angry.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Because the one thing the left cannot do is laugh
at themselves. They are which is one of the worst
insults you can ever hurl. They are humorless. I often say,
if you have no sight, you are blind. That's a
sense that you do not possess. If you have no hearing,
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you are deaf. It's a sense that you lack. You
cannot speak, you are dumb. We don't use the term
dumb anymore, but that's where what it meant meant you
were mute because you lack that sense.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You lack that well.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
If you do not see humor where it naturally exists,
it's fertile ground for it, and you are humorless. The
Left is humorless. And the unfortunate thing is many people
on our side of the aisle have become equally humorless
and powerless. Are so they believe to not be humorless.
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The moment you tell me but Michael, I can't laugh
at Joe Biden because he ruined this country. The moment
you laugh is the moment you can deal with it.
And if I can't get that through to you, if
you cannot understand that, if you really give it some
(31:21):
thought and you cannot understand it, then I'm going to
keep trying because that was Russia's goal, and that's why
I brought Rush up. A great leader of a movement
uses humor. That's why people underestimate the influence of stand
up comics.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
They're very powerful.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Kat Williams can make some incredibly deep points while making
you laugh. A lot of a lot of the great
comics that you know had social Unfortunately most of them
were liberals, but they were very influential. By making people laugh,
you're also making people think. I do enjoy your emails.
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Austin astronaut, a man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
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Speaker 5 (00:48):
It's been fun, lots of laughs, Jamie.
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It always is when friends meet again.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
All of it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Car because the films that boss just stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
You can always see the less in the ladies. You
can always tell the death bruence in the way a
woman speaks. Ladies choose, let's carefully. The others just talk
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to you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Lee Majors, Hollywood superstar, Lee Majors, Lee Majors, Lee Majors.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He was Heath Barkley, Steve Austin and Colt Seavers. It's
Lee Majors.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
As I told you yesterday, I was going to be
speaking to Lee Majors this morning, and I did. Here's
our conversation. A six million dollar man. Lee Majors is
our guest. Welcome to the program Sir.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well Sir Michael. Introduction feels honored. There. I thought, Wow,
what the heck is going on?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well this this was a group project, Lee.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I got to tell you, so Chad Nakanishi, our executive director,
Ramon Roeblis who you know, and Jim mud.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
More or less.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah, everybody was arguing over who got to do the
Lee Majors intro because that meant we could go back
through the body of work of stories on you. In fact,
there was a news clip of you I think it
was nineteen eighty four and the Los Angeles Express I
can't remember the name of the football team that you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Owe, yeah, La Express.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And there was a whole clip on that.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But we Jim couldn't figure out how to reduce it
down so that we could add it to the thing.
But I mean, people forget all the cool stuff you've done,
all right, So you mentioned that this guy or you
consented when I asked you.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
About it that I just don't start on that. Let's
don't get on that real quick. Oh okay, let's visit
for a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You got a whold of don't rush me. Yeah, I'm sorry.
I was trying to let it, let it, let it
breathe like a fine wine. But Ramon was excited.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I said, go, you know, you got a light first,
So what are.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You doing today? Tell me what is on the right now?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Let me tell you, uh, you know, I want to
talk about our fire, our snow. Actually, isn't that wonderful
snow day we had?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
So like you from Colorado and you said, I said,
look at this beautiful snow, And you said, I'm sitting
in Houston and I got this snow.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
No what I said that I went to bed in
Houston and woke up in Colorado and yeah, you know what,
you know what ye say, here we go again. But
you know it didn't It wasn't like the last one
we had where we had it was frankling of snow
and it froze and we lost power for more people.
That was over almost two weeks. And and then you
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know that one was a terrible one, and there you know,
it kept icing over, icing over. Anyway, this one was
so beautiful. It was what a snow day, and what
a beautiful Christmas. It seemed like a Christmas day that
the Lord gave us there. And I just was very
pressure to that. And you know what, it was gone
in a day and a half.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
How about Lilla, if I remember correctly, and I didn't
look it up. I think you were raised in Kentucky,
but ill.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And if we saw snow out the window, mommy, mommy,
I want to go, go exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
You remember, I was raised in Orange, Texas, on the
Louisiana born. We didn't have snow. So so for us,
if we in my life as a kid, in my
entire childhood, if we had had the snow that we
had here last week, I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It would have been so exciting.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah you weren't here, right, Uh, yes, I'm here. You
were in Astida, right. Well, you know what, it was
just so beautiful. I knew said something was coming, but
I didn't think it. You know. It woke up the
next morning and I looked out the window and my god,
what a beautiful view.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
My wife said, we're going to have stranges. Yeah, we're
going She said, we're gonna have six inches of snow.
And this was like on Thursday, and it was going
to happen on Sunday or Monday. And I said, sweetheart,
I've lived in this part of Texas my entire life,
and they promise us that every year, and it's nothing
but disappointment. We're not going to have snow and lo
and behold what did we have but glorious for this
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part of the world. Glorious snow.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well, you know, Ustonians just don't pray enough.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right for what year did you come to Houston.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
About thirteen years ago? Twenty twelve? Well, twenty eleven is
when I looked around and you had one hundred straight
days over one hundred degrees over it was hot, and
you still can and I still came. I closed on
a place here in twenty twelve, and then you know,
I said, hey, it can me in hot, but heck,
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it's not the burning hot like you get you know
in an Arizona or up in Nevada, you know, in
Las Vegas or somewhere like that where just you can't
touch a door handle. Anyway, Now we can get on
a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yes, I'm up against you break in about a minute.
I don't want to have to interrupt you. Let me
ask you.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No, no, no, you can interrupt.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, I'll have to interrupt to go to break.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
But let me ask you, since we're on the subject,
thirteen years into it, what are your Obviously you could
live anywhere you want and have lived all over the world.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
What do you like about living in Houston? Why do
you stay here?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, first of all, it's the people. I mean the
hospitality here. There's wonderful people here and everybody's friendly. Nobody
bothers you, you know, except if you're going the wrong area.
But I just love it. I had a great friend
here named Charlie Thomas before I moved here. He had
the Houston Rockets and he's a great friend. He got
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me here. He kept saying, come to Houston because I
was going to go back to Florida. And anyway, that's
how I got here.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And we are glad you were here. Ramon, you know who.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Charlie Thomas was passed away a couple of years ago,
but Charlie Thomas was a legend in me on.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The Houston Rockets. There. I'm in one of the biggest
car dealers in the country.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
And I never got invited to the ranch, but I
always wanted to. But my understanding is that he and
you held forth or some EPICU poker games at his ranch.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
No, actually it was a little dice game which was
very simple, and wed ten or twelve people come up
there and they have a big dinner and then mokeall guys,
and then we said out and do this the game
around the table, and it was just so much fun.
You know. He had he had a beautiful place there
and he had his house of course, he had a
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little monkhouse, and he had a saloon that was as
big as the one they had over in Brennan or
Brenna we're over somewhere and he't copy it. It was like,
and he'd have over one hundred people up there every
year from the locals and all of his friends. And
you have a big pequin, and I know I got.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To go now hold on this moment. Lee Majors is
our Guests. Bizar is on.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well done, So this is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Lee Majors is our Guest.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I told folks you would be on the show and
to feel free to send me a message. And this
was one of many from Jim Adare. I received a
very special birthday gift last August. It was a video
message from Lee Majors wishing me a happy birthday. We
have a mutual friend and I told her I would
love to say hello to him one day because I
was such a big fan. And this guy got Lee
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to do this for me and my wife played the
video message to me and on my birthday and don't
think less of me or don't think I'm less a
man or think less of me. But I have to
admit teared up imagining that he took the time to
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
How nice is that?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Are you talking to me?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, that story was about you.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You didn't send me a video message on my birthday?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
You know, I do a lot of those time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What's the point of having celebrity if you're not going
to share it with people like that?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's you're putting it to good use.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, no, I understand that, And that's the m key
is just be nice to people. Of course, be nice
to people on the way up because you you might
not see them on the way down.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Well, let's talk about that, because most people are supposed
to have this twilight period where they're forgotten about and
then you know, their name pops up and we go, oh,
whatever happened to that guy?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You're eighty five and you are maybe you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, just that's correct you No, No,
I'm fifty eight, fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Eight, I'm sorry. You know what I got dyslexia?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Well, no, Biden had dyslexia. Turned I turned it around
because it sounds better.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
You weren't supposed to tell that I was doing the
show from Aspen because people didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You outed, Well, okay, so let's talk about that.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I think this is well, you were only there a
couple of days out of yourself, I was in Aspen.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yes, let's talk about this exhibit in California because this
is cool.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Okay, all right, Well, well, first of all, you know,
I'm I had I had a daughter out there. You know,
all the fires that are going on, and she's in there.
She has like, you know, four kids and three dogs,
and she who was in the Palisades and they had
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to evacuate. And of course you saw what happened in
the Palisades, but it almost burned everything out of ballisades.
But you know what I see. After she exactuated, she said,
I think it's it's gone, dad, you know. And I said, well,
I'm praying to God that he made a miracle and
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it will still be standing. You know. Well, she got
a chance later a couple of days later to go
in with a fire patrol her and her husband, and
I believe it or not, it was still standing. And
what do you say to that. You know, it was
a lot of mess, you know, but you know, the
(11:32):
smoke mess and stuff like that. But at least the
structure was still there, you know. And it just amazes me.
When you do a good prayer, miracles do happen. And
my friend, anyway, I've been, I mean praying for another
friend named Terry Kaiser. I don't know if you can
remember him. Well, he uh, he was Bernie and Weekend
(11:57):
at Bernie's. He was a lead at the star of
two Weekend at Bernie Movies. And he was a fabulous
that and he isn't known for that for many many years.
And he's the same age as me, he is eighty five.
And he was away and he had a phone call
that his house was on fire. And I don't know
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where he was, but by the time he was a
get there, he didn't burn to the ground. And it
was a place that he lived there in Colorado and
in Ridgeway. It was his little town and near Erat
and across over the mountain there was you know, all
the snow ski resorts and stuff, but this was just
(12:39):
out in the country kind of thing. That's all he had.
And I said, well, what do you need? He said,
where you got? He said, well, I got two pair
of socks, three pair three T shirts, maybe four pair
of underwear, and my golfuse. I went to bed and
I I woke up at three in the morning. I
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couldn't take it. So I went in and grabbed a
bag and I to underwear, socks, T shirts, heavy, some
more heavy stuff and me and anything I could put
in there. And I got a ship to him within
two days, and so, oh my god, thanks, I got something.
And then I did another box much later. But he's
(13:22):
doing well. He's staying at a place and they're going
to rebuild his insurance company they got he hit fire insurance.
So anyway, moving on the Palisades fire and all those
signed Altadena and Abassady everywhere, there was fires all over
the place. I'd never heard of anything, seen anything like that.
I mean, I mean those people have I say, they
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don't pray enough. And it just happened. It just happened.
And my daughter was in the middle. But I remember,
and I sent her. I say, but I'm thinking, here's
the story on this banana deal. Okay, you heard the
guy that the guy that sold a banana for six
(14:06):
million dollars. Uh. Anyway, Uh, he has a gallery out there. Well,
he sold his to a crypto entrepreneur and he's he's
in his studio. The gallery is in the Venetian Resort.
(14:29):
And so I guess this crypto guy came in there
and he bought it. And then I heard not long
ago he ate it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
He invited the press to come watch him he in.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Banana, Yeah, and actually say.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
In front of him yeh. I mean, but here's the
thing we're talking about it. So he spent six million
dollars advertising for everybody to know he's got a crypto fund,
and he probably made six sixty million dollars off of
the publicity.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Because the end of the day, it's all about the publicity.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
I'm filibustering you because I want you to tell the
story we were about. We're up against a break, so
I wanted you to have a full segment to tell it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
So hang with me.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
First, Steve Austin, Heath Barkley, Coult Seavers and however else
you know, the great Lee Majors.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
He's our guest.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
More with him, Lucky you. The Michael Berry Show continues day.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
The multi talented originally trained as a theater actor, as
all the greats are.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Lee Majors is our guest.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Lee.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
My friend Rick Doak, who's a farm and ranch realtor,
lives in Chapel Hill, but he sells a lot of properties.
His partner sold Charles Thomas's ranch and he sent me
the listing. If you have thirty seconds, I read it
to you. Welcome, Welcome to Twin Oaks Ranch. This ranch
is offered for the first time and has so much
to offer for every buyer. The iconic ranch has been
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published in the Wall Street Journals, The Chronicle and many
others as it has made the list for its beauty,
location and amenities it offers. This was the family ranch
of a legendary man, Charlie Thomas and his wife Kitsey.
They created a retreat as well as a place for recreation.
It was also a place to call home to their
infamous collection of antique cars. Once you arrive and drive
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through the gated entrance, you will be amazed what lies
beyond enough space to describe this ranch in one paragraph.
You must see for yourself from the custom green hall.
That's what you're talking about. Replica that they took it
from New Bronfels, the Green Hall Replica movie theater, Grand
Prix go kart track, to several large climate controlled industrial buildings,
the main home, guests homes, covered arena, back, sketball court,
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an almost six acre rated lake with fishing cabin. If
you have an imagination, this property can take you there.
They should have said, this is where Lee Majors used
to hang out.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Well, I only hung out there mainly for get fishing
that little bitty lake head.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, and the picture.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know what's funny of all the glorious things at
that property, the picture they chose is that is that
antique little cottage cabin on the lake with the little
dock out in front of it, which is where you
would have.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, No, it's just a little bitty, small little places
and it's not you couldn't spend the night there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It looks like you've gone out to Walden to meet
Henry David Thureaux.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's just gloriou Yeah picture.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Well, I'd love to have a copy of that if
you'll send it to that up for me. It's great
and I was so good. You can put that thing
you put together.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
There for me, I would be aling.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I haven't heard those songs in one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know. You said that when you came in last time, and.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I know we're going to do it, but you never
did it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was mealy.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
It was Jim Mudd and all he does is tell
us what a big fan of Lee Majors is and
then you give him a task and he didn't do it.
Fired save us a lot of money, So tell me
about Yeah, well, uh we got it. You know what,
we got to trim the crowd here, we gotta we
got to reduce payroll. You know, it's tough times. Hey,
By the way, you are so relevant, uh Donald Trump.
(18:24):
You know who Jim Acosta was. He was the one
at uh uh CNN who was always yelling at Trump. Yeah,
so he he was, yeah, well he's just got fired.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
He's calling it being laid up.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
So Trump, the President tweets, wow, really good news.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Jim Acosta, one of the.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major
sleeves bag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to
the Midnight Hour Death Valley. He put that in quotes
because of extraordinarily bad ratings and no talent. Word is
that he wants to quit, and that would be even better.
Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter
where he ends up.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Good luck, Jim.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Wonderful story.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah yeah, how about Hey, how about the Death Valley reference?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yeah? Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
All right, So tell about I didn't want to have
to interrupt you in the middle of the story.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Tell the story about what's going on in Hollywood, the
Hollywood Museum, because I think this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, no, this is going to be Let me tell
you the guy this is not the same guy that
sold the other banana. This is a guy who has
an amazing and it's called an a an amazing gallery
and it's in the Grand Canal shops at the Venetian
Resort in Vegas. Okay, he put a playful twist on
this Virol phenomenon. And they just unveiled a new piece
(19:46):
that features a vintage I say, nineteen seventy three Kenner,
a six million dollar man action figure holding an acrylic
banana which is taped to a piece of white or
a foam board and measuring eighteen inches about thirteen inches
And anyway, it's turning his up there and it's going
(20:07):
to go to auction. I don't know exactly why i'd
been coming up Fairy Queer, Hey, the other one was it?
So I think somebody said this was a Christis anyway,
let me get it down to you what the reason is.
I got contacted by him, and he wondered. He told
me about it, and he wondered if I would fly
(20:28):
up and he'd fly me there and put me up
and to sign when I signed in his studio, and
I thought, well, you know, I don't do stuff like that.
I really don't like to do that stuff. But anyway,
that's you know. Then the fire happened and he called
me back after he said have you thought it over?
(20:50):
And I said, yeah, you know what, I'll do that,
but you got to guarantee a portion of the the profits,
so whatever the amount of it is to go to
the American Red Cross in the Palisades, you know, in
that area, to help help people there. So that's so
(21:12):
I'm doing that, and I'm flying out of here on Thursday,
and I'm going to be there on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
How long will it be at the Venetian, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Well, he'll probably leave it on for a while after.
You know, he just kind of unveiled it so that
people will come and see it and everything, and then
he put it on the auction. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are you a fan of the Eagles?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Sure? I remember I haven't had a dinner once. Oh
what's the lead Saturday? Yeah, Don Henley, Don Henley.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You've had dinner with everybody?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Oh no, no, come on, well a lot of people.
But let me tell you. You know, I hate the
title of that series that they gave, The six million
Dollar Man, because you know, people are that said. I'll
never get away from that title, you know, and you know,
people think I made a lot of money on that show.
(22:12):
We're talking way back, you know, in the seventies. The
big value was in the sixties, and didn't I didn't
get a penny from that, and it's run reruns every day,
but I don't get anything from that. And because there
were no residuals back then, and you know, everything else
was under a contractor universal and the deals weren't very big.
So you know, people, oh, read the six million Dollar Man.
(22:34):
Ever hear in a crange because I'm not sixty dollar man.
You think you know. So I'm still doing old comic
cons here and there that kind of pay the bills.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
And anyway, I've never been to comic con, but I
am told by my friend Kim Webster, who does go
and who is one of these I he's really really
into it and he says that amazingly but not surprisingly,
you are one of the top draws to this day.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
People love you at that event.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
No, no, you know who's the top draw or less,
it's we've patting my buddy, my friend.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I would believe that. I would believe that.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, you know they so some of us say
so some of the stuff had a you know, like
I can't remember what all these figures were, but you know,
you had a lot of memorabilia stuff, but actually stuff
that they used in the show.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
And that's because Shatner has what you have and very
few people have, which is, no matter what you do,
it's cool and cool is not something you can you can.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Create or build or buy it. You just are or
you're not. Lead majors. I love you to death. Thanks
for being our guests.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Of course speakers smart devices from Michael's brain, every single
one of them to your ears.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
If you miss any part of Today's show or any
other show, if you find yourself unable to listen live
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It's a wonderful era, a golden age or content creation
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So if you listen to.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
An evening show and you want to try out our
morning show, it's a little a little more relaxed. We're
a little more serious on this show. And the reason
is because people will ask, well, you sound different. The
reason is when we started in radio nineteen years ago.
In a few years in once stations started picking us up,
it's the evening show format. A lot of our listeners
(25:35):
are in stations that were listening to at that time
Glenn back in the morning, Rush in the midday, and
then Hannity, and then we were coming on after that.
That listener was accustomed to a pretty serious show.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Now Rush Rush used humor.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
And that's the thing that bothers me when people who
don't like Rush the left, they make him sound like
a bitter, angry man. Rush was not bitter at all.
Rush loved life. He had a zest for life. He
was a happy person all the while. He was a
(26:14):
joyful warrior. To use the less term, but it's true.
In the culture wars. He was a teacher. He cared
about people. You could hear it, you could hear what
he brought to the table every day. I have so
much admiration for this man in his ministry, and I
do see it as a ministry. I don't think you
(26:36):
have to preach in a pulpit or have congregants per
se to be a minister.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
A person who ministers. We talked earlier about nurses.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I think nurses minister, I think teachers minister, I think
a good parent ministers. I think we think of parenting
as providing a roof over the head and a ride
to the soccer game, But is so much more to
being a parent. Parents mold us into who and what
we are. I know mine did. So I have a
(27:08):
story for you in this our last segment. All that
was by way of saying, if you don't already listen
to our podcast, you can download them.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
They're free.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
iHeart Spotify, iTunes, wherever else you get your podcast. And
by the way, if you've never listened to podcasts, because
people tell me every day they just discovered our podcast
and they just discovered the concept of podcasting. There is
such a wonderful world of content out there that you
would not believe. You know, used to people will say
(27:43):
that I'm in the radio business. Not in the radio business,
I'm in the entertainment business. And other people will say, oh,
did I think that cheapens what you do?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, no, no, no, no no no no. Rush was in the
entertainment business.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
There are a lot of people screaming into the microphone
and that's not very entertaining. In the sense that it's enjoyable,
but it is entertaining in the sense that it some
people like that. I mean, there's been talk show hosts,
and you know who they are. Most aren't around anymore.
Who all they do is is what I call angry
white man radio.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
They just scream, there's mad at everybody all day long.
I life's too short.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I got enough things to worry about that I don't
need to turn it on and hears some guys scream
and holler and be mad all the time.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Rush was able to lay out what was.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Going on and explain makes sense of the crazy things
that were going on in the world, but do it
in a way that didn't make you want to take
your own life or drown yourself in a bottle. He
did it in such a way that we could learn
to laugh at things around us that we don't like.
(28:51):
And many people never grasp this, this life lesson and
hear me out. When you can laugh at something, you
own what you laugh at. When something makes you angry,
that thing, person, idea, concept, action owns you. Many people
(29:16):
will never get that. They'll argue with me, well, I'm
never going to be happy about the point at which
you learn to laugh at it is the point at
which you exercise dominion over it. When you tell me
that this person comes on TV and you get so
mad that you have to turn the TV and walk
(29:37):
outside and yell at your dog and kick your cat,
that is the moment that you have lost perspective and
control over it. And I'll tell you this, if you
want to make a liberal mad, you can argue with them,
you can insult them, but when you laugh at them,
that's when they'll start swinging.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That's when they grow angry.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Because the one thing the left cannot do is laugh
at themselves. They are which is one of the worst
insults you can ever hurl. They are humorless. I often say,
if you have no sight, you are blind. That's a
sense that you do not possess. If you have no hearing,
(30:24):
you are deaf. It's a sense that you lack. You
cannot speak, you are dumb. We don't use the term
dumb anymore, but that's where what it meant meant you
were mute because you lack that sense.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You lack that well.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
If you do not see humor where it naturally exists,
it's fertile ground for it, and you are humorless. The
Left is humorless. And the unfortunate thing is many people
on our side of the aisle have become equally humorless
and powerless. Are so they believe to not be humorless.
(31:00):
The moment you tell me but Michael, I can't laugh
at Joe Biden because he ruined this country. The moment
you laugh is the moment you can deal with it.
And if I can't get that through to you, if
you cannot understand that, if you really give it some
(31:21):
thought and you cannot understand it, then I'm going to
keep trying because that was Russia's goal, and that's why
I brought Rush up. A great leader of a movement
uses humor. That's why people underestimate the influence of stand
up comics.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
They're very powerful.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Kat Williams can make some incredibly deep points while making
you laugh. A lot of a lot of the great
comics that you know had social Unfortunately most of them
were liberals, but they were very influential. By making people laugh,
you're also making people think. I do enjoy your emails.
(32:01):
I read everyone, I don't respond to everyone. You can
always visit our website Michael Berryshow dot com where you
can send me an email directly. You can sign up
for our daily blast. We send memes that we do.
We'll never sell your email. We'll never share your email ever,
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
Never will. So we'll see you back tomorrow, God willing,
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