This is an IHeart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary show is on the air.

It's Charlie from Blackberry Smoke.

I can feel a good one coming on.

It's the Michael Barry Show.

Man, I'm going to tell you something.

You might have had a rough day or a rough week,

but things are great in America right now. An incredible honor to get to talk to you.

Not just today, every day.

Every minute you give us of your time.

You know, the way I look at it, if you're listening on the radio, you've got, depending on your market, you've got at least 10 other stations you could listen to, probably way more.

You could listen to music on your phone, all the various phone apps, or music apps.

You could call and talk to somebody on your phone. You could sit in silence, which for many people, you know who I don't understand

how they do it? People I don't understand how they do it is people who work in an environment

where they got backup beepers.

Like a, like a, like a, uh, forklift.

Beep, beep, beep.

There's always somebody backing up the, the forklift.

And you always hear it.

And you know who else does that?

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