This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

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.

Oh, yes, it is.

We're glad you're here with us.

It's not going to the show without you.

I hope your week was productive.

Whether that means it was relaxing, whether it was healthful, healing, whether that means you closed the biggest deal of your career, you were hired for the job you always wanted, whether you found that assistant, you've been needing in your office to solve your problems, whether that means that the girl you asked out said yes that you had your eye on for quite some time or your first grandchild was born, whatever productive means to you, whatever

happy means to you. It is a real honor that you tune in to listen to us.

There are so many choices for how you can spend your time.

And I always tell people, people think of, quote unquote, competition, which I think is very

healthy, as what else is on the radio dial.

Oh, no, no, no.

You've got podcasts you could be listening to right now. You'd be listening to other people talk. You could be listening to the radio. I mean, you could listen to music radio. You could be listening to a number of other things. Or you could be on the phone. Or you could turn it all off and just look out. So the fact that you choose to join us, especially because I'm not saying

anyone else panders, but we don't always just say what we think you want to hear. We say what's on

our mind, even when we know that we'll not be popular with our audience, because part of what we

expect people as part of the show audience to do

...