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The Michael Berry Show.

Charlie Daniels, thanks for being with us, my man.

Hey, man, before you started back, I got to hand you something.

You ace that back pain thing.

Did you like that?

Good gosh, man.

What a great commercial.

You ought to get double-scale for that.

You know, my double-scale isn't quite what your double-scale is. No, really? I was sitting here to listen. You kind of wanted your back to be worked on, didn't you? Well, you know what the deal is? You just said that's communicating. That's what we're lacking in a lot of in this country. It's communicate. I watch these politicians. They don't get down to the nitty-gritty. They talk in circles and stuff.

But that was great. were lacking a lot of this country. It's communicating. I watch these politicians. They don't get down to the nitty-gritty.

They talk in circles and stuff.

But that was great.

I just want to compliment you on that. It's storytelling, no. But you know what? I think about Devil went down to Georgia. That's storytelling. And yeah, the fiddles make it all and on. but at the end of the day, that is old-fashioned Homer or the Odyssey, you know, telling a story the way people used to around a campfire or on the back porch, the way my pawpaw would tell me stories.

That before we could read and write before we had scripts, we told stories. And I think that's

still true today. The people who are good in news, Rush Limbaugh is the best on the radio. He tells stories. And that's what any good musician does. You tell stories. People still love a good story. Well, I learned a lot about life around a coon hunting fire. I listened to people. When I was a kid, just listened to older people talking experiences and things that they'd done before. I mean, it just, it was a, you know, I'm with, of course, I come up the day before TV, and we just had radio, and people hunted, and people spent a lot of time together. Actually, it sat on air front forages at night. We didn't have air conditions. At the summertime, we set out, and it was a, it was the time to talk. It was the time to be a family. It was a time to talk about any problems that you had or things that you're anticipating or what was going on in everybody's life. And, you know, the family spent a lot more time together than they do now. We tend to kind of see each other on the fly now, you know,

and I think communication is, I wish that we would be more concerned with people's communication

skills, some of the kids' communication skills, teach them instead of quite as much more learning,

you know, from common things. Well, you know, you're right. We, we turn six in a couple of days, and a big deal for us is you say, yes, sir, and no, sir, and yes, ma'am, and no ma'am. And even in the south, where I live in Houston, that is rare, and people are so impressed that he does that. The other thing is you look adults in the eye because a lot of

kids have not been taught how to interact with adults. So we insist you look at an adult in the eye,

you shake their hand. And to see a five-year-old kid behave like this, it shocks people because

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