WEBVTT - John Morgan and Life is Luck 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.400 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.520 the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wggs in Culver City. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.760 Well, Johnny, we got to start out this hour with 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.760 a big thanks to this audience, not just in southern California, 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.880 but in northern California, the Central Valley as well. Susan 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.000 Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Tax Bear Association announced yesterday 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:26.080 that the Save Prop thirteen Act has made the November ballot. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:27.520 All right. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.000 We were doing those drives at big events at the 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.760 beginning of this year to get the signatures. The signatures 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.239 were verified, and this thing's going to be on the 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.000 November ballot and it does two things. One, it would 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.400 restore the two thirds majority for all these tax increases 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.919 that we've seen over the last few years. And this 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.200 is the really interesting one. It would ban real estate 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.000 transfer taxes, which means that if the HJTA measure passes, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:58.200 Measure ULA in the City of la is null and void, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.640 and the government of the City of Los Angeles will 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.480 have to refund everybody that paid that tax over the 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:06.679 last four years. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.000 So what you're saying is we get to keep our 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.319 homes until Karen Bass goes back to Ghana. 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.920 Yes, eight hundred. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.479 Two two two five two two two is a telephone 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.440 number one eight hundred two to two five two two two. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.280 It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.319 the program. He is the founder of Morgan and Morgan. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.080 He is also the author of a new book called 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.800 Life Is Luck, available online at Amazon dot com. You 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:41.480 can get them online at Fourthepeople dot com. John Morgan, Welcome, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.360 how are you. I am great, Thank you so much 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.080 for stopping by. And last time you were on, you 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:55.880 made everyone in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fresno, and all 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.240 points in between jealous because right after the interview you 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.320 were getting off the phone and you were going to 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.600 have a monkey Pod my tie in Maui and the 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.240 rest of us are sitting here at work. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.200 And guess what I did after that? After that monkey 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:17.079 Pod my Tie, I had dinner one night with Peter Merriman, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.079 who owns the Monkey Pod and Merryman's and a bunch 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.560 of other restaurants. And I said, Peter, you owe me 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.640 a lot of my ties. And he said why. I said, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.400 I was on one of the most popular radio shows 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.520 in California, and I plugged the monkey Pod, and I 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.160 had the tape and I sent it to him. So 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.840 I got extra my ties for free as a result 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.880 of plugging the my Ties at the monkey Pod. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.000 Extra my Ties and extra Lily Coy foam. You can't 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.040 go wrong with that. Oh yeah, yeah, all right. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.080 So you got a new book out that's called Life 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.480 is Luck. And I love the premise of this, and 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:04.920 I'll tell you why. I am a huge fan of athletics. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.880 I love sports ever since I was a little kid. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.200 I watched the Showtime Lakers. I've watched the Angels lose 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:17.360 for decade after decade after decade. I'm all in. And 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.959 I like to gamble too. I like to play blackjack, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.000 I like to play poker. I like all of those games. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.680 And anyone who follows sports closely, or anyone who really 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:34.200 truly does enjoy gambling, will tell you that in gambling, 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.240 for example, there's a book, and there's a certain way 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.080 you're supposed to play blackjack, and if you play by 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.520 the book, you will win more often than if you 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.080 don't play by the book. But it doesn't matter how 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.280 much you study it. It doesn't matter how familiar you 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.600 are with the rules, and with the statistics and with 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.600 the odds. If the cards don't go your way, you're 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.600 not gonna win. And you need a certain amount of 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.240 luck in addition to the skill of being a player 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:07.320 who knows what they're doing to win at blackjack or 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.120 any other game. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.800 Well, that's exactly right, and it's the cards that are dealt. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.039 So the book is kind of like this, Look, we're 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.440 all dealt certain cards, but it's not necessarily the cards 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.839 we're dealt, but how we play those cards in blackjack. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.680 If you're sitting on sixteen and you hit on sixteen, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.560 you really deserve to lose, because that's not what the 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.680 book says. And so I take I spend a whole 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:44.440 chapter on casino gambling and the odds of luck and 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.400 the house's edge. By the way, the worst luck for 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.760 any game is keno, which is you're just. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:51.320 Going to lose. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.200 But I spend a lot of time talking about the 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:01.000 cards we're dealt. And in life, you know, luck comes 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.320 in all forms or fashion, and it doesn't come just 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:08.880 sitting there. The way you get luck is you look 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:14.040 for luck, you look for opportunities. And so what I 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.159 did is last year they had me on the cover 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.080 of Forbes Magazine as a billionaire. And when I thought, 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.240 when I saw it, it was like stunning, like how did 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.520 this happen? And I started going back through my life 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.599 and I was like, it's really nothing but a series 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.040 of one thousand left turns, a thousand right turns, a 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.680 thousand U turns, and all of a sudden you wake 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:44.320 up in your here and one different turn, everything's different. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.240 I'll bet you if I was to ask you, what 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.039 was the one moment in your career, what was the 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.120 left or right turn in your career that brought you here, 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.880 it would be a lucky day, a lucky call. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.760 You went here instead of there. 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.800 Something happened, and it's a whole series of life. Now, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.360 when I looked at my life, the thing that really 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.680 struck me the most is I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.120 but I was a paper boy, and I have found 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.800 in life that paper boys had an entrepreneurial seed. Early on, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.159 in a paper route's very hard. It's every day it's rain, sleet, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:31.360 and snow, except in California, and it start that lucky seed, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:37.000 that entrepreneurial seed that Warren Buffett calls the Ovarian lottery 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:43.800 comes early and where you're born. Hey, there's eight billion 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.680 people in the world, but where would you want to 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.880 be born? Right here? Right here in the United States 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.800 of America. We had nothing to do with it. We 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.240 weren't born in Cameroon or Karen Basgana. We were born 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:03.400 in America. That it's lucky. And so the whole book 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:08.279 is kind of taking luck, not saying that we're everything 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.320 we did was lucky, but saying a lot of it 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:17.720 came from luck. But with luck comes looking for opportunity. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.760 So it's not my life story, but it's stories from 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.240 my life, from my businesses, my attractions, my hotels, my 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.520 law firm, shopping centers. And I think it's a practical 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.840 book for people. It's kind of a how to book 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.480 to be successful. One of the things that the same time, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.320 go ahead, no, go ahead, go ahead and finish. I 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.440 was gonna say, but at the same time, because what 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.600 I say to people, you know, ninety nine percent of 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.280 what happened to me is luck. They don't want to 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.600 hear that, especially successful people. They want to say, I 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.920 did it all on my own. But if you really 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.320 look at what happened, a lot of it was luck, 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:04.360 not not necessarily blind luck, because there's luck and practice luck. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.560 But for example, you like sports, how many times do 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.760 you think Villanova beats Georgetown if they play that game 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.880 one hundred times? Again, how many times do you think 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.200 Duke loses this year if they play that game one 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.880 hundred There's just a lot of balls. That about the 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.040 immaculate reception with Frank co Harris. You go through life 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.720 and there's been a lot of lucky breaks. There's bad luck, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.160 there's good luck, and this book is how to enhance 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.040 and find luck and turn failure into your friend. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.240 One of the things that I've learned from you appearing 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.520 on this show and other programs is that you are 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.920 a very good listener. There's not a lot that gets 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.160 by you. When someone's talking, You're paying attention to what 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.480 they're saying, and if they answer a question that you're 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.760 thinking of, you make a mental note of it. If 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.960 they present an opportunity that you were unaware of before, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.920 you acknowledge that opportunity and you know that that's on 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:06.520 the table. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.040 It seems to me that a lot of the people. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.280 Out there who have bad luck are people who are 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.880 awful listeners, and sometimes the answers to their questions are 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.560 right in front of their face. But if you don't 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.200 stop talking and running people over all around you, you're 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.040 unaware that all of these lucky situations have prevented, have 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.280 presented themselves to you, or the answers to your questions 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.600 are right there in front of you. You don't even 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.960 see it because you're running everyone over. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.600 Right and and you and you're all you're doing is talking. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.280 And when all you're doing is talking, you're not learning. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:52.479 You can't learn talking. You can only learn by listening. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.959 And the more you listen, the more you learn, and 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:01.800 the more you learn, the more oppertunity tunities come your way. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:06.920 And the more opportunities that come your way, the more 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.160 luck falls into your lap. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.440 It's funny when you think about people who are truly 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:20.840 successful in whatever industry you're talking about, they're listeners. John Wooden, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.559 the basketball coach. I was fortunate enough to be able 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.160 to spend some time around him before he passed away. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.680 He was a man of few words, but man, there 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.520 was nothing that got by him. That guy picked up 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.720 on everything that went on at that table, and the 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.440 next time you saw him, he would remember everything that 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:41.239 was said. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.560 And he had it all built in that pyramid. You know, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.319 he had that John Wooden pyramid of to do's and don'ts. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.920 And the great thing about John Wooden, if you look 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.640 at all the players, they all loved him. Loved him. Kareem, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.920 who's the most prickly played ever, loved John Wooden because 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.480 he listened and that's why he was and is the 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.240 Wizard of the Westwood What. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.559 Advice would you give people who regard themselves as storm clouds? 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.960 Because there are people who don't do regard themselves as 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.600 storm clouds where they think that if there's a fork 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.040 in the road, they're going to take the wrong road 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.520 every single time. What advice would you give them to 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.120 get out of that rut. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.240 Well, first I would tell them you have no choice 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.360 but to take one of the roads. Wayne Gretzky said, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.960 you know, if you never take a shot, you never 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:46.040 make a goal. I would tell him, tell them, don't 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.600 take one fork in the road, take a hundred. It's 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.160 like the lottery. The more lottery balls you have, the 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.160 better chance you have to win the lottery. What happens 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.320 is people go down that one road and it turns 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.600 out to be a bad road, and that's the end 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.200 of the road for them. When you get to a 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.400 bad place in the road, you got to back up, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.439 turn around, come back out, go back down the road, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.040 pick yourself up, and try again, because if you don't 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.959 try again, you never win ever. And so what I 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:23.000 would tell the storm clouds is this focus on the positive, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.199 not on the negative. You meet people all the time 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.040 the glass is half full, the glass is half empty. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:35.560 For me, the glass is always half full. And it's 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.320 because I believe in me. I believe in me, And 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.880 so I would tell these people when you have a 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:46.559 black cloud over yourself, it's because you don't believe in yourself. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.439 And if you don't believe in yourself, nobody's going to 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:51.040 believe in you. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.640 What you just said is so similar to advice that 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.000 William Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco or Ayatola 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.360 of the California State Legislature, gave at a talk when 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.840 I was an undergraduate in college. And the advice that 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.600 he gave was in life plan A very rarely works out, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.000 and the secret sauce to success is to have nine 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.880 hundred and thirty two plan bs because the likely scenario 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.640 is that it's going to be one of your plan 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.320 BS that takes always. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.640 My children know this. I have a thing in my 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.400 with my family and I call it ABC. They know 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.000 what that means and what ABC means. And the Morgan 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.440 family is this. When somebody says you know, sometimes I well, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:39.240 they they'll. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.760 Say ABC, which means. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.520 If A goes wrong, what's your B? And if B 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.920 goes wrong, what's your C. The Morgan children always have 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.120 an A, A B, and a C because things don't 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.960 always go right. And if you don't have a plan 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.600 for B, then you don't have a plan. And if 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.760 you don't have a plan for C, you don't have 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.560 a plan. And what I write in my book Life 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:09.920 is Luck is this. Hope is not a plan. A 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.680 plan is a plan, and a lot of people start 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:18.080 off without a plant. Look, the most successful people in 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.640 the world have goals. The most successful people in the 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.440 world usually write those goals down. Every year. I write 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.840 three goals down of what I want to accomplish during 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.520 the year, and I go back to them over and 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.360 over and over again during the year. When you have 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.560 real goals. A lot of people don't have goals. You know, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.880 they don't have a plan and they're just hoping that 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.200 it's gonna that it's going to work out for them. Well, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.600 that's not how it works. It only works for you 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.680 if you are working and and like one of my 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.960 chapters has called, never eat alone. If you're eating at 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.000 your desk every day, if you're not getting out there 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.120 and mingling, whether you're at a clee or at convention 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.080 or a lunch, then your lunch is going to be 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.960 eating you. If you're eating peanut butter and jelly in 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.160 the office every day, you're you are not going to 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.400 be as successful as the guy or gal out there 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:23.520 networking and hustling. Because remember this, everybody out there hustling, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.600 they're trying to take your lunch. They're trying to take 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.440 your business every day, and you're sitting in the office, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.560 you know, eating peanut butter and jelly and playing solitaire. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.240 Of all of the politicians that you've worked with and 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.680 gotten to know over the years, which one has been 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.360 the best at finding luck? 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:53.960 Of Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton, he's you know, he's resilient. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.840 To be to have luck, you got to have a 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.680 lot of things. You have to be resilient, you have 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.000 to be tenacious, you have to have grit, you have 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:09.240 to have ambition, you have to be teflon. I mean 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.400 Clinton can also compartmentalize like nobody else. I mean, I 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.200 don't even know how he was walking during the Monica 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.640 Lewinsky thing. I had dinner with him and my boys 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.000 had dinner three or four months ago here in Orlando. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:29.640 And this guy has gone through life looking for luck, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:36.560 and I think he's been the luckiest one of everybody. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:44.360 And even now in this political system, you'll find that 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:50.680 Republicans probably like Bill Clinton as their as the Democrat 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.840 they like the most by and large. I mean, you 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:59.080 say Kamala, they vomit. But when you say Bill Clinton, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:05.160 well you say Clinton, They're like, well, I liked him. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.679 And so when you can start getting Republicans like you 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.440 as a Democrat, that's pretty lucky because there because Republicans 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.520 don't Mike, don't like me Democrats at all. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.360 Is it true that he's on some crazy diet now 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.320 and won't eat meat and will only eat certain things 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:27.800 and won't consume. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.880 You're the funny thing he's eating. He's eating meat now. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.360 We had a steak at play called Chathams. We were 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.479 having I said, do you want some wine? And uh, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.800 his hands his left hand kind of his left hand. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:48.280 His handshakes and it's not it's not, it's not Parkinson's. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.679 And he said to me, he said, at dinner, he says, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.560 my doctor said, if I have a glass of wine, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.240 my hand will stop shaking for three hours. I said, well, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.760 why don't you have four and let's stay for twelve 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:11.840 dollars and get drunk. But he stopped eating meat for 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.120 a while, and he had the heart problems. He went 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.400 totally vegan or vegan or however you say it. I'm 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:23.879 from Kentucky. But he's now said that his doctor and 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.200 he had a steak that night. He had a steak 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.480 that night, and he had wine, and he had porked 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.440 and we had a hell all the time. The dinner 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.760 started at seven point thirty and we left at midnight. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:41.240 Oh my, oh yeah, I'll tell you. I don't know 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:42.040 how it happened. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.479 But there's a clip of George Burns on the Tonight 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.840 Show from the Old Days with Johnny Carson that showed 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.760 up in one of my feeds, and I just clicked 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.800 on the video and I watched it, and he's sitting 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.520 there smoking a cigar during the interview, and Johnny Carson 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.040 goes to him and says, those things are going to 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.040 kill you. What is your doctor say to you when 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.520 you're sitting here just chain smoking these cigars, and Burns 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.200 just looked at him and goes, my doctor's been dead 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:08.080 for a long time. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.359 Hey, I'll tell you what. Here's one for you. I'm 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.520 watching years ago, Johnny Carson. You remember Chee Chee Rodriguez. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:17.960 Oh, yeah, the golfer. 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.720 So he's on first and he's doing this Puerto Rican 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.119 golfer had this big thing he did, like a sword, 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.600 and so he moves down the couch and they bring 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.760 in this runway model or some beautiful girl and they're 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:35.200 talking about diets and the Johnny says. The girl says, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:36.919 do you ever eat meat? And she goes, no, I 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:38.919 never eat meat. It's so bad for you. It's so 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:44.600 terrible for you. And Johnny says, to Chee Chee, Chee chee, 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.280 do you eat meat? He said? He said, Johnny, I 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.800 had steak for breakfast, I have steak for lunch, and 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:57.840 I have a steak for dinner every single day. And 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.800 the girl looks said to him. He goes, She goes, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.120 you're going to kill yourself. And he said, sweetheart, let 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.400 me ask you a question. You ever seen a Sikh tiger? 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.280 And I never forgot that. You know, you know? 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:16.840 Have you ever seen all. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.560 Right tiger up against the heartbreak? 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.760 You'll have it, John, I gotta run. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.040 The book is Life Is Luck? 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.480 Available online at Amazon dot com. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.600 John Morgan, thanks so much for stopping by. 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:31.960 All right, Thank you man. 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:32.439 Bye. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.960 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.560 a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.440 two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.640 you can do so at Johnny don't Like show at 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.359 gmail dot com. 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So I will have 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.200 that podcast posted at like three o two three oh three, 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.000 But if you're subscribed to the podcast, it automatically goes 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.680 to your phone as soon as I posted, but uh, 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.600 subscribe just for that interview. It was very fun, It 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.680 was very inspiring. Great job. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.040 All right, Well, I could talk to that guy all 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:33.280 day long. Always a fascinating interview. Got me thinking about 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:38.359 my ties, you bastard. All right, Well, let's get you 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.439 thinking about something else. Let's open up the California Crime Blodder. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:44.840 It's happened yet again. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:46.560 This wow, Wow, what's up here? 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:53.520 Dun Dun dunk Dunn, dundun Dun reads the Califonia Crime Blodder. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:54.280 With John. 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:58.080 And Surprise, Surprise. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.879 The first edition of today's californ and Your Crime Bladder 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:02.600 takes us to the city of Oakland. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:03.680 Come out of Crime Now. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.560 Copper wire theft is plaguing the Oakland Hills. For more, 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:09.800 here is Crime four. 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.640 Our top story this half hour. Copper wire thieves are 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.800 targeting a neighborhood in the Oakland Hills, triggering repeated internet 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:23.240 outages for residents. Crown four is Sarah Stinson. How's the story, Copper. 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:25.280 It's got to be so frustrating if you're working from home, 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.480 or even doing something as simple as streaming us online 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:30.080 on KSFO. 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.720 Or how about this trying to drive in the dark. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.719 Copper has been stolen from these power pools several times 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.560 in the last week, resulting and frustrating outages for people 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:45.280 who live nearby in the Oakland Hills. Cruise with AT 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.360 and T spent Tuesday afternoon repairing damage from yet another 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:50.840 round of copper theft. 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.600 Now I know my cell phone bill is so expensive. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:56.159 Reach out and touch someone. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:00.560 The company says. Thieves targeted cables along a walk path 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:04.760 on Skyline Boulevard near Keller Avenue, cutting both copper and 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.960 fiber lines. An AT and T spokesperson confirming at least 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:12.639 two separate outages triggered by the cuts on April fifteenth 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.960 and sixteenth, each lasting about five hours. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.280 That also affects my TV because I use the internet 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.320 service for my TV, for my streaming, and obviously my 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:23.240 computer service. 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:27.159 Okay, of those five hours that the internet and the 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.760 TV was out, how many of those five hours did 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.960 he spend constantly trying to connect to the Wi Fi 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:35.360 and be like it's not working. 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:36.520 Oh yeah. 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:39.280 He was definitely on the line with someone from India 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:40.760 going have you tried unplugged? 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:41.040 And good? 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:45.160 You don't realize how addicted to this crap you are 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:48.760 until the Internet gets shut off for an extended period 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:51.159