1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: Michael Very show. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: Is on the air. 4 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: How you're learning is here, Shirley q lickor well, you know, 5 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 3: I load up the cadillact yesterday and took all the 6 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 3: nineteens of my children down there to the beach. 7 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 2: Oh. 8 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 3: It was a long drive, and that Cadillac kept trying 9 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 3: to short out on me, sparking, you know it don't 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 3: like that heat no more than I do. And we 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 3: finally got down there and put on our swimming suit, 12 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 3: and them children just scattered, you know this, nineteen different 13 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 3: directions there they go. I say, lord, I'm gonna blow 14 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 3: a whistle at the while, and whoever show up in 15 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: this car is getting to go home, and the rest 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 3: of y'all on y'all own, okay, Because we had brought 17 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: the ice chins with us, you know, and with me 18 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 3: and Watusa sat out there on our blankets, you know, 19 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 3: and we was drinking my liquor and she said this 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 3: bust that watermelon opened. I said, all right, that girl, 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 3: and we went and got that thing. And we didn't 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: barely have a knife, fudd and we just had to 23 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 3: use our fingernails to get it. Started cracking, and then 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 3: she popped that thing opened. That watermelon split in two 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: and blessed by the Lord. I swear the faith of 26 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 3: Jesus was on that thing. And I said, oh, my goodness, 27 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 3: you say you see that? And she said, yes, I do, 28 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: and her mouth was just drooling, and she said, what 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 3: the Bible said is time for communion. I said, I 30 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: know that's right, honey. Before you know, we lip locked 31 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: down on the Lord. Yes we had. It was good too, 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 3: So thank you Jesus. Oh yes, Lord, you tell your 33 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 3: mama and them. I sea hunt to beat sometime it 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:01:59,919 Speaker 3: was two, Hundy. 35 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: Did you eat watermelon as a kid? We did too. 36 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: But you know something interesting, I remember watermelon. Hear me out, 37 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: because there's a point to this story. I remember watermelon 38 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: as sitting on the back of a wood porch in 39 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: an unair conditioned home with a screen door, and the 40 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: screen has come you know, it's been somebody pushed on 41 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: the screen. It's kind of been pushed out, so it 42 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: really doesn't work much anymore. It does sound like a 43 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: Bluebear commercial. 44 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 4: I agree. 45 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 5: I remember our old country home, clean pressure and flowers 46 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 5: growing in the fields along the path beside. I'm swimming home, 47 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 5: Mama hollering through the screen, which you can't. It's like 48 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 5: somehowmade ice cream. That was such a simpler time then, Pa, 49 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 5: blue bell taste just like the good old days. 50 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: Do you remember who used to play bluebell commercials? Pat Gray? 51 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: He loved Bluebell commercials. He would pay play them just 52 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: for no reason. He would also play bread songs, but 53 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: he played bread songs because they were Mormon, and he's Mormon. 54 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: I thought Pat Gray was insanely talented as a radio host. 55 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: Obviously he's still he's back with Glenn Back. They do 56 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: a podcast, but his voices. I thought his voices were hilarious. 57 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: When I replaced Glenn Back, who was his best friend 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: in the world, they dropped Glen Back's show to put 59 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: me on, and I would have to come into the 60 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: studio as he was leaving. And that was never a 61 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: pleasant exchange because you know, I was the reason his 62 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: buddy wasn't on in Houston, and Back had been in 63 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: Houston at one point to Houston, and they were not happy. 64 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: And then and then the program director fires Pat Gray 65 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: and puts me in the morning show. Two problems with that. 66 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: Number one, he'll hate me for the rest of his 67 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: life when I had nothing to do with it. Number two, 68 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: I had to be at the studio five thirty. Oh man, 69 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: I am. I am not a morning person at all. 70 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: So I was doing five thirty to nine. And what 71 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: was amazing is it's nine right now. As we were 72 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: going off the air, I was kind of waking up 73 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: and getting my grooves, like, well, you're done for the day. 74 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: Oh hell, what it's anyway? In my mind, I'm eating watermelon. 75 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: Did you ever read the book Sounder? It was like 76 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: the Black Lassie. They made a movie about it, but 77 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: Sounder was kind of did you see the movie Ray? 78 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: Remember Ray? Charles upbringing Mama? I can't see remember his 79 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: mom's a washerwoman. In my mind, okay, I'm eating watermelon 80 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: as a poor white kid in Tyler, Texas. Okay, on 81 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: the back porch in Red Oak Flat, there's a little community. 82 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: There's a party line, and there's no air conditioning. And 83 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: my uncle Ali, who had two received two Purple Heart 84 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: commendations for being shot in World War Two. There is 85 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: a picture on the wall of him as a young 86 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: service member in nineteen forty two or nineteen forty three, 87 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: and it's that kind of picture. The kind of sepia 88 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: tone that looks like they put makeup on it or something. 89 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: You know. Told me it's a real weird feature, but 90 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: all the pictures of that era had that. And we're 91 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: sitting on the back porch and there's a dog, you know, 92 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: kind of lapping around for what we drop, and we're 93 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: putting sugar and salt on our watermelon and that has 94 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: a great cooling effect of watermelon because it's so hot. 95 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: Except that's not my childhood, that's my mother's childhood. So 96 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: we would be sitting out on a little picnic table 97 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 1: my dad had built, and my mom and I would 98 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: drive into town, get a watermelon, bring it back, split 99 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 1: it open, and we'd sit there with and you do 100 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: you just drive that thing into your face and it 101 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: just drew. You don't care because you ain't going out anywhere. 102 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: It's so good. It's all over you. And she would 103 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: tell me stories, and I had grown up. We would 104 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: go up every year. My mom's families all from the 105 00:06:53,160 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: Tyler Troop, Jacksonville, Rusk Kilgore area, and I did spend 106 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: time there, but that wasn't my childhood. At White House, 107 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: that wasn't my childhood. That was just I'd been there 108 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: enough times that that was a frame of reference. So 109 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: she would tell me these stories about eating watermelon as 110 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: a kid. And you know, of course, you didn't have 111 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: air conditioning back then, so you know, you were hot, 112 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: were real hot, So you didn't want to be in 113 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: the house because it was hotter in the house and 114 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: was outside. You believe that, so you'd go outside and 115 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: you find it somewhere where you were in the shade, 116 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: because the shade was like air conditioning back then. And 117 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: if we raised watermelons, grew watermelons, and we'd take the watermelon, 118 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: and if they let us have one, because they'd be 119 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: sold at the farmers market, the old farmer's market that 120 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: was before it was rich white liberals. It was extra 121 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: money for gords anyway. And she would tell those stories, 122 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: and I realized now that her storytelling was so good, 123 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: and I was internalizing it to such an extent. And 124 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: I wonder how much we do this with our in 125 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: our whole. I'll say, I'll speak for myself. I wonder 126 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: how much I do this. I wonder how many things 127 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: I remember to be the case that did not happen 128 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: at all. But she's telling the story, and I am 129 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: so deeply entrenched in the story and putting myself in 130 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: it that I remember it, but it didn't actually happen. 131 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: So when I think about the joys of watermelon, I immediately 132 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: get this big smile and a warm, happy feeling comes 133 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: over me. And I mean, I enjoyed the watermelon, but 134 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: not like I do in my mind's eye of you know, 135 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: being there in nineteen thirty seven, isn't that weird? There 136 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: wasn't really a point to that. So you just call 137 00:08:53,920 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: that segment watermelon stories. Please clap, please, please clasp. I'm 138 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: going to make an executive decision, and I don't have 139 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: to in any way layout why I have jurisdiction or 140 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 1: authority in this case. Okay, this would be long arm jurisdiction, 141 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: citing the HELICOPTEROS case credit to Michael Tiger that I 142 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: still remember that case. One of the best teachers, law 143 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: school professors I ever had in my life went on 144 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: to be the head of George Mason Law School or 145 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: GW maybe it was GW in Washington. Profound impact on 146 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: my life. I hope you have somebody in your life 147 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: you can say had a profound impact on you. I 148 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: really do, And if you can't say that right off. 149 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's not true. It may be 150 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: that you've never thought about it. You have to be 151 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: open and receptive, like maybe you grew up on a 152 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: wood slat once white, now washed off, exposed wood porch 153 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty seven, even though you were born in 154 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. You just have to be open to your mind. Traveling. 155 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 1: I remember the was it the Lion, the Witch and 156 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: the Wardrobe? Remember the book? That book took me on 157 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: a journey, and I remember that. I think that was 158 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: the moment where I realized because my mom had told 159 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: me this. I think that was the book that taught me. Man, 160 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 1: you know, you can be right here in Lilo, l Orange, Texas, 161 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: and you can travel the whole world. It's it's all 162 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: right there at the library. Miss Smith's got all the 163 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: books on the shelves and they're free and you can 164 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: just read them and you can go anywhere and learn anything. 165 00:10:52,640 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: That's very exciting for me, very exciting. My parents. It 166 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: was very important to them that they leave us no 167 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: burdens when they die. So I don't know, maybe ten 168 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: years ago they finished paying off all their funeral arrangements 169 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: and all that, and this is uh, this was very 170 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: important to them. There's no burden on you. Every the 171 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: house is paid off, every ever we've paid our debts. 172 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: And so my mom decides we need she needs to, 173 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: she wants to, She wants everything taking care of so 174 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: we don't have to think about anything. And she's thinking 175 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: about what she wants on her tombstone, and so she 176 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: asks all the all the folks in our family, you know, 177 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: and I'm going, Mom. 178 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 2: That's. 179 00:11:54,440 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: That's just too weird. You're gonna have to do that 180 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: on your own. That's not gonna this is not gonna 181 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: work for me, my wife being my wife. Ever, the 182 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: saint said, you know what, Mom, let me think on that. 183 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: I'm going to find you something because we're going to 184 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: have to look at it and it should be something 185 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: that is really really representative of you. And my mom 186 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: is so excited because finally somebody in the family is 187 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: paying attention to her morbid request. And my brother and 188 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: I are laughing, like, the old goat is dead, that's 189 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: not funny. He and I would do this in front 190 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: of her ding dong. The witch is dead, that's not funny. 191 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: So I don't know how long it was, but my wife, 192 00:12:52,800 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: without telling me, sends her something perfectly represent of her, 193 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: and it was the the old doctor Seus's line, Oh 194 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: the places you'll go, And so she designs this whole thing, 195 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: and so they take it to the thing. So we 196 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: go out to visit my brother's tombstone, and lo and 197 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: behold there is her tombstone with this on there and 198 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: the doctor Sue's character on there, and there's books all around. 199 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 1: And all I could think was, you had your tombstone 200 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: done without me. I'm one's got to look at it. 201 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: I was I should be the one deciding what's on 202 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: your tombstone. Nope, you and your brother made jokes. Your 203 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: wife picked it, and that's what's on there. Not taking 204 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: it down. Well know, those things are expensive. Don't worry, 205 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: we reach isl the damn thing. Those things are very, 206 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: very expensive. But my mother is a voracious reader. I 207 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 1: like to send my parents presents. But what do you 208 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: get somebody seventy nine and somebody eighty four that are 209 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: at this point house bound. I hope they're not always 210 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: house bound, but they got to get she got to 211 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: get her breathing back before they can they can leave 212 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: the house. And so what do you do? And so 213 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: I send them books and my goodness does it make 214 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: her happy? She loves to read. So anyway, that was 215 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: the story. That's that's what I had. Orhan yourtas nineteen 216 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: eleven student, would heights nutrition bitch dang age fifty one 217 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: send us to life in prison? Man? I can't wait? 218 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: Can you imagine his first stay in prison? Hey, bech dang. 219 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: You ain't saying bitch dang right, come on here, bit 220 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: dang because a little bit of Vietnamese dude. But he's 221 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: a killer, so you know he's got it in him. 222 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: They're gonna need to find out because you know he's 223 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: got it in him. Chance mcclan rights, you've seen these 224 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: rash of posts where people extol their Republican credentials and 225 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: then say why they're voting for Kamala Right, And he 226 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: quotes one by a guy who's making a joke about it. 227 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: I am a blah blah blah year old Republican. I 228 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: drink beer while I shoot my anti aircraft gun I 229 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: bought at an army surplus store with money from my 230 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: billionaire dad. And I'm voting Democrat for the first time 231 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: of my life because I drink beer boom. That one 232 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: was for Tim because he's so brat. So Chance said, 233 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: why don't we write these and you get people to 234 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: send them to you and then we record them passionately. Quote. 235 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: My name is Ronald Donovan. I'm a fifth generation Republican. 236 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: My grandma had a Dwight Eisenhower tramp stamp tattoo in 237 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: a sprink and would sprinkle gunpowder owner scrambled eggs. I 238 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: named my youngest daughter's second amendment Donovan. I drive a 239 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: Ford F four point fifty Diesel. I'm voting for Kamala 240 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: because she's so brat. It's true, though, right, That's how 241 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: Anna Navarro got her start. Daniel your reba, says senior 242 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: skip Day. I had a van charged five dollars for 243 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: anybody eating a ride. I bought beer for everybody with 244 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: that fee. Galveson was the destination first, and fights is 245 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: what I remember, Clint Easwood style. The fighters chugged a 246 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: beer in between boxing fights. No ground kickers, fair fights. 247 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: We were Latinos missed those days. I wonder if we 248 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: were Latinos, was like we were keys, just adding it. 249 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: That's a description because the Ureba kind of had me 250 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: figured they might be, or if he was trying to say, 251 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: we don't allow ground kickers. It was fair fights because 252 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: we're Latinos. Because I've never known people to say, yeah, 253 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: we had fights in high school. You know, you'd fight 254 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: and then you'd drink a bear and he fight some more. 255 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: But it had to be fair because, oh, because you're Latinos. 256 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: I don't know our Latinos known as really really fair 257 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: fighters because I've never that's never been a yeah, yeah, 258 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: you can say it because you're Hispanic, not really legitimate, 259 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I'm thinking a knife's coming out at 260 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: some point, a switchblade. You know, when I was about 261 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: fifteen years old, I thought a switchblade was I mean, 262 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: that was better than having a missile. You got a switchblade. Oh, 263 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: I sold them industry, so that's a different story. And 264 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: then they made switchblades and all of open blade knives illegal, 265 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: I mean legal again a couple of years ago, and 266 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,719 Speaker 1: it's like, not even fun. They're not even legally anymore. 267 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: Next you'll make brass nothing. Come on, I want to 268 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: ask you a question. I want you to give it 269 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: serious thought, serious question. So everybody knows Freddie Mercury's homo, 270 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: right and no matter what anybody thinks, some people are 271 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: really really, really really bothered by homos, right, Oh, you'd 272 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: be surprised, especially older folks, very very bothered. And then 273 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: our generation people may not be bothered. They just don't 274 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: want it right up next to them. But no matter what, 275 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: nobody's bothered by Freddy. And there's no doubt, right, I mean, 276 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 1: aids you know it. And thing about it is we 277 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: all listen to Queen growing up, and we were in 278 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: elementary school, Wow Queen cool Man And I remember the 279 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: album cover of the kind of robot looking gud Do 280 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: you remember that the bull is very ominous? And that 281 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: was our vision of Queen. Who wait, their name is Queen. 282 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: They're not even hiding it. They did a video in 283 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: the early eighties in drag like how did we not 284 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: know this? But here's what I don't understand. Literally, nobody's 285 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: bothered by Freddy. Why is that there is something about 286 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: Freddy that even the people that just go I don't 287 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: like him, people are all going to hell, well not Fredd, No, 288 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: no Freddy again today It's weird, isn't it. I don't 289 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: know what it is. It's the craziest thing. Did you 290 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: like that Bahamian Rhapsody you did. I don't think it 291 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: did him justice. I don't no, I think that Rammy 292 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: Malleck or what. I think he was good. I don't 293 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: get me wrong, he was very good, but I don't 294 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: think that I don't think they did the problem with that, 295 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: I guess you got to get yourself in the right mindset. 296 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: This is not about the music. This is not about 297 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 1: how the songs were written on. This is about this 298 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: is a guy struggling with trying not to be homo, 299 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: but he's going to be homo and that's just it. 300 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: And I guess that's not what I wanted. I wanted 301 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: a celebration of the music, because it's all about the 302 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: music to me. I had a friend a while back 303 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: come to me, and I hadn't seen. 304 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 2: Him in. 305 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: Ten years, and he said, I just I want your 306 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: thoughts on something. Okay. He said, my son has told 307 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: us he's gay, and I said, okay. He said, well 308 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: what should I do? I don't know, I'm a set 309 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: and I said, well, it's not for me to react 310 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: to your I don't know how many kids he has 311 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: any of that, But so I said, well, there's a 312 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: hundred different ways. You can react to this one hundred 313 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: different ways, and that has to be your choice, not mine. 314 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: You have to live your life. But I will tell 315 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: you what my position is with the people around me, 316 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 1: and this is my mother, my father, my brothers, my children, 317 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: even Ramon and Chad and Jim is the people I love, 318 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: I love and I will always love them. If I 319 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: got to go visit them on death row because they 320 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: committed murder, I will do it. I don't believe they 321 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: shouldn't go to prison for committing murder, but I will 322 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: go there because there's still a child of God. That 323 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: is a deeply rooted belief of mine. And at that moment, 324 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they did what they did, I don't 325 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: endorse it. I'm a strict disciplinarian at home. There are 326 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: consequences for your actions, but I will always love you 327 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: for who you are. And I don't know who needs 328 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: to hear that. But I had a guy come to 329 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: me because his son was leaving the family business and 330 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: he was devastated. How could his son do multi generation 331 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: family business? How could his son do this to him? 332 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: And I said, tell me all about it, tell me 333 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: every feeling you have about why you're angry and the 334 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: whole thing. 335 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: I say. 336 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: His name was Bob. I don't think he's alive anymore, 337 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: I said, Bob, Let me ask you a question. I 338 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: want you put your emotions aside from moment. Has it 339 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: ever crossed your mind that he didn't do any of 340 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: this to cause you the grief that this is causing you. 341 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: Has it ever crossed your mind that he made this 342 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: decision from a completely different perspective than yours and the 343 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: result is a lot of pain and anguish for you, 344 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: But that that's not his intention. That knowing that would 345 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: happen made doing what he believed he had to do 346 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: that much harder to do. But that's not what he 347 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: set out to do. Hmm, I guess I hadn't thought 348 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:45,439 Speaker 1: about that. It's interesting to me, and I'm as guilty 349 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: as the next person. How often people can only see 350 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: a situation from their own perspective. You don't want your 351 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: kid to be gay. You don't want your kid to 352 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: leave the family business. You don't want your kid to 353 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: go off to college when they could go here. You 354 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: don't want your kid to marry somebody that you don't 355 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: believe is good enough for them. You don't want your 356 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: kid to ride motorcycles because they're dangerous as hell, and 357 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: they are. You don't want your parent to remarry that guy. 358 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: You don't want your dad to remarry that much younger 359 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,199 Speaker 1: woman who's clearly a gold digger. At some point, we 360 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: can make our feelings known. But if you love somebody, 361 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: you gotta love them despite their stupid decision. And sometimes 362 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: the decision they'll say, yeah, but here's why that they no, No, 363 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: I don't disagree. Yeah, it's harder to live life gay 364 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: that it is straight. I'm sure you wish it wasn't 365 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: the case. You wish your kid would stay here at 366 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: the business. You wish your dad wouldn't remarry. You still 367 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: have to love it. 368 00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 2: Escape from the ordinary. You know that it would be untrue. 369 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 5: You know that I would be young liar. 370 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 4: If I was to say to you, go, we could 371 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 4: get much higher. Combat the night by the fire, Come 372 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 4: o bad light my fire, hight to set the night 373 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 4: on higher. The times you as a ten us through. 374 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 2: The times you wallow with the mile. 375 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 5: Shine. 376 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 4: Now we get only loose and enough become a funeral pier. 377 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 4: Coma bay light on my fire, Come o Baylor, light 378 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 4: by a fire, shiny set the night off. 379 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: I have a big announcement of something in my life 380 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: or mom that I'm not told you yet. Last night 381 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 1: at seven fifteen pm, I donned a jacket. Not a 382 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: paid speech, not a funeral, not a wedding, a dinner, 383 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: A jacket. No, I didn't wear a suit. If I 384 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: was wearing a suit, I told you, it's a suit. 385 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: A jacket as a blazer. I's not get carried away. 386 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: And I didn't wear a tie. I wore this really 387 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: cool shirt my wife bought from me in Austin. But 388 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: I did that. And then, dude, why do you need 389 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: to know everything I wore. That's getting creepy. Just I 390 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: wore a jacket, and I never wear a jacket. That's 391 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: a big deal. I wore some brown jeans. Yeah, that's 392 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: why they call them blue jeans because they're not all blue. 393 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: They were brown jeans. They were Wrangler boot cut. No 394 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: they Why are you getting into my jean cut? 395 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 2: No? 396 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: No, well, I've got my weight where I want it, 397 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: so you know, you kind of want to show off 398 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: a little. And then I had one of my favorite 399 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: pairs of brown boots. 400 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 4: So that's what. 401 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: Michael T's wearing. Ropers every day. I'm really liking that. 402 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. 403 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. 404 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 1: The group of guys he runs with, they're all West 405 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: Texas guys and they're all ropers and jeans, and so 406 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: you know, Michael's like me. He can fit in everywhere, 407 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: but if given his choice, he'll stay at home and 408 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,880 Speaker 1: wear and be barefoot in shorts, you know, walking around 409 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: with no shirt on, which I don't really like at 410 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: the house because I'm like, dude, your muscles are too big, 411 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 1: Go put some shirt on. You maybe look bad because 412 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: I'm walking around with no shirt on and I don't 413 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: have muscles like that. No, we had dinner. I didn't 414 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: know all of the partners at our new CPA firm 415 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: to Roach partners. I knew Rod du Roach, the founder 416 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: of the firm, longtime CPA and tax strategist in town, 417 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: and Harvin Lahan, who is the managing partner, but I 418 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: didn't know hadn't put face to face with all of 419 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: the partners. And the story for those of you who 420 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: don't know, is when I set out for this year, 421 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: my goals for this year, one of them was to 422 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: encourage people to plan better. And that means planning your 423 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: insurance coverage. That doesn't mean just go buy a bunch 424 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: of insurance because some of that's a waste of money. 425 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 2: You know. 426 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: Dean and Draper Insurance Advisors have been sponsors of our 427 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: show for years, but to really encourage people to invest 428 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: more energy into that and a state planning and CPAs. 429 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: So we put the word out because people would ask me, hey, 430 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: you were talking about this, do you have someone? Well, 431 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: the CPI had been with for thirty years couldn't handle 432 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: all of our listeners. It doesn't want to. That's that's 433 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: not his goal. That's not He's got a great life, 434 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: a great amount of money. So I said, we need 435 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: to go out and find a show sponsor. So I 436 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: put the word out and then Robert Reese went out 437 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: and he interviewed people when out met with him to 438 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: see what would be a good fit. It had to 439 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: be a Houston based firm. It couldn't be so big 440 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: that they couldn't take care of our folks. But it 441 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: couldn't be so small that if if a hefty company 442 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: comes in that you know, does three hundred million dollars 443 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: a year, that they couldn't handle very complicated tax strategy. 444 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: So it had to be somebody that could handle not 445 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: not not you know, a one off return, but could 446 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: handle companies that have you know, forty employees up and 447 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: needed real creative taxing advice. So de Roach kind of 448 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: came out head and shoulders of all the all the 449 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: folks we talked to. But for me, it is a partnership, 450 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: not advertising. Advertising is what you hear when I'm not 451 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: talking on the show. It's the hours of my show 452 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: are traffic, weather, news and our show. And whether it's 453 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: me bragging on our show sponsors who are our partners 454 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: in all of this, or me talking about the longest songs, 455 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: those are the elements of content programming. Everything else is advertising. 456 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. It gets results, But that is advertising. 457 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: When I talk about people, I want you to know 458 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: I know them, and most importantly, if you have a problem, 459 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: I want to be able to reach out and say, hey, 460 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: this listener had a problem, can you look at it again. 461 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: I can't solve every problem. Very clear on that. I 462 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: cannot solve every problem. And sometimes the company's not at fault, 463 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: the listener is. And I can tell that by the 464 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: email sometimes because it's a person that complains about everything. 465 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: But if somebody emails me and says I buy my 466 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: jewelry from a query. I use Christine Weaver to do 467 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 1: the estate planning. I did this with this, you know, 468 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: I eat it Big City Wings. I support your sponsors. 469 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: I go to Mattress mac and Gallery Furniture and I 470 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: just bought this. You know, there's people that will send 471 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: me ten things they've done, and they got the stories, 472 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: they got the receipts, and I had a bad experience 473 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: with this person. You better believe I'm for it and 474 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: over and going, hey, can you take a look at 475 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: that and see if there's any way you can make 476 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: this right? And most of the time they can. And 477 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how it's supposed to work. But anyway, 478 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: it was very interesting talking to people who are advising 479 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: their clients all day every day about how nervous people 480 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: are right now over the Kamala Harris presidency because of 481 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: the economic plan they've put out, which is basically steal 482 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: money from people, raise taxes. And they're trying to tell me, 483 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: do you understand that if the corporate task goes from 484 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty eight, which she has promised, do 485 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: you understand how that affects them hiring their yes, talking 486 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: about it all day every day while you're hard at work. 487 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm talking about that all day every day, Like I 488 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: think you need to educate people. I'm doing my best. 489 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: We shouldn't be talking about abortion, we shouldn't be talking 490 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: about skin color. We should be talking about how Cause 491 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: you know, politics is like a game, the baseball game. 492 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: If your team wins or lose, it's not really actually 493 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: going to affect your life. Right, your kid's not gonna die, 494 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 1: you're not gonna lose your house. But if your company 495 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: closes down and the thought that the vote you cast 496 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: is going to hand, Yeah, it's that serious.