1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: So Michael Very show is on the air. 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 3: Caucasian, Caucasian. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, a white guy from a mustache, about 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 4: six foot. 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: Three, probably big mustache, Aulia Clark. 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 3: It's a serious matter. I'll do it myself, Honey. I'm 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 3: not an ordained minister. I'm doing my best. 9 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 5: Okay, we won't start crockscrew, we won't fool war. 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: Will you make sure they're short on ears and were 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: long on mouth? 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 3: Sixty percent of the time. It works every time. 13 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: In fact, drunk and stupid is no way to go 14 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: through life. Stock. 15 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 3: Now we are in trumpet. 16 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: It is that time again, graduation time, and we are reminded. 17 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: I'll tell the story again in just a moment. The 18 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: woman in Chicago who just pinned a little you know, 19 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 2: kind of her Mike Roko Deer Abby column. And the 20 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: irony of it is that she did it on the 21 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: basis that, you know, nobody ever asks me to give 22 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: a graduation speech. And I don't. I don't think she was, 23 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: you know, woe is me, But it's maybe she was. 24 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 2: But the irony was it then became better known than 25 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: most every graduation speech you will ever hear and it is. 26 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 2: It is a standard for us, and after you hear it, 27 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 2: I would like to pivot to what advice you received 28 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 2: at graduation or would receive, And here it is our 29 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 2: annual tradition, Ladies and. 30 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 6: Gentlemen of the class of ninety nine, where sunscreen. If 31 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 6: I could offer you only one tip for the future, 32 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 6: sunscreen would be it a long term benefits of sunscreen 33 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 6: have been proved by scientists. Or as the rest of 34 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 6: my advice has no basis more reliable than my own 35 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 6: meandering experience. 36 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 3: I will dispense this advice. 37 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 6: Now enjoy the power and beauty. 38 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 3: Of your youth. 39 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 6: Never mind, you will not understand the power and beauty 40 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 6: of your youth until they faded. But trust me, in 41 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 6: twenty years you look back at photos of yourself and 42 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 6: recalling away, you can't grasp now how much possibility lay 43 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 6: before you and how fabulous you really looked. 44 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 3: You are not. 45 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 6: As fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future 46 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 6: or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as 47 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 6: trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing. 48 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 3: The real troubles in your life are apt to be. 49 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 6: Things that never crossed your worried mind, a kind that 50 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 6: blindsided you at four pm on some idle Tuesday. Do 51 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 6: one thing every day that scares you same. Don't be 52 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 6: reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people 53 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 6: are reckless with yours flocks. Don't waste your time on jealousy. 54 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 6: Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, 55 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 6: and in the end, it's totally with yourself. Remember compliments 56 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 6: you receive, forget the insults. 57 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 3: If you succeed in doing this, tell me how keep 58 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 3: your old love theirs and throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. 59 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 6: Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want 60 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 6: to do with your life. The most interesting people I 61 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 6: know didn't know what twenty two what. 62 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: They wanted to do with their lives. 63 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 6: Some of the most interesting forty year olds I know 64 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 6: still don't. 65 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 3: Get plenty of counsel. Be kinds your needs, you'll miss. 66 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 2: Them when you're god. 67 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 3: Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, 68 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 3: maybe you won't. Baby, you'll divorce at forty. 69 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 6: Maybe you'll dance the Funky Chicken on your seventy fifth 70 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 6: wedding anniversary. 71 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 3: Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or braate yourself. 72 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: Either. 73 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 3: Your choices are half chance, so. 74 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 2: Are everybody else's. 75 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 3: Enjoy your body, Use it every way you can. Don't 76 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 3: be afraid of it or what other people think of it. 77 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 3: It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance even if 78 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 3: you have nowhere to do it, but in your own 79 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 3: liv Read the directions, or even if you don't follow them. 80 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 3: Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you 81 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 3: feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know 82 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 3: what they'll be gone good. Be nice to your siblings. 83 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: Are your best link to your past and the most 84 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 3: likely to stick with you in the future. 85 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 6: You understand that friends come and go, but with a 86 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 6: precious view you hold on work hard for it's. 87 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 3: The gaps in geography and lifestyle. The older you get, 88 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 3: the more you need the people when you knew where 89 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 3: you were young. 90 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 6: Live in New York City once, but leave before it 91 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 6: makes you hard. Live in northern California once, but leave 92 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 6: before it makes you soft. Travel, accept certain inalienable truths. 93 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 6: Prices will rise, politicians will filacter. You too, will get old, 94 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 6: and when you do, you'll vanticize that when you were young, 95 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 6: prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. 96 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 3: Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. 97 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 6: Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a 98 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 6: wealthy spouse, but you never know when either one might 99 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 6: run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or 100 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 6: a By the time you're forty, it will look eighty five. 101 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 6: Be careful of whose advice you'd buy, but be patient 102 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 6: with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, 103 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 6: dispensing it as a way of fishing, passed from the disposal, 104 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 6: wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling 105 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 6: it for more than it's worth. 106 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 3: But trust me on the sunscreen. 107 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: Bos Luhmann took that essay column and just read it 108 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: with great pacing and basic music underneath, and it actually 109 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 2: became a hit during my lost decade of the nineties. 110 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 2: I think it was the moment first. What advice would 111 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: you give to a graduate today or were you given? 112 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 2: That made a difference? Seven one three nine nine nine 113 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 2: one thousand. It's a graduation special seven one three nine 114 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 2: nine nine one thousand To Michael Berry Show, Chris Wrights, 115 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: my advice to graduates and young professionals. Professionals avoid school loans, 116 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 2: car loans, personal loans, and credit cards. Exercise financial discipline, 117 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: move at the speed of cash. Let's go to Harry 118 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: in Nashville. What advice do you have for graduates or 119 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 2: did you yourself receive? 120 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 7: Oh, I love to give it out. I watched the 121 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 7: kid grow up and you went away to college in 122 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 7: Chicago last week year, and I told him bow to 123 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 7: peer pressure. It's really easy to listen to the knuckleheads 124 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 7: and say let's sleep in and not go to class. 125 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 7: The hardest thing is to keep your good character and 126 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 7: not be just go along with the crowd. And I 127 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 7: gave him a fifty dollar bill and shook his hands. 128 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: You know, I had a Sunday school teacher say to 129 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 2: our class twenty five years ago. I got this advice 130 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 2: or heard this said, and he said, if you want 131 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 2: to know where you're going to be in five years, 132 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 2: look around at your friends. And it meant something to 133 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 2: me then. But I've really found that here's that lightning. 134 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 2: I have really huh, but you think we're in danger. 135 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: I have really found that to be true. It's been 136 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: an important it's been very important. In guaranteeing our sons. 137 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 2: You only get to give so much advice before it's 138 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 2: in one ear and out the other. And there have 139 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 2: to be priorities. There have to be things that are 140 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 2: most important, and I have without without embarrassing them or 141 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 2: anyone else. There have been a few times over the 142 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 2: years where I have pulled one or the other of 143 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 2: my sons to the side and said, are you are 144 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: you friends with that person? Yes, okay, let's talk about 145 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 2: that now. When you first begin that conversation, it's a 146 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 2: little odd because you might be second guessing yourself, saying, 147 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 2: am I not letting my child pick their friends? Well, 148 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 2: whatever your opinion may be, I'm here to tell you 149 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 2: I'm not picking their friends. But I get a veto power. 150 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 2: And when I hear that a kid is uh and 151 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 2: you will You'll hear if you keep your ear to 152 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 2: the ground, when I hear that this kid's causing trouble, 153 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 2: and I'm still my mom's son in this way. If 154 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 2: a kid is drinking and acting foolish and getting in 155 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 2: fights and fighting with the teachers and doing drugs, any 156 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 2: number of those things, then that's probably going to be 157 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 2: a problem. It's going to be a problem. It's just 158 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: it's going to be a problem, and I will address it, 159 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,719 Speaker 2: and I have addressed it. And it's a very awkward conversation. 160 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,119 Speaker 2: There's no way around it. It's not a pleasant conversation 161 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 2: because you're also talking about a human being, and you're 162 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: also running the risk your child will tell that person, hey, 163 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 2: my dad thinks you're a little hooligan and doesn't want 164 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 2: me to be around you. And you may know that 165 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:53,599 Speaker 2: kid's parent. Well, now it gets weird. But my strategy 166 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 2: has always been this, And when my wife has asked 167 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 2: that question, my strategy has always been this. I know 168 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 2: the friends. I know the parents of my children's friends 169 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 2: because they were my children's friends. Now some of those 170 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 2: have developed into lifelong, deep abiding friendships. But make no mistake, 171 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 2: my kids come first before anything else. And if that 172 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 2: offends another person, so be it. It's probably not shocking 173 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 2: to that person that I wouldn't want my kid associating 174 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 2: with that with that kid through sports, school, at extracurricular, 175 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 2: you know, wherever else. But I am a big believer 176 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 2: that the people you associate with will have a dramatic 177 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 2: impact on where you end up. And I'll tell you 178 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 2: one that I've seen how this thing plays out. I 179 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 2: have seen women the Rose all day crowd, and they'll be, uh, 180 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 2: you know, there's three or four or five couples in 181 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 2: their mayor, and they do things as couples because the 182 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 2: wives are friends and the husbands get along well enough, 183 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 2: and so they may go to dinner sometime, maybe they 184 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: go on trips together. Maybe they live in the same neighborhood, 185 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 2: or all went to A and M or U T 186 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: or TCU or wherever together and all's going well. Maybe 187 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 2: they work together, and then one couple gets divorced and 188 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 2: she leaves him for another man, or she becomes single, 189 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: and you can watch if that group's if those girls 190 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: stay together and that one goes off single, in no time, 191 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 2: you will watch the other's marriages break down. I have 192 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 2: seen this happen more times than than I care to 193 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 2: tell I've seen this happen so many times. I will 194 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: tell you something else, and this makes women mad when 195 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 2: I say it. If you look at happily married women, 196 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 2: happily married women not just married, you will notice that, 197 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 2: by and large they don't have a large group of 198 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: girlfriends that they associate with. Often there is something biological 199 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 2: about women who gather together a lot, a rose all 200 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 2: day crowd, you know, every Wednesday morning or every Wednesday 201 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 2: at noon. They meet till they pass out at six 202 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 2: o'clock PM, and they gather. Those women do not gather 203 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: to talk about how their husband is a wonderful man. 204 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 2: They do not one up each other with well, my 205 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 2: husband rubs my feet, well, my husband is a good savor, 206 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 2: a good saver's wife. And a group like that becomes 207 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: so tight he squeaks when he walks, a cheapskate, a chintz, 208 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 2: a bad person, a person who is protective of the family. 209 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: It gets described as controlling. I have watched this happen 210 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 2: more times, where good men will be talked about badly 211 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 2: by their wives and the wives get together before they 212 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 2: know it they're all married to bad men, when in 213 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: fact they're not. They're all married to good men. But 214 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 2: we're all married to good men. Conversation. Not that it 215 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 2: never happens, but it is not the standard for women 216 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 2: who get together and drake rose all afternoon in a gathering. 217 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: I have noticed that happy marriages tend to have women 218 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 2: who have a good friend one or maybe two in 219 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 2: relationships with the rest of their family, And I will 220 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 2: tell you older women, older women who've been married forty 221 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 2: to fifty sixty years will tell you they didn't gather 222 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: all of them, you know, all the women. Now, I've 223 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: seen women's groups at church, and that'll be an exception. 224 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 2: But well that's what I see one of those. Well, 225 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 2: something must be right. You were listening to Michael Barry, 226 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 2: hey daring. 227 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 5: This is sheldy cutecause I could be been talking way 228 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 5: too much, lady about spam, which is a harrmale product 229 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 5: which means short. How you said this word parks, shoulders 230 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 5: and hams. 231 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: What is the do you eat spam? Turkey spam? 232 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 3: Oh? 233 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: Wa? 234 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: Is they eat the turkey spam? 235 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 3: That's pretty good. 236 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 5: They even make one of this low salt for the 237 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 5: elderly people who is on the fixed income. 238 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 2: You know, they told me at one time at. 239 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 5: The beauty school that the Soviet arment won the world 240 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 5: wall on spam, acabert. 241 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 2: Is that a true fact. 242 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 5: Or is that just something I read on the internect? 243 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 2: There's probably lie. 244 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 3: Girl, I feel cramping coming home. You know what that means? 245 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 6: Don't? 246 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: Oh no, Jeff the builder, what advice did you get 247 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 2: or would you give to graduates? 248 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 8: I was actually calling in mister Barry because I'm an 249 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 8: uncle again. My sister had her third child yesterday afternoon. 250 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic boy or girl. 251 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 8: A little girl at nine pounds six ounces, and I 252 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 8: can't wait to go see her this afternoon. 253 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 2: And what did they name her? 254 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 8: There's no name yet, but I suggested that Jeffarina Garrison 255 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 8: and that's number three on the pick. 256 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: I guess. 257 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I've been trying to get kids names for 258 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 2: a very long time and it never seems to work out. 259 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 2: You know, there's an Indian tradition it's called a nom 260 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 2: cutting and and or nom cutting, and it is after 261 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 2: a child is born, and after a week or two 262 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 2: could be longer, there is a celebration of the birth. 263 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: It's really a celebration of the birth of the child. 264 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 2: And aunts and uncles which anyone older in the family 265 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 2: is considered an aunt and uncle and extended family will 266 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: come to the home and bring gifts for this new 267 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 2: child that's come into the world. And you don't know 268 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: the name, and so the story goes that the mother 269 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 2: will or the tradition goes that the mother will whisper 270 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: the child's name, the baby's name into the baby's ear, 271 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 2: so the baby is the first person to hear her 272 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 2: name being said and the first person to know it. 273 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 2: She will then turn and tell the rest of the people. 274 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 2: Some people will do that like the telephone game where 275 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: they go one by one and some will turn and 276 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: say it to the group. But the nonm cutting ceremony 277 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 2: actually means the naming reveal ceremony. It's a really cool tradition. 278 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 2: I love the I love the naming process. I watch 279 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 2: Jeopardy every Tuesday and Thursday night. I stacked the episodes, 280 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 2: and I'm always interested to see the various kinds of 281 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 2: first and last names that people will have, especially people 282 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 2: that compete on Jeopardy, and where they're from, and what 283 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 2: that name represents, and what you think of when you 284 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 2: hear that name first and last name. Hunter, you're on 285 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 2: the Michael Berry Show. What say you, sir? 286 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: Hey, mister Barry. The best advice I ever got as 287 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: a freshman in college was if you run with dogs, 288 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna get Lee's. That has stuck with me forever. 289 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 2: Yes it is. It is very well said. I always 290 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: heard it as if you lay down with dogs, you 291 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,239 Speaker 2: get up with flees. But it doesn't matter. It's the 292 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 2: same advice hunter. How old are you? 293 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: I am thirty three years old. 294 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 2: And what do you do for a living? 295 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: I am a key account manager for a food processing 296 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: equipment company. 297 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 2: Because you don't mess with people that aren't like first 298 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 2: rate only the key accounts. 299 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was a joke, VP level enough. 300 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it? What kind of food? Or is 301 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 2: this food processing company selling? 302 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 7: So? 303 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: Our number one machine is actually a laser guided water jet, 304 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: think of like a CNC machine. Sure, but we use 305 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: it to cut portions of chicken. We use it to 306 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: trim fat on steaks, too, cut pies, to cut pizzassh 307 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. 308 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 2: Do y'all make the do y'all distribute the equipment or 309 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 2: are you processing the food? 310 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, so we are a vendor, so we manufacture 311 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: the equipment and we sell it to the companies who 312 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: then make the food. 313 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 2: And where do you manufacture the equipment? 314 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: Kingston, New York, Columbus, Ohio, Russellville, Arkansas. 315 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 2: And it's at. 316 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: Yes, sir? 317 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:16,959 Speaker 2: And where are you based? 318 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: I am based out of Weatherford, Texas. 319 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 2: And are you so you are mostly maintaining relationships, You're 320 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 2: not answering a call for someone who's interested in this product. 321 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of my customers are established and they 322 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: know our product sometimes better than we do. So a 323 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: lot of the things I do from a day to 324 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: day is maintain relationships and put out fires. 325 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 2: So Jason Oya has become a friend of ours. He's 326 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 2: a sponsor of the show. He has a company called 327 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: Laboucherie in Spring on Kirkandall and they're in all the 328 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 2: grocery stores. They're online Cajunmeats dot com and then Laboucherie 329 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 2: they're They're retail center is on Kirkandilt in Spring. Is 330 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 2: that a customer of yours? 331 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: So my main customers are going to be the big 332 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: we call them the Big Three, like the Pilgrims. 333 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 2: The Tysons, O R O s. 334 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, that level of customer I see. 335 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 2: Now, when y'all do the water jet like that, explain 336 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 2: to me how that machine is. I mean, is that 337 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 2: actually literally a water stream? Because I know that's used 338 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 2: in a lot of Explain that to a sixth. 339 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: Grader, So what it does? Imagine a conveyor belt that 340 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,719 Speaker 1: has a really smart computer and a very smart laser 341 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: on it. That product goes underneath the laser and underneath 342 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: the camera, and in an instant the software generates a 343 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: cut strategy that's going to maximize what we call yield 344 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: yields king. Once that cut strategy is defined, it will 345 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: pass under the water jets that cut anywhere from forty 346 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 1: to eighty seven thousand psi at a point zero zero 347 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: seven inch orifice size into your your famous chicken sandwiches, 348 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: your nuggets, et cetera. And it does about four thousand 349 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: to ten thousand pounds an hour. 350 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 2: And I guess it's a cleaner process because it's a 351 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 2: water instead of a metal. I'm asking. 352 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, And so the reason why our equipment's so popular 353 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: is because it's more accurate than handcutting, and it shows 354 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: up every day. If you take care of it, you 355 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: don't have to worry if his girlfriend just broke up 356 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: with it or if it's having hangover from the night before. 357 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: And the actual pounds you're able to put out is 358 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: about the equivalent of about twenty humans. 359 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 4: So it's wow, that. 360 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 2: Is quite a bit hunter. Thank you for that. Please 361 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 2: chairs keep rolling around. Damn it all right? This is 362 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 2: Mark Chestnut and Enjoy Bizaar of talk radio. Last week 363 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 2: I listened to a lot of Hank Williams Junior. He's 364 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 2: one of my absolute favorites, and I had spent a 365 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 2: couple of weeks before that listening on Luke with a 366 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 2: lot of songs, and then kind of loosely had my 367 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 2: top fifty and I was trying to get down to 368 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 2: I probably had my top seventy and I was trying 369 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 2: to get down to my top thirty. And so last 370 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 2: week I listened almost exclusively when listening to music to 371 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 2: Hank Junior. And then Friday night, all day Saturday, and 372 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: all day Sunday, I was doing some work on my 373 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 2: home studio, recording some things, doing things in a situation 374 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: where I could listen to music for a long period 375 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 2: of time, and I kept coming across Hank Junior's version 376 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 2: of Can't You See? And it is the thing I 377 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 2: love about Hank Junior, what makes him special to me 378 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 2: when I look at his body of work, who he 379 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 2: is and what he represents, is that he wrote almost 380 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 2: everything he sang, and it's very autobiographical, and he's one 381 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 2: of the only guys in the country genre who could 382 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: talk about what's happening at this time and offers social 383 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 2: commentary in real time or current social commentary and it 384 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,479 Speaker 2: still be quality music that holds up and stands at 385 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 2: test of time. And I don't think anybody did that 386 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: better than he did. I don't think anybody is in 387 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,959 Speaker 2: the realm that he is in that way. Don What 388 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 2: advice do you have for new graduates or did you 389 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 2: yourself get. 390 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 4: New graduates necessarily? I spoke this week at a career 391 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 4: day at a local elementary school, and I was a 392 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 4: project manager. But my message to them was, at the end, 393 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 4: it really doesn't matter if you have the education. Because 394 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 4: my degree was in Christianity and speech, it wasn't in 395 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 4: project management, and I was able to have a very 396 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 4: good career. You know, I've been to thirty five different countries. 397 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 4: I've done a lot, We've manage multimillion dollar projects. But 398 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 4: I told them, I said, you can do whatever you 399 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 4: want to. I said, the trades are really important. We 400 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 4: are lacking in the electricians, plumbers, ac people. And you 401 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 4: also can find some really good apprenticeship programs where you 402 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 4: can start in your high school years and start to 403 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 4: work up into a business and learn that business from 404 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 4: the bottom up. Then at the end, I asked him, 405 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 4: I said, how many do you think I'm an A student, 406 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 4: and it got hands how many things I'm a BC. 407 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 4: There was a couple that thought I was a DNF 408 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 4: kind of guy. But then I said, it really doesn't matter. 409 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 4: I was a C student. It doesn't matter what your 410 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 4: grade point average is. It matters how much you want 411 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 4: the job and how you want to be successful. And 412 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 4: everyone in this room can be successful. 413 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 2: That's a wonderful perspective. None a wonderful perspective. 414 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 7: You know. 415 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 2: I've given a lot of thought to this over the 416 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 2: arc of my career and my life and how much 417 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 2: things like GPA matter. And I've come to the conclusion, 418 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 2: at fifty four years old that for most people, the 419 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 2: GPA you get in high school or college is about 420 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 2: as relevant to me hiring you as your forty yard dashtime. Now, 421 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 2: I think it's a comparison that holds up. Follow me here. 422 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 2: If you can run the forty yard dash in under 423 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 2: five most people think they can. Almost nobody can, because 424 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 2: when you watch the combine and you see those numbers, 425 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 2: you got to realize those are the fastest of the 426 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 2: fast If you can run at a four to nine, 427 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 2: a four to eight, if you can get down into 428 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 2: four to five zone or lower. You are top of 429 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 2: the charts. Man, that's something special. Depending on the rest 430 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 2: of your skills and size and technique and expertise, you 431 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 2: might be playing professional football for some period of time. 432 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 2: But if you're not playing professional football, it's probably not 433 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 2: going to matter. I don't ask the plumber who comes 434 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 2: to my house, or the electrician or the roofer, or 435 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 2: the window installers at Allied Siding and Windows. I don't 436 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 2: ask them how fast they run the forty yard dash. 437 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 2: They may or may not be fast, or they may not. 438 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 2: They may it may take them ten seconds. It simply 439 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 2: isn't relevant to what they do. Now here's the problem 440 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,719 Speaker 2: with that. Just as the forty yard dash time is 441 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 2: incredibly important for the guy who's going to be on 442 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 2: the Olympic sprint team, or is going to be a 443 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 2: summer Olympic team, or is going to play wide receiver 444 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 2: in the NFL Willie Gault style, it is important to him. 445 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 2: So one of the ways we went wrong was the 446 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 2: GPA is how we separate people going to med school, 447 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: law school, and a couple of things like that. In society, 448 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 2: only a very small percentage of people are going to 449 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 2: end up going on to be lawyers, doctors, architects, engineers, 450 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: the things where we arbitrarily decided the GPA would be 451 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 2: the separator. I don't even think it tracks well in 452 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 2: terms of being predictive of success. But let's just say 453 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 2: in those things, what will agree that GPA is so important? 454 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 2: All right? The GPA became how teachers would make kids 455 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 2: pay attention because if my performance doesn't matter, why am 456 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 2: I going to learn? And the score on the exam 457 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: became so important, and that number becomes a scarlet letter 458 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: for people. And it takes a number of people, a 459 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 2: lot of people, host of people to realize that they 460 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 2: are a worthy person in their field. It can take 461 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 2: ten or twenty years because they're still hung up over 462 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 2: ms Perry told them they were a dumbass in eighth 463 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 2: grade because they couldn't spell well. Chad can't spell well. 464 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 2: He's the best in the business at what he does, 465 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 2: our executive producer set of skills, and his performance in 466 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: his consistency, I never seen anything. He makes the trains 467 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 2: run on time. We all work for Chad and Chat 468 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 2: can't spell for anything. So I don't know what he 469 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 2: scored in English, probably not very good. Does it matter 470 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 2: to me, not one bet. He's the best in the business. 471 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 2: I put him up against any show in the country. 472 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 2: I may not make betterman, but he is. So why 473 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,719 Speaker 2: would his English grade matter? But we created a system 474 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 2: where it does, didn't we, And I think that's a mistake. 475 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 7: I do. 476 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 2: I also think we should teach kids to love to 477 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 2: learn for life instead of all this scoring system.