1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: Verry Show is on the air, looking into micro We 3 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: gotta feed a beard. 4 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 2: I just gotta see I'm. 6 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 3: Doing it all right. 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: Well we come mad with support its I'm beating ridiclude 8 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 2: and that's the true. It's neither drink nor drug and 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: induice nool. 10 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: I'm just doing all right. It's a great dad to 11 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: be alive. 12 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: I know the sun's still shining on a close my eyes. 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: It's hard times in the neighborhood. 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: But why can't every day you just as good? Fifteen 15 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 2: years sid level, send every seed, I some heven my vessins. 16 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: Then lifting alone alright, Redford, Redford, what you see, he says, 17 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 2: I see alone? Will looking at me hev in the conferr. 18 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 4: I don't expect you to attend, but if you could 19 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 4: just take a moment this morning, pause, say a prayer. 20 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 4: Gary Lynn Rickenbacker. His funeral will be at ten o'clock 21 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 4: this morning. I didn't personally know Gary Lynn Ricord Rickenbaker, 22 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 4: but like a lot of people, I came to know 23 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 4: him through email exchanges and through his story. I heard 24 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 4: his story a few years ago when his son. 25 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 5: Caleb. 26 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 4: Was killed by a turd who had stolen a vehicle 27 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 4: and was running from Precinct four deputies and crashed into 28 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 4: and killed Caleb. It was Gary Lynn Rickenbacker's only son. 29 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 4: He was devastated. I heard his story when he reached 30 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 4: out by a golf tournament that he was hosting for 31 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 4: his son. And he had done it for several years, 32 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 4: and every year he would reach out and let me 33 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 4: know and we would exchange a couple of emails about it. 34 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 4: And I always thought to myself, you know, he had 35 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 4: a boy about the age of my kids, just a 36 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 4: few years older, and I thought about the level of 37 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 4: devastation would feel whether it be my only son is 38 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 4: his case or either of my sons would I would 39 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 4: just be broken. But like many people, he put effort 40 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 4: in two which became his his therapy. It becomes cathartic 41 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 4: to do such a thing he put together. Believe it 42 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 4: was a golf tournament. 43 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 5: Well. I got the news a. 44 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 4: Few days ago that Gary Lynn Rickenbacker had passed and 45 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 4: this morning at ten will be his service. It's a 46 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 4: beautiful obituary that his wife wrote. Imagine her story. She 47 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 4: lost her son, their only son, to a third running 48 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 4: from the cops, and now she loses her husband, who 49 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 4: was sixty five and looked literally looked fifty two, to 50 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 4: a heart attack. She wrote on October twenty first, twenty 51 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 4: twenty five, My knight in shining armor, my hero. The 52 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 4: milk to my halapen yo woo, I like that, The 53 00:03:59,000 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 4: milk to my halopenne. 54 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 3: You know. 55 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 4: The sun to my rain, the sweet to my salty, 56 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 4: the chocolate to my popcorn, the calm to my storm, 57 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 4: the sun to my cloudy, the strong to my weak, 58 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 4: the steady to my waves, the smile in my heart, My. 59 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 5: One true love. Gary Akasa m u e. 60 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 4: L ran into the arms of his beautiful son Caleb 61 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 4: Brickenbacker and his savior Jesus Christ in heaven. Gary was 62 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 4: born February twenty third, nineteen sixty in Kenton, Ohio. So 63 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 4: we can forgive his Ohio state fandom. The pictures she 64 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 4: used for his obituaries him in front of Ohios. There 65 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 4: will cut some slight because he was born in Ohio. 66 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 4: He didn't know any better. 67 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 5: In a moment, he got here as fast he could. 68 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 4: To Paul and Nancy Birdwell, Rickenbacker grew up in the 69 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 4: beautiful farmlands of Kenton, graduating from Kenton High School in 70 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 4: nineteen seventy eight. He went on to matriculate at the 71 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 4: Ohio State University, where he studied finance and graduated with 72 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 4: a degree in accounting. Michael, you said it's finance. It's 73 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 4: really finance. 74 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 5: Please don't gowing up. 75 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 4: Gary thrived in four h baseball, wrestling, and golf. As 76 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 4: much as he loved Ohio, he definitely disliked shoveling snow 77 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 4: and so off he went to the warmer climates of 78 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 4: the South, where he started his career with Connico Phillips 79 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 4: in Polka City, Oklahoma. 80 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 5: In nineteen eighty two, on one of. 81 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 4: His many transfers, Gary was once again moved to Houston, 82 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 4: where he attended a singles class at Houston's first Baptist 83 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 4: and met a greeter named Melissa. Clearly she did a 84 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 4: great job, because they were married after dating two and 85 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 4: two and a half years, and on March twenty third, 86 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 4: twenty twenty six, they would have celebrated thirty beautiful years 87 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 4: of marriage. Gary's love of golf continued throughout his life. 88 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 4: It became a source of joy and purpose, especially as 89 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 4: he organized Caleb's Legacy of Love Golf Scramble Tournament, the 90 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 4: biggest fundraiser of the year held in memory of his 91 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 4: beloved son, which he had just completed. He also loved 92 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 4: scuba diving, water skiing, and snow skiing. Snow Skiing became 93 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 4: a passion for Kayla as well, and they would go 94 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: on a father's son's ski trip each year to spend 95 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 4: time just the two of them. Gary and Melissa were 96 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 4: blessed in two thousand and two with the greatest gift 97 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 4: outside of salvation, their sunshine Caleb son spelled s o En, 98 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 4: who made their family of two and inseparable woo family 99 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 4: of three musketeers. Gary's career enabled them to move to 100 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 4: the Middle East, where they lived and traveled the world 101 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 4: for many years. Gary loved people with his kind With 102 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 4: this kind, soft spoken love, he would share his greatest love, 103 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 4: his love of Jesus. 104 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 5: Christ, with anyone he could. 105 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 4: His greatest desiring life was for people to know salvation 106 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 4: through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. He emulated the 107 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 4: love of Jesus and all that he did Romans ten nine. 108 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 4: If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and 109 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 4: believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. 110 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 5: You will be saved. 111 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 4: Garys survived by his forever bride Melissa Rickenbacker, his mother 112 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 4: Nancy Rickenbacker, his mother in law Peggy Munt, others Stephen Rickenbacker, 113 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 4: Kevin Rickenbacker and his wife in law, wife of and 114 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 4: his wife and law wife of Jeff Rickenbager. It's all 115 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 4: the family. Gary, You are my sam aka Samuel. See 116 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 4: all my undying eternal love us with Samuel stands for about. 117 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 4: I will wait, We've made a breath until I'm reunited 118 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 4: with you and Calebin on the arms of Jesus. I 119 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 4: love you from here to attorneym. 120 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 5: Well, she says some nice stuff. How about that. 121 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 4: If you wanted to make a contribution or send a 122 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 4: nice note. It's Gary Lynn Rickenbacker R. I C K 123 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 4: E N B A c h E R. Only sixty 124 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 4: five years old. I didn't know him, know him, but 125 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 4: I was made aware this morning of his passing, and 126 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 4: all I could think about was his sweet widow having 127 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 4: now lost her son inexplicably and her husband too early. Wow, 128 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 4: the travails of life in America today, with the awful 129 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 4: things that happened. I can't help but imagine that his 130 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 4: son's death did not precipitate his passing. 131 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 3: Wow, fos. 132 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 4: Deal a chance temonia. You're a mcartney expert, so I'm 133 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 4: going to sound like a neophyte, and I am compared 134 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 4: to you on this subject. But in my mind, having 135 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 4: never studied, McCartney just sort of passively listened. I know 136 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 4: of the Beatles years and the rivalry with John and you. 137 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 5: Know, how do you sleep at night? 138 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 4: And and you know he and his wife never spent 139 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 4: a night apart for thirty eight years. And then he 140 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 4: married the stump woman and she was a living hell 141 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 4: for him, and and you think, wow, this this is 142 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 4: the guy who was with his wife every single night 143 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 4: for thirty eight years. I mean, who wants to do that? 144 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 4: That's not healthy in my opinion. Fellow needs a hunting trip, 145 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 4: a fishing trip, something, right, But hey, that that tells 146 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 4: you a lot about him as a person. Then he 147 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 4: marries that woman and she's a little demon, she's demon spawning, 148 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 4: she's awful and anyway, so you. 149 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 5: Need to kind of have that. And then you have 150 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 5: say you, and then you have the the was it 151 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 5: say us? No? 152 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 4: No, it was what was the one he deal with 153 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 4: Michael Jackson, say say, say, and the girl is mine? 154 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 4: And then you find out later, well, you know, Michael 155 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 4: Jackson kind of you know, did him dirty with the 156 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 4: buy and the the the catalog and and you know 157 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 4: he's Sir probable McCartney and and you kind of go, 158 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 4: well in life, well lived and all that, and so 159 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 4: you kind of put him over that. And the more 160 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 4: you study, you realize everything this man has done in 161 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 4: the level of all you have for him just grows 162 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 4: and grows and rows. And you know, I kind of 163 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 4: intuitively knew he was in a band called Wings, but 164 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 4: it's not until you actually dig in and you realize 165 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 4: there's some amazing music. Band on the run is good stuff. 166 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 5: Anyway, that's a. 167 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 4: Long way saying Paul McCartney, I mean kind of a 168 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 4: big deal. I watched a video last night about the sphere. 169 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 4: Took almost two point four billion to build it, a 170 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 4: little over two point three close closer to two point four. 171 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 4: And I thought it started ten years ago. 172 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 5: It didn't. 173 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 4: It start in twenty seventeen. Beginning of twenty eighteen, guy 174 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 4: named Dolan, whose father made his fortune off cable vision 175 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 4: imagine that the concept that you would pay for TV 176 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 4: before the cord cutting. And he does this thing, and 177 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 4: it turns out that the Sphere is a weird deal 178 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,599 Speaker 4: because it costs all that money eighty million dollars in 179 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 4: interest a year, two hundred twenty two thousand dollars a 180 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 4: day in interest on the Sphere. But what's amazing is 181 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 4: the Sphere has the odd situation where they sell everything 182 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 4: out and it's still losing money. It's losing money on 183 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 4: a level you cannot imagine, and that's with everything sold out. 184 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 4: It sells out everything. But then they went through the 185 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 4: reasons why so you two was the first big residency. 186 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 4: You two made two hundred and twenty two million dollars 187 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 4: off that residency. The Sphere made twenty mini So that's 188 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 4: not probably not a very good deal. And you think, 189 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 4: you they should have worked a better deal on YouTube 190 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 4: because that was good for you too, right, I mean, 191 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 4: somebody was the opening act of the Sphere. You should 192 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 4: maybe strike a better deal for them, But whatever, it 193 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,479 Speaker 4: got them a lot of play. They are losing supposedly 194 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 4: half a billion dollars a year. 195 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 5: Think about that. That's hard. 196 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 4: You could literally go astrodome on it, lock the doors 197 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 4: and let it rot from within, and you wouldn't lose 198 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 4: half a billion dollars a year, five hundred million dollars 199 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 4: a year. And every single thing they do is sold out. 200 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 5: It's crazy. 201 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 4: They went through the electric bill alone for that thing, 202 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 4: and it is. Yeah, you can go ahead and not 203 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 4: worry about how much energy you use because I assure 204 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 4: you the sphere is draining more energy than entire cities, 205 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 4: So you don't. You don't really need to worry about 206 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 4: your carbon footprint. When Taylor Swift, who's lecturing you, is 207 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 4: flying around by herself in the back of a big 208 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 4: jumbo jet. Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about. 209 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 4: It's India and China that are polluting the world. Don't 210 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 4: worry about the cal farts, don't worry about your own footprint. 211 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 4: You don't need to recycle. It's all a big silly game. 212 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 4: But anyway, that's my story about the sphere. If you 213 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 4: were wondering about it, that's my story about the sphere. 214 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 4: We went to the UT game this weekend. Arts played 215 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 4: pretty darn well. Was it twenty five or thirty three? 216 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 4: I still worry that he can't hit wide open receivers, 217 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 4: I mean wide open receivers. He overthrows, underthrows, throws two 218 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 4: yards behind them, throws five yards ahead of them. But 219 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 4: I'm hoping that gets better. But I'm not just gonna 220 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 4: say that all is well. I guess we're gonna find 221 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 4: out against Georgia. The unfortunate thing is while they're waiting 222 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 4: on their quarterback to hopefully grow up. And that's putting 223 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 4: it kindly. This defense is amazing. They're incredible, and this 224 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 4: and special teams incredible. There are some incredible world class 225 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 4: talent on this team. And you know Archester, you don't 226 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 4: just come from was it Archbishop? What was it not Shaw? 227 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 4: What was his high school? Archbishop something? Archbishop? Nobody to playing, 228 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 4: you know, being ranked the number one team in the 229 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 4: country and a Heisman hopeful when you know you only 230 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 4: took a few snaps last year and you mostly just 231 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 4: rammed the ball. There's a lot of pressure to put 232 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 4: on this kid. And he'll I think he'll grow into 233 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 4: a good quarterback. I don't know if it'll be a 234 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 4: great quarterback. I just I don't know yet. Anyway, it's 235 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 4: going to be fun to watch as we go down 236 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 4: the stretch and my goodness, my goodness, give those Texas 237 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 4: A and m Aggie's their due. I would love to 238 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 4: see they were number three. I would love to see 239 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 4: the Aggie's rank number one at one point. I mean 240 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 4: I would love to see them that That would be 241 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 4: that would that would be a good thing. Here's to 242 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 4: you Aggie fans. 243 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 6: What y'all want me to stay in? 244 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 3: This? 245 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 5: Here? Fuck? 246 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: What is this? 247 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: Evil? 248 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: Okay? Here? How you pronounced the word chuck them? 249 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 6: Alum in that connect kabbala who commit Goodbye to Texas 250 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 6: University of Texas, Goodbye to Urge and why Lord, good 251 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 6: luck to them? The old Texas agis there is the 252 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 6: boys who knows how to fight? The eyes of Texas 253 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 6: is upon you, is Lord. That is the song they 254 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 6: sing so well, It's all like hell, oh, goodbye to 255 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 6: Texas University. 256 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: Play now father agis looking here. 257 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 6: Chicken wigabonel, chicken niggadoo, Just go hie out on or 258 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 6: no where did they mean? 259 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 3: Tell who? 260 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 4: I started with Michael Petro just under five years ago. 261 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 5: I had heard. 262 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 4: About him from my friend Chance McLean, and he said, hey, 263 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 4: I made a TV commercial for a guy. You will 264 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 4: love this commercial, and he sent it to me I 265 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 4: need to get it and post it again. And it 266 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 4: basically said, if you're a liberal, don't call me. I'm 267 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 4: a personal trainer, but I come to your home. You 268 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 4: don't have to join a gym. You don't have to 269 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 4: drive there, park, go in, stand around people dropping the weights. 270 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 4: Most gyms are meet markets, and that's okay. There's nothing 271 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 4: wrong with that. It's a good a place to meet 272 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 4: somebody as a bar for sure. I come to your 273 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 4: home and I train you. 274 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 5: There. 275 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 4: At that time, he'd been doing it for twenty five years. 276 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 4: Now it's been thirty. But I want like minded people. 277 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 4: I don't want people who hate Trump or hate America. 278 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 4: And I love that because people will tell me, people 279 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 4: who share my and your values will tell me I'd 280 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 4: love to sponsor the show, but I don't want to 281 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 4: lose customers. And I say, for every customer you lose, 282 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 4: and you won't, you'll gain ten more, and you'll gain 283 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 4: the kind of customers you want. As opposed to being 284 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 4: a wous in not standing for anything, it's always amusing 285 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 4: to me. 286 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 7: We got to stand up for his country, Michael, We 287 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 7: got Achael, what you say, Wow, stand up for this country. 288 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 7: It's time we stand up be counted as Christians, as conservatives. 289 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 7: All right, well sponsor my show. Oh no, why well, 290 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 7: people will be mad at us. 291 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 4: The only people that would ever be mad at you 292 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 4: are the very people you're talking about destroying the country. 293 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 4: Maybe you're the problem. I mean, you're a nice enough guy, 294 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 4: but you're a weasel. Please don't share opinions and talk 295 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 4: about how we need to embrace them as a country. 296 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 4: If you can't even embrace them as a business. You're 297 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 4: a millionaire. Well, you know I don't want you know, 298 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 4: my wife wouldn't want it. I've come to the conclusion 299 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 4: that people who hide behind their wives, that's the weakest 300 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 4: person in society, the person who's gonna do something, but 301 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 4: he has to check with his wife. Really, in fact, 302 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 4: I don't even believe the wife would ever have a 303 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 4: problem with it. I think that's just a weasel, a 304 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 4: way of weaseling out of things. Anyway, So Petru starts, so, 305 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 4: you know, he shows me his video. I said, you 306 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 4: know what, if for no other reason, then I love 307 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 4: that he put this. He had bought a commercial spot. 308 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 4: I think he spent ten grand. It wasn't a lot 309 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 4: of money, and he got some results and so I 310 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 4: wanted to meet him and I wanted to train with him. 311 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 4: So I call him and he comes to the house 312 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 4: and my wife laughs about it because he comes over 313 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 4: and we have our first session and afterwards. It turns 314 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 4: out he's a hardcore listener. He listens to every hour 315 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 4: we're on the air, either as he's driving to appointments 316 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 4: to train people or whatever he misses, he goes back 317 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 4: and listens on the podcast and has for years. I mean, 318 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 4: he could quote things from the show I'd forgotten about. 319 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 4: Ramona had slept through, and so we sat on the 320 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 4: back porch. Turns out he loves a good cigar. He 321 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,959 Speaker 4: doesn't smoke him as often as I do, and he 322 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 4: loves good bourbon. So we had some bourbon, We had 323 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 4: a cigar. We sat out there. It gets to be 324 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 4: dinner time and so we uh, he stayed around. I 325 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 4: think it was state night, and so we had a 326 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 4: state he stayed. He stayed close to five hours. We 327 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 4: hit it off, let's just say that. So six months 328 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 4: into it, he said, Hey, I'd like to talk to 329 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 4: you about sponsoring the show. I said, well, it's ten 330 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 4: thousand dollars a month minimum. That's not my rule. It's 331 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 4: the company rule. The show is sold out and it's 332 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 4: a year long contract. It's you know, you don't want 333 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 4: to insult somebody, but I don't think your numbers work 334 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 4: for that. You're, you know, solo guy. And he started 335 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 4: building a company, and he started training other people to 336 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 4: do what he does. And he takes every call as 337 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 4: they come in. He talks people through, you know, what 338 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 4: are you trying to accomplish this? Make sure this makes 339 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 4: sense and the whole thing. He today has eleven trainers. 340 00:20:53,160 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 4: Five years later, eleven trainers. He has increased by fifteen 341 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 4: his revenues from being a guy on his own. I'm 342 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 4: not saying he's rich, but I'm saying he's very financially 343 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 4: successful now. And he has built an actual business, I 344 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 4: mean a thriving business that he can pull back from, 345 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 4: which I have encouraged him to do because he's exactly 346 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 4: my age. He went to University of Texas and play 347 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 4: football there. Your body can't hold up to training. You know, 348 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 4: he's lifting the weight for somebody. He's doing all these 349 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 4: things and he's. 350 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 5: Fit as a feddal. 351 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 4: He looks great, he feels great, but you know, you 352 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 4: have to prepare a succession plan, and that is anyway. 353 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 4: So he says to me the other day, he's been 354 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 4: very slow to grow because when he brings a trainer on, 355 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 4: he wants that trainer to be busy. He wants to 356 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 4: be able to keep them busy mostly with his work, 357 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 4: and maybe subsidized with the work they already have, and 358 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 4: eventually wean them off and just do his work, which 359 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 4: is our listeners. One hundred percent of his clients are 360 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 4: our listeners now. 361 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 5: Anyway. 362 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 4: So he says to me a couple of weeks ago, 363 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 4: I need another trainer. So we've talked it through and 364 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 4: this morning he said, all right, I gotta have another trainer. 365 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 4: So somebody out there who shares our values, because you've 366 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 4: got to realize the listener is going to be people 367 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 4: that's going to want to talk about our show, who 368 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 4: shares our values, who's willing to get in the car 369 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 4: and drive to the clients to train them. And that's 370 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 4: usually in my case, it's in my garage, and some 371 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 4: people it's in their bedroom, it's in their living room, 372 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 4: it's in their office. That's the beauty. But the neat 373 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 4: thing about his model is when they go in, people say, 374 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 4: you're like a breath of fresh air. There's a lot 375 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 4: of people that are like in my dad's situation, and 376 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 4: when they go rolling in, that's the only person that 377 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 4: that person's going to see because they're widowed or widow 378 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 4: or maybe they've had a stroke. That's the only person 379 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 4: that person's going to see in a day, and you're 380 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 4: coming to their house. So they're training, but they're getting 381 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 4: to tell you stories. 382 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 5: You know, my. 383 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 4: Grandson played football this weekend and I didn't get to 384 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 4: go to the game because I can't get out because 385 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 4: I'm want to walk her. 386 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 5: Or whatever else. 387 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 4: It's a fascinating business model, but he's made it work, 388 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 4: and our little Show that Could has helped him grow that. 389 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 4: So if you are looking for a phenomenal job and 390 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 4: you are a good trainer already, not somebody trying to 391 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 4: build somebody up for the Olympics, but some of the 392 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 4: understands health and safety and all that, email me and I'll. 393 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 5: Connection what yep dot. 394 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: Allow me to introduce myself. 395 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 4: My name is Mitta. 396 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 2: Michael Berry's genius. 397 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 4: Quality writing right now, just quality, Ronnie Condren writes, Done, 398 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 4: Ronnie Condred, sound like some of you went to high 399 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 4: school with, Like I don't know a Ronnie Condren, but 400 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 4: that just sounds like a dude I went to high 401 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 4: school with. Hey, you remember Ronnie Condren. Ah, he was 402 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 4: in between your brother's year and yours. I think he 403 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 4: was a year younger than your brother, maybe two younger 404 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 4: than you and two older than you. Ronnie Conrad, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 405 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 4: I knew some conjuring boys. I don't But anyway, I 406 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 4: don't know him. He's not from Marnsfield to my knowledge. 407 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 5: He writes zar. 408 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 4: My daughter and I work for a company that sends 409 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 4: out a quote every Monday morning. Sometimes they're very good, 410 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 4: not only for our job, but for life in general. 411 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 5: Today was a good one. 412 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 4: I thought i'd share it with you. Busyness, that's bu 413 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 4: ask why busyness being busy? Busyness fills our time, purpose 414 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 4: fills our lives. The difference between the two is intention. 415 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 4: Are you feeling time or living with purpose? I said feeling? 416 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 4: I meant feeling. I said feeling like touching feel. Let 417 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 4: me read it to you again. Busyness b u s 418 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 4: why busyness fills our time? Purpose fills our lives? Can 419 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 4: you hear that I'm saying, feil not feel? 420 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 5: It's questionable. Oh, canlet me try it? 421 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 4: Busyness b u s why fills fills? 422 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 5: Fo No, not belonging to Phillip? How would you say? 423 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 5: It feels no? 424 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 4: Pouring into fills, fills and feels Okay. I'm gonna try 425 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 4: it again. Busyness fills our time? 426 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 5: How was that? Okay? 427 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 4: Busyness fills our time. Purpose fills our lives. The difference 428 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 4: between the two is intention. Are you feeling time or 429 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 4: living with purpose? That's a good quote. So he's r 430 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 4: O N N I E like a girl. So I said, 431 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 4: are you a girl, Runnie or a boy? 432 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 5: Ronnie? 433 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 4: I'm betting a girl. 434 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 3: Just check it. 435 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 4: And what is the company? He said, I'm a red 436 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 4: blooded American man. The company is Allied fire Protection. That'll 437 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 4: probably be a good show sponsor for us from them, 438 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 4: because you know people that need that. You know, that's 439 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 4: our listeners. You know. It always blows my mind when 440 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 4: we add a new show sponsor. I'll always say, how 441 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 4: did you get your name out prior to this? And 442 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 4: they usually have been spending money on a trade magazine. 443 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 4: Oh so you've been telling everybody else in your business 444 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 4: what you do when they are your competition. Yeah, I 445 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 4: didn't know what else to do. Or the other thing 446 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 4: is they bought some package that somebody bought it said 447 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 4: somebody was selling, so they ended up on some mus 448 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 4: station or somewhere else. Nobody is choosing their fire protection 449 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 4: or most anything else on a station where they're listening 450 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 4: to music. If they tune into us, they may not 451 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 4: even like me. But our opinion matters because that's what 452 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 4: we are mostly an opinion and entertainment show. 453 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 5: It's engaging. 454 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 4: So when we say, hey, Mike Batchis has got a 455 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 4: special interest rate on Chevy Silverado's. 456 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 5: Wait who wait what? 457 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 4: Yeah, then you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna pay attention 458 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 4: to that anyway. 459 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 5: I like that quote. I like that quote a lot. 460 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 5: That's that's a good deal. 461 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 4: You know, it's pretty neat that we get to help 462 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 4: businesses that are people that we like, Petru being one 463 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 4: of them. 464 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 5: He was a one man shop. 465 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 4: Ten grand a month's a pretty big nut for one 466 00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 4: man shop, right, and now he's grown to eleven trainers 467 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 4: and become very successful. And in the meantime of knowing him, 468 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 4: his daughter Elle, great student at Alvin High School or 469 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 4: Mays Manville Manville High School. She went from graduating with honors, 470 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 4: went to Texas A and M on a scholarship, got 471 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 4: a four point zero at Texas A and M married 472 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 4: her college sweetheart Kyle, great kid, and they moved to 473 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 4: the north side of Houston, and she works for Republic 474 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 4: Grand Range. Now, well, Gary Sumner's hired her. She's a 475 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 4: beautiful girl. I mean she could honestly be a model, 476 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 4: beautiful young lady and just smart as a whip and 477 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 4: great personality and makes me look like a liberal. I 478 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 4: mean she is conservative about She's what you she's what 479 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 4: you think of with Texas A and M that a 480 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 4: lot of people aren't. But she is what you imagine 481 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 4: being a Texas A and M girl to be. I mean, 482 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 4: this is. 483 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 5: The girl you want to marry. 484 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 4: Gary Sumner hired her to do the follow up. So 485 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 4: when somebody goes into Republic Grand Ranch and they buy 486 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 4: their home site and they build their home and they 487 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 4: move in, she goes in and spends time with them 488 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 4: going over the process. You know, has it been what 489 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 4: you hoped it would be? 490 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 5: What was not good? 491 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 4: What you know, all the ways that they could improve, 492 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 4: all the things that mattered to that person, things that 493 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 4: they would still like added to the community, all those 494 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 4: where did you come from? 495 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 5: All those sorts of things. 496 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 4: So that's great feedback for me because I get to 497 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 4: hear from her through a dad what people have to 498 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 4: say about living there. And the cool thing is the 499 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 4: reason they live there is our show. So you know 500 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 4: that tells you something about the values of your neighbors, 501 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 4: which if you've ever had a liberal neighbor and you 502 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 4: don't want to have another one, pretty good. So we 503 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 4: got an email from a lady. She does a state 504 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 4: planning and she wanted to sponsor the show. So Robert 505 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 4: Reese goes and meets with her, and he comes back 506 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 4: as I really like this lady. I think you're gonna 507 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 4: like her. And I said, Robert, it's a one woman 508 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 4: law firm. There's no way those economics are going to 509 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 4: make sense unless she gets really busy and works. 510 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 5: Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. 511 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 4: Well, Saturday night, my wife and I are sitting at 512 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 4: dinner and I text her a message and I said, 513 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 4: I'm gonna see how Christine is doing because my wife 514 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 4: just loves her and is rooting for her. I said, 515 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 4: how do we do for the month of October? I 516 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 4: like my show sponsors to tell me how we did 517 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 4: for the month. Mike Batch just gives me my sales reporter. 518 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 4: You know how far we get? You know, do we 519 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 4: sell four hundred and forty units? And so I said, 520 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 4: how do we do for the month of October? And 521 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 4: she sends back the numbers and her business has grown. 522 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 4: I don't know if it's fifteen x. It's probably twelve 523 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 4: x what it was. But it was Saturday night at 524 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 4: nine she said, tell Madam Secretary. I said, hello, I'm 525 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 4: in a meeting. 526 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 5: As soon as I. 527 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 4: Get out of this, I'll text you the results. 528 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 5: And she texts us at ten fifteen. 529 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 4: Because it turned out a lot of our listeners needed 530 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 4: to state planning and didn't know where to go, and 531 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,239 Speaker 4: in some cases didn't even know they needed it. You know, 532 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,239 Speaker 4: you're married, you have kids, your kids grow up, you 533 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 4: get divorced, One of your kids works in the business, 534 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 4: and now you know if something happens to you, you 535 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 4: know what goes to your current wife, what goes to 536 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 4: the kids? 537 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 5: Who gets the business? 538 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 4: You don't want the government to step in and take 539 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 4: everything you worked so hard for that should belong to 540 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 4: your family. 541 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 5: All of those sorts of things. It's more than just. 542 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 4: A basic will of state. Planning is really really important. 543 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 4: And tax avoidance, I mean, you don't want the government 544 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 4: will take everything you've got if they can when you die. 545 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 4: That's what the Democrats want anyway. So her business is 546 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 4: blown up. So you guys are great, y'all make this 547 00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 4: whole thing work. 548 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 3: Yes,