1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 2: I was dealing with joy a C issue a C company, 4 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 2: So sorry about that, Eddie. You're on the Michael Berry Show. 5 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael about that tax increase. Those 6 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: guys have some seriously industrial sized balls to try to 7 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 3: force that tax increase on us. Well, at the same 8 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 3: time they're trying to push. 9 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 4: That the minimum. I'm living things, you know, where I 10 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 4: want to give everybody a stipend. 11 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 3: The other point that I have is footle bolts to tackle. 12 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 4: Escape. Eddie. 13 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: I I don't know what you're doing, but I can't 14 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: I can't hear you if you're on speakerphone, bluetoothes, hanging 15 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: out the window in a wind tunnel? 16 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 4: Is that better? 17 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 2: Yeah? Hunter time? What were you doing? 18 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm d I'm a catastrophic as adjuster for 19 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 4: All State and I'm working up in Oklahoma listening to 20 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 4: you on iHeartRadio, so I'm driving out to one of 21 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 4: my claims. 22 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: Just awesome. But were you on a speakerphone or a 23 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 2: bluetooth or what were you doing? 24 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 4: It was what I don't know if I have a 25 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 4: problem with technology I handed to my kid and say, hear, 26 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 4: make this work. It was my phone routed through my 27 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 4: car somehow. 28 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 2: Oh I see, okay, all right, okay, yeah, anyway, go ahead. 29 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 4: So I'll take it from the top. Those guys have 30 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 4: some industrial sized balls to push a tax increase on 31 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 4: us while we really know what they're trying to do 32 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 4: is fun of that monthly stipend they want to give 33 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 4: to five votes. My other point was about Alexandria Mieler 34 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 4: and comrade Habelgo. I would love to see a debate 35 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 4: between those two with them both hooked up to a 36 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 4: light detective machine. Your thoughts. 37 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I love the thought fact as anybody was 38 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 2: paying attention voted for me Ler and the kind of 39 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 2: people who were idiots voted for Hidalgo. We've got a 40 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: real problem, you know. I saw this in India the 41 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 2: first time I went to India. They had a governor 42 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 2: named n. T Ramareu of the state of under the Pradesh, 43 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 2: which was my wife's home state, and he was a 44 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: former movie actor, and he ran for office on the 45 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: basis of a two rupee rice scheme as they called it, 46 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,119 Speaker 2: which meant basically free food. You talk about very poor 47 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: people free food and prohibition because the wives. So this 48 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 2: was all designed to get every woman's vote, because the 49 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: wives were tired of their husband spending their money on 50 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: booze and they didn't bring it home. So he was 51 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 2: going to take away your ability to drink and give 52 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: you free rice. And he got elected, and it turned 53 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: out he was extraordinarily corrupt, and you know, things happened 54 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: as you might imagine, but he won with huge numbers. 55 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 2: And I've come to the conclusion that if you think 56 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: about the left, it is run by white liberals, and 57 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: they allow some some corrupt black politicians into their midst, 58 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 2: but they don't want too many of them in there. 59 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 2: For instance, Kamala Harris, as Janet Jackson said over the weekend, 60 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris was never really black. She grew up in Montreal. 61 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 2: She has an Indian mother. She's called herself Indian her 62 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 2: entire life. She has grown up much more the experience 63 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: of an Indian immigrants child in this kind of the 64 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 2: spoiled brat, lacking for nothing, even if they weren't wealthy, 65 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 2: but they were well enough. And they allow Kamala Harris 66 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: to come in because she'll pass for black well Janet Jackson, 67 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: to her credit, came out in the last couple of 68 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 2: days and said, I've never heard that Kamala Harris was black. 69 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 2: She's always been Indian. This is a lie. They're passing 70 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 2: her office black. But so what they do is they 71 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 2: allow kind of a subculture within the Democrat Party, and 72 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 2: that would be the silvester turners and the Sheila Jackson Lee's, 73 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 2: the grifters and grafters, the frauds, and there are real 74 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: pestilence upon the people, but you jerrymander the districts so 75 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 2: that those people represent the poor blacks, or a district 76 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: with enough poor blacks that if they'll just vote the 77 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: right way, they'll stay in office for life. And they're 78 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 2: happy when they first get elected to be in office. 79 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: And then in time they start building up their empire, 80 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: they start creating networks. They start then they build kind 81 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: of a sub contractor network of people who black owned 82 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 2: businesses who they want a piece of the pie. They 83 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 2: know there's going to be a stadium built, they know 84 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 2: the city is going to do that big wastewater treatment plant. 85 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 2: They know the city is going to or the county 86 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: or HCC or HISD, So they bring in these black 87 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 2: owned and then they and then they have all their 88 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 2: buddies make their wife the owner of the business. So 89 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 2: now they're a minority business, and so a bigger and 90 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 2: bigger percentage. This is why Rodney Ellis for twenty five years, 91 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 2: Rodney Ellis Is pushed for a higher percentage of every 92 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 2: contract to be a minority in women owned business. And 93 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: so they've built this cluster. By now they've got a 94 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 2: very sophisticated investor network that keeps the politicians in office 95 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 2: and they get now they are the lead on these contracts. 96 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 2: They can't do the work in most cases, they've never 97 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 2: done the work before, and they have no interest in 98 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 2: doing the work. But now this has this is what 99 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 2: has consumed our local governments, and the average citizen has 100 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: no idea nor interest, and that's the problem, nor interest 101 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: in what's going on. The local Republican party doesn't have 102 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: any excess and o's no blocking and tackling. There's no 103 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: ground game anymore. There used to be, but there's not anymore. 104 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 2: There's nobody focused on the ground game of getting people 105 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 2: out to vote, keeping people informed, and that's a real problem. 106 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 2: And so what you've seen is we have collapsed into 107 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: what Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, what those cities have become, 108 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: which is white liberals and black corruptocrats and just self 109 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: dealing to the highest degree. And you look at who's 110 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: behind it all. You've got Rodney Ellis, who has the 111 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: virtue of getting to be black because he operates he's 112 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 2: much more a white liberal. And then you've got these 113 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 2: big money folks like the John Arnolds and this city. 114 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 2: Oddly enough, I never thought i'd see this happen. Now 115 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 2: you've got Republicans who've thrown in their lot with these people. 116 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: You've got wealthy Republicans who used to be the bulwark, 117 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 2: the spine of Republican activism, the kind of people that 118 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 2: used to get laws passed in the city, the county, 119 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 2: of the state, even when we were Democrat city. And 120 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 2: they've all now thrown in with the Arnold family and 121 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: Rodney Ellis, and it is you want to know who 122 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: they are, go look at the Nicky Haley event when 123 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 2: they hosted a fundraiser for Nicki Haley in the Republican 124 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 2: primary against Trump. Go look at that list, Go look 125 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 2: at who came out against packs. It's the same people, 126 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 2: and they were the people that were our last defense 127 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 2: against the. 128 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 5: Ball the. 129 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 4: Years of this. 130 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 2: There's a story behind this song. For there's always been 131 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 2: doubt as to whether one thought is when he said, 132 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 2: you know, darkened my door, that this is a reference 133 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: to a black woman and he's a white man. Of course, 134 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 2: there is a universally consistent dark darkened my door means 135 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: to visit or not visit. You haven't darkened my door. 136 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: But I interviewed Robbie Robertson. The band is my second 137 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 2: all time favorite band, behind Leonard Skinnered. It was a 138 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 2: bit awkward because I like Robbie Robertson as a musician. 139 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 2: I don't like Robbie Robertson for what he did to 140 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 2: leave on Helm with the making of the Last Waltz, 141 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: and I think he he scored Sase, conspired to minimize 142 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: the influence of Levon Helm on the band and for 143 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 2: that matter, the rest of the band and promote themselves 144 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 2: through it. But whatever, Obviously I'm bitter. But what I 145 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 2: didn't ask him, and I had meant to ask him 146 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: because he wrote Ophelia, was whether Ophelia whether he was 147 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: referring to Hamlet's love interest. In Hamlet, the Prince of 148 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 2: Denmark because Ophelia Ramon, you'll remember, was Polonius's daughter, and 149 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: Hamlet's father had been assassinated by his uncle Claudius. And 150 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: so in the play, he falls for Ophelia and Polonius, 151 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 2: who is an adviser to King Claudius. And remember Polonius's 152 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: son's name, who was Ophilia's sister of Ophilia's brother, Laartes. 153 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 2: Polonius's advice to Laartes. He's sending his son off to college. 154 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 3: Romar on. 155 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: Othello is a totally different play. My goodness, you don't 156 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 2: remember sixteen hundred like it was yesterday. Clearly somebody didn't 157 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 2: pay attention to Miss Hardy's class, and it wasn't me anyway. 158 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: So Polonius, you'll you'll recall, the advisor to Claudius. They're 159 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: debating whether or not Hamlet's Hamlet has gone mad because 160 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: Hamlet is using this this impression that he's crazy in 161 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 2: order to distract his uncle, who's just killed his father. 162 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 2: And how did he kill his father, Well, he put 163 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 2: poison in his ear, and that way he could be 164 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 2: the king. And of course he took up with Hamlet's mother, 165 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 2: and the funeral meets were hardly cold, and Hamlet did 166 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 2: not approve of all this. So Hamlet has come back 167 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 2: in a ghost, an apparition has told him how his 168 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 2: father was killed. And Claudius, King, his uncle who's now 169 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 2: the king, is worried that the prince has figured out 170 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: what's going on. So you remember, Hamlet Stage is a 171 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 2: play which he's written and he directs, and in the 172 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 2: play he's going to he's going to have a similar 173 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 2: theme where the king is going to be killed by 174 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 2: the prince in the same manner in which his father 175 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 2: was killed. And so Polonius, well, the whole point of 176 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 2: Ophelia in all of this was that Ophelia drowned, and 177 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: and there was speculation that she drowned from suicide, and 178 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 2: so the hole was dug for her body, and her 179 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 2: body is placed down there, and Laertes jumps into the 180 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 2: hole because his sister has died, and he is he 181 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 2: is hysterical, and Hamlet, passing by, jumps into the hole 182 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 2: and he and he professes his love for his now 183 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: deceased Ophelia. Larties draws his sword and they begin a 184 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 2: sword fight. But as you will remember, Claudius had Laertes's 185 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 2: sword when you fight that the tip is supposed to 186 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 2: be covered, but they'd had to cover removed and it 187 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 2: had the sword dipped in poison. So all he had 188 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 2: to do was slice Hamlet and that would be the 189 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 2: end of Hamlet, which was the goal because Hamlet's going 190 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 2: to take over. But that was where Hamlet acting crazy 191 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: or mad is where we get the phrase tis madness, 192 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: yet there is method in it. We say there's method 193 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: in the madness, but I think the actual phrase is 194 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 2: tis mad tis madness, yet there is method in it, 195 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: the idea being that they're, well, you know what it means. 196 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 2: There is a reason, you know, crazy like a fox, 197 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: and that was there's so many references in fact history 198 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: of English language. One of my favorite podcasts has an 199 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 2: entire episode and you can follow it up chronologically. It's 200 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 2: in about the year sixteen hundred that all of this happens, 201 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: and he has an episode on Shakespeare and the influence 202 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: of Shakespeare on our modern life and the language that 203 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 2: we use, and how many phrases we use that come 204 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: from Shakespeare, like the word buzz. Shakespeare created out of 205 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: whole cloth words. The word buzz to refer to gossip 206 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: and chatter did not exist was not written down. He 207 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: created that word from which we determine the sound, which 208 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 2: is kind of an automotopoia, and so many things. A 209 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 2: buzzer to buzz someone, the buzz around someone. You think 210 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 2: about all that? How many words Shakespeare, one author, allegedly 211 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 2: introduced into our lives. It's incredible we've gone from that 212 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: to now men chopping off their willie, coloring their hair 213 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: their own color, and demanding that everybody pay attention to 214 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 2: them because they want to be recognized. How far we 215 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: have fallen as a people. Martha, I just got news 216 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 2: it's your ninety first birthday. My goodness, yes it is today. 217 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 5: Always call you on my birthday. 218 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 2: Martha Golden for years. 219 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 5: Yes. 220 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 2: So I was having a conversation with our mutual friend 221 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 2: Mitch Little, the New state representative who you knew since 222 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: he was a young man. And sometimes, in order to 223 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: get people's attention, if they're my friend, I will write 224 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 2: the most awful, vile thing about them to them and 225 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 2: they'll respond with either an insult back to me or 226 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 2: a laugh or a why on earth would you say that? 227 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 2: But Mitch gets my humor, so he sent something back, 228 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 2: and my response to him is always well, Miss Martha 229 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 2: Golden prefers me to you, whereupon he protests. He protests that, no, no, you, 230 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 2: he was your original favorite. What are you doing for 231 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: your ninety first birthday? You're in an assistant living, aren't you? 232 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 5: Oh no, I live at home by myself. 233 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 2: Oh I didn't run. I thought you were an assistant living. 234 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 5: No, no, I live at home by myself. I'm going 235 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 5: to taste of Texas with some friends. 236 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 2: Oh, how nice. 237 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 5: Yes, And yesterday I went to McCormick Smith was with 238 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 5: some friends for lunch. 239 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 2: Oh, you're doing a birthday month. That's how I like 240 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 2: to do it. 241 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 5: Yes, who are you tonight? I'm going to my son. 242 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 2: Who are your friends? You're going to taste of Texas with? Today? 243 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 5: Oh? I've got a group of friends from Second Baptists 244 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 5: that we've been during birthday of probably. 245 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 2: Ten years years old. Off, Happy birthday, sweetheart area. 246 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 5: So I was raised as a middle class kid. 247 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 6: I guess their attendance is down, because then damn Jehovah 248 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 6: witnesses back. That woman come beating on my door eight 249 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 6: o'clock this morning. That pine cone headed lady told in 250 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 6: the Bible in one hand, and her cartoons and the 251 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 6: other one talking about, Uh, you don't plan to over 252 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 6: celebrate Christmas, do you? I said, who is this man 253 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 6: with you? She goes, oh, that's my husband. I said 254 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 6: he looked different than he did last time, and the 255 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 6: man said, oh, it's cause I got missed some new hair. 256 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 6: He got a tappa on his head, but they call 257 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 6: it a two pit a two pair on his head. 258 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 2: He said, don't it look nice? 259 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 6: I said, well, you look a little younger than you did. 260 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 6: I said how much it was? He said it was 261 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 6: over fifty dollars they got off Amazon dot Com. I said, 262 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 6: how do it stick on your head? And he said, 263 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 6: just regular scotch tape. And I was fascinated by the thing. 264 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 2: I told him. 265 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 6: I said, you look at hell up a lot better 266 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 6: than you did when you come over here. Bowed heads. Well, 267 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 6: I guess his wife got aggravated because that pine cone 268 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 6: on her head went to swelling up and stuff. And 269 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 6: she said, well, if you're not interested, were just gonna leave. 270 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 6: But I said, I have never been interested. 271 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 2: I don't know why y'all keep coming over here. 272 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 6: Bought in me, But anyway, I got rid of him. 273 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 6: They don't never do nothing for nobody, at least the 274 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 6: marmans asked you, could you move some furniture around or 275 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 6: could they pick us some boxes in the backyard or 276 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 6: whatever these you need dead them? Jove, witness that you 277 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 6: stand office for my nerves. I don't play that. 278 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 5: How you doing. 279 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 2: Jim Dutton of do Wes Services, he owned several companies 280 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 2: and one of them is an ac company, and he 281 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 2: reached out and said, Michael, it's got joys taken care of. 282 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 2: I'll eat whatever the cost is. We will jump on 283 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 2: it today. And I know Jim to be a very 284 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 2: honest and honorable man, and I know they will take 285 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 2: good care of him. I did receive a number of offerers, 286 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 2: my friend Matt Biss, who's a small shop, just him 287 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 2: and an assistant out crawling in addicts and underhouses and 288 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,959 Speaker 2: everywhere else to fix air conditionings. And I said, I 289 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 2: don't want you to do it, because if you've got 290 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 2: to eat a cost of seven or ten thousand dollars 291 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 2: on a small shop, that's a lot. But I appreciate you, 292 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 2: so thank you to Matt Bice. There were so many 293 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 2: people who emailed in offering to help, and that's because 294 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 2: y'all are amazing. Charlie writes, air conditioner scam. I just 295 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 2: went through what Joyce is going through. The repair company 296 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 2: wants to be paid to replace the plenum. You don't 297 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: what to pleanum is from. Look it up, drip pain, 298 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 2: and other parts besides the dryer coil that are not 299 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 2: covered by the insurance. The company will tell the warranty 300 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 2: company that the air conditioner is out of code because 301 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 2: of the drip pan, saying the drip pan is not proper. 302 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 2: The warranty company will only authorize the repair when it's 303 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 2: brought up to code that air conditioner is not out 304 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 2: of code. The extra parts may need to be replaced 305 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: because they don't fit the non OEM replacement dryer coil, 306 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 2: but that too should be covered by the warranty. They 307 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 2: have a duty to replace with like or similar, which 308 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 2: means if they don't use OEM parts, they have to 309 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 2: make it work with what they've put in. Let me well, 310 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 2: let me read one other on that subject. Bart writes, 311 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 2: my mom just went through this what Joice is going through, 312 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: but with a water heater. In the past, warranty companies 313 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 2: seem to work decent, especially for the elderly that are 314 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 2: on a fixed income. Anyway, the tech that came out 315 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 2: said the water heater needed replacement. The warranty company said 316 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 2: they would pay for all of it except fifteen hundred dollars. 317 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 2: In Houston, replacing light kind water heater ranges from fifteen 318 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 2: hundred to nineteen hundred. It's a scam. So we decided 319 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 2: to get the money instead, and me and my brother 320 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 2: he's a licensed Master prompt plumber. The cash value they 321 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 2: gave us with three hundred bucks. The water heater cost 322 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 2: us six hundred and fifty just for the water heater. 323 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 2: So here is my answer to that. Easier said than done. 324 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 2: But here's some advice to people, a few people that 325 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 2: might maybe actually do some good for. We all have 326 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 2: the same number of hours per day. We don't all 327 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 2: have the same number of years, but within reason, most 328 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 2: people are going to live to be somewhere between about 329 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 2: seventy and eighty. Be some anomalies young and some anomalies old, 330 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: but within a reason, we're gonna have in terms of 331 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:12,239 Speaker 2: potentially productive minutes we can spend, we're gonna have a 332 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: similar number. It's gonna be the same, you know, number 333 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 2: of thousands of days. Within reason, how you spend those 334 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 2: minutes is going to have a great deal of effect 335 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 2: impact on your life. And what I tell people and 336 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 2: how I've lived my life is think about this. What 337 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 2: am I sure that I'm gonna need that I can 338 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 2: plan ahead. I'm sure I'm gonna need help on an 339 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 2: air conditioning. I live in Houston. I'm certain I'm gonna 340 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: need help on an air conditioning. I'm probably gonna need 341 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 2: help with a plumber. I'm certain I'm gonna need help 342 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 2: with the mechanic, and I'm probably going to need help 343 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 2: with most everybody part in the course of my life 344 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 2: a urologist, a cardiologist, a pulminologist, an eye doctor, a dermatologist. 345 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 2: Now if I wait until I need those things to 346 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 2: build a relationship, then I'm putting myself over a barrel. 347 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 2: That's not a good position to be in. So I have, 348 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 2: in the course of my life sought out people who 349 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: do the things that I know I'm going to need 350 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 2: somebody to do, and I have those things in place. 351 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 2: Lucka who I ain't rich, you don't have to be 352 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 2: trade your services. When you meet somebody who does something 353 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 2: like that, strike up a friendship. There's no reason you 354 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 2: can't choose your friends. I'm interested in people who do 355 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 2: things that I can't do, that have a skill set 356 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: that I don't have, and they will tell you when 357 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 2: I'm off air. I don't want to talk about me. 358 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 2: There's nothing about me that's more interesting than you haven't 359 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: already heard. If I'm even halfway interesting on air, and 360 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 2: that's debatable, I'm nothing when I'm off because I got 361 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 2: nothing else to talk about. Build these relationships ahead of time, 362 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 2: and then you're not going to be beholden to trying 363 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 2: to find somebody out of the phone bas the Michael 364 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 2: Ferry Show because. 365 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 4: Russia cannot hack a piece of paper. 366 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 2: At the Tucker Crosson event last week at the Epicenter, 367 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 2: we were walking out of of the venue. And it's 368 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 2: interesting because law enforcement will not really make eye contact 369 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 2: because they're on duty, they're working, but you can tell 370 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 2: by their mannerisms if they know who you are and 371 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 2: if they're a fan, and so there were several that 372 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 2: I could tell that was the case. But they're not 373 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 2: about to do anything because you know they're amongst their 374 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 2: peers and this, you know, it's considered unprofessional. You know, 375 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be working. But Tucker went over and 376 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 2: want to shake some of their hands, and I thought 377 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 2: that was nice, and they were very nice to him. 378 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 2: As we were leaving, I had to come back in 379 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: because there was somebody in our group that hadn't left 380 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 2: with us, So I come back in to get someone in. 381 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 2: This officer he's got the whole swat gear and the 382 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 2: whole thing. I mean, he looks like Steve and Sigal 383 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: back when Segal was actually in great shape. And he said, 384 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: excuse me, I just want to tell you I'm a fan. 385 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 2: I said, oh, thank you. And we talked for a 386 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 2: minute and asked him which department and that sort of stuff. 387 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: And it's ten o'clock at night at this point. That's 388 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 2: going to bear into the story in just a moment. 389 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 2: And he said, would you mind if we took a picture? 390 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 2: And I said I'd be glad to, so we did, 391 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 2: and he just sent me the picture and he said, Zari, 392 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 2: it was a pleasure to finally meet you at the 393 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 2: Tucker event after hitting the streets at six am, working 394 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 2: a ten hour shift and then coming to the event 395 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 2: for an extra job. You could imagine my surprise running 396 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 2: into you after the show at ten o'clock. I listened 397 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 2: to you every morning in US Southeast Texas po pos. 398 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 2: Sure do appreciate all that you do. Thanks for hanging 399 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 2: around and taking a pic. My wife was jealous that 400 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 2: I got to meet the TSAR. Keep fighting the good fight, 401 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 2: and if you ever need anything, I'm your guy, Stay sharp, 402 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: stay alive, Landry. I just thought, none of the people 403 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 2: complaining in this country are working a sixteen hour day. 404 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 2: You ever notice that none of the people protesting or 405 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 2: wearing work boots? Except ironically, you ever notice how many 406 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 2: people we have in this country with purple hair, screaming 407 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 2: and hollering death to America. This is the worst country ever. 408 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 2: It's so unfair. It's comical to me. Not one of 409 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: them has a job, not one of them works at anything. 410 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 2: You know what I had found in my own life. 411 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 2: Idle hands are the devil's workshop. My mother always said 412 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: that idle hands are the devil's workshop. When you stay busy, 413 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 2: when you are focused, you don't have time to get 414 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 2: into trouble. You don't have time to complain. Michael T 415 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 2: started at University of Texas this semester, and my wife 416 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 2: was worried that he was over committed outside the classroom 417 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: on activities and groups. But he felt like that was important. 418 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 2: It's important on your resume, it's important for experience is important. 419 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 2: And I said, why have you not told him no? 420 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 2: Because you always said that all that matters is the 421 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 2: grades out of the hands or Devil's workshop. I actually think, 422 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 2: and this is certainly true of me, that if I've 423 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 2: got thirty things to do today, and it is a really, 424 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 2: really busy day, I got a checklist of thirty things 425 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 2: I got to get done, that's the day. If you 426 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 2: need me to do something, you need me to call 427 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 2: and get something done for you, that's the day to 428 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,719 Speaker 2: hand it to me. Because you know what I'm gonna do. 429 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 2: I don't have time to procrastinate. I'm gonna say wait 430 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 2: right there, now, I might not be nice about it. 431 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 2: Wait right there, don't hang up, give me the number, 432 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 2: hurry up, boom, get it done and move on. You've 433 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 2: heard the old line, if you want something done, ask 434 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 2: a busy person. We have got to make sure that 435 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 2: we are rewarding good behaviors. Let's go back to that 436 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 2: Joyce story in the Warran. I think warranties are stupid. 437 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: I do I think finance people. I'll tell you where 438 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 2: I think they come from. I think the private equity 439 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 2: guys during the roll ups of the seventies and eighties. 440 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 2: I think they went in and they said, oh, we've 441 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 2: got Smith Electrical over here, and we got Jones Electrical 442 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 2: over here, and we got Abar Electrical over here. What 443 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: we could do because those guys, the guy that founded 444 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: it works his tail off. His wife is there, he's 445 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 2: starting to he's had cancer already once and it may 446 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 2: come back. His kids don't want to be involved in 447 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: the business. And you had all these little companies and 448 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 2: you do a roll up of them, and when you do, 449 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 2: you got to figure out so if they could just 450 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 2: get a little cash. Some of those companies sold for 451 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 2: one year of earnings just because they had no other 452 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 2: exit strategy and it was going to close down one 453 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 2: way or another, so they were just happy to get anything. 454 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 2: You know. They end up in their seventies, no exit strategy, 455 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 2: their health is starting to fail. They don't know when 456 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 2: that's going chronic. So the private equity guys come in 457 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 2: and bundle a bunch of those and then they start 458 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 2: buying in Bault and they start they bring in hr, 459 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 2: they start figuring out ways to make more money. Out 460 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 2: of the same business. Well, to do that, you have 461 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 2: to change the business. There's no way around that. You 462 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 2: have to teach the people to upsell everything. You can't 463 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 2: spend time sitting in so the customer, the consumer loses 464 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 2: all of that. But you also start looking at things 465 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 2: like on an electricians route, what does he make per day? 466 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: Whereas he used to average billings of you know, four 467 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 2: hundred dollars. Now you say, I want you to hit 468 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 2: two thousand or your gone, and here's how we're going 469 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 2: to incentivize you, and here's what you're going to do. 470 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 2: And I think what happened was they started looking for 471 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 2: ways to get prepayment on things, and then these companies, 472 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 2: most of these businesses like this are not created by 473 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 2: the people who deliver any service. They're created by finance people. 474 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: They're created by a Wall Street insider type mentality. I'm 475 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 2: not mad at them. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm 476 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 2: a realist. I feel like I've seen both sides of 477 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 2: this bridge and I know how it works. What makes 478 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 2: me sad is to see good people like Joyce get 479 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 2: suckered into it. Because if she put that money in 480 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 2: a savings account and never touched it because a lot 481 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 2: of people if they didn't put it into the warranty 482 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 2: here or the prepaid funeral r there'd be nothing less. 483 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 2: If people could put their money into safe investments and 484 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 2: do that every month, they wouldn't need ninety percent of 485 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 2: these little warranties and this. And you want to know 486 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 2: how much money there is in the warranty business. Notice 487 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: that everything you buy now they offer you a warranty. 488 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 2: That's not because they really really care about you. That's 489 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 2: just land yap, that's some gravy. That's some cash right 490 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 2: on the end of it, because you're gonna pay penny. 491 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 2: The other big one is gift certificates. And I love 492 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 2: gift certificates. I give gift certificates as gifts all the time. 493 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 2: I keep gift certificates at the ready all the time 494 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 2: because they're easy to give. But as a business