1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air, and. 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 2: Now a totally random week in review from the past. 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 2: Take a guess when this was. 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: Dude, you want to have homos as neighbors, I'm gonna 6 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: tell you something. I would subsidize having homos a neighbor. 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: They're great neighbors. First of all, there's no grass growing 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: under the abandoned cars in the front yard. They're gonna 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: keep the nicest yard on the block if you just 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: treat them like normal people. They're so ecstatic. Hey Tommy, 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: how y'all doing y'all knitting? Anything we got? 12 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 3: No? 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: It is time to us like we're normal people. 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 4: That's all we I'm seriously more important than anything I 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 4: discovered the glories of. 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: The waffle House. No matter how wrecked and obnoxious you are, 17 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 2: or how late it I you're nice. 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: You never hear somebody come out of waffle House saying 19 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: you that really wasn't that good. You never leave waffle 20 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: House thinking you know their quality is really slipped. That 21 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: x con with all those tattoos on his arm making 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: the food right in front of you, That guy solid 23 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: boom boom boom, he's good at it. 24 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 2: Twelve days on the road and here we are back. 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: Admit it made. 26 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: It's hard to start this series. 27 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 2: Against the Cleveland Guardians. Go ball, I'm hit pretty well. 28 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 2: No right, two outs the Carrotity. Just start of the gags. 29 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: Dreading walking on. 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call Matt Brice at Federal American Drill and 31 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: ask him to have on the menu by tonight a 32 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: carrot martini called the Carrotini. You can hear the intro. Well, 33 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: one Houston astro is being honored by a local establishment 34 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: with a drink named in his armor. They are serving 35 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: the Caratini, and then you got the ladies and she 36 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: goes it's pretty good God Texas at music legend Willie 37 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: Nelson is celebrating his ninety first birthday today. Before I 38 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 1: spoke marijuana, I was I was drinking a lot and 39 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: I might have killed a lot of people too. Willie, 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: to me is that side of all of us. It's 41 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: a little bit mischievous, little cheeky. It's gonna be a 42 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: little naughty. 43 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 5: But WILLI got my stone and took all my money. 44 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 5: I was fifty dollars up, but then my mind went't funny. 45 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 5: It didn't really help that I didn't know the rules 46 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 5: of the game, and it probably didn't help that I 47 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 5: couldn't remember my name after Willie Gomstone and took all 48 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 5: my cash one high little split, but then he kicked 49 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 5: my ass. He gave me knuckles across the table. But 50 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 5: then my mind went blurry and just like a puff 51 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 5: of smoke. 52 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: Fifty nine years ago to that, in nineteen sixty five, 53 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: was Stone to be the first concert in the Houston Astrodome. 54 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: There's probably some people listening who were there, and you'll 55 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 1: remember that the opening act for the first concert in 56 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: the astronom Astronom was none other than not Kiss Your 57 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: Goober sixty five The Supremes. The Supremes were the opening 58 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: act for the main headliner in that headliner on this 59 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: day in nineteen sixty five, the Mickey Mantle of concerts 60 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: she would hit the first home run concert was none 61 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: other than not sure. But that's a very good guest. 62 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: But if it was sixty five, she would have had 63 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: Sonny with her. Try one more. It's a woman, not Whitney. 64 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: Would you quit? Would you be serious for one minute? 65 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: Rosemary Clooney is a good guess. That's not a bad guess. 66 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: Try again, one more in you not Shirley Temple, don't 67 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: even go there. Well, that wouldn't be a bad guess. 68 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: Nina Simone, No, a little early for Nina, for miss Nina, right, 69 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: Ella Fitzgerald, another guest, how about this? She's not black? 70 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: Apparently that's the only people you know? Yeah, well, oh 71 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: with the Supremes, Okay, I don't think they were trying 72 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: to lure a black audience. Not I said she's not black. 73 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: Not Aretha. Aretha's a good guess though, that's actually a 74 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: very good guess. Not Rita Kool. It's no good guess though. 75 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: Those are not terrible guesses. Those are actually serious guess. 76 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: Not Nancy Sinatra, A little early for Nancy Sinatra, keep 77 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: going there were white women singing, You would probably think 78 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: of her less in terms of a chart topper at 79 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: the time, and more sort of an American institution. In 80 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: the Shirley Temple mold, how about that, Marilyn Monroe. No, 81 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: not nineteen sixty five. And Margaret is a very good guess. Not, 82 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: and Margaret will give you credit though that's a very 83 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: good guess. Think in terms of American institutions and less 84 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: that somebody had a big moment in time, somebody that 85 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: this woman would be in the top ten list of 86 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: American institution women, larger than any particular song. Some people 87 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: probably can't name a single of her songs. It's a 88 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: life that is got it not e Liza Minelli. 89 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 6: But yes, you're on the right track, Judy Garland, it 90 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 6: is well done. Ramon, see you're not stupid. That's very 91 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 6: well done. And one year later after the first concert 92 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 6: in the Houston, Astronom was born unto our Land in 93 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 6: Orange County, the son of a DuPont worker by the 94 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 6: name of Jerry Bird, himself a musician. A young man 95 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 6: raised in vider Texas, where he would be a star 96 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 6: on the basketball team. He would start college where he 97 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 6: decided he was going to learn to play the guitar. 98 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 6: And he said he locked himself in a room for 99 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 6: six months, didn't go to class, but he sat for 100 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 6: six months. 101 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: And learned the basic keys on the guitar. And there's 102 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,679 Speaker 1: a period particularly in the nineties there where Tracy Bird 103 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: was on a run. It had a great, great career 104 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: and much like Mark Chestnutt, a lot of parallels, lots 105 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: of overlaps there in that venn diagram. Never left Beaumont, 106 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: lives in Beaumont to this day. Never left Beaumont and 107 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: raised his beautiful kids in took off for about five 108 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: years fromout seven till about twelve or thirteen. I got 109 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: a message through my brother in at the beginning of 110 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen from a fellow named Greg Fountain, who's a 111 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: good friend of his, that Tracy Bird was ready to 112 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: get back out and start playing. He didn't want to 113 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: tour again because he'd burned out. It's very common, and 114 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: he'd coached his kids in little dribblers. He's basketball, and 115 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: you know, he'd been staying home and being daddy. A 116 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: lot of guys do that that out on the road 117 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: for a while, that he would like to start playing again. 118 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: And I said, give me his number. I would love that. 119 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: And he started playing at the RCC and he sent 120 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: me the nicest note about six months into being back 121 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: once he flipped the switch and said he was playing 122 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: again and put his band back together. He had all 123 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: the work he could possibly do. Because that era of 124 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: music there is such by the way, I got a 125 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: note the other day. I sent this to Tracy Bird. 126 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: Mark Chestnutt played a show the other day, hour and 127 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: a half, not full ninety minutes. Apparently his voice is 128 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: on the rebound and sounded very good. It was strong, 129 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: he sounded strong. He seems healthy. He had a heart attack, 130 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: I had all these health problems. It made me very 131 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: very happy to hear that. So happy birthday, Tracy Bird, 132 00:08:53,520 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: good friend. So for over ten years we've had a 133 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: Republican majority in the Texas State House of Representatives, and 134 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: yet the Democrats are picking our Speaker of the House. 135 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: And the reason is because the Democrats all vote together, 136 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: and you get these guys who are very clever, who 137 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: are the establishment Republicans. They're not conservatives, but we've not 138 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: been able to dislodge them from their district. So to 139 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: their district they say, we're going to go to Austin 140 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: and we're going to fight for you. But then they 141 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: get there and they put Democrats as committee chairmen. So 142 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: what they do is they go over and play for 143 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: the other team. Eighty eight out of our one hundred 144 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: and fifty state reps, it's eighty eight to sixty two. 145 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: So if the eighty eight voted together, we would pick 146 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House. That's the way it works 147 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: in Congress. That's the way it should work in Texas. 148 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: But what happens is you get the guys that are 149 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: not conservatives. They don't like the Maga agenda, they don't 150 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: like the Tea Party agenda, they don't like any of this. 151 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: So what they do is they go over to the 152 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: Democrats and go, you give us your sixty two votes 153 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: and we'll pull together fourteen of us and we'll get 154 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: seventy six out of one hundred and fifteen. So now 155 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: you only need fourteen out of the eighty eight Republicans. 156 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: Think about that. That's one sixth. You got sixteen percent 157 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: of the Republicans, and so we have a Republican Speaker 158 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: of the House. And you've got the big money lobbyists 159 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: who like this because the idea of cutting taxes, the 160 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: idea of closing the borders because some of these people 161 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: rely on a legal immigration, the idea of doing what 162 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: you've the idea of giving school vouchers. We can't have 163 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: competition with government schools. So they got a lot of 164 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: rural voters scared. They're going to do it. They're going 165 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: to destroy your public school, public school that's where my 166 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: kids go. Yep, they're gonna have vouchers. And so the 167 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: people who are most concerned about this are rural voters 168 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: where you got one school in a rural community, and 169 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: they go, how vouchers they're going to destroy our public school? 170 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 6: How? 171 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: How are they going to destroy your public school? What 172 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen all of a sudden, 173 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: nobody's going to go to your school. Look, if you're 174 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: running your school district like the post office is, then yeah, 175 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: you're going to go out of business. But isn't that 176 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: what conservatism is all about? Since when do we want 177 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: to create artificial barriers so that a government can dominate 178 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 1: a business and prevent outside competition. Taxpayers don't pay our 179 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: tax so that a school can have a monopoly on 180 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: the education lobby. Right, So they go and pluck off 181 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: a couple of these rural state reps because the largest 182 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: employer in that school district you get these bedroom communities 183 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 1: is the school district. So the superintendent is actually the 184 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: tail wag and the dog. So they go get a 185 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: couple of these rural state reps and they team up 186 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: with the Democrats, and the Democrats they don't have rural 187 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: school districts because the rural communities are all Trump country. 188 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: The Democrats want these big, massive school districts like HISD 189 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: because that's where they get all their buddies. Remember Rodney 190 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 1: Ellis's chief of staff was the president of HISD who 191 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: was arrested and convicted for taking bribes while she was 192 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: the president of HISD. And oh, by the way, she 193 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: was serving on the staff of the county Commissioner's office. 194 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: That's how these big urban school districts work well. The 195 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: drunk Daid Republicans are teaming up with them, and that's 196 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: why we can't get a speaker who represents our values. 197 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: That's why Dan Patrick Kent the Senate gets things out 198 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: of the Senate. The governor's got his agenda, and you're 199 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: left with a very very savvy and by the way, 200 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: I know the lobbyists who run this scheme, and they've 201 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: run this scheme for years. They are supposedly Republicans, but 202 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: they're not. They're just guys that make a lot of 203 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: money for some big interests. And these people do not 204 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: like Ken Paxton. That's why drunk Daid Impeachton. So drunk 205 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 1: Daid has to step down. They had to have Democrats 206 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: vote in the Republican primary to get drunk Daid back 207 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: to Austin. But Drunk Daid is so tarnished for their 208 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: image that they bring in his number two and hope 209 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: people won't notice Dustin Burroughs. Well, the entirety of the 210 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 1: Houston area Republican delegation is with David Cook, which is 211 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: who the majority of Republicans are with. It's now over 212 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: sixty percent except for Lacey Hull. And I'll leave her 213 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: for a moment and Will Metcalf. And so people call 214 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: or email Will Metcalf and they forward me the email 215 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: they get and they go, here's how Will Metcalf responded 216 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: to our email. That's not Will Metcalf. The same lobbyists 217 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: that are putting together the coalition so that the Democrats 218 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: can have committee chairmanships even though they're minority party, the 219 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: same lawyers. I know who they are. Everybody up there 220 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: knows who they are. They write these responses for them. Well, 221 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: Sam Harlest came over. I'm told Mono Dialla came over. 222 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: People were catching so much hell back home that they're going, man, hey, 223 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: you guys, you guys can't keep me in Austin. If 224 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: I went with drunk Dad. I voted for the impeachment. 225 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: I can't. I had an opponent. Fifteen one to five, 226 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: Fifteen sitting Republican state reps lost their primaries to challengers 227 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: because of impeaching the most conservative attorney general in the country, 228 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: fifteen of them. And I'm gonna tell you something. It's 229 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: going to happen in the next session as well. If 230 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: Burrows Wind's going to happen again. Well, Will Metcalf is 231 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: forwarding this little he's in Montgomery County and lo and behold, 232 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: the plot thickens because the vice chair of the Republican 233 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: Party in Montgomery County, I do not know him, but 234 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: I am going to support him. John Bouchet has announced 235 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: he's going to challenge him, So Will Metcalf. You put 236 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: your head up Dustin Burrough's ass. You go hold hands 237 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: and skip through the Capitol with drunk Dade feeling. You 238 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: can have the lobbyists from Austin wind you and dine 239 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: you at Ruths Chris or wherever you're going to dinner 240 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: every single night, every night, have a hell of a session. 241 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: Just know this, we are going to make your reelection 242 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: campaign a living hell. A year from now and every 243 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: Republican voter. You better start getting those Democrats lined up. 244 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: Y'all are going to have to do the same thing 245 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: you did in Orange County, Jefferson County, in Beaumont, Orange County, 246 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: Jefferson County, in Jasper County where drunk Dade lost going 247 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: into the runoff and lost the speakership. Will Metcalf you're done. 248 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: Ask Ernest Bells how that worked out for him in 249 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: Liberty County. Ask Ernest Bells how voting for the impeachment 250 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: and running his mouth worked out for him. His whole 251 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: life was being a state rep. And guess what he 252 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: got it ass whipped. And there's a bunch of these 253 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: other Republicans who thought they were bigger than the base, 254 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: who thought they didn't need the voters known the Lord. 255 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: I got these fancy Austin and Houston law firms with 256 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: Austin offices. I got these billionaires. I got to I'm 257 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: flying around the country and it in private jets. I'm 258 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: hanging out with drug Dad. We're down on the sideline 259 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: at the Texas Tech Game, in the UT game and 260 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: the A and M Game. They got all the money. 261 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: They're gonna pour all this pack cash in there and 262 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: they had fun. They're having fundraiser after fundraiser and it's 263 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: the same crowd of guys, and they all show up 264 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: with their check. The political Action Committee for the state 265 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: wide diss and the state wide diss and the municipal 266 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: employees and the this and the this and the this. Well, 267 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: guess what you don't have, you bastards. You don't have 268 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: the voters. And you're gonna see that. Will Metcalf, We're 269 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: coming after you and Michael Berryshow. 270 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 5: Then all our songs get about the lifestyles of the 271 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 5: nonsur rich chi. 272 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: Fame followed by the name of Oscar Owen sent me 273 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, subject, 274 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: I run the oldest radiator shop in Texas Czar. I 275 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: just thought this was a cool story, thought i'd share. 276 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: I run the oldest radiator shop in Texas, Eccles Brothers 277 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: Radiator Works. We've been in business since nineteen twelve. My 278 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: grandpa was shop foreman for many years, then my dad 279 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: and now I've been doing it the last eight years. 280 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 1: I worked with some of the coolest old guys that 281 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: have so many stories of Houston changing the last eighty years. 282 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: It's one hundred and twelve years, but we now own 283 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: Wayside Radiator and we moved our shop there. I just 284 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: recently found two old match box matt sorry matchbooks on 285 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: eBay that pre date when the current owner's dad bought 286 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: Ecchos Brothers back in the sixties. They're easily thirties to 287 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: forties by the locations and the phone number. One location 288 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: is where the House of Blues sits now and the 289 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: other is where the Four Seasons is. Thanks for listening 290 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: to my rambling story. I'm going to turn your microphone on. 291 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: I want you to say something into the microphone. Are 292 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: you ready? I want you to tell people what a 293 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: radiator does. Go ahead, Oh, radiates? Okay, yeah, it's very radiant. Yes, okay, 294 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 1: I'm waiting. Yeah, can you put some music? Because dead 295 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: air means yeah. You just just tell people what a 296 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: radio air Just simple explanation, will do? I mean, just 297 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: basic function. You don't have to go to d You 298 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: don't just assume anything. 299 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 5: What does it do? 300 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: How does it cool the engine but radiating? What is 301 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: the process by which it cools the engine by radiating? Oh? Okay, 302 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: you don't want to leave people behind and go too 303 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: deep into the woods here into the weeds. Okay, I 304 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: would like, whether it's Owen or Skip Hartley at Thunderbolt 305 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: Motors and Transmissions, somebody to call up and give an 306 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: explanation that a four year old could, I mean, a 307 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: fourth grader could understand as to what a radiator does. 308 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: Do you ever stop and think ramon how many things 309 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: around us that we take for granted that if we 310 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: went back to the state of nature, we would have 311 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: no idea how to make them happen. I would not 312 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: have the slightest clue. And what's interesting to me is 313 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: how many people have technical none. Is our phone system 314 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: not working? It is working. We got the sorriest phone system. 315 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: I would like to talk for the next five minutes 316 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: and burn airtime on how stupid I was to buy 317 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: this phone system. But I pretty much think people have 318 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: the idea by now, don't you, Okay, I just I 319 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: have no idea how radiator works, no idea none. I'll 320 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: be honest with you. I have no idea how how 321 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: air conditioning works. And I've looked it up, I've read 322 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: about it. It just doesn't. It's not intuitive to me. 323 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 1: So I want you to listen to Bill Maher talking 324 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: about why Democrats lost this election. I think he nails it. 325 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 4: You wear Queers for Palestine t shirts and masks two 326 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 4: years after the pandemic ended, and you can't define woman, 327 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 4: I mean person who menstruates. You're the teachers Union, an 328 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 4: education party, and you've turned schools and colleges into a joke. 329 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 4: But a shocker that the people who see everything through 330 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 4: the lens of race and sex see their election loss 331 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 4: as a result of racism and sexism. Kamalists spent one 332 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 4: hundred days telling voters, I know it feels like crime 333 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 4: and legal immigration are bad, but feelings. Look at this chart. 334 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 4: You've seen my in this house, we believe lawn sign 335 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 4: see it says. 336 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: Right on it. 337 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 4: We believe in science, right, which is why you demanded 338 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 4: no one even debate whether COVID could have escaped from 339 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 4: the one lab in the one city where they were 340 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 4: studying it. 341 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: How far fetched. 342 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 4: Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of 343 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 4: so much incest, has unfortunately had children who are retarded. 344 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,719 Speaker 1: Texas Monthly just released their bum steers. And it's always 345 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: Republicans for you know, doing some stupid things as wanting 346 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: to shut down the border. Can you believe they're so ridiculous? 347 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: And Texas Monthly just gets worse and worse with fewer 348 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: and fewer subscribers as they become more and more nutting. 349 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: But it looks like they gave a bumsteer to John Whitmer. 350 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: Now I've known John Whitmyer for twenty five years. We've 351 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: not always agreed on everything, but we've always gotten along. 352 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 3: And. 353 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: I supported him wholeheartedly in order to defeat Sheila Jackson Lee. 354 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 1: He's a lifetime Democrat, and he's far more conservative than 355 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: the modern Democrat Party. And he could never get elected 356 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: if he was a new candidate today because his views 357 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: look more Republican than they do Democrat. And they go 358 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: on and they they talk about the fact that he 359 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: blamed the problems of the city on Sivi Turner, that 360 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: he's impulsive, that he's seventy five. Listen, I'm gonna say 361 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: something that if he screws up tomorrow, I will be 362 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: the first one to jump it. But I want to 363 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: be very clear. I am very happy I supported him, 364 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: and I know a number of you did as well. 365 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: John Whitmyer beat Sheila Jackson Lee. It's easy to forget. Yes, 366 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: he beat her sixty four to thirty six. But he 367 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: beat her because Republicans voted in large percentages, almost one 368 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: hundred percent for him. But more importantly, Republicans showed up 369 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: to vote. If only ten Republicans show up to vote 370 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: in the city, Kingwood showed up, Hispanics showed up to vote. 371 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: A lot of people showed up to vote, and thank god. 372 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Sheila Jackson Michael Holy sound warehouse. 373 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: That's what I from the smokes to the rocky slid 374 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 1: back down to big taskbar. 375 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 3: Right. 376 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: A radiator transferse heat in a car. The radiator uses 377 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: water to cool the engine from combustion. Water cycles through 378 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: the engine has a water pump, then the water is 379 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:30,959 Speaker 1: cooled by forward motion of the automobile. Gary Stewart writes 380 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: rule of thumb. The temperature drop across a radiator is 381 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: only fifteen degrees. The same is also true for a 382 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,719 Speaker 1: cooling coil in a refrigerator or air conditioner. So engine 383 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: coolant in an engine enters the radiator at about two 384 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty degrees, an exit exits at about two 385 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: point fifteen, just above boiling. The pressure cap keeps the 386 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: boiling temp above two twelve. As you probably know, boiling 387 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: temp is lower way up in the mountains, less pressure, 388 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: and Lory writes, family owned restaurant on Christmas Day. Open 389 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. My family would like to visit a 390 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: small family owned business for Christmas Day dinner. Would you 391 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: be open to providing a list of the restaurants that 392 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: will be open that day? Well, I can tell you 393 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: it's just going to be Chinese restaurants. Anywhere in the 394 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: world I have ever traveled on Christmas, the only restaurants 395 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: open are the five star hotels and Chinese restaurants. My 396 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: Jewish friends all laugh because they say it's kind of 397 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: a Seinfeld joke where they go because they don't celebrate Christmas, 398 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: that they go eat Chinese food on Christmas. That is 399 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: just the whole place is Jewish on Christmas at a 400 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: Chinese food restaurant, which, yeah, probably probably something to be 401 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: said for that. I came across a Steve Jobs quote 402 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 1: that is probably as responsible for any of the success 403 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: I've had in life and the people who I know 404 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: who have had in life, and I thought I would 405 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: share it with you. This was recorded pretty early in 406 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: his career. 407 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 2: First of all. Good to see you, thank you, good 408 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 2: to see you. 409 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, good to see you. 410 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: Can you comment on the drones that are flying around 411 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: New Jersey? Sorry, no, no, not not the Trump drones. 412 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that this evening. It's a clip number 413 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: six o one. Sorry I gave you the wrong number. 414 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 3: I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me 415 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 3: if I asked him for help. I called up Bill 416 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 3: Hewlett when I was twelve years old, and he lived 417 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 3: in Palo Alto. His number was still in the phone book, 418 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 3: and he answered the phone himself. Yes, he said, Hi, 419 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 3: I'm Steve Jobs. I'm twelve years old. I'm a student 420 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 3: in high school and I want to build a frequency counter. 421 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 3: And I was wondering if you had any spare parts 422 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 3: I could have, And he laughed, and he gave me 423 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 3: the spare parts to build his frequency counter. And he 424 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 3: gave me a job that summer and Heltt Packard working 425 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 3: on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on 426 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 3: frequency counters. He got me a job in the place 427 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 3: that built them. And I've never found anyone who said 428 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 3: no or hung up the phone when I called. 429 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 4: I just asked. 430 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 3: Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most 431 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 3: people never ask, and that's what separates sometimes the people 432 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,959 Speaker 3: that do things from the people that just stream about them. 433 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 3: You got to act, and you've got to be willing 434 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 3: to fail. 435 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: I study highly successful, self made people, and one of 436 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: the things that comes up again and again and again, 437 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: whether it's the oil patch wildcatters, John Moore's at BMC, 438 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: Tim and Fertita with hospitality and then casinos, on and 439 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: on and on, is I was just dumb enough to 440 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: believe I could succeed at that. In many ways, the 441 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: worst curse you can have on your career is to 442 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: do well in school and to get a good job, 443 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: because it's very hard to leave a good job, very 444 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: hard to leave a good job. The best and boldest 445 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: thing I ever did was working for a downtown law firm. 446 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: My dream if I stayed past seven o'clock, I got 447 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: limoed home at night and limoed back in. I was 448 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: twenty five years old. I felt like a king dinner 449 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: would be brought. 450 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 2: In for me. 451 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: Because I was making a lot of money for the 452 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: law firm, working very long hours weekends. The whole thing 453 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: to walk away from that and start my own business 454 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: out of a little shack we were living in. It 455 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: had a little a add on room to the outside 456 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: of it that was probably unpermitted, and it was on 457 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: a slope, and it had anoleum floor, and it was terrible. 458 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: And I had a phone which was a brother printer, 459 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: fax machine and phone all in one. And I started 460 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: my business at a little card table desk in there. 461 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: I'm not woe as me. I don't know why I 462 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: was dumb enough to do that. Maybe because my wife 463 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: was willing to support me chasing my dream. Maybe because 464 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 1: I watched my dad work for forty years for DuPont 465 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: and hate every single bit of it, and I saw 466 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: how it kills you slowly but surely. I don't know, 467 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: kind of a death of a salesman sort of thing. 468 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: But I don't know why. Maybe because I always got 469 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: good feedback from teachers and parents and coaches and siblings 470 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: and friends. But I was never afraid to try anything, 471 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 1: to ask people for help, to ask people for a meeting, 472 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: to ask people for advice, ask people to make a connection, 473 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: to ask people to get me in here or refer 474 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: me over here. Best advice you can get. A couple 475 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: times a week, I'll get an email from a mom 476 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: who says, hey, can you help my son do this, this, 477 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: and this? And my response is simple, I know I 478 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: sound like an ass. No, have your son contact me. 479 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: Have your son reach out to me, and I will 480 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: connect your son. Mama can't get the job because mama 481 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: can't do the job. Encourt my kids. Michael is much 482 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: more shocked. Crockett's more outgoing. But if we go to 483 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: a restaurant, one of them has to go in and 484 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: get the table. One of them has to They have 485 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: to speak to my friends when they come over. Teach 486 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: your kids this. It's important.