1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: Michael Verry Show is on the air. Girl, the Michael 3 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: Berry Show. Welcome program. Stir go ahead, yeah, Keith, Yeah, 4 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: there you are. 5 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: The sound was just really weird on my end. I 6 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 2: don't know why. Hey, I got the perfect way. 7 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 1: We can end on rescribe for me. The sound. 8 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: It was just muffled. It was like I heard the 9 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: little dang that where you picked up. That's how I 10 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: knew to pick up. But the sound was very, very muffled. 11 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. So even on your intro music, I 12 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: could barely understand it. 13 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy. We were in the iHeart studios 14 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: for years and our chief engineer, Bob's Troup, who was 15 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: one of the nationally recognized chief engineers in the country. 16 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: He would advise stations all over the country. He had 17 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: forgotten more about radio equipment than anybody else, but he 18 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: built the studios to last, not always to my exact 19 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: specs of how I would like it as a user. 20 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 2: And so. 21 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: We had a phone system that is it's called t 22 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: Los t E l Os, and all the radio stations 23 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: in the country that was kind of that was the standard. 24 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: That's what you used, and it's a phone that you 25 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: could push the buttons and it's run through a line, 26 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: or you could pick up the phone during the break 27 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: and talk to people in case you were to say, hey, 28 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: can you hold with me for a minute. Ramon does 29 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: that now, but back then I used to do it. 30 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: And I always thought, when we go out, I'm gonna 31 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: build my own studio and I'm gonna have an internet 32 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: based phone system because that way, when I'm out traveling 33 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: the country, given speeches and going to events, i can 34 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: do my show, which I often do, and I'll be 35 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: able to see the calls coming in from the road. 36 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: So when we built our studio, I said, all right, 37 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna do So I went to Talkers magazine's publisher, 38 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: and I said, what's the best internet based phone system? 39 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: I called Joe PAGs, I called Lars Larson, I called 40 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: everybody I knew that had a home based recording studio, 41 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: because you want to get away from what the companies 42 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: are doing, because it's probably going to be more innovative, 43 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: less robust, but more innovative. So I look around and 44 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: the one that came to mind was called was it backbone? Backbone? 45 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: And it's an internet based phone answering system and we 46 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: install it and it's atrocious. I mean atrocious. So they said, oh, 47 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: oh you're having this problem, well you need to do this. 48 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: So I end up getting the Platinum package. You name it. 49 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: Here is your bribe, just make the damn thing work system. 50 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: And we had it for howm A year? Three three years? 51 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: From how many years did we haven't? We had it 52 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: three or four, however long we've been over here. We 53 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: had that damn system and it was terrible. There would 54 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: be delays in the call, and so somebody would finish 55 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: what they were saying and I wouldn't hear it for 56 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: a second and a half later, so I would start 57 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: into what I was saying and they would go, hmm, 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: he's not in. Are you there? So they'd say are 59 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: you there? And you had to pace that. It was terrible, horrible. 60 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: So I said, all right, we're going to scrap all 61 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: that and start over. We're going to the tee low system, 62 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: which costs a lot more, but at that point I 63 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: didn't care. I just wanted a system that was stable 64 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: and secure. So we got that system and we're still walking, 65 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: we're still working through it, and it's not perfect yet, 66 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: But I had not talked to anybody who had been 67 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: on a call who had it's supposed to go when 68 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: it comes to you, so that you know you're on. 69 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: But it sounds like somebody didn't have the levels down, Ramone? 70 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: Why are you online too? Are you serious? Oh? Ramone 71 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: is listening in on your line as a fellow caller, 72 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: but not talking so he can hear what you're hearing. 73 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: Is that is that quality control? No, you're not on 74 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: there is that quality control? Oh wow, okay, this is advanced. 75 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: It is just like serious. You did a you did 76 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: a tribute to baseball opening Day and quality control all 77 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: in one day. This is crazy, all right? What you got, Keith? Okay? 78 00:04:51,520 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 3: So the government sh hey here he is, Ramone's chiming in, Oh, it's. 79 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: My whole day you have You have no idea too? 80 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: Seriously, Well, it's all the time, and it's so sickening, 81 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 2: you know. And so if if President Trump was to 82 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 2: just go out and sign an executive older saying government 83 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 2: shuts down, the first thing that happens is all of 84 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: Congress and all of their staffers lose their pay till 85 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: it's over all. Travel has to be paid for out 86 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 2: of pocket and is non refundable. There'll never be another 87 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: government shut down ever. 88 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: That's exactly right. And I can tell you this, if 89 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: the American people had the opportunity to burn it all 90 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: down right now, they would. There is you know, the 91 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: last number I ever saw was the trust in Congress 92 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,840 Speaker 1: was at nine percent. It was the lowest it has 93 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: ever been. And that's a few years ago. This is 94 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: the absolutely because here's what here's what I am glad 95 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: about with this whole thing. This has really shown the 96 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: American people for all the talk of we care about 97 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: the children and we care about now, you don't give 98 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: a damn about any of it. It is all again 99 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: and we peasants can die as far as you're concerned. 100 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: That's the fact. 101 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 2: Same thing with city Hall. Oh we're gonna have to 102 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 2: cut fire and police. 103 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: Yep. 104 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: Oh, how about you cut about nine million of your 105 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 2: people up there that don't do anything and never even show. 106 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: Up to work. 107 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: Did you see that? Amy Davis over at KPRC Channel 108 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: two did an investigative report on that PEA card that 109 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: that Public Works had an employee they had the fraud 110 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: is widespread, but that an employee that had bought hundreds 111 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars of drills and different power equipment 112 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: at home depot and then was selling it on the 113 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: open market. There it is, there's a picture, there's there's 114 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: the skew. There's the whole thing. It's sickening. 115 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 2: It is a number checked their expenses. 116 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 1: No, no, nobody. 117 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 2: Checks the sense account. Somebody's looking. 118 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: And here's the best part, Keith. When they caught the guy, 119 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: they put him on paid leave. You know what, you 120 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: know what I call paid leave vacation. 121 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 3: KP. 122 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 2: George is on paid leave. Well, he's not even on leave. 123 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: He's still getting paid though. 124 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: My goodness alive that that clown. Do you remember that KP. 125 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: George who was the Fort ben County chairman, that he 126 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: was creating fake accounts to harass himself, to make himself 127 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: a victim of harassment. That's really all you need to know, exactly. Wow, 128 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: you know a lot. You're a well informed citizen. 129 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: Well, I listened to Michael Berry show every day, So 130 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: there you go. 131 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: What do you do for him? 132 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 2: I'm retired now from doing what. Uh Well, I was 133 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 2: a water wastewater operator for thirty five years and then 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 2: I retired from that and I went to work for 135 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 2: an engineering firm for the last five years, and then 136 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: I said, that's enough of all that. 137 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: Who'd you go to work for? 138 00:07:59,000 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 2: Oh? 139 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 3: It's a very small civil engineering firm out at Houston, 140 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 3: the Lankford Engineering. 141 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: I don't know them, but that doesn't mean now they're 142 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: very small. Did you enjoy that? 143 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: No, not at all. 144 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: Are you a civil engineer? 145 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I was a construction inspector. 146 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: Interesting. You sound like a very I'm not just pandering. 147 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: You sound like a very, very sharp guy. You can 148 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: see the BS very quick. The Michael Berry Show. So 149 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: I received an email last night, and it really doesn't matter. 150 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: It's a random person. People have goofy opinions. You don't know. 151 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: This guy might be lean ahead allgo as a as 152 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: a gnome to plume. I don't know. So you can 153 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: never take anything too seriously. But one thing I've learned 154 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: from reading emails, and I don't think it's just radio, 155 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: but I'll give people the benefit of the doubt. Is 156 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: it something else may be happening while someone's listening to 157 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: the radio, so they hear a couple of words, but 158 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: they don't hear exactly what is being said. And from 159 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: those couple of words, they shoehorn that into an opinion 160 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: they already strongly hold. So I got an email from 161 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: a guy who said, you say Donald Trump is getting 162 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: bad advice on Iran and you don't know he's not. 163 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: And so I read the whole diatribe he wrote, and 164 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: I know what I said. I didn't say the President 165 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: was getting bad advice. If I thought he was, i'd 166 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: say it. He got bad advice from Scaramucci, the guy 167 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: who was there for ten days and made a fool 168 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: of him and then had spent every day since then 169 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: trying to destroy Trump. And there were people who thought 170 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: the Mooch was going to be the best. And day 171 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: two I said, Scaramucci's gotta go. And people say, you 172 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: never like Trump, Scaramucie's lord of Trump, and you're not. 173 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: And now Scaramucci is wherever he goes, trashing Trump. And 174 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 1: I'll send that email back. Hey, where are we at 175 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: on the Mooch today? I just I'm here to hunt Trump. 176 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: I just want to know which leg because it gets confusing. 177 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: You have to have your own opinions, and you're not 178 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: doing the president or the country a favor by just 179 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what is pro and anti Trump, 180 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: and based on that having an opinion that's dumb, That 181 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: is really dumb. Michael Cohen was his lawyer who went 182 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: to prison and then spent a lot of time trying 183 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: to get him impeached. Are we four or against Michael Cohen? 184 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: Because when I was against Michael Cohen, I was an 185 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: horrible guy because he was Trump's lawyer and I knew then. 186 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: I knew then he was a knave. But now those 187 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: same people hate Michael Cohen and just pretend that never happened. 188 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:47,719 Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. The statement I made was that the shortcoming 189 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: every president of the United States or an organization, or 190 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: a pastor of a church, or a principle of a 191 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: school or superintendent of a school district has is the 192 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: culture around you, the people who are advising you. If 193 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: you're the dad who comes home and your wife says 194 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: Billy did this and this and this and he did 195 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: this wrong, and you pull your belt off and whip 196 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: him and find out three days later mom gave you 197 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: bad advice, not of her own intention. She gave you 198 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: bad advice because Billy's sister told Mom that Billy did this, 199 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: But in fact Billy's sister was covering for the fact 200 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: that Billy's sister had done this, and she was just 201 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: trying to get out of trouble. And then you go, wow, 202 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: I regret that. How many people took the clock shot 203 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: and have a chronic condition today or died with the 204 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: intention of improving their own health and preventing serious illness 205 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: because they trusted Fauci or because they trusted their doctor. 206 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 1: How many people got hooked on oxycotton because Perdue was 207 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: running ads around the clock, because Perdue, the maker of 208 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: oxy cotton, who was trying to get people hooked, and 209 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: they did. Purdue was hosting medical clinics, a medical conferences 210 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 1: where they brought doctors in and assured doctors that they 211 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: had medical approval that oxy conton was not addictive. There 212 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: are medical professionals who believe to this day that oxy 213 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: conton was the most addictive prescription drug of all time. 214 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: Almost impossible to get off of. The opioid crisis. Wasn't 215 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: a bunch of really nice conservative people in public life 216 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: who got hooked and were pill shopping and almost ruined 217 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: their lives and caused themselves horrible pain because they were 218 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: sitting around looking for a way to get high. It 219 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: was people who started with a bad back or a 220 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: messed up neck and got themselves in a real pickle. 221 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: All I was saying was we have to be mindful 222 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: that I hope the president is getting good advice. That's it, 223 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: because he is only as good as the advice he's giving. 224 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: He can't know what's going on everywhere all the time. 225 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: He almost got the bad advice to endorse John Cornyn. 226 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell what would happen. We're still gonna 227 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: beat corn Patston's gonna win that race, and it would 228 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: have been egg on the president's face and would have 229 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: been people very mad at the president, and it would 230 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: have made the president look very bad in the state 231 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: where he's very popular. Well, the president's gut wasn't to 232 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: endorse corn He was getting advice from Susie Wiles and 233 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: other people who are with Corning. That's my point. That's 234 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: my point. And it does not help that Lindsey Graham 235 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: is out there trying to start wars everywhere all the time. 236 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: And by the way, he doesn't have kids. You want 237 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: to know why he doesn't have kids to send a 238 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: war to get killed. The dude gives me the weirdest vibes, 239 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: the creepiest vibes ever. And I can't can you imagine 240 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: that guy in his alone time? Oh big day on 241 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: the hill. Daddy is exhausted. Where's my little kiddy cats at? 242 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 3: Oh? 243 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: Come here more? I bay you man? 244 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 4: Ah? 245 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: Where you rifles? Where you are? Oh all right? Nothing 246 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: like settling in with some hot tea, all wrapped up 247 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: in mama's old sunflower blanket, watching some TV. Oh, sizzling 248 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: saddle bags. What do we have here? Settling as we 249 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: take you back to World War two? Oh my, actual 250 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: footage up the carnage, just getting warm in here, Alexa, 251 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: dim the lights and play my favorite war music. Look 252 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: at all the texts and the fires and the machine 253 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: guns just getting after. Oh my, it's it's an ambush. 254 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: There's like twenty men down. Oh god, oh my, yes, 255 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh oh what's this here? Kinds somebody shot 256 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: the bee twenty nine? Oh yes, getting out. 257 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show. 258 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 3: I told you. 259 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: A man has launched a line sitting service at Bush 260 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: Airport for sixty five dollars an hour, plus of five 261 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: dollars an hour costs of parking. He will stand in 262 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: the TSA line for you, Fox twenty six with the 263 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: story one. 264 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 5: Houston man his name is Stephen dyl Is proving that 265 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 5: Houstonians will always find a little side hustle. He calls 266 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 5: himself a professional policeholder. 267 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 4: I saw in all the Facebook groups and all the 268 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 4: news channels just how crazy it was at the airport. 269 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 4: I was thinking, people don't have time to wait here. 270 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 4: People have to work, they have to take care of 271 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 4: their families. Yeah, so I thought it'd be a perfect 272 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 4: opportunity to help help others. So with everything that's going on, 273 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 4: I will wait in line for you at the airport. 274 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 4: I'll wait for TSA. 275 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 5: What you do is you just show up and you 276 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 5: wait in line. Do you have their bags with you 277 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 5: or is it just your person? 278 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: I don't, It's just me. 279 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 4: And when I get here at the time that they specify, 280 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 4: I sent a text picture to let them know exactly 281 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 4: where I started and what time I started. And then 282 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 4: they let me know when they're here, and I'll let 283 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 4: them know where they are. They can text me whenever 284 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 4: they want and ask for an update on how the 285 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 4: line's going. 286 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: Wow. 287 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 5: So you show up as early as they ask you to, 288 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 5: and you charge hourly. 289 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 4: I do I do sixty five dollars an hour plus 290 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 4: the cost of parking, which is five bucks an hour. 291 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 5: Okay, talk about capitalizing on what's happening right now right 292 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 5: Are you worried that some people around you in line 293 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 5: wi't understand that you're like a placeholder, that it'll cause 294 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 5: problems when the person shows up to jump in line. 295 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 4: I don't because it's a one for one exchange. So 296 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 4: I'm going to get out of line, and that one 297 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 4: person's going to go in line, so it doesn't change 298 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 4: the number of people in line at all. 299 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: I think that's brilliant. 300 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: It just shows a creativity and resiliency that people have, 301 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: you know, with giving all the chaos and all the 302 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 2: issues going on. 303 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: You know what's interesting is I'm always surprised how many 304 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: people bear is toward the exchange of money for perceived value. 305 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: For instance, I was commenting yesterday we had gone to 306 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: Los Teos, hadn't been there in years on Sam Phillippie. 307 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: In fact, I'd only ever been there once before, and 308 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 1: they've been open for years and the Adair family runs it, 309 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: and that's very nice family, wonderful people. They started it. 310 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: I think at the Skeeters and now they owned Buffalo 311 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: Grill and they owned a Dare Concepts. And my wife's 312 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: dear friend, Michelle Rogers has she made a cookie company. 313 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: And anybody who knew Michelle Rogers, who was the talent 314 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: trainer at Page Parks, knows she's in her sixties with 315 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: the body of a twenty year old. She just insanely 316 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: fit and everything she puts into her body. She doesn't drink, 317 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: she doesn't smoke, she gets her full night of sleep, 318 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: she does her skin care. So she's in her sixties 319 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: and looks like a model. It's incredible. And she made 320 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: these cookies and she does a gave for sugar and 321 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: all this, and so we used to go to a 322 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: Dare to support her and buy cookies. Great family, great concept. 323 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: So anyway, we went to Lose Tos for dinner and 324 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: afterwards we were walking out and we have a lot 325 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: more time on our hands because we don't have youth sports. 326 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: We don't have you know, Crocketts got senioritis. He's about 327 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: to graduate, so we don't have it's just the two 328 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: of us now. And so we walked out and I said, man, 329 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: can you believe that that Randalls is closing? And it's 330 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: the Randalls on sam Phillippy, just west of the Loop. 331 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: And what was that about Sage? Maybe Sage is the 332 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: corner there and it's the big anchor tenant in that 333 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: shopping center. I said, can you believe that Randalls is closing? 334 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: And so we started talking about when we both came 335 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: to Houston in eighty nine, her from ndimme from Orange 336 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: and we would walk into the Randalls and look around 337 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: and we'd scurry out before somebody charged us. There might 338 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: be admission to this. I grew up in the era 339 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 1: of all right. I grew up with grocery stores where 340 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: you know, they had they'd have that white supposed to 341 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: be white flooring, the old Hinky and Plots, the Krogers. 342 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: That white flooring had turned to a gray, a dull, 343 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: dingy gray, and that's just what you were used to. 344 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: The air curtain when you come in, you know, the 345 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: things were hanging down, so it was like a busted 346 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: up car wash. That's what a grocery store was. You 347 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: didn't know any better. And then you went into a 348 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: Randalls and that brown floor you remember that brown floor 349 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: Ramon It was it was so warm, it was it 350 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: was elegant. And warm. It reminded me of the first 351 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: time walking into walters Itvly's house at sixty to fifty 352 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 1: River in Tanglewood. It was it was just warm and 353 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: inviting and and I don't know, there was just something 354 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: about this didn't feel like a grocery store. And they 355 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: probably were probably like a Bucky's bathroom. You know, they're 356 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: mopping it every ten minutes. It was like the first 357 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: time you went to a Bucki's bathroom. But then and 358 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: then some this was a grocery store. Man, these rich Ustonians, 359 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: this is how they live. From littl o' Orange wouldn't 360 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: have anything like that. We didn't have anybody rich. And 361 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: I can remember walking into there and looking around and 362 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: just kind of being like a country well, I was 363 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: a country bumpkin in the big city and and like 364 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: it was a social experiment watching people. And you went 365 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: over to the vegetables and they were I was like 366 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: Boris Yelson and at the HGB and clear Lake, you know, 367 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: going back to Russia. Oh, communism is gonna fall. You 368 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,239 Speaker 1: don't know what these people over here got. And just 369 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: walking around it seems so rich and so inviting and 370 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: so comfortable, and like a country club, and so I said, 371 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: we started talking about it. We're standing, we're gazing at 372 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: this thing wistfully toward the past. And she said, you 373 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: want to go in, don't you? And I said, I 374 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 1: kind of do. So we walked on and we walked in, 375 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: and you know, the brown floors kind of dated. Now 376 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: they don't do that anymore, and it's kind of like 377 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of like when you went to the old 378 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: classical continental, French, fancy restaurant, white tablecloth, tuxedoed waiters, you know, 379 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: the towel over their arm or the cloth over their arm, 380 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: and you know, the music softly playing and candles on 381 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: every table. And now it's an open kitchen, you know, 382 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: screaming shit. You know, things changed, and that's okay, but 383 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: walking in there and seeing that, and so I posted, 384 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 1: I said, and you know, I kind of miss Randalls. 385 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: It's sad for me to watch them close. And I 386 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: remember it's been over ten years ago, maybe fifteen years ago. 387 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: For our birthdays, we do fried chicken a team, and 388 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: so Chad had picked up fried chicken for my birthday 389 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: and we were at two thousand West Loops, who were 390 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: just right there, and he had brought it in and 391 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: it said Randalls. And I've always had this thing against 392 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: grocery store cakes. It's stupid, it's still cakes, but it's 393 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: always been my thing. And I thought, oh, man, Chad 394 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: doesn't know he's brought fried chicken from a grocery store. 395 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 1: I have to have my fried chicken from franchieser from 396 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: an actual like I don't trust. You know, grocery store 397 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: food feels like it's not legitimate food. I know that's dumb, 398 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: but that's how I felt until I tasted it. Oh 399 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: my goodness, it's some of the best fried chicken I've 400 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: ever had. And what is the process called? Not air fri? 401 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 1: It's a but there's a term for that. It's like 402 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: a soouvid but it's u anyway, And so people were 403 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: talking about the Randall's fried chicken and I had people 404 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: I posted on Facebook. I had people who worked there, 405 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: people who stopped there every day. What's it going to 406 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: be now? But it made me think something about Randall's. 407 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:23,479 Speaker 1: And it goes back to this lane cutting conversation, and 408 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: that is everybody commented on how expensive Randall's was. I 409 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: didn't go that it was too expensive, and it made 410 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: me think of something with this lane cutting conversation and 411 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: take me a minute to get to I got it. 412 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: I got a little nostalgic on my randalls. That took 413 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: longer than I was expecting there, but just hang on 414 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: Michael Berry's show. So I sent a message to Vinnie 415 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: Tortorella Muscle Cars of Texas, and I said, Hey, how 416 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: does today look? How's tomorrow look? I'm trying to get 417 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 1: down there in between shows and look at the projects 418 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: you're working on. He said, we'll make it work for you. 419 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: Just come on down. So I said, pick one project 420 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: you're working on right now that I'll think is cool? 421 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: Ready for this sixty seven Oldsmobile four forty two with 422 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: the six hundred and eighty horsepower LS three custom motor, 423 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: custom leather interior convertible with air conditioning. It's funny, you 424 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,959 Speaker 1: have to say, with air conditioning, four wheel disc breaks, 425 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: six speed manual transmission, custom Nassau blue paint. Just to 426 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: get down James Brown, awesome kind of car. You're gonna 427 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: love it? How about that? How would you like if 428 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: you're Vinni Tortorella, how would you like to show up 429 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: at your workplace every day? Muscle cars at Texas and 430 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: just look around at all these cool projects and to 431 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: be able to send something out the door looking like that. 432 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: Did I tell you about the sixty seven Oldsman bill 433 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: Tornado I saw the other day. Somebody sent it to me. 434 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: It was a video of it. I wish I could 435 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: find it again. 436 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: It was a. 437 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: Kind of a popular paint color at that time, kind 438 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: of a gold metallic. So we were getting so we 439 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: had moved past the just plain solid colors, and somebody 440 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: described it as looking like a rocket hugging the road 441 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: the way these cars, you know, the big wheel covers. 442 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: And I don't have the vocabulary to describe it the 443 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: way car enthusiasts would. But the seat, the driver's seat 444 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: faces forward, the passing your seat faces backward. And it 445 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: was like a lounge inside there. And so it had 446 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: this beaded like the booth in Federal American grill or 447 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: the booth in an old diner where it would have 448 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what you call those beads, Queen Anne 449 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: or something. Do you know what tald a out where 450 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: it looks like you took the leather and stretched it 451 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: and then you put beads. You know, you punched beads 452 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: and I forget what that's called. And it was like 453 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: a pleather interior and it was a dark brown that 454 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: you'd never have today in a dark brown carpet, and 455 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: it was awesome. So I was telling my dad about 456 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: that last night. We were getting him all set up 457 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: for the big day today, Astros opening Day. He fired up. 458 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: He's in his Astro shirt right now, I guarantee you. 459 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 2: And. 460 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: He's already informed the ladies said, y'all need to know 461 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: you come in here, chip my boods or y'all need 462 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,959 Speaker 1: to know starting at three o'clock, I got a focus. 463 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: He doesn't know how to pause, so you know, bathroom 464 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: breaks are still during the commercials and all that. It 465 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: secutest thing ever anyway. So he said, do you remember 466 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: what I was driving when I met your mother? And 467 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: I said I do, which is odd because what I know, 468 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: But I said I do. I have a photo of 469 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: me in front of it, and it is a sixty 470 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: eight or sixty nine Buick Centurion. If you've never seen 471 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: that car, just go look it up. Buick Centurion, and 472 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: it's similar to that Tornado. It has that big wheel cover. 473 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: It looks like a for the time it looks like 474 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: a spaceship rocket and it was. It was an orange 475 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: metallic I've got that photo. I'm gonna go find it 476 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: and send it. It's probably the last time I allowed 477 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: myself to be photographed wearing a what are you not? 478 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: A muscle shirt? What do you call it? Like a 479 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: what is the shirt called where it only goes over 480 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: your your shoulder tank top? Probably the only time the 481 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: tank top's not the one that shows your stomach, is it? 482 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: What's the one that just goes over your shoulder and 483 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: the rest of it. You got to have arms to 484 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: wear that. Yeah, well I didn't have arms after about 485 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 1: age three, so I never took a photo looking like that. Yeah, 486 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: that didn't happen. So anyway, I wanted to go back 487 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: to this point. So a lot of people were saying 488 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: I didn't go to Randalls they were too expensive, and 489 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: there was this sort of anger toward Randalls that they 490 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: were expensive, and then people were but at the same 491 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: time people were talking about how amazing it was. Now 492 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: I know that I don't win any friends with this 493 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: comment because it sounds like rich people talk. But I 494 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: have felt this since I was at the poorest of 495 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: the poor, and it goes like this value in currency 496 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: is what we place on it. Okay, that's why you 497 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: will hear it. Set of real estate location, location location. 498 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: So somebody that comes from a small town that owns 499 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: an acre in the middle of town and a ten 500 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: thousand square foot house for which they paid seven hundred 501 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, we'll go to New York and see that 502 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: a four hundred square foot pie to terror is three million, 503 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: and they go that stupid, that's ridiculous to you. To you, 504 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: but that little unit will sell faster than your house will. 505 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: It's all about supply and demand and the number of 506 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: people who value it and are willing to spend on it. 507 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: I find the pricing mechanism, which if you've not met, 508 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: if you've not read Thomas Soul, you can get him 509 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: an on audio books, on audible or any of those. 510 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: There's a book called Basic Economics, And for being such 511 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: a brilliant man, he explains it in a way that 512 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,719 Speaker 1: someone who's illiterate could understand basic economics and how we 513 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: value things and how price is how we communicate. If 514 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: I walked up to your house tomorrow, and let's say 515 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: you liked Ferrari's I wouldn't drive a ferrari. But let's 516 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: say I drove up to your house in a Ferrari 517 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, this is yours for one dollar. 518 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: You'd say I'll take it. But if I said this 519 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: is yours for two million dollars, that's crazy. So you 520 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: have just communicated a lot to me by just a 521 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: yes or no. If I say it's yours for three 522 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: hundred thousand, and you start pondering because you know the 523 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: value of ferrari, you're really really interested. No, okay, you've 524 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: just communicated more. I say all right, it's yours for 525 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: sixty thousand, and you go yes, because you'll buy it 526 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: and flip it. You have communicated how much you value 527 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: that thing. You value that at sixty thousand or more. 528 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: Maybe you valuate it more than sixty, but if you 529 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: can get it for sixty, you will. You don't value 530 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: it less than sixty, or you would not have purchased it. 531 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,239 Speaker 1: People are never taught that the pricing mechanism is how 532 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: we communicate as consumers and sellers in the marketplace. They 533 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: think of prices as something that God sets or that 534 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: government should set. So people get angry at prices being 535 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: above what they're willing to pay. And the reason is 536 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: it goes like this, I want that item, but I 537 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: don't want to pay what you want to charge for it. Well, 538 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: grocery stores are not in the business of stocking their 539 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: shelves with things that don't sell. Somebody else is going 540 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: to pay for that at that price. You're just not able. 541 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: So you're actually mad at the guy who's able to 542 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: buy it at that price, because he's the reason it's 543 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: driven up. If nobody buys it, they drop the price 544 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: right and then I can afford it. I don't have 545 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: to be mad at the guy next door. What I 546 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: find interesting is people were angry at Randall's for their 547 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: prices for what is admittedly a much better product that 548 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: costs more to deliver. But nobody's mad at this guy 549 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: for charging sixty five dollars an hour. That's ridiculous. He 550 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: shouldn't be ail. He's a bad person because all they 551 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: can do is imagine themselves in line. Because guess what, 552 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: some people can value their time at sixty five dollars. 553 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: Because I'm trying to get on a vacation. I spent 554 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars for that I saved up for for 555 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: three years, so I can value that which I would 556 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: not otherwise value at sixty five dollars an hour, when 557 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,479 Speaker 1: I otherwise wouldn't be able to it's pricing one O one. 558 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: I wouldn't pay hundreds and hundred thousand dollars for a 559 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: Rolls Royce, But I don't say a Rolls Royce isn't 560 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: worth that. She's not worth it to me. It is 561 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: worth somebody else, And that's how they stay in business.