1
00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,119
Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So

2
00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,720
Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air.

3
00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,720
Speaker 2: Have y'all went on YouTube and look at Michael Berry

4
00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,080
Speaker 2: Show channel. All of a sudden he posted that a

5
00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,720
Speaker 2: thing everybody knows, the exact same thing.

6
00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:54,440
Speaker 3: What Tuesday?

7
00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,720
Speaker 4: What is it? Where is eyebrow? I know he ain't

8
00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,040
Speaker 4: got no operws.

9
00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,480
Speaker 2: I've been told there is some kind of eyebrow pencil

10
00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,240
Speaker 2: that mens can put in their eyebrows. But the rest

11
00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,280
Speaker 2: of it, the grooming, the haircut, the all that he

12
00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,160
Speaker 2: in charge of that and he get a D minus

13
00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,520
Speaker 2: f it it's not appropriate for his age category.

14
00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,880
Speaker 4: Now it's a damn shame. Shelly Q.

15
00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,920
Speaker 5: You try to make this man feel bad and he

16
00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,800
Speaker 5: had gone through middle aged Christims and he on all

17
00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,679
Speaker 5: that testosterone the thing and he gets so damn always done.

18
00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,039
Speaker 4: Broke his neck four five time here.

19
00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,000
Speaker 2: I have never heard you say that much at one time.

20
00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:46,920
Speaker 6: Girl, Oh, I had a bicycle accident a couple of

21
00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:47,520
Speaker 6: years ago.

22
00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:54,960
Speaker 4: I guess it's been in January, it'll be two years.

23
00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,000
Speaker 6: And I was so self conscious of the way it

24
00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,480
Speaker 6: made me look that I would take all my photos

25
00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,520
Speaker 6: so that you could only see my right side. You

26
00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,920
Speaker 6: couldn't see the left side, and it messed up my vision,

27
00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,040
Speaker 6: so I had to start wearing glasses.

28
00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,600
Speaker 4: Or the immediate.

29
00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,880
Speaker 6: Result of the accident was it collapsed my orbital. In

30
00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,600
Speaker 6: your orbital, if you see a skull, you see the

31
00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,000
Speaker 6: eyeballs missing. But the orbital is what they call the shelf.

32
00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,080
Speaker 6: There's right under there, and your eye rests on that shelf.

33
00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,400
Speaker 6: Of course, there's some fluids and things, and it gets

34
00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,519
Speaker 6: weird in there. I learned more about eyeballs than I

35
00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:44,400
Speaker 6: ever expected. So the accident bicycle, not motorcycle. There's not

36
00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:49,000
Speaker 6: a cool story behind it. It's a bicycle. Then my

37
00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,480
Speaker 6: shelf was shattered. And then going around, if you start

38
00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,000
Speaker 6: from your nose right underneath your eyeball, you will notice

39
00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,080
Speaker 6: that between the bone of your face and your eyeball

40
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,040
Speaker 6: rhen you're not doing your you put your finger on

41
00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,520
Speaker 6: your head, there is a little space in between there.

42
00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,760
Speaker 6: And then as you go around, you're going around like

43
00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:14,440
Speaker 6: you're you're putting. My mom used to put not Paul Malla,

44
00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,440
Speaker 6: what was the the creams she would put on.

45
00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,040
Speaker 4: It was your basic eckerage drug cream.

46
00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,680
Speaker 6: Anyway, so you're going around your eye, you get to

47
00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,520
Speaker 6: the sharp corner over there, and then you're heading now

48
00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,400
Speaker 6: your head back up towards your nose again, and now

49
00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,880
Speaker 6: you're following the line of your eyebrow.

50
00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:35,880
Speaker 4: So my eyebrow.

51
00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,800
Speaker 6: It ripped my eye out of the socket, and it

52
00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:43,280
Speaker 6: ripped the eyebrow off of my head. So my eyebrow

53
00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,360
Speaker 6: is just dangling there right like a band aid that

54
00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:47,240
Speaker 6: you've pulled loose.

55
00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,720
Speaker 4: There's my eyebrow, and.

56
00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,920
Speaker 6: And I pretty much figured I'd lost the eye because

57
00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,240
Speaker 6: there was so much blood that it filled in there,

58
00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,000
Speaker 6: and the shelf onunderneath it is shattered and the eyeball

59
00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:02,600
Speaker 6: is loose.

60
00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,560
Speaker 4: Not a pleasant situation.

61
00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,440
Speaker 6: Well, I never talked about it on the air, and

62
00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,080
Speaker 6: nobody on the team talked about it. They knew, you know,

63
00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,080
Speaker 6: we don't discuss this. I'll talk about it when I'm ready.

64
00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:26,200
Speaker 6: So the doctor, the eye surgeon, immediately attached the eyebrow back,

65
00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,640
Speaker 6: but in order to attach it back because so much

66
00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,320
Speaker 6: of the skin had been ripped off, he just attached

67
00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,680
Speaker 6: it where it was, so it shoots up right, so

68
00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,480
Speaker 6: instead of being horizontal, it looks like an axis of

69
00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,159
Speaker 6: X Y axis going down the forty five degree angle.

70
00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,760
Speaker 6: So there it was just his eyebrow hanging out there.

71
00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,600
Speaker 6: But the good news was I had to start wearing glasses.

72
00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,520
Speaker 6: So the glass is the first pair of glasses I wore,

73
00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,920
Speaker 6: had the top of the glass covering top of the

74
00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:05,080
Speaker 6: frame covering where that would have been, so almost nobody noticed,

75
00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,920
Speaker 6: and I was strategically positioned myself. I mean, I didn't

76
00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,799
Speaker 6: see anybody for six weeks because my face was swollen

77
00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,400
Speaker 6: and bruised and it looked terrible. So anyway, for about

78
00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,479
Speaker 6: six weeks I didn't see anybody. Two months after all this,

79
00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,000
Speaker 6: I have a friend of mine named Brian McMackin over

80
00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,880
Speaker 6: to the house and he comes in and he's sitting

81
00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,080
Speaker 6: down and he sits down in the chair to my

82
00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,280
Speaker 6: left whereas where I would have sat, and he does

83
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,320
Speaker 6: it to be funny because that's where I always sit.

84
00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,400
Speaker 6: But I need to get to the left of him,

85
00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,800
Speaker 6: so he has to look at the right side. Well,

86
00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,560
Speaker 6: he looks at me one time and he goes, your

87
00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:47,040
Speaker 6: eye is eft up, and I couldn't help it. I

88
00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,760
Speaker 6: had to just busted out laughing. I said, I don't

89
00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,039
Speaker 6: know what are you talking about? He goes, what the

90
00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,960
Speaker 6: hell is going on with your face?

91
00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:55,560
Speaker 1: No?

92
00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,160
Speaker 6: Sorry, he said first, what the hell's going on with

93
00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,920
Speaker 6: your face? And then he said, your eye is efed up.

94
00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:03,440
Speaker 6: I said, what are you talking about? He goes, you

95
00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,520
Speaker 6: know exactly what I'm talking about. Your what is going

96
00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,160
Speaker 6: your face is all effed up?

97
00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:09,920
Speaker 4: So I took off my glasses.

98
00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,400
Speaker 6: Now you could really see it, and he said, oh

99
00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,640
Speaker 6: my god, that's horrible, like I was the elephant man

100
00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,800
Speaker 6: or something. So anyway, I didn't see anybody for a while.

101
00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,960
Speaker 6: Maybe other people noticed it, but they were too polite.

102
00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,800
Speaker 6: Ryan mc mac is not polite, and so nobody mentioned it,

103
00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,640
Speaker 6: and almost nobody has ever noticed it, or they haven't

104
00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,000
Speaker 6: mentioned it if they had. So I was very careful

105
00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,920
Speaker 6: when I would take photographs and things that I would

106
00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,719
Speaker 6: position myself so that it would shoot across my face

107
00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:39,800
Speaker 6: so you wouldn't have to see the eye.

108
00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,000
Speaker 4: Because people are idiots, I mean, honest to goodness.

109
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:51,640
Speaker 6: People can be your biggest fans, can be the most irritating. Hey,

110
00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,159
Speaker 6: your kids are adopted. Where'd you adopt him from? Was

111
00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,279
Speaker 6: it like a village or was it what was going on?

112
00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:58,480
Speaker 6: There were the people poor?

113
00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:59,240
Speaker 1: Or well?

114
00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,960
Speaker 6: Who whoa that's my child? Do you hear yourself? Do

115
00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,760
Speaker 6: you honestly hear yourself. Do you hear what you're asking

116
00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,360
Speaker 6: a person you don't know? And my wife always says, well,

117
00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,720
Speaker 6: they do know you. You talk for five hours a day.

118
00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:14,680
Speaker 6: People know you.

119
00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,440
Speaker 4: They feel like you're their closest friend.

120
00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,560
Speaker 6: Maybe they've never met you before anyway, So I didn't

121
00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,960
Speaker 6: want to have to answer questions about it, and that

122
00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,400
Speaker 6: was why I never did videos because I could always

123
00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:29,160
Speaker 6: and Landa MacDonald, who's a genius graphics guy, would make

124
00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,680
Speaker 6: graphics for me for the last couple of years, and

125
00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,440
Speaker 6: he would just make a graphic that didn't have my

126
00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:34,320
Speaker 6: eye jacked up.

127
00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,320
Speaker 4: So people would say, hey, you know, you should do videos.

128
00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,040
Speaker 6: I think it'd be fun if you did videos, and

129
00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,240
Speaker 6: I wouldn't do it because I was uncomfortable with the

130
00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,760
Speaker 6: eye issue. So then I decided, you know what, I'm

131
00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,480
Speaker 6: gonna do one video and if anybody brings it up,

132
00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:51,080
Speaker 6: that'll be the end.

133
00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,360
Speaker 4: I'll never do another video. But I thought, well, that's

134
00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:54,880
Speaker 4: not fair.

135
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,080
Speaker 6: Let me say, hey, here's a video my eyes jacked

136
00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,280
Speaker 6: up from a bike accident. You don't need to know

137
00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,760
Speaker 6: anything more than that. Don't ask me about it. And

138
00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,120
Speaker 6: nobody did, and so then I decided I started making

139
00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,640
Speaker 6: videos from him, and that was it. That's the story

140
00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,960
Speaker 6: of my video. Now you got Now you gotta watch

141
00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,880
Speaker 6: my videos. Happy birthday to my friend Mike batchis uh.

142
00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:19,800
Speaker 6: Text him and wish him my happy birthday. Two eight

143
00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,560
Speaker 6: one eight two seven fifty two hundred. You don't have

144
00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,960
Speaker 6: to go buy a Chevy, but that'd be nice too.

145
00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,120
Speaker 6: Two eight one eight seven fifty two hundred. It's his

146
00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,520
Speaker 6: birthday today.

147
00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,640
Speaker 4: Let it play just a little bit longer.

148
00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,319
Speaker 6: I'm trying to squeeze back into my high school senior

149
00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,360
Speaker 6: Zeke Cavalrici's.

150
00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,200
Speaker 4: Turn over the top. Somehow that was suffering.

151
00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,880
Speaker 6: If they don't fit tapered at the bottom as they were,

152
00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,640
Speaker 6: I'll put on my mareeth in front swas your bows.

153
00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,240
Speaker 6: Were they one hundred dollars, I would have had only

154
00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:54,679
Speaker 6: one of them.

155
00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,600
Speaker 4: Then I can guarantee you that my Coke Cola sweatshirt,

156
00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,600
Speaker 4: Coca Cola pull of Fast one. I'll say, for a minute,

157
00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,320
Speaker 4: we're a cool brand. Yeah you're wait wait now you

158
00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,520
Speaker 4: just Coca Cola. I'll get you be cool.

159
00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,280
Speaker 6: Or the beginning of the school year, we go down

160
00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,719
Speaker 6: to Bells to get our school clothes, but we go

161
00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,080
Speaker 6: down to Palais Royal for one item in my one

162
00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,040
Speaker 6: fancy item from Palai Royal was a red and black

163
00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,559
Speaker 6: kind of a sweatshirt type deal that was Coca Cola

164
00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,840
Speaker 6: the year before my junior year. It was a sweatshirt

165
00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:42,400
Speaker 6: with a paint paint sprayed on it said genera just

166
00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,440
Speaker 6: a basic red sweatshirt, the most simple, basic red sweatshirt.

167
00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,280
Speaker 6: My wife still wears that sweatshirt from when I was

168
00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,240
Speaker 6: That's how little I was. You see how little my

169
00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,679
Speaker 6: wife is, That's how little I was as a junior

170
00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:55,280
Speaker 6: in high school.

171
00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,240
Speaker 4: True story.

172
00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,480
Speaker 6: I got a nice message from a fellow this morning

173
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,600
Speaker 6: and he said, I've been listening to you since I

174
00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,560
Speaker 6: was a kid. My father founded a company called American

175
00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:14,559
Speaker 6: Trust Components to Russ and we manufacture custom trust this,

176
00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,080
Speaker 6: you know, like to hold a roof up commercial and residential.

177
00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,160
Speaker 6: And it's always been a dream of mine to be

178
00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,240
Speaker 6: a sponsor of your show. And now he runs the

179
00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,920
Speaker 6: business and he was reaching out. Now I don't know

180
00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,400
Speaker 6: if we can. He's just down the street from McAuley's

181
00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,200
Speaker 6: Lumber because if that's if that's a conflict with mccauleay's.

182
00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,959
Speaker 6: We've been mcaugue has been with us for twenty years,

183
00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,240
Speaker 6: been around since nineteen forty nine, so I can't do it.

184
00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:43,280
Speaker 6: But if it's not a conflict, how cool would that be?

185
00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,920
Speaker 6: I think this would be the first show sponsor to

186
00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,080
Speaker 6: be owned by somebody who listened to us as a kid.

187
00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,880
Speaker 6: I used to listen to people talk about being a

188
00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,320
Speaker 6: Rush baby. And I saw an interview that Rush gave

189
00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,480
Speaker 6: late in his career. I say late in his career.

190
00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,440
Speaker 6: His career would have continued on for as long as

191
00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,760
Speaker 6: he stayed alive, but not long before he died, and

192
00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,400
Speaker 6: he talked about how meaningful it was that people would

193
00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,520
Speaker 6: talk about being a Rush baby, and now they had

194
00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,600
Speaker 6: their own kids and they were I never imagined that

195
00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,960
Speaker 6: we would be at this, but after twenty years, here

196
00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,280
Speaker 6: we are.

197
00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,480
Speaker 4: How cool is that that someone.

198
00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,200
Speaker 6: Is reaching out wanting to be a show sponsor who

199
00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,160
Speaker 6: was listening as a kid, and that that had been

200
00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:28,360
Speaker 6: his goal for a long time.

201
00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,600
Speaker 4: Then what if we don't deliver? I'd be awkward, wuldn't it?

202
00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,480
Speaker 6: So? Last night I had dinner with Mike batchiss it's

203
00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,760
Speaker 6: his birthday, and Eddie Martini, who is my boss's boss

204
00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,920
Speaker 6: now because Paul Ambert is the head of the Houston

205
00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:47,440
Speaker 6: office and Eddie Martini is the head of all of Texas,

206
00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,640
Speaker 6: so which is a really inefficient use of his time

207
00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,840
Speaker 6: because that means he's on the road constantly visiting markets

208
00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,040
Speaker 6: that are smaller than Houston and less profitable. But hey,

209
00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,000
Speaker 6: it's a corporate structure. I don't it's not for me

210
00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,320
Speaker 6: to question why, just for me to take the buy.

211
00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:09,240
Speaker 6: So anyway, there we are chatting away and Eddie was

212
00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:13,760
Speaker 6: telling a story. We're talking about young people today because

213
00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,800
Speaker 6: Mike has a daughter who works for Eddie's financial advisor

214
00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,199
Speaker 6: and she's twenty five, and he has another daughter that's

215
00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,200
Speaker 6: twenty two, and he was talking about how different his

216
00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,960
Speaker 6: daughters are because they learned from him their grinders. And

217
00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,920
Speaker 6: we were talking about young people today. And I suspect

218
00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,640
Speaker 6: that throughout history, people our age have this view that

219
00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,000
Speaker 6: young people don't work as hard as we did. But

220
00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,120
Speaker 6: there is something to be said that about that. And

221
00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,199
Speaker 6: so Eddie told the story that he was asked by

222
00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,160
Speaker 6: our CEO at a national conference of our top people

223
00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,840
Speaker 6: in our company to give a speech the next morning

224
00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:53,960
Speaker 6: about managing and about managing and leading millennials. And he said,

225
00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:55,480
Speaker 6: I wasn't even sure what a millennia was I had

226
00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:56,800
Speaker 6: to go look it up, make sure I got the

227
00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,720
Speaker 6: years right and all that, and he paired bringing two

228
00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,400
Speaker 6: people into his office. Both of them would be salesman.

229
00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,560
Speaker 6: It was purely hypothetical. But one of them was a

230
00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:15,240
Speaker 6: boomer and somebody that's a Vietnam veteran and from the

231
00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:20,040
Speaker 6: old South, and the gentleman and played college football, and

232
00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,960
Speaker 6: you know, here's that guy. And the next one is

233
00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,760
Speaker 6: a millennial who's young and smart and sharp and a

234
00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,600
Speaker 6: snazzy dresser and got all the best bs. And he

235
00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,400
Speaker 6: was talking about both of them being sellers and bringing

236
00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,280
Speaker 6: both of them into his office one after the other

237
00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:40,400
Speaker 6: and telling them you're not hitting your numbers. You're going

238
00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,240
Speaker 6: to have to do better or you're going to be fired,

239
00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,160
Speaker 6: and how the two of them would respond, and how

240
00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,960
Speaker 6: the older worker would say, I will prove you wrong.

241
00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,080
Speaker 6: I will work more hours, I will work harder and smarter.

242
00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,880
Speaker 6: I will pull out my trump card, I will do

243
00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,920
Speaker 6: whatever I need to do, will rise to the occasion

244
00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,760
Speaker 6: and the challenge you have issued. And he described what

245
00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,640
Speaker 6: he expected the young employee would do would be walk

246
00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,319
Speaker 6: out of the door, go to Starbucks or some bar,

247
00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,280
Speaker 6: have a mimosa and post on Facebook, I'm having a

248
00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,400
Speaker 6: crappy day. My boss just yelled at me for nothing,

249
00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,800
Speaker 6: and then hashtag my boss is an f stick F

250
00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,880
Speaker 6: And he said he wasn't sure he was going to

251
00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,120
Speaker 6: use that term, but it's a radio audience and radio

252
00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,960
Speaker 6: radio executives or can be a little more raunchy than

253
00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,040
Speaker 6: you know, your average company. And he was talking about

254
00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:47,600
Speaker 6: how many people that resonated with and we were discussing

255
00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,800
Speaker 6: because we all have kids. We had you know, my

256
00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,800
Speaker 6: sons are eighteen and nineteen. Michael's a sophomore at UT

257
00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,800
Speaker 6: and Crockett's a senior in high school.

258
00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,040
Speaker 4: And Eddie has a daughter that is.

259
00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,920
Speaker 6: A senior at A and M and then another daughter

260
00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,760
Speaker 6: who's married with kids. And we're talking about what the

261
00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,120
Speaker 6: young people we want to raise and how you should

262
00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,840
Speaker 6: raise those young people and young people who interact with us,

263
00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,200
Speaker 6: and how it's incumbent upon us to make young people

264
00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,360
Speaker 6: into the type of employees and future leaders that we

265
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,760
Speaker 6: want them to be rather than just criticize.

266
00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,360
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you about our conversation. Just be on

267
00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:33,640
Speaker 4: the Michael Berry Show.

268
00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:40,840
Speaker 6: Ramone is in there manically licking a little square of

269
00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,760
Speaker 6: paper about a half inch by a half inch and

270
00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,000
Speaker 6: staring off into space.

271
00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,200
Speaker 4: I have no idea what he's doing.

272
00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,560
Speaker 6: Ramone, is a Christmas carol on your viewing list for

273
00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:53,960
Speaker 6: the holidays?

274
00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,760
Speaker 4: You like a Christmas carol? You got to show them.

275
00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,640
Speaker 6: I came across at the other night and it made

276
00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,920
Speaker 6: me wonder, what if Jazzy Jasmine Crockett got a visit

277
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:05,440
Speaker 6: from the.

278
00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:10,440
Speaker 4: Ghost of Christmas Pass? Who might that be?

279
00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:11,760
Speaker 5: Who?

280
00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:12,200
Speaker 1: Oh?

281
00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,720
Speaker 4: My time run a round chasing all these people for

282
00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,440
Speaker 4: the votes. Too much work, just showed them money already.

283
00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,320
Speaker 4: Just need a good, nice sleep. Who damn it's be.

284
00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,600
Speaker 3: Getting called up in here all of a sudden, my

285
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,720
Speaker 3: side dog she jack good at Jim, she got a

286
00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:26,520
Speaker 3: Jackson Lee.

287
00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,760
Speaker 4: What you're doing floating around my bedroom looking all white?

288
00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,120
Speaker 4: I'd be the ghost of Christmas Past?

289
00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,880
Speaker 3: And I musa say that you have done well so far,

290
00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,200
Speaker 3: old young woman, But the game has only started to begun.

291
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,680
Speaker 3: My advice to you find every camera, cram into every

292
00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,960
Speaker 3: first last seat, and cash every damn check you see,

293
00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,240
Speaker 3: and we it's never gonna get too high. Remember it's

294
00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,560
Speaker 3: never too black and ghetto is forever your guidance. Tomorrow

295
00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,120
Speaker 3: you shall get a visit from the ghost of Christmas

296
00:16:58,240 --> 00:16:58,800
Speaker 3: is president.

297
00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,600
Speaker 4: Now excuse me, Lucifer is hosting a dinner and I

298
00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,960
Speaker 4: demand a front team. Okay, then thanks Tina Jackson until

299
00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,000
Speaker 4: I'll he stilled my beach.

300
00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,280
Speaker 1: Something strange and who you're gonna call?

301
00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:22,360
Speaker 4: And it's something weird and it don't look good. You're

302
00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,240
Speaker 4: around my age.

303
00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,639
Speaker 6: You have kids who are entering the workforce, or have

304
00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,600
Speaker 6: just entered the workforce, or will soon into the workforce.

305
00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,879
Speaker 6: And so here's Mike Bachis, who runs lone Star Chevy.

306
00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,560
Speaker 6: It being his birthday we were celebrating. And here's Addie Martini,

307
00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,080
Speaker 6: who is one hundred years old and his run radio

308
00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,280
Speaker 6: stations and now a radio cluster and now one of

309
00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,800
Speaker 6: the top regions in our country, who has hired a

310
00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,879
Speaker 6: lot of salesmen over the years, and other people. And

311
00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,320
Speaker 6: we were talking about what young people need to know

312
00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:01,480
Speaker 6: today to succeed. And the funny thing about it that

313
00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,240
Speaker 6: the interesting thing, the good thing about it is, I

314
00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,399
Speaker 6: think it's easier today than it was when we were

315
00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:14,480
Speaker 6: coming up. In this sense, if you work the way

316
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,679
Speaker 6: we worked when we were coming up, that's not the

317
00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:25,720
Speaker 6: minimum standard. You will make your peers look foolish. If

318
00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,199
Speaker 6: you understand the concept of if they tell you to

319
00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,960
Speaker 6: be there at nine, be there at seven point thirty.

320
00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,240
Speaker 6: If they tell you you're expected to stay till five,

321
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,960
Speaker 6: stay till six, eat your lunch at your desk. Everything

322
00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:48,200
Speaker 6: you're asked to do, do it quickly. Make yourself indispensable.

323
00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,280
Speaker 6: Be willing to do the jobs other people won't do.

324
00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,600
Speaker 6: Be willing to work on the weekend. Be willing to

325
00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,800
Speaker 6: make suggestions as to how things could be improved. Don't

326
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,720
Speaker 6: wait for immediate gratification or feedback. Don't require that you

327
00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:15,240
Speaker 6: need hand holding. Don't require constant affirmation. Be useful. Do

328
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 6: not engage in office gossip. Do not engage in office drama.

329
00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 6: I saw an interview with what does he called himself?

330
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,080
Speaker 6: Mister wonderful? Is that what the guy called him? Big

331
00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:35,159
Speaker 6: nosebald head? And he worked for Steve Jobs and he

332
00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:41,639
Speaker 6: was talking about how crass and direct Steve Jobs was.

333
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,960
Speaker 6: But ken, is there any doubt that he is the

334
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,199
Speaker 6: second most successful man, not just in modern America, in

335
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,119
Speaker 6: all of American history with regards to commerce, there is

336
00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 6: no doubt.

337
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 4: Just say no.

338
00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,840
Speaker 6: So he was talking about his signal to noise ratio.

339
00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:07,560
Speaker 6: Signal is things that really matter and noise is everything else.

340
00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 6: And he was talking about the fact that his signal

341
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 6: to noise ratio was eighty twenty, and he said, in

342
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 6: my entire career, I've only ever seen anyone with a

343
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:28,159
Speaker 6: higher signal to noise ratio. One person, Elon Musk. And

344
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 6: he said, Elon Musk is one hundred to zero, which

345
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,080
Speaker 6: is not true, but it's close to true. He is

346
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:40,479
Speaker 6: approaching one hundred percent, by which that means most people,

347
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,959
Speaker 6: you might be this person, you might know these people.

348
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 6: Most people are eighty twenty noise to signal. If you

349
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 6: wake up in the morning and by noon you're working

350
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,960
Speaker 6: on something other than what your immediate goal was, that's noise,

351
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 6: not signal. He talked about the fact that Elon Musk

352
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 6: does not think in terms of long term goals. He

353
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 6: thinks in terms of the three things that have to

354
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 6: be done in the next two hours, and by keeping

355
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,639
Speaker 6: himself with blinders on to perform these tasks, he is

356
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 6: constantly knocking out tasks. You've heard it said, if you

357
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 6: want something done, give it to a busy person.

358
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 4: I have seen this in practice.

359
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,880
Speaker 6: I consider myself a pretty busy person and someone who

360
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 6: can get things done fast because There's no point talking

361
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 6: about it, no point looking at all the ways it

362
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 6: could be difficult, no point scheduling it for some time

363
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 6: in the future. Just do the task, pick up the phone,

364
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 6: require that it get done. This is why Trump is

365
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 6: so effective, and this is why Trump makes people crazy.

366
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:58,360
Speaker 6: A lot of people are uncomfortable with decisiveness. A lot

367
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 6: of people are When George Bush said I am the decider,

368
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 6: he was ridiculed by the media.

369
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 3: George W.

370
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 4: Bush is not a real smart guy.

371
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,880
Speaker 6: He's not a dummy, but he's not a real smart guy.

372
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 6: But he is decisive. And most people are not decisive.

373
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 6: They lack the confidence to be decisive. Reporters, journalists, columnists, anchors,

374
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 6: they never have to make a decision. They just question

375
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 6: everyone else. I've seen people, consultants, columnists, reporters, all of

376
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 6: these people. They love to question the decisions of other people.

377
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 6: They love to criticize other people, but none of them do.

378
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 6: Look at what Elon is about to take SpaceX public

379
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 6: at a one point five trillion dollar valuation, not on

380
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 6: the space travel, on the fact that he's putting data

381
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 6: centers in space.

382
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 4: Who even thinks of that, and he's making it happen.

383
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 6: I texted Mike Batches for his birthday this morning, even

384
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 6: though we took him for dinner last night, and he

385
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,239
Speaker 6: didn't respond for an hour and then he said, hey,

386
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 6: sorry about that.

387
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 4: I was at breakfast with my mom. She wanted to

388
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 4: take her baby boy for his birthday. How cool is that?

389
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 4: So I learned something about Mike Batchess last night. Ramon.

390
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 6: He's the he's the GM of lone Star Chevy. I'm

391
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 6: gonna give you a cell phone if you'd do me

392
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 6: a solid and just send him a happy birthday. It's

393
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 6: two eight one eight two seven fifty two hundred two

394
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 6: eight one eight two seven fifty two hundred two eight

395
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 6: one eight two seven fifty two hundred. You can buy

396
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 6: a Chevy too, you don't have to, but if you

397
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 6: want to buy a Chevy, but if you just wish

398
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 6: him a happy birthday, that thing, it'd be nice. So

399
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 6: I like to get people's full background. I knew it

400
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 6: was a good Greek family, and we're talking about, you know,

401
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 6: growing up. And he had a brother named George. Every

402
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 6: Greek family he's got a Jimmy and a George, and

403
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 6: maybe in a mic, well, he's the mic in George's brother,

404
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 6: and he was saying that his brother was an artist.

405
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 6: And so George Batchis went to Westbury High School, played basketball,

406
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 6: went to Greece, played on the Greek national team, played

407
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 6: with Ronnie Sykelely who played rememb at Syracuse under Jim Behim,

408
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 6: and became an artist, married a Greek Italian girl and

409
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 6: comes back to Houston and he's got an independent artist

410
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 6: shop and he is designing logos and things like that.

411
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 6: And his most famous logo that he designed was not

412
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 6: the Nike swoosh. It's Houston specific, but you know it.

413
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 6: You've seen it a hundred times. You love this logo.

414
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 6: It's a radio logo. What's the most famous Houston radio?

415
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 6: What's that klol running radio? He designed four different logos

416
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 6: for Kalwell. So he did work the Greek connection again

417
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 6: for Doug Harris. You know Doug Harris, longtime radio guy.

418
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 6: Doug is still around. But I didn't know Doug was Greek,

419
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 6: but I found out last night he is. He did

420
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 6: work for Doug Harris and Pat Fann because Pat Fan

421
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 6: of course ran the station at the time. So Mike

422
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 6: pulled out some of his brother George's work and here

423
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 6: was the running radio, which I think one of the

424
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 6: if you haven't seen it, it's on Amazon Prime. The

425
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 6: k Loel The Story of k LOL. And Mike McGuff

426
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 6: invited me to be interviewed for that show over the

427
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 6: course of over two years, and I didn't think that.

428
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,719
Speaker 6: It took him about five years to get the movie finished,

429
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 6: and I didn't think they were ever going to finish

430
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 6: a movie. So I never bothered to go, yeah, all right,

431
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 6: I'll come over today and get interviewed. And I didn't,

432
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 6: and I was so bummed out. But it's not really

433
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 6: my story to tell. It's Dana Steele, it's out Law,

434
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 6: Dave Stevens and Preuod It's I mean, it's it's the

435
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 6: people who made k LOL what it was.

436
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 4: Anyway, I just thought that was cool. Small world.

437
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 6: Well, it did not stop me from the both Phillips story.

438
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,959
Speaker 6: You know, that's a good point. I should have been

439
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 6: in the movie. That a good poye.

440
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 4: I should have been in k LOL. Yeah, you know what,

441
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 4: you're right, Well I shouldn't.

442
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 6: I don't think I took out of that what you

443
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 6: wanted me to take out of that. But that's all right,

444
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 6: that's all right. So we were talking about young people today.

445
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 6: I had a young man reach out to me about

446
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 6: a month ago, and he's friends with my son Crockett,

447
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 6: because they played Little League baseball together. His name is

448
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 6: Jack Sussman, and he said, mister Barry, I was wondering

449
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 6: if I could do an internship for you at Christmas.

450
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 6: And I don't do those anymore because what ended up

451
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 6: happening was our company for years would not let you

452
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 6: have an intern unless they were getting school credit, and

453
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 6: so it was a hassle, and then people would would criticize.

454
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 6: You know, hey, free labor. It's more work than the

455
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 6: labor you get. Trust me, you're doing a kid a favor.

456
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 6: And I did internships called internship. I carried people's briefcases

457
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 6: and went and got their coffee and answered the phones

458
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 6: and didn't get paid. But I met a lot of

459
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 6: powerful people that way anyway. So Jack Sussman sends me

460
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 6: a message, mister Barry, I wanted to see if there

461
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 6: was an opportunity over with the Christmas break when I'm

462
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 6: out of school, if I could be an intern for you,

463
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 6: and blah blah blah blah. Well, there's a funny history

464
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 6: behind me and Jack Sussman. His father, Harry and I

465
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 6: went to law school together. Harry was top of our

466
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 6: class at ut law School. That's a big deal, and

467
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 6: I wasn't. I did well, but I wasn't top of

468
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 6: our class. Number one in our class, Michael Oldham number two.

469
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 6: Harry's dad, Steve Sussman, was a legend in Houston Legal

470
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 6: International Legal Lower, Sussman Godfrey is the firm, and that

471
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 6: firm is it's a small firm, but it's one of

472
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 6: the most prestigious firms. It's it's Cravatswayne and Moore kind

473
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 6: of deal. It is Hogan and Hartson it is. But

474
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 6: it's a small boutique, very very very well regarded firm.

475
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 6: Harry is a confirmed Democrat, as was his dad. They

476
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 6: had as one of their founding partners a man named

477
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 6: Bill White. Bill White would leave there to go work

478
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 6: in the Clinton administration as assistant director of the Energy Department.

479
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 6: Bill White would come back, you would be the head

480
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 6: of the state Democrat party. He would run a company

481
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 6: for a very wealthy Lebanese family, and then he would

482
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 6: run for mayor against me.

483
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 4: Well, I'm trying my luck. You got to you know,

484
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 4: I've never been afraid.

485
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 6: To ask if I have a skill, it is that

486
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 6: I am shameless, and I've been called shameless.

487
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 4: Garth Brooks wrote a song about it.

488
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 6: I am not afraid to ask for anything if I'm

489
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 6: raising money, if i'm you know, the worst thing you

490
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 6: can do is tell me. Now, doesn't hurt my feelings.

491
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 6: Knocking the door shall be open, so seeking he shall

492
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 6: find ramon. So I call Harry and I said, Harry,

493
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 6: I'm running for mayor. He said, I think you'll make

494
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 6: a great mayor.

495
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 4: Thank you.

496
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 6: I'll support you. Said, okay, I need to disclose something.

497
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 6: I'm running against Bill White. Now you can understand. Harry

498
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 6: grew up at Susman Guffrey. In fact, he's a Banagie partner. Now.

499
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 6: Bill White was his dad's first partner at the firm.

500
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 6: He said, yeah, but you're my friend. I said, you

501
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 6: sure you want to do this. You can't back out.

502
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 4: I'm with you.

503
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 6: So Harry not only supports me, he holds a fundraiser

504
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 6: for me against Bill White running for mayor.

505
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 4: I didn't win. Bill did, and.

506
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 6: He curses me to this day because it's the one

507
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 6: Republican he ever supported for anything.

508
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 4: Because we're friends, and he.

509
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 6: Said, I still get fundraisers for some radical Republican because

510
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 6: they sell those fundraising lists. So he was a Michael

511
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 6: Berry supporter. He must be a guy who's willing to

512
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 6: give anyway. The thing that stuck out to me about that,

513
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 6: so I asked Crockett, I said, hey, do you would

514
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 6: it be weird if I have Jack Susman as a

515
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 6: as an intern And he said no.

516
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 4: He asked me if it was okay if he reached out.

517
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 6: So he goes to my kid and asks, so it's

518
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 6: not weird when he asked me, he gets approval from

519
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 6: his dad and he himself reaches out.

520
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 4: That's one of the traits for young people.

521
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 6: Every parent should be coaching their child into becoming a responsible,

522
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 6: successful adult. Don't reach out on your kid's behalf.

523
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 4: It's easy to do that. Hey, my kid needs a job.

524
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 4: Can you help me with that?

525
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 6: Make your kid do it, force them to write the letter.

526
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 6: This kid's very impressive kid. He said, you know, my

527
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 6: dad's worried that you're going to make a Republican out

528
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 6: of me.

529
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 4: I mean, how can he not love that?

530
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 6: Right?

531
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 4: Tell me that kid's not going to be successful.

532
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 6: Whatever his politics end up being, that kid is going

533
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 6: to be very, very successful because he's got pluck, and

534
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 6: pluck goes a long way.

535
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 4: Send batches a Knight's note on his birthday.

536
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 6: Please at lone star Chevy two eight one eight two

537
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 6: seven fifty two hundred, Good dude,