1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show is on the air. Holy good Everyboddy. 3 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: This is my old Hamilton astros w again. Had a 4 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: good morning to the tzar. Good morning, Michael Berry. I'm 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: all jaked up on Mountain dew. Good morning, Michael Berry. 6 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: It's Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show. 7 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: Pity I wash it in to find it. Good morning 8 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael Hello, Hello are you there? 9 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: Good morning you, Michaelberry. How you learned? Did I read 10 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: it to my money? Good morning? Listen to this good morning. 11 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: Car his honest, we're happy to talk about everything. 12 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: Good morning, we're not. 13 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 2: Wearing good lordy, Good lordy, tex goodlory, Good morning. Weakensta Condamn. 14 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: Pirate was seventy nine years old, but he knew the 15 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: following day would be his birthday. Couldn't wait. He woke up, 16 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: ran to his buddy, and he said, I'm mady. I made, 17 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: I am Madie me tie it again. Not my fault 18 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: you didn't get I made, buddy. Mine's wife asked him 19 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: to draw her a milk bath to get rid of 20 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: a really bad rash she had on her body. He 21 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: wanted to make sure he was getting the right kind. 22 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 1: So he asked, do you want it pasteurized? She said no, 23 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: just up to my chin. Yes, sorry. Day before yesterday 24 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: was Crockett's birthday, and today is my father's eighty sixth birthday, 25 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: so this is birthday season in the Berry household. My 26 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: son two days older than my father, so the sixteenth 27 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,959 Speaker 1: and the eighteenth or big days for us. Yesterday was 28 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: Melanie Latrelle. She sandwiched directly in between them. I got 29 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 1: an email yesterday and I thought you just had to 30 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: hear Lauren, writes Zar. In the nineteen eighties, we lived 31 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: in the Briar Forest area. My parents had dinner plans 32 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: to go out. My dad walked out the front door 33 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: to go to the car and saw two HPD officers 34 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: hunched down behind our bushes. He asked them, what the 35 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: heck's going on? They shouted, get back in the house. 36 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: Your neighbor has a gun and has taken his family hostage. 37 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: My dad said that two doors down the dad became 38 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: a mom and got kicked out of his house. He 39 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: came back a couple months later and took his estranged 40 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: wife and children hostage. SWAT showed up and he ended 41 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: up getting shot or maybe shooting himself. This was way 42 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: before SSRIs and all those meds they're on now. These 43 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: training people are just crazy. Funniest part of the story 44 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: was whenever the guy got shot and died, my parents 45 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: still went out to eat and left us four kids 46 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: at home. Damn, we must have been a handful to 47 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: not pass up a night out for a crazy gun 48 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: tot and trainny on the loose. How about that? Boom? Okay, 49 00:03:54,080 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: looks like that's about over. Kids were out, But wait, daddy, wait, 50 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: we're here by ourselves. Yeah. Your brother's twelve, he's got y'all. 51 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: You're good. You're good, Bill right, Sorry, Ben Wrights Zar. 52 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: I was reaching out for your help and raising awareness 53 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: of the case coming to trial next week. Let's if 54 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: you remember this case, hermon. You may recall interviewing me 55 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: on the radio September seventeenth, twenty twenty four, after the 56 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: horrific home invasion in which my twenty six year old 57 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: daughter and my two grandsons, aged one and three, were 58 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: terrorized by home invaders posing as a door dash driver. 59 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: You will also certainly recall that HPD Officer Scott Durfey 60 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: was shot by one of the invaders in the leg 61 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: upon entry into our home while responding Raymond Perez, the shooter, 62 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: accepted a plea and was sentenced to forty five years. 63 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: The getaway driver, also an I llegal alien, accepted a 64 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: ten year plea. Michael Perez, the one that impersonated a 65 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: door dash driver forced his way in to our home 66 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: with a gun, is taking his case to trial and 67 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: elected to have the judge sentence instead of the jury. 68 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: The trial kicks off Monday before Judge Chris Morton, the 69 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirtieth. He was a judge who let 70 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: those dirtbags out back in May of that year for 71 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: felony gun charges with no cash bail, and look what 72 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: they went on to do. It's an election year and 73 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: some publicity might help convince Judge Morton to do the 74 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: right thing and put Michael Perez away for a long time. 75 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: This has been a traumatic time for our family and 76 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: we hope this gives us some closure. Feel contract Feel 77 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: free to contact me to any additional details. I've put 78 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: some links to the case. I remember this case. I 79 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: remember this case well many of you will. We got 80 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: behind Officer Scott Durfy and raised some money. I think, 81 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: I think we're going to raise ten. I put in 82 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: the first twenty five hundred, and your money started flowing. 83 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: And Ray Hunt of the Houston Police Officers Union and 84 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: Doug Griffith of the Houston Police Officers Union drove me 85 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: out to his house. We went with Chance McLean in 86 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: his goofy cybertruck. We went out and visited Scott Durphy 87 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: in trying to think what the area is called. I 88 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: can't remember. It's out. It's out a little way about 89 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: forty five minutes out. We went out there. And if 90 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to leave the studio, that mean's got to 91 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: put shoes on. And put shoes on. I'm gonna book 92 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: everything I've been putting off misstack them in one day. 93 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: So it didn't have a lot of time, and it 94 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: took long to get there that I thought. So we 95 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: get there and we spent some time with the family 96 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: and bring on a check and it was it was 97 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: a very very wonderful visit. But the way I had 98 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: planned it, I would deliver the check, give him a 99 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: hug if he was up for it, because he got shot. 100 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: He was meet his sweet family, get back in the 101 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: car and head to the next event where I had 102 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: to be, and his sweet wife had prepared the most 103 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: lavish spread. Louis the fourteenth would have been impressed. And 104 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: there was the most lavish spread for us. And of 105 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: course I can't eat till the evening, and I had 106 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: to say so. My line of the day was, Oh, 107 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to eat, I'm fasting, but Ral eat it, 108 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: which Ray did not appreciate because I'm always making fat jokes. 109 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: Sweetest family ever had, his youngest had a pet chicken. 110 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: The whole family was beautiful. This was a family that 111 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: almost lost their father because Chris Morton put bad guys 112 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: back out on the streets. And where did that case end? 113 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: Back up? But Chris Morton. Wow. Very show. Few were 114 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: to create a time capsule of the eighties and send 115 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: it to the future. I think this song would be 116 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: as eighties as it gets. It has the pop culture 117 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: as the feel of a lot of eighties style music, 118 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: but it had such cultural relevance as relates to the 119 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: TV show I mean the movie The Breakfast Club. John 120 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: Hughes was born on this day, seventy six years ago. 121 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: He died young, in only fifty nine. In two thousand 122 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: and nine, again his career. In nineteen seventy he was 123 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: an author of humorous essays and stories for the National 124 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: Lampoon magazine. I believe it was at Harvard. There's a 125 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: documentary about John Hughes. It's worth your time if you 126 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: enjoyed these movies. Went on to Hollywood to write, produce, 127 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: and sometimes direct what turned about what turned out to 128 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: be some of the most successful live action How many 129 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: films of the eighties National Lampoons, Vacation, Mister Mom, sixteen Candles. 130 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: Why do I think of Molly Ringwald more than anyone 131 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: else would? I think she's also very stuck in the 132 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 1: eighties for me, but she never was able to transcend that. 133 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: Next Weird Science. She also is her birthday as well. 134 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty eight Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Buehler's 135 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: Day Off, Pretty in Pink, some kind of wonderful planes, 136 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: trains and automobiles. Man, what a movie. She's having a baby, 137 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: Uncle Buck. I underappreciate it. Home Alone, Dutch Beethoven, Dennis 138 00:09:55,120 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: The Menace, and Baby's Day Out. Most of its that 139 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: in the Chicago, the Greater Chicago area, the metropolitan and beyond. 140 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: Coming of Age teen comedy films. John Hughes nailed that. 141 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: That's what he was good, combining with magic realism with 142 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: honest depictions of suburban teenage life. I'd say so. He 143 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: captured the angst, but without being depressing. Many of his 144 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: most enduring characters from these years were written for Molly Ringwald, 145 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: who was Hughes's muse. News might be a word, and 146 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: coincidentally it is her birthday as well. Vacation starred Chevy Chase, 147 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: Beverly Dangelo, and a young Anthony Michael Hall. You see 148 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: the documentary on Anthony Michael Hall, kind of how everyone 149 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: else went onto greatness and he really didn't. But he's 150 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: not bitter about it, and he really doesn't seem to 151 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: be bitter. He meets up with Emilio Estebaz, very awkward 152 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: meeting because the camera's there. In this scene, Clark takes 153 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: a wrong turn on his vacation to Wally World and 154 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: takes a detour through the wrong part of Saint Louis. 155 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 2: What are you doing this? 156 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: Relax on, This is so dangerous. We have no business 157 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: being in an area like this. Well, look at it 158 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: this way, honey. This is a part of America we 159 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: never get to see. That's good. No, that's bad. I 160 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: mean we can't close their eyes for the plight of 161 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: the cities. The kids, you not to see all that's plight. 162 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: So just make us appreciate what we have. Roll them up, planes, trains, 163 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: and automobiles. Starred Steve Martin as Neil Page, a high 164 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: strung marketing executive, and John Candy as Dale Griffin. Is 165 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: my favorite Johnny Candy character by Foar, a good hearted 166 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: but annoying salesman. In spite of their differences, they share 167 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: a three day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neil 168 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: home to Chicago in time for Thanksgiving Day dinner with 169 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: his family. In this scene, they wake up snuggling after 170 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: being forced to share the same small bed in the hotel. 171 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: Why did you kiss? Fight your hair hand? There's your 172 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: other hand, he told two pillows. Those aren't pillows. There 173 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: is a wonderful documentary on John Candy called I Like Me, 174 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: based on the monologue where John Candy is finally just 175 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: browbeaten by Steve Martin and and he's laid it out. 176 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: He's had that moment where he just can't be nice 177 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: about it anymore. And he tells John Kenny how annoying 178 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: he is, and then he goes through the I Like Me. 179 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: And what's funny is he's lying during that time. He's 180 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: not married his wife. His wife's deceased, right, He's not married. 181 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: He has no home to go to. He lives on 182 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: the road. It is uh, it is a spoiler alert. 183 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: What a what a film. Wow. But if you get 184 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: a chance to see I Like Me about John Candy, 185 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: I think it's on Amazon. It's really really good, you know, 186 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: am Amazon Romon. I don't know if you've seen it yet, 187 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: Love you bum Yeah about the mom Phillips era with 188 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: four appearances by me, it's my favorite part. A singular distinction. 189 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 1: As we turn our attention to elections, one incumbent Republican 190 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: congressman in Texas one and one only has not been 191 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 1: endorsed by President Trump this primary. One Republican incumbent. That 192 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: Republican incumbent would have you believe that the President likes him, 193 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: he doesn't hates him. That incumbent Republican would not want 194 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: you to know that he was kicked out of a 195 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: tent at a Trump event where he tried to go 196 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: fatinize and slide in there and make people no, no, no, no, no, 197 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: you go back out there. You're not allowed here. President 198 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: doesn't like you. President Trump has made a point that 199 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: he will not he will not show any favor to 200 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: Dan in Crenshall because he does not like him, because 201 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: Crenshaw worked so hard against him, spoke so ill of him. 202 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: Dan Crinshaw is the only Republican House incumbent in Texas 203 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: not to be endorsed by President Trump. Steve Toath has 204 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: all the momentum in that race, all of it. Tooth 205 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: released Kem Pasbote the other day and it said, what 206 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: do all of these people? What do all of these 207 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: have in common with me? And Michael Berry? We once 208 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: supported Dan Crenshaw and he let us down, and it 209 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: was every organization nowt I mean, is everybody you name it. 210 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: I really do hope that losing this congressional seat, which 211 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: I think is the best thing for the district and 212 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: for our country, will be a moment of clarity for 213 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw and he can get the help he needs, 214 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: and he can use this to become a better person, 215 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: to get the help he needs to get to a 216 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: better place to understand what he did and to understand 217 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: the consequences of what he did and how he did it, 218 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: and why so many people are disappointed in him. Alex 219 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: Mieler earning the endorsement of President Trump in her race 220 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: in the new congressional seat. That's kind of East Houston 221 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: goes around. It's a real jealo deer part goes all 222 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: the way over into Liberty. That's a big endorsements for Alan. 223 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: Alex Mieler Ash Wednesday and went to the television. Yet 224 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: usually a catholicer two on a broadcast. That's when I 225 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: remember it's Ash Wednesday. Shonda writes Czar, Happy Sunday to you. 226 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: This was on Sunday. I met you at Cypress Saloon 227 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: October twenty six, twenty twelve. Roger Craiger was playing a 228 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: concert there. You are part of an important night for me. 229 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: Prior to the concert, I went on a first date 230 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: with a guy I had just met. I told him 231 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: I could meet him for a quick dinner, but I 232 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: had an important concert to go to with a friend. 233 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: We went to see her Creek for dinner. The next morning, 234 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: I emailed one of the picks attached to the guy 235 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: I went on a date with as a test to 236 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: see if he knew who you were. Lucky for him 237 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: he did. I had no idea that friend I went 238 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: to the concert with would turn into a crazy liberal 239 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: woman who decided I was too conservative for her. But 240 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: the man I went to dinner with would let her 241 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: become my husband. We will celebrate eleven years of marriage 242 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: in July. We have a son who turns nine on 243 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: March second. I love that his birthday is on Texas 244 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: Independence Day. Any who, thanks for being a part of 245 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: a very memorable night for me. You were having a 246 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: really fun night so chose to email versus post the pics. Oh, 247 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: you can post the pics. I do remember that, and 248 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: I remember it well. We met yak Kosmeranov was in 249 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:06,479 Speaker 1: town and he wanted to hang out, and Roger Craigor 250 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: was having that concert out in Cyprus and had invited 251 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: me to come, and I said, I'm gonna have dinner 252 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: with Yakkasumranoff and then we're gonna drive. What time do 253 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: you go on? And it was one of those places 254 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,239 Speaker 1: where they go on very late. I hate that, too 255 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: old for that, But he wasn't going on until like 256 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: ten thirty or eleven. I can't imagine when we started 257 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: the RCC. I remember the first big show we had 258 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 1: was Gene Watson and Gene and I did the deal ourselves. 259 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: There were no booking agents or anything like that. And 260 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: I said, and he said, what time should I go on? No? No, no, 261 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: he did ask Katy ke Kati k was booking for me, 262 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: and he called me and he said, hey, or he 263 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: texted me, hey, you got a minute? Yeah? Hey, I 264 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: just want to make sure it shows. You want me 265 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: to go on at seven thirty? Is that the opener? No, 266 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: the opener is going to go on at six thirty 267 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: to start playing seven thirty. Yeahice, wow, Wow, that's fantastic. 268 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: And I said, okay. He said, normally they got me 269 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: going on at ten, ten thirty eleven. It's too late. 270 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to wait up that late. I don't want 271 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: to wait up that late. So we would tell the 272 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: guys the latest would have them going on was eight, 273 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: but usually we'd like to have them going at seven 274 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: thirty and have the opener going at six thirty and 275 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: a ninety minute set. The show would be over by nine, 276 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: nine fifteen, and then we would take it outside, but 277 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't stay for outside. We would 278 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 1: be inside, and we still had the outside stage where 279 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: we had started and would say, hey, when the show's over, 280 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: feel free to take it outside. We're going to bring 281 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: the opener back out. And a lot of times, and 282 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: this was true, the headliner will come out, and you know, 283 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: they might take off their fancy western wear and have 284 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: their wife beater on and get back up on stage, 285 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: and now they'll do silly stuff if they don't normally do, 286 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: and just everybody have a good time. Or it being 287 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: nine to fifteen, you'd head home. If you lived in 288 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: the Woodlands, because we were on the southwest side, you 289 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: could be home by ten ten fifteen and Friday Long Day. Oh, 290 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: you want to make fun of the fact that you 291 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: think I know three words in blue and black? Really okay, 292 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: it makes you feel good to tear me down, you 293 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: do that. You just go ahead and do that. If 294 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: that makes if that makes you feel good, you just god, 295 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: you just go ahead and do that. The San Antonio, 296 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: by the way, voting has begun second day. Today's the 297 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: second day. Polls open at seven. They say up until 298 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: seven early voting at any of the early voting at locations. 299 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: Go to your counting to see voting locations and hop 300 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: to it. There was some actip. It was busy at 301 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: some place. It's not too bad a line other places. 302 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: Somebody told me what's the place was in mark Goldberg District. 303 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: It was over off of Brazewood Bissonet Beachnut area. It's 304 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: a community center there. Ed come if I can't remember 305 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: the name. Anyway, they went there. They walked up. It 306 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: was a steady stream, but they walked up and they 307 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: literally never broke stride, got their stuff, went cast their vote, 308 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: moved on down the road. Reminder that you can bring 309 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: any printed materials with you, but you cannot use your 310 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: phone while you're voting. Nothing digital, So take whatever you want. 311 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 1: If you got a mailer, somebody's list you like, if 312 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: you read something on the internet you like, print it. 313 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: My ballot is printable. We had a little problem with 314 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: the PDF and the way it loaded, but that has 315 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: been rectified. So if you go to Michael Berryshow dot com, 316 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: you will see my ballot and you are free to 317 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: print it and take it with you and anything else 318 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: you want to take with you as a written material. 319 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: I did not make recommendations for many of the races 320 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: in Galveston, Fort Man Montgomery County, where I did not 321 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: know enough about the candidate, nor could I get enough 322 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: information that I felt comfortable saying that I thought one 323 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: was noticeably better. I understand that for many people there 324 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: is a clear difference between candidates X and Y. There 325 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: are a few races I wish I had I wish 326 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: I had waited in, but I did not, And that's 327 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: where I'm leaving it for now. But my ballot is 328 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: at Michael Berryshow dot com, and I chose a less 329 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: is more approach. I was asked by one member of 330 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: Congress why I didn't endorse that particular member of Congress, 331 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: and I said, your race is uncontested. If I endorse 332 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: in every position, it makes the document very long and 333 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: hard to find. What I was trying to do, which 334 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: I enjoy doing in life, is pairing everything down to 335 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: the most important. So if someone the Harris County judiciary, 336 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: the only judicial race is if you live in Harris 337 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: County anyway. Are the courts of criminal appeal where they 338 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: have contested races, and I have chosen candidates in those races. 339 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: I also believe it's very important. Elections are when the 340 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: public speaks to elected officials. The rest of the time 341 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: they talk at you. This is your opportunity to speak 342 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: to them. Just as we have talked about in economics terms, 343 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: you're buying behavior. When you buy a product for ten dollars, 344 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: you tell the seller, this item is worth ten dollars 345 00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: to me. If you don't buy that item, you tell 346 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: the seller this item is not worth ten dollars to me. 347 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: It might be worth nine, might be worth eight, and 348 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: they will have to communicate back with you. They'll have 349 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: to drop that price if enough people do what you do. 350 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: Price is where the market speaks the buyer and the seller. 351 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: Elections are where you tell people, Hey, Governor Greg Abbott, 352 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: I like some of what you do. I don't like 353 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: a lot of what you do, and I'm going to 354 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: vote for doct Chambers so that you hear me loud 355 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: and clear. One week from today, I will host a 356 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: roundtable discussion. I've asked a few of my sponsors to 357 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: come together for a discussion a topic that seems to 358 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: be coming up a lot, and that is business owners 359 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: who are very involved in running their businesses and they 360 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: reach a certain age where they start looking at the 361 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: next stage. And I'm a big believer for planning ahead 362 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: for these sorts of things, and so the tax consequence 363 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: of what you do, for instance, become very important. In 364 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,479 Speaker 1: what name should your assets be owned if you're intending 365 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: to sell the business. Often complicating this issue is a 366 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: situation I see many times. Man starts business, man gets married, 367 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: goes to work for his father in law, his father, 368 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: some company, whatever the situation, and he shows some promise 369 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: and in seven to ten years he either buys a 370 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: business he's been working for or inherits it, or in 371 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: many cases, goes out on his own starts his own business, 372 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 1: and then he begins to grind. Wife is raising young 373 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: kids during this time, he's working his tail off, and 374 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: it's another ten years before he can come up for 375 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: air and they start to see some success. His oldest 376 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: has now left home. There's a lot of regret, a 377 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: lot of regret because that childhood was man. So he's 378 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: going to end up being a super grandpa. This happens 379 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: a lot. It's going to be a super grandpa. He's 380 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: going to try to make up for And he didn't 381 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: do it on purpose. He wanted to provide for his family. 382 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: Every night he went to bed, every morning he got up, 383 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: he thought about his business. It's nice to say he 384 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 1: should have been balanced, but he would probably would end 385 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 1: up where he did. Now, the company's got forty trucks, 386 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: thirty five employees, sorry, fifty five employees, owns its own building. 387 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: They're doing well, and now he's entering into a phase 388 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: where he realizes his body's not going to hold up forever. 389 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: He also realizes, having seen some of his friends he 390 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: graduated high school would die that maybe he wants to 391 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: have some years of being able to fish or hunt 392 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: or travel. Maybe he's got that RV dream, Maybe he's 393 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: got that house in Chapel Hill with Rick Doak, our realtor, 394 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: or Roundtop or whatever else. So we were contacted by 395 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 1: Roundtop City of Roundtop, Romo to be a show sponsor. 396 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: The process goes. People will ask our company to ask 397 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: I prefer they ask me directly because then I can 398 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: handle it. But they will ask if I would be 399 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: interested in speaking for them, and then begin the process 400 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: of what that looks like. And sometimes I don't know 401 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: the company, so I start having to do some background 402 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: on who are we dealing with here, and then I 403 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: will hand it off to a rep within our team. 404 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to get Royers per se, 405 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: if you want Royers, you should go to Bud's Facebook page. 406 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: He's got a he's been in out of the hospital 407 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: a bunch of times. Probably be a good idea for 408 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: you to go in there and say some nice things 409 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: about it. That's probably going to increase the likelihood that 410 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: you're going to get some Royers, way more than the 411 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 1: City of Round Top sponsoring the show. Anyway. So this guy, 412 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: you know, they've worked very hard. Maybe they grew apart, 413 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: and so in his fifties, maybe he goes through and 414 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: maybe it's acrimonious. Hopefully it's not. The kids have gone off, 415 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: they've done their thing, and now they've kind of gravitated 416 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: back to dad. Maybe the daughter works at the company. 417 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: Maybe this son works at the company. Maybe they both do. 418 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 1: And now he's starting to look at a shared arrangement 419 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 1: of equity ownership because he doesn't want to lose his kids, 420 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: because being around his kids now is very important, and 421 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: his kids care about him and the business. And so 422 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: they get to a point now where he's starting to 423 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: look at So then he remarries, and he remarries this 424 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: much younger woman and she's got the lips blown out 425 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,719 Speaker 1: and the boob's blown out, and she is very sexy, 426 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: but he worries whether she really loves him. And more importantly, 427 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: he worries if something happens to him, what becomes of 428 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: his business, because now he's starting to serve go back, 429 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: and he's looking at his kids owning the business, having 430 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: the equity, and by this time they've put seven or 431 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: ten years into it, and maybe his wife now he 432 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: wants to take care of with a certain amount, but 433 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't believe she's entitled to all of it, because 434 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: shouldn't help him build it all. There are a lot 435 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: of these questions. If he dies suddenly, it happens a 436 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: lot stroke, car accident, heart attack, And now that you 437 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: start seeing that happen some when you start thinking through 438 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: these issues, and then he starts thinking about what this 439 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: process is going to look like, and if he's smart, 440 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: five to ten years ahead of time, he begins the 441 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: planning process and everyone should plan. I am a big believer. 442 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: I didn't always do that I should have. I sat 443 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: down with Dean Kneally trust when I was running for 444 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: city council. I was in my late twenties. He said 445 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: I like you. I'm going to support you. Walter Zivily 446 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: had asked him to. They were good friends. But first, 447 00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: I want you to put together a financial point in 448 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: what you answer all these questions. And I remember thinking, oh, 449 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: I didn't ask a homework and say you'll support me 450 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: and write me a check. But those questions are in 451 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: my mind to this day. Dean Knely taught that to 452 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: me because he was a planner, he was an organizer, 453 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: he was a strategist, and it is amazing. You know, 454 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: you can explain to a kid, hey, if you put 455 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: aside a dollar a day, every day, and you'll start 456 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: it in kindergarten, here's what that'll look like. Given an 457 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: estimated basic return, not hitting a home run, not in Nvidia, 458 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: but just a basic expected return over the long haul 459 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: in relatively solid, blue chip, consistent stocks. There'll be some 460 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: outliers ups and downs, but by and large, and you 461 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: show that person you can become the millionaire next door. 462 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: You can do this on basic earnings. A lot of 463 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: people think that the way you make money and save 464 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: money and have mone money is that you have this 465 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: year when you make a lot of money. That's not true. 466 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: When you make a lot of money as income, you 467 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: lose almost forty percent of it. The people who end 468 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: up with something are people who are plotters plot durs. 469 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: What they do they methodically not save, They methodically invest 470 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: over a long period of time. They make good strategic decisions. 471 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: In what name do they buy property? In what name 472 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: do they buy equipment? How do they depreciate that equipment? 473 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: When do they buy that equipment? Big Beautiful Bill made 474 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,239 Speaker 1: some decisions for some people that sped some things up. 475 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: There as a lot of things that go into that. Anyway, 476 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: a week from today, I am hosting a roundtable with 477 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: a group of show sponsor service providers for people who 478 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: own businesses or about to sell that business, or considering 479 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: ten years from now selling that business. Maybe you're retired 480 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: and trying to figure out But anyway, I've brought together 481 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: our CPA, our financial advisor, our state planning lawyer, and 482 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about those things and make those connections. 483 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: It will not cost you anything, but I think I'm 484 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: going to do these a couple of times a year now. 485 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: If you are interested in attending that, send me an 486 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: email with your story through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. 487 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: Tell me kind of what you're looking at and that 488 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: you're interested in attending spaces limited. That's not a rush 489 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: rush Russ. We will do it again. It'll just be 490 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: a little while down the road. By the way, you 491 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: can get my ballot there as well. Michael Berryshow dot 492 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: com