1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time time, luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: darry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: I all. 4 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: Of growing the pie. Whatever cliche you want to use, 5 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: connecting two people, connecting somebody who I get emails all 6 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: the time. Hey, I'm looking for a job. You should 7 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: always say when you're looking for a job, why are 8 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: you looking for a job? Did you get laid off? 9 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: Are you unhappy at the job where you are? Why 10 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: are you unhappy at the job where you are? Because 11 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: you may be the problem and not Most people don't 12 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: realize that. But I will find cases where someone is 13 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: straight out great example, Rome, remember the kid that was 14 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: pitching at Sam Houston. So in the middle of the 15 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: conversation is yeah, I want to go into construction. What 16 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: kind of construction commercial or residential? Commercial? I want to 17 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: build big buildings. I said, oh, well, I know some 18 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: of the guys that do that, like Tullipson. Well, that goober. 19 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: He doesn't even tell me his wife and his mother 20 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: work in the med Center at a building that Tellipson 21 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: built and is renovating. As we speak, his mother sends 22 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: me an email, Rome, didn't tell you, but he knew Tellips. 23 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: He knows exactly who Tellipson is that's his dream job. 24 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: Send a message to Tad, Hey, bud uh not asking 25 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: you to hire somebody as a favor to me, just 26 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: asking you to look at it. I'm giving you a 27 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: pipeline of I'm actually doing you a favor because that's true. 28 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: You want you want a deal flow of good people. 29 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: So he said, uh, thank you, I'm on it. And 30 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: then what two weeks ago, a week or two ago, 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,399 Speaker 1: the new hires at Tellipson. The posting that they sent 32 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: out internally, he sent it to me and there was 33 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: a new You know, they have helpers on job sites. 34 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: They have guys that are electricians, they have guys that 35 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: are plumbers, project manager, and they brought in this kid. 36 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 1: So that gives me such a thrill. And I spent 37 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: a lot of time when I'm off the air doing that. 38 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: And my family's very good about understanding it, connecting people 39 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: to make things happen. So I get an email this morning, 40 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: a big engineering firm. I'm not authorized to say it yet, 41 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: so I won't, but a big engineering firm calls Lamont Brands. 42 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: Two brothers. Now, my history with Lamont Brands is one 43 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: of them had come back from Iraq when I was 44 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: on city council and I used to honor the guys. 45 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: We'd go out and meet them when the planes came out, 46 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: and I would give them a proclamation from the city. 47 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: And so I had somebody in my office that that's 48 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: what they did all day. They wrote these proclamations for everything, 49 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: you know, thank you for your service. And to some 50 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: people that's a big honor. To other people, they probably 51 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: throw it in the trash and that's okay. And this 52 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: was I think six and I didn't remember this, but 53 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: they did, and it hung on the wall. And so 54 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: Lamont Brands is doing their business, is doing very well, 55 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: and they're growing, and so they needed more space. So 56 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: they moved from where they were down to Galveston and 57 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: they moved into this space that was probably twice as 58 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: big so they could increase production. Most people in the 59 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: in the apparel business, you know, like these oil and 60 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: gas companies need to put guys in overalls and things 61 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: like that. Most people are buying that stuff from China. 62 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: These guys are making stuff. They're printing shirts right there. 63 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: They're you know, when we made the Mattress Mac shirts. 64 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: If you remember the Gangstomac shirts that we did. They 65 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: printed those on the spot. That's how we were to 66 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: turn them so fast. Anyway, so they get a call 67 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: from this engineering firm, Hey, I want to talk to 68 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: you about you know, our polo shirts, our pants, our 69 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: gear for our people out in the field. What turns 70 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: out it's going to be a several million dollars a 71 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: year deal. It's a big deal for what was a 72 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: small company that's continuing to grow. And the lady said, yeah, 73 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: Michael Berry speaks for you, and that's all I need 74 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: to know. That's that's a trust factor, and that is 75 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: why if I got, if I can get a complaint 76 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: from this engineering firm, in three months, I pick up 77 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: the phone to Jerry Omel and go, hey, I got 78 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: a complaint from that engineering firm. Can you make this right? 79 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: And we do that. That's not the fun part of 80 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: what we do, but we do it. Two nights ago, 81 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: I got an email from a guy Sunday night. So 82 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: so what Three nights ago I got an email from 83 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: a guy. His elderly mother. The ac went out and 84 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: she won't leave the house, and she's on oxygen and 85 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: she's in she's like ninety five years old and she's 86 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it's hot in the house and the neighborhood 87 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: is such that they can't open the doors. They don't 88 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: feel safe, and they called around and nobody will fix 89 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: the air conditioning. So I did what I never do. 90 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: I called Robert Shelton, owner of north Wind AC, and 91 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: I said, I try not to. I can't pass every 92 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: favor that I'm asked on. I can't, or I would 93 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: wear out my welcome, but this one kind of hits me. 94 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: Can you help? And he called them that night and 95 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: by yesterday morning resolved. Boom done, and the deal is 96 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: done and the sweet little old lady is back in 97 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: the air conditioning. I love that part of what we do. 98 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: I love to talk about what's going on. I love 99 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: to hopefully make people be better husbands and wives and 100 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: mothers and fathers and children to their ailing parents and 101 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: bosses and employees and neighbors and coaches. I hope, I 102 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: really do. It might seem silly or full of it, 103 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 1: but I really do hope that I can inspire people 104 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: to be better. And I hope we can entertain you, 105 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: make you laugh, make you think, all the things that 106 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: go through that. But it is very important to me. 107 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: It's part of how I'm built that I love making connections. 108 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: You know, when you see a man and a woman 109 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: fight like hell, make each other miserable, it's it's it's toxic, 110 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: and it wears you out. But when you see a 111 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: man and a woman who are in love, who help 112 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: each other be better people, I mean, that is worth 113 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: all the divorces and toxic relationships to make someone that happy. 114 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: Where you see that each person. And I don't just 115 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: I don't mean just sexually or physically or the attractions. 116 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: I mean you see it when people get old and 117 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: and want my parents, you know, my mom was always 118 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: taking care of my dad because of all the health 119 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: problems he's had. And then we almost lose her. I 120 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: mean we got, we got really close. It was you 121 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: know tonight, tonight she's gonna go, and she's slowly working 122 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: her way back up. She lost a lot of weight, 123 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: in very weak, she's struggling with her breathing. But to 124 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: watch my dad now have to turn and he's, you know, 125 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: my wife and I will have his conversa. He's the 126 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: stronger one right now. I mean, that's the way it's 127 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: supposed to work, right, And that's why I don't understand 128 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: why some people don't under you got one partner in life, 129 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: you ought to make that person better every single day. 130 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: But anyway, I just want I tell that story because 131 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: it's important to me. But by the way, you can 132 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: have that effect too. If you have a sister that's 133 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: trying to get a business off the ground making cupcakes, 134 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: how about you buy some cupcakes. How about you tell 135 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: do you remember the world's finest chocolate? Nobody sold the 136 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: chocolate themselves, their parents did. Calfree is out there. Calfree 137 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: was my age great baseball player, and he won the 138 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: Gokart because he sold the most chocolates. And it's because 139 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: he's build Free sold them. And some of y all 140 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: know Calfree. He's he's a golf coach. Give him some 141 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: grief and tell him that I'm still sore over that 142 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: off card. I mean a go cart went. We're gonna 143 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: go to the inflation stories. But I know Bob was 144 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: holding on another matter. Let's go to Bob real quick, 145 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: and then we'll go down the line. Bob, you only 146 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: Michael Berrish, go ahead. 147 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 3: Sir, Hey, Michael, Yeah. I was looking watching the news 148 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 3: conference yesterday and I noticed that at one point they 149 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: said that what that guy did was he just are 150 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: Their excuse for not saying it was fraud was that 151 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 3: he sent the same number of ballots to ninety eight 152 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 3: percent of the precincts. Well, surely they have historical data 153 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 3: of how many people vote at the various precincts, and 154 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 3: they can determine which number, which number of ballots would 155 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 3: be good for, say, the Democrat districts versus the Republican districts, 156 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 3: and just not and and and just grossly under under 157 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 3: or sins the. 158 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,599 Speaker 1: Guy that posts under the name common Sense Bob or 159 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 1: something like that. No, No, there is a guy I 160 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: do too, because I really like this guy. I don't 161 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: know him, but I like what he does. He's one 162 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: of these folks that is I suspect he's an engineer 163 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: or maybe an financial analyst. My guess is he's somewhere, 164 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: maybe sixty years old. But he writes these very dry 165 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: comments criticizing what the city and county are doing. Because 166 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: he's like Tom bes on that that he keeps up. 167 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: He's followed this stuff for so many years and nobody 168 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: listens to him. But these guys are very plugged in, 169 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: and they'll point out, oh, we're doing this again. Well, 170 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: here's how much they spent before, and here's what happened 171 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: with it, and here's who stole the money. Remember this, 172 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: Marissa Hansen does that. There's a guy that is the 173 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: flood guy for the Kingwood area, and he's the guy 174 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: he posts these blogs about flood maps and drainage and 175 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 1: fraud and all this. I've begged Bill White, right, what's. 176 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 3: That kind of like Bill White? You know, he the 177 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 3: one that does the King What Bill King? Yeah, he 178 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 3: watched the same deal. Yeah, yeah, those guys are great. 179 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: But this guy, this flood guy, he's forgotten more about 180 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: flooding than anybody talking about flooding publicly. And I have 181 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: begged him to come on and he has no interest. 182 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: He just I don't know why. I would love to 183 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: tell his story. But anyway, yes, answer to your question, 184 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: they have that historical data, and it's not the case 185 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: that every voting location should receive the same number of ballots. 186 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: You have voting locations that have had ten people vote 187 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: there on the general election day for the last five cycles, 188 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: ten people each time, and you have others that have 189 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: had five thousand people vote consistently. We know what the 190 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: numbers are going to well. My wife was Secretary of State. 191 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: I learned so many disturbing things about our elections that 192 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: would frighten you. There was one woman down in the 193 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: valley at a Democrat precinct and she took her box, 194 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: put it in the back of her truck, I mean 195 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: in the back of her trunk, and went missing. She 196 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: went into hiding. She went to a motel in state 197 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: because she didn't want the box to come in because 198 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: the Republicans had voted, and she didn't want the county 199 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: and she was afraid that that county, like Cadalgo County 200 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: maybe fitting that it was going to go Republican and 201 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: she didn't want that, so she hid the box. There 202 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: was another woman who went into a bathroom and locked 203 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: herself into the bathroom with the ballot boxes so that 204 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 1: she could stuff the boxes. And they had to send 205 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: in a deputy several to get her out of there 206 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: because she was stuffing the box. This stuff is happening, 207 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: and that was ten years ago. So this stuff is happening, 208 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: and it's always happening for the Democrats. It's never the 209 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: Republicans ever. Ever. TJ, You're on the Michael Berry Show. 210 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: What's say you, sir? Oh he waited all that time? Brett? 211 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: How old you figure? Brett is Brett? You're on the 212 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Go ahead? 213 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 2: How are you doing? Michael? I told you about the 214 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 2: uh inflation prices and stuff like that. I'm in the 215 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: aluminum business. Basically, I'm in a patio cover business. I 216 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: sell a patio covered that has louvers that open and 217 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: close by remote control. Yeah. 218 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: So I looked at them a few years ago. They're 219 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: hiring the cat's ask. But boy they're cool. 220 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're nice. 221 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: They're very. 222 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 2: And uh, you know the faint thing. 223 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 1: You know? 224 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 2: People say, what do you say in it? Sell daylight? 225 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 2: Because if you know of all the coverage we build 226 00:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 2: are over the living room windows on the back of 227 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 2: the house. Yeah, and you do ola church of box 228 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 2: all light coming in. You open my louvers up when 229 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 2: you're not using it to daylight coming the house. 230 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: Where is Equinox made. 231 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 2: It's made here in the USA where it originated Australia. 232 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:21,119 Speaker 2: They have a place in Georgia and one in Phoenix, Arizonfice. 233 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: How long you been doing that? 234 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 2: I've been doing their product for about sixteen years. I 235 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 2: did another product called Solaura that come out of Israel. 236 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: I did that about twenty years ago. Yeah, so there's 237 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 2: not many of us that do this, but. 238 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: I'm on the site now. I've almost bought one of those. 239 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: I was living over on Crestwood near Memorial Park and 240 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: the house was all glass. It was my dream home. 241 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: But it flooded and we needed to move, move closer 242 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: to the kids' school and all that sort of stuff. 243 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: But I looked very hard. I actually spoke to a 244 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: dealer back then. It might have been you. I don't know. 245 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: It says finally deal, but it doesn't list the dealers. 246 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: Which location are you. 247 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 2: My company is twenty first century Sungraps. It's the name 248 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: of my company, but the product are using seconds. 249 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty first century rooms first man. 250 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 2: I spent a short time. 251 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: On that at one point, studying this. And you're on 252 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: Pelican Boulevard in Willis. Yeah, yeah, interesting. How long have 253 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: you owned this business. 254 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 2: I've been in the patio business for forty years. 255 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: So it says our services louvered roof, patio covers, screen rooms, 256 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: patio enclosures, pergola, and sunroom. So this heat is your 257 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: best friend? 258 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. We make a lot of shape. 259 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: So so when those louvers closed on that equinox system, 260 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: if it starts raining, is it absolutely and is it 261 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: going to close and seal? 262 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 2: Yes, it's ninety i'd said, you know, rain through and 263 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 2: so I go buy my restaurants. And so if you 264 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 2: take the weed in the woodlands, we did. Tommy Bahamas 265 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: spoke to the child USUS acre cyclooniales. We did Woodson's 266 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 2: over the top of kitchens we did. I mean, so 267 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 2: what I go by is my restaurant guys are never 268 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 2: ever calling me saying hey, table twenty three is always 269 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: getting wet with tripped over it rains, come tix it 270 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: never and so if if they're leaking, I don't know 271 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 2: about it. Well that's why I go buy the restaurants. 272 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: What they have to say, what percentage of your business 273 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,479 Speaker 1: is is this luvered system? Because I think it's fascinating. 274 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 2: We probably eighty percent of my businesses is h is 275 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: lubed roofs. And just because of that, we've we're on 276 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: marketing on the internet. We do. There's a few like 277 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 2: Houston in your lub groups, they'll come up with Houston 278 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 2: lub groups. Yeah, so and that brings it bult. 279 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: We don't say it depends or I'm going to hang 280 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: up on you. Roughly speaking as as a rule of thumb, 281 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: what is the cost per square foot of covered space 282 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: for one of these lubed roofs. If it's not the 283 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: most complicated deal in the world, it's the standard middle 284 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:21,959 Speaker 1: of the road system. 285 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 2: We go buy square footage one ware pricing. It takes me. 286 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 2: People say, hell, aren't you going to take their prices? 287 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 2: Got take you that three seconds, and really it's ninety 288 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 2: five dollars of square foot. There's what it costs. And 289 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 2: sometimes if it's real big, it gets a little cheaper. 290 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 2: If it's real small, it gets forts. 291 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: I noticed some of these have got you've got fans 292 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: on them too, y'all. Y'all add that they're beautiful. So 293 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm looking at your website right now, Brett, they're absolutely 294 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: you have you seeing the monk to the Anglo doing 295 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: a great job and memorial pa my diversity. Bobby Crumpley, 296 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: who's one of my favorite email owners. He sends useful 297 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: things and I can employ on the show. He owns 298 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: Houston vapor Blasting dot com and he said, my biggest 299 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: expense by far for my vapor blasting business, where I 300 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: do car and motorcycle parts restoration, is electricity to run 301 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: my machines. What had been five to seven cents per 302 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 1: kilowatt hour is now fifteen to twenty cents. I can't 303 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: triple the price of my service. So something as baked 304 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: in an invisible seemingly as electricity can crush your margin. 305 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: I hear this in every way. The inputs to the process, 306 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: whatever that may be, are increasing, and yet the market 307 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: won't bear price increases. Restaurants are telling me things cost more. 308 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: Meat costs more, flower costs more, electricity costs more. And 309 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: then people notice that they're getting pinched. They can't afford 310 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: groceries anymore. So what do they do. They come in 311 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: and say, I've enjoyed working here, but I'm leaving because 312 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: I got to go somewhere where I can make more money. 313 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: So this puts the owner in a pinch. All right, Well, 314 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: let me see if I can afford to pay you more. 315 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: And once you do that, you don't go back if 316 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: inflation goes down. You've increased that rate. Now Carlos finds 317 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: out that Hey, Suss is getting paid more, and Carlos 318 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: wants more and now now you're in a real pickle. 319 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: I don't think most people realize and why would they 320 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: that many businesses don't make money. Many many businesses that 321 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: you see every day do not make money. How do 322 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: they stay in business? The parents of the owner feed 323 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: them money to keep the business going. Some families will 324 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: subsidize their kid's business to keep him or her out 325 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: of trouble. Let's say that the daughter is an artist. 326 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,880 Speaker 1: She's been in and out of rehab, she's a bad 327 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,959 Speaker 1: picker of men. They're very afraid she's going to take 328 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: her own life. This is reality, this happens. Their words. 329 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: She's going to take her own life. And if her 330 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: little business fails, that might be the trigger. And if 331 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: you've ever been around suicide, you'll never forget it. It 332 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: is devastating to everybody involved. And so they will maybe 333 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: not even formally invest. And how that works is I 334 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna have to shut my artist's studio down. 335 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: I'm not selling enough paintings and I can't pay my rent. 336 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: What's your rent? It's fifteen hundred dollars. What can you 337 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: pay right now? Probably five hundred? How about this? How 338 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 1: about your dad? And I how about we pick up 339 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: your rent for the next three months. Let's get you 340 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: back on your feet and redouble your efforts, and let's 341 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: do a little uh you know, I'll do an email 342 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: to my friends and and they that's an amount of money. 343 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: They're spending that money on mental health dollars. They're spending 344 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: that money on the survival of their daughter. Things we 345 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: do for kids, right, completely understandable. A lot of restaurants 346 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: I've seen restaurants in this town that I'm certain or 347 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: not making money, but the father of the owner with 348 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: both parents are trying to set their kid up and 349 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,479 Speaker 1: help them out. And there's nothing wrong with that. By 350 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: the way, that's not a judgmental statement. It's not a 351 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: critical statement. If I could give my kids a bump 352 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: and they started a business to get them off the ground. 353 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: It's very very very very very hard to start a 354 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: business that and keep it going. It's very hard. If 355 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: you're staffing up, you got to find space. There's a 356 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: lot of costs that hit you before you ever see 357 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: a dollar. And you know from the name of your business, 358 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,360 Speaker 1: the legal filings and all the things necessary to start 359 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: a business. It's a daunting task. And this is why 360 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: I get angry at politicians who've never done it, saying well, 361 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: let's add this, and let's make them do this, and 362 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: let's make them have a license, and let's regulate them, 363 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: and let's it turns out and this took Republicans to 364 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: do it. I wonder how many people know this. Several 365 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: years ago there was a licensing and regulation department for 366 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: hair braiding. Well, do you know who gets their hair braided? 367 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: Black women? They have extensions put on. It's a big, big, 368 00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: big business. Black women that don't have five dollar dollars 369 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: to their name, we'll walk around with nails and hair. 370 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: It's a cultural thing. That's fine, there's nothing wrong with it. Fine, 371 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: and it's important to them. That's a big part of 372 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: their beauty, no matter what they look like. That's a 373 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: big part of their beauty. And there are lots of 374 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: women that can do it, that have the skill set, 375 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: and they have to go through this. I think it 376 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: was two thousand hours. You should not have to go 377 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: to barber school to be able to sit on the 378 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: front porch in the summer and flip flops and braid 379 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: your neighbor's hair. That's just dumb. Well, if she pays 380 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: you for it. Okay, Well, why is the government getting 381 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: in between a transaction of two consenting adults to do 382 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: something that has no victim, nobody is harmed. Well, we 383 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: have to make sure of the hygiene standards, do we though? 384 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: Is that important? 385 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 2: Is it? 386 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: Is it more important that we triple the cost of 387 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: braiding hair in order that some sort of inspector can 388 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: come around and say, oh, you can't do this sitting 389 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: on the front porch. We did it for three thousand years. 390 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: You know, there was a time before government came knocking 391 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: on your door to check that every toilet was X 392 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: number of inches from the wall and you had disabled party. 393 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: There was a time when people provided goods and services 394 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: to someone else willingly, consensually, and everything worked out. Get 395 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: people to understand giving information is not snitching to Jeff, 396 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: the builders says, pre COVID, I was building at one 397 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty dollars a 398 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: square foot for my custom homes. That was a rate 399 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: for over five years. During COVID, it jumped from one 400 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: fifty to two fifty a square foot of truction due 401 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: to lack of products. Post COVID, I'm now starting my 402 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,919 Speaker 1: pricing at two hundred dollars a square foot still amazing. 403 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: Homes just cost me more to build them. Labor, steel, wood. 404 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: It's never truly, never truly recovered. Now I'm seeing price 405 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,719 Speaker 1: increases on the things I buy monthly, on almost every product, 406 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: especially right now glass and roofing products. Steve Toath, our 407 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: state rep. Said in twenty thirteen, we're talking about the 408 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: hair braiding deal that Republicans managed to get to undo. 409 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: We didn't need you didn't need a license to sit 410 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: on the front porch in the summer heat and an 411 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: unair conditioned house and braid the hair of the woman 412 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: next door for you just because she just because she 413 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: paid you for it. There's so many things that the 414 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: government needs to get out of the business of. But 415 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: I hear it. I hear it all the time. Ah No, 416 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 1: you gotta regulate it and clean it up. You gotta 417 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: regulate it. Michael. I'm for legalizing marijuana, not that I 418 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: do it. I'm for legalizing it so we can tax it, 419 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 1: You dumb ass. What are you gonna do with the tax? 420 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: What is the government gonna do with the tax? We 421 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: tax it a bunch of money, Michael, all Right, when 422 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: they get that money, what are they gonna do with it, Well, 423 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: then they can lower my taxes, you dumb ass. That's 424 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: not how it works. They're just gonna have more money 425 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: to hire more people to harass. 426 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 2: You. 427 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: Go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Those people 428 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: who we now refer to as colonists because they went 429 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: to a colony. All they wanted was to be left 430 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: the hell alone. They set up their own banks, they 431 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: set up These were merchants who set up their own 432 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: system to survey the land and sell it and protect 433 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: it and insure it. They set up entire they use 434 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: the word scheme in England for the Brits, that's not 435 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: a bad thing. They set up insurance schemes, they set 436 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: up commercial schemes. They set up wonderful educational institutions. They 437 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: built roads, they had agriculture, they were booming. The Brits, 438 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: full of bureaucracy, said yeah, we're going to need to 439 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: tax you. We're not going to allow you representation in 440 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: the House of Commons, but we're going to tax you 441 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: because we need more money for our empire, because empire 442 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: is expensive. And eventually they said we're just not going 443 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: to do it. This is as old as man. You 444 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: don't want the government getting in between commercial transactions. But 445 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: here's what happens. There will be a person, There'll be 446 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: an in run, which there's no doubt. People were hurt 447 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: by that. A lot of twenty six thousand people, I 448 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: think at last count, were hurt very badly by that. 449 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: So people say what we need is more regulation. We 450 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: had plenty of regulation. The regulation failed. People believe every 451 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: time something goes wrong, Ah, government could have kept that 452 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: from happening. Government is more likely to cause it to happen. 453 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: When I was on city council, I would hear from 454 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: people who pined for Houston to be Denver or New 455 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,479 Speaker 1: York or San Francisco. And they would say, we need 456 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: deed rest, we need zoning, And I say, no, we don't. Yeah, 457 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: we gotta have zoning. We gotta have zoning. Zoning is 458 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: the best you gotta have. We're the only major city 459 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: without zoning. Well, that's not an argument against it. What 460 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: if we're the only major city that doesn't have a murder, 461 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: Do we now have to have murders all the zoning. Well, 462 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: here's what happens when you institute zoning all of us. 463 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: You have to have the first phase of zoning. So 464 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: you're going to have properties that were purchased with the 465 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: intention of being commercial use or residential use, and some 466 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: of those you're going to alter that. And so now 467 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: the reasonable expectation upon which you invested is going to 468 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: be altered, and it's going to decrease the value of 469 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: your investment. But you're allowing government to pick winners and losers. 470 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: The idea behind zoning is, will we'll create artificial scarcity, 471 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: We will only allow so much land to be used 472 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: for commercial retail. Let's say we will artificially, we'll create 473 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: artificial scarcity, and that will drive prices up. And it does. 474 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: And that's why it was for so many years so 475 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: much cheaper to build in the greater Houston area, which 476 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: led to a boom. It was a big part of 477 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: our boom. Wasn't just oil and gas. As the oil 478 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: and gas money started flowing, people wanted to build homes well. 479 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: As the city of Houston became more and more liberal, 480 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: aggressively liberal people and crime ridden and the streets busted up. 481 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: Somebody was driving oh Bert Harvey. Bert Harvey texted me 482 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: yesterday and said, I'm over at the corner of fountain 483 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 1: View and Richmond. I said, run fast, you'll get shot, 484 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: and he said, man, these streets. I had no idea. 485 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: It was just bad. Well, Bert is one of these 486 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: guys that drives around in a truck that looks that's 487 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: like a bus. It's ten times bigger than he needs 488 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: it's got. It's like a a F eight eight fifty. 489 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the biggest truck they make. It's ridiculous, 490 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: and it's diesel. I don't know what he thinks he's 491 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: hauling like you could haul Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus and 492 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: entire village he's from is ridiculous. So if he's feeling 493 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: it in that big old tank. But anyway, so people 494 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: started moving out. They started moving out, and when it started, 495 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: I think people thought, well, he's getting older, you don't 496 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: have But then a myriad of factors started happening. Downtown 497 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: has seen terrible decay with crime and homelessness. After COVID, 498 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: people started realizing not everybody needs to come to the office, 499 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't any longer. So you 500 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: started seeing that. So that was one less reason to 501 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: live in River Oaks or Tanglewood or the villages, so 502 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: people started moving further and further out. I remember when 503 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: Chuck's Chuck's name, it had Dynagy. When he started doing 504 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: properties out in far Northwest, it was an hour out there. 505 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: Windcrest Falls was the area. But you're seeing more and 506 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: more people that. I mean, look, that's Republic Grand Ranch. 507 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: It's the fastest growing real estate community in the state 508 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: for a reason because people want out of the city. 509 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: They want out of the Silvester Turner. Rodney ellis violent, criminal, nasty, filthy. 510 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: That is the city that's causing people to go to 511 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: League City, caused people go to Galveston. 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