1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: The Michael Dairy Show is on the air. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 3: Heroes everyone, Heroes by the million men who abandon home 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 3: and vocations that they may be ready to defend democracy 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 3: if necessary. Sturdy of body, firm and spirit, seamen, marine 6 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 3: soldiers and flyers. 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: Well, this is my bed level for the fare and 8 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: you place to dwells Danny in the lone street that. 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 3: I've all took, burn and ring of fires, m and 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 3: make it through the night. 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 4: Down, let you down before love came down. 12 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 5: Color color cross clors Chick on thet mis double bustick 13 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 5: lip Us. 14 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: Says, I'm mister. 15 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: Road can't touch this, you can't test When do the 16 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: chucky got the chip skinner shin deep trucking like to 17 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: do the man together. 18 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 6: On the road again. 19 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: I just can't wait to get on the road again. 20 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 3: Why my love is making music with my friend. I'll 21 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 3: be waiting to get off road again. 22 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: I have a my morning, have a rid, I'll be the. 23 00:01:59,400 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 7: US. 24 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 5: I'm gonna wait out of here, say the jumper to 25 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 5: the thiefs. 26 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: Miss Tennessee Wische. Of course, those were all United States 27 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: military veterans in this being veterans day we honor them. 28 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: Speaking of lost treasures of Houston, Maggie Tanga doll Rites. 29 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,399 Speaker 2: Molly's Pub in clear Lake burned to the ground yesterday. 30 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 2: It's been there for at least twenty five years, maybe more. 31 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: It was an institution around here. There's something that just 32 00:02:53,800 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: rattles me about seeing a legendary location burn. There's there 33 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: is something that watching that is just almost have to 34 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: turn away. It's it's unpleasant. Chris, you're on the Michael 35 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: Berry Show. What say you, hey, Michael morning? 36 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 6: Yes, a while I was just calling in because y'all 37 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 6: were I heard that song balloted at a Green Berey, 38 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 6: so I got me to call in Star Green Berey. 39 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 2: So fantastic. All right, what years were you in service? 40 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 6: From nineteen eighty eight to twenty eighteen. 41 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: It's a long years. That's a long time, that's a career. 42 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 2: So how old were you in eighty eight when you 43 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 2: went in? 44 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 6: Twenty or nineteen? Just yeah, no, but I just turned twenty. 45 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: Where'd you grow up? 46 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 6: Well? I grew up in Friendswood, and I was kind 47 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 6: of a late bloomer because I got held back a 48 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 6: couple of times up being a runaway, and then I 49 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 6: just joined the army and kind of found my family 50 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 6: there and went from there. 51 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 2: Did you ever reconcile with your family? 52 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 6: No? I did not. They're horrible, so I yeah, no, 53 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 6: I do not want to reassult him. But but that's okay, 54 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 6: it's a blessing. You know. I got my family. I 55 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 6: my wife. We were in high school together right here 56 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 6: in Friendswood. We've been together thirty seven years. 57 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 2: So so you live in the community from which you left, 58 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 2: and you never bump into any of the old family. 59 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 6: My mother passed away and I moved into her house, 60 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 6: and no, there's nobody left from the family that I 61 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 6: have anything to do with. Yeah, it's all. 62 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: Gone interesting And what do you do now? 63 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 6: Well, I don't do anything right now. Whenever I got 64 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 6: out and eighteen, I couldn't hardly walk. So I spent 65 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 6: like the past six six and a half years getting 66 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 6: all these surgeries. I got the full use of my 67 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 6: right leg back last May. So now I'm just hitting 68 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 6: the gym getting in shape, and I go for my 69 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 6: eyebo gain treatment in December, and then I should be 70 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 6: hopefully fully functional and be able to be a productive 71 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 6: person again. 72 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 2: Tell me about that, Marcus wasn't what I'm gonna do yet. Yeah, 73 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 2: Marcus was the first person I knew to do that, 74 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 2: and he had told me about it. Then when Marcus 75 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: told me how intense it is, then I thought, I mean, 76 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: because I'm not even a lightweight compared to him, I'm 77 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 2: a super featherweight compared to him. And for him to 78 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: talk about the hell that it is, but to be 79 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 2: glad that he did it interested me, intrigued me, but 80 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 2: also had had a little bit of a fear factor 81 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: to a whole lot of fear factor to it. Although 82 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 2: he want his wife to do it, and she's going 83 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 2: to do it, how did you arrange that? I'm assuming 84 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: you're having it done in Mexico? 85 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 6: Well, yes, yeah, I am. Well, I mean so like 86 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 6: in twenty twenty, they had had me on I think 87 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 6: I was on thirteen different pills and I was overweight 88 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 6: and suicidal and all that, and then they just quit 89 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 6: it cold turkey because COVID shut down the clinics and 90 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 6: they wouldn't let me get my refill. So I had 91 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 6: to go cold turkey off of all of that stuff. 92 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 6: And for seven weeks I just stayed in my room 93 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 6: and like stuck my bomb or something, and it was. 94 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 6: It was horrible. So then I started getting into other 95 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 6: alternative modalities for treatment with retreats and biofeedback and different 96 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 6: things that were more holistic. And I'm on no pain meds. 97 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 6: I'm on no nothing at all except for little blood 98 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 6: pressure medicine. And then I put in for this thing 99 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 6: called Vets Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions, which was Rob Capone's 100 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 6: thing with the whole IBA gang, and I put in 101 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 6: for it and they gave me the grant and here 102 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 6: I am. So the past six weeks. They really do 103 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 6: a lot of coaching and you have to think of 104 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 6: IBA gain as something that's going to go in and 105 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 6: fix you, and it kind of does that. So it's 106 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 6: a very very unique and scary kind of thing to do. 107 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 6: But I'm going to have been through worse. 108 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: So we had him on the show for about a 109 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 2: two hour discussion and it was rather thorough, and what 110 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: I appreciated was he doesn't candy coade it like a 111 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 2: this just like a bad LSD trip or he described 112 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: it in the realm of you know, this nightmarish dream 113 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: that you're going to have. But most people say, I'll 114 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: go through just about anything to be healed from this, 115 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 2: this horrible addiction. Chris. I will pray for you tonight, 116 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 2: my friend. I wish you the best of love. Thank 117 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 2: you for your call, and thank you for your service. 118 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 6: As I've just put that on the Michael Barris. 119 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 2: Michael Varry Show. The new twenty five class inducted into 120 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 2: the National Toy Hall of Fame has been announced, and 121 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 2: it's a doozy. You've got Battleship, You've got slime that 122 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: came a little later than me, so I can't appreciate 123 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 2: that one way or another. And trivial pursuit which I 124 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 2: guess they call trivia pursuit finalists that didn't make it 125 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 2: this year, Catan. I'm assuming I'm pronouncing that right, sat 126 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 2: in Connect four. Cornhole? How does cornhole not make it? 127 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 2: Cornhole is such a perfect if you want to call 128 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 2: it a toy, because you know now they've got cornhole 129 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: that you can break down and move around. All you 130 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 2: need is the little bags. I mean. Cornhole is like 131 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 2: a hacky sack. I mean you can do it anywhere 132 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: and everybody enjoys Cornhole. Ferby Scooter, snow Spirograph, Star Wars, Lightsaber. 133 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 2: How are you not going to put that in there. 134 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 2: Tickle me Elmo wow. NBC News notes the modern Battleship 135 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 2: board game was made by Milton Bradley, inspired by paper 136 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: and pencil game. It debuted almost fifty years ago and 137 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 2: has sold over one hundred million copies. I assumed it 138 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 2: was older than that. Fifty years ago is nineteen seventy five. 139 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy nine, it was one of the first 140 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 2: board games to be computerized, and now there are countless 141 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 2: electronic versions to this day. Battleship has long been a 142 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 2: household name in the board game world. Those Battleship spots, man, 143 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 2: those were good. You got one, all right? This is 144 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 2: nineteen what eighty six? Okay, nineteen eighty six. 145 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 7: Battleship precints Famous sinkings September ninth, nineteen eighty five. Lake 146 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 7: Commander Robbie Grant fires the shot that sinks his brothers destroyed. 147 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 7: This glorious moment is remembered as the last time Robbie 148 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 7: was allowed in Michael's room December twenty second, nineteen eighty 149 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 7: five playing electronic Battleship. 150 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 2: I don't know Howard Burns. 151 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 7: Junior programs are devastating in town Dad says, say my 152 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 7: battles him and history is made battleship and electronic battleship 153 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 7: from Hilton Bradley. 154 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: It's a hit. That was a game right there, now, 155 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 2: that was a game also going in as trivia pursuit. 156 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 2: This is a commercial from nineteen eighty five. 157 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 3: Would my esteemed colleague kindly repeat the question, glam a senator. 158 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 8: What time does wee Willie Winky run through the town? 159 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 8: Trivial pursuit. It's more than a game. It's a national obsession. 160 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 8: It's here, big Bird, it's there, it's everywhere. Fun keeps coming. 161 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 8: Trivial pursuit because every American is entitled to life, liberty, 162 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 8: and the pursuit of trivia from the Sol Show and writer. 163 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 2: So yesterday after the morning show, Alex came in. Some 164 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 2: of you, if you were an RCC regular, you will 165 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 2: remember Alex. He was the director of hydration. He was 166 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 2: the head bartender, and between he and Uncle Jerry, they 167 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 2: coordinated all the par levels and drinks and staffing and 168 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 2: everything else for the bar. And when we closed the RCC, 169 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 2: I didn't want to lose Alex. He's just too valuable 170 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 2: to us and he's just too good a dude, and 171 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 2: so we hired him. He started he had a pressure 172 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 2: washing business, which is what he was doing when he 173 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 2: started at the RCC. So he started his pressure washing 174 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 2: business back up, and we hired him a few days 175 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 2: of the week to handle stuff for us, and so 176 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 2: he does. He maintains the studio, he maintained some properties 177 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 2: for me, and every Tuesday and Thursday night he comes 178 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 2: to the house and we have dinner together as a family. 179 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 2: He's part of our family. So if for some reason 180 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 2: he's not there, Crockett will say, where's Alex because it's 181 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 2: just weird, right, George loves Alex. Everybody loves Alex. Just 182 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 2: just great. His wife's my chiropractor, Jody, and they met 183 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: at the RCC where she was a server. There were 184 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: seven couples that met and married out of the RCC. 185 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? Pretty cool actually anyway, So every Tuesday 186 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: and Thursday night, after dinner, Alex and I retire to 187 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: the back and we play Jeopardy. And my wife laughs, 188 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,719 Speaker 2: she calls it our date night. So that's our big things. 189 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 2: We play Jeopardy every Tuesday and Thursday night. We do 190 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 2: not miss It's a big deal for us. To miss, 191 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 2: and we talk about Jeopardy constantly, and we're such dorks 192 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 2: about it that we've gone back. We watched the old 193 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 2: Alex Trebek episodes we watch. We've watched every one of 194 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 2: Ken Jenning's episodes from the first one through the moment 195 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 2: he loses, which you don't think he's going to lose 196 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 2: till the very end because of the way that game 197 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: played out. But I won't go too deep in the 198 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 2: woods on the weeds on that one. And then we 199 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 2: watched Ken Jennings first episode he hosted, when he guest 200 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 2: hosted the other hosts. You know, they were hosting between 201 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: a lot of people in Jeopardy didn't want Ken Jennings. 202 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 2: So we absolutely nerd out overeard Jeopardy. We noticed when 203 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 2: they changed the studio, when they change the size of 204 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: the screens on the studio, it's like our little nerdy thing. 205 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 2: So Alex comes in yesterday at eleven when the show 206 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: is over, and he I don't know if he's been 207 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: in my studio three times in the five years we've 208 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 2: been here, so and it's always if he comes in, 209 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 2: it's something. You know, there's a water line that's busted. 210 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 2: You know, what do you want me to do or 211 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: there's something big that's happened. So he comes in and 212 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 2: I can't see him, just his face over the computer 213 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: screens that have around me. And he comes strolling in 214 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: and he still calls me mister Barry, and he says, 215 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: mister Barry, happy birthday. And I thought, oh, no this, 216 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 2: but but what's happened? Something's wrong. And he gets around 217 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 2: the screen and he hands me a package and it 218 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 2: was a present. Mom, Yeah, see, he bought me a present. 219 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 2: I didn't even get fried chicken. So he brings my 220 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 2: present and I open it up and it's the Ken 221 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 2: Jennings book Brainiac, and it's inside the curious, competitive and 222 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 2: compulsive world of Trivia and anyway, so of course I 223 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: start reading it, you know, thirty minutes later, once we 224 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: had finished what we need to get done at that moment, 225 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 2: I start reading it. And he declares nineteen eighty four 226 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 2: the greatest year of trivia because that's the year Trivial 227 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 2: Pursuit came out, and that's the year that Alex Trebek 228 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 2: began hosting Jeopardy. How about that eighty four great year 229 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 2: for trivia. This weekend, I got a call from my 230 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 2: friend Larry Hoffman. Some of you will remember Larry from 231 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: the RCC. Owns a company called TriTech Engineering, Surveying and 232 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 2: white Curly Hair clear glasses, Larger than life personality. He 233 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 2: was a show sponsor for a while, but I knew 234 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: him for years before he was a show sponsor. They 235 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 2: have an engineering firm and a surveying firm and been 236 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 2: around a long time. A lot of people around town 237 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 2: knew Larry. Great, great guy, sixty seven years old. And 238 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: I sat with him at his house on Saturday. Let's see, 239 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 2: we had to go to we had to go to 240 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 2: a dinner or something Saturday, I don't remember what it was, 241 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: but I sat with him for about two hours. I 242 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: had a cigar, he had a couple of cigarettes. We 243 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 2: talked about life and silly goofy things. And Larry had 244 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 2: done a lot for me over the years. So when 245 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 2: he moved into this house, he it was his bachelor 246 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 2: pad because he's just gone through a divorce. And so 247 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 2: I got him. I got him one of these things 248 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 2: at Marcus Trail got me onto, which is these Japanese toilets, 249 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 2: these total toilets, and it's an all in one. You 250 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 2: walk up, it's ridiculous. Ron White has a whole comedy 251 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 2: sketch about it that he'll never live anywhere that he 252 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 2: doesn't have one of these. And you walk up to 253 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: it and it was it opens and you sit down, 254 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 2: and I got it because I had told Marcus the 255 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 2: trail about Ramone's hemorrhoid. What was his name, I can't 256 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 2: remember that, of his hemorrhoid, but Ramona had a hemorrhoid, 257 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 2: and it was it was a big deal because he'd 258 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 2: be wincing on the other side of the glass every day, 259 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 2: and I would take a photo of his genes at 260 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 2: the end of every show because of blood had puddled 261 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: underneath there. And so the hemorrhoids were big in our 262 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: life at the time, and I don't want to get 263 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: a hemorrhoid. So I'm reading about this and the thing 264 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: that you know, anything, you're talking about a very very 265 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 2: thin lining right there and a very delicate part of 266 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: your body. And so one of the things that it 267 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: was suggested was that you use water and not toilet paper, 268 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: which is basically a wood product. And so I got 269 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 2: one of these. And now Marcus and Night his birthday 270 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: party Friday Night, we're talking about how can somebody not 271 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 2: own one of these. Uh, they're the They're the greatest 272 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 2: thing ever. And anyway, so when he moved in, I said, 273 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to get you this toilet. And 274 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: so I had two of those toilet toilets installed. So 275 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 2: every time I would come over, he would take me 276 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 2: to show me these toilets that I bought for him. 277 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: And I say, Larry, I know I bought them for you, 278 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 2: but you've shown me five times. I just went, you know, 279 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I use them. Okay, I don't 280 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 2: need you to prove to me you use them their toilets. 281 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: I'm assuming you use them. Anyway. So yesterday afternoon I 282 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 2: called and talked to him because I'm trying to arrange 283 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 2: transportation on a trip I was going on and he 284 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 2: owns a plane and so I was going to see 285 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: if I could if I could lease his plane for 286 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 2: a trip, and he said yeah, he had to coordinate. 287 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 2: He has a partner in it. So they coordinated and 288 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 2: he was calling me back, Hey, I got the deal done. 289 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 2: We're good. All is well. Yesterday afternoon I get a 290 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: call during the last break that Larry passed away last 291 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 2: night at only sixty seven at his farm mount in Belleville. 292 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 2: He had a place here in a farm mountain, not Belleville, 293 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 2: New Olm. And I don't know why I say that, 294 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 2: other than to say that life is just so very precious, 295 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 2: and I try. I think my brother's sudden death brought 296 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 2: this on more than anything else, at least with my mother, 297 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 2: we had a we had a week, and so we 298 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 2: had I had some time, especially at the beginning of 299 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 2: that week when she said I don't want any more treatment. 300 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 2: It was an advanced LAS and she said, I don't 301 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 2: want any more treatment. I know how that ends. I don't. 302 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 2: She'd had a really really rough day, and so that 303 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 2: night at the hospital, my wife and I sat up 304 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 2: and we basically said everything we needed to say so 305 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,719 Speaker 2: there would be no risk that something went unsaid. You know, 306 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 2: we talked through what we've meant to each other, and 307 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 2: it was It was really really special, and it's a 308 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 2: blessing to get to do that. In Larry's case, I 309 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 2: am grateful that he and I had the kind of 310 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 2: relationship which is what I have with most of my 311 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 2: male friends, where we joke around a lot, we kid 312 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: each other about our greatest weaknesses and give each other 313 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: a lot of grief, but we also very openly tell 314 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 2: each other that we love each other and how much 315 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 2: we mean to each other, and so I don't have 316 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: any regrets in that way, but I do share, as 317 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 2: I often do because to the extent that I'm feeling something, 318 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 2: you feel something, and that is just to be very 319 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 2: grateful for the opportunity to have people in your life 320 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 2: who love you, who you love, who you do anything 321 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 2: in the world for, and they would do anything in 322 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: the world for you, and that you have the opportunity 323 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: to express to that person what they mean to you, 324 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 2: because as in this case, you just don't know. For Larry, 325 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: he apparently he was grumbling that he just didn't feel 326 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 2: good and he laid down on the couch to take 327 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 2: a little nap. Larry had gone through a divorce within 328 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 2: the last year that had been several years into making 329 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 2: and we've been kind of going through this together and 330 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: it had made him somewhat cynical till it was done, 331 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 2: because it's, like he said, you feel like you failed. 332 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 2: And a lot of people have gone through divorces. When 333 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: you feel like you failed, you you've let everybody down. 334 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 2: You did something that when same thing with a business 335 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 2: when you close a business. I saw a picture posted 336 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 2: of bakery down in Galveston and it was supposedly a 337 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 2: really really nice but little Annie's or something. Can you 338 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 2: look at up Ramon. There was a bakery that closed 339 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 2: this weekend in Galveston, and a site that I followed 340 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 2: called Galveston Low or Gallaston Eats or something like that 341 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 2: reported it. So my guess is that patty Cakes. Yeah, 342 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 2: patty Cakes. How can you not be a nice place? 343 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: Nice bakery named Patty Cakes, right, Patty Cake's Bakery? And 344 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 2: I meant to post on Facebook about it, and I didn't, 345 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 2: but I was thinking to myself, you know when I 346 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 2: see something like that, they didn't go into it with 347 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 2: a purpose of closing. They went into it with this 348 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 2: thing outliving them. And you know, you had these hopes 349 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 2: and dreams, and you give thought to everything. You know, 350 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 2: what what are we going to put on the restrooms 351 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 2: for the men and the women? What's our little take, 352 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 2: what's our little version of you know, the men's and 353 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 2: women's game that people play. And what colors are we 354 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 2: going to put and what art are we going to put? 355 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: And where are the chairs going to be? And you know. 356 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: Then you hire people, and then some people don't work out, 357 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 2: and some people turn out to be great and you 358 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 2: didn't think. And then some people become blessings in your 359 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: life who walk in the door and you're like, how 360 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 2: did I that's Alex for us, How in the world 361 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 2: did I live without you? And and you just have 362 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 2: these experiences, but at some point it just doesn't work 363 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 2: out and your close shop. And that's how Larry felt 364 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 2: about divorce in this happening. So I feel like the 365 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 2: last few years, I feel a sense of accomplishment that 366 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 2: at least I was able to be one of the 367 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 2: people going through that with him, very very close to 368 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 2: his sister and to his adult son Lance, who was 369 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 2: one who called me who runs the business for them now? 370 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,719 Speaker 2: But that's just your occasional reminder hug the ones around you, 371 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 2: because we're not promised to get to say goodbye. The 372 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 2: Michael Barry Show, it's funny how to use the modern 373 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 2: day kind of psychology, touchy Philly language, but I get 374 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 2: where it comes from. It's funny how your love language 375 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 2: with people changes over a period of time. My dad 376 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 2: will get lonely even though he's being fussed over all day. 377 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: Every day he'll get lonely, and so my wife fusses 378 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 2: over him to such an extent it is hilarious. And 379 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 2: you know, her dad passed years ago, several years ago, 380 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: and she's just always been very good to him, and 381 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 2: so he will call randomly, which she's always afraid, you 382 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 2: know there's a problem, just rush up there, and it's 383 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 2: never a problem. It is that he's out of cheerios. 384 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: So she will go rushing up there, and there will 385 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 2: only be after the box he's on, there will only 386 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 2: be two other industrial sized boxes. And that's his idea 387 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 2: of out of cheerios, because there should be five boxes, 388 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,439 Speaker 2: and he's out of milk, which means the milk that 389 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 2: is open, there's only one milk after that, which means 390 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 2: he's out of milk, because you know, he's not going 391 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 2: to wait till he's out out. And the funny thing 392 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 2: is she's right, and she says, you know, this has 393 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 2: really given me such a window into you, how you 394 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 2: obsess over being out of something before we're actually out 395 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 2: of it. And I guess I never realized I did that, 396 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 2: but I do. 397 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 6: So. 398 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 2: I'm not a cost co guy, Ramon and chad Ar, 399 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 2: but when I buy things, or when I ask her 400 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 2: to bout things, I will say, you know, can you 401 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 2: get shampoo? And she'll say, let me check. I think 402 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 2: you have a shampoo and an extra. Yeah. I like 403 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: to have about five extras and I like to I 404 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 2: don't shave very often, but I like to have enough 405 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 2: razors for a year. And so if I use my 406 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 2: razors for a week, if for some reason I shave, 407 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 2: now I have less than a year, so I have 408 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 2: to replenish. But actually I wouldn't need to replenish for 409 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 2: a year. It's funny. Two things about that. It's funny 410 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 2: how we learn things from our parents, or we absorb 411 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: things from our parents that become part of who we are. 412 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: And they think that, you know, we think we're so 413 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 2: unique because we have these quirks and habits and and 414 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 2: and ticks and whatever you want to call them, but 415 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 2: actually we got them from someone else without even realizing it. 416 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 2: And the second one is the ways that we learn 417 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 2: to communicate our our our love. What is the uh 418 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 2: not arrows love? Agape love you're you're non sexual, your 419 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 2: love for for someone other than than your wife or 420 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 2: or husband, but the love you have for other people 421 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: and it's interesting because I can tell my dad relisihos that, uh, 422 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 2: you know, like yesterday when I'm headed up to see him, 423 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 2: I now call and say, hey, is there anything I 424 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 2: need to check for with Dad that that you want 425 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 2: to you want an update on because she's you know, 426 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 2: she's running this sh And she said, no, I just 427 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 2: this morning I put milk and cheerios and blah blah 428 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 2: blah whatever all those things were. And so last night 429 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 2: at nine o'clock, I went to bed right after the show. 430 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 2: I mean I went straight to bed. That's what a 431 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 2: boring birthday boy, I am. I went straight to bed. 432 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 2: I was exhausted. Now I'd stayed up the night before, 433 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 2: way too late. But anyway, so he calls her at 434 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 2: nine oh five, nine oh five pm, just before he 435 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: goes to bed, and he says, non data, Yeah, Dad's 436 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 2: gorm I'm out a deodorant. As she said, okay, do 437 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,439 Speaker 2: I need to bring you some tonight? Now? No, I 438 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 2: can wait till tomorrow. So this morning she sends me 439 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 2: a message. He has the deodorant he uses now, and 440 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 2: he has one extra deodorant, so I mean he probably 441 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 2: only has a month's worth. The deodorant. So at nine 442 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 2: oh five pm, that's what he called about. But when 443 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 2: you think about it, the real point of that call 444 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 2: is I want to talk to you, and I'm lonely 445 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 2: and I don't know how to do that, so I 446 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 2: will call and ask for that. So his concierge doctor, 447 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of the concier system, since we 448 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 2: started him on a concierg doctor a New Davis. She'll 449 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 2: send us a text just kind of an update on him. 450 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 2: And she said that he had text or he had 451 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 2: called her one night nine o'clock and he said, you know, 452 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 2: you wanted me to eat those little Snickers bars because 453 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 2: when his sugar gets low and he needs a quick spike, 454 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 2: we used to do orange juice, but now it's a 455 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 2: Snickers bar because somebody else had to administer the orange 456 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 2: juice and he can quickly get a Snickers bar and 457 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 2: if his blood sugar drops down to say sixty, and 458 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 2: it's starting to get into danger zone, and he said 459 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,439 Speaker 2: he was out of Snickers bars. So she personally his doctor. 460 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 2: This is the point of a concierge. She goes by 461 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 2: there the next day and she brings a pack of 462 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 2: the Snickers bars. And she puts them in a bowl 463 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 2: in the bowl he's got out right when you walk in. 464 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 2: And she said, mister Norman, why are you keeping the 465 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 2: snickers bars over here? If you need them, let's put 466 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 2: them closer to you. And he said, well, when the 467 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 2: nurses come in, they like to get a snickers bar. 468 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,919 Speaker 2: And she said, well, mister Norman, they're not supposed to 469 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 2: take something out of your room without your permission. He said, well, 470 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 2: I tell them why o't to have a Snickers bar? 471 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 2: So I think what he's doing best we can tell 472 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 2: is he's telling the nurses come in and visit anytime 473 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 2: and get yourself a Snickers bar. And I'm thinking this 474 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 2: is Pied Piper type behavior. You know, the little things 475 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 2: you do when your world shrinks down into this little 476 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 2: bitty space, tiny little things like this start to take 477 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 2: on a whole new relevance. To every one of you 478 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 2: veterans who served our country, Thank you from the bottom 479 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 2: of my heart or your service. You know it's not 480 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 2: always positive, but you've done it, and somebody had to 481 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 2: do it, and the rest of us didn't do it, 482 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 2: and you did. God bless you, and for every one 483 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 2: of you who is hurting Camp Hope is there and 484 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 2: ready to help you. Eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD. 485 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 2: It won't cost you a Pinion's right here in Houston. 486 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 2: Another veteran will help you. They've been there, they've been 487 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 2: through what you've been through. And to every one of 488 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 2: you who's done anything to help Camp Hope. Like Federal 489 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 2: American Grill today, ten percent of all proceeds go there, 490 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 2: to Gringoes, to so many of you, to Dottie Miius, 491 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 2: for so many of you who contribute, donate, volunteer at 492 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 2: Camp Hope. God bless you, just God bless you.