1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: Verie Show is on the air. I got an email 3 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: from a fellow named Bob Baldwin. I didn't know Bob Balden, 4 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: and I was talking about how I roll over my 5 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: to do list each day to the next day, and 6 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: how I enjoy marking things off as done. And there 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: have been studies, actually done business classes for NBA courses 8 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: about the psychological effect of checking a box. A lot 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: of people will put a box next to an item 10 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: that needs to be done, are marking through an item 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: when it's done. And in fact, I've read from multiple 12 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: gurus on business organization and personal improvement and all this 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: that you shouldn't delete things as you complete them. You 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: should mark through them so that at the end of 15 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: the day you can see what you've done, and it 16 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: gives you a sense of accomplishment, which tends to drive 17 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: people harder. You read much about the psychology of distance runners, 18 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: like the David Goggins kind of gas in the games 19 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: they have to play to push through the pain, and 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: I think each of us is different, but I do 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: find it to be interesting anyway. So I saw that 22 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: his signature line was Bob Baldwin, CEO of CNG for 23 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 1: compressed natural gas the number four America Cgfouramerica dot com, 24 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: and so I went to the website and I started 25 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: looking at it. Well, it's pretty interesting. It's an alternative fuel, 26 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: much like an electric vehicle would be an alternative energy source. 27 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: And so we emailed back and forth about the economics 28 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: of the business and how he got into it and 29 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: who else do you know who does this? And I 30 00:01:53,160 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: thought it was rather interesting. So, Bob, what enabled you 31 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: to deliver compressed natural gas to an end user cheaper 32 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: than refined gasoline per se? 33 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: Well, I think it's the cost of the natural gas 34 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: is a lot cheaper. Like I said, it's only about 35 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: fifty cents per gallon for the raw product, and then 36 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: it's for us to get it into the vehicles as 37 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: cheap as possible, and with volume that gets spread, the 38 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 2: overhead gets spread across all those gallons, and then you 39 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: can get it down. I try it if I can 40 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: get it down to as close to a dollar per 41 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 2: gallon as I can. If the station is not doing 42 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: very well, then I can't. I don't have a bunch 43 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 2: of volume to spread that overhead across but that's the cheapest. 44 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 2: The natural gas being four dollars per m and b 45 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: tou gets us eight gallons worth of fuel. That's probably 46 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: the biggest thing. And natural gas over the last few 47 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: years has been down below two dollars. So in the 48 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: last year it went from a dollars seventy up to 49 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: right now it's about four to forty. So that has 50 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 2: caused me to raise my prices a little bit because 51 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: of the cost of the raw product has gone up. 52 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: So you're selling compressed natural gas right now for a 53 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: gallon for how much. 54 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 2: We're doing two forty nine right. 55 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: Now, And what's the price of gas right now. 56 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 2: About two fifty it's about the same. 57 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: Oh that's not good for you. 58 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we need to have a differential now for 59 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: diesel compared to diesel trucks. You know, diesel trucks, they're 60 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: paying at the truck stops about three fifty right now. 61 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: So compared to the diesel prices and the large trucks, 62 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: it is a very good deal still so standard, especially 63 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: if they get a contract with us, because then we 64 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 2: are able to give them a lesser price. 65 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: Stand to endorset, right, what type of mileage can a 66 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: vehicle get for gallon. I know it'll vary depending on 67 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: the weight, but give me a comparison with diesel, right. 68 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 2: That's okay, So that's a very good question. So we 69 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: measure our natural gas when we dispense it in a 70 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: gasoline gallon equivalent, so it has the same amount of 71 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 2: energy as a gasoline gallon. They also measure it in 72 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: a diesel gallon equivalent, which is about I think about 73 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 2: sixteen percent more natural gas equals a gallon of diesel, 74 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: and it'll so the mileage for like my pickups of Silverado, 75 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: I use CNG, and it also switches to gasoline if 76 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 2: I run out of CNG. But I get the same 77 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 2: mileage approximately on the natural gas as I do on gasoline, 78 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 2: because it's a gasoline gallon equivalent of energy. 79 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: Interesting a fellow. 80 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 2: And so diesel same thing, So it's a little bit more, 81 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: but you don't I never see it sold as a 82 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 2: diesel gallon equivalent. 83 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: Fellow by the name of Fred Delgadillo wrote me saying, 84 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: this guy, Bob Baldwin sounds a lot like your friend 85 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: Nick Cercy, And many of you will know Nick Cercy 86 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: as a famous actor. So we put Jim Mudd our 87 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: creative director on the case, and y'all can decide for yourself. 88 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 2: Our model that I came up with, which has not 89 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 2: been a very good model by the way. 90 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 3: Well there, all that permission I was asking was before 91 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 3: I got into your NAV system and figured out exactly 92 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 3: where your car was at the moment Bill Nichols was killed. 93 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 2: We would build compressed natural gas stations on existing truck 94 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: stops where there's a natural gas pipeline close by. 95 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 3: Now, we don't have a lot of time here. You 96 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: got one chance, exactly one, to tell me what you did. 97 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: All right, we'll stick the old testament then. You know, 98 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 3: back in the old days, we used to use the phone. 99 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: Book, you know what, and finding those was somewhat difficult. 100 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 2: But most of the people that around that time, we're 101 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,239 Speaker 2: so excited about natural gas, that's the build it will come. 102 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 2: And after they realized they could put their own station 103 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 2: in their own and they're own your hard they started 104 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 2: doing that and we lost a lot of those customers. 105 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: Noel Burkene, who's a bodybuilder, emailed me ask if they 106 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: can odorize it with mint or cinnamon, anything other than 107 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: swamp snake farts. I mean, I know, if you smell gas. 108 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: It's not a good thing. But does it have to 109 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: smell so bad? 110 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very distinct. You can tell. What if there's 111 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 2: a natural gathlete in the area and you don't like it? 112 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess that's the point, right, It's it's 113 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: the it's the chirping. It's a chirping alarm going off 114 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: in the background. Well, that's annoying when you hear that. 115 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 2: Well, they didn't used to sell it with autorized and 116 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 2: then there was a big explosion at a school here 117 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 2: in Texas and that forced them to autorize it. 118 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: So, so when when you go out and you fuel 119 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: these fleets, are you do they have some sort of 120 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: a receptacle to catch this that you're you're you're not 121 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: fueling the individual units when you go out. 122 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. So, well, and for one one of our fleets, 123 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: that is only ten of them, we do what you 124 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 2: call wet hosing, where you pull up to the vehicle, 125 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: stretch a hose over to it, fill it, go to 126 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 2: the next vehicle, fill it. But down at the Fort 127 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: ben School District, if you look at our website and 128 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,239 Speaker 2: scroll down a ways, you'll see how we're filling thirty 129 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: buses at one time. We connect thirty hoses to thirty buses, 130 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 2: record their pressures at the beginning, and then we feel 131 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: them all and then we record their pressures at the 132 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 2: end and disconnect all the hoses for them so they 133 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 2: The bus raverage is simply come in the morning, the 134 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 2: buses are ready. 135 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: To go, and you do this every day. 136 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 2: They're running twice twice a day. We do it for 137 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 2: thirty buses in the morning and thirty buses in the evening. 138 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: And then how employees do you have? 139 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: We only have five, six six, Well we're very small 140 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: company doing a lot. Uh. 141 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: You're a great guest, Bob. I enjoyed our conversation. 142 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. 143 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: His website CNG for Compressed Natural Gas the number four 144 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: America CNG four america dot com. Allow me to introduce myself. 145 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: My name is mitter Michael Berry Genius. 146 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: I don't use the term advertised. I don't have advertisers. 147 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: Advertisers are what you hear when I'm not doing the 148 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: show or bragging on our show sponsors. Everything else is advertisers. 149 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: And it's very important to me that that when we 150 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: take on a new partner that they understand because some 151 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: people frankly, you know, a home improvement company or a 152 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,599 Speaker 1: medical shop or a restaurant or anything else. They just 153 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: want more business, more money, and they don't really care 154 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: how they get there. They would spend money on the 155 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: homage channel if it would get a more business. And 156 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: I'm not mad at them for that. That's their business. 157 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: That's how they do business. But that's not what we do. 158 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: And we're twenty years into this now and the model works. 159 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: And when I started in radio, I could get this wrong, 160 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter because by the time Eddie Martinez 161 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: tells me I got it wrong, I moved on to 162 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: the next thing, and I really don't care. So there's 163 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: a certain creative license. But I believe this to be correct. 164 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: When I started in radio, there was no podcast, there 165 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: was no digital, there was no streaming, so nobody went 166 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: to the websites, not really at that time. Nobody listened 167 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: on their phone or their iPad or their computer. You 168 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: listened through the radio. That was the same way you'd 169 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: always listen since Marconi days. And at that time, thirty 170 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: percent of all revenues or what was then Clear Channel 171 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: now iHeart Houston was automotive, and that was car and 172 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: truck dealers and that that dominated the radio advertising. Those 173 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: are air quotes Business two thousand and eight hits car 174 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: dealerships fall off side of the earth. I mean, heck, 175 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: when Lawrence Marshall goes under with Ray Childress the face 176 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: of it, I will tell you this the clobber line. 177 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: I don't you tell me Ramon, We'll open the phone lines. 178 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: Somebody tell me a better car or truck or RV 179 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: marketing campaign that you remember hearing you had, cal Worthington 180 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: had some good ones. Tell me a better marketing campaign, 181 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: then Ray Childress bloberline. First of all, I've Ray Childers 182 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: is a friend, and I will tell you he is 183 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: one of the most charming individuals ever. It's like he's 184 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: a normal guy trapped in Lufa Rigno's body that then 185 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 1: took steroids for forty years. And I'm not saying Ray 186 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: took steroids. I'm saying he's not like a big guy. 187 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: He's like a normal guy in this massive body, almost 188 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: trapped there and he's real all shucks. But the thing 189 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,599 Speaker 1: that surprised me about him, By the way, if you 190 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: got a better ad campaign, you call him tell a 191 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: seven one three, nine, nine nine one thousand. But you 192 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: got to do the campaign. I mean you got to 193 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: you know, if there was a catch line or whatever. 194 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: Seven one three, nine nine nine one thousand. Here is 195 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: the thing that surprised me about Ray Childress. Once you 196 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: get to know him very well, he is amazingly smart. 197 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, but I'll tell you honestly, I didn't 198 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: think he would be. I thought he'd be a big galot. 199 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: I thought he just wouldn't be wouldn't be very sharp. 200 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: So I will wait on your calls for a better 201 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: ad campaign. But here's what I wanted to tell you. 202 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: So when we started, I said, I don't just want. 203 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 2: They do it. 204 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: They called a read. In the business, you do a read, 205 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: so I'd be talking about something, talking about something, and 206 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: then this is what your host would do. Joe's Plumbing Supply. 207 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: They're really good and right now ten percent off if 208 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: you tell them that John Smith told you to call. Okay, 209 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,719 Speaker 1: now back to the show, Well, that wasn't part of 210 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: the show making money. It's amazing to me how uncomfortable 211 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: people are talking about making money. Do you understand that 212 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: a church has to have money to keep flowing, but 213 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: people don't ever want there to be talk about money. 214 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: Shouldn't always be about money. But we got to keep 215 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: the lights on here, folks. We got to keep the 216 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: music going. We got to keep the grass. But people, again, 217 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: in a lot of people, especially people who punch a clock, 218 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: they do not like the idea that anything involves money. 219 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: It should never be talked about. Everything should be free. 220 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: You should be nice and do things for people to 221 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: be nice. You should never pay for anything. You should 222 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: never charge for anything, and you shouldn't make any money 223 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: because they've never made any money, so they're mad at 224 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: everybody else. My position is you can do good things, 225 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: make a lot of money, and use your money to 226 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: help other people. Mac does it, Russe Lebarra does it. 227 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: I'd like to think we do it anyway. So I 228 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: get this. We get an email from the guy that 229 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: runs a company called tech Star Techstar Techstar dot com 230 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: and they're in process controls industrial automation. I told you 231 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: that radio that automotive went from thirty percent of radio 232 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: revenues to three percent overnight. If you hear that snapped it. 233 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: And I didn't mind because I only have one show sponsor, 234 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: lone Star Chevy. I don't care how many other dealers 235 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: are on the air. We do have car pro which 236 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: can help people with any But the point was I 237 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: wanted people in unique industries that weren't just advertising everywhere, 238 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: but believed in our show and didn't worry about how 239 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: many phone calls they got. But they believed in our 240 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: show and they wanted to be a part of our show. 241 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: So that's his tech star guys, so they come on. 242 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: I was so happy because for once, it's not a 243 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: retail brand. Radio was always dominated by retail brands, electronics stores, 244 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: car dealerships, and these guys are in process controls, industrial automation, 245 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: anything that you measure or analyze your processes, which is 246 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: what my dad did for a living. So I know, 247 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: I feel like I have a connection here. Anyway, they 248 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: just started with us, and I tell people, don't bother 249 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: me for three months just to answer the phone. Eventually 250 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: it'll start ringing. They got five calls yesterday from me 251 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: mentioning it one time tech tech start up two eight 252 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: one five four two two o five. Because nobody does 253 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: B to B, people do B to B in a 254 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: stupid uh. They do these trade journals so they advertise 255 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: to each other. They all spend money in the trade journal, 256 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: advertising to their own competition. And for years I have said, 257 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: we've got a lot of guys working at a plant, 258 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: working at a construction site, uh, driving on the roads, 259 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: delivering things, selling things. We should be your number one 260 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: place to come if you want to build your business 261 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: B to B. That's where we should be, where you are, 262 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: because they think of it as well. This over here 263 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: is for the retail public. This over here is for 264 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: B to B. But those B to B audiences are 265 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: microscopic anyway. So I appreciate you guys, because they wouldn't 266 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: know they got five of our listeners if you hadn't 267 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: told them when you called, all right, real quick, Rob, 268 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: who's the better spot than the clobber line? Man? 269 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 2: If anybody can wickersteam can and will Oh my god, 270 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: you're back home fin'd from Buna Guessa. 271 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: Oh that one I knew, Charlie wickersh I had to 272 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: okay real quick to chip what's yours? 273 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 2: That was? 274 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: That was wiggershand Ford was the deal? Ramo, you have 275 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: no idea, uh, Chip, go ahead. 276 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 4: Probably before your time. But there was a fellow named 277 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 4: Art Grindle, big guy. He would jump around on the 278 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 4: cars and scream I want to sell you a car. 279 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 5: You call, we'll go and knock on THESAULA. 280 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: Moved my father in yesterday. Had to block a guy 281 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: last night. He said, I ain't gonna listen to you anymore. 282 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: You moved your dad into a nursing home. So I 283 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: wrote out this reply that went, it's not a nursing home, 284 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: it's an assisted living facility. But I guess you could 285 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: call it a nursing home because he gets twenty four 286 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: hour day care that I can't provide him at home. 287 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: And here's what I never understood. Why people Why if 288 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: you're at the right place and it's a good fit. 289 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: This one is why it works so well because we 290 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: sat down to dinner last night, and it turns out 291 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: that I knew a lot of the people at the 292 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: assistant Living center because most of my friend group is 293 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: I'm fifty four, is twenty to forty years older than me. 294 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: It's always been the case. I've always taken on mentors 295 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: and older folks and not as many people my age, 296 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: and never anybody younger than me. It's just always been 297 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: the way it was, and especially when I was younger 298 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: and trying to make a name for myself, people my 299 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: age didn't want to help somebody young. They were trying 300 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: to make it name themselves. But older folks were at 301 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: the point that they wanted to give back. So I 302 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: could take them for a cup of coffee, hit them 303 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: up for their support, get them to make two more introductions, 304 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: and on and on, and I could build my business 305 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: for my political career or whatever else. And I made 306 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: a lot of friends across the way. And older people 307 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: have learned things, learn things that they don't get to share. 308 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: And if you'll so much as listen to them, you 309 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: make a friend in the deal. So I knew quite 310 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: a few of them folks there yesterday. And oh, anyway, 311 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: the reason I blocked the guy, he said, I can't 312 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: believe you put him nursing home. And I said, well, 313 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: I wrote out this long response. I said, number one, 314 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: it's medical care that I can't have. It's doctors and 315 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: things that I can't have at my home twenty four 316 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: hours a day. And number two, and this is something 317 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: people don't understand. When you get to be that age, 318 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: you want to be around other people that age. I 319 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: spent the afternoon with him yesterday, and they had somebody 320 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: come in and play the organ and sing songs. And 321 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: he told me that in the last month alone, he 322 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: performed five hundred and seven gigs that songs. Sorry, last 323 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: year twenty four he performed five hundred seven gigs. He 324 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: goes from retirement home to retirement home. He called him 325 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: retirement homes. I called him old folks homes. But he 326 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: goes from one to the other. He said last week 327 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: he had seventeen of them, seven teen of them. You know, 328 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: there's little niche businesses you wouldn't believe he hauls. He's 329 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: got a he's got an organ. Used to be the 330 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: organist for the astros. He's got an organ that he 331 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: can turn on its side. It's got wheels and then 332 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: he can roll it. You can roll it through anywhere, 333 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: and it's it's a full blown organ. And he plays 334 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: the songs that the people know and enjoy. Anyway, I 335 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: wrote the whole thing out, and I thought, you know what, 336 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: if that guy's an idiot, why is he op? He 337 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 1: didn't know my situation, so I blocked it. But I 338 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: did have something funny happened yesterday. Sweet little old lady, 339 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something, Ramon, if you can live 340 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: long enough to be a widower who goes into an 341 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: assisted living facility. The only people who are gonna know 342 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: how wise what I'm about to say is are people 343 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: who've been through it. If your father is a widower 344 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: and you take them in, like the first day of kindergarten, 345 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: you know, you're so nervous because there's clicks over there, 346 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: and you know, one of the nurs just referred to 347 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: the table that this table of women as the Golden Girls. 348 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: She said, that's the Golden Girls table. And because first 349 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: as school, I asked one of the nurses, I said, Hey, 350 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: I don't want to sit in somebody's table. Is there 351 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: a table that's open we can sit at? And she said, oh, 352 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: you can sit wherever you want. I said, I don't 353 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: believe that, because I've been here every day getting this 354 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: room ready for him. And at that table right there, 355 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: there's a group of about eight women that sit to you. Oh, 356 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: she said, oh, that's the Golden Girls. Yeah, you don't 357 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: want to sit the Golden Girls table, But anything else 358 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: you're fine, because you know it's like your pew at 359 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: church at Old First Orange. You didn't walk into Old 360 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: First Orange and just sit down. You waited to see 361 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: there's where Ms McCabe is. There's where Miss Rees says, 362 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: you knew you didn't. Everybody had their seat. My parents 363 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: had their seat for decades, a seat where they sat. 364 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: And God help you if as a visitor. We welcome 365 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: all visitors, but we don't welcome you to sit in 366 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: our seat. You do not sit on our pew where 367 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: we sit normally. But the sweet little lady comes up. 368 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 1: Her name was Nelda, and she comes up and she says, 369 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: I do so enjoy your show. And I thought, oh, 370 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: we're not that sweet. She's from South Carolina and in 371 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: the most wonderful South Carolina acts. No, I'm gonna do it. 372 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: I'm not go with accents. This in the sweetest South 373 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: Carolina accent. She said, I do so love your show 374 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: and your music. Ramon does a great job with the music. 375 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: And I said, oh, okay, like I don't have any 376 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: part in it, but whatever, Yeah, great, I'm standing right here. 377 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: Why do you have to split my compliment with Ramon? 378 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: He don't even here right now? She said. Now, I 379 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: tell you, of course, old people they have to nothing, 380 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: cannot be all positive. They have to tell you, you know, 381 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 1: nine nine percent of the time you're great, but let me 382 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: go ahead and focus on that one percent to leave 383 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: you wishing that you hadn't had this conversation. He said, Now, 384 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Sometimes you get to play and stuff 385 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: and I'm about ready to turn it off. I just 386 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: I get so aggravated. I'm about ready to turn it off. 387 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: And then she went positive again, like the switch switch flipped, 388 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 1: and she said, but it's because I don't know the song. 389 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: I said, oh, it's so sweet. Yeah, that's absolutely true. 390 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: We we turn it off when we don't know the song. 391 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: We want we want to know, uh what it is 392 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: that that we're listening to, and when we don't like it, 393 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: we tend to not like that, not care for that 394 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: at all. You know, when I when I was little, 395 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: my mom used to say, when we get old, you're 396 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: gonna be so shad of us. You're gonna you're gonna 397 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: wanna you're gonna put us in a home. And I said, Mom, 398 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: I'm never gonna put you in a home. Never put 399 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 1: you in a home. And that was her idea of Hell. Well, 400 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: they finally got to the point that they couldn't take 401 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: care of my aunt Gail, my mother's sister, who is 402 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: seventy two years old now and was not supposed to 403 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: live to be twenty. She is severely mentally and physically retarded. Uh, 404 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: she has to be bathed, she has to be cared for, 405 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: she has to be lifted into a wheelchair. She can 406 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: do hardly anything for herself. When my grandmother passed, then 407 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: my mother took her in and it finally got to 408 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: the point that I had to have an intervention and say, Mom, 409 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: it's not fair to dad. He cannot lift Gail at 410 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: his age any longer. There's a wonderful assistant living facility. 411 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: We could put her in there and we'll get this 412 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: taken care of. It'll be fine, and you can go 413 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: visit her every day. And my mother wailed, Oh, she 414 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: wailed all the way up to the day that Ain't 415 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: Gail had to be moved, and she wailed some more, 416 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 1: I mean teeth gnashing and lamentations. And I was a 417 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: devil for having done this, and it wasn't fair to Gail, 418 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: and it wasn't fair to Gail, and I knew Ain't 419 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: Gail would love it. A week later, my mom called 420 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: and said, Hugh, I hate to say it, but you 421 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: are right about what this time, because I'm always right, 422 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: she said. Gail loves it. She said, it kind of 423 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: hurts my feelings, be honest with you. She loves it. 424 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: She's made friends, they play bingo, they got social time. 425 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: She gets bathed as many times as she wants to. 426 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: She's got this and she's got that. And she's just 427 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: as happy as my mom, said Michael, she has never 428 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: been happier. Well, lo and behold. In my dad's documentary 429 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: that Heritage Films made Chance McLean's company, he talked about 430 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: the fact that after we put my aunt in there 431 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: next door to her, the room next door, we put 432 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: my grandmother who lived to be one hundred just short 433 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: of one hundred ninety nine, the one that Ramon put 434 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: the googly eyes on her on her funeral. Damn still 435 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: not over that. And he talked about how happy she 436 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: was because it was ten years ago. She was ninety 437 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: six at the time. He talked about how happy she 438 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: was in this assistant living facility. And he talked about 439 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 1: Aunt Gale and he said, you know, she just sat 440 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: at home and watched TV and now she's engaged. And 441 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: so anyway, there is a time and place for everything, 442 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: and this has worked out well, so for all your prayers, 443 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: thank you. 444 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 6: We put every. 445 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 7: Printable picture and if you don't like them, we'll reprint 446 00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 7: them or refund your money. 447 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: At her, who's. 448 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 8: Fault it is? 449 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 5: Show your photo matters when it all goes crazy and the. 450 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 7: Telly is God's gataining and the knights cablong when you 451 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 7: get that happy and you were gone to stemming at 452 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 7: your seats and. 453 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: Thinking of you hold up, hold on for just saying. 454 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: I saw an interview with the lead singer of this band, Firefall, 455 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: and in a it was a four year period, Firefall 456 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: had eleven hits. Firefall was a juggernaut in a in 457 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: about a four year period with just uh, with hits 458 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: that were so big they you are the woman. You 459 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: know that, you know you are the woman just well, 460 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: this guy was an unapologetic I'm not even sure it 461 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: was former the way he said it. Course, he's in 462 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: his seventies. Now, I've never heard somebody so unapologetically talk 463 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: about their drug use. And he was saying that so 464 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: the song just Remember I Love You. He was explaining 465 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: that song was a defensive song because what happened was 466 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: he'd been up on coke for three days in a row, 467 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 1: and from what I understand, people just they never go 468 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: to sleep. In fact, friends of mine who've done it say, Michael, 469 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: you could never touch that because it would be your 470 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: wonder drug because I already don't sleep because I don't 471 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: want to go to sleep. There's things I want to do, 472 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: and it would be a struggle anyway. So he's three 473 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: days on this and his wife comes down to see 474 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: to the foot of the stairs and she says, are 475 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: you going to come upstairs and make love to me 476 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: like a husband should? Are you going to stay down 477 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 1: here with your guitar and your cocaine for the fourth 478 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: day in a row? He said, give me just a minute. 479 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: Not the right answer. She goes upstairs and he's working 480 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: on it, and he realizes he's noodling on a song 481 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: and he's got it, and it's like this, you know, 482 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: it's the five pound bass. He's got it on the line. 483 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: He can't just walk off, so he said, I stayed 484 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: up all night. And she came downstairs at nine o'clock 485 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: and she looked at me. She said, I cannot believe you. 486 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: I cannot believe you. And he said, will you just 487 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: listen to the song, And he said. The whole song 488 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: was written as a challenge of I have to have 489 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: something by nine o'clock. It was say midnight at that time. 490 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: That will make it okay that I didn't come upstairs. 491 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: Now play the opening of it. 492 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 5: When it all goes crazy and the till is gone, 493 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 5: the day's gat. 494 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 7: Raining and the nights gat along, when you get that 495 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 7: fel and you were gone to staring at your seat 496 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 7: and thinking of you up blues when there's so much. 497 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 5: Tut you on a cry the world has crumbled. 498 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 7: And you dumbed a while in yours off it and 499 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 7: they can be bound queens atween lech down, just remember 500 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 7: I love you little beyond. 501 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: Some great harmonies on this song. We don't think of 502 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: fire Fall because you know, they're not led Zeppelin there. 503 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: It's kind of soft a s. But they're really talented 504 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: writers and and it was Rolling Stone Cover that called 505 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: them the poor Man's supergroup because they had h they 506 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: had been each of them had been with another band 507 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: and had great accomplishments when they came in. It wasn't Toto, 508 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: but but they were kind of in that way a supergroup. 509 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: Totally random. But there's a piece of audio that I 510 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: would like to share, and it's very timely. The US 511 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: beat Canada, just beat the snot out of them fighting, 512 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: and then beat them in hockey on the on the 513 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: on the ice. And then there was the next matchup 514 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: and we lost bummer. But Shirley q Lickor had some 515 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: comments on it, and this doesn't make any sense a 516 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: year from now and I forgot to play it then. 517 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: So let's just pretend that this was the right time 518 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: to play. 519 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 3: That this is the lated my church, my whole life 520 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 3: is taken back to design Church of Guarding Cross down 521 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 3: here on Third and Joy Streaking. 522 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: And she from Nova Scotia. 523 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 4: She's claimed she is halfway Canadian. 524 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 9: She don't sound like she sounded like she's from pod also, 525 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 9: but she always talking about Canada. 526 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 4: This is Canada dead. 527 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 5: I said, girl, they fit to play the US. Say 528 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 5: night y'all, go boo aba nasha anthems. 529 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 9: She said, well maybe we we I said, well, well 530 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 9: maybe we will blow our ass out the water. 531 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 7: We will see what happens. 532 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 2: Had it. 533 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 9: I feel like all the eyes, why they keep changing 534 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 9: their national anthem. 535 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: It's for the Transnessica. It always is now, it's always 536 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: the transsexicals. President Trump will address a joint Session tonight 537 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. The Joint Session is not the State 538 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: of the Union, but it's basically the state of the Union. 539 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: The first state of the Union is at the beginning 540 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: of your second year as president. Your inaugural address is 541 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: what takes place is instead of the State of the Union, 542 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: He's given his inaugural address, and now we will get 543 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: his address to the Joint Session of Congress tonight at 544 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: eight o'clock. I will tell you we haven't talked about 545 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: the border in a minute, but it's working. Border patrol 546 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: is telling me there's nobody. They're just it's not nobody. 547 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: It's minuscule. It's acceptable the number of people who are 548 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: coming over. And what nobody's talking about is the self 549 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: deportation story Fox twenty six, a Honduran woman and her 550 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: children decided, all right, we're we're just going back. 551 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 9: I'm a bit nervous and scared because of the situation 552 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 9: with my two youngest daughters documentation, but I'm trusted in 553 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 9: God and with his help, we're going to get through this. 554 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 8: Ahlica Castillo is a Hunduran native that arrived to the 555 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 8: United States seven months ago with her five children and husband. 556 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 8: All was going well until last month. Her husband was 557 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 8: arrested and detained by Ice despite not having a criminal record. 558 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 8: Castilla was able to talk with her husband before her 559 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 8: immigration court hearing. 560 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 9: But I mean, I'm happy because I was able to 561 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 9: see him and see that he's doing well, he says. 562 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 9: Others have been deported, but he's still detained. He says 563 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 9: he gets impatient because he wants to be with his 564 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 9: family and see his daughters. 565 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 8: Anxious and nervous, Castillo stood before an immigration judge with 566 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 8: her attorney c V. A. 567 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 2: Mintz. 568 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 8: Castile had already decided that she wanted to leave the 569 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 8: country and self deport and the judge granted her wish. Today. 570 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 6: It was a very important because we were asking the 571 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 6: judge to give us pray conclusionary departure, which means before 572 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 6: we even have a hitting on the merits, she wants 573 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 6: to leave. 574 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 8: Minutes before her court hearing, her husband called her and 575 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 8: told her he had finally signed documents to be deported. 576 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 8: He will be flown to him. There is in two 577 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 8: weeks for Castillo. The judge gave her until June twenty 578 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 8: sixth to leave the country. 579 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 9: And soon we will be reunited and give each other 580 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 9: a big hug after going through all of this, because 581 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 9: both of us and the kids have suffered during this 582 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 9: time we've been separated, and I do not want to 583 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 9: be here in this country if it's not with him 584 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 9: and all of our kids. 585 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 8: And Helica says she has no regrets, but would not 586 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 8: embark on the journey again, and her attorney advised these 587 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 8: undocumented immigrants to show up for their court hearings. 588 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 6: Don't be afraid to show up to their court hearings, 589 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 6: to don't be afraid to follow up because there might 590 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 6: be options. It's worse if they don't show up to 591 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 6: their heating and there is an order of deportation and absentia, 592 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 6: because then they will be in more legal trouble. 593 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 8: Alica said she use this next four month to get 594 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 8: all her documentation in order so that she is able 595 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 8: to travel back to her home country and be reunited 596 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 8: with her family and her husband. 597 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 2: Eh. 598 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: This poor guy, This poor guy. I feel sorry for 599 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: this guy. Most guys go fishing. Maybe they go to 600 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: the bar to get some time to themselves. This guy's like, 601 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: I've had it, I'm out of here, honey, Sorry, but 602 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: I got departed. 603 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 10: He's finally gonna get some alone time. He's finally headed out. 604 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 10: He's finally gonna get some alone time. But no, she 605 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 10: can't give him that. She goes to the court and 606 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 10: asks to deport her too, just to. 607 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: Ruin his alone time. It's like that scene in Goodfellas. 608 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. 609 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know if. 610 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 9: They could live like that, God's forbid. What would happen 611 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 9: if you had to go to prison trying? 612 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 6: Mickey said that Janie's husband, You know why Genie's been 613 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 6: went to the can because of Genie, because. 614 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 5: He wanted to get away from her. 615 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: That's why. Let me tell you something. 616 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 9: Nobody goes to jail unless they want to.