1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. It feels like 3 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: that time. We will of course play it tomorrow, but 4 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: many of you will be traveling tomorrow and won't get 5 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: to hear the program live and may not go back 6 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: to the podcast. A quick programming note. We spoke to 7 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: Marcus Aetreel for another thirty five minutes after the show 8 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: ended yesterday. I saw from listener emails that it was 9 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: a fan favorite of interviews. A lot of folks really 10 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: enjoyed that interview. I will tell you I enjoyed it. 11 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 1: I start my day every day with a text from 12 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: Marcus and he says, good morning Radio, which is what 13 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: he calls me. And we will go back and forth 14 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: with some text messages, but we don't get into how 15 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: he became famous. In that history. We talk about our kids, 16 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: and our wives, and our health and a book we've 17 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: read or a movie we've seen. It was nice for 18 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: me to get him to open up about some things 19 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: that I had never talked to him about, including the 20 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: rescue in the village and some of the details that 21 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: of course couldn't be properly portrayed in a movie. That's 22 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: trying to stay two hours and still be true to 23 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: what happened. But anyway, we spoke for another thirty five 24 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: minutes that was added on to the podcast. So if 25 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: you want to hear that some good stuff in there, 26 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: I will say there is. And I finished that at 27 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: eleven thirty four. We were supposed to talk to Joe Exotic, 28 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: the Tiger King from the Netflix special four years ago, 29 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: if you remember, he's in prison, and that was supposed 30 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: to have happened the day before at eleven thirty, and 31 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: it didn't. And the reason was when he called, we 32 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: had to accept the call from a federal correctional facility. 33 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: And because we were an internet based phone system, we're 34 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: moving away from that, but it's a big system, and 35 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: so when we flip, it'll all flip in one day. 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: But we're still on the internet based system, which I 37 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: had the genius idea to do and turns out to 38 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: have been stupid. But anyway, we couldn't make the call work. 39 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: So we were scheduled again for that to happen yesterday 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: at eleven thirty, and when it didn't happen, I just 41 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: kept talking to Marcus. I hung up with Marcus. I 42 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: sat there for a second because at that point I've 43 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: done three hours of the show and then another thirty 44 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: minutes with Marcus, and I have to be more serious 45 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: when I'm doing an interview like that, and you know, 46 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: I have to. My brain has to process faster, so 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 1: it takes more out of me. So I just took 48 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: a breath and it was a minute or so less 49 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: than two when Ramon said we've got Joe Czar, We've 50 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: got Joe exotic, and I said, he's calling, or you've 51 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: got it, and he said no, we got him on 52 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: the line, so from prison, and you'll hear them break 53 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: in with This is a call from a correctional federal 54 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: correctional facility throughout which is pretty awesome. Anyway, we will 55 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: we will share that interview with you which we conducted 56 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: last night and played on last night's show. We will 57 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: play that at ten thirty this morning. You can hear 58 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: the rest of the Marcus Latrell interview on the podcast. 59 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: We won't air that here. And it being July fourth, tomorrow, 60 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: it is time for the tradition of Happy Birthday America. 61 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: Thanks to Chance McLean Take it away. 62 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: This is a song about America. The greatest country ever born. 63 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: It's a song about freedom and liberty and you and 64 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: me tis of Thief. 65 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 3: Happy Birthday, America. Happy Birthday to read What Bloom, Happy. 66 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 4: Birthday to Food and Dodge, the. 67 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 3: Chevrolets, Happy Birthday, Happy birth Data Faceball as well, Happy Birthday, 68 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 3: Statue of Liberty. 69 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: Liberty America is the home of Uncle Sam and fireworks 70 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 2: and pimnames and bustle cars. It's a place where Mount 71 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: Rushmore is on the Mount. 72 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: Rushmore things that are fat ass. 73 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: We remember the Alamo and nine to eleven to Costy 74 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: Showing Dealer and Harts Biggie both drive in Ruby's apple 75 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 2: Pie's Blue Jeans, and we thank God for the Emancipatient Proclamation, 76 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: reinvented the freaking Internet, rock and roll, Barbecue, Chew and Skull, Bandits, 77 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: Smoking in the Bandit, the Hulme of Mark Twain, Slam Dunk, Starbucks, 78 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 2: Stars and Stripes, the Constitution, Bill Wrights, Hawaii, an Awesome 79 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 2: National Anthem, Betsy Ross, the super Bowl, Monopoly, pickup trucks, 80 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 2: the Simpsons, oh Brook, Frisbee Golf, the Golden Gate Bridge Scores, 81 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 2: Harley Davison Motorbikes, yellow Stone Slipping slides that just sketch, 82 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 2: cook and full, the flip flops in that San Diego 83 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: chicken thing, and the waders in Milwaukee. We've gotten a 84 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 2: great lakes and a great salt lake full of our 85 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 2: brother and sister Mormons, roller coasters, Hump the Bubba, bubble Gump, 86 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: Big League, chewed by name Clyde, Religious freedom, freedom of 87 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: the press, free speech, you get beat hipsters, get puckish 88 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: tree huggers. We got gay folks getting married, Coast and Cosen. 89 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: That's just fine. The most murto is the size of pillows. 90 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: Elvis Presley, Pixar, Cowboys, Indians, the NRA NSA, THENAACV spring Break, 91 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 2: Packer Jackson every summer, Michael Bay Bow shit it up. 92 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: Willie Nelson is a hero state where you can legally 93 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: smoke queed, but not by states where you can fi 94 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 2: but not smoke it. 95 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: There's still others where you can't do either, and that's 96 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: just fine. 97 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 2: Because America Rudy, fruity, Depression, fruity, build Force, Touch, Duty, 98 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: be Begun, Worst Turnity, battle Parties, X ray classes in 99 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 2: the Magic. 100 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: Common Books and g I Joe, Thank. 101 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: You, Yvy Seal, South Park Gold Rechievers Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, 102 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: post Bell, Cliff w Double artists, double dates, double met gum, doubleheaders, 103 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 2: and double the freedom of anywhere else on this yere planet. 104 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 2: So we may not be perfect, that we're about us 105 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 2: damn close as the kids, and we may make more 106 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: serial killers in other countries. Oh, we also make Apple computers, 107 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: mostly overseas, but they're still ours, and we send billions 108 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 2: of dollars to countries that oppress there not as free people. 109 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: We often send our troops that don't want to go 110 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 2: into countries that don't want us there for reasons we 111 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: don't know, but damn it, they're our troops, so we 112 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 2: have and we'll always have their facts. 113 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: And welcome them home with little bit arms. 114 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 2: So when people from other countries bitched you from being Americans, 115 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 2: just kill them a funny look and tell him you 116 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: can't hear them over the sound of your freedom, and 117 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: you can't read their lips because the liberty is blinding you. 118 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: This is America. Our greatest export is bought. 119 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 2: And all those that want to call ladies literally their 120 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: home to get in line. It's awesome here and we 121 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 2: will love you like our own child once you do 122 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: your writing. 123 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: Come on, America, it's time to believe. 124 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 4: Believe. I believe, I believe, I believe, believe, probably believe in. 125 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: God. Believe that crazy chance McLean, He's so clever. I 126 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: look forward to playing that every single year. I really do. 127 00:07:59,000 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 5: It. 128 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: It just gets me in the It gets me in 129 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: the right mood. It gets me in a good place. 130 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: I am looking forward to being back in Houston this weekend. 131 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: Not that it's any cooler than Washington, DC, but I've 132 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: been on the road to one. It's not good. It's supermong, Ben, 133 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: this is Michael Ferry show. Enjoy it. 134 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 6: That a love. 135 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: Bless today. Discover no guess who turns seventy nine today, 136 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: Look our beloved Johnny Lee And I was alone then, 137 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: Well what a time? What a time to have been 138 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: in Houston. I wasn't. I wasn't eighty seventy eight, seventy nine, 139 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,599 Speaker 1: eighty eighty one, and eighty two, eighty three. What a 140 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: time to be in Houston. My goodness alive. That would 141 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: have been something special. You know. The interesting thing is 142 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: Houston was shot projected onto the national scene for country music, 143 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: and you had Gillies and you had Houston culture, and 144 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: the western where side of Houston was really at the 145 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: peak with Gillies, with Mickey Gilly and Johnny Lee and 146 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: Texas being talked about in every song in the Houston 147 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: energy industry being projected, but the energy industry itself was 148 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: actually suffering. The motto at the time was stay Alive. 149 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: Toll eighty five. Prices had dropped, by the way, gas 150 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: prices at the pump at a four year low right now. 151 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: It's interesting because because talking to people in the oil 152 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: and gas business, they're not just killing it the way 153 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: some other industries are right now. With the stock market 154 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: as high as it is, and pricing has a lot 155 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: to do with that. But hopefully that will turn around 156 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: because that is such a big part of our economy 157 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: and I would like to see those guys do well, 158 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: not at the expense of higher prices at the pump, 159 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: but I would like to see those guys do very well. 160 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: And that's the hope. We did not last week because 161 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: we went down. Remember, Oh, by the way, since we 162 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: are focused on July fourth tomorrow and I don't expect 163 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: to take calls, we will take calls for the next 164 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: forty five minutes. Seven to one, three nine nine nine, 165 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: one thousand, Mom, went you open the phone line? Seven 166 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one three 167 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: nine nine one thousand. Reminder, the first batch of bumper 168 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: stickers is going out. I don't know if they closed 169 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: that yesterday or if that will be today or may 170 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: even go through tomorrow. I don't know. Belinda Foltz at 171 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: my Printer Houston is handling that for us. But you 172 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: can register to get your two free bumper stickers and 173 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: your Gringo's gift card at Michael Berryshow dot com. When 174 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: you go there, there's a menu and the top box 175 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: has a yellow shadow around it and it says get 176 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: free bumper sticker or whatever. You can also send me 177 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: an email there. And by the way, for those of 178 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: you who kept trying to sign up for our daily 179 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: email blast and still weren't getting it, they found the 180 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: glitch in the system. The third party provider for that 181 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 1: that we used. Their platform had a glitch. If you 182 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,599 Speaker 1: didn't put your first and last name in addition to 183 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: your email, it wasn't sending it to you. But they 184 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: have fixed that, and so we had five hundred new 185 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: people at it overnight, which was just kind of oh wow. Okay, 186 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: so all of those I think are captured and you 187 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: should start getting the blast starting today. You can also 188 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,479 Speaker 1: send an email to me directly while you're there, including 189 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: if you are interested in learning more about the Palm 190 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: Beach trip, which will be at the end of October. 191 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 1: That'll be PB three, the third time we've done that, 192 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: And you can buy our show merch while you're there. 193 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 1: Last week we did not get a chance to do 194 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: the week in review while you're calling seven three one thousand. 195 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: We will correct that now. Oh oh sorry, sorry, sorry, 196 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the land, 197 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: Chattaconi NOMNISI, who is in Hawaii on the Big Island 198 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: right now. I'm probably taking a nap. Let's check in 199 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: on drunk Mark drunk work. Are you drunk right now? 200 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: I'm dead serious? How can you be drunk? Twenty four 201 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: to seven? 202 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 6: I can walk around hill maybe field? 203 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: Did you get my email? Mark? You're becoming tedious? What 204 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: do you want to do? Are you going to go 205 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: get a driver's last day? Are you going to show 206 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: up to court? Are you going back side? 207 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 5: I did get my I D went and got my D. 208 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: The United States has dramatically entered Israel's war against Iran. 209 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: The American jets bomb three nuclear size to night. I 210 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 1: can report to the world that these strikes were a 211 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: spectacular military success present in Trump announcing a ceasefire between 212 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: Iran and Israel. Interesting and surprising and disappointing to see 213 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: how many people are rooting for that conflict not to 214 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: end as it looks like it now will at least 215 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 1: for some period of time, but rather to escalate, just 216 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: so they can call it a failure for Trump. 217 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 5: It's crazy and to a footchase inside the gallery of 218 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 5: man jumped from the second floor and landed on the 219 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 5: ice room below. 220 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: At some point while being chased by police, the suspect 221 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: jumping over this glass barrier and on said the ice 222 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 1: skating rink down below, breaking both of his legs. That 223 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,599 Speaker 1: story is so good, you know how you know a 224 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: story is good It takes on a life of its own. 225 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: News stations will continue to find reasons to go back 226 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: to that story, like we have Governor Greg Abbott betoad 227 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick's biggest priorities, the band on 228 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: th HC. 229 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 2: This is life and death, This is life and death. 230 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: Weree this destroys lives. This reaches a whole another level 231 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: when Dan Patrick tells you that people are gonna die, 232 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: and all I ask is read research that has not 233 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: been what's happened with marijuana by and large. But if 234 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: it is and it's not, what do you think has 235 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: happened with alcohol? Brank, You're first stuck. 236 00:14:59,640 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 4: Make it. 237 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: It's great, You're up, Frank, go ahead, my ma'am. 238 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 6: Oh, hey, hey, good morning. 239 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 5: Just wanted to reiterate what you said about the Houston 240 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 5: scene in the late seventies, actually the mid seventies. It 241 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 5: was fantastic, and I'll say that urban cowboys. 242 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: He picked it to a t. 243 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 6: The movie was very indicative of what was going on 244 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 6: around here during that time. 245 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 5: You had the Astrodome, you had Dirty. 246 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: Just a great place somewhere. Terry words, a child who 247 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: owns dirties. The Dirty's got to menterview. Everyone listens to 248 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show. We're in an odd place where good 249 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: news is bad news. We keep getting good economic news. 250 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: And as a result of this economic news, the Fed 251 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: that does not want to lower rates and help Trump 252 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: can say, well, we don't want lower rates because the 253 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: economy is already doing so well, and because the economy 254 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: is doing so well, if we lower rates, then it'll 255 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: heat up the economic activity and that will lead to inflation. 256 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: The ten year note has surged to four point three 257 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: six percent because the June jobs report exceeded expectations, and 258 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: you have to look at that report in reverse. The 259 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: unemployment rate was expected to go up to four point three, 260 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: but instead it went down to four point one. So 261 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: by dropping instead of rising, that means less unemployment or 262 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: the inverse, more employment, which is considered a good thing. 263 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: And yet what that means is Powell has no reason 264 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: to increase the money supply, which is what lowering the 265 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: interest rate does. If the Fed doesn't lower the interest rate, 266 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: then you've got to crawl into increased economic activity on 267 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: the basis of everything other than the simplest way to 268 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: increase economic activity, which is cheaper money. I said this 269 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: ten years ago, and nobody wanted to hear it. But 270 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: we had artificially low interest rates for a very long 271 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: time down in the twos, in the twos and threes 272 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: for a very long time. It was an artificially long 273 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: time set at the time, there's somebody's gonna wear this hickey. 274 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: Somebody is going to pay for this in the future. 275 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: Because I'm sitting on a great interest rate for my 276 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: house a little over two percent. My goal is to 277 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: be debt free. But it doesn't make sense to pay 278 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: off my house. Why would I The mortgage interest on 279 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: my home is one of the last things that you 280 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: can get a deduction for, and that's such cheap money. 281 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: If I were to pay off my house or put 282 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: that money in the market, or for that matter, put 283 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: that money in a ten year note at four point 284 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: three six percent. So it makes more sense if you're 285 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: in the low twos at an interest rate to put 286 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: your money in a ten year note and make money 287 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: on your money that you won't be saving as much 288 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: of by paying down your mortgage. So, you got a 289 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: lot of people sitting in a house they'd like to move. 290 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: They'd either like to downsize because the kids have gone 291 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 1: off to college or upsized because they've added more kids, 292 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: the two reasons people move. You got a lot of 293 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: people still sitting on homes. 294 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 6: Callers. 295 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: I'll get you in just a moment, Please be patient. 296 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: I hang tight right there. You got a lot of 297 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: people sitting in their home right now who would like 298 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: to sell, but they got to go somewhere else. And 299 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: here we are in the middle of the summer. People 300 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: want to buy. They want to sell their home, and 301 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: more importantly, buy and move into the new home in 302 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: the new school district during the summer, so it's not 303 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: disruptive to the kids school process. You don't want to 304 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: move in October if your kids are in school. It's 305 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: very disruptive. So this is season, and yet Powell is 306 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,120 Speaker 1: holding that back. Well, once that's unlocked, if those rates 307 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: get down into fours and into the threes, Trump says 308 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: one percent, He doesn't mean it. That's just a negotiating tactic. 309 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: If you could get those rates down into the low fours, 310 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: you would see this economy absolutely explode. It'd be insane, 311 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: you would you wouldn't You'd get, uh, what was that 312 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: thing that whiplash? Watching the economic activity, people would be 313 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: buying more furniture, buying more cars, buying more trucks, opening 314 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: more businesses, engaging in more economic activity. And once those 315 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: house once that happens, you're going to see that the 316 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: economic activity increase in a dramatic and that's really going 317 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 1: to reduce unemployment. And then you're going to start hearing 318 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: things like we're getting dangerously low in unemployment because you 319 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: don't want zero percent unemployment. You need people available to 320 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: go to work anyway. That's what's going on. That's what's up. 321 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: As a kids, say, Chris, hold tight, I'm talking to 322 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: mac kevin. You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey, 323 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 1: good morning, Michael. 324 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 5: First time caller, a longtime listener. He struck a chord 325 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 5: with me this morning. I'm driving down two twenty five 326 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 5: refinery Row, the beautiful sites and smells of our economy 327 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 5: here in the region, which I drive every day, but 328 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 5: I was that it reminded me of Johnny Lee on 329 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 5: his birthday. He used to have a club out there 330 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 5: back in the I got here in nineteen eighty. He 331 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 5: had a country western bar out there in two twenty 332 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 5: five and everything on the West side. Get the san 333 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 5: it's one Rose Texas night club. Cowboy. I mean, I 334 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 5: lived at you from seventy eight to eighty two eighty three. 335 00:21:58,359 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: I lived that in Houston. 336 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 5: It was It was absolutely the greatest time. But now Houston, 337 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 5: you can't even find a country in western. 338 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: Bar in this town. 339 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 5: And it's it's a shame because those were those are 340 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 5: some great times. You know, I think when Whitmark came 341 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 5: into office, she's the one to turn the Houston into 342 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 5: the Metropolitans, that is that ain't trying to make it 343 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 5: in New York, because back in those days, Houston was 344 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 5: truly a country, western cowtown. I just wanted to share 345 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 5: that with everybody that wasn't around door those times, because 346 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 5: it was it was fabulous. 347 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, well you remember the bullwhep. No, I remember. I 348 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: didn't get here until Lady nine. 349 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, there was another club on fifty nine right 350 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 5: there in Sharks Time. 351 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: It's called the Bullwhip. 352 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 5: Matter of fact, that's where I met my wife too. 353 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 5: So forty years later, I'm still I'm still married to 354 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 5: forty years later from a country in western bar You know. 355 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,360 Speaker 1: That's more it's more common than you think. It's more 356 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: common than you think. I mean, look, we don't do 357 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: arrange marriages. So you got to meet somebody somewhere, and 358 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: that's where a lot of people, you know, Bud and Sissy, 359 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: that's that's that's how it happened. That was just there 360 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: has to be some You either meet him. You either 361 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 1: meet him in school, whether that's high school or college. 362 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: At a job, or at a bar and or at 363 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: the gym, I mean those are those are things? Or 364 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: at church that is you know. The Indian model is 365 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: the ants. The nosy an ties get get busy and 366 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: they know that they that this girl over here is 367 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,719 Speaker 1: looking to marry and this guy over here. I used 368 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: to think it was the worst thing ever. But you're 369 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: not required once they make a match to actually get married. 370 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: It just makes introductions and it's on the basis of well, 371 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: our family wants this out of life, and your family 372 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: wants let's have them meet. I don't know that we 373 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: have a better system because there are a lot of 374 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: people in this country looking to make a match, to 375 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: have somebody to spend their lives with, and they're not 376 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: able to do it. And it's frustrating because you're better 377 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: and happier with somebody who's a good match, and we 378 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: don't have a good system for that. The country in 379 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: Western Barber as good as any. With his finger on 380 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: the pulse, The King of Ting continues on The Michael 381 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: Berry Show, Jesse Campbell writes, zar today my bride and 382 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: I celebrate fifty five years of marriage. It has not 383 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: been easy, but we were always committed to each other 384 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: and supporting one another. I was very lucky as I 385 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: found a keeper. Well how nice is that that he 386 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: share that message, Jesse Campbell. That's just fantastic, just fantastic. 387 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: We spoke to Chris and we've held him on during 388 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: a break two breaks ago, and here was that call, Chris, 389 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: you are on the Michael Berry. 390 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 6: Sure, good morning, sir, how are you? I just wanted to, uh, 391 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 6: thank you'll, thank y'all for all you do. I'm one 392 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 6: hundred percent disabled, vent still trying to work in Bullfield 393 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 6: and uh boot boot on the table for my family. 394 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 6: And I'm sorry to interrupt the show, but I was 395 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 6: I had a bad back and I heard mattress Mac 396 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 6: was giving them away. But I'm currently in route from 397 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 6: the field back to Houston, and I think I missed 398 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 6: a vote on those matthewsists. But I can't say enough 399 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,479 Speaker 6: what the show does for us and uh the support 400 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 6: you can cue give us. I'm somebody that camp was 401 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 6: the first group in Iraq and got a chronic postraumatic 402 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 6: stress and everything like that, but went into some councilor 403 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 6: here a few years ago down at the BA and 404 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 6: drew some other sources and your support for Camp Hope 405 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 6: and your support for veterans, and just that mention of 406 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 6: bullet gas right there, it struck me into heart and 407 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 6: and rum in the bottom of my heart. I just 408 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 6: want to say thank you, because the things you talk 409 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 6: about and the things y'all say and do, it really 410 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 6: it really matters, and it means something to people like 411 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 6: me out here. 412 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: Well, I'm humbled that you would say that, sir, and 413 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: we certainly appreciate your service. But as as you and 414 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: many others can attest, it's not so simple as landing 415 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: in the desert and firing some shots and coming home. 416 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: I talk to people all the time who have twisted 417 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: backs and knees and lost limbs and mental scars, and 418 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: it is just it's tough, right you can you can 419 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: say it better than I can, but it is tough 420 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 1: and it stays with you for the rest of your life. Chris, 421 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: I tell you what, if you hold on for just 422 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: a moment, I'll see if there are any of those 423 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: mattresses left. Just just hang tight right there. So I 424 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: was able to reach Mac during the break. And if 425 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: you've ever seen Mac during a you know, after the storms, 426 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: and he's got all his salesmen instead of selling furniture. 427 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: He's Mac is a madman. If people saw what he 428 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: gets done in the course of a day, it's insanity. 429 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: I mean it is, it is. He's a drug addict. 430 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: His drug is the endorphin of adrenaline. And you've never 431 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: seen a man forget his age? What will leave aside 432 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: the fact that he's not thirty years old. He is 433 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: walking at a rapid pace. Remember he's a he's had 434 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: a heart attack and he just had open heart surgery, 435 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: and he's barking at his team. He doesn't have to 436 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,719 Speaker 1: use nice language with them. They know he loves them. 437 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: They know he's in the moment and he's doing Get 438 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 1: out of there, Get out out of here. Hey, Channel 439 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: two's here. 440 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 2: Tell him. 441 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: I'll be upfront. And he is just true, true, true. 442 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: I mean he is a field general making everything happen. 443 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 1: It's incredible. So I got him on the phone. Yes, 444 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: mister Barrick. Hey, I got a veteran who spoke to him, 445 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: disabled combat veteran Iraq. He's on his way from the 446 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: oil patch. He couldn't get off earlier. He's headed that way. 447 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: But I don't want him to go all the way 448 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: if it's how many you want me to keep back 449 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: for him? Can you keep too, I'll keep too, So 450 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: Chris head over there. As for Mac, Ramon will give 451 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: you off air. When our call is over, Ramon will 452 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: give you the password that I have given you, that 453 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: I've given Mac that you will give him when you 454 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: get there, because I like clandestine passwords and espionage and stuff. 455 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: So just remember that that code word, but I don't 456 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: want to say it on the air. And he has 457 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: held you back to mattresses and give him a big 458 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: hug for me and time to thank you for doing that. 459 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: They gave out over tuned Mattresses this morning already. 460 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 6: I will thank you, Michael from the bottom of my heart. 461 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 2: Man. 462 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 6: That may's more than media. You know of real hard 463 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 6: to put my life back together and my kids and 464 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 6: my family and something like this goes a long way. 465 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 6: Thank you very much. 466 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's just nice to know that people care. 467 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: Doesn't make you less tough, or less strong or less 468 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: anything else. I don't care how how tough you are. 469 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just nice to know that people care. Hold 470 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: on just a second and Ramon will talk to you 471 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: all their It's it's interesting. I talk to to people 472 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: all the time who are extremely strong people and yet 473 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: just a little gesture, not a million dollars, not you know, 474 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: a vacation where just a little gesture, how far it goes. 475 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: If you go on to Facebook and you start, you 476 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: just pick anybody you know that you haven't seen in 477 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: a long time. It's not a content creator on Facebook, 478 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: just an average Joe or Jill and you go to 479 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: their page. If they are not a frequent poster, the 480 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: one thing you will notice that they post is thank 481 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: you for all the birthday wishes. Do you know why 482 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: that is? Because most people are going through their day. 483 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: They don't have a show named after them. They don't 484 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: have people sending them, you know, nice notes all day. 485 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,479 Speaker 1: They don't have their their graphic on. Most people are 486 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: just getting up making it happen, and they are unseen, unheard, 487 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: but yet they bust their butt. They go to bed. 488 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: Nobody's giving them a pat on the back that whole day, 489 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: that whole week, that whole month, that whole year, but 490 00:30:54,320 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: they still fall asleep, get back up, do it again, 491 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: and do it again, and do it again. And the 492 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: birthday is an artificial construct where people get to say 493 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: something nice to you, and it's not weird. People will 494 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: take a moment and mark your existence in their life 495 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: and a well wish forget. The presence doesn't have to 496 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: be a president, doesn't have to be showing up at 497 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: a party. It can be so much as saying happy birthday, brother, 498 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: have a great day, love your missia. It can just 499 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: be as simple as happy birthday. But that's a day 500 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: and a tradition, a cultural ritual we have created that 501 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: on that day, that guy gets to be special, that 502 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 1: girl gets to be the princess today. It's my birthday. 503 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: And I'll cry if I want to. It's my birthday. 504 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: It's my day. And you know, hopefully someone takes them 505 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: for a meal, hopefully someone you know bakes them a cake. 506 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: It's just that moment, of that little gesture, and we 507 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: all need it because regardless of how advanced we think 508 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: we are, at the end of the day, we're still 509 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: blood and guts and eyeballs and ears and emotions and needs, 510 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: and it matters. It matters. But you know, I wish, 511 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: I wish I had a producer that would start the 512 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: music at the right level and bring it up commensurate 513 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: with where we were in block and I wouldn't stop 514 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: talking to her like an idiot.