1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: It's that time time times luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: Berry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 2: Good Morning, Michaelberry, gild morning, Michael. 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Berry, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning. 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 3: Sar Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor. 6 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 1: Good morning, Elsina, Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are you there? 7 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: Good morning you, Michael Berry. How you learned that? I 8 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: read it tomorrow money, Good morning, Excess. 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 4: Listen to. 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Good Morning Texas. 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 5: Morning, your car, Good. 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 6: Morning Texas is on day and we're happy here to 13 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 6: talk about everything. 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: Good Morning, We're not wearing. 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 3: Good morning, Good Lordy Texas, Good. 16 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 5: Lauren, Texas, Good Morning. 17 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 3: Weakens the strict Condamn. 18 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 2: John Cornyan has betrayed Texas values while serving in the 19 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 2: United States Senate for years. Every six years he comes 20 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: home and puts on his John Wayne mccornyn act tells 21 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 2: about how he's got to go back to Washington fight 22 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: for us because they're out. 23 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: Of control upper only John Wayne mccornyn in fight for 24 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: us now. He don't ever win. 25 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 2: But that's the point of the Western, isn't it. He 26 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: fights a good fighting now then you step back overw 27 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: I'll do all the shooting. 28 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: Case some bullets ricochet around and here old John Wayne mccornyn. 29 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 2: He goes back, puts his shooters in the holster and 30 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 2: fights for us. 31 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: And we should be proud to have him up here 32 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: of fighting for us. 33 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: But everybody knows that deep down he's selling us out. 34 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: Everybody knows it. And after he wins, when he's not 35 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: gonna be on the ballot for six years, he about 36 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: admits to it, and. 37 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: It rolls back around and he gets more and more 38 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: text again, he's back here. He's a dead burned conservative. 39 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, he posted. 40 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 2: A picture on Twitter of him reading the Art of 41 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: the Deal because Trump doesn't like him and he's been 42 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: afraid of challenge. I was given and the top line 43 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 2: report on a poll that was done that pitted John 44 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: Wayne mccornyan and Ken Paxton, and Paxton was up sixty 45 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: three to twenty seven. That's a pretty whopping majority. Question 46 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 2: was only would Attorney General Ken Paxton run? He answered 47 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 2: that question on Fox News with Laura Ingram. 48 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 6: I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner, 49 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 6: who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 6: we put in their three decades. It's definitely time for 51 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 6: a change in Texas. We have another great US Centator 52 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 6: Ted Cruz, and it's time we have another great center 53 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 6: that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values, 54 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 6: fight for the values of the people of Texas, and 55 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 6: also support Trump Donald Trump in the areas that he's 56 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 6: focused on in a very significant way. And that's what 57 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 6: I plan on doing. And I hope that people will 58 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 6: go to my website and look at what we're doing 59 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 6: at Kenpaxton dot com and obviously contribute as well. 60 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 4: Well. 61 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: You wouldn't be surprised to know that Senator Cornyn has 62 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: responded to rumors that you might run watch Obviously, when you. 63 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 4: Run for office, you get your papers graded, in my case, 64 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 4: once every six years, and I'm looking forward to having 65 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 4: that conversation and a little competition is okay. 66 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: Too, Well, He's up for the competition. 67 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 6: Look, he said twenty four years of this, which I 68 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 6: think has plenty. Given his lack of production, it's hard 69 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 6: to think of the things that he's done good for 70 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 6: Texas or for the country. I can certainly point to 71 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 6: many things like his gun restrictions, his lack of wanting 72 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 6: to fund a border wall, and disagreeing with President Trump 73 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 6: on that and even opposing President Trump's election in twenty 74 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 6: sixteen and the most recent election. So there's certainly many 75 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 6: things to focus on that he has not done, and 76 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 6: I think it's time that somebody held hi account for that. 77 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: The important to remember. 78 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: Is that ninety nine percent of what John Wayne mccornyn 79 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: does wrong, he does with great sleight of hand. 80 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: We know this. 81 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 2: Ted Cruise has talked about this. When Ted Cruz went 82 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: to the Senate, it was ninety nine to one on 83 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: a number of votes. And I had conversations with him 84 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: early on and I'm not quoting him of late, so 85 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: I'm not putting words into his mouth, but he would 86 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 2: tell me stories about things that reminded me so much 87 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: of Houston City Council that they had the ring of truth, 88 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 2: and that was that McConnell and McCain and Cornyn would 89 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: do things like count they wanted to lose on this issue. 90 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 2: Who wanted to let the Democrats and really the swamp win. 91 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 2: But they are the controlled opposition and they still have 92 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 2: to keep their people because it's very important that the 93 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 2: people you elect to be the opposition to the swamp. 94 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 2: It's very important that they never actually be a Ken 95 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 2: Paxton or a Ted Cruiser, a Donald Trump or an 96 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: Elon Musk. They cannot be people who will actually do anything. 97 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 2: They have to be the Washington generals. For the Globetrotters 98 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: to exist, they have to be the controlled opposition. But 99 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 2: in order to keep winning those elections, they have to 100 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 2: have a stockpile of money, and they have to pick 101 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: issues that they make a big stand. So he will 102 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: often make a big stand on a flag lapel or 103 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: an issue that's not before Congress. He'll come out every 104 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 2: few We got to have a balanced budget. By garden 105 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 2: the mccornyn home, we balance our budget, and the Smiths 106 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: and the Jones and the Garcias do two. In its time, 107 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 2: our government was balanced. Well, it's not even up for 108 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 2: vote and it never will be. But that's supposed to 109 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 2: make people at home go. Tell you, but John Cornwall, 110 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 2: he may not could ever win any of those votes, 111 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 2: but he's up there of fighting for us, and I 112 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 2: respect that about him. And what they'll do is they'll 113 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 2: pick a vote where they know they're going to lose, 114 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: because the point is to lose, and they'll say, all right, 115 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: who's up for election. Okay, McCain's up for election in Arizona. 116 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: Let's let McCain make a big issue and vote in 117 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: the opposition and we'll still Schumer, You'll still win. But 118 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 2: we need to give McCain a bone. He's gotta have 119 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: something he can campaign on. This is a group that 120 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: when Marco Rubio was first coming out in twenty ten 121 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 2: from the Florida Legislature, is when the Tea Party was 122 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 2: at full swing. Rick Scott was their candidate, and the 123 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 2: Republican Senate Committee put millions and millions of dollars of 124 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: Republican dollars to elect a Republican. They put that into 125 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 2: the Republican primary because Marco Rubio was a Tea Party 126 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: guy and they didn't want a Tea Party guy. And 127 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 2: Cornyan was was coordinating all that. You've seen that Mitch McConnell. 128 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 2: Now that he's not the majority leader and he's not 129 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 2: able to run again, he's voting with the Democrats. That's 130 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 2: John Cornyn's running buddy. 131 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 7: Who am I sticking to Michael Berry? 132 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 2: Michael Berry, Yeah, I do enjoy your show. There's going 133 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 2: to be an old fashioned ass kicking of John Wayne mccorny. 134 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you this, Karl Rove is 135 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 2: going to throw everything he has at this seat. 136 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: It's going to be the same. 137 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 2: Exact group of people that supported Nicky Haley in the 138 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 2: Republican primary. It's going to be the same swamp creatures. 139 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: By the way, I didn't mean Rick Scott earlier. Earlier, 140 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 2: I meant Charlie crist the Republican that the Republican Senate 141 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: Committee supported over Marco Rubio and got involved in the 142 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: Republican primary because they couldn't let Republican primary voters vote. 143 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: It wasn't it wasn't November elections Republican primary. 144 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 2: And when Charlie Chriss lost, the guy the Republicans chose 145 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,719 Speaker 2: to join them in the Senate as a Republican. 146 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: What did he do? 147 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 2: He became a Democrat, and he became a Democrat who 148 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,719 Speaker 2: campaigned for Barack Obama. That's who these people are. That's 149 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 2: who Adam kin Singer is, That's. 150 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: Who Liz Cheney is. 151 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: That's exactly who these people are. The minute that they're 152 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 2: not in power, or the minute that they don't have 153 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: to answer to you, you see who they honestly are, 154 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 2: and that is secretly Democrats. Let's see if I can 155 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 2: find this from Chad to shrimper's story. We interviewed a 156 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 2: woman yesterday from Bayou Labattery, Alabama, named Tammy Hall about 157 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 2: how the tariffs will affect her. And she talked about 158 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 2: she's the third generation shrimper, her husband is shrimps and they, 159 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 2: she said, they have what's known as an ice boat, 160 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 2: which is a boat that can keep the fish fresh 161 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 2: or the shrimp fresh when they bring the shrimp in, 162 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: and it's a big deal. She said, there's only about 163 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 2: ten of them left and the shrimper has gone away. 164 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 2: But more importantly, the reason the family shrimper went away 165 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: is because the cheap imports from Asia, and she said 166 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: Ecuador is the biggest one now and these things are 167 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 2: being funded by American banks, which is why when you 168 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 2: go to restaurants now, the fish you're eating do not 169 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: come out of Galveston Bay, even if you're eating in Galveston, 170 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 2: they're foreign fish being brought in because it's considerably cheaper. 171 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: And that's just. 172 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 2: We're seeing that in every industry, in every way. And 173 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 2: that's why family farms, family fisheries. Family we don't even 174 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: fish our own fisheries. We are a nations surround did 175 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 2: mostly surrounded by oceans and the Gulf of America golf waters, 176 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 2: and yet the fish that could be feeding our nation 177 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 2: is coming from oceans away. That's what these terraffs are 178 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 2: supposed to do. That interview will air on this evening show. 179 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 2: But Khou had a story about shrimpers in Galveston, hoping 180 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 2: that this will bring back their business. 181 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 8: Along Peer nineteen in Galveston where the water meets the docks. 182 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 8: Longtime shrimper Johnny Marulo will tell you it used to 183 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 8: be a lot busier here. 184 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 5: This doc used to be loaded with shrimp boats. 185 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 8: But for years that's not been the case. 186 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 5: Almost everybody's out of the business. 187 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 8: With cheaper imported shrimp, which makes up more than ninety 188 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 8: percent of the US supply, driving down sales for local producers. 189 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 5: For a medium sized shrimp, they used to give us 190 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 5: like four dollars a pound four fifty. Now we get 191 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 5: about dollar twenty dollars thirty. 192 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 8: Though Marullo was hopeful that could change after President Trump 193 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 8: with the stroke of a pen and post tariffs on 194 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 8: the foreign countries flooding the seafood market. 195 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 5: If he can get the terriffs put in slow down 196 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 5: some of the imports hopefully, you know, we can have 197 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 5: a decent season for the first time in a long time. 198 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 8: Shrimping industry experts have called those tariffs a lifeline, despite 199 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 8: backlash from other industries. 200 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 2: Already he's seeing positive results from the tariffs. 201 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 8: Craig Reeves is a board member with the Southern Shrimp 202 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 8: Alliance and a second generation shrimper himself. He says the 203 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 8: tariffs would be a benefit to a beleaguered industry. 204 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: Where it may help us is the restaurants. 205 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: It would tighten that margin so they don't get the 206 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: benefit of buying a cheaper import. 207 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 8: Instead, he says, restaurants would be encouraged to buy domestic. 208 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 8: What happens if the domestic producers can't keep up with 209 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 8: the demand. 210 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: I mean, I think prices will probably go up, and 211 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 2: then maybe we squeeze the middleman a little bit, and 212 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 2: then the consumer don't get hard I heard as bad. 213 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: I think. 214 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 2: We've got to ask ourselves some tough questions, though, Are 215 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: you willing to pay more for a plate of fried 216 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 2: shrimp to restore the family fishing operations? Because Americans are 217 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 2: not going to work for twenty cents an hour. We're 218 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 2: just not It's not realistic and we create a social 219 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 2: safety net where that doesn't work. And it's not all 220 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 2: a question of higher wages in order to do this, 221 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 2: it's higher expenses. It's also higher environmental and regulatory concerns. 222 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 2: This woman from by Lavatory, Alabama, was telling the story 223 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 2: about a diverter that they have to have on their 224 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: fishing nets. Diverter will not allow them to catch fish. 225 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 2: They can only catch shrimp. The fish have to be 226 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 2: separated out and not brought in the nets. She said, 227 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 2: So we're constantly asked for fresh fish out of the 228 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 2: Alabama waters and we can't do that. 229 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: We could do it. 230 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 2: It would be easier for us to do it and 231 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: simply cull the fish from the shrimp, but our government 232 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: won't let. 233 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: Us do that. 234 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: We have to impose we have to put a diverter 235 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 2: to keep the fish out of there. 236 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,479 Speaker 1: So we have the opportunity. 237 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: We're already spending the gas to go out there in 238 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: the effort to throw the nets and pull the nets in, 239 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 2: and yet the nets that have fish, we have to 240 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: put the fish back like some sort of catch and 241 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: release like that's like driving around the parking lot to 242 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: find spots pulling the spots and then pull back. You're 243 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 2: just practicing. There's a comedian has a whole bit on that. 244 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: It's just absolutely hilarious. Some of you will remember Pops, 245 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: the fella in his nineties that goes out shrimping every 246 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: morning in Galveston and his daughter in law as the 247 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 2: act of ultimate love. This absolutely gorgeous woman who goes 248 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 2: by the name Shrimp Diva. 249 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: You can find her online. She takes her. 250 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 2: Father in law out fishing out shrimping every day and 251 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 2: they sell their shrimp to the bait shop because they 252 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 2: can't get enough from the restaurants and they can't compete 253 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 2: with it with the foreign competition. 254 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: Show everything you need and most everything you want. John 255 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: Wayne mccornyn is one of us. 256 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 3: His business card has his fax number on it and 257 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 3: this belt has his name on the back in an 258 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 3: old Western font called tin can. 259 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 9: This belt buckle, it's big, looks like a pewter toilet 260 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 9: seat lid. 261 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: He slips that belt. 262 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 3: Through the loops of his wrangler big and all rugged wear, 263 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,359 Speaker 3: cowboy cut blue jeans. Some folks brag about the audacity 264 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 3: of their leather boots. John Wayne mccornn has boots made 265 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 3: out of the actual Clydesdale's from the nineteen eighties TV 266 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 3: commercials don't get more American than that. Speaking of the eighties, 267 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 3: did you vote for John Wayne mccornyn he'll bring back 268 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 3: alf An Airwolf Family ties? What other senator will bring 269 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 3: back the eighties for you? If you love Dexy's Midnight 270 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 3: Runners like John Wayne mccorn does, and you do because 271 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 3: you're just like him, then you'll vote for him in November. 272 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 3: Vote for someone else? 273 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 9: Well, Cinderella said it, Dusty. 274 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 2: Kendall, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the 275 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: program sir, And for those of you participating at home, 276 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 2: I want y'all to know that was spelled on my screen. 277 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: K I N D L E. 278 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 10: Well, I mean that's all. 279 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 7: Can we get him a bell for effort? 280 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 1: You know what? 281 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 2: I'm just happy that I could read it as kindall 282 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 2: and I knew what he meant, and it's there and 283 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 2: you're on the air and I didn't. But I'm just 284 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 2: glad it wasn't cacophony or kafoknik or you know something else. 285 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: I'll settle. At least it sounded out right. 286 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 10: Yeah, phonetically it makes sense. 287 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: Phonetically I appreciate that. 288 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, yeah, all right, Well I know you're doing well. 289 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 7: So question is this is you know, first off, I 290 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,479 Speaker 7: just got to say it, thanks for bringing some humor 291 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 7: into all of the corn and stuff. 292 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 10: I can't. I mean, it's just it's hilarious. I think 293 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 10: it's it's hilarious. But that's what I wanted to ask 294 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 10: My question about. Is it's something that's bothered me my 295 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 10: entire life. I'm only thirty five years old. But it's 296 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 10: you know, you've got the Crenshaws, the feelings the corn 297 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 10: Ins do. That's say more about the lack of discernment 298 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 10: on voters or the cunning of the folks. 299 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 2: That are running, yes both. Let me give you a 300 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 2: couple of examples. So I told you about the case 301 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 2: in twenty ten of Charlie Crist. So Charlie crist had 302 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 2: been the governor. Charlie Criss was a well known statewide guy. 303 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 2: Charlie christ was a guy like a Cornin who'd been around. 304 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 2: He had played the right, he had the right titles. 305 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 2: He never stood for anything. He certainly was not a conservative. 306 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 2: And we had Barack Obama in the White House and 307 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 2: the Tea Party movement was tired of the Republicans that 308 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 2: had given us the John mccains. And truthfully, this was 309 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 2: the first we were starting to see of it bubbling up, 310 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,479 Speaker 2: of people realizing, you know what, the Bush Chainey machine 311 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 2: was not really conservative and the McCain as successor movement 312 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 2: was showing. People realized, we're never going to fix this 313 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 2: country using these guys, because these guys are part of 314 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 2: the problem. So twenty ten, there's Tea Party candidates around 315 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: the country and there is. 316 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: This very loose association. 317 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 2: It's not funded, it doesn't have an organization per se, 318 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 2: a structure of party apparatus. It's just a shared belief 319 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 2: that we've got to find somebody to oppose these people. 320 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 2: And we've all got a rally. And the rallying crowd 321 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 2: was around ideas, not a party or an organization, and 322 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 2: talk radio and in Fox there was this movement that 323 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 2: was kind of beginning to coalesce, and everybody understood, we've 324 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 2: got to build this thing. We've got to We've got 325 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 2: people fired up. And this was the Trump rally before 326 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 2: the Trump rally. This was MAGA before MAGA. It's a 327 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 2: lot of the same people and there had never been 328 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: there had never been a ground swell that came together 329 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 2: and united people. So Marco Rubio comes out of nowhere. 330 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 2: He's at two percent in the polls, and he manages 331 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 2: to start building and a lot of it was a 332 00:19:58,920 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: lot of ladies. 333 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: There's a lot written about this at the time, a. 334 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: Lot of lady activists that started holding teas for him, 335 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: coffees for him, little events here, little church groups here, 336 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 2: and he builds up and builds up and builds up. 337 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 2: In the Republican Senate Committee, which is supposed to be 338 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 2: responsible for helping us win Senate seats against Democrats in 339 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 2: November so that we keep up Senate majority, that group 340 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 2: decided to get very involved to make sure that the 341 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 2: senator that was named was their senator, not the voter senator. 342 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 2: So they spent a fortune against Rubio in favor of 343 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 2: Charlie Christ, an absolute wishy washy Republican. That money was 344 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 2: given by donors supposedly to defeat Democrats in November, but 345 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 2: they used it in the spring. 346 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,199 Speaker 1: To pick their Republican. They were beaten. 347 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 2: When Charlie Christ loses, he becomes an independent overnight, and 348 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 2: then he runs for office as a Democrat and supports 349 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 2: Barack Obama in twenty twelve. Two years later, he's on 350 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 2: the tour for Barack Obama. That was the guy that 351 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 2: they wanted. You think he changed. He didn't change. It's 352 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 2: just that now he didn't have to play the game. 353 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 2: He didn't have to pretend to be one of us 354 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 2: where he did before. So how do you end up? 355 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 2: Think about Jeff Bush, Think about Liz Cheney, Think about 356 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 2: Adam kinsingherm think about all the Nikki Haley. Look at 357 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 2: all these people. Look we got an event coming up. 358 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 2: I just saw this this morning. Dan Crenshaw bad on me. 359 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 2: I supported Crenshaw. I helped Crenshaw get there. Crenshaw is 360 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: not who he claimed to be to me, So, but 361 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: that's on me. 362 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 1: I made a mistake. I'll own it. 363 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 2: That's why I don't tend to support candidates. I tend 364 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 2: to support ideas. But that that's on me. Crenshaw's holding 365 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 2: a special campaign event. We quote special guest John Whitmyer. Okay, 366 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 2: so we've got Dan Crenshaw holding this event with special 367 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 2: guests John Whitmyer. We supported John Whitmyer over Sheila Jackson 368 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 2: Lee in a Republican I mean a Democrat primary for mayor, 369 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 2: because that's what that was. 370 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: We didn't want Sheila Jackson Lee. After that, John. 371 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 2: Whittmeyer endorsed Kamala Harris for president just before the election. 372 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 2: That's that's the guy you have as your special guest 373 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: at your congressional event. 374 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, fair enough, just so we know what 375 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: we're doing. 376 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 2: So are the voters at fault for continuing to send 377 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: John cornerback to the Senate. It's a very complicated question 378 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: as to how this happens, but let me try to 379 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 2: explain it. 380 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: When you look. 381 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 2: At the voters in a Republican primary, because that's the 382 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: only place you're going to beat Cornyn, We're not eager 383 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 2: for the Democrats to beat him because at least he 384 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 2: pretends to be a Republican part of the time. Once 385 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 2: he's up there, we don't want Beto o Rohurt to 386 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: be in there instead. So when you look at the 387 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 2: Republican primary voter in the first round of a Republican primary, 388 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 2: if there's not a runoff, you're going to have a 389 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 2: lot of voters that are, believe it or not, low 390 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 2: information Republican voters. 391 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: They're generally Republicans, which means they're not Democrats. 392 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 2: Now, their daddy might have been a Republican, their grandfather 393 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 2: daddy might have been the bank president, their daddy might 394 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 2: have been a precinct chairman. They're generally Republicans and they're 395 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 2: not Democrats. And the Democrats are the other party. And 396 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: you know, y'all are Dodgers fans and y'all are Yankees 397 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 2: fan but we're Astros fans. 398 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: We root for the Astros. 399 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: We don't know why, we don't know the players, we 400 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 2: may not speak their language, we don't know where they're from, 401 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 2: but we're for them. That group is going to vote 402 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 2: for Corning because that's the name they know. So you 403 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 2: have to take every voter that is not there and 404 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 2: get them up to speed, as by Corn. And it's 405 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 2: very hard to do that unless you have a very 406 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: good candidate's well. 407 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: Funded, and we never do, but this time we will. 408 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 2: Ace Hardware Texas dot Com his thirty three ACE Hardwares. 409 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 2: They're all independently owned and they work under the ACE 410 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 2: Hardware banner because you can't compete any longer as Joe 411 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 2: Bob's hardware shop. 412 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: If if there's. 413 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 2: A home depot, you know, within thirty miles because they 414 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 2: buy in bolt and you can't. So they can sell 415 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: a hammer cheaper than you can even buy it, much 416 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 2: less make a profit. And so they I've wanted them 417 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 2: to be a sponsor for years and years and years, 418 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 2: and finally we were able to make it happen. And 419 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: if you go to Acehardware Texas dot com you'll find 420 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: the location. 421 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: It's nearest U. 422 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 2: And so I was calling to go visit one of 423 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 2: the owners, Rick Tap and he owns the Langham Creek 424 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 2: location out in the Cypress are at the northwest of Houston, 425 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 2: and I didn't know he was out of town that day, 426 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 2: and I was going to go in between the shows, 427 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 2: head out at about noon and get back by about two. 428 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 2: And you know, I have a few hours in between 429 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 2: during the show and usually I'm stuck at my desk, 430 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 2: but at that on that day, I was caught up. 431 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 2: So the woman named Heather answered. She answered, didn't go 432 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 2: to a voice tree and it's very helpful, and you're 433 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 2: very apologetic to Rick. Wasdin there and I could have her? 434 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 2: Could I haven't called back? I thought, this's got to 435 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 2: be the owner's wife. No, she's just a lady that 436 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: works there. Lady that's married, has kids, and this is 437 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 2: her job. She works checking people out at the Ace 438 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 2: hardware and helping them with anything they need. And I 439 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 2: was so impressed. So I told her about the story 440 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 2: on the air, and I asked Rick in an email, Hey, 441 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 2: would you do something for her in front of all 442 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 2: the other employees. I think it's good for people to 443 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,959 Speaker 2: be recognized among their peers. 444 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: So I got an. 445 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 2: Email from Rick and he said, zar, just to follow 446 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 2: up on this, I did a spot bonus for her, 447 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 2: which means a bonus right there on the spot, as 448 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 2: opposed to part of your regular paycheck. And I recognized 449 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 2: her over the store radio to give her recognition in 450 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 2: front of her peers as you asked. She was embarrassed 451 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: by the whole thing and just felt like she was 452 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 2: doing her job. Customers have since come in found her 453 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 2: and said, oh, your Heather. Thanks again for the recognition 454 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 2: for her. She's always cheerful and polite and deserved the recognition. 455 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 2: She's great at her job and trains all of our 456 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: new cashiers. I always say it doesn't cost you anything 457 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 2: to say thank you, but it sure is valuable to 458 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: the person who gets it. When you're building a culture 459 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 2: in an organization. I find that a lot of business 460 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: owners are good at telling me how terrible their employees 461 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 2: are and what they do wrong, but many people are 462 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 2: not very good at understanding how you change that and 463 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: get them to do right. And I think the idea 464 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: that where this goes wrong is this idea. And I've 465 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 2: noticed that people have this that everybody should show up 466 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 2: on day one knowing right from wrong, knowing how to 467 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 2: address people, knowing to put the customer first, knowing to 468 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 2: be on time. And when that person isn't, they're very 469 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 2: good at saying, oh, he doesn't even know to do this, this, 470 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 2: and this. All right, that's step one, step two as 471 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: you teach him, but he's not equipped to fulfill your expectations. 472 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: And if we're being honest, you're not equipped to teach 473 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 2: him how to that's your failing. Your job is to 474 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 2: take him from point A to point B, to coach him, 475 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 2: to lead him, to manage him, to improve him, to 476 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 2: inspire him. But you don't know how to do that. 477 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 2: You only know how to point out the things that 478 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 2: he doesn't do well. Well, I give you one way 479 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: you can do that. There's positive and negative reinforcements, carrot 480 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 2: and a stick. You can start with the positive. When 481 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 2: an employee demonstrates a trait that you want to see, 482 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 2: highlight that you have an internal email. Highlight that Russell 483 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 2: Lebarra does that on his internal emails. He points out 484 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 2: somebody that does something right. If you have, you know, 485 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 2: roll call for you at your police station or at 486 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 2: your company. Hey, I'd like to point out that Wendy 487 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: did this great thing. I need to update my names, Romo. 488 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 2: All I got is Wendy and Susan and maybe Karen 489 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 2: and for boys, I got Bobby. I got to come 490 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 2: up with Tommy. Got to come up with some new 491 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 2: ones and work on that. But that's one way you 492 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: can do it. It's a lot more fun than having 493 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 2: to punish, which you have to do as well. But 494 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 2: giving an employee recognition in front of others both makes 495 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 2: them feel good about it, but it also tells the 496 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 2: other people. Hey, that's the expectation I have. And some 497 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 2: people will see that and go, oh, why did I 498 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 2: think to do? You know, I'm not the one. I'm 499 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: not doing that. I'm doing the opposite of that. I 500 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 2: guess he notices that I'm doing the opposite of that, 501 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 2: I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do. That's the standard. 502 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 2: Many many organizations do not have a culture because they've 503 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 2: not established a culture. You can't assume culture exists on 504 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: its own. You have to establish it. Nick Saban doesn't 505 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 2: just bring in players and hope everything works out well. 506 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 2: He's honestly, he was constantly chewing their ass to get 507 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 2: them back in line. That's how you heard these steers 508 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 2: or wrangle these cats. 509 00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: You teach them. 510 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 2: Here the parameters, here's what's expected. Here's what we're going 511 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 2: to do. When you do that the way it's supposed 512 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: to be done, we'll win. When you don't. We're not 513 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 2: going to wait to lose to show you that that 514 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: was what was wrong. Jose Garcia sent me an email 515 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 2: subject hardworking old lady in Santa fe. 516 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: Zar. 517 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 2: I had a screw in my tire this morning, so 518 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,959 Speaker 2: I head into Sam's Club to get it patched up. 519 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 2: They refused to do it. They said, if I go 520 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 2: to a mom and pop shop, I'd probably have better love. 521 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 2: There will be a day where we don't have mama 522 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 2: pop shops. You realize this, There will be a day 523 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 2: where there will not be an independently owned small business. 524 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: And these are the small businesses we go to for 525 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 2: what the big boxes won't do, and then what do 526 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 2: we do? And it will have been our own fault. 527 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 2: So Sam said, Now I go in little mom and pop. 528 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 2: They'll do that for you because we won't. I went 529 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 2: down FM seventeen sixty four in Stanta Fe, stopped at 530 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 2: Bud's Tire Service, and he sent a to a buz 531 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 2: Tar service. 532 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: It's exactly what you look like, what you expect. 533 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 2: It's about seven foot tall, low slung building of plywood 534 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 2: with a hand painted sign that says Buds Tar Shop 535 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 2: and tires everywhere. I don't know if they're new tires 536 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: or old tires, but if i'm a betting man than 537 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 2: I am, they're old tires. I didn't see a raggedy 538 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 2: old mangye dog around there, but I'm sure there is one. 539 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: At first, I don't see anyone there, and I'm about 540 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: to leave. Then this sweet little lady, probably sixty five 541 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 2: years old, comes out, and I think there's no way 542 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: she fixes flats. Sure enough, she grabs a jack and 543 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 2: asks which tire. She then proceeds to remove the tire 544 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 2: from my truck. Takes it off the rim, patches it up, 545 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 2: lugs it around to a bathtub to check for leaks. 546 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 2: She was impressive and at the same time motivational. To 547 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: see an older lady put in work like that and 548 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 2: continue being a productive member of society is a site 549 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 2: to see. I made sure to give her a good 550 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 2: tip ps. I wanted to help her remove and then 551 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 2: mount the tire, but she didn't seem like she wanted, expected, 552 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 2: or needed help. 553 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: Tough lady. 554 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 2: Then, in contrast to her grit and hard work ethic, 555 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 2: as I headed to the Gold Freeway to drive into 556 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 2: work in downtown Houston, I see a young, seemingly able body, 557 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 2: young man at the intersection asking for help. 558 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: Have a good day, jose Garcia there is. 559 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 2: I don't know if Bud's Tire Shop on seventeen sixty 560 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 2: four has a website. 561 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: My guess is not. 562 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 2: But he did include a photo which I'll post to 563 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 2: the Facebook page and we'll put on the blast today, 564 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 2: which you could get by signing up at Michael berryshow 565 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: dot com. We send out a blast once a day, 566 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 2: but if you're in that area, you want to stop 567 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 2: in and meet this sweet little lady. 568 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: He did say she's somewhere between fifty and sixty five. 569 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: I didn't see that. I said she's sixty five. He 570 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: says she's somewhere between fifty and sixty five. She could 571 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: be older. 572 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 2: I don't know what a good oreo huh h. Which 573 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 2: how you want when you're gonna have somebody up. So 574 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 2: you got a Hispanic dude praising an old white woman 575 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 2: for fixing his tire. 576 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: I love it. 577 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 4: Mhm