1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and brother Bill and Patty and Shearon and the 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: rest of you hangtied. I'll get to you just a moment. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: But on the black line, Fred from by Tom Rouge 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: The two two five. You're up. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: Oh hello, mister Arry, Yes, sir Fred, Yeah. 6 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 3: I was just calling to talk about a little bit 7 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 3: of music. 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: I guess. 9 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: I'm sure you know. 10 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 3: The song Man of Constance Sor Yes, yeah, it was 11 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 3: Pater in that crazy movie. But did you know that 12 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 3: there was a rock version of that song? 13 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: It was a Soggy Mountain Boys. 14 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 2: What is it? 15 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: Soggy Mountain Boys? Yeah, soggy bottom boys. Uh, yes, I do. 16 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: Who did it? The charm City Devils? Okay? Is it 17 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: a good version? 18 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:45,919 Speaker 2: Oh? I think so. 19 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 3: I mean when I first heard it, I thought lost 20 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 3: my other love and mind that you know. 21 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: I have a theory, Fred, that two thirds of the 22 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: people that know that song know it because of the 23 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: movie Old Brother Where Art though, which was really good? 24 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, really good for that. You got it 25 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: rem right here we go, hold on for it. I 26 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: haven't heard this kind of swamp rock feel to it, 27 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: I mean, and then we're kind of minister Boss. It 28 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: goes kind of headbanger it comes out of swamp rock 29 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: and goes headbanger. I like that. This is like what 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: thirty eight Special could have been, like Asu Spades. Uh, 31 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: you're not thinking a lemon nothing, A motor Hill. Yeah. Yeah, 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: although motor that doesn't have a Southern vibe. This has 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: a little bit of a swampy somewhere between somewhere between 34 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: Wayne Toobs and Tom Petty. It might be along the 35 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: it might be on the Florabama coast or something. Pirates 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: of the Caribbean. Hu Anyway, why'd you bring that up? Fred? 37 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: Oh? 38 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 3: I don't know. 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: I just thought about we were talking. You were talking 40 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 1: about music. 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: One day, I don't know, last week or something, and 42 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 3: that song jumped into my into my mind. 43 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: You know. 44 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: I love the fact that you call you know Fred. 45 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: My boys are now fifteen and sixteen, and so they 46 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: know that when we go places, people are gonna come 47 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: up and say hello. And they've stopped saying it. But 48 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: they used to say to me. They'd say, Dad, you 49 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: know that guy? And I said no. And he said, 50 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: why did he just come up and start talking to you? 51 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: And I said, well, he listens to me, Well, how 52 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: does he know what you look like? He looked me up, 53 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: and I say, but these people talk to you like 54 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: they know you. I say, Michael, if your dad does 55 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: his job, well, then that's the way I want people 56 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: to feel that way. The way we do our show. 57 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: The stage is not elevated. Right, we're in the round 58 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: and everyone is around us like break dancing and everyone. 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: Well it sounded good, you know, because you're in the round. 60 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: So everyone is around and we're all there together. Right, 61 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: we're at the bar and everybody has a seat, nobody's 62 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: higher or lower than anyone else, and we're talking about 63 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: things that people feel comfortable with. So great, call Fred, 64 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: where do you live in Baton Rouge? 65 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 3: They live in since And where's that? I could God, 66 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 3: I don't even know what to me about. 67 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: Subdivision? 68 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: It's near what's hospital? 69 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: Oh okay, are you from Baton Rouge originally? 70 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 3: No? 71 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: No, No, North Carolina? 72 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 2: Where Greensboro? 73 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: You don't like to ask answering personal questions, Fred, I 74 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: like that. Do you know there's a new head of 75 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: the West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. She's our friend. 76 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: That's how I know. Anna Johnson. 77 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 4: Oh no, sir, I you. 78 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: Should call up there and say I hear y'all have 79 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: a new director and she's really good. Anna Johnson. Fred 80 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: thanks for the call, my man. I love that he 81 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: just picked up the phone. Hey have you heard this song? 82 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: That's perfect to me? Brother Bill and Brian, you're up, 83 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: go ahead? 84 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 4: Hey, Amen, what you just said? You know why you're 85 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 4: so personable because I feel like your family, Michael, and 86 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 4: that's how Rush used to be. And I know we 87 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 4: don't like you to compare to Rush. That's exactly how 88 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: you are. He tell us about your kids. You don't 89 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 4: talk about your dog. I guess you don't have a dog, 90 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 4: but your gun. I mean, you talk about everything. That's 91 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 4: why we all love you. But anyway, hold on. 92 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: I just want to make something to her because people 93 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: say this often. It's not that I don't want to 94 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: be compared to Rush. That's the highest honor. I feel 95 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: awkward if someone I don't want anybody thinking that I 96 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: myself do that, because that is presumptuous and I am 97 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: not a humble man or im modest, but I feel 98 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: that that would be a little bit overstepping my bounds, 99 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: or maybe a lot over it. But I appreciate that 100 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: I got it, and. 101 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 4: I never would have found you if we wouldn't have 102 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 4: lost Rush because I was just hooked the Rush and 103 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 4: I needed someone else. Although you're not on between eleven 104 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 4: and two, that's how I found you. I'm so glad 105 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 4: I did. But uh so, Gringoes, Old's Jerky, and oh 106 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 4: your your knowledge, you know I'm in the convenience store business. 107 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 4: Your knowledge of Aga Khani's and the Smileies, I'm just fascinated. 108 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 4: You're just so right on a lot. And that's another thing. 109 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 4: Rush knew what he was talking about, and so do you. 110 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 4: But tell me about Greenoes. There's a lot of Mexican restaurants. 111 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 4: They're opening one here in College Station. What's your what's 112 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 4: your thoughts? 113 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: Well, full disclosure. The owner, Russell Lebara, is a very 114 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: very close friend of mine. He's he's like family. He 115 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: really is family, as is Jonathan Kim, his wife Monica, 116 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: his kids, Derek. I don't know Stephen as well, but 117 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: his son Derek, and Skuyler his wife. I mean the 118 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: whole family. I know all the cousins, brothers, Moises, Roland, Chris, 119 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: his sister, the whole family, like they are family. You know. 120 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: I will tell you something that I've told Russell over 121 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: the years and my wife said, it's rude the way 122 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: I say it, but I'm going to say it and 123 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: understand that I mean it as a compliment. I don't 124 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: understand why they're so successful. But of the tex mechs 125 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: empires in Houston, I don't think there is a tex 126 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: Mex restaurant in Houston, and Taco Bell doesn't count. I 127 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: don't think there's a tex Mex restaurant in the greater 128 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: Houston area that does a higher gross sales than Gringos 129 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: and Jimmy Chunga's. It's the same guy, same company that 130 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: it just kind of changed the concept a little. And 131 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: I say to him, Russell, I don't understand what you 132 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,679 Speaker 1: do so much better. Is it a lower price point? Maybe, 133 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: but guess what, there are people with a lower price point. 134 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: Is it your location? Maybe other people could locate right 135 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: next to you and they're in you know, they're on Fuquay, 136 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: they're out off Mushki. So it's very hard to be 137 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: in all different areas of Houston. The League City. You know, 138 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: if you're sitting in New York and you're trying to 139 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: sell product to League City, you think that League City 140 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: in Texas City would be the same. No, they're very 141 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: different demographics. You might think that League City and Tomball 142 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,559 Speaker 1: are the same. No, they might be equidistant from town, 143 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: but they're very different. Magnolia is a little different than Tomball. 144 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: The Woodlands is different than Cyprus. The Woodlands is its 145 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: own beast. So I don't know what he does so 146 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: much better, but I know he does it better on 147 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: a larger scale than anybody, and nobody knows they do. 148 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: I think one hundred and thirty five million dollars a 149 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: year in sales. That's an insane amount of money. Insane, 150 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: and he's got to be good or Tilman would go 151 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: into that space. The fact that Tilman does go into 152 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: that space, I think they've closed the Cadillac bars that 153 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: the fact that Tilman does not go into that space 154 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: tells you something right and how good he is. And 155 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: when I say I don't understand why they're so successful, 156 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: it is because they're so good at what they do 157 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: without having to yell at you about it or announce 158 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: they're just that good every meal. It's impressive. I mean, 159 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: it's overwhelming. It's it's Tom Brady good. One of the 160 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: things I do when we finish every day, the morning show. 161 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: In between the two shows is I go through emails 162 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: and I clear out all my emails, and then I 163 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: go through and I look at old audio because sometimes 164 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: I find that speeches or comments or things of this ilk. 165 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: I can find things that we played ten years ago 166 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: that are just as relevant today because the playbook is 167 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: still the damn same. He came across an audio file 168 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: that I had that I don't think we've ever played, 169 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: but I had written some comments on it about how 170 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: good it was, and it's about the culture wars, and 171 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: it is about and it is from one of my favorites. 172 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: He's a great economist, which is how he's classically trained 173 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: as an economist, but he's he's His social commentary is 174 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: also fantastic. His name is Thomas Soul. And I've encouraged 175 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: a lot of you to listen to this, and some 176 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: of you have and you've sent back Basic Economics, it's 177 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: what it's called. But you can get the book on tape. 178 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: I encourage books on tape because a lot of you 179 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: may not have time to read, but you do have 180 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: time in the car after our show and our podcast 181 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: is over. One of my favorite lines from Thomas Soul, 182 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: people are never more sincere than when they assume their 183 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: own superiority, nor are they ever more ruthless. You think 184 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: about how the left was over the JAB, You think 185 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: about how vicious they're going to be over global warming, 186 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: because that's what's coming. You think making you get a 187 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: JAB was Oh wait to you see anyway? This is 188 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: from years ago from Thomas Soul. But just give it 189 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: a listen. I don't normally play clips this long. It's 190 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: called the Dirty Truth about Cultural Wars. I want you 191 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: to listen to this because I think it is wonderful. 192 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 2: Cultural wars are dirty wars, much like guerrilla warfare in 193 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: the jungles, with no regard for the rules of the 194 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 2: Geneva Convention. Warfare over traditional values versus avant guarde values 195 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: is raging all across the United States today, from the 196 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: art galleries to the armed forces, and from the Kindergarten 197 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court. At issue is whose cultural values 198 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: shall prevail and who shall make the decisions that reflect 199 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: those values. The categorical language of rights is widely used 200 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 2: as a weapon in these cultural wars. Those who are 201 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 2: pushing a woman's right to go into military combat, for example, 202 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: are in effect saying that the decisions of the military 203 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 2: commanders responsible for the lives of thousands of troops, and 204 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: the decisions of the American society as to the social 205 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 2: roles of the sexes are all to be superseded by 206 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 2: the visions of self anointed and politically organized feminist advocacy groups. 207 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 2: The particulars of the arguments, the physical strength of the sexes, 208 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 2: the performance of women in the military, et cetera, are, 209 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 2: in one sense, all beside the point. The question is 210 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: not what to decide, but who is to decide. As 211 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 2: elsewhere in the cultural wars, the issue is whether a 212 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 2: vocal elite should get the power to preempt the decisions 213 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 2: of others. To the anointed, the use of words like 214 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 2: rights is sufficient to put one coterie's opinions above discussion, 215 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: and the word stereotypes is enough to put the values 216 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 2: of the society at large beneath the discussion. They don't 217 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 2: want discussion, they want power. One of the more remarkable 218 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 2: rights to emerge in recent years is the right to 219 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: the taxpayer's money for anything that chooses to call itself art, 220 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 2: regardless of whether the taxpayers or voters likewood is produced, 221 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 2: and regardless of whether The clear intent of this art is, 222 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 2: in fact, to insult the values and beliefs of the public. 223 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: For people to decide what their own money is to 224 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 2: be spent for is censorship in the new speak of 225 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 2: the anointed. More generally, the cultural wars are being waged 226 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: to get decision making powers transferred to elites who do 227 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 2: not pay, either in money or in other ways. Family responsibilities, 228 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: for example, have been taken over by schools, courts, social 229 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 2: agencies and others who pay no price if their decisions 230 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 2: turn out disastrously for children or their parents, or for 231 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 2: the whole society. The basic thrust of the soul so 232 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: called consumer movement is likewise a drive for preempting the 233 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 2: consumer's choice, not simply informing it. The consumer must be 234 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity, Ralph 235 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 2: Nader said in his first article published in the Nation 236 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty nine. It is much the same story 237 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: in the economic sphere, where having an economic plan, or 238 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 2: perhaps even an industrial policy or an energy policy are 239 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 2: all widely and uncritically regarded among opinion elites as good 240 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 2: things in themselves. But government planning is not an alternative 241 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 2: to chaos. It is a preemption of other people's plans. 242 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 2: Whether the sphere of activity is art, military, combat, law schools, 243 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 2: or the economy. The issue is whether elite preemption shall 244 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 2: replace both individual autonomy and democratic choice. The courts are 245 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 2: a major battleground in these wars over cultural values, for 246 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 2: they are well positioned to preempt the decisions of others 247 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 2: by interpreting the Constitution to ban or promote whatever the 248 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 2: judges want banned or promoted. The bitter struggles over Supreme 249 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 2: Court nominees in recent years have reflected this key role 250 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 2: of the courts in imposing policies so repugnant to the 251 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 2: public that elected representatives would not dare vote. The mental 252 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 2: law criminals, judge created rights, bussing, affirmative action, and abortion 253 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: are just some of the policies preempted from the democratic 254 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: process by judicial fiat. The issue, as Judge Robert H. 255 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: Bork has said, is whether intellectual class values shall continue 256 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: to be enacted into law by the Supreme Court. The 257 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 2: concern expressed by Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Suitor as to 258 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 2: how their ruling in the recent case of Planned Parenthood v. 259 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: Casey would be seen by the thoughtful part of the 260 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 2: nation suggests that elite preemption is still in favor even 261 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 2: among Justice's labeled conservative. The preemptive class is undoubtedly sincere. 262 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 2: People are never more sincere than when they assume their 263 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: own superiority, nor are they ever more ruthless. J. A. 264 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 2: Schumpeter said that the first thing a man will do 265 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 2: for his ideals is lie. Disingenuous words, twisted statistics, and 266 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 2: misleading labels are all part of the dirty war over 267 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 2: cultural values. Cultural wars are so desperate because they are 268 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 2: not simply about the merits or demerits of particular policies. 269 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 2: They are about the anointed's whole conception of themselves, about 270 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 2: whether they are in the heady role of a vanguard 271 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 2: or in the pathetic role of pretentious and silly people 272 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: infatuated with themselves. 273 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: This is me, Michael Berry, the show. All right, don't 274 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: call be crazy, but just follow along here for a moment. 275 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: I'm not joking on this. I'm dead serious. What I'm 276 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: about to say is not a parody. It's not a joke. 277 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: There's not going to be a funny bit at the 278 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: end of it. It's not a setup. I have been 279 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: pondering on dealing with liberals. White liberals are the problem. 280 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: The Martha's Vineyards set that lost their minds after after 281 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: the illegals were dropped off there, but have insulted Texans 282 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: who've had to deal with far worse than that for 283 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: far longer. They weren't even there for twenty four hours. 284 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: I have come to the conclusion that these people are toxic, 285 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: and they cannot be helped, and they cannot be fixed. 286 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: I've come to the conclusion that you should not hire them. 287 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: You should not do business with them if you can 288 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: help it. You should not in any way associate with them, 289 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: because it will only end badly. They will ruin your 290 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: love of country. Surround yourself with good peopleople surround yourself 291 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 1: with the kind of people you want to be. I 292 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: seek out friends who have succeeded in some field and 293 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: achieved greatness, because I want to know what it took 294 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: to be great at what they did, and then maybe 295 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: I can take from that and be great at what 296 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: I do, be that talk show host, influencer, dad, husband, employer. 297 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: I want to learn from people who've been the best 298 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: at throwing a football or kicking a football, or hitting 299 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: a golf ball, or building a company or manufacturing things, 300 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: or inventing things, or teaching things or preaching things. Surround 301 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: yourself with people you love who love you. If you 302 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: have people in your life who you do not love 303 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: or who do not I love you. It strikes me 304 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: as very odd how many people will tell me that 305 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: they don't like their brother in law, but they're going 306 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 1: fishing with him this weekend, or he's coming over. You 307 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 1: can say no. If you've got a relative who comes 308 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: to your house and torments you the entire time they're 309 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: there about Trump or anything else, you can say no 310 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: to that. You don't have to tolerate that. You can 311 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: either tell your wife, I don't care that your brother 312 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: wants to come over. I don't care that he's your brother. 313 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:33,959 Speaker 1: I'm tired of him talking to me that way. If 314 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: anybody else talk to me that way, I'd punch him 315 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: in the face. And you can confront him. You can 316 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: do back to him what he does to you. What 317 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: liberals will do is they don't get in your face 318 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: and scream at you that you're an awful person. They pick, 319 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: they pick, they needle. They do it in such a 320 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: way that when they have finally picked at the wrong person, 321 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: who yells at them or punches him in the face, saying. 322 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 3: What are you doing? 323 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: What happened? Why are you overreacting? I don't want you 324 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: to talk about that again. I don't want you to 325 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: talk to me that way again. You're allowed to say that, 326 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: but follow me here. And granted I understand this price 327 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: sounds crazy if it's the first time you've heard me 328 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: say this. I believe there is a biblical prohibition against 329 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: marrying democrats. Hold on Deuteronomy seven three through four. Look 330 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: it up. The Israelites are told you shall not enter 331 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: marry with them, giving your daughters to their sons, or 332 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn 333 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 1: away your sons from following me to serve other gods. 334 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, 335 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: and he would destroy you quickly. Well, this prohibition, as 336 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: you know, was to avoid the contagion of false gods. See, 337 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: if you give your daughter into the family of worshipers 338 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: of false gods, they will convert your daughter to worship 339 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: a false god. What's a false god? The state? Socialism, globalism, 340 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: global warming, pandemic love, All of these things that the 341 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: state shall do, all that the government shall do all. 342 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: This is a religion. It's not just a political theory. 343 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: It's a religion. And that's why communists always destroy the church, 344 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: because the state cannot compete with the church if the 345 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: state is a religion. When the Jews were returned to 346 00:20:53,040 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: Jerusalem after the captivity in Babylon, do you remember who 347 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: was so distressed to learn that some of the returneyes 348 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: had taken wives from the local population. Ezra. Ezra was concerned. 349 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: It was sort of like Vietnam, where American gis would 350 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: go to Vietnam and come back with Vietnamese wives. Ezra 351 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,959 Speaker 1: was concerned that his people, when returning, had taken wives 352 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: from the local population, because just as you don't want 353 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: to give your daughter over to those who worship false gods, 354 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: neither do you want the worshippers of false god's daughters 355 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: to come into your home, because that is an insidious, 356 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: cancerous invasion. A trojan horse. In Ezra ten two through three, 357 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: Ezra was praying. A large group of Israelites came to 358 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: him in repentance. They made a proposal to fix the problem. Qut, 359 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: we have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign 360 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, 361 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: there is still hope for Israel. Now, let us make 362 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: a covenant before our God to send away all these 363 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of 364 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: my Lord and of those who fear the commands of 365 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: our God. Let it be done according to the law. 366 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: The purpose of this covenant would be to once again 367 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: set apart the Jewish people as fully devoted to the Lord, 368 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: and remove any and all connections with those who worshiped 369 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: other gods. The agreement required the men of Judah to 370 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: do what do you remember, to divorce their pagan wives. 371 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: Ezra agreed that the covenant, this covenant, was the proper course, 372 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 1: and he commanded, quote, you have been unfaithful. You have 373 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 1: married foreign women, adding to Israel's guilt. Now honor the Lord, 374 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: the god of your ancestors, and do his wor will 375 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: separate yourselves from the people's around you and your foreign wives. 376 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: Took them three months, but they got rid of their wives, 377 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: and they fixed the problem of allowing the left into 378 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: their lives. I'm telling you, separate from the liberals, get 379 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: them out of your life. You'll be happier, more productive, 380 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: more patriotic and live longer. She was twelve. I was thirty, 381 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: but then it was wonderful to have you, mister President 382 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: of the Michael Barry Show. Jimmy Allan Stewart. Stewart and 383 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: Tim Nichols recorded this song. It was also recorded by Mobandi, 384 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: but the more I think this is probably the more 385 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: popular version. It's uh, did I say it was? Keith Whitley, 386 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: Earl Thomas Gone, etc. Jimmy Allen Stewart wrote some songs, 387 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: but Tim Nichols body of work. I have often said 388 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: that songwriters don't get the do today that they deserve 389 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: because they're what used to be the great poets, the Tennyson's, 390 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: the Shakespeares, the Frosts, the Emerson's, I mean, the Whipman's. 391 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: These guys are special, and you see it with guys 392 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 1: that just wrote so many. Tim Nichols wrote when Mamma 393 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: ain't happy for Tracy Bird, he wrote for you. Look 394 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: at the list of people who recorded his stuff, Trace Atkins, 395 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: Terry Clark, John Corbett, Billy Dean faith Hill, Alan Jackson, 396 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: Sammy Kershaw. He wrote Vadelia for Sammy Kershaw. When you 397 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,719 Speaker 1: hear that song, you know it's more than an onion. 398 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: And you think of it as Sammy Kershaw. Nothing wrong 399 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: with that. Sammy Kershaw made that song his own, but 400 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: he didn't write it. He had to. Those words had 401 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: to be taken from the ether and put down on 402 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: paper for him to see that that is the creation. 403 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: That is no less glorious than building a skyscraper or 404 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: an airplane, or a car or a sculpture. It is 405 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: a work of art that one minute it doesn't exist, 406 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: and then it does. That's that's that's worth noting. Aaron 407 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 1: Tippin van Zant, Keith Whitley. Oh, he wrote I'm Over 408 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: You for Keith Whitley, Chris Young, Keith Anderson, Clay Walker, 409 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: lea Ane Walmack Blackhawk. I mean, these are all artists. 410 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: I haven't even listed them all that Joe Nichols, that 411 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: Tim Nichols, Joey was that Tim Nichols wrote for. He 412 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: wrote what's the one? For Joe Nichols. She only smokes 413 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: when she drinks. That's a funny song, you know that song? 414 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: All right to the phone lines, we go, h Cody, 415 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: You're up, go ahead, sir. 416 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: Yes, I gotta say they got a chance. McClean he 417 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 3: is one. I mean, he is one amazing dude. Away 418 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 3: it is. I was blown away just by the way 419 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 3: he was able to connect with everybody that he spoke 420 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 3: to about, you know, our our family member that we 421 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 3: had that was going through some things, and we wanted 422 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 3: him to actually speak the chance, but he looked me 423 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 3: dead in my eyes and told me, there's no way 424 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk to a stranger about my feelings or 425 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 3: about anything going on in my life. 426 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: So you know what's funny. The greatest impediment to getting 427 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: heritage films done is that the family wants it done, 428 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: and the mother or the father resist and they have 429 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: to wear them down and finally go, look, they're gonna 430 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 1: have to do this, Okay, it's not gonna be hard. 431 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: It's and they always every time they walk away, when 432 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: when the when, when the filming is over, they chance 433 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: will go, all right, is there anything else? That's the 434 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: fifth time he's asked, is there anything else? You'd like 435 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: to say? No, I believe that's it. All right, Then 436 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: we're done. We're done. Yeah, we're done. I got nothing 437 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: else unless you That's why I'll stay here as long 438 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: as you want. It's over, sir. I've been here for 439 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: six hours. You know, man, that went fast. That was fun. 440 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: He eats lunch with them. I mean, it's you know, 441 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: it's interesting. You get to know somebody pretty darn well 442 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: when you show up in the morning and set all 443 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,439 Speaker 1: your stuff up in their living room. You spend the 444 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: morning with them, you eat lunch with them, you spend 445 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 1: the afternoon filming, and you talk about your life and 446 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: you know you're sharing with the stranger. And for some 447 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: people people it's actually easier to share with a stranger, 448 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: right because there's no judgment and he doesn't judge you. 449 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: And at the end of it, they always say, that 450 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: was so much easier than I expected. I don't know 451 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: what people were. Well, a lot of older folks are 452 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: not used to sharing their stories, sharing their They don't 453 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 1: think of themselves as somebody who's interesting. But to our families, 454 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: we're all interesting. And that's why I love to have 455 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,640 Speaker 1: guests on and get them. Whatever somebody called to talk 456 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,919 Speaker 1: about is almost never as interesting as one thing about 457 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: them that they don't think is interesting. And that might 458 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: be what they do for a living, where they grew up, 459 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: where they served, who they married, who they divorced, how 460 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: many times they've been divorced, that time they got shot. 461 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: Everybody's got a great story. It's just a question. It's 462 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: just a question of me being able to ask a 463 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: question that gets them to open them up to something 464 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: that maybe they weren't ready to they weren't ready to tell, 465 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: And that's just that's a function of them feeling comfortable. 466 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: And part of the reason that people open up to 467 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: me is because I come into their truck every day, 468 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: or their living room, or how about Lois turning ninety five? 469 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: How great is that? Or you know their workplace or 470 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: whatever else. I love hearing stories when people will say, hey, Michael, 471 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: I went down to accurate meter in supply and I 472 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: walked in and do you know this fella, Dane, He's 473 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: got your show on at the inside there and they 474 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: listened to you. Did you know that? No, I didn't. 475 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: Dane Berson's listener. He's called a show before, but I 476 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: had no idea that, Oh yeah, they got your show, Blair, 477 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: and they don't care who hears it. They're proud of you. 478 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: I love those. So if that's you, send me an email. 479 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: I'll give you. I'll give you a little love on 480 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: the air. If you play our show out loud for 481 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: people to hear when they walk in the door, and 482 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: you really don't care what they think about it. Send 483 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: me an email right now. Michael Berryshow dot com is 484 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: our website, Michael Berryshow dot com. I won Should we 485 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: do another hour? Are you done? I'm about warslap out 486 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: not allow to. We may or may not be back.