1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: We will come back to a discussion of radio. Several 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: of you have asked for an explanation on where radio is, 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: how it works, how stations are formatted, the choice of 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 1: music on those, and we will come back to it, 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: I promise. But I wanted to get to it because 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: it is all our show team has been talking about. 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: So I will come back to the radio discussion. But 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: there is a story that has gone viral, as those 9 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: can often do, and I asked Chance but Claim to 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: write it up for me because I didn't know the details. 11 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: And here's what he said. I ended up watching the 12 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 1: video At a cold Play concert in Boston. The kiss 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: cam caught the CEO of an AI company called Astronomer. 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: His name is Andy Byron. He's married with kids, and 15 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: he's cozying up with his a HR chief, Kristin Cabot, 16 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: who's not his wife. They panicked on the jumbo tron. 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: Chris Martin, who I guess is the lead singer of Coleplay, 18 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: joked about an affair. So when you watch the video, 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: if you look up Coleplay concert, it's going to be 20 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: the top thing you see. The guy is talking into 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: the microphone and this jumbo tron is directly in front 22 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: of him, and it's massive, and I guess they were 23 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: just panning around. When I first heard about this story 24 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: from the team, I thought, oh, well, you know that 25 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: most of those kiss cams at professional sporting events, those 26 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: are professional companies that put those on. So you know, 27 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: when the guy goes up and does something crazy and 28 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: the other guy slaps him, but he doesn't really, it's 29 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: all a carnival game, and you know it's the sideshow 30 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: entertainment for people who are at a sporting event who 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: are not really sporting events. Look, if you own a 32 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: professional sports team, or for that matter, double A or 33 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: single A, they tend to do a better job because 34 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: they have to. But if you own a professional sports team, 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: you got to have entertainment because the number of people 36 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: who are there for the actual athletic experience consumer experience 37 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: is low because for every dad that really wants to 38 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: see a ball game, he's got to bring his wife, 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: who in many cases has no interest in it, or 40 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 1: his kids, who, if they don't play yet because they're 41 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: too young or they don't play that sport, they're stuck. 42 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,119 Speaker 1: And so you got to have an all around carnival experience. 43 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 1: So you've got to have all this other stuff going 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: on every second that a ball is not being pitched 45 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: or snapped. You got to have a side show. Okay. 46 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: So one of the things they do is the kiss cam, 47 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: and you have these companies that do this. So anyway, 48 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Chris Martin from Stage jokes about the fact that they 49 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: have to be having an affair or they're really shy. 50 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: Well it turns out they're having an affair. It goes viral, 51 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: thirty four million views on social media and counting, and 52 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: I don't know how many it was, but the way 53 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: this thing works, it goes exponential. So the CEO, the fellow, 54 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: his wife, Megan, drops his last name on Facebook. She 55 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: changes her name to her maiden name, and then she 56 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: deletes her account. So first she's just going to change 57 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: her name, but then people found her then, and people 58 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: can be cruel, people can be awful. Here she is 59 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: the slighted bride, you know, a mother worried about her 60 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: kids having to go to school and all that, and 61 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: people are vicious online. So social media is having a 62 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: blast with this. The couple has not spoken, or the 63 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: man and the woman he was with, and the company 64 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: has not made a statement. What's interesting here is the 65 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: HR chief being involved in an out of workplace inappropriate relationship, 66 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: the very thing that I'll bet you she spent her 67 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: career ruining other careers over There is a certain justice 68 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: to that. I don't know. Folks are predicting it will 69 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: affect the company's fortunes. I don't know that that's necessarily true, 70 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: other than it'll distract him. But I don't know how 71 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: many people are hiring an AI company because they expect 72 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: the AI company CEO to I don't know. Maybe they do, 73 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: maybe their wives tell them, Hey, aren't you doing business 74 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: with astronomer? Yeah? Kill that, kill that deal right now. 75 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: I don't know want you're doing business with them? Because 76 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: there is a fraternity of ladies. You know, you got 77 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: to stick together in a situation like this. I would 78 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: like to hear your I got busted, or I busted 79 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: my spouse, or the boss got busted while I was 80 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: at the office, or I watched this go down situation, 81 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: because I guarantee you there are some good ones. I 82 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: didn't expect the bad Name game to be so good. 83 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: It was one of the best we've ever done. So 84 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: now we turned to chance McLean, who, in his best 85 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: or worst Coldplay tells the story. Here we go. We 86 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: should have saved it. 87 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 2: God, it wasn't me, honey saw me Conn make charm. 88 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: It wasn't me on the jar, It wasn't me. I'm 89 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 2: going to a concert, gonna. 90 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 3: See cole Play. I know the sadlist by Hall. 91 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be side. 92 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 3: Bringing my side piece, sliding under the rain of everything's perfect. 93 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: We're swearing the side just another couple getting on. Everyone 94 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 3: standing wringing and laughing. Oh god, a job try, I said, 95 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 3: we be passing gifty three four into an h R. 96 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: I can't believe we got past. 97 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 3: Now I'm on thin. Oh god, this is so we 98 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 3: should have stayed in my God, it's Cleans. 99 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: It claims it's done for a girl and the boy 100 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: like La Barry show much funny? What's funny? People are 101 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: using the opportunity to take shots at Coldplay art wrights 102 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: Andy Barron is embarrassed. Who wants to be seen at 103 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: a Coldplay concert. Another one of my friends said, you 104 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: think it's bad to be caught with your HR director 105 00:07:54,160 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: lovey w post, imagine being caught at a Coldplay concert. 106 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: That's funny. Well, The interesting thing is in the video 107 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: on the on the webcam, the woman has a certain look, 108 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: which she's not. You know, you figure the CEO and 109 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: the hr director. You know, she's in her twenties. He's 110 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: in there. He's a pretty good look guy. He's fit. 111 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: He's he's got kind of a bill Ackman look about him. Uh, 112 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: he looks like a corporate CEO type. But I mean 113 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: he's he's pretty fit. You can tell he's got all 114 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: the obnoxious trappings, the the the private jets and the 115 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: the yachts and the country club memberships and the you know, 116 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: the whole drill. But you expect her to be this little, 117 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, little climber of a of a qt with 118 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: the with the CEO. I mean, how trite you're with 119 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: the CEO. But she looks like Close in Uh, what's 120 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: the movie where Glenn Close is so fit? Yeah, Fatal Attraction. 121 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: She looks like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Angela writes 122 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: Coldplay Jumbo Tron not a humorous subject for those to 123 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: whom it happened. Disappointed you chose to highlight this. And yes, 124 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: I changed the dial today because that pain never goes away. Well, Angela, 125 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: I can't help you. Let me try to explain this, 126 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: and you get it or you don't. We were six 127 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: months to I don't know, eight months ago. It was 128 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: a group of friends and one of our friends in 129 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: the group, eighty two years old, had just had prostate 130 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: cancer and he just had surgery. And before the surgery, 131 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: for six months, he had to self cap he had 132 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: to self catheterize for six months. I think, now, ladies, 133 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: y'all are a lot tougher. Y'all give birth. We don't. 134 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: He had to dick a tube of as willy to 135 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 1: be able to pee for six months and it was 136 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: excruciating and it was awful, and we had talked about it, 137 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: and then the comment was made with the group that 138 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: you know this this place served breakfast at I don't remember. 139 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: It was an early early hour, and it was a 140 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 1: guide trip. It was a year ago, so to the 141 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: details fade, but you'll get the point. And there was 142 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: reference to the fact that one of the restaurants started 143 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: serving breakfast at four thirty in the morning, and it 144 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: was sent to the group and I don't know, probably 145 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: ten ten guys in the group, and I said that 146 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: so and so, our friend who'd had cancer I said, well, 147 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: he and I will meet there for breakfast because we 148 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: will each have had our eighth p through the course 149 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: of the night. And nobody knew about the self cath 150 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: and the prostate thing except for one other person in 151 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: the group. And somebody said in the group on the 152 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: group text, you ought to get that checked, and I said, 153 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: get it checked. The last friend I had who got 154 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 1: it checked had to self cath for six months and 155 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: then several months of incontinence. I think I'll pass. So 156 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: the guy in the group who did know the story said, hey, 157 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: you do realize that that's just happened to Bob in 158 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: our group, And I said, yeah, that joke was for him, 159 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: because laughing about things is how you own things. But 160 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: you know, maybe that was too far. We all have 161 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: different ways that we cope with things, but when you 162 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: laugh at something, you own it. My mother laughed at 163 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: death just before she died, and that gave me so 164 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 1: much comfort and relief because that means she didn't fear it. 165 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: You ever notice the screeching liberals on social media pages. 166 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: They turned their camera on them and they scream, I 167 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: hate don't and it's like mad men bens She's Trump 168 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: littles rint free in their head. I don't care how 169 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: awful things are when you can laugh about it. We 170 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: laugh about my brother when we get together. We all 171 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: tell jokes and laugh at his expense as he would 172 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: want it, as he would want it. So if you 173 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: don't laugh at things, and you view me laughing at 174 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: things as somehow insulting, hurtful, or whatever else, we're never 175 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: gonna get along. Okay, it's not a good match. And 176 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: that's okay. Right, you're serving sushi. I don't eat sushi. 177 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: We're never gonna match. We don't gel and it's okay, 178 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna change. John writes, it's been fifteen 179 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: years since Coleplay released a single, and now they made 180 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: four in one night. That one, that one has has 181 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: been carried by for uh by a few folks. All right, 182 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: where did I leave? Oh? Here we go. I admired 183 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: Chances Bravery to come out online yesterday and admit that 184 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 1: he likes Coldplay. Mark writes, oh, this was a this 185 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: was a daylight savings times. I have never seen such 186 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: an overblown topic. Forget all the research and studies. If 187 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: a time change was so negative on the human body, 188 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: no one would step on off a plane alive from 189 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: New York City to Los Angeles. The time change attempts 190 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: to keep the start of our clock, say seven am 191 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: at roughly the same skylighting sun position looking into daylight 192 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: saving time. We'll have kids out for school buses in 193 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: the dark during the shorter winter days. Changing the clock 194 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: twice a year is nothing. That's just one of the 195 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: reasons I dislike. And he goes through people who talk 196 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: about this. These folks talk about this ad nauseum. I 197 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: cannot tolerate it. My job had me working with time 198 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: zones in computing and data reporting. I've spent a lifetime 199 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: working with and teaching folks about time perspectives. I've been 200 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: affected by time zones a lot more than the average bear. 201 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: It's never been a big deal for me. My personal 202 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: and business travels haven't killed me yet. Well, I think 203 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: that's a fair perspective. But that's like saying I don't 204 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: know why everybody is bothered watching a dead looking at 205 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: a dead body, or seeing a body gushing with blood, 206 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: or seeing a body out in the sun with rigor 207 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: mortis that then explodes. I'm a coroner. I do it 208 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: all day every I mean there does come a point 209 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: that you desensitize yourself to something that bothers other people. 210 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: Michael writes, Zori, I used to date the HR director 211 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: for the city where I live. She cheated on me 212 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: with a superintendent that also worked for the city. Someone 213 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: took pics and videos of them, send them to the 214 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: man's wife, and they were fired. Talk about karma. 215 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 3: The girls all get pretty at close in time when 216 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 3: you're listening to the Michael Berry Show. 217 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: One friend said that was the most embarrassing thing to 218 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: been caught on camera at a concert since I gave 219 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: Ramona titty twister at a Nickelback show. Coldplay a Nickelback 220 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: are the two bands that if you're forced to go 221 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: to with a girl and one of your buddies asked 222 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: where you're going, I'd rather tell them I'm going into 223 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: a Bay gay bathouse than to a Nickelback or Coldplay concert. 224 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: The girls get real at closing time when you listen 225 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: to the Michael Berry Show. I think I might have 226 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: missed the context of that. Hmm Ed writes, I'm a 227 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: local small electrical contractor. I don't have an issue with 228 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: anyone using marijuana for personal use. Concern I have is 229 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: the liability side. When on a job site, if an 230 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: accident occurs, we are required by OSHA and our insurance 231 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: to drug test anyone involved. It is my understanding that, 232 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: unlike alcohol, the test for marijuana can only detect its presence, 233 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: not the level of impairment. My liability insurance will not 234 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: cover accidents where any impairment or the presence of marijuana 235 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: is involved. It is also my understanding that marijuana is 236 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: detectable for at thirty days after its use. So my 237 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: question would be, if legalized, how would we determine impairment 238 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: for accidents or for driving? I tried to keep this short. 239 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: It is a good question ed, and it is a 240 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: question that arises often, and let me explain it like this. 241 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: So when we talk about, let's say, legalizing marijuana, people 242 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: come at this from a lot of different directions except 243 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: the one that matters most. The one that matters most 244 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: is does a grown man or woman have the ability 245 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: to determine what to put into their body and to 246 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: the extent they do. How much are we the rest 247 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: of us, going to regulate that. That is the core question. 248 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: This is the important part of having a discussion where 249 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 1: you intend to hopefully find some useful conclusion even if 250 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: you don't have universal agreement. So let's start with we 251 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: have now framed the question for discussion. Does an adult 252 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: have agency and freedom to determine what products to put 253 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: into their bodies? So now you can take away about 254 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: fifty percent of women, especially older women, they'll go. But 255 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: the kids, the kids will all do it, Michael, The 256 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: kids will whoa, whoa. Let me let you own a 257 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: couple of things. I've just put tooth one kid through 258 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: high school and another one as a senior. I'm fortunate 259 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: they're not drinkers. But I'm going to tell you there 260 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: are very good kids who drink. There are very good 261 00:18:54,160 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: kids who drink a lot by any measurement. And that's 262 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: gone on since I was growing up, and I suspect 263 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: it was going on before that. But you don't run 264 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: around trying to make alcohol illegal, do you, Because the 265 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: last time you did that, we had prohibition and that 266 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: caused the country problems that we suffer through today. We 267 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: can agree as adults that we can discriminate. That means 268 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: tell the difference between an adult and a child right 269 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: in much the same way that we say two forty 270 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: year olds can have sex. Oh my god, we can't 271 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: allow forty year olds to have sex, because then we'll 272 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 1: have eight year olds having sex with forty year olds. No. No, 273 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: we're capable of seeing those as two different things, and 274 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: we're capable of saying, yes, you two forty year olds, 275 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: y'all can have sex. Forty year old and an eight 276 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: year old you cannot have sex. We're capable of doing that. 277 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: We don't have to outlaws sex because of this subcategory. 278 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: All right. So now we've taken out the we agree 279 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: children should not do marijuana, all right, So we go 280 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: back to our core question should an adult be able 281 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: to make decisions as to whether they do that? Ed's 282 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: question comes up a lot. We have a lot of 283 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: small business owners, show sponsors and listeners. Small business owners 284 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: tend to support other small business owners. Interesting how that works. 285 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: A lot of our sponsors do business with each other. 286 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: Small business owners have a natural antipathy towards doing business 287 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: with big box stores and big national stores because they 288 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: know that that's what they're often competing with, and they 289 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: want to support other folks. So I hear this question 290 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: a lot, and people will say to me, what do 291 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: I do about the fact that I've got guys on 292 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: forklifts and if they are impaired, two questions, two separate questions. 293 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: First questions at and they are impaired, just as with alcohol, 294 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: just as with prescription drugs, you have a zero tolerance 295 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: toward that period, and you should. People can be killed. 296 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: You can't be impaired while operating the forklift. Simple. Well, 297 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: my insurance says the presence of marijuana, So that's very simple. 298 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: We can legalize marijuana, but you can prohibit the use 299 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: of it, just as you can prohibit the use of 300 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: alcohol by your employees, just as a city police department 301 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: can prevent their employees from being on social media. I 302 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: don't like it. I disagree with it. I think it's 303 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: a restriction of free speech. But you can prohibit certain behaviors. 304 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: You can have a dress code, you can have all 305 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: sorts of requirements. You can say to your driver of 306 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: your eighteen wheeler, you can't drive more than this number 307 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: of hours. You have to log in this amount of sleep. 308 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: We do this all the time. We make reasonable restrictions 309 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: by the employer or by the state on an individual, 310 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: narrowly tailored with a reasonable goal, a legitimate goal. But 311 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: because we see in certain segments that there need to 312 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: be reasonable restrictions, narrowly tailored. We don't say, well, just 313 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: make it illegal for everybody, because now we've given the 314 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: state a power that we cannot get back. We've given 315 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: the state the power over the individual's freedom. Now, some 316 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: people say, oh, I don't want that because people will 317 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: be lazy, they won't go to work. I'm just going 318 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: to say this, If that is your argument, do me 319 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: a favor. Don't make that argument in public, because some 320 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 1: people are going to do you the worst form of 321 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 1: cruelty and think you're serious. That is the weakest, worst 322 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: argument imaginable. And let me explain why it is not 323 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: the role of the government to institute policies to make 324 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: people more motivated. Well, what about welfare, Michael, good question. 325 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: Welfare demotivates people. It's a subsidy of life that emasculates that. 326 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: Don't feed the bears, they'll stop learning need for themselves. 327 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: But that is a money you are taking from the 328 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: rest of us and giving to them. It's a redistribution 329 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: of wealth that is illegitimate and immoral. It is not 330 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 1: the role of the government to sit around and look 331 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 1: for policies of humh, what can we take away from 332 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: people that'll make them want to work. Welfare is, in 333 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: and of itself immoral. Marijuana use is not. It's all natural. 334 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: But if you say, well, we'll take away the marijuana, 335 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: and then the person who doesn't go to work but 336 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: sits on his fat ass on the couch drawing unemployment 337 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: or disability or whatever he does smoking marijuana. If you 338 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: think taking marijuana away from that guy is going to 339 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: get him back to work, you don't understand that guy. 340 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: And you're listening to the season radio Michael Berry. You know, 341 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: I grew up on country music in the seventies, and 342 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: I'm pretty well convinced there are more cheating songs than 343 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: there are loving songs. I mean, it is the White 344 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: Men's Blues, but I would be interested to see a 345 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: Tyler mayhon Co deep dive into the percentage of each 346 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: because it sure seems like there are more cheating and 347 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: loss songs than there are love songs in that era. 348 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: It certainly does so. Lots of questions about radio and 349 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 1: the business of radio, and I get this comment a 350 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: lot that folks will say, we go for a drive 351 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: and we end up in a small town, and we 352 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: love the radio station there, and I understand that I do. 353 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: And let me explain first of all, anytime someone says 354 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: that money is driving everything, while that shouldn't be the 355 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: primary driver for most people, the job you took was 356 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: the job that paid the most, not the job next 357 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: door that paid half of that. It is still a 358 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: business all of the major radio stations. That's not true. 359 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: Most of the major radio stations in most of the 360 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 1: major cities, and that's almost all of them are owned 361 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: by a handful of corporations. And the reason for that 362 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: is when the Clear Channel regulation deregulation occurred, it allowed 363 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: you to own more than two stations in a market, 364 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: but there were still there were still pretty heavy restrictions 365 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: on it. Radio is still a very heavily regulated industry, 366 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: just as television is. And so when that happened, the 367 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: company that is the precursor to the company I worked for, 368 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,479 Speaker 1: which was called Clear Channel, began to gobble up a 369 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: lot of stations around the country, AMFM, JCORE, you name it. Now. 370 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: What you heard from radio personalities or what you heard 371 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: from listeners was this was a terrible thing. And I 372 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 1: suspect for a number of consumers. That was because it 373 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: was a dramatic change from the shows you were used to, 374 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: and it was also exactly what was happening in television 375 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: which nobody thinks about, which is the nationalization of the 376 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: provision of content. If you turn on Fox News Today, 377 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: which many people do, you're not going to get a 378 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: deep analysis of what Rodney Ellis is doing to destroy 379 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: Harris County. It's important. It's bad. There have been grand 380 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 1: juries convened, there have been investigations, there have been rumored prosecutions, 381 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: state and federal doesn't happen. It's bad. It's really really bad. 382 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: For that matter. If you want to hear some entertaining 383 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: storytelling about graft and corruption in the region, just go 384 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: to dol Chafino's dol Chaffino Media's YouTube. Just go to 385 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: dol Chafina, dol Chaffino DLCEE f I n O. Wayne 386 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: del Chafino, dol Chaffino Media his YouTube channel. You can. 387 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: If you enjoy watching the exposure of corruption, you will 388 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: just be able to watch. He goes all the way 389 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 1: down into the valley. He does Harris County, he did 390 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: Texas City, I think yesterday he'll do Waller county, you 391 00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: name it, and it's about ten minute, little punchy vignettes 392 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: of some community where he believes there is graft and 393 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: corruption going on and he wants them to answer for it, 394 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: and they don't want to answer for it. And in 395 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: a lot of these towns, the county judge, the mayor, 396 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: of the police chief, they're the king of the place. 397 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: And so you go put a microphone in front of 398 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: them at a public meeting and ask them to answer 399 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: for it, and they're gonna, you know, it's gonna be 400 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: some version of them taking a swing, cussing you out, 401 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: threatening you, whatever else. It is investigative journalism and its best. 402 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: Fox doesn't cover those stories, and local news doesn't cover 403 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: those stories. Wayne came out of Channel thirteen well in 404 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: the TV era, in the ratings era, that you've got 405 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: to understand how stations are raided and then understand how 406 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: ratings generates money. The rating system is a how many 407 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: people are listening or viewing if it's TV, and based 408 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: on that you get a percentage what they call share, 409 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: what percentage of listeners at that time are listening to 410 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: your show. Based on that share, advertisers pay for how 411 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: many people they are exposed to. So if your Coca 412 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: Cola or NAPA Auto Parts or any number of other 413 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: consumer products, you want the maximum number of people listening. 414 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: That is what I call quantitative. Give me as many 415 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: people as you can. Well, if you're programming a station 416 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: to maximize the number of people, you don't want to 417 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: hear this, but the data says this is true. The 418 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: data will tell you the most number of people is 419 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: to the very formats that you hear A lot of 420 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: top forty that's what eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty, that's what 421 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,719 Speaker 1: they listen to. The reason we're able to do what 422 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: we do is we don't sell on ratings. Our ratings 423 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: are great, but our ratings are people thirty five plus. 424 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: The national advertisers that are buying quantitative are buying eighteen 425 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: to thirty four. Our listeners are thirty five plus, and 426 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: our buy is qualitative, which means they want you because 427 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: you are you go take a cruise sometime, especially a 428 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: cheap one. All those other people on the cruise they're 429 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: listening to the stations that people are buying lots of 430 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: numbers of there're lots of those people. Our listeners are saying, 431 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: I don't want all those people. I want that one 432 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: guy who got on the wrong cruise, who spends money, 433 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: very loyal, refers us, doesn't send a meal back halfway, 434 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: and I would like to be around, and is probably 435 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: a veteran