1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: So Michael Arry Show is on the air. Ah, yes, 3 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: that means it's Friday, and boy did we ever need it. 4 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: But week it's been. Let's take a moment right where 5 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 2: you are, right in this place. Every head bowed, every no, 6 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: just let this. 7 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: Wash the. 8 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 3: Happy d. 9 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: Happy d. 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 4: When Jos war? Wheny war? When Jos. 11 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 3: Sheels away? Love happy day or happy de happy or 12 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 3: happy day? 13 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 4: When Jesu's war, Oh many wars, when Jesu's war. 14 00:01:30,600 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 3: Sheel the way he loved. It's a happy day, happy. 15 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 4: Or a happy de winter those wars far? Oh Whenny 16 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 4: wars Whindy, there's a war fun Fred away. 17 00:02:33,600 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: He gave me a lot o happy day, happy, oh, 18 00:03:22,120 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: happy dead, happy day? Oh happy happy? 19 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 4: When Jesus war? 20 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 2: Oh wait it w was. 21 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 4: When g those war. 22 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: Three its away? He needed to up? Oh good gun. 23 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 2: Oh yes it's Friday. It's open lines. We've been talking 24 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 2: about the wildfires on the evening show, not so much 25 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 2: on the morning. But if you have thoughts on that 26 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: or anything else, this is your time to call. If 27 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 2: you didn't get in on Elvis or the naming stories, 28 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 2: you may get in on that. Now it is open line. 29 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 2: I will not question why you've called about a particular topic. 30 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 2: If you've called, you get on seven one three nine 31 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine 32 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 2: one thousand and how to get us started as we 33 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 2: always do, courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all 34 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 2: the land, Chattikoni Nakanishi. You're a week in New as 35 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 2: a we willy kid. I remember thinking that at some 36 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 2: point in my life what I was meant to do. 37 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 2: I was going to be on State and I was 38 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 2: going to enter the stage to Elvis's introies, which, of course, 39 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: as you know, is what we use. I didn't know 40 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: what I was going to do. I was going to 41 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: be on State, and I was going to enter to 42 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 2: Elvis as Elvis would do, And here we are. The 43 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: US Congress convened this afternoon to certify Donald Trump's election 44 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: victory in November. 45 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 5: Vice President Harris, carrying out her duties and what The 46 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 5: New York Times called an awkward task of certifying the 47 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 5: vote that she lost. 48 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 3: Donald J. 49 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 6: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred 50 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 6: and twelve votes. 51 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 5: Kamala D. Harris of the state of California has received 52 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 5: two hundred and twenty six votes. 53 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris achieved her greatest accomplishment the certification of the election. Boy, 54 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 2: was that a beautiful moment? 55 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: Or what? 56 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 6: Massive wildfires in La County raging out of control, thousands evacuated, 57 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 6: an estimated fifty billion. 58 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: Dollars in debt, no water in the hydrants seventeen point 59 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: six million, and caught from the fire department. 60 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 6: Do you, oh, citizen's an apology for being absent while 61 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 6: their homes were burning? 62 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: Have you nothing to say today? 63 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: Firefighters are one of those things you don't think about 64 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: and you shouldn't need to till you need them. You've 65 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 2: ever been in a situation where you had to write 66 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 2: a check and had absolutely no clue how to do it? 67 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 2: Don't worry, You're not alone, you know. I really do 68 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: wonder if my kids know that there's such a thing 69 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: as a checkbook. Before, if you wanted to give me money, 70 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 2: you would pull out this is in a booklet. In 71 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 2: the top right you put the date, and you'd write 72 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: in the numbers, and then on the next line you 73 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: would spell it out. That would get people kind of confused. 74 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 2: And then on the bottom left you could put it 75 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: what it was for, but you would probably end up 76 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 2: regretting that. 77 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: The friends because bizarre is on. 78 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 6: Well done, sir, this is the Michael Berry shows, little 79 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,239 Speaker 6: titles riazy. 80 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: Day to the phone lines we go, Jerry, I've been 81 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 2: past a note that you are working the wildfires? Is 82 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 2: that correct, sir? 83 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 6: That is correct. I drive a water tender and I'm 84 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 6: in Malibu right now, which is the staging point just 85 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 6: outside of Pacific Palisades where the majority of the houses 86 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 6: were burnt that I know about. 87 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 2: And so you're in Malibu and then you will head 88 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 2: down into the fires today. 89 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 6: Correct, It's only about fifteen to twenty minutes away. 90 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I know that area. I have a 91 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 2: friend that we used to go visit that's just off 92 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 2: the pch in Malibu. Beautiful, beautiful community. My goodness? Is 93 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 2: that a glorious community? Is this what you do full time? 94 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 6: Pretty much? I do disasters, but during the summertime. Yeah, 95 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 6: I drive the tenders and they send me all. I've 96 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 6: been through Western the Western US, we go all over. 97 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 2: So yes, and so when, so what exactly does the 98 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 2: tender do? Explain this process to me? 99 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 6: How what you do? 100 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 2: Worse? 101 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 3: Okay? 102 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 6: I have a tanker truck carries three thousand gallons, and 103 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 6: we go to a seeing and we find a fire hydrant. 104 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 6: We fill up our tank, and they assign us to 105 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 6: like a strike force, which is several engines, and we 106 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 6: go to wherever those engines are going and we fill 107 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 6: them up and then they empty their because they only 108 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 6: have like five hundred gallons seven hundred gallons in their engines, 109 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 6: so they go through that with their hoses pretty darn quick. 110 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 6: So we go supply them and then when they're filled 111 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 6: and we go do several more and then when we're empty, 112 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 6: we go down the hill or to wherever the nearest 113 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 6: fire hydrant is and we fill back up and go. 114 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 6: So basically, the fire engines stay on the scene working 115 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 6: and putting out the fires, and we're the ones suttling 116 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 6: water back and forth so they never run out. 117 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: And where are you getting this water from? 118 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 6: Just any of the fire hydrants that's available. 119 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so you pull it from the fire hydrants correct. 120 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 6: And sometimes we have to go drafting, you know, depending 121 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 6: on where the location is. You know, we draft is 122 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 6: when you go to a lake, a reservoir or something 123 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 6: and you pump out I pump out the water myself. 124 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 6: But most of the time we do resime fire hydrants. 125 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: And where these fire hydrants in LA? Are you having 126 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 2: to go outside because those are overworked? 127 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 6: No, these are in LA. But yes they were overworked. 128 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 6: And the farther up the hill you went, the less 129 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 6: the pressure got. 130 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 2: So how many gallons on your truck three thousand and 131 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 2: how long does it take? What's the what's the rate 132 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: you can pull that water out and fill that truck up? 133 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 6: Now, of course that's the big variable. It can take 134 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 6: me at this fire. The worst time, it took me 135 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 6: a good twenty or twenty five minutes. When I have 136 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 6: good pressure, it's a good ten minutes. And it depends, 137 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 6: of course on what hydrates you're pulling from. 138 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 2: And that sentence because. 139 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 6: Oh it's too many straws are pulling from the water 140 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 6: from the hydrants. Oh because why there's less pressure. Yes, 141 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 6: this is the first time I run into the situation 142 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 6: where there has not been sufficient pressure. 143 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,599 Speaker 2: So I want you to be king. I want you 144 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 2: to be king for a moment, Jerry, And you don't 145 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 2: have political considerations. You can just do what's best to 146 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 2: maximize the benefit for the most number of people, even 147 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 2: if you make some people very angry. What is within 148 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 2: the realm of possibility that, in your mind, could be 149 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: done to have minimized the problems at the start or 150 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 2: now to do the most good. 151 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 6: It's such an easy fix, it's mind boggling. All you 152 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 6: have to do is assign one water tender to every 153 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 6: strike team, which is basically like three engines. And when 154 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 6: that strike team gets called out, the water tender goes 155 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 6: with them, and those guys can stay working all the time. 156 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 6: And if there's less if they don't have enough water, 157 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 6: then the tender runs down, finds the water and brings 158 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 6: it back up to them. So all they have to 159 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 6: do is working on stop. 160 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 2: M And who do you work? 161 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 6: Very simple thing. 162 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 2: Who? 163 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 6: Actually I don't want to see. 164 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 2: I don't want to see the name of I mean, 165 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 2: are you Are you with a governmental entity or a 166 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 2: private provider? 167 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 6: No, I'm a private We're a private company. We do 168 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 6: have contracts with cal Fire and the US Forest Service 169 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 6: and we get called say come on down. So case 170 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 6: in point, for this specific fire, my general manager called 171 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 6: me up Tuesday morning and said, this looks like it's 172 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 6: going to be a big fire. Get ready. So I 173 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 6: loaded up my truck everything was set, and at eight 174 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 6: o'clock at night, I got the call and they said, 175 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 6: be it zoom a beach in Los Angeles at seven 176 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 6: in the morning. Well, I'm only three hours away from 177 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 6: where I live in our shop is three hours away. 178 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 6: I took off at eight o'clock and I was down 179 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 6: here Tuesday night at eleven o'clock. And my sister lives 180 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 6: in the Palisades, so I went straight to her house. 181 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 6: There was six engines in that whole complex where she 182 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 6: was at, and they were fighting fire, of course, and 183 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 6: I pulled on up there first day. They said you 184 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 6: got water, I go. I certainly do, and I filled 185 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 6: them up and I spent the whole night doing that, 186 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 6: even though I wasn't on duty. And that is what 187 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 6: was needed because they just sat there and put out 188 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 6: They saved one house, that's all they could do. But 189 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 6: they were putting out the embers as much as they could, 190 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 6: and you know, that was basically what it was. They 191 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 6: had no water, and I got there last and I 192 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 6: was the only water tender there, so that whole night. 193 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: Well, so there again we had this problem with centerpoint Energy, 194 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 2: or center Pointless as we call him. In Houston, where 195 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: the leader is from PG and E. He came from 196 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 2: PG and E out here where it's it's a question 197 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: of a lack of a battle plan for when these 198 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: contingencies happened. It sounds like, you know, everybody's running around frantic. 199 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 2: They should have had their contract with you and it 200 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 2: should be a plan that they execute so when this happens, 201 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 2: they already knew what to do, so that they had 202 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: you on the phone far earlier, because obviously you were 203 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: ready to step up and serve. Thank you for the call, Jerry. 204 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: Well, well, well, lucky you. The Michael Ferry Show continues. 205 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: Your lucky day. 206 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 2: I got seven three, nine nine, one thousand Irene in Leadville, Texas. 207 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead. 208 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 5: Now, morning, mister Barry. 209 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 2: How are you fantastic? Sweety? Go ahead? 210 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 5: Okay. So we went to Vegas for Christmas and stayed 211 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 5: at the Westgate Resort, and the Westgate Resort kind of 212 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 5: makes everything a tribute to Elvis Presley. So I'm forty 213 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 5: five years old. I took my fourteen year old son 214 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 5: and so on Christmas Day, I thought, you know what 215 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 5: would be better than to take him to some kind 216 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 5: of Elvis tribute concert, and I've been to several Elvis 217 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 5: concerts in Vegas over several years. Right, good ones, bad ones, whatever. 218 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 5: I have got to tell you. I need for you 219 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 5: to go to Vegas and go to the Alexis Resort. 220 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 5: It's this tiny casino behind the MGM. There's a guy 221 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 5: there named Travis Allen and he is uncanny. He looks 222 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 5: just like the younger Elvis and his mannerisms are off 223 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 5: the charts. And the only reason why I think it's 224 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 5: valid to tell you this is because he had two 225 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 5: backup singers and one of the guys was playing guitar. 226 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 5: That guy must be around like eighty years old, right, 227 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 5: But when I looked at that guy playing that guitar, 228 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 5: the way he was staring at Travis Allen to where 229 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 5: it was like he was taken back in time, it 230 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 5: was as if he was performing for the King himself. 231 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 5: And that's when I knew, Wow, that's the guy. That's 232 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 5: the Elvis guy, and I would just I would love 233 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 5: for you to check him out and tell me your thoughts. 234 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: I will do that. Can you give me the location again? 235 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 5: Yes, Alexis Resort and the performer is Travis Allen, Because 236 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 5: there's another Elvis that goes there as well, but it's Travis. 237 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 2: Allen And how did you know to check this out? 238 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 5: I did just a YELP review, right, I said, oh, 239 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 5: let me check out the Elvis with the latest Elvis one, right, 240 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 5: And then I saw all these reviews and they were like, oh, 241 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 5: this guy's great, They're okay fine, and he was available 242 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 5: on Christmas, so, you know, just for fun of it, 243 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 5: took my son and he saw him, We saw him perform, 244 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 5: and my son was just blown away because when we 245 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 5: went back to the Westgate Resort, when you enter through 246 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 5: the hotel lobby, there's a huge picture of Elvis and 247 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 5: that guy is like, I can't like exact resemblance. It's 248 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:37,479 Speaker 5: so crazy. 249 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 250 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 5: That's a great show. 251 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 2: Because usually a show like you're talking about is what's 252 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 2: called a tribute, which is where they perform as them 253 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 2: and you're it's intended to sound like them and they're 254 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 2: dressed like them, but they rarely they don't, you know, 255 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 2: they're not a spitting image. And then you get the 256 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 2: folks right that dress up like them. But yeah, yeah, 257 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 2: I will check that out. Ramone and I and our 258 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 2: wives are going to be Russell of Borrow's guest, February 259 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 2: twenty second. I believe in Vegas because they want to 260 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 2: see the last show of You two, which I want 261 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 2: to see the Sphere, But they're excited to see the 262 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,959 Speaker 2: to see I guess it's the last show of U two, 263 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 2: although they keep saying it's the last show, and then 264 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 2: everybody goes in there. It's like the Rolling Stones reunion 265 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: tour and then they do one more. But I'm sorry, 266 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 2: the Eagles, not You two. Yeah, okay, so it's supposed 267 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 2: to be the Eagles last show. But I'm excited to 268 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 2: see the sphere. I think that's going to be cool 269 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 2: and I will make sure that I see it when 270 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: I go. Where are you from irene. 271 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 5: Neville, Texas? 272 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 2: You grew up in Needville? 273 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 5: No, I moved there from Katie. I grew up around Shagillian. 274 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 2: You don't sound like you're from sugar Lean. 275 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 5: I think I've spent I look. Needel is a very 276 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 5: welcoming town, and and you know I spent a lot. 277 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 2: Of Where are your parents from there? 278 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 5: My mom's still a Pino, my dad's Mexican. 279 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 2: Okay, so you had an accent at home? Okay, that 280 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 2: that makes sense. What do you do. 281 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 5: I'm a digital marketing manager for exceon Mobile and so 282 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 5: what does. 283 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 2: That mean bring what kind of digital marketing are you? 284 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: Is that on the retail side? 285 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 5: No? Digital marketing for the chemical website? 286 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:31,479 Speaker 1: Right? 287 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 5: So anything that involving the website and all our social channels, 288 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 5: pay channels, campaigns, things of that nature. 289 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 2: And what are they That's not an exchange, right, They're 290 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 2: not buying the chemicals off of that website. What what's 291 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 2: going on on that website? 292 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 5: No, it's more of a it's an awareness, right, It's 293 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 5: kind of it's a B to B right, So we 294 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 5: present our product portfolio and yeah, it's a B to B. 295 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 2: And are you more of a marketing person, a wordsman 296 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 2: or are you a coder programmer? 297 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 5: What what the technical Yes? Quoting and programming for the website. 298 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 5: It's on the technical site. 299 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 2: And how did you learn to do that? 300 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 5: I graduated from Baylor University in two thousand and one 301 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 5: with computer science degree and have just gone up in 302 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,239 Speaker 5: the industry since then. 303 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 2: How many would you guess what percentage of people who 304 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 2: do what you do are Hispanic women? 305 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: Oh? 306 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 5: Very little maybe not probably twenty percent or less, very little, 307 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 5: you know, Yeah, it could be because you know, either 308 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 5: you love coding or you don't. There's not really put me. 309 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 2: In the don't category. Actually that's not fair, put me 310 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 2: in the cant I will tip my hat to you. 311 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 2: I am not a technical person. I'm glad we have 312 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: technical people in this world, but I am not one 313 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 2: of them. What made you interested as a young lady 314 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 2: in computer science? 315 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 5: I loved Cody because you know, my dad was into 316 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 5: computers and I started building computers from the ground up. 317 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 5: There you go, that got me interested. 318 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 2: So did dad work with computers or was that just 319 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 2: a hobby. It was a hobby interesting, And you're forty five, 320 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 2: so we're talking thirty plus years ago. He was into 321 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 2: computers at home. He was tinkering on them at home. 322 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 5: Yes, sir. 323 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 2: You know, if people could understand, because I get a 324 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 2: pretty good broad set, and I ask a lot of questions, 325 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 2: and I hear people's stories of how they ended up 326 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 2: where they end up, if people could understand that the 327 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 2: likelihood that your children are going to go up and 328 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 2: grow up and what they do for a living is 329 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 2: going to have something to do with what you expose 330 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 2: them to. Whether that's what you do for a living 331 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: as a parent, or what you watch television about, or 332 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: who your next door neighborhood comes over and talks about, 333 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 2: or what but hobby you have that is more likely 334 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 2: going to have something to do. And for girls as 335 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 2: much as boys, I can't tell you how many times 336 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 2: a woman has told me that they became a commercial 337 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: pilot because their dad had a you know, a little 338 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 2: license and he was an engineer at work, and they 339 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 2: would go fly on the weekends, and she flew with 340 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 2: daddy and she fell in love with it, and otherwise 341 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 2: she would not have. But people don't typically just stumble 342 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: into doing what you're doing. They're exposed to that at home, 343 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 2: and you know, whether we want daddy's approval or whether 344 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 2: we're just interested in it because he's interested in it, 345 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 2: And somewhere along there it takes because it's not typical. Right, 346 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: that's probably not what I would guess, that's not what 347 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 2: any of your friends that you were growing up with 348 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 2: wanted to do when they grow up, nor did they 349 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,479 Speaker 2: do when they grew up. 350 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 5: No, and then especially being of the Filipino culture right 351 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 5: where you're supposed to be a nurse in the medical field. 352 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: Exactly, right, exactly, and there again, you're supposed to be 353 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 2: a nurse, because everybody else you know is a nurse. 354 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 2: We tend to gravitate toward fields of people around us 355 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: because that's what's comfortable with us. It's number one reason 356 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: people go to law school. He said, that is a 357 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: lawyer from Michael's brain, every single one of them. 358 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: To your ears. 359 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 2: This is the Michael Ferry Show. 360 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 6: I thank you. 361 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 2: Speaking of which University of Texas Longhorns play this evening 362 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: at six thirty Central. Please do not email me or 363 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: text me regarding the game, because I will be at 364 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 2: Crockett's game at exactly that time when we finish the 365 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 2: evening show, I will be racing to Crockett's game and 366 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 2: taping the Longhorn game and getting home and watching it 367 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: later tonight, which means, well, I don't know if you 368 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 2: call it taping anymore. I don't know what you're recording. 369 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 2: I don't know how you do that. I watch TV 370 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: on YouTube TV. Are you a YouTube TV person? Huh? 371 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 2: You're a Hulu person. Okay, well that's where I watch TV. 372 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 2: And so what I do is I just if I'm 373 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 2: able to tape it or record it, then you know 374 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 2: it's got to be easy, because I'm not good with 375 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 2: those sorts of things. But I am very much, very 376 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 2: much looking forward to this game. It's a good game. 377 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: Last night, you see that game last night, A very 378 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 2: good game. Tomorrow, January eleventh marks the thirty second anniversary 379 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 2: of the founding of Gringos tex mex And while a 380 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 2: lot of people have been so wonderful food over the years, 381 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 2: and that's a benefit, a lot of people have been 382 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 2: hired on for their first job. There's something to be 383 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 2: said for that, a quality. Huh, what what happened? 384 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 5: No? 385 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: Founded that? No, No, they didn't found. No, it wasn't lost, No, 386 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 2: it was founded. It was created thirty two years ago 387 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 2: in Parland, the original. Now you got over twenty locations. 388 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 2: But you think about how many people, see you interrupted 389 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 2: me and I was trying to brag on our buddy. 390 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 2: How many people? How many memories have been shared? How 391 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: many birthdays have been celebrated, how many new hirings, closing 392 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 2: of deals, retirements, anniversaries. How many do you think about 393 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 2: within those walls? How many people that's a legacy. How 394 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 2: many people got their first job there. How many people 395 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 2: spent their entire careers there? How many people have bought 396 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 2: houses and cars and took care of other How many 397 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 2: people in the community were taken care of. I mean, 398 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 2: that's that's a big deal. Thirty two years in a 399 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 2: very very crowded environment. Crockett had a game up north 400 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 2: the other night. It was freezing cold, drove up there 401 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: to the game, got there early, and decided I would 402 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: eat before the game. And there was a little text 403 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 2: Mex joint right next to it, Jalisco or you never know, 404 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 2: sanluis put to see or it doesn't matter. Something right 405 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: in a little strip center and it's clearly a tex 406 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 2: Mex restaurant for white people by Mexicans who didn't didn't 407 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 2: get any training in tex Mex. And you know how 408 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 2: I know that? To start with, my rice was on 409 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 2: one end of the plate and my refried beans were 410 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 2: on the other. I will never understand why do people 411 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 2: separate the refried beans in the rice. I grew up 412 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 2: on White people owned tex Mex restaurants. And so there 413 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 2: is a certain Textmex flavor that appeals to my palate, 414 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: and that is that kind of grayish purple refried beans. 415 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: And it needs to be down and there needs to 416 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 2: have been a little bit of cheese that would put 417 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 2: over the top that kind of melts it, give it 418 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 2: a little color, right anyway, So I'm out at that 419 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 2: little place at least Go or whatever. They all have 420 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 2: the same name, and it just wasn't good. But I 421 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 2: realized then it's kind of like the guys say about fishing. 422 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 2: The worst tex mex Is still better than most everything else. 423 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 2: And then you go to a place like Gringoes and 424 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 2: you appreciate how good things really are, how nice it is. 425 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 2: And I go back to forty eight fifty two ten, 426 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 2: and I love that Russell has all his preset message 427 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 2: that was the rent on the first place he opened. 428 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 2: It was him and a cook, and the number one 429 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 2: thing was to stay alive, just survive for another month. 430 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 2: He had to meet the rent, which was forty eight 431 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 2: to fifty two to ten, and there had been three 432 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 2: restaurants that had opened and closed right before him at 433 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,239 Speaker 2: that And Russell shared a quote with me the other 434 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,479 Speaker 2: day he said price is only an issue if value 435 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 2: is absent. I don't know where he got that, but 436 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: you know it's true people that are obsessed on price, 437 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 2: And I have found this to be a to be 438 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 2: an issue if you're poor, and people will convince themselves 439 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 2: they are. But if you're truly poor and you cannot 440 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 2: afford anything and you go everything is how can I 441 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 2: spend one penny less? Fine? But ninety nine percent of 442 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 2: people who were price obsessed, that is not their issue. 443 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 2: I have come to learn. And this will offend some people, 444 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: and they're probably those people that pricing and money generally 445 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 2: is an obsession for people, not just rich people. You know, 446 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: there's this idea that that guy wears rich because all 447 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 2: he thinks about his money. I've seen it on the 448 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 2: other extreme with people for whom price and money is 449 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 2: a battle. They do not want the owner of the 450 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: shop to make a penny. That's to send food back. 451 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 5: That is. 452 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: You see these people. You see these crowds of people, 453 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 2: and it's a certain demographic, and it's a dining dash. 454 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 2: There'll be fifteen of them at a table and they're 455 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 2: fat as hogs, and they eat their big meal and 456 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 2: they drink all their drinks and then they each get 457 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 2: up and run out. Now, could they not afford the meal? 458 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if welfarreed hit or not, 459 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 2: but that is an idea that I'm gonna score one. 460 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get it's a very selfish mindset. Those people 461 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 2: don't attach, you know, the way babies attach. Those people 462 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 2: don't attach as friendships. Everything for them is about saving money, 463 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 2: because money becomes an obsession in and of itself. And 464 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 2: I tell my show sponsors, you do not want price 465 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 2: conscious people as customers. You want value conscious people.