1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: For some reason or another, you sign a little toll 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: on radio. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: I spoke to Sam at Big City Wings during the break, 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: and the simple answer is a chicken tender or chicken finger. 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 2: Different people call them different things. The bigger is simply 6 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: a bigger cut like a two ounce of a chicken breast. 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: The chicken. The boneless chicken wing is still basically the 8 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 2: same thing, a hand formed, smaller piece of breast. It's 9 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: typically about half the size, so if you want to 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: reduce it to words, we grew up with, a boneless 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: chicken wing is in essence a chicken nugget. But adult 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: men don't want to eat chicken nuggets, and that's what 13 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: little kids eat, and a restaurant that doesn't serve food 14 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 2: that the little kids want, and we ate chicken nuggets 15 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: from McDonald's when we were a kid, and everybody knew 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 2: that that chicken nugget was just whatever bung holes and 17 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 2: eyeballs was left over, and it was pressed into like 18 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: a long John silver patty. It was pressed into a nugget. Well, 19 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 2: in order to get people out of that mindset. A 20 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: higher quality meat than the chicken wing than the chicken breast, 21 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: is hand formed into a smaller chicken tender. Now, he 22 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: did say that their chicken tender is not dipped in buttermilk. 23 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: The chicken tender is because the chicken tender people expect that. 24 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: You know, there's there's more pizazz to that. So hopefully 25 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: that resolves that issue. Seven one three nine nine nine 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: one thousand emails through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. 27 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: While you're there, sign up for our daily eblast and 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: and you can sure you can shop our merch while 29 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 2: you're there. Let's start with Raymond. Raymond, you are on 30 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 2: the Michael Berry Show. 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir. Yeah. 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: I just want to give a shout out to my 33 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: son in law. He just became an HPD officer last 34 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: night graduated. I'm very proud of him. 35 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 3: Fantastic. 36 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Also want to thank you, Yeah, I also want to 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: thank you for advertising Berna. I just received my burner 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: l and being a felon a thirty year old credit 39 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: card abuse felony, I am not allowed to carry a 40 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: legal weapon, but I can carry that burner, so if 41 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: I take my wife somewhere at least I can stop 42 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: the threat. And I'm happy about that. So thank you 43 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: for advertising that. 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 3: I love it, you know. 45 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: Raymond, my brother used to say that there are too 46 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 2: many people who will willy nilly. Will will reference killing 47 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: someone as if you know you just killed the person, 48 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: walk off and go, hey, go pick that turn up 49 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 2: and send him to the morgue. It takes a toll 50 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 2: emotionally and legally. You don't want to have to do 51 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: it now. You know the old rule. You'd rather be 52 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: judged by twelve than carried by six, or maybe it's 53 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: vice versa, But the point is you'd rather kill the 54 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: other guy when it comes to that than have to 55 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 2: worry about being on trial. The trial would be the 56 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: least of your worries. But the point is it's not 57 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: something we do lightly, and in a lot of occasions 58 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: we can. We can stop a threat without having to 59 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: kill somebody. And Berna sends me constant updates on success 60 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: stories that people will share with them. One of the 61 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: big ones is that people who walk their neighborhood that 62 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 2: has that have idiots that they let their dogs run 63 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 2: loose in the neighborhood and eventually the dog runs up 64 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 2: on them. There are plenty of cases of guys having 65 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: to use a burner gun. You'd rather not have to 66 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: shoot and kill that dog if you can, if you 67 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 2: can help it. Congratulations to your son in law. That's 68 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: that's very cool, my man, and thank you for the feedback. Kevin. 69 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: Let's go to Kevin. Hold On, Kevin, you're on the 70 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir. 71 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, Michael. I just had the privilege of taking 72 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 4: a trip to Italy and in Italy we went to 73 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 4: McDonald's and they were serving what they called a chicken tender, 74 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 4: but it was the bone. It was the bone in 75 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 4: chicken wing. And we're looking around and it's like they're 76 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 4: serving these in Happy Mills and you know, with the 77 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 4: bone wing, but they were calling them chicken tenders, totally different, 78 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, man, this is this is crazy. 79 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 2: Well, you do know that McDonald's probably more than any 80 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 2: other international food company that they have local teams when 81 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 2: they bring the product into the market. They have local 82 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 2: teams that are looking at the cuisine and what the 83 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: palette is already accustomed to. I never forget the first 84 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 2: time I went to a fast food restaurant in India. 85 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 2: The first one I went to was called Whimpy's, which 86 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 2: is a British concept, and then the America concepts started 87 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: coming there, but it's very different. I mean, you got 88 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 2: masala sauces, you got you know, you got all sorts 89 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: of spices. Speaking of which, today is the first day 90 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: of Holy and Shirley qu Licker sent along a very 91 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 2: nice greeting to our Indian listeners. We'll get to that 92 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: in the next segment of Jim Remembers Cole. You're on 93 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: the Michael Berry Show. 94 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir, Hi, sir you, I have a question 95 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 5: for you, and you tend to have the better feel 96 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 5: for what's what's able to happen in Texas. But I've 97 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 5: always been a fan of this flat tax. You know, 98 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 5: I don't care if it's twenty twenty five percent, whatever, 99 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 5: but get rid of all of the property taxes, business taxes, 100 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 5: everything else. Is that ever going to be possible for 101 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 5: the state of Texas. 102 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: On a state wide level? I mean, it's more likely 103 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 2: on a state wide level than it is federal. Why 104 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: don't you flesh this out for a moment. What would that? 105 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 2: Did you just have flat tax? 106 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 5: Yes, sir, twenty that would be a flat And here's 107 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 5: how you would calculate it. Here's how you calculate it. 108 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 5: You take the taxes what Texas needs for a budget. 109 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 5: You divide that by last year's Texas GDP and you 110 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 5: get a percentage that would be the sales tax number. 111 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 5: And it's it's perfectly accurate. No more, Hold on thirty, 112 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 5: hold on, hold on. 113 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: It's a flat tax of what you're gonna have to tax. 114 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 2: Are you taxing income orre you taxing sales? 115 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 5: Yeah, sales sales tax. 116 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: Okay, so you're gonna have a sales tax of obviously 117 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: it's going to be higher and eight and a quarter, 118 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 2: So you're gonna you're gonna try to get there through 119 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 2: your sales. I mean, could it be done, Yes, it 120 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 2: could be done. Will it be done? I don't know. 121 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 3: You know. 122 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 2: The benefit to a sales tax, the the the thing 123 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 2: that commends a sales tax is it's a consumption tax, 124 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 2: which means it's a tax that the user chooses to pay. 125 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 2: If you don't want to pay that tax, don't spend money. 126 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 2: And that might sound like an arrogant thing to say, 127 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: but it actually is true. So you say, look, I 128 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: don't I don't want to spend more on taxes, Well, 129 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 2: then don't buy the new car or don't buy the 130 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: new whatever. That thing is that you spend consumption taxes. 131 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 2: That the knock on consumption taxes that economists will give 132 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: you is that it's very hard to stabilize your tax 133 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: base because consumption will vary. 134 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 3: Them. 135 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 6: Michael Berry, I'm a chocolate freak. 136 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: Let's go to Jennifer. Jennifer, you are on the Michael 137 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 2: Berry Show, Sweetheart, go ahead. 138 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 7: Hie, Michael, I was laughing. 139 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 4: I'm an r N. 140 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 7: I didn't call in about that, but Shirley cu'es got 141 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 7: me laughing about the r ns and the full moon. 142 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 7: It's true, true, I called it is definitely true. Are 143 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 7: we to believe it? I'm actually go ahead. I'm actually 144 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 7: working at mental health right now. So I can tell 145 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 7: you some story. But you gotta let me brag on 146 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 7: my kid first. 147 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm your kid. Then I want to come back 148 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: to this. 149 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 7: Okay, So my kid's Jase. I called months ago and 150 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 7: we called Ms Patterson. So well, today though I put 151 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 7: him on a plane. He is flying by himself to 152 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 7: Pittsburgh to go see his daddy. And he's only eight 153 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 7: and he's braving the plane and he got a little 154 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 7: nervous right before he got on. But he said, you know, 155 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 7: I got this, I'm ready, and I gave him a 156 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 7: kiss and I let him go, and I'm just so 157 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 7: proud of He's so independent, and he's so mature for 158 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 7: his age, and I'm just I couldn't be more proud, you. 159 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: Know, Jennifer. I was just reading rereading, which I do 160 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: every few years, Andrew Carnegie's How to Win Friends and 161 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 2: Influence People, and he's years of study of human behavior. 162 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 2: He came to the conclusion that people aspire to good 163 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 2: feedback more than they fear bad feedback. Now that's not 164 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 2: to say that discipline on a football team or in 165 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: the military, that there aren't places for that, but he 166 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 2: makes the point that a compliment is worth much more 167 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: than a constructive criticism critique. And it's interesting when a child, Okay, 168 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 2: you take this DJ Daniel, this kid who the president 169 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: deputized as a secret Service agent. His dad clearly is 170 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 2: coping with him having a terminal brain cancer by indulging 171 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: his wish to be a police officer. He was at 172 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 2: nine hundred and nine deputizations and the only thing keeping 173 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 2: them from getting to a thousand, which is his goal, 174 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 2: is they got to spend time with each one to 175 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 2: go get the badge put on. He's going to get 176 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 2: to a thousand. But that kid has become nationally famous. 177 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: Out of all this. 178 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 2: He was over at Republic Repoot Republic Boot Company getting 179 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 2: fitted for new boots the other day. They're making him 180 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 2: a jacket. They have a custom suit shop inside there. 181 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 2: They're making him a jacket that he got a cowboy hat. 182 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 2: So he is now driven, as we all are, to 183 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 2: seek more applause based on his appreciation for law enforcement, 184 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:33,199 Speaker 2: promotion of law enforcement, and willingness to battle quietly brain 185 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 2: cancer and the treatment that goes with it. So what 186 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 2: you're doing with this kid is once you said to him, 187 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 2: this is a good kid, or once Miss Patterson at 188 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: the school called him down and said he needs to 189 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 2: come to principal's office and then you know, gives him 190 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 2: a very stern lecturer that you are a wonderful kid, 191 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: and we want we want to recognize the good, not 192 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 2: the bad. It's it's a bit of a turning of 193 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 2: the tables. But you know, I think a lot of 194 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 2: kids get into trouble as a cry for attention, maybe 195 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 2: not cry for help, a cry for attention and nothing 196 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: that they do, nothing that they do ever measures up. 197 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 2: Nothing they do ever gets them applause because that is 198 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: what is expected. So all you're doing is what is expected, 199 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 2: and there's never a compliment, but we all live by compliment. 200 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 2: You look at a dog, you know, people think, oh, 201 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 2: that dog is so smart, that trainer's so brilliant. Do 202 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 2: you know, it's just like a seal. Every time he 203 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 2: does what you want him to do, you give him food, 204 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 2: which is what drives him. That's you use a very 205 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 2: positive affirmation to get people to do what we want. 206 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 2: I think the fact that you are so willing to 207 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 2: give praise for good behaviors has started him on a 208 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: track where he says, I'm a good kid. The first 209 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 2: time my kids got a's in class, they realize, wait 210 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 2: a second, I can do this, and everyone brags on 211 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,599 Speaker 2: me when I do this, And that's the transform transformation, 212 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 2: and I think so many parents. 213 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 3: There is a. 214 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 2: There's a piece called Father Forgets, and I'll look it 215 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 2: up in just a moment. It's mentioned in Actually it's 216 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 2: a chapter in How to Win Friends and Influence People, 217 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 2: and it's about the power of positive parenting. Now, I'm 218 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: not one of these people that believes that you just 219 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: keep telling a little billy that he's great all the time, 220 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 2: and when he's not, you just keep asking him to 221 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 2: be great. I think they need their little butts shipped. 222 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 2: I think they need stern talking to it. I think 223 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 2: they need things withhell that matter to them. I think 224 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 2: all of those things are an important part of the 225 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 2: mix to good parenting, and you have to use every 226 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: tool in the toolbox. But I think sometimes we forget 227 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 2: that we can set a kid on a course, the 228 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: right course by not just saying constantly what they're doing wrong. 229 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 2: Let's give them an opportunity to get a hit, and 230 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 2: then that turns into a double and and a scored run, 231 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden that kid says, oh, 232 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 2: this is more fun than striking out. When I strike out, 233 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 2: I get yelled at, but at least I get noticed. 234 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 2: So maybe, just maybe, maybe I'm gonna hit the batting 235 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: cage more so I can get more hits, so I 236 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 2: can get because that's when the that's when the crowd cheers. 237 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 2: And so I think they're they're varying competing ways of parenting. 238 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 3: But you deserve a lot of credit for that. 239 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: And Miss Patterson, God bless miss Patterson. She was wonderful welcome. 240 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 3: It is open. 241 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: Wide the Michael Berry Show, want to be a fight 242 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 2: and breathe banand's uh. So I got a message from 243 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 2: Eddie Martini during the break. It said Dale Carnegie, not 244 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 2: Andrew Carnegie. Well, I know that I'm reading the damn book. 245 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 2: What happens is when I'm talking, I'm usually trying to 246 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 2: lay my hands on whatever I'm next going to talk about, 247 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: or I'm looking for a sheet that has a detail 248 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 2: on it, and so I'm just finishing out that sentence, 249 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 2: but my brain is somewhere else. So you just kind 250 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 2: of free associate and get it wrong. Yesterday, Apparently I 251 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 2: have to take people's words for it when they correct me. 252 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 2: I got an email this morning that you said that 253 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 2: Ron Brown died as Commerce Secretary in a car wreck. 254 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 2: It was a plane crash. Well, I know it was 255 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 2: a plane crash, and I thought I said it was 256 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 2: a plane crash. So what I need y'all to do 257 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 2: is when I get a detail wrong that you figure 258 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: I should have known, just assume I knew. Just to 259 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 2: assume I never make mistakes and that I always knew. 260 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 2: And you don't want to be the person that tells 261 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: me that I because that seems like quibbling and you 262 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: don't want to be that. So just always assume he 263 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 2: knows the real answer. That's a good rule of thumb. 264 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 2: Jim Jay, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead. 265 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 8: We're the same age, and I know how it is. Yeah, 266 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 8: can you hear me? H? 267 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, go ahead? 268 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 8: Okay, all right, you and I are the same age, 269 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 8: so I know how it is when you get things 270 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 8: a little off. And as much as you talk, occasionally 271 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 8: you're going to say something wrong. So don't feel bad 272 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 8: about it. Hey, I was calling to give you a 273 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 8: report from the Texas Hill Country. It's spring break here, 274 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 8: and uh, I know that it's one of your favorite 275 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 8: places to visit. And uh we're having just a beautiful 276 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 8: h We've got water in the river and I've got 277 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 8: some condos for sale on the river, so uh, I 278 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 8: want to make sure that everybody knows that. And actually, 279 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 8: your buddy Levi Good actually stayed in one of them. 280 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 2: What what's it called online? 281 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 8: Realguad dot com is our website. Yep, And so uh are. 282 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 2: You Jay Gambrel? 283 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 3: That is me? All right? 284 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 2: Did you build these? 285 00:15:58,880 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 3: I did? Yep? 286 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 8: We built It's part of an existing complex. And so 287 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 8: we went from having thirty six units and we added 288 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 8: these nine units and we've sold one of them, and 289 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 8: they're just at a beautiful spot on the Guadaloupe right 290 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 8: across from the bluff. 291 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 2: How much frontage do you have? 292 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 8: Five acres in front? Probably about three hundred and fifty 293 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 8: feet something like that. 294 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm looking at your site, I see the condo. 295 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 2: So let me break this down. Got to make it 296 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: real simple for me. So so let's let's carve out 297 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 2: what you called about. Let's talk about what was there before. 298 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 2: How much land did you own before? 299 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 8: I owned two and a half acres, but the area 300 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 8: in front of the river, the condo complex already owned. 301 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: And so we put the you owned individual condo unit 302 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 2: or do you own the entirety of the property? 303 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,719 Speaker 8: Right now? Thirty seven of the forty five units are 304 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 8: owned by individual people, and then eight of them is 305 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 8: what I own? 306 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 3: Correct? Okay? 307 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,719 Speaker 2: And how did you nagregate those? Did you buy them 308 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 2: one by one? 309 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 3: No? 310 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 8: I built that fifth building. So we built a building 311 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 8: that has nine condos on it and added it to 312 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 8: the complex, and we've sold one of them, and so 313 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 8: we have eight of those left, so I had the 314 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 8: opportunity to buy the land, and then I had a 315 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 8: contractor build me the building. The building is identical to 316 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 8: the other buildings that are already built. 317 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 3: So. 318 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 2: You're fetching pretty good prices. It's not quite Aspen or 319 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 2: Palm Beach, but was pretty good. The Cypress at five 320 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 2: forty River Run fourteen hundred square feet for six thirty four. 321 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 2: But you've got another one, the Pecan at five forty 322 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 2: River Run twelve eighty two square feet three to two 323 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 2: for five ninety nine. It's not the highest in the country, 324 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 2: but that's a that's I mean, you've got to be 325 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: setting you got to be pegging a new price per 326 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: square foot there. I'd have to run the numbers there. 327 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 3: What would that be? 328 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 8: Five hundred So it's a little over four hundred square foot. Yeah, 329 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 8: the one that we sold it, it's sold for six 330 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 8: twenty four or five sore. 331 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 2: While they're for sale. 332 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 8: No, we've got some that are staged. You might see 333 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 8: some pictures that where they're stage, but we're not running them. 334 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 2: That's quite the kid one. Are they finished? 335 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 8: Yeah they're finished? Yeah, yeah, there it. You know, we 336 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 8: owe a little money on them, but who is we 337 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 8: we don't. My wife and I and then another couples, couple. 338 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 3: Whether you have a day job. 339 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 8: I do. I work for Ford Motor Company. We've worked 340 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 8: for them for twenty six years. What do you do there? 341 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 8: I sell money, So I deal with commercial customers and 342 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 8: I want to make sure that they have plenty money 343 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:11,959 Speaker 8: to buy Ford vehicles. 344 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 2: So you're in Ford Motor credit. 345 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 8: Correct, That is correct? 346 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: It says short term okay, short term rentals. Okay, So 347 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 2: those short term rentals are the units you own that 348 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 2: you're not selling right now. 349 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 8: So what that means is if you're an investor and 350 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 8: you want to be able to do like. 351 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 2: That, that's part of the pitch deck. Okay, yeah, yeah, 352 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 2: I got it. 353 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, that you can, you can invest, then you 354 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 8: of course use it for yourself. 355 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: So about and you're pegging. You're pegging. Let me ask 356 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: you a couple of quick, short, punchy questions. You're pegging 357 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 2: the rents at an average of about four hundred here 358 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 2: it looks like a little a little. 359 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 8: Above, yes, probably five hundred for the three bedrooms during 360 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 8: the summer, more on holiday weekends. 361 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 2: And what would you estimate it is the number of 362 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 2: years a number of nights per year that you could 363 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 2: expect one of these to rent. 364 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 8: I would say at least one hundred nights a year. 365 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 2: Really, yeah, Jay, are you selling me? 366 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: What is? 367 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 2: What is the time. 368 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 8: You're going to get from from Memorial Day to Labor Day? 369 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 8: You're going to get ninety days right there, So and 370 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 8: you you probably can expect at least eighty percent occupancy 371 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 8: during those summer months, and so then the rest of 372 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 8: the year, and like we have winter Texans that come 373 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 8: down here and spend two or three months in one. 374 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 8: Of course, you're not going to get five hundred a 375 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 8: night that time of year, but if you want to 376 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 8: keep it full, then you can rent it for you know, 377 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 8: I don't know, two thousand a month or something like that. 378 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 8: It's just really a nice peaceful spot on the river. 379 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 8: I actually live in one of. 380 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: These units, Okay, So you're I have one. 381 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 8: Yeah, I live here in the building next door to 382 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 8: the one that I So my wife and I live here. 383 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 2: So you work from home? 384 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 5: I do. 385 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 8: I've worked from home before. 386 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 4: It was cool. 387 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 8: Since two thousand and four, we don't have an office 388 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 8: down here, and so in order to be able to 389 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 8: see my dealers and my customers. I've been in this 390 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 8: market since two thousand and four. 391 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 2: Interesting, So how far are you from? What is Fredericksburg 392 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 2: your nearest town or what's your nearest town? 393 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 8: Well, we're near Kenyon Lake. 394 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just saw the. 395 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 8: Yeah, we're on the very edge of New Bronfles so 396 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 8: we're not in the city limits. But yet we're about 397 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 8: two miles from the Canyon Lake. Dan, We're a little 398 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 8: about an hour and fifteen minutes from Fredericksburg. But Kenyan 399 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 8: Lake is really you know, Roger Craiger kind of writes 400 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 8: a little song about coming out here and how beautiful 401 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 8: it is. So it's really sad to hear about his dad. 402 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 2: All Right, I want to I'll email me off there. 403 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,919 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you. I got complaints a 404 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 2: year or two ago from listeners that they were lowering 405 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 2: the lake and folks were losing their mind. Kind of 406 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 2: curious what ended up happening with that? 407 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 6: The Michael Berry brings your bias. 408 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 2: So I received an email from a fellow home. The 409 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 2: subject line is tips should be tabs by using insurer 410 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 2: tips infers that you paid in advance, so insurers should 411 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 2: be changed to acknowledge hence tips should be changed to taps. 412 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 2: It's spelled taps the second time he writes it tabs 413 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 2: tabs the first time. I don't understand what that means. 414 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,719 Speaker 2: I love to read listener emails because it's great show preps. 415 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's a reference to something that 416 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 2: I go find and it works perfectly for the show. 417 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: But I don't think people realize when they sit down 418 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 2: to write me a message or do it on their phone, 419 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 2: that this message is coming completely out of context, so 420 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 2: they give you no context. 421 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 3: Oh that's a. 422 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 2: Really good point. Have you thought about X. What's a 423 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 2: really good point? I have no idea, you know, because 424 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 2: it made sense to you. But our show team, when 425 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: they send me something, because it's coming from every different direction, 426 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 2: gives me the context in reference to this point. Please 427 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 2: consider this anyway. I wouldn't care so much if I 428 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 2: didn't love listener emails. And it bothers me when someone 429 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 2: takes the time to write an email and I have 430 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 2: to delete it and go no idea what he's talking about. AJ, 431 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 2: you're on the Michael Berry Show, Go ahead. 432 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 9: Sir, heh, yeah, good mornings are I know this is 433 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 9: in one of those I truly believe days. But I 434 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 9: figured i'd get this out there. 435 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 2: I think hold on, AJ, hold on, AJ, Can you 436 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: hold just a second, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, Jim. You 437 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 2: know what we ought to do. We ought to do, 438 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 2: and I truly believe. Have you got our I truly believe, handy. 439 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 2: If you don't, I'll do it on my own. Okay, 440 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: hold on, Jim's getting our actually believed intro. Just stay 441 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 2: right there, yep, this one. 442 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 3: Just hold on one and all the Michael Berry Show 443 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 3: presents are truly so AJ. 444 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 2: It is now officially one of those. I truly believe segments. 445 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 9: Go ahead, my man, Okay, here we go. I truly 446 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 9: believe President Trump did wrong. He should have named it 447 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 9: Golf of Dixie. That's all I got. 448 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 2: I I like it, and maybe we do uh for 449 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 2: New Mexico. We make it new that'd work. How come 450 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 2: we have no girls today, Jim? What's going on with 451 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,479 Speaker 2: the ladies? We're not scoring well with the ladies. All right, 452 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 2: let's go to Pete. Pete, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 453 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 2: What you got, sir? We got Pete on. 454 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 6: The truth every day. 455 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry, start over, you weren't pay go ahead 456 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 2: and start over. 457 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 6: Oh my apologies, Michael. I just want to say thank 458 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 6: you for everything you do shedding light on truth and 459 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 6: on evil in this world. Hey, thirty three years in 460 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 6: the restaurant industry, I've stepped away, and I can tell 461 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 6: you where chicken tenders come from. 462 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 2: Buddy, what is your last name? 463 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 3: Pete? 464 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 6: You chicken breast proccer. 465 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 3: Boys? 466 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 2: Which boys for Tita boys. 467 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 6: Let's spend ten years to stall crash for them? 468 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,360 Speaker 3: Oh did you really? Yeah? 469 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 9: I did. 470 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 6: I was running sugar Land up until about twenty eighteen. 471 00:25:59,160 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 3: You know there. 472 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 2: My understanding is that is one of the most profitable 473 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 2: concepts they have because and this is what this is 474 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: what I think the average consumer doesn't understand. So you 475 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: got Let's let's take a high end steakhouse, Vic and 476 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 2: Anthony's Right, which for many years was my favorite steakhouse 477 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 2: back in the day. I would go there. Oh, you 478 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 2: used to get smoke down there downtown. I still when 479 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 2: I go to Gold Nugget, I still eat it. Vic 480 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 2: and Anthony's Pappas Brothers has a great steakhouse. 481 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 3: People. 482 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 2: Would you know that that would be a competitor for 483 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: the great steakhouses? And people love to say that this 484 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 2: or that steakhouse is the best, and you have to 485 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 2: understand as a business, you know, there's places that are 486 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 2: white tablecloth, and then there's McDonald's, and then there's price 487 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 2: points all between. And the trick is to find that 488 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 2: proper price point and the value and the customer that 489 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 2: all line up in Salt Grass is perfect because it 490 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 2: doesn't try to be what it's not, and it is 491 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 2: to the people who go there exactly what it is. 492 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 2: So I would take my parents to Golden Nugget Lake 493 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 2: Charles because not very far from them, and it was 494 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 2: always a fun weekend for us to go there. And 495 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 2: I would take them to Vic and Anthony's. And then 496 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 2: the next night I'd say, all right, I know y'all 497 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 2: need some downtime. Why don't y'all go back to Vic 498 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 2: and Anthony's or whatever. I'm paying for it. So it's 499 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 2: not like they needed to save the money, and they 500 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 2: would slide over to Saltgrass because that's where they feel comfortable. 501 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 2: That's where they felt, you know, they didn't have to 502 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 2: they didn't have to sit up quite so quite so straight. 503 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 2: And I see, I now see that, you know, the 504 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 2: price point is everything I can ask Russell Lebara, what 505 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 2: is the price point of gringoes compared to this, compared 506 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: to this, compared to this, and he can tell you 507 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: and customers know that. And so the trick is finding 508 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 2: that little niche which is which is your exact price point? 509 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 2: And Salt Grass seems to have mastered that. And what 510 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 2: do you do now, Pete Proctor? 511 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 6: I do recruiting for a company called Sublind Personnel, and 512 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 6: we're placing you know, a wide variety of things, including 513 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 6: hospitality and insurance. 514 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 2: And why did you get out of the business. You 515 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 2: had equity built up personally anyway. 516 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 6: You know, working eighty ninety hours a week each up 517 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 6: at about fifty. 518 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 3: Five years old. 519 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 2: Buddy, don't I know it. 520 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 6: Got You got to rein it in At some point 521 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 6: I had a granddaughter born and had a senior and 522 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 6: she was two. 523 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 2: It's not a young man's business. People don't understand. 524 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 3: You know. 525 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 2: If people, if everybody, should have to do a number 526 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 2: of things. Coach little league because it'll make you less 527 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 2: squawky out in the stands umpire a game because then 528 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 2: you won't question every call. Be a homeowners association president, 529 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 2: be a room mom. Boy, I tell you what, that 530 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 2: was a learning experience from my wife. You know, be 531 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 2: the PTA president, everybody should have to do a number 532 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 2: of things, and one of those is hospitality. And I'm 533 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 2: not saying that restaurants should be sloppy. I'm not saying 534 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 2: that they shouldn't care about the the food and the service. 535 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 2: But people love to bitch. It's almost as if that's 536 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 2: part of the thrill to going out. And I wonder, sometimes, 537 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 2: do you understand how difficult this is? And if I 538 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 2: came to your house you couldn't even get one meal, right, 539 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 2: you know you'd send me the I know I messed 540 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 2: up on this. I know it is a tough, tough, 541 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 2: tough business. And this was probably your greatest regret or 542 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 2: greatest frustration. And you've got labor. You can't help the 543 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 2: fact that there are a bunch of numb skulls coming 544 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 2: out and you're trying to motivate them, train them, pay 545 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 2: them well enough, and get them to show up when 546 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 2: all they want to do is everything. But that, I mean, 547 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 2: that's a tough business. I get why you would leave. 548 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 6: Yeah, And there's an answer to both of those equations 549 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 6: when it comes to the guests. You got to be 550 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 6: at the table as a manager, checking on every meal 551 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 6: course delivered. And with the employees, you got to talk 552 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 6: them in the position and out a position every day, 553 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 6: and you got to share a vision with them. And 554 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 6: if they don't have that vision that you're looking at, 555 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 6: which is perfect food going out, that's garner strike, that 556 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 6: looks good, hot, they're putting anything on a place because 557 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 6: that's what they're doing at the other place they. 558 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 2: Look Yet, Yeah, it's a tough business, you know. I 559 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: admire you for making it that long. 560 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:09,239 Speaker 3: It is. 561 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 2: I'm a very different consumer after the RCC than now 562 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 2: because I see how difficult it is. And I have 563 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: a real appreciation for the Tillmans and the russell of 564 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 2: Barros and the matt Bryce's and the big city wings, 565 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 2: the folks who can deliver consistently high quality food, not 566 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 2: perfect and not every time, but consistently high quality food. 567 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 3: It's wow. Is it? Is it ever? 568 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 2: A tough business? I mean, I know there are tougher businesses, 569 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 2: but it's a tough business. And also understanding that you're 570 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 2: on the backs of people who this isn't in most 571 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 2: cases not going to be their career. They're in a 572 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 2: transitional stage all right, seven one three, nine nine nine 573 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 2: one thousand, and you can email me through the website 574 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 2: Michael Berryshow dot com.