1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on. 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 2: The air. 4 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: Of the weekend, reading about the weaker US dollar and 5 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 3: the global buying of gold to hedge against other countries 6 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 3: buying gold to edge against their own currency. Well, let's 7 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 3: go back to our basic economics. And I know you 8 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 3: know this, but this is for the kids in the 9 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 3: back that weren't paying attention. But now are The s 10 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 3: just got real? So what happens when we have a 11 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 3: scarce commodity i e. Gold or viz gold and the 12 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 3: demand does not increase while this, oh sorry, the supply 13 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 3: does not increase while the demand increases. Stables supply increase 14 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 3: in demand. I don't know why the example that always 15 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 3: pops into my head as being the best example for 16 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 3: the every person because literally every person can identify if 17 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 3: you're my age, You remember, bro, what year was cabbage 18 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 3: pass dolls? We didn't huh okay, he says, eighty four 19 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 3: eighty five. We didn't have any roles in my house. 20 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 3: My poor mother, it was just boys, nothing but a 21 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 3: bunch of boys. And I didn't hardly see my girl 22 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 3: cousins as much as my boy cousins. All my friends 23 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 3: came over were boys, so it was just a bunch 24 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: of guys. Things like cabbage patch dolls. That wasn't you 25 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: know all the things that girls did. We didn't know 26 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: anything about it, but I remember we went to kmart 27 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 3: in Orange, or as my mother would say, went to 28 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 3: Kmart's and she had to buy something the blue plate 29 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,279 Speaker 3: special or blue light special or something. 30 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: Jackie Smith makeup. 31 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 3: Something was happening, and they had received a shipment of 32 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 3: cabbage patch and then by shipment they had been promoting 33 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 3: maybe they had two. You know, like talking to lone 34 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 3: star chevyes Mike Batchiss the other day and he was 35 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: talking about the things that makes them crazy. 36 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 1: People will will. 37 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: Advertise Chevy Silverado brand new for one thousand dollars and 38 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: people run over there and they go, oh, we just 39 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: sold it, but I got this one over here. 40 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: I can sell you for whatever it is, eighty. 41 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 3: Grand, but I wanted that one for one thousand dollars because. 42 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: It was one thousand dollars. 43 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was only one of those, and so 44 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 3: basically it's a right off to get a bunch of 45 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 3: people over there and now upsell you. And he's like, 46 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 3: I'm just not going to do it, and that's that. 47 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 3: And if we lose sales on the deal. But if 48 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 3: you if you stay and buy a vehicle from somebody 49 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 3: who does that, you're rewarding that behavior. Like you want 50 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 3: to thump somebody on the ear. If you ever find 51 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: out they bought anything from a telemarketer, if nobody ever 52 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: bought anything ever from a telemarketer, they would have to 53 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: shut down. 54 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: Does it make sense. 55 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: So we were at the kmarts and they were going 56 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: crazy over cabbage passion dolls and they hardly had but 57 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 3: you know, just a couple we were a little town, 58 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: weren't going to We weren't high on the priority. And 59 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 3: that night on the evening news it was people fighting, 60 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 3: snatching wigs over cabbage patch dolls, women because they had 61 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: to have it for their kids. You know, it was Christmas. 62 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: They had made people crazy over the cabbage patch. Well, 63 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 3: the cabbage patch did not all of a sudden turn 64 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 3: into gold. Did not all of a sudden. It really 65 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 3: didn't have any any virtue to it in the first place. 66 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 3: But it didn't change. But the demand reduced while the 67 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 3: supply increased, and that drove the value of the bourbon supply. 68 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: A few years ago. 69 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 3: You got to lay those barrels down twelve years before 70 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 3: you sell them for good bourbon. So there was a 71 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 3: relatively steady, relatively consistent mildly like a step, a step 72 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 3: up plateau going on there. It was a step Steppe Remont. 73 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard the step the way 74 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 3: I said at it right. That's a geographical term. Well, 75 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 3: a long and short of it is when the demand increase, 76 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 3: they couldn't increase the supply because it takes twelve years 77 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 3: to put more bottles on the shelves. 78 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: So that shot the prices. 79 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: Up collectors, and that was part of the thrill for people, 80 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 3: is you couldn't get it, and that made it more 81 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: and more valuable. So what we have here is as 82 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 3: people started saying, hm, that weaker US dollar, we need 83 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 3: to hedge against our own currency. Let's buy some gold. Well, 84 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 3: as long as just one person buys gold, that's fine. 85 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 3: You keep a relatively steady market. But when Brazil finds 86 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 3: out El Salvador's buying gold, they want to buy gold. 87 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 3: And then when Austria finds out Brazil is, they want 88 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 3: to buy gold. So I just called Kenny Duncan junior 89 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 3: at US coins eight four five Katie Freeway, and I 90 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: told him this morning, I said, keep me apprized today 91 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 3: because I stayed up way past where I'm supposed to 92 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 3: last night and I'm reading about the week dollar causing 93 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 3: gold to go crazy. 94 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people. 95 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 3: Who are not believers in the US dollar, A lot 96 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 3: of people, an increasing number of people. 97 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: Because, as has been said by. 98 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 3: Key Kalasaki, I forget the guy's name, rich Dad, poor dad, 99 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: who actually turns out. 100 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: To be a scam marist. But let's leave that's side. 101 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 3: For say, he will take out a dollar bill and say, 102 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 3: this is tilet paper, this is tarlet paper. 103 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: But if you want to sign up for his class, 104 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: it's ninety seven USD. 105 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 3: He'll say, you know you need assets, real estate, gold, 106 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 3: So gold right now. When the dollar gets weak, when 107 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 3: this stock market gets volatile, that is when gold goes crazy. 108 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 3: So I said to Kenny during the break, I knew 109 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 3: he'd be busy. I said, Kenny, I need one minute 110 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 3: of your time, literally, and I stick to it. I said, 111 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 3: what did we open at today and what are we 112 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 3: at right now? He said, we opened at thirty six fourteen. 113 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 3: We're at thirty six forty four right now. The idea 114 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 3: that it went over thirty six hundred per ounce. I 115 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 3: think we're at record highs right now. 116 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: I need to check that. 117 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: But I was reading late last night and my retention's 118 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 3: not always as good late night reading. 119 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: But gold is on fire right now. 120 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 3: If you are a person that is looking to buy 121 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 3: or sell gold, you can email me and I'll connect 122 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 3: you with Kenny Duncan Junr or just drive over eighty 123 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 3: four to thirty five Katie Freeway. So I said, are 124 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: people coming in to sell? Because if you're betting, okay, 125 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 3: we've hit the high, it may come down. Let me 126 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 3: dump Papov's gold that I then you rush in and 127 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 3: sell today. But if you say I'm looking at a 128 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 3: run up and thirty six is not the end of 129 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 3: the road, I want to catch some of that wave. 130 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 3: So you come in to buy at thirty six forty 131 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 3: four today, hoping it's going to four. 132 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: And he said, I got four fellers and three buyers 133 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: this morning. That's kind of been the trend this morning. 134 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 3: They're at eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway, US coins 135 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 3: or email me. I'm glad to connect to Cherry. I 136 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 3: am fascinated by commodities. 137 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,439 Speaker 1: Marie play of songs again. 138 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 3: The song would be in my top five of the 139 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 3: garden Party. You think it's really simple name, you think 140 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 3: there's not much to it, and you find out the 141 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 3: story behind it has so many deep, profound layers, and 142 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 3: you already like the song. 143 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: And the truth. 144 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: Is he's got a good melody to start with everyone, 145 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 4: he's got a great velvety voice, and at that point 146 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 4: in his career he had really kind of. 147 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: Softened it and for public consumption. 148 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 3: And then you find out what it's about, and you go, wow, 149 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 3: that's deep. Man. Do you think puff the Magic Dragon 150 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: is about anything other than. 151 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: A dragon? 152 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 3: What lived? 153 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: And you think that's what it was about? 154 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 3: No, No, what you're pointing out the index finger and 155 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 3: thumb and your other fingers up and putting it to 156 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 3: your lips and then throwing it up in the air. 157 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: I think I know what you're talking about. I think 158 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: I do quick programming. 159 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 3: Note we have space for two more couples on our 160 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 3: Palm Beach three trip, which will be at the end 161 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: of October, the last weekend in October. If you are 162 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 3: interested in more details, you can email me through the website. 163 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 3: Michael Berryshow dot com, Emily will send you a message 164 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 3: that sounds like we're trying to scare you off, which 165 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 3: we kind of are. I vet the people who come 166 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 3: because I'm going to spend four days with people in 167 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 3: close quarters. We're out on a yacht, we're on a 168 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 3: private plane. I'm bringing people tomorrow Lago. I mean, you 169 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 3: don't want somebody that's going to pass out the middle 170 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 3: of the floor when the president. 171 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: Walks in if he does. 172 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 3: You don't want somebody that's going to hurl all over the. 173 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: Gold plated toilets. 174 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 3: I mean you've got to have You know, there's a 175 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: lot that goes into a trip like this. 176 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: It's not cheap. It's thirty thousand. 177 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 3: So if you're the person that can't afford it, but 178 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 3: would rather just say that's too expensive, because that's your 179 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 3: way of coping, that's your business too. I don't do that. 180 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 3: I can't afford a Rolls Royce. I don't run around 181 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 3: saying rolls Royces are awful and evil because I can't 182 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 3: afford one. It's okay. I grew up not being able 183 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 3: to afford anything, had a great life, not mad at 184 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 3: anybody about it. That's probably not true, but I like 185 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 3: to think it is that part. Send us an email 186 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 3: through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. Write letter P 187 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 3: letter B number three as the subject line, or Palm 188 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 3: Beach or mar A Lago, and Emily, my able assistant, 189 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 3: who is also our events director, will send you an 190 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 3: email with a tone that sounds like we're trying to 191 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: get you not to go, because what we've learned is 192 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 3: kind of like a boot camp. Somebody goes through that 193 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 3: email and says, yeah, I can do that. Yeah, I 194 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 3: can do that. Can't be a Sage five cleaner, Yeah, 195 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 3: I can do that. Can't be drunk in public, pukell everybody, 196 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 3: Yeah I can do that. Yeah I think I still 197 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 3: like to go. What was I going to go to next? 198 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 3: Jason wrote me an email. I hear you talk a 199 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 3: lot about the trades. My son, after getting aggravated his 200 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 3: first semester in twenty twenty of college, decided that was 201 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 3: not the path he wanted to take and got into 202 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 3: refractory work when he was nineteen, which is creating structures 203 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 3: out at the refinery with high temperatures. 204 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: My mother used to say temperatures. Did ever tell you that? 205 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 3: She had a number of words she mispronounced, and my 206 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 3: brother and I would have so much fun. I'd call 207 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 3: him up and I'd say what's the temperature? In His 208 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 3: response would be that cat was black. She couldn't say black. 209 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 3: I can remember for hours sitting and saying, Hey, Mom, 210 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 3: we're going to say five. 211 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: Words in a row. You're ready back back sack sack 212 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: crack crack black black, god, dog it gosh dogging. 213 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 3: We do not have dishonest family members who live in 214 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 3: a house full of books. 215 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: It's not a library, it's a libary. Lie Bravery. 216 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 3: Back to Jason's son, he taught his he bought his 217 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 3: first house and was making six figures a year, and 218 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: by twenty three years old bought his second car. Because 219 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 3: he travels all over the country on some of these jobs. 220 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 3: The younger generation needs to realize there's more opportunity than 221 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 3: ever to be a to create income. How about that? 222 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: How about that? Now that's I love those stories. I 223 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: absolutely love those stories. I wanted to get to a 224 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 3: couple of things I read last night and made notes 225 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 3: about a very very prominent lawyer in this town who 226 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 3: I know very well in respect for his pure genius 227 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 3: and legal acumen, said many years ago when I was 228 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 3: still a partner at the firm where he was. I 229 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 3: went to a law function one evening. The speaker was 230 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 3: someone I'd never heard of, but he was the Solicitor 231 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 3: general est State of Texas. Turns out his name was 232 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 3: Ted Cruz. After listening to him speak off the cuff 233 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 3: for thirty minutes, my reaction was, my goodness, I sure 234 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 3: hope I never had to oppose that guy in court. 235 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 3: His command of the cases was awesome. And that's all 236 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 3: I've ever heard ramon you ever do sauna treatments? So 237 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 3: I don't have three hours to listen to Rogan like 238 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 3: Chad does. I don't know how anybody does that. 239 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 1: You have patience. But I get clips sent to me of. 240 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 3: You know, kind of the highlights of what people do, 241 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 3: and one of them was Rogan talking about saunas with 242 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 3: this guy who's supposed to be that's kind of he's 243 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 3: a you know, wellness is big business now and this 244 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 3: guy was recommending four days a week for twenty minutes 245 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 3: a session. 246 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: That's a lot of sauna, all right. 247 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 3: So late last night I sent an email to my 248 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 3: dear friend, doctor Stan Duckman, and I said, what do 249 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 3: you think about sauna treatment because I'm reading a lot 250 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 3: about it, and I sent him the quote four days 251 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 3: a week, twenty minute, and here's all the effects it's. 252 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: Supposed to have. 253 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 3: This morning, six oh five am, he writes, Good morning, 254 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: what a beautiful morning. There have been several studies conducted 255 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 3: regarding the use of saunas, and various cultures obviously have 256 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 3: used them forever. Ock Obama real into the oh that's different, 257 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 3: that's yeah, different deal. I am unaware of any data 258 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 3: that showed any life extension with regular use of a sauna. 259 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 3: Many of the physiological responses to the heat are also 260 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 3: elicited with exercise. Well, yeah, Stan, but I'd rather sit 261 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 3: my fat ass in a sauna than go exercise. 262 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: That's always funny when people like. 263 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 3: Him because he exercises, does everything in moderation. 264 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: Smart as hell, I mean the whole thing. Hey, doc, 265 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: can I take this pill? It maybe help me lose weight? 266 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: What do you think of that? 267 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 3: Well, the pillar work fine, but you can also eat 268 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: less and move around, as Walton Johnson used to say. Well, yeah, 269 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 3: if I could do that, I wouldn't need the pill. 270 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 3: We're looking for a shortcut, so he says, I am 271 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: unaware of any data that showed any life extension with 272 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 3: regular use of sona. Many of the physiological responses to 273 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 3: the heat are also listened with exercise. The bottom line is, 274 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: I do not think that sona therapy is harmful, but 275 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 3: I do know that it would necessarily extend But I 276 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 3: do not know that it would necessarily extend your healthy life. 277 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: I hope that helps. However, I have not. 278 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 3: Reviewed this stop topic for several decades. I will take 279 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 3: a look at that today as now you've made me 280 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 3: curious if there's anything new in the field, and I 281 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 3: will report back. I love that doctors still want to 282 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 3: learn because there are new developments every darn day. The 283 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 3: godfather of britpop has passed eighty one years old. Sir Davies, 284 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 3: founding member of Super Tramp. 285 00:16:51,680 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: Was Ray Davies was the godfather. No, Ray Davies was 286 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: his god brother. Rick Davies was the founder of Super 287 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: Tramp and a lot of good hits. 288 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 3: Take the Long Way Home, the Logical Song, which I 289 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 3: think is the most un heralded of the songs, underrated, 290 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 3: Goodbye Stranger, which you heard there. You know, we're at 291 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 3: an age where those guys that were big in the 292 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 3: late sixties and early seventies would have been twenty to 293 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 3: twenty seven years old, which means that they were born 294 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 3: at about forty five. He was born in that same era, 295 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 3: and now they're about eighty years old, and it's very 296 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 3: common at that age to pass oh way, So you 297 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 3: know we're going to keep losing those those folks. I 298 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 3: was telling the story on Facebook over the weekend. You know, 299 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 3: when I was young, younger, everybody that I loved was 300 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 3: older than me, and you don't realize how good you 301 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:09,159 Speaker 3: have it. Everybody you love is older than you, and 302 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 3: all is well, and then they start dying. And now 303 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 3: I'm truly middle aged, and a lot of people who 304 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 3: I loved and admired and trusted and respected and enjoyed 305 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 3: are not alive anymore. And so I find myself many 306 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 3: days driving and wanting to call someone that I would 307 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 3: have called before, and I script out a conversation before 308 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 3: it happens. Here's what I'm going to say, Here's what 309 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 3: they're going to say. Usually, because I don't. I'm not 310 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 3: a person who calls and says, hello, how are you, 311 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 3: I'm good, how are you? 312 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: You know? 313 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 3: I hate that, So I usually call with something like 314 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 3: I'm mad at you before they can ever say anything why, 315 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: And then I'll have some thing that'll make them think 316 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 3: and then they laugh, and then we laugh and we 317 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 3: go back to the story that made me say that, 318 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 3: and then haha, all as well. So of course I 319 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 3: miscalling my brother and him rolling his eyes at whatever 320 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 3: I'm telling him I'm up to. And I miss calling 321 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 3: my mother finding out what dad, how much my dad's 322 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 3: getting on her nerves, and you know, Michael, did you 323 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 3: see this on the news the other day. 324 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: Or whatever else? 325 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 3: And I miss calling my second dad, my mentor Walter Zivley. 326 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 3: I've had a few second dads, if you hear me 327 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 3: say that, Barry Lewis and Fred Zeideman or in that category. 328 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 3: But I would call Walter and tell him something that 329 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 3: I had just accomplished, and I was so proud of 330 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 3: and I wanted his validation. I wanted him to be proud. 331 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 3: But he knew MY weakness is hubris, and so he 332 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 3: would kind of tamp it down. Don't get too big 333 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 3: for you briches in this country drawl. He had been 334 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 3: from Mineral Wells, Texas, And there's days that I just 335 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 3: I'm driving along and I by once. Well, I shouldn't say. 336 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 3: Somebody else may have his cell phone number now, but 337 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 3: I know his cell phone number and I haven't called 338 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 3: it in ten years. He's been gone, and I sometimes 339 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 3: I'll just think, oh, well, I'll die that, Or I 340 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 3: know my grandmother's number eight eighty three and I won't 341 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 3: say the last four numbers and I can remember. I mean, 342 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 3: I can think to myself, well, I'll just call it 343 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 3: one time. But the good news to come of that 344 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 3: is that I have a wistful moment of I wish 345 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 3: I could call and have that experience, but I realize 346 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 3: there's somebody alive today that tomorrow I'm going to feel 347 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 3: that way about. So rather than embracing the sorrow, make 348 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 3: new memories. So that's usually when I'll call Ramon. I'm like, 349 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 3: he may not live very much longer. 350 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 1: Let me coo. But I do I use that moment. 351 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 3: I always use that moment to call my dad, but 352 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 3: I use it to call other people as well. Oh yes, 353 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 3: forget about the crime in the Houston area and just 354 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 3: build more bike trails because bicycles are going to solve 355 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 3: our problems. ABC thirteen reports on the series of crimes 356 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 3: around Houston at bike trails and parks. A seventy year 357 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 3: old man attacked on White Oak Trail just the latest 358 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 3: of ongoing attacks. 359 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I realize you were napping Number one clip 360 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: number one from Chad Rama's Napping. If everybody's keeping let's 361 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: caring home. Sometimes he naps and I wake him up louly. 362 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 5: Just update came when police released this sketch more than 363 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 5: two weeks ago. They say this is the man they 364 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 5: believe is responsible. Please say he's connected to four groping 365 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 5: incidents in which he rode up to women on a 366 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 5: bike touched them inappropriately before riding away. They say his 367 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 5: fifth lednettack was much more serious, Please. 368 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: Saying it happened at the. 369 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 5: End of July when he robbed a pregnant woman, knocks 370 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 5: her to the ground, and kicked her in the stomach, 371 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 5: causing her to miscarry. We covered the deadly stabbing of 372 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 5: a grandfather on August seventh. He was killed while biking 373 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 5: to work on the Harrisburg Hike and Bike Trail and 374 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 5: the Harris County Precinct. One Constable's office says they've increased 375 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 5: patrols at Shepherd Park after a man tried to pull 376 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 5: two women into the bushes. They say both were able 377 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 5: to get away and that man is still on the 378 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 5: loose now. We spoke to a man who filed a 379 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 5: police report Monday after he says a jogger knocked him 380 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,199 Speaker 5: off his bike, assaulted him and stole his phone on 381 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 5: the White Oak hike and bike trail near Hog Park. 382 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 6: I think if we're going to build these public spaces, 383 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 6: we need to protect him, and we need if people 384 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 6: are going to use them, they need to feel like 385 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 6: that they're safe there. And I think there are things 386 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 6: that can be done to make people feel safe and 387 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 6: to make people actually safer, such as I think some 388 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 6: people have said Jess and putting more nine one one 389 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 6: boxes more lighting. 390 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 5: Today we spoke to Councilman Abbey came in. He represents 391 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 5: District C where a number of these incidents have happened. 392 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 5: She says at Memorial Park. Her office has funded an 393 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 5: off road utility vehicle that allows police to respond to 394 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 5: incidents deeper in the parks, as well as adding security cameras. 395 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 5: Though we do want to note none of the crimes 396 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 5: we've mentioned here happened at Memorial Park. 397 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: Memorial Park, isn't that where the park ranger. 398 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 3: The MP ranger was running up on people, threatening to 399 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 3: arrest him if they didn't have sex with him. 400 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 2: I was doing my job, worked in the park jobation well, 401 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 2: the clams key, it claims key. 402 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: It's done for a girl and the boy. I like 403 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: like a berry Shore. 404 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 3: I'm going to challenge you to do something today that 405 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 3: will take no more than five minutes. 406 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: Of your day. 407 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 3: There's so much, but when you get home to your 408 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 3: wife or ladies, when you get home to your husband 409 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 3: or he comes home to you, whatever that may be, 410 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,239 Speaker 3: it will be the highlight of your day. I guarantee you. So. 411 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 3: I have found that gratitude is godly, it is biblical, 412 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 3: it is spiritual, and it is cathartic. I came to 413 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 3: Houston in eighty nine not knowing a soul. Now it's 414 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 3: two hours from Orange. I'm not trying to act like 415 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 3: you know, some missionary and you rock as a Christian. 416 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 3: But I didn't know anybody, and it was a big 417 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 3: city and I started over. Frankly, I kind of liked 418 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 3: that I got to recreate myself. I got to be 419 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 3: who I wanted to be. I got to be who 420 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 3: I said I was, and nobody said. 421 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're booger in fourth grade, I. 422 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 3: Didn't eat my book. I mean I probably did eat 423 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 3: my booger, but I wasn't known as a booger reader, 424 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 3: not like. 425 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: I got called. 426 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, it's not easy always to 427 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 3: grow up and live in the same town because people 428 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 3: remember you back when you did stupid stuff. So from 429 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: the time I got to Houston, there were so many 430 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 3: people who for whatever reason saw talent in me, or 431 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 3: I begged them, or some combination of the two, or 432 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 3: they just had a philanthropic spirit. They helped me. Lawrence 433 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 3: Curry at the University of Houston, Ross LNT's professors, Dean 434 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 3: Estes Ted Estest, who was my professor. I posted a 435 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 3: poem of that he had exposed me to this weekend. 436 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 3: Robert Linberry, who was my thesis advisor and became a 437 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 3: dear friend. John Kaufman, who was a World Realm's geography 438 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 3: professor at the University of Texas and a rabble rouser 439 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 3: of the first sort. He was this big He looked 440 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 3: like Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes. It was this big, 441 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 3: fat gay guy with a big goofy mustache. Who wore 442 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 3: cheap sands belt suits and had such a passion for 443 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 3: world geography that every frat boy, every redneck, every rotc 444 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 3: guy took his World Realms class. It was all men. 445 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 3: It was it was It was about the rugged individualism 446 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 3: around the world of explorers and people who who tamed 447 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 3: the earth and made things come up out of it. Oh, 448 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 3: I think about how kind all these people were to me. 449 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 3: And then law school and Professor Leno Grauia, who was 450 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 3: nominated for the Court of Appeals on the same day 451 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 3: as antonin Scalia, two Italian Americans. It was a Reagan 452 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 3: initiative in nineteen eighty six, but he was shot down 453 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 3: in the way that they wronged Trump. They tolen o'grawiy. 454 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 3: Was the first time the ABA ever shot down a candidate, 455 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 3: their nomination for a candidate because he was too conservative. 456 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 3: He was my first real awakening to what would later 457 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 3: be called conservatism. And Michael Sterling, who chose me to 458 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 3: go to England and get another law degree because I 459 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 3: loved the study of law, and then I got out 460 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 3: from there. In Don Brodsky, who hired me out of 461 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 3: law school. In Pat Sharkey, who was the head of 462 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 3: the Hibernian Society and our real estate section is still 463 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 3: a friend of mine to this day. And I could 464 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 3: just go on and on. Barry Lewis, who invested in 465 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 3: my internet company that failed in two thousand and four, 466 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 3: Eddie Martini, who believed in this guy and put him 467 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 3: on the air when that just wasn't done, and then 468 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 3: put me in charge of three stations. The CEO of 469 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 3: our company had to approve it. Largest radio company in 470 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 3: the world, and he said, well, look at it this way. 471 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 3: You know he's a complete outsider. If it doesn't work 472 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 3: in six months with fire. 473 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: Him, well ed. It didn't tell me that until much later. 474 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 3: And then I think about all the different stations around 475 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 3: the country. The first one Robert Dove at k EX 476 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 3: eleven ninety and in Portland, who took a chance on 477 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 3: me when senior vice president of our company said, you 478 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 3: don't want him, he's two Southern Fried. So they put 479 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 3: on a guy from Minnesota, and they put him on 480 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 3: for six months and they were still registering a zero 481 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 3: point zero and he said, all right, I did your experiment. 482 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 3: It's been six months. I want Michael Barry. I don't 483 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 3: care if he's Southern Fried, and overnight, revenues came in 484 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 3: and people came in, and we had station events where 485 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 3: thousands of people would show up. It was incredible and 486 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 3: it never would have happened. And Michael Hudson in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 487 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 3: who put me on WJBO, my second station, and how 488 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 3: he believed in me, and all my wife who believed 489 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 3: in me, all these people who believed in me. Over 490 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 3: the years, every single time a sponsor comes on as 491 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 3: a sponsor of our show, I tell him this is 492 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 3: not a transactional relationship. If you're on TV and print 493 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 3: and SEO and all that, don't add me to your mix. 494 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 3: I don't want to be another way you advertise. I 495 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 3: don't want you to measure leads. I don't want you 496 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 3: to look at cost per lead. I don't want to 497 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 3: know how to activate an audience with your. 498 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: Called I hate all that stuff. I hate it. 499 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 3: There's a place for it. Sure, that's how you sell 500 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 3: Johnson and Johnson's supplies or tires. We created a community here, 501 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 3: and as sappy and silly as it may be, it's 502 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 3: meaningful to me. It's important to me, and I've seen 503 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 3: how it makes a difference. I've seen how we've been 504 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 3: able to make a difference for people in their lives 505 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 3: because of you and the things you do, and that 506 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 3: matters to me. And I don't want to be just 507 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 3: another show. 508 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: Where you're doing the Sunday Sunday Sunday. 509 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 3: Or Memorial Day sale or tell Michael Barry you send 510 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 3: them or ten percent off, and that doesn't work for everybody. 511 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 3: But all that being said, listeners had to believe in us, 512 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 3: and we are an acquired taste. I get it. I'm 513 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 3: an ass most of the time. That's my personality. Sometimes 514 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 3: I'm sappy, sometimes I'm an ass. Find the middle ground, Michael, 515 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,719 Speaker 3: not where I am, not who I am, the highs, 516 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 3: the lows, the silliness. Probably had some opinions you didn't like. 517 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 3: I know in twenty sixteen that was true. Probably said 518 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 3: some things you found offensive to you personally as a Jew, Catholic, Christian, Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, black, white, Hispanic, hillbilly, redneck, transgender, gay, 519 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 3: Vietnamese Hubert Nah Chris Ascubans, I like no, but I 520 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 3: like everybody, and it's our style. And it probably took 521 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 3: a while, But I say all that to say this, 522 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 3: there's a wonderful, wonderful thing that happened. When you say 523 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 3: thank you to somebody, especially when it comes out of nowhere. 524 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 3: I've called old coaches old teachers. I can still remember 525 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 3: Miss Alice Martin's phone number. She was my debate coach. 526 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 3: She went around the country. I went to a national 527 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 3: competition Southern Baptist Convention and won an amount of money. 528 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 3: If I told you, you wouldn't believe it. To go to 529 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 3: school from the Southern Baptist Convention winning preaching competitions. You know, 530 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 3: they would hand you a topic, a Bible verse, and 531 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 3: they'd give you about ten minutes, and then you would 532 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 3: preach on it for I think twenty minutes. And I 533 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 3: went all the way to the top lener and she traveled. 534 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 3: As my mom said, how about miss Martin go with 535 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 3: you instead of and then she can listen to your 536 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 3: speeches and for your sermons and she can improve on that. 537 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 3: So there was a guy named David Stone. We were 538 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 3: opening the indoors of the RCC. 539 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: We were outdoors first. 540 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 3: Those of you who remember it, you remember it so fondly, 541 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 3: but you forget how much you sweat out there. So 542 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 3: we're going to open indoors in the last thing we need. 543 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 3: They come and do the inspection. Oh, you got to 544 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 3: have a fire suppression system. Oh man, what does that 545 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 3: cost you? 546 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: You don't want to know. 547 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 3: I think it was two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 548 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 3: I could be wrong. I don't know what to do, 549 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 3: and I don't know where this came from. God, I'm 550 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 3: certain of it. An angel appeared over my shoulder. His 551 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 3: name was David Stone. He's had over two hundred kidney 552 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 3: stones that he's passed in his life. That has nothing 553 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 3: doue with his story, but it's fascinating, and he said, 554 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 3: we'll figure it out. They came out the next day 555 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 3: and they started doing the inspections. How much it is 556 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 3: going to cost, We'll figure it out. They did the work. 557 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 3: Sweetest guy ever, greatest guy ever. What it ever cost me, 558 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 3: We'll figure it out.