1 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: Michael Varie Show is on the air. The entirety of 3 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: the time I came to Houston from nineteen eighty nine, 4 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: Commissioner's Court was Republicans. Harris County is a massive county. 5 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: It's broken into four districts. They're called precincts. For the 6 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: sake of conversation, let's call it north. It's call it northway, northeast, southwest, southeast, 7 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: not exactly accurate, but close enough. And then you have 8 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: what is the equivalent of the mayor for the county, 9 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: who doesn't represent a precinct is known as the county judge. 10 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: That's Lena Headalgo. The entirety of the time I was here, 11 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: almost the entirety of it, it was four Republicans, three 12 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: of the four precincts in the county judge. That was 13 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: John Lindsay, Then that was Robert Eckles, and then that 14 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: was at Emmett. And then there was a fluke. Emmitt 15 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: was beaten by Lena Hidalgo. It was a Democrat turnout. 16 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: Nobody saw it coming. I had Democrats called me the 17 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: next morning, Who's Lena Hadalgo? Hell if I know you 18 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: are a Democrat. People would be shocked to know you 19 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: just asked me that question. We never heard of her. 20 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: Rodney Ellis took over the one Democrat seat on County 21 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: Commissioner's Court. It was the seat that al Franco Lee held. 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: In fact, el Franco Lee, going back to nineteen eighty 23 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: four had beat Sylvester Turner and Sylvester Turner's first race 24 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: for that seat. But Elfranco was old boys club kind 25 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: of guy. He didn't rabble roused too much. He'd know ever, 26 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: so offered maybe raise a race claim, try to fight 27 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: bat in court in the elevator. But fine, fine, large 28 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: ol Franco was going alone to get along. And when 29 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: Rodney came in, Rodney decided he was going to be 30 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: the godfather of Harris County. Damned if he didn't do it. 31 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: He got Lena in as county judge, He redistricted Cactus 32 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: Jack Cale out of his district and put Brioni's in there. Now, 33 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 1: the Adrian Garcia precinct, which is southeast, has gone back 34 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: and forth Democrat Republican a little bit, but it still 35 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: leaned Republican prior to this point. And then you had 36 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: one safe seat and that was held by or Now 37 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: you have one safe seat left. The last Republican left, 38 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: so a four to one Republican majority is now a 39 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: four went Democrat majority. The last Republican standing is Tom Ramsey. 40 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: And I'm a fan. I knew Tom Ramsey for my 41 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: days on City Council because he and Wayne Klotz had 42 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: one of the most respected engineering firms in the country, 43 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: Clots and Associates, And it was a firm that you 44 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: could ask an opinion, Hey, do we need to be 45 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: is this project makes sense or not? Is this the 46 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: right budget for this project? And they would give you 47 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: honest answers. They were competent in infrastructure, which is very 48 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: rare for people, for people in public life, it's very 49 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: rare for a county commissioner to have a background owning 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: an engineering firm. Very rare, indeed, because most of what 51 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: city and county government does, believe it or not, is infrastructure, 52 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: roads and bridges and well culverts and drainage and mitigation 53 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: and these sorts of things. That and policing, those are 54 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: the biggest tasks. I think Tom Ramsey does a good job, 55 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: and in fact, I don't think we need to have 56 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: him on. 57 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: Now. 58 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: I think I've said enough about him. I don't think 59 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: we need to have him on. I'm just kidding. This 60 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: is Tom Ramsey talking about this new pay equity policy, 61 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: Rodney ls deal. This is again more of this, this 62 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: sorrow's bullcrap, left wing stuff. Listen to this. 63 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 3: But when departments raised their hand, and I've had several 64 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 3: raise their hand and said, you know, when you look 65 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 3: at job descriptions and positions and they just don't make 66 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 3: any sense, and we want to get it right. When 67 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 3: another department says ninety five percent of the people at 68 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 3: work that won't be getting an increase, yet they get 69 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 3: a letter saying they're going to get an increase, I 70 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 3: think it's just been a problem. The County Attorney's office 71 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 3: opted out of the process. But all those reasons that 72 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 3: you opted out, those reasons exist for a significant number 73 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 3: of the other departments. We're not ready. I think it's 74 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 3: what everybody's raising their hand and saying, we're simply not ready. 75 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: Commissioner Tom Ramsey, what in the world is going on here? 76 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 2: Well, Michael's good to be here. This is a example 77 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: of a progressive agenda item where they read about it 78 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 2: in Chicago or LA or New York. And they say, yeah, 79 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 2: we're going to do pay acting. Well, I don't think 80 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 2: that word means what you think that word means. And 81 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 2: so they start a program. They hire firm Gallagher Pay 82 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: Pay Gallagher one point two million dollars to define for 83 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 2: us pay equity. The objective is that really we need 84 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: to be sure that there is fairness and how everybody's 85 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 2: getting paid. We know, I've commented when we hired Gallagher, 86 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 2: I said, you know, the county has always been a 87 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 2: preferred place to go to work, mainly because of our benefits, 88 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: mainly because of our stability, And maybe we should focus 89 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 2: on our benefits in our stability and not come up 90 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 2: with a sum fabricated program to try to get pay raises. 91 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 2: So they came up with a program. They defined over 92 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 2: seven hundred and sixty differnt project types of position types. 93 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 2: In other words, they had position descriptions seven hundred and 94 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: sixty and they were going to compare what someone did 95 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: in the health department with what somebody did in the 96 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 2: engineering department. Was what somebody did in the perenci department. 97 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: You can't do that. Any idiot knows you can't do that. 98 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: I said, this won't work. Those of us from the 99 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 2: private sector can tell you how people are organized is different, 100 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 2: and when you try to come up with project descriptions 101 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 2: or position descriptions based on well, this person is just 102 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 2: like an engineer. Project manager in engineering is the same 103 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 2: as a project manager in the health department. So it 104 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 2: didn't work. It took a year. They charged this one 105 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: point two million dollars and it's the biggest joke in 106 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: disaster you can ever imagine. But the bad and sad 107 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 2: thing is they are going to spend forty two million 108 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: dollars this year on pay rates based on a really 109 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: flawed program, a flawed consulting effort, and they're going to 110 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: spend another seventy six million next year. And it's not 111 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 2: gonna be merit based. It's not going to be fair, 112 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: it's not going to make sense to any of the employees. 113 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 2: And so I think it's a disaster. It continues to 114 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: be a disaster. Yet they go right down that road. 115 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: Commissioner Tom Ramsey, I'm just glad to know you're there. 116 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: Gives me home. I got dark you scene side right, 117 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: he's looking at that girl over there, So I'm really cute. 118 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: This happens they barton it. Oh yeah yeah, let me 119 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: give you a suggestion on her. Here's what you want 120 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: to do, here's what you don't want to do. That's 121 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: good song. That's good writing right there? Who wrote that? Fore? Remember, 122 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: are we going to give you an opportunity? By the way, 123 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 1: my votes are at Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow 124 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: dot com. Remember when you go into the voting booth, 125 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: which is not for twelve days. The earliest you can 126 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: early vote is February seventeenth through the twenty seventh. You 127 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: cannot open your phone while you're in there. If you 128 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: like Uncle Jerry with one of those goofy flip phones 129 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: that opens up up into it being a bigger screen 130 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: and it's in the middle. It looks all plastically and awful. 131 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: You Android people, you can't open that or your iPhone 132 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 1: or anything else digital. But you can print what's known 133 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: as a pony or a slave, or you can take 134 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: printed materials with you into the ballot box, into the 135 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: voting box. You can so if you want to use 136 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: mine or anyone else's voting suggestions, you are free to 137 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: print those out if you receive them in the mail. 138 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: You can bring them with you. Let me go ahead 139 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: and warn you now, because there's always this type, you 140 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: know who you are, there's always this type that loves 141 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: the drama about getting kicked out of a campaign booth, 142 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: a voting location. I don't find that interesting. I understand 143 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: that for some people that's real interesting. Mickael I went 144 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: up there with a sign and said, Trump is my president. 145 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: I love mercle and they kick me out. Michael, they 146 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: kicked me out. Okay, did you show up to vote 147 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: or did you show up to hopefully create a stir? 148 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: I just I just don't have patience for it. Should 149 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: you technically be able to vote because he's not on 150 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 1: the ballot? Yes? Am I interested in it? 151 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 3: No? 152 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: I can't be interested in everybody's thing. Every day there 153 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: is an email from one hundred and seventy five different people. 154 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: I know what you gonna say every moment. That's why 155 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: you should read your emails from one hundred and seventy 156 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,599 Speaker 1: five different people. And it goes like this, Michael. I 157 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 1: turn on TV day and I was watching John Wayne 158 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: movie and enduring the break there was a man dresses 159 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: a woman and Michael, it's in the war now, Okay, 160 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, I cannot focus on 161 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: that right now. I'm glad that that ruined your day. 162 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: I'm betting if that didn't ruin your day, that might 163 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: be something else. We've got an alternative to the Bad 164 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: Bunny at the NFL halftime show that that turning Point 165 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: is doing with Kid Rock and some others, and I 166 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: got people email, I'm gonna watch this. I'm gonna watch 167 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: Bad Bunny, mark my words, because it's very easy to 168 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: look back. There are gonna be people who cannot help themselves. 169 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: They got to peekaboo, got to peekaboo. They're gonna flip 170 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: over a turning point and they're gonna go. I wonder 171 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: what bad Money's don over. I they say, much of 172 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: queer stuff, bunch of anti American butt sex, awful, horrible stuff. 173 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: I bet he is. I'm gonna switch over and watch it, 174 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: and then they do. Because deep down, rage is an 175 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: intoxicating emotion. You're alive when you're raging. I'm starting to 176 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: think the only thing worse than the naive, nice neighbor 177 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: who's never bothered by anything is the person who is 178 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: living on the constant adrenaline of being bothered by everything 179 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: because he gets upset that I can't keep up. I 180 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: cannot be pissed about everything all the time, not and 181 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: be a decent father, talk show host, businessman, friend, husband. 182 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: I just can't do it. So you are free to 183 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 1: call and share your vote, vote for which ever. Tell 184 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: the name of the person and the race that they're in. 185 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: Get right to it, because we're going to turn the 186 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: calls over seven to one, three nine nine nine one 187 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. The 188 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle doing the bidding of John Cornyn's campaign in 189 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: the establishment, referring to Wesley Hunt as quote, little known 190 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: Houston Republican. Really, really, he's tied for second place behind 191 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: Paxton with John Cornyn, the senator from for twenty four years, 192 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: little known Houston Republican really. Chronicle hack Jeremy Wallace doesn't 193 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: properly credit us for our interview this week with Wesley Hunt, 194 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: which is fine writing they're scared because we're clearly a 195 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: threat to them. Hunt said in a radio interview on 196 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: KTRH inu houon Oh yeah, technically, I guess it was 197 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: on KTRH in Houston. You can go ahead and save 198 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: my name because everybody knows whose short it was. But 199 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: that's all right, that's all right. We're not mad. We're 200 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: not trying to get credit from the Houston Chronicle because 201 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: we don't read it anyway, and I don't know anybody 202 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: who does. I really don't anymore. It's become like the view. 203 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: And I'm happy because they went so far left. But 204 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: I'm kind of bummed out because I missed the days 205 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: of the good newspaper. I missed the days I loved 206 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: the newspaper as a kid. That was the greatest indulgence 207 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: in the very home. We got the Orange Leader and 208 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: the Bowman Enterprise. Oh yeah, big time. We got that 209 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: big city paper. Loved it, loved reading it. And on Saturday, 210 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: by about noon, if my dad would say, you see 211 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: where that city councilor got in trouble and he did this, 212 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: this and this, and you'd say, no, send a paper, 213 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,719 Speaker 1: the paper, because reading the paper. For my dad, who 214 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: did not go to college, his theory was, everybody can 215 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: read the paper. You might not go to university, you 216 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: might not can have a fancy job, you might not 217 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: walk in the halls of power. But everybody can read 218 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: the paper. You can know what's going on. They can't 219 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: hide from you what's going on. It's all right there 220 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: in the paper. So read the paper that was the idea, 221 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: and then like every other great American institution that left 222 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: destroyed it all right. Seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, 223 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: one thousand. Who are you voting for? You'll sleep like 224 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: a superior. My financial advisor team at Steve or Mark Lopez, 225 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: John Carolyn and Andy McGee at my request or putting 226 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: together an evening at Federal American Grill on February twenty fifth. 227 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: If you are interested in email me. They have created 228 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: what is known a family office practice and for and 229 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: this will not be for everybody, so you don't need 230 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: to scream and holler. There are some things I do 231 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: for rich people. That's okay. There are there are there's 232 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: there's something known as a family office where wealthy families 233 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: will have an office after they've sold off the business, 234 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: private equities brought them out, or if it's inherited wealth, whatever, 235 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: they'll have a family office and that office will have 236 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: a team of people who handle the accounting and the 237 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: strategic planning, and they'll have somebody who handles philanthropic charitable contributions. 238 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: And that's because the amount of money they give away 239 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: per year is so significant that they literally have to 240 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: have a full time person and sometimes team two to 241 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: give that money away. And that's the Browns and the 242 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: Cullens and the Cockrolls and the Robertsons, and and it's 243 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: a good thing they do that. In fact, there's a 244 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: lot in Houston that wouldn't happen if it wasn't for 245 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: those families and their charitable donations, the like Jones Theater 246 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: and Cullen Hall and Robertson Hall and Cockrell Butterfly Museum, 247 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: and on and on on these families. If they did 248 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: not have a long standing tradition toward philanthropy, a lot 249 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: of things that we the public enjoy would not be there, 250 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: whether that be opera or a butterfly museum, or Boy 251 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: Scouts or musicals or high school activities, sporting events, stadiums, 252 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: you name it. So I talked to our guys because 253 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: they built a practice the last few years, they have 254 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: really converted their practice with about with over half their 255 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: time into this idea of somebody who's not who hasn't 256 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: sold their company for hundreds of millions of dollars, but 257 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: has done well and I know a lot of people 258 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: in this category that they've done well and now they're 259 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: at an age where they're transitioning into looking at their 260 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: legacy and looking at what life looks like when they're 261 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: no longer actively engage fourteen hours a day in their business, 262 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: but they still want their wealth. We use the word 263 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: wealth loosely. We all have wealth, their wealth to continue 264 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: to grow through smart investments, usually with a lot less risk. 265 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: As you get older, you want a little more security 266 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: because you don't want to lose it all because you 267 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: can't make it back, but also looking at things like 268 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: charitable contributions, both from a strategic tax advantage approach, but 269 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: also things that you care deeply about. A lot of 270 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: these are the guys that have come to me and said, 271 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: I want to help camp Hope. This is my budget. 272 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: How do we do that. Obviously that's meaningful to me 273 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: because I know where it goes. It makes a difference, 274 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: But also other aspects of this a state plan. Very 275 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: common situation. Man starts a business man works as an engineer, surveyor, 276 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: CPA construction company superintendent, works in a business un till 277 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: he's thirty thirty five, leaves, starts his own business. He's 278 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: married to the woman he's been with since they were 279 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: high school sweethearts or twenty years old. Starts the business 280 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: at thirty five, and it's kind of like that middle 281 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: aged crazy song by Jerry Lewis. The flame's gone out, 282 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: but she's worked alongside him that business. She's as responsible 283 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: for the success of that business as he is because 284 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: she bore his children, she kept his house, household going. 285 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: She took the risk with him. And there's tough times, 286 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: you know. You see these guys, they are thirty five 287 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: years old. They leave a job making back then in 288 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,239 Speaker 1: the seventies, I'll do today's numbers, you know, making three 289 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year. That's real money, and they 290 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: start a company on their own and that first year 291 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: don't make a dime. Well, people that have never seen 292 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,199 Speaker 1: any money will say, oh, well, you had all the 293 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: money where you got No, it's not how it works. 294 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: You spent your money and you've got kids. And now 295 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: by this time, the kids are in middle school or 296 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: high school, and so the family's going through a great 297 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: deal of stress as a result of dad starting his 298 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: own business. So those high school years are real tough. 299 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: Maybe the kids go off to college, and there's real 300 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: concern with whether the parents are going to be able 301 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: to pay for the college. So, okay, used to mommy 302 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: and Daddy were going to pay for college. Now we're 303 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: going to take out loans because they're low interest rooms 304 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: and Daddy says, I'll pay for them later. I always 305 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: wanted to pay for your college, but I'm not now, okay. 306 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: So you know, he gets into his forties, into his fifties, 307 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: the kids are all gone, and maybe she files for 308 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: divorce because she stayed till the kids were there, or 309 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: or he files for divorce one way or another. In 310 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 1: short order, he's going to start dating women in their 311 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: late twenties early thirties, usually divorcees. Nice rack, big fluffy, 312 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: plump lips, a lot of work, very very high maintenance, 313 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: very expensive, but a show piece on his arm. And that's, 314 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, what he wants. At this point, it's 315 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: very common thing. So then now he's entering his sixties, 316 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: he's dating this woman who's mid thirties. Maybe by this 317 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: time they've been dating a few years. He gets married. 318 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: The kids from the first marriage, one or two of 319 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: them have joined his company and they are rising through 320 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: the company, and his dream is to hand the company 321 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 1: off to them. They're still his kids. He loves those kids. 322 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: He doesn't hate his ex wife. She's just not married 323 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: to him anymore. She may have gotten remarried or in 324 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 1: many cases hasn't. And then he's got this business that 325 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: he wants to hand over. This business might have some 326 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: debt on it, but it's got some assets. It could 327 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: be sold. There's a lot going on in his life, 328 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: and he's had cancer once that he survived. Maybe he's 329 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: getting to be mid sixties, ate sixties. He starts worrying 330 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: about what's going to happen if he dies, because, in 331 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: a moment of laziness, his estate planning was he'd get everything, 332 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: he'd get it, he'd give everything to his wife. And 333 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: he now realizes since she wanted to have a kid 334 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: with him, she's smart. She wanted to have a kid 335 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: with him, very strategic move. Now they have a kid together, 336 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: that's ten. He's sixty eight, kid's ten. She's maybe thirty eight. Forty. 337 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: By this time, he's worried that his kid, who from 338 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: the first marriage is not is going to get cut 339 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: out of all this. The equity of the business. His 340 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: daughter from the first marriage is not going to get 341 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,719 Speaker 1: anything of his because she's going to cut them out 342 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: and he's going to be dead and it's gonna be 343 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: nobody to hold her accountable. So this estate might be 344 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: worth ten or twenty or thirty or forty or fifty 345 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 1: million dollars, which is not as much as it sounds like. 346 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: It sounds like it's a lot, but you'd be surprised. 347 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: And so I said to those guys, Hey, here's a 348 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: profile of a lot of guys that I see and 349 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: they need somebody. Oh and by the way, private equity 350 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 1: has come knocking, maybe he'll sell his company. Anyway, at 351 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: the end of the month, we're going to have an 352 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: evening for people that might not be all your situation, 353 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: where they're gonna sit down with me and our team 354 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: of estate planning CPA and all that. If you're in 355 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: that situation where you're thinking about selling your company and 356 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: all that, email me and we'll invite you to the dinner. 357 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: A friend of mine texted me who fits that entire profile? 358 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: And he goes disturbingly specific Michael, And here's the worst part. 359 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: I said, I have no reason to lie to you. 360 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: I swear I had forgotten you were lingering out there 361 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: that was not intended for you. I just like to 362 00:22:50,640 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: paint pictures, and I pick and choose from various people, movies, books, literature, stories, tells, legends. 363 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: It's so funny because there are people who think that 364 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with a picture of them on the wall, 365 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: telling stories about them but not saying their name, to 366 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: torment them. And then they run, and some of them. 367 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: There's one guy in particular, who then runs to everybody 368 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: who knows me, Michael's talking about me again, and they 369 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: have to tell him, Dude, I assure you you are 370 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: the last person he's talking about. How you know, because 371 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: he doesn't think about you. You're clearly obsessed with him. 372 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: He doesn't think about you. Maybe change the dial, you know, 373 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: maybe think about moving on down the line. Maybe he 374 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: thinks you're just kind of odd and doesn't want to 375 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: be around you. But you need to get over that. 376 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: But there are people who think that I am sitting 377 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: here coming up with stories about them. But hell, I 378 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: tell stories that I know a lot of people. So 379 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: if I were to say, you know, you could be 380 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 1: walking down the street and slip and fall, and I've 381 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: got at least ten friends going to do that's uncalled for. 382 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: You know, I know what you're doing. What am I doing? 383 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: You're talking about me? Did you slip and fall? Remember 384 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: last year you made fun of me. I slipped and fell. 385 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: By the way, had dinner with my cardiologists last night. 386 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: Got to find a new cardiologist. Now yeah, yeah, well 387 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: you decide. I'll let you decide. So my wife hosted Majong. 388 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: Apparently we are a Majong family. Now, I didn't know 389 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: that's supposed to be for Tanglewood women. I had no 390 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: idea that we were running in the Tanglewood white women 391 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: crowd now, but apparently we are. And they had a 392 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: Majong instructor, which is another one of the moms of 393 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: the kids. But she comes listen this from we're in 394 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: our own business. So there were eight people playings eighty 395 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: dollars each for two hours of instruction. Okay, you're listening. 396 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: Eight people eighty dollars. She made six large plus forty, 397 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: six hundred and forty dollars for two hours of my jogging. 398 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: Tell you about that. That's not six large, six thousand 399 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: and six large. What do you cost six hundred six honey? 400 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: There's still a lot of money. Okay. So one of 401 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: the people my wife invites is Stan Dukman's Beautiful Life Lisa. 402 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: So Stan habits to be my cardiologist. They just went 403 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: to the Holy Lamp. He's really excited about it. I've 404 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 1: never had any friends go to the Holy Lands. I'm 405 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: kid and I've had ten thousand, so I know how 406 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: this thing's gonna go. I'm gonna have to look at 407 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: a bunch of pictures of the Holy Lamp. But if 408 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: I go to the Holy Land and we have dinner, 409 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to look at my pictures. That's part 410 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: of it. That's part of the deal we make. Otherwise 411 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: you're evil. You have to. So he says, hey, I'm 412 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: gonna pick up my fallow in law. His follow law 413 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,919 Speaker 1: is ninety one years old, Lisa's dad. He was a 414 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: doctor as well from the Philippines. And so Stan says, 415 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick you up for dinner. I think he 416 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 1: was seven thirty, and well, the ladies are having that 417 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: and we'll go to dinner. How's that sound. We'll go 418 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: to Kara Bazzy. Okay. So I go in for the 419 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: hug when I meet him, and he does a real soft, 420 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: stop side, and he says, I broke my ribs. Huh 421 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: actually no, no, no, no, no, before that, that's when I 422 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: was leaving. So I walked them into the house and 423 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: I said, ladies, this very handsome doctor right here is 424 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: my friend Mike. That's his follow and the other guy 425 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: is my cardiologist, du Hi bye. So we go on 426 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: our way. They're playing my young You know when women 427 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 1: get to a certain age, they don't really care for 428 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,360 Speaker 1: the guys anymore. They were like, could y'all please leave? 429 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: We're having rose in playing majong. So we go to dinner. 430 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: I thought he was saying he said something about broken ribs. Well, 431 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: your fallaw's ninety one. He probably broke his ribs because 432 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 1: that's what old people do, right They fought. He oh, 433 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: fell and broke ribs. That's what I heard. Couldn't hear 434 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: very well. So I thought it was his farm mall. 435 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 1: And so we're at dinner and I said, Dan, I'm 436 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: glad you told me that Mike broke his ribs, because 437 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: I would have you know, I'm not shaking his hand 438 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: too hard. And he said, no, I broke my ribs. 439 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: How'd you break your ribs? Like if you're Dan Pastorini, 440 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: You're going you know what? We got a we got 441 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: a good old line. But me and Jean, I mean 442 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: me and Joe Green. He's a batmana jam will he 443 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: hit me? You saw what Dan Pastorini said in that 444 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: Love You bumb movie that I'm in. Four times? He said, 445 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: first time, mean Joe Green hit me. I couldn't poop 446 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: for a week. I asked him if that was true. 447 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: He goes, no, exaggerated it was four days, though. So 448 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: if you're dam Pastorinium, you got shattered ribs. You got 449 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: hit by mean Joe Green, you got hit by Jack Lambert. 450 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: You got hit by some of the meanest, toughest, baddest 451 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: dudes in history. Right, you write a book called Take 452 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: Him Flag. Everybody talks about your ribs. You're a tough guy. 453 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: Dukeman broke his ribs falling down the stairs. I said, 454 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: were you drunk? He's got a winery. I've never seen 455 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: him drunk, but he's a wine expert. Were you at 456 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: least drunk? No, I'm a stone culs over. Oh my goodness, 457 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: what happened? Somebody left a banana peel? He said? I 458 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: was wearing a new pair of shoes. He's kind of 459 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: a dandy dresser, so you know, you dandy dressers are 460 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: gonna slip and fall on fancy new leather shoes. So 461 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: he said, I was on the wood staircase at some 462 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: place called vne Guard. I don't know what that is. 463 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: I bet we're gonna know, because I bet they're gonna 464 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: get sued, probably some wine place. Anyway, So he said, 465 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: I had new purse shoes and they were I guess 466 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: they were slipped in the in the wood must have 467 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: just been polished, and I slipped and I fell and 468 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: I hit my ribs several times. I said, oh my, okay, 469 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: how's that going? And he said, well, the worst part 470 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: today was I sneezed, And so I went online to 471 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: figure out how you cannot sneeze, trying to come up 472 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: with strategies to not sneeze. I said, oh no, I 473 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: think I need a new cardiologist, because think about this. 474 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: If you're cardiologists cannot navigate the stairs without breaking their 475 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: ribs and you're laid out and he's got you wide open, 476 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: I don't want him kind of knocking around inside there, right, 477 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: So I said, well, did you at least get some 478 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: pain meds. He said, no, I'm still seeing patients. I 479 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: can't take anything. I got to suffer through this with 480 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: no pain meds. So I said, here's the deal. Prescribe 481 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: yourself some pain meds, but don't take them, because that's 482 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: a no no. You're you know, passion medicine. Give them 483 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: to me. He didn't think that was a good idea. 484 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: I'm not really a pain meds guy, but I like 485 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: the idea of it. Like when you find out somebody 486 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,959 Speaker 1: has been kind of, you know, pharmacy shopping and they 487 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: have a little pain med pro hom I'm never mad 488 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: at that guy, are you? It's not me because I'm 489 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: an addictive personality and I ended up just zunk out 490 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: all the time. Lots of emails ask him where we're 491 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: going to be tonight. Contact with Steve told campaign online 492 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: for that and our votes are up Michael Berryshow dot 493 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:58,479 Speaker 1: com