1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: To the phone lines we go. We will keep one 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: phone line open. Do that top line, Jim for a 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: person who is eighty plus. If you are eighty plus, 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: you will be moved to the front of the line 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: as soon as you call. You just say I'm over 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 1: eighty when Jim picks up. Extra credit if you're over 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: eighty and a lady. But it doesn't have to be 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: seven to one three sorry, seven one three nine nine 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: nine one zero zero zero seven one three nine nine 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: nine one zero zero zero. All right, we'll get to 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: those calls when they come in. We can have more 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: than one, uh senior on, but we'll start there. Don 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: you're up, go ahead. 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: Thanks, Michael, good to talk to you. 15 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm. 16 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 2: Only sixty nine, so oh you'll you'll get one, okay. 17 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 4: I wanted to talk about how we keep from getting 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 4: the field watered down when we start trying to run 19 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 4: against Dan Crenshaw. 20 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 2: I've seen three names out there already, guys that are 21 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 2: thinking about it. I think maybe one lady. 22 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 4: But you know what happens is we get so many 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 4: and then it waters down the vote and. 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: He winds up still getting back in. 25 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: How do we keep that from happening. 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: Okay, it's a good question. But let me tell you 27 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: how this works. If you go one on one. Okay, 28 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: first of all, let's say you could pick your ideal Canada, 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: pick your fighter. You pick your fighter, and that guy 30 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: goes up against him and you get one shot, and 31 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: that's on the first day of the vote, all right. Now, 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: the alternate is you have more than one challenger, in 33 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: which case you increase the likelihood that there's a runoff. 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: If you're one on one, one or the other is 35 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: going to win. 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: Okay. 37 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: Now, the theory go that if you're one on one, 38 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: there's going to be the Crenshaw supporter or the people 39 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: who just recognize his name that will account for a 40 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: big percentage of his voters. That's why he's hard to 41 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: beat in the first round. The first round of voting 42 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: will be voting on the big issues of you know, 43 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: who's going to be the Speaker of the House, who's 44 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: going to be the Senate majority leader. We're going to 45 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: show up as Republicans and they're going to go down 46 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: and Crenshaw might be the third, fourth, fifth. You know, 47 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: they're not going to be thinking immediately about that race, 48 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 1: and they recognize his name, and I don't care who 49 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: your challenger is. They're not going to recognize your challenger's name. Now, 50 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 1: people get mad at me for stating the truth, but 51 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: this is the case. Nobody's going to know the challenger 52 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: except the people like you that are going to be 53 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: very focused, and they're going to be aware of Jamison 54 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: Ellis or Gunther Egleman or whoever that person is. Okay, 55 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: So if you can push them into a runoff, you 56 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: got a shot. Because the people who show back up 57 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: for a runoff are not your just average report Republican voter. 58 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: You got people who show up and vote Republican because 59 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: they don't like the Democrats. And those people are going 60 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: to vote Bush, Romney, McCain, Crenshaw. They just Republicans better 61 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: than Democrat. We show up and vote, we recognize Crenshaw, 62 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: We move on down the road. We're not going to 63 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: spend a lot of all the time. They're not real 64 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: hardcore issues voters. They're a traditional party voter. Now you 65 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: got to get Now, those people don't show up to 66 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: a runoff, So you got to get past that first 67 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: round and get Crenshaw or any other incumbent into a runoff. 68 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: In their own primary. Now, when that happens, you reduce 69 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: dramatically the number of voters that are going to be 70 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: showing up. And they tend to be hardcore voters. Crenshaw's 71 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: greatest vulnerability is to oh it is to know is 72 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: to hardcore base voters, because he hates them and everybody 73 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: knows it. Now. So now let's say you got five 74 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: thousand of these voters. That might be enough. I got 75 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: to look at the aggregate numbers. You can beat him 76 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: then in the runoff. So it's a two pronged strategy. 77 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: It's kind of like managing your pitch count for your 78 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: little league pitchers that you know you don't always throw 79 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: your ace at the first game because you might want 80 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: to hold him back for the pitch count. All right, 81 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: So that's number one. If you could choose your perfect 82 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: one candidate, that's probably still not as good a strategy 83 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: as having multiple challengers. But there's a second problem. And 84 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: the Bass says this to me all the time, Hey, 85 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: we don't need a bunch of people running against Crenshaw. 86 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: We got to pick one, all right, Well, who's going 87 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: to pick the one? Well, we need to pick the 88 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: one that's going to be strongest and best, and I 89 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: don't like him or don't like her and don't like 90 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: this one. Okay, well, we have a process for doing that. 91 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: It's called the ballot box. You know, you can't criticize 92 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris or the You can't criticize the Democrat Party 93 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: for hand picking Aamala Harris and secretly hope we can 94 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: handpick Dan Crenshaw's challenger. Because who's going to do the handpicking. 95 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: Is it going to be the local party? Is it 96 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: gonna be the biggest donor. Because you start doing that 97 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: and you pick, let's say you got three good candidates 98 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: or three candidates that have a chance, and you go, 99 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 1: you know what, we're just gonna agree on candidate A, 100 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: so we got a better shot. Well, all the supporters 101 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: of B and C, they don't fall in line and go, well, 102 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: I want to B or C and not A. But 103 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: since y'all picked A, I'll vote for A. You know 104 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: what they do, they stay home or worse, they vote 105 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: for Crenshaw to punish you. They're gonna punish you because 106 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: you didn't let them choose. We all have this idea 107 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: of how we're gonna get the best candidate to run, 108 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: but somebody would then have to choose who that best 109 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: candidate is. And whoever that person is is not fully 110 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 1: rep presentative of the base. You mean, like everybody I know. 111 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: Well that's not everybody, is it. Everybody you know might 112 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: not be for candidate A, B or C. But we 113 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: do have a process where all the voters get to 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: pick who that challenger is going to be. And that's 115 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: called the Republican primary on primary day. So there's two 116 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: things at play. There's a process question of integrity, and 117 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: then there's the actual strategic question. And this is where 118 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: I go back and I give you a great example. 119 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: It was twenty twelve and Ted Cruz is running against 120 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,239 Speaker 1: David Dewhurst. Dewhurst had never been beaten, He'd sprinkled money 121 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: all over the state, he had perfect name ID, as 122 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: high as you could ask for, and Ted Cruz was 123 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: at two percent name ID not support name ID, and 124 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: I knew we could win. It was an uphill battle, 125 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: but we could win, but we couldn't beat him in 126 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: the first round. Well, it turns out we did beat 127 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: him in the first round. We had like forty percent 128 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: and he had thirty six. We needed all those other 129 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: people to split the vote and get into a runoff 130 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: and win against heavily favored, well funded candidates. 131 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 5: No, I won't do that. 132 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: It's too much for mont. She won't go that far. 133 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: That was so funny. Laurie was sweet enough to take 134 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: the time to write an email as follows, It's a 135 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: glorious Friday after adoption Thursday, Zar, It's not the time 136 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: of year for your adoption special yet. I know that's 137 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: in November, but I wanted to share something. Yesterday, my 138 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: son's adoption by my husband was finally made legal. When 139 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: my son asked four years ago for my husband to 140 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: adopt him, it was sad having to explain why he 141 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: had to wait. We had to wait until my son 142 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: turned eighteen so it could be his choice. My son 143 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: also chose to take my husband's last name. Blood doesn't 144 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: make a family imperfect. People doing their level best, showing 145 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,239 Speaker 1: up for their children, pushing them to achieve more, being 146 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: present for the highs and the lows. That is family. 147 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: We've been a family for fifteen years, but now we 148 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: all share the same last name. Who strong. Nothing out 149 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: of the ordinary special about this adoption that is newsworthy, 150 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: But for our family, it's the story of a lifetime. 151 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me share. By the way, Jim Mudd 152 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: has played some great bump music this week. Have a 153 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: blessed Friday. Well, thank you, Laurie. What a wonderful message. 154 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: We have an embarrassment of riches. We have over three 155 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: callers over the age of eighty, and they're all ladies 156 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: on command. Our lady brigade has showed up. MAXI, you're 157 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: on the Michael Berry Show, Sweetheart. Go ahead, Hi. 158 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 5: I'm Michael, I'm my bestie and the family. Congratulations to 159 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 5: Laurie and her adoption proceeding. Yes, and I send the 160 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 5: email when I turned to eighty. It was the week 161 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 5: after you said if you're eighty, call right now. If 162 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 5: you just turned eighty, call right now. And I said, 163 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 5: my birthday is the same as your dad. He was 164 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 5: born five years earlier than me. Oh well, okay, So anyway, 165 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 5: my high school class is turning eighty this year. 166 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: And what's your high school? 167 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 5: And the end of last Stroud, Oklahoma. I was there. 168 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 5: The town is all of three thousand, halfway between Tulsa 169 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 5: and Olklahoma City on the Turner Turnpike. 170 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: Maxie, thank you for calling, sweetheart. I appreciate that. What 171 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: a great call. That's Maxie from Stroud, Oklahoma. Let's go 172 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: to Rosemary. Rosemary, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, 173 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: good morning. 174 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 4: This is my day off from work. I'm almost eighty 175 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 4: seven and I love your show on my way to work. 176 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: So hello, Okay, you do realize the bomb effect of 177 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: my day off I work. I'm eighty seven. I love that. 178 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: What do you have you called before? 179 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,599 Speaker 4: I sent you an email, maybe a couple of years ago. 180 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 3: But I've never talked with you. 181 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: And what do you do? 182 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 4: Yes, I work for a commercial real estate company. We 183 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,719 Speaker 4: build shopping centers, we build warehouses. I've been with them 184 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 4: since nineteen eighty five. 185 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: Oh so you're just getting. 186 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 4: Started Boss's hockey. Oh you better believe it. 187 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 3: You better believe it. 188 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 4: I live in Katie. I work in the West Chase area. 189 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 4: Takes about an hour to get to work. Our home 190 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 4: and I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way. 191 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: And what do you do for them? 192 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 3: Everything? 193 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 4: I we do so much. We have so many tenants. 194 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 4: I take getting all of the red checks a post 195 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 4: him up. 196 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 3: We do. 197 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 4: I reconcile about sixty two bank accounts every month. 198 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: Oh my, how alone? Who is this company? 199 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 4: It's called Milestone Properties, Inc. 200 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: And I would love to. 201 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 5: Be a boss. 202 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna say. 203 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 4: Our boss is in his mid sixties and I've known 204 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 4: him since he was right out of college because his 205 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 4: father had hired me all those years ago. So he 206 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 4: just thinks he's the boss. 207 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, he just thinks he is. I would love for 208 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: you the next day you're in to say to him, 209 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: I got shoes older than you. I would love to 210 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: be I would love to be in the boss's office 211 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: when some young whipper snapper comes walking in and says, hey, boss, 212 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: you got a minute listen. I don't know how else 213 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: to say this, but I asked Rosemary to do something 214 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: and she said I could do it myself. That I didn't. 215 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: You know, she wasn't my slave or you know, somebody 216 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: coming in to complain to the boss about you and 217 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: somebody having to go. Dude, she's eighty seven. She's always right. 218 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: You can't get one over on her. I love that 219 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: so much, Rosemary, God bless you. Are you married? 220 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: Thank you. 221 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 4: Well, maybe three times, but not now. And there's not 222 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 4: going to be a four, believe me, no four. 223 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: So we're having fun. I'm going to address something that's 224 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: a serious matter. And I don't know how much you 225 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: experience this because you don't experience it until you go 226 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: into assisted living. And now they have a whole assisted 227 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: living category called memory care, which you may or may 228 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: not know about. So there is something every day is 229 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: a learning experience for me, and I try to view 230 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: everything as you know. When my son was in the 231 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: hospital with rabdomyolysis because he overheated it in football, I 232 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: learned everything I could about it, and it turns out 233 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: very common kids can die from it at football practice. 234 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: It's a common deal. When you learn about when something 235 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: happens to you, it's an opportunity to learn. So I 236 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: have been studying senior care with regard to my dad 237 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: and now generally as a sector of the economy is 238 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: what are the challenges? And there's something nobody prepared me for, 239 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: and that is we know that Joe Biden had dementia, 240 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: and I think one of the things we had to 241 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: be careful was was not to make fun of him 242 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: for that. It can be a funny laugh, but sometimes 243 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: we laugh at things because they're troubling. It was disturbing 244 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: that everyone knew he had problems, and so being around 245 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: this more and more, and my wife and I visited 246 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: i think every assistant living center in the Greater Houston 247 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: area because we wanted what was perfect for my dad 248 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: since my mom passed September nineteenth, And I was not 249 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: aware of the fact I've always thought about the body 250 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: breaking down. You know, you've got the primary systems, which 251 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: is the heart first, and then you've got the lungs, 252 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: and then you've got you know, the various component parts 253 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: delivering the kidney and these sorts of things. I think 254 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: what I was not aware of, Rosemary, is how many 255 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: people have a mental decline, starting in some cases in 256 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: their seventies, and now have tags to attach to them. 257 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: But I now realize it's been around a long time, 258 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: whether it's Alzheimer's or dementia or now they have so 259 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: many different terms. I will tell you are very fortunate 260 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: at eighty seven. It's clear to me you have no 261 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: memory loss. But being around this a lot, I find 262 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: it heartbreaking and I want to be sensitive to it. 263 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: But you know, the body breaking down scares me a 264 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: lot less than the mind. How about that? And you 265 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: sound like I don't know what your physical state is, 266 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: but you sound like you got the snap of a 267 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: twenty year old. God bless you. The proceedings the Court 268 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: of Impeachment is hereby dissolved, mister Michael Berry. Well, not 269 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: about desert wraps are all up. You got a message 270 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: from a friend of mine that his best friend of 271 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: the or his sidekick for the last eleven years twenty 272 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: four to seven passed away a couple of days ago, 273 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: and that he is just absolutely knocked out from all 274 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: of this. It was his beloved dog and my friend 275 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: and I seem to have a lot of friends like 276 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: this is one of those guys that if you didn't know, 277 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: you'd think he's the grumpiest person in the world. But 278 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: he's actually heart of gold, but wouldn't want anybody to 279 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: know it. And he's one of those people who has 280 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: nothing nice to say about anybody to their face, but 281 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: do anything in the world for them behind their back. 282 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: But his dog, oh, his dog got all the love 283 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: his dog since his daughter's left and went out of 284 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: the house. The dog got all the dog could do 285 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: no wrong. You know, you can get so attached to 286 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: those darn things. So for those of you out there 287 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: who've recently lost your four footed loved one. My heart 288 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: goes out to you. I know it is tough. Another 289 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: friend of mine's kid got locked up. I've seen all 290 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: my friends who be getting sent into the calaboose of late. 291 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: His son got locked up sixteen years old. Dwi, you 292 00:16:53,720 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: know your mind's going crazy. And honestly, I told this buddy, 293 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: I hadn't talked to this buddy in probably a year, 294 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 1: but you love him. He's still your friend. And I know, 295 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: I know all his kids, And I said, we're going 296 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: to get through this. This has got to be a 297 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: learning experience. It's not how you, it's not how you 298 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: you want it to be. But you know, this is 299 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: a challenge. It's a mistake. There's no way around it. 300 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: It's a mistake. But we're going to get through this. 301 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: It's what we do. It's going to be a learning lesson. 302 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: It might be some butt swatting in the meantime. All right, 303 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: let's go to Mary, who is eighty eight years young. Hello, sweetheart, 304 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: welcome to the program. 305 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: Hello Michael, thank you for taking my call. 306 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: What is your birthday? 307 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 2: What day of the year, November fourteen, nineteen thirty six. 308 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: I'm four days older than you. I'm November ten, nineteen 309 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: thirty six. So you were graduating high school when World 310 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: War two was going and blowing. No, you weren't thirty six? 311 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: Are you were graduating second grade? Second grade? I'm sorry, 312 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: my mathrong. 313 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: Yes, that's true. 314 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: You have a great voice. Have I ever told you 315 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: should do radio? 316 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 3: Oh? My goodness? 317 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 2: No, but thank you? 318 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a little you got a little uh 319 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: it's a little deeper, a little more, a little more 320 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: base on a female kind of share or Stevie Nicks. 321 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: There might be a future for you. 322 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 2: Not not when I'm almost eighty nine? 323 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: Why that? That would be the show eighty nine and 324 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: holding holding everything I can. If you were to do 325 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: a show, Mary, and it was about a subject of 326 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: great interest to you, it could be most anything. What 327 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: would that be? 328 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 2: Oh, Bible stories? 329 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: And what would be what would be your lead Bible story? 330 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: First podcast episode? What would it be? 331 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Michael. 332 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, just one that you maybe later you'll think of 333 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 1: another when you like better, but just one that you 334 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: really always go back to, you enjoy it. 335 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: Well. I think the story of Jesus he League, the 336 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 2: sight of a man blind from birth, and the Pharisees 337 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 2: really took exception to that. 338 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: You know, I see modern day application to that. You 339 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: don't marry, what would be what we'll do? I'm a matchmaker, 340 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: although my wife says I'm terrible at this, But this 341 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: was not a romantic match. This is a biblical teaching match. 342 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: We'll put you and David Klingler that teach me the Bible, 343 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: and we'll put y'all together on a podcast. Now how 344 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: much fun would that be? 345 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Michael, Yeah. 346 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, the quarterback. And that it's soon to be eighty nine. 347 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: Well it's not. You won't be eighty nine until till November, 348 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: So we do November. Yeah, we'll just have to be 349 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: eighty eight for now. But that would be nice and 350 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: then y'all could go back and forth and do a 351 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: little conversation about you know, each week would be a 352 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: different Bible story. 353 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: Oh, but he's a Bible scholar. I'm not a Bible scholar. 354 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 2: I am. I'm a retired nurse. 355 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: Actually, well, I could see that you sound like a 356 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,959 Speaker 1: strong woman. I could see you large and in charge 357 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: in the in the hospital. But I think David would 358 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: be the first one to tell you that he doesn't 359 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 1: want to be elevated above any other man, and he 360 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 1: would not want to be elevated above you based on 361 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: the fact of his study. I think he would want 362 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 1: that to be very equal. I'll talk to him and see, 363 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: but I don't think him being a quote unquote Bible 364 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: scholar will matter. Okay, okay, now it's always people don't 365 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: like to talk about money. But do you have a 366 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: basic you know, minimum level you're going to need to 367 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: get paid for this thing? 368 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 2: No, okay, I don't need money. 369 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: You don't need any money, Okay, all right. How long 370 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: has it been since you were a nurse? 371 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Michael. I worked from the time I 372 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 2: was early on until I was seventy five. 373 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, and what made you retire? 374 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 3: Yeah? I was. 375 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 2: My last job was I was teaching. I was adjunct 376 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: faculty at Lone Star College in the Woodlands campus. And 377 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: I said to myself, you better stop doing this because 378 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 2: pretty soudent, the students are going to figure out how 379 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 2: old you are in your loose credibility. So I quit 380 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 2: working when I was seventy five. 381 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: And then what did you do? Did you take up 382 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: a hobby? Did you take up gardening or knitting, or 383 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: dominoes or working out, did. 384 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 2: You well, yes, yes, in a way. I make quilts 385 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 2: mostly for charity, so I just continued taking care of 386 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 2: my I've been and making quelts. 387 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: Is your husband still alive, No. 388 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 2: He passed away a little over a year ago. 389 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: You know, so you're a young woman compared to him. 390 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: Not really, you know, you really see love. Love is 391 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:29,959 Speaker 1: depicted in film, as in literature, as picking posies and 392 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: presenting them in a bouquet and you know, will you 393 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: go steady with me sort of thing. But real love 394 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: is the sickness, not the health. And nursing someone until 395 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: their passing is the greatest love I have ever witnessed. 396 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: And it is man not everybody's cut out for it. 397 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: You know. I've seen cases where people, in fact, I've 398 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: known people to do this, where they walk out on 399 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: their lover who can tracts a terminal disease because they 400 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: don't want to be there till the end. But to 401 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: stay there and lovingly care for a person until their 402 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: final day, Boy, that is an act of love greater 403 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 1: than anything else. My goodness alive, That's the sort of 404 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: things that I wouldn't have understood some years ago, but 405 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: you watch it with your own eyes and it changes everything. 406 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 2: Yes, I think that's by all the true. 407 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: Mary. I'm so glad you called. 408 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad I did too. 409 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: Well, you call anytime. Coming up. We've got Nancy. She's 410 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: only eighty three, Mary, look at her trying to act 411 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: like she's got the age you do. Mary's eighty three. 412 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: Ed is eighty one. Scott he's probably only forty or so. 413 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: And Larry's got to be at least sixty, because you don't. 414 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: They just stopped naming people Larry at a certain age. 415 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: They just cut it off. 416 00:23:59,240 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 3: All right. 417 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to do it about a minute each with 418 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: each person so I can get everybody on before the 419 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: show is over. Nancy, Welcome to the program, sweetheart. I 420 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: see you're eighty three. 421 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 6: Welcome. Hi, Michael, Yes I am, And I love it 422 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 6: when you talk about Orange, Texas. I grew up in 423 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 6: Fort Nache's and graduated Port Nache's Growth High School, and 424 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 6: the girls from Lamar Tech and US we used to 425 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 6: drive over I think it was the pig stand over 426 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 6: there in Orange and visit with people over there. 427 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, a long time ago, you know, the. 428 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: Last pigstand I ate at was the one. The last 429 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: one I think we had in this region was on 430 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: Washington on Washington Avenue in Houston. 431 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 6: Where do you live now, Oh, I'm in Conrod, Texas now, Okay. 432 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: So I think that's the last one. But there was 433 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: one in Beaumont. But I loved the old Pigstand And 434 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: we've had this conversation before. It was such a great 435 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: concept for its time, and there's a lot of reasons 436 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: that are that are offered. I've asked this question before, 437 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: but it's hard to answer. The old fashioned diner kind 438 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: of went away, and I think there's probably some reasons 439 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: for that. But Pigstan was so much more than just 440 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: a diner. I thought it was just fantastic. And yeah, 441 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: my P and G connection was I used to go 442 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 1: to baseball camp over at P and G. They had 443 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: a coach by that thing. It was Coach Bradshaw. It 444 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: was a great program and we used to go growing 445 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: up over to We went to Parkdale Mall because that's 446 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: where you'd go chase the girls when you were in 447 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: middle school. 448 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 6: But occasionally there's a bowling alley across the street that's right. 449 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: Occasionally we would go over to Central mall and that 450 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: was the carpeted mall. Oh okay, so there you have it. 451 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: Let's see, you're probably a couple of years older than them. 452 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: But I think Wade Phillip's wife, Laurie went to P 453 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: and G. 454 00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 6: And also it did the other Yes, I think it 455 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 6: was Needlan. I think it was Nederland. No, okay, we'll 456 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 6: go back to Fortnite. Just sounds wonderful to me. 457 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: No, no, no, you may know from firsthand experience, but 458 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 1: I believe Laurie is a P and G graduate, and 459 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 1: I think they are a P and G family. I'm 460 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: almost positive on that because they were close to a 461 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: friend of my brothers named Jeff the Jet. Was it 462 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: Jeff the Jet bers run and he was like a 463 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: football legend from there, and Jeff the Jet still still 464 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: could whip half a bar room at any given time. 465 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: Jeff the Jet's daughter married my brother's best friend. And now, 466 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: for the life of me, I swear I need memory care. 467 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: I don't remember things like I did. What I'm gonna 468 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: remember his name in the second I stopped talking about it. 469 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: But anyway, thank you, thank you for going. I know, 470 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: but it bothers me. It bothers me beca because that 471 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: was always my superpower is I could recall things quickly. 472 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: And I'm talking right now, which is why I can't 473 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: think of his dad gum name anyway. Ed is eighty one. 474 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the program, sir. 475 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 3: Good morning, sir. I'm up from Corpus Christi and Brenham 476 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 3: to attend the Teach Me the Bible conference that starts 477 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 3: this evening. But I just wanted to tell you this 478 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 3: is such an honor for me. I ran over to 479 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 3: Purview I'm a graduate there in nineteen sixty five and 480 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 3: to look around in engineering and just to say thank you, 481 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 3: thank you so much for what you do. Your marketing 482 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 3: mind is outrageous. I've been in business most of my life, 483 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 3: but thank you so much for what you do. And 484 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 3: I just wanted to encourage any person in America and 485 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 3: especially the black people. Hey, it is the man's problem. 486 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 3: It's the guy that you see every morning. You can 487 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 3: do anything in this country anything. 488 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: You know what your problem is? 489 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 3: Ed? No, yes, I do. 490 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: You were clearly raised in a time and by parents 491 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: and grandparents and teachers who told you to be stronger, better, 492 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: work harder, be successful, and don't make excuses. I wish 493 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: everybody was raised the way you were, because they would 494 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: all end up so much more successful and happier. I 495 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: have a friend named Marvin, Marvin Harrison. I'm sorry, Marvin Hamilton. 496 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison was the wide receiver, but Marvin Hamilton, and 497 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: he just called me a few weeks back. He wanted 498 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: to get a new car, and so I called Mike 499 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: Batchets out at lone Star Chevrolet and I said, Mike, 500 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you a lot of business, but there's 501 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: very few people I'm gonna say to you. I don't 502 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: care if you got to lose money. This is gonna 503 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: be the deal. This make or break in our relationship. 504 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: I need you to really And he did end up 505 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: losing money on the deal. I know for a fact. 506 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: I saw all the details. I'm not an idiot. And 507 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: I said, this is the one time I'm going to 508 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,719 Speaker 1: ask you for the best deal you've ever made anybody. 509 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: And it was Marvin ninety years old. Mind you. I 510 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 1: met Marvin twenty five years ago. I was just getting 511 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: into local politics and Marvin was a retired postmaster, had 512 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: never gone to college, and he owned a little car 513 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: wash over an all meetup and his son, Merrek, ended 514 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: up going to work for me at city Hall. His 515 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: other son is a sheriff's deputy. His daughter has been 516 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: a teacher, a banker. The whole family, they're all very successful, 517 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: and Marvin is the most conservative fellow you'll ever meet. 518 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: When it comes to you got to work hard, you 519 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: got to be penalized if you know, you have to 520 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: be consequences. And he says, it was just a different times. 521 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: We weren't raised to make excuses, and when you make excuses, 522 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: it's to so off bigotry of low expectations. So I 523 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: love your message, ed, thank you for calling my man. 524 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thank you, and. 525 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: Good luck at the Teach Me Thebible dot com. They're 526 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: having their Bible conference this weekend. It was I understand 527 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 1: some of you might have been priced out of it. 528 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: It's a very expensive conference. It was twenty nine dollars 529 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: and now they've decided the last minute, you know what, 530 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: for the last few stragglers, we're not even going to 531 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: charge you that because it's not a money making scheme. 532 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: It is an opportunity for people. You know what I 533 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: love about what David Klingler is doing with this thing 534 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: is the idea of you know, Originally there was the 535 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: concept that the Bible was not for the common man 536 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: to read. It would be received and translated by a cleric. 537 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: And the big change with the Gutenberg press was now 538 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: the Bible could be printed and everyone could read it, 539 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: and as it should be. There shouldn't be someone standing 540 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: between you and God. And I think Christ's message was always, 541 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: whether they be Sadducees or Pharisees or whoever that might be, 542 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: there should be nobody in between you and God, not 543 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: a preacher, not a priest, not anyone else. And I 544 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: love that Klingler and these guys their their whole thing 545 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: is let's get into this thing. Let's dig into this Bible, 546 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: let's read it, let's understand it for ourselves. What a 547 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: wonderful thing. It's been a great week, folks. I've really 548 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: enjoyed your commentary. I look forward to our evening program. 549 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: If you can't make it, there's always a podcast, a 550 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: wonderful Saturday podcast for you tomorrow, Howard Lutnick. And can 551 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: we possibly ever do away with the irs? And finally, 552 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: you can always email me whatever your opinions of the 553 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: show or story of your life. I love reading them 554 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: all through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. Michael 555 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: Berryshow dot com. Ramone will be off suspension and back 556 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: on Monday. Wonderful job this week by our creative director, 557 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: Jim Muddin