1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: The Michael Varry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 3: Honing a small business is tough. Talk about this all 4 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 3: the time. Small business owners are fascinating creatures. Because there's 5 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 3: there's a there's a movie called like six feet from 6 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 3: Greatness or three feet from You don't talking about No, 7 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 3: it's not thirty feet yeah about the backup singers? Is 8 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: it thirty feet? Okay? Well, it's just because over the years, 9 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 3: you know, RCC gave me this experience where there's the 10 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 3: rock star lead singer that you know, books are written about, 11 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 3: they're interviewed wherever they are. 12 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: People are like, oh my god. 13 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 3: That twenty feet from stardom, and people are literally melting 14 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 3: because this person is two tables over. Now, if the 15 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 3: lead guitarist or the drummer is there, people have no idea, 16 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 3: nor when they're told, do they really care other than 17 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 3: to ask that person about the famous person. And yet 18 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 3: that secondary person is the is the one on stage 19 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 3: helping make the music. 20 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 2: They're part of all this. 21 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 3: They have the same experiences within reason, and yet you don't, 22 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: we don't think of it that way, right, Well, it's 23 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 3: interesting to me that in the course of the day 24 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: I drive past guy who's digging a ditch, not me, 25 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: Not really, nobody digs ditches anymore. 26 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 2: Do you get that idea? And you know there's your 27 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: ditch digger. 28 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 3: Or I go into a restaurant and there's a guy 29 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 3: back there in the kitchen, not the celebrated chef, you know, 30 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: not Matt Brice coming out in his chef jacket, and 31 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 3: everybody hopes he'll come to their table and bless them. 32 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 3: I mean the guy who's in the back, who's the cook. 33 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 3: And ever I go into kitchens because I like to 34 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: go into kitchens. You're out there having a nice time. 35 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: You've got real nice music, you know, that's being piped 36 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 3: in and hopefully at just the right level, and it's 37 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: it's very calming, and the sounds and the clinking of 38 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 3: the glass and the waiter comes over, and you know, 39 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 3: if it's the right kind of restaurant, they should be 40 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 3: tending to your needs. 41 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: What would you like? How can we make you happy? Oh? 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 4: With that? 43 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: Is that not to your liking? What could we do? 44 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: Could I refill this? You horse? You finish the trough water? 45 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 2: Which you like? Some more? Oh? The restroom? 46 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 3: Okay, you'd like to move somebody, Okay, that's down here, 47 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 3: and can we do this? And can I take your 48 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 3: jacket and all that, and so here we are, and 49 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 3: we're having this wonderful experience. And even the waiter is 50 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 3: kind of in on the experience because he's getting to 51 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 3: enjoy the air conditioning, which by historical standard, is in 52 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 3: and of itself a big deal. Right, So he's going 53 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 3: through all this and he's dressed nice, in your dressed nice, 54 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 3: and somewhere about thirty forty fifty feet away as part 55 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 3: of this whole process, is the person who took the 56 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 3: raw materials in that awful heat pit of a kitchen. 57 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 3: He's got burns up and down his arms, and he's 58 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: making the food that is at the root of all this. 59 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: And so there's like these concentric circles. We live on 60 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 3: the same planet, we live in the same city. We 61 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: may occupy the same space in a restaurant, but the 62 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 3: patron may go home to a twenty thousand dollars mansion 63 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: and butlers and drivers, and he made the next morning 64 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 3: get up and be taken to his private plane. And 65 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: the waiter somewhere in between, he's he's over here and 66 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 3: he's in his little apartment and he's maybe gonna if 67 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 3: he makes a little extra money, now he's gonna go 68 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 3: get hammered and get a tattoo. And then you got 69 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,799 Speaker 3: the guy in the back who's cooking. And the concentric 70 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 3: circle is they're all under the same roof of the 71 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 3: same restaurant at the same time. But it's a very 72 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 3: different life in a very different moment, and we don't 73 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 3: think about that. You know, you drive past a bus stop. 74 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 3: Most people that are at the bus stop are not 75 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: there to conserve energy. They're there because they can't afford 76 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 3: a vehicle. And if you can't afford a vehicle in 77 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 3: the United States in twenty twenty six, things are rough 78 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 3: right and yet here we are to say, you know, hey, 79 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 3: how you doing your way going in and out of 80 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 3: the grocery store or whatever else. 81 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: I think about this all the time. Well, when you. 82 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 3: Walk into a small business, we view it as what 83 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 3: I'm going in to buy a couple of items, and 84 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to. 85 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: Leave that space. He's got to keep it clean, he's 86 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 2: got to keep it safe. 87 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,799 Speaker 3: You're the nice guy coming in, You're not the Democrat 88 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 3: coming in trying to rip him off, threatning him sue him. 89 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 3: If everybody could run a small business, they would. It 90 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 3: is not easy. But you know who must be killing 91 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: it right now? I'm going to call them when we 92 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,799 Speaker 3: hang up. Flag shop owners, Cromberg's flag shop, Cromberg's flags 93 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 3: and flagpoles, all of them. You got protesters changing sides 94 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 3: all the time. You got Palestinian flags one day, then 95 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: you got Ukraine. People can't find Ukraine on a map. 96 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 3: Now it's Viva Venezuela. That's the new one. That's what 97 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 3: they're doing now. I mean, you think about all this, 98 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 3: How do these people keep up? If you go to 99 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 3: their house? Do they just have random discarded like old 100 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 3: discard like used two? People have discarded concert shirts, you know, 101 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 3: the Ramoness seventy eight, the sex Pistols World Tour. Do 102 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 3: people just have like what became of Ukraine? Did Ukraine 103 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 3: just doesn't matter anymore? Honestly, I think about these things. 104 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: Does nobody care about Ukraine anymore? Did the Palestinians just 105 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 3: go away? What happened to the transgenders? We were all 106 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 3: gonna die if the transgenders weren't happy, And now whatever 107 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: whatever became of the transgenders? I toured Cromberg's flags and 108 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 3: flagpoles recently, and they got flags from countries I didn't 109 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 3: know existed, honest to goodness, and I pride myself on 110 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: knowing flags. But you got to figure. You got to 111 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 3: figure flag shop owners right now have to be loving protesters. 112 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us on Action News at six. 113 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 3: We continue our feature on local small businesses. 114 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: Tonight we introduced you to Simply Sensational Flags and their owner, 115 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: Elmer Clutterbuck, who says political protesters provide most of it business, 116 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: but he can never be certain which flag is gonna fly, 117 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: So Simply Sensational Flags of the family business. My sisters 118 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: started things back in seventy seven. They wanted to sell 119 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: and I said that's silly. So here I am. Years ago, 120 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: we were big into sports flags, Seahawks, Stealers, Saints, Spurs. 121 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: They were big sellers for us. Then the protesters became sensational. 122 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: Boy are they passionate little suckers. Problem is you never 123 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: know who they're gonna support. Palestine flags were fizzling for 124 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: a while, then we had a pivot to Ukraine. We 125 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: can thank Secretary Susan for that one. Now it's been 126 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: this Whalen flags selling like hotcakes. Of course, I can 127 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: always count on the Rainbow flags being a big seller. 128 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: Those really set sail in June. Now we make all 129 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: of our flags non cotton. That would simply be racist. 130 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: Our clientele will not go for that. I see one thing. 131 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: As long as we have protests, we're gonna have because 132 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: those guys are thumthing out. Oh and I'd be re 133 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: myth if I didn't tell you this. 134 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 2: We're expanding. 135 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: Take a look at our newith item flying off the shelf, candles. 136 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 2: Are you ready for it? 137 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: Thanktuary, cinnamon either gonna dominate the Democrat candlelight. 138 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 3: Vigilance like food ramon You know es cargo is snails? 139 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 3: Do you know why of the French eat snails? They 140 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 3: hate fast food? 141 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: Left Michael Barry. 142 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: Lifeless eyes, black eyes to get dolls. 143 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 3: This weekend I got a message from Russell Yborrow. It's 144 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 3: a picture of him and my dad and he had 145 00:08:54,240 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 3: the most cheshire cat grin on his face. Russell because 146 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 3: he knew that I didn't know he was going over 147 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 3: to visit my dad, and he knew I would get 148 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 3: a kick out of him being there, and of course 149 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 3: I did. And night before last Michael Petrew, my trainer 150 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 3: and dear friend went by and visited him, and he 151 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 3: played for University of Texas. He was a free safety, 152 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 3: and so my dad was a football nut. He doesn't 153 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 3: have the memory he used to, but Petrew kind of 154 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 3: was prompting him to players and different people, and my 155 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 3: dad would claim he remembered. 156 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 2: I don't know if he did or not. 157 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 3: But he's at a point now where when people go 158 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: by and visit him, sometimes. 159 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 2: He forgets to tell me. And so. 160 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 3: If I don't mention it to somebody and they went 161 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 3: to visit my dad did, a month later, they'll say, hey, 162 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 3: did your dad tell you I visited? No, if he had, 163 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 3: I would have thanked you. But I'm glad you told me. 164 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 3: And I'll say it to him, and I don't know that. 165 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 3: I don't know if he then recalls or if he 166 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 3: just says, oh yeah, because as your memory starts to go. 167 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 3: A coping technique is when people tell you something that's happened, 168 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: Rather than argue it because you don't remember it, you 169 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 3: just go along because it's not worth the fight. 170 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 2: And that's what he does. 171 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 3: But I say that to say this, you might not 172 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 3: be in a position where you have various friends who 173 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 3: can go and visit your mom or your dad, and 174 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 3: you look more likely your mom, because that's what old 175 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 3: folks homes are. It's men die before women for a 176 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: number of reasons. Used to the man was always older 177 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 3: than a woman. My dad was five years older my mom. 178 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 3: But also because men live harder, smoked more, drank more, 179 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:41,079 Speaker 3: worked harder, slept less, engaged in dangerous activities, and underwent 180 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 3: a lot more stress. They bore the burden, the yoke 181 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: of taking care of the family, and the mom was 182 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 3: usually a little better in handling that stress, so they 183 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 3: lived longer. Just a fact, but that is to say 184 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 3: that when you scale it all back and you know, 185 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: the conversation with Bason Punt or train remind me. Reminded 186 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 3: me that when you you know, if your bedridden with 187 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 3: no use of your arms or legs, then you don't 188 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 3: live in your phone when you get to a certain age. 189 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 3: My dad doesn't. My dad ever did, but it's his age. 190 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 3: He's eighty five. He doesn't live in his phone now. 191 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 3: He will wear out two programs on TV twenty four 192 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 3: to seven, and that's baywatching Dug Dynasty. But if you 193 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 3: walk in and turn the TV off, which is what 194 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 3: I do, cause he plays it so loud. If you 195 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 3: have an elderly parent, you know what this is like. 196 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 3: You will get hot, but you have to have to 197 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,119 Speaker 3: turn that also so we can focus on our conversation. 198 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 3: Then you know that what really matters when you come 199 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 3: into this world, when you go out. I mean, I 200 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 3: imagine a scenario where a baby comes into this world 201 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 3: and there's no nurse, doctor, or. 202 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 2: Mother to cradle. 203 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 3: It is because they're all on their phones. Well, at 204 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 3: that moment, we understand to put things away and focus 205 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 3: on what matters. And if you are lucky enough to 206 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 3: have people in your life, because eventually we're going to lose. 207 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 3: We're either going to die, you're going to lose everyone 208 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 3: else around you. If you're lucky enough to have them, 209 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 3: then be grateful for them and interact with them, whether 210 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 3: it's bringing them a cookie or placing a call asking 211 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 3: how they're doing. I do notice something that bothers me 212 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 3: at the Old Folks Home, and that is that there 213 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 3: are some adult children my age who go and visit 214 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 3: their parent for the sole purpose of fussing at their parent. 215 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 3: And I've come to the conclusion that the reason they 216 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 3: fuss at their parent, is they're angry at their parent 217 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 3: for growing old and dying, because before you die, you're 218 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 3: in the process of dying. We're all in the process 219 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 3: of dying. To think about it, you know, in an 220 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 3: existential sense, but you're in the process of dying. Your 221 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,559 Speaker 3: systems are shutting down, the cancers are taking over, the 222 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 3: heart is weakening. And as that's happening. As the adult child, 223 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 3: I think there is a tendency and it's very natural 224 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 3: to be angry at them. If you can just make 225 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 3: them stop dying, then they'll stop dying. And what you're 226 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 3: really mad at is not mom or dad who's too 227 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 3: old to be able to fix this. You're mad at 228 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: the fact that this is life and there's a cycle 229 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 3: and we're at a phase of it that is hard 230 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 3: to deal with. So instead we fuss at our mom 231 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 3: or dad that they're not getting up and walking, or 232 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 3: they're doing this, or they are getting up and walking 233 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 3: and they forgot their walk, or they're not taking their pill, 234 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 3: or they're doing this, or they're doing this, when in fact, 235 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 3: my philosophy is these should be their golden years. They 236 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 3: should be wonderful and who in the world are you 237 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 3: to be fussing at them. You should be there making 238 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 3: their lives better, making them happy, and if they're grumpy, 239 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 3: listening to them. And if they want to talk about 240 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 3: their doctor's appointments. A spoiler alert for those of you 241 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 3: who don't have elderly parents, that's all they want to 242 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 3: talk about. What hurts, what doesn't move, and should what 243 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 3: does move and shouldn't. 244 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 2: You know, it's. 245 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 3: Like a cranky child that's hungry and sleepy. That's you know, 246 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 3: It's the circle of life. I don't know that I 247 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 3: have any great wisdom on the matter, other than to 248 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 3: say there's a good reminder to be had on frequent 249 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 3: occasion that we're only here for a moment, and that 250 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 3: what really matters cannot be manufactured in Palo Alto, and 251 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 3: it does not come with a service manual. Those are 252 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 3: the things that make life rich. Those are the things 253 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 3: that make life meaningful. If you look back on our 254 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: civilization in a thousand years, nobody's going to be really 255 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 3: really impressed that you figured out how to use Siri 256 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 3: to coordinate your schedule. That's just not The things that 257 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 3: are going to matter are the things that always did 258 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 3: matter and that will always be the change that will 259 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 3: always be the same. The question will be will you 260 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 3: unfortunately get sucked into thinking that this or that social 261 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 3: media app that's the hot new thing that the young 262 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 3: people are all into. That's the craziest thing is how 263 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 3: many of these these moms and some dads a certain 264 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 3: age are desperately trying to engage in social media apps 265 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 3: or musicians or movies, or a dance or a drink 266 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 3: because that's what all the kids are doing. I can't 267 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 3: imagine taking my cue from what all the kids are doing. 268 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 3: Do you realize how stupid they are at that age 269 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 3: and we all were. You don't have any wisdom, You 270 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 3: should have grown out of that. In any case, I 271 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 3: think we're overdue for it. I truly believe Ramon, So 272 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 3: we will open the phone lines. Remember the rules. Get 273 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 3: right to it. I know your name, you know mine. 274 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 3: Even if I don't say it right, I'm good, You're good, 275 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 3: Get right to it. Seven one three nine nine nine 276 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 3: one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand 277 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 3: is I truly believe. 278 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 2: A story for journalistic purposes. 279 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: Message from a sweet woman who visits her dad every day, 280 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 3: and he's eighty six years old and she said, I'd 281 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 3: like your advice. 282 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 2: He is. 283 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 3: Very conservative and very grumpy, and I don't want to 284 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 3: know how I should deal with him. Well, I don't 285 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 3: know how you should do him. I'll tell you what 286 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 3: I would do. 287 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 2: Love him. He's your dad. 288 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 3: When you were a little bitty and couldn't feed yourself, 289 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 3: he either fed you or provided so that you could 290 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: be provided. He's made incredible sacrifices for you your entire life. 291 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: There were times that you were unbearable and grumpy and 292 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 3: cranky in a little part, and he made sacrifices so 293 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 3: that you could eat if he couldn't. He was awakened 294 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 3: in the middle of the night more times than you 295 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: can imagine that you don't even remember, but he does. 296 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 3: And now he's old and he's dying. Because the process 297 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 3: is dying. You don't just wake up one day and 298 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 3: then you die. You die over a period of time 299 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 3: when you're old. Dying of old age is a brutal 300 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 3: thing to watch, and having watched it now for years 301 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 3: and spending time at an old folks home has given 302 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 3: me a whole new perspective. And it's not made me 303 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 3: a cynic, to be clear, quite the opposite has given 304 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 3: me a new appreciation for life because we are very 305 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 3: comfortable with our dogs dying. People can talk about their 306 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 3: dogs dying. To be emotional, they talk about their dogs dying. 307 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting assisted suicide. I'm just giving you something 308 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 3: to process for a moment. But i want you to 309 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 3: think about this. Do you ever think about the fact 310 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 3: that we put our dog down because we don't want 311 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 3: it to suffer, but mom and dad have to suffer 312 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: until the day they die. We would not dare allow 313 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 3: our dog to do that. I'm not for assisted suicide necessarily. 314 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 3: I'm just saying, isn't it interesting. I'm just talking about 315 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 3: the issue of suffering. We cannot bear for our dog 316 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 3: to have to suffer, so we go to the veterinarian. 317 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 3: It's difficult on us. We give our dog that last meal, 318 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 3: we treat. Oh, we'd love on them, we'd get our 319 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 3: photos out, we'd talk about them because we can't have 320 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 3: them suffer because we love them so much. Oh yeah, 321 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 3: but dad, he wet the bed all night and pooped 322 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 3: himself all day, and every bit of his every inch 323 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 3: his body aches. And you know that's just old dad, 324 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 3: He's just her mom. That that's what they're supposed to 325 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 3: do so. The short answer is no, your parents are 326 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 3: not pleasant. When they're eighty six years old. Every aspect 327 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 3: of every inch of them hurts. They're grumpy, they know 328 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 3: they're dying. They have nothing to look forward to. They 329 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 3: haven't had a good bowel movement in ten years. They 330 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 3: can't sleep well. The world has changed on them. They 331 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 3: can't taste food, and they know that at some point 332 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 3: an impending illness is going to take them down, but 333 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 3: probably after a long period of illness. I'm not trying 334 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 3: to depress anybody. I'm trying to make you understand that 335 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 3: growing old is clearly is clearly difficult. 336 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 2: It's hell. 337 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: My mentor, Walter Zibly used to tell me for years 338 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 3: before he died, Michael, getting old is hell. And I 339 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 3: used to laugh because I was in my thirties and 340 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 3: forties and I didn't understand. But now I realized he 341 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 3: was serious and he was right hard. 342 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 2: It's not truly believe, Ramon and all, but Michael Barry 343 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: Show presents are truly believe. All right, this is our 344 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 2: first I truly believe. 345 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 3: In the year twenty twenty six, which is the two 346 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this great nation. 347 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: No pressure, but make it awesome. Cliff, you're up. Go. 348 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: What do you truly believe? 349 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 4: I truly believe the person that graduates last in their 350 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 4: class from. 351 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 2: Medical school is still called a doctor. I love that line. 352 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 3: You have a great radio voice, my man, fantastic voice. 353 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: Let's see here, Robert, what do you truly believe? 354 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 4: I truly believe that I'd rather be fedual polar bear 355 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 4: in a garbage of dump in Alaska than die in 356 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 4: a nursing home. 357 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 3: It's rough, it's rough. I don't know that there's a 358 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 3: good answer for everybody. Everybody's situation is different. But uh 359 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 3: seven one three, nine, nine, one thousand. If you weren't 360 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 3: able to get in, try again, because each line that 361 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 3: pops open, each call that finishes, pops open the line. 362 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 2: Jim, what do you truly believe? I truly believe that 363 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 2: the United States government is weaponized the weather against us 364 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 2: using the declassified information from. 365 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 4: The United States Air Force. It's called the Higher War 366 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 4: Space Frequency Program. 367 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 2: Tim, what do you truly believe? 368 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 4: I truly believe that no bicycle of any kind should 369 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 4: be ridden on a traffic lane. 370 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:39,199 Speaker 3: Lawrence, what do you truly believe I truly believe that 371 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 3: when driving in the fog you should have your headlights 372 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 3: and tail lights on several things I wanted to speak 373 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 3: to for a second that call about the riding a 374 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 3: bike in the lane. I think it's absolutely absurd that 375 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 3: the most dangerous thing on the road mode is speed disparity. 376 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 3: So whether everybody's driving eighty five or fifty five or 377 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 3: twenty five, as long as everybody is driving about the 378 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 3: same speed and not changing lanes, the incidence of crashes 379 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 3: would go down to such a minimal level as to 380 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 3: approach zero. The only thing that would stop you then 381 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 3: is being distracted and not able to avoid collision because you. 382 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 2: Crash into the guy in front of you. 383 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 3: But within reason, as long as you're all driving the 384 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 3: same speed, you'd have fewer crashes, you'd have fewer everything. 385 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 3: So we understand that you don't want one guy doing 386 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 3: seventy five and another guy doing forty. That creates a 387 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 3: very dangerous situation. And yet you can go down Memorial 388 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 3: Parkway coming out of downtown at five o'clock on a 389 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 3: weekday and. 390 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 2: You can see some dude on his bicycle. 391 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 3: He's got his little helmet, he's got his touring bike, 392 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 3: he's doing maybe he's wearing his Lance Armstrong bracelet, and 393 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: he's on his he's riding home. And we're supposed to 394 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 3: think that's great because he's not in a car, you see, 395 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 3: because not being in a car is going to save 396 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 3: us all. But actually he's going to, at a minimum, 397 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 3: inconvenience everyone else. He's endangering himself, not to mention the 398 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 3: people who have to swerve around him. He's pissing the 399 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,719 Speaker 3: f out of everybody behind him because the fastest he 400 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 3: can go is what twenty five thirty and they're all 401 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 3: doing forty five fifty five. So he's a nuisance, he's 402 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: a menace. He shouldn't be in the road. The roads 403 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 3: are for cars. He should be on the sidewalk. Now, 404 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 3: the bikers will tell you, yeah, but we're supposed to 405 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 3: be in the road. That is legally where we're supposed 406 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 3: to be, which is true, which is stupid, And the 407 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 3: reason for that is. 408 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 2: It's a it's a don't throw them in the briar 409 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 2: pretch situation. 410 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 3: The bicyclists pushed for laws that made it so that 411 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 3: they could ride in the road, they would have to 412 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 3: they'd have to get off the sidewalk, and that would 413 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 3: give them the defense that I'm in the road because 414 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to be on the sidewalk. The sidewalk 415 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 3: is far safer than being in the road. Roads are 416 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 3: for driving. I am so tired of protests in the road, 417 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 3: marathons in the road, bicyclists in the road, ups drivers 418 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 3: in the road. 419 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 2: The damn roads are to be driven. 420 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: They're not parking lots or protest sites or bike lanes. 421 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show. 422 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 3: Seven three nine, one thousand, James, what do you truly believe? 423 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 4: I truly believe that you bring back the blue Bonnet Bowl? 424 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 2: The blue Bonnet Bowl. Why do you say that? 425 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 4: I say that because the University of Tenants would have 426 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 4: to go to Orlando to play a bowl game. 427 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 3: They could played the glue bottom ball, And so these. 428 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 2: Text teams, college text teams have played it push at 429 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 2: the home. 430 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing to me how transformative a few 431 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 3: changes in college football have been to the game we 432 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 3: knew before. The bowl games have almost no meaning with 433 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 3: since the college football playoffs. And so I heard people saying, 434 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 3: I miss this. You know, the bowl games don't mean 435 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 3: anything anymore. We have to go back. Do you remember 436 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 3: why we did the playoffs? Because everybody did a different 437 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 3: bowl game, and you argued, my team's better than your team. 438 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 3: They were both undefeated or both had one loss, and 439 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 3: we beat acts and y'all beat why, and then we 440 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 3: argued over it was. 441 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: A dumbest thing ever. 442 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 3: It was like some some debate camp show starter. This 443 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 3: team is better than this team, but they never played 444 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 3: each other, and so you could never decide or determine 445 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 3: who who was who was the best. So we started 446 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 3: a playoff system. And what happens is if you don't 447 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 3: make a playoff, you get pissed off. You not there, dame, 448 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 3: You bunch of sissies. You're not going to play. Can 449 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 3: you imagine you're the university. You tell these boys to 450 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 3: come to your school to play football, and you got 451 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 3: seniors who this will be the last chance they ever 452 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 3: have to suit up and get to play football. They'll 453 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 3: never every everything you do on a football field will 454 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 3: be an assault and battery for the rest of their lives. 455 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 3: This is their chance to do one more time on 456 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 3: a national stage what they love to do. And you 457 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 3: get an I just want because we're pouting because we 458 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 3: didn't get in. So the college Football Playoff was progress 459 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 3: because now we get to see we get to crown 460 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 3: a champion based on winning a damn game. 461 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 2: How awesome is that? Yeah? 462 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 3: Oh, you have him all right, the guy who's uh 463 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 3: whose vehicle was stolen. 464 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 2: That he saw it on TV. We've got him on 465 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: the line. 466 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 4: Papa Roue, Yes, yes, yes, good morning, good morning, Good 467 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 4: morning in Houston, Good morning surrounding area. 468 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: What the hell time? Name is Papa rou Are you 469 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: a rapper or something? 470 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 4: Well, you know what, it's a short for my it's 471 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 4: a short for my name. My real name is Ruben. 472 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 4: So I'm giving my government out. 473 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 3: I'm not Paul Wall talk to me on the West 474 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 3: side is giving his government out. 475 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,959 Speaker 2: I love that, all right. So what happened? 476 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 3: So you or your who saw the TV and saw 477 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 3: your your stuff being stolen? 478 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 4: Okay, okay, what happened was, like I said, I woke 479 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 4: up in the morning like everybody else, I know, everybody 480 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 4: could relate to this. You wake up most of the time, 481 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 4: the first thing you checked is your phone. And I 482 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 4: got on my phone and I saw on TikTok a 483 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 4: truck zooming by with swats following it, I'm like, that 484 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 4: looked like a truck like mine. Then I looked again, 485 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 4: I said, that is my truck. Reason why I knew 486 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 4: it was my truck because I put some LEDs in 487 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 4: the front of it, and I saw the LEDs flickering. 488 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 4: So that's why I came to conclusion that it was 489 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 4: my truck when I saw it. 490 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 2: Okay, exactly explain this truck to me. 491 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 4: Okay, well, this is a military is a real military 492 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 4: truck that was you get deregulated from the military and 493 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 4: what it is. I had access to purchase the truck. 494 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 4: It's one of those trucks that could go in any 495 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 4: type of high water, even damn near underwater, you understand. 496 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 4: So it was one of the trucks that was built 497 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 4: by the military. All folks from the military probably know 498 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 4: about the BN y nine thirty nine, you know, they 499 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 4: know about this truck. It's like, it's like a bulletproof truck. 500 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 4: Nothing could stop it. But you know in situations like this, 501 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 4: you know, hey, that's that's why it's so hard to 502 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 4: get it stopped. 503 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 3: To be honest with you, turns out nothing could stop it, 504 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,959 Speaker 3: but anyone could started. 505 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, nothing could stop it. But anyone could start it. Yep, 506 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 4: you a way to put it. I have a lot 507 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 4: of close veteran friends and family. 508 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 2: And what was your interest in owning this vehicle? 509 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 4: Well, like I said, after the freeze in Houston, I'm 510 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 4: a I'm a well known artist in Houston. You know, 511 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 4: I'm involved in over like thirty to forty million sales collectively. 512 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 4: You know, been with be with Beyonce, the the movie 513 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 4: Fighting Temptation. I have records on there where with cash Money, 514 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 4: little Wayne, Rick Ross, name it, all the elite with 515 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 4: the in the game. I'm pretty much connected too. So 516 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 4: what happened is I'm from Houston, and after the freeze, 517 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 4: you know, I had friends that had family on dialysis 518 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 4: that that that that didn't make it. You understand that 519 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 4: that really touched me. So what I did on my 520 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 4: own expense, I said, you know what, I'm gonna do 521 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 4: something back for the community, and I'm gonna go ahead 522 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 4: and try to do my point. I can't favor everybody, 523 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 4: I can't do, but I could just do my part. 524 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 4: So I purchased all these military high grade stuff that 525 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 4: we're not break down anytime soon, because you know, when 526 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 4: the military make it, you know, you pretty much have 527 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 4: one of the best. So I bought the truck to 528 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 4: move around all the power equipment. I bought a lot 529 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 4: of generators so in case the situation like that comes again, 530 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 4: I'm equipped to do my part. That's all it was about. 531 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 3: You weren't inspired by Marv he Meyer to make kill 532 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 3: Those or two point. 533 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 4: Zero come again? 534 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 3: Do you know about Killdozer? The guy in Granby, Colorado. 535 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 3: They cut off access at his placed and got pissed off, 536 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 3: and he took a bulldozer and he made a tank 537 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 3: out of it. It came to be known as the 538 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 3: kill Dozer, and he plowed through the town. 539 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 4: No, I never knew about that. Oh you give me somebody. 540 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 4: You're educating me on that. 541 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 3: Oh watch the movie Kill Those Are Papa Rue, and 542 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 3: you'll be you'll be singing songs about him. Because let 543 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 3: me tell you something, a lot of people know about 544 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 3: kill Doozer. 545 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 2: This guy. 546 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 3: This guy didn't just get mad, he got even. And 547 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 3: I mean it is a show. It is it is 548 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 3: something else Dozer. 549 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna take that out and 550 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 4: get a Netflix or something. 551 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 2: One of them. I forget which one. So did you 552 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 2: get the vehicle back. 553 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 4: No, well, well right now I'm in process of it. 554 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 4: But you know, for all these days, they pepper they 555 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 4: bombed the vehicle with a pepper, with the with the smoke, 556 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 4: and it's hard to even get close to the vehicle 557 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 4: with that mal you get it. Yeah, he takes a while. 558 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 3: So now you think this was an inside job? I 559 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 3: mean I would assume this isn't an easy thing to 560 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 3: oper No. 561 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 4: Well, to be honest with you, I've got ideas on 562 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 4: who it could probably have a situation with that because 563 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 4: that morn when I saw the picture of who done it, 564 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 4: I know someone that I've seen him with. 565 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay. 566 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 4: You get it. So I'm putting the pieces together right now. Yeah, 567 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 4: I have an individual that brought him to my yard 568 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 4: with all the equipment. 569 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: Huh, he's the sugar night to his tupac. Yep, he 570 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 2: did to his notorious b I G I get it. Yeah. 571 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 2: Basically that's how that. 572 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 4: The guy he befriend you and then sets you up 573 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 4: for people to come and take care of equipment and 574 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 4: stuff like that. 575 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 3: That happens all the time. Workmen will come to your house, 576 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 3: well you know what to do some work? 577 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 4: What's that this is my first time experiencing this. 578 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry to hear it. I appreciate you calling in. 579 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 3: I'm glad you're getting it back. Let's meet up. 580 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 4: Well, okay, we'll meet up. And like I said, I'm 581 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 4: trying to Like I was trying to see if because 582 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 4: right now they have me, there's tons of expenses because 583 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 4: now they want me to spend almost three thousand to 584 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 4: get it out, then another three thousands of toy back, 585 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 4: then another twenty something to fix it. But I was 586 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 4: trying to do a go fund me since he was 587 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 4: for the community to have the community come back into 588 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 4: let's get the truck back together so we can move these. 589 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 2: Generators and we can make it into a kill dozer. Thanks. 590 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 3: Look