1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Dairy Show is on the air. 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 2: Caucasians Caucasian. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, a white guy in the mustache about. 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 2: Six foot train, not very big mustache, a. 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 3: Loulia Cordiause. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: It's a serious matter. I'll do it myself, Honey, I'm 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: not an ordained minister. 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 4: I'm doing my best. 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: Okay, we won't start cross. We want food war. 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 3: Will you. 12 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: Your short on ears and long on mouth? Sixty of 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 2: the time it works every time. Fact drunk and stupid. 14 00:00:53,720 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: It's no way to got the lifestar. Now we are 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: in trouble. A month or two ago, I received an 16 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: email that went thusly, my name is Catherine Nicholas. I'm 17 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: a sophomore at Richard's High School, a one A school 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: in Richards, Texas. I am proud to call myself the 19 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: president of the Turning Point USA chapter at our school, 20 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: as well as an Avid Michael Berry Show listener. And 21 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: we'd be honored to have you to invite you to 22 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: speak at one of our upcoming events. We admire your work. 23 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. Our goal is to inspire more students 24 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: to take an interest in current issues and how they 25 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 2: impact our communities and countries, our community and country. Thanks 26 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: for your time and what you do and these sorts 27 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: of things. And so I reached out and I said, well, 28 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 2: it's hard for me to get out to give speeches, 29 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 2: but I'm interested in how a young lady gets involved 30 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 2: in such a manner at such an early age. So 31 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: I invited Catherine on the show and she is our guest. Now, 32 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 2: welcome to the program there. Oh, sorry, welcome to the 33 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: program there. 34 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 4: Hi, Thank you so much. 35 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 2: Now, as I understand that you go to the way 36 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: your class work is scheduled, you get Fridays off, Yes, sir. 37 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 4: That's something new that we started this year where a 38 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 4: very rural school, meaning we have a lot of rodeo 39 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 4: athletes who attend to miss school on Fridays, sir. 40 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: For rodeo. Did did you say there rodeo at What 41 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 2: did you say? 42 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 4: Yes? Rodeo athletes? 43 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 2: Yes? So are they missing school to go to rodeo? 44 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 4: Yes, sir? 45 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: Okay, what's the number one uh category that they compete in? 46 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: Would you say a lot of our students are in roping? 47 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 4: We have, We've had a ton of graduates this year. 48 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 4: We had one who has been recognized in his Rodeo 49 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 4: region for being an outstanding student and for being outstanding 50 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 4: in his division. We also had a young man who 51 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 4: graduated two years ago and he was one out of 52 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 4: qualifying for the NFR. 53 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: Oh wow, y'all don't have any barrel racers, do you. 54 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 4: We have one barrel racer and her name's Meredith Robleski, 55 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 4: and she is an outstanding young lady. She even went 56 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 4: home school this year to mainly focus on barrel racing. 57 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: I had a friend who was married to a barrel 58 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: racer and they're supposed to be a little bit crazy 59 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 2: or maybe I should say spicy or spunky. 60 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 4: That that is definitely a stereotype for a reason. It's 61 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 4: very true. 62 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, did she fit that? 63 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: Oh? 64 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 2: Yes, I knew a Robleski. I knew I was a 65 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 2: Ron Robleski. I think he was like a police chief 66 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 2: in Chema or something. My memory fails me, but Robleski 67 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 2: is a is a unique name. You don't come across 68 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: very often. So, and you are a sophomore, yes, sir, okay, 69 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 2: And at this point, what would you think you'd like 70 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: to do when you graduate high school? I know that's 71 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: a long way away. 72 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 4: So at this point, I either want to go into 73 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 4: the Air Force and be an aircraft electrician, or I 74 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 4: just want to take the path of being an electrician 75 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 4: through Inframark, which my uncle owns part. 76 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting, and what is info What Inframark? 77 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 4: It's a mud management company. 78 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I got to turn my volume out. We're 79 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 2: trying to get our volumes adjusted a what kind of management? 80 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 4: Mud management? 81 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: Oh? 82 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 2: Mud management? Okay, all right, And so your uncle owns 83 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 2: part of this company, yes, sir, And you think you'd 84 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 2: have a pretty good shot of getting hired there, Yes, sir, 85 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: you think there are very many women electricians. 86 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 4: I've seen more of them recently, but I know that 87 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 4: there still aren't a ton of women electricians. 88 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 2: Do you have any other electricians in your family? 89 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 4: Yes, sir. One of my cousins he went to college 90 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 4: and it didn't work out, and he went straight into 91 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 4: apprenticing and he is now making a lot of money 92 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 4: and he's found something that he truly likes. And that's 93 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 4: what made me want to be an electrician. 94 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 2: Well, it strikes me as one of those things, you know, 95 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 2: as you get older, you will come to a preciate 96 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 2: that most people show up to an office or work 97 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: from home, and at the end of the day, they 98 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 2: don't have anything to show for it. Right, if you 99 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 2: frame houses, you can see the structure of a house, 100 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 2: or if you pour concrete, you can see something that 101 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: didn't exist before. And if you pull a wire, you've 102 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 2: got power where you didn't have it before. And it 103 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: strikes me that that would be a very rewarding, gratifying 104 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: experience to look back and to look. 105 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 4: What I just did, Yes, sir, And I'm definitely someone 106 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 4: who can't just sit behind a desk. I have to 107 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 4: be working. I have to be doing something with my hands. 108 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 2: Is your last name pronounced Micholas mckelis, It's Greek mick kellis? Okay, Oh, 109 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 2: m Are you by any chance related to Kirk mckelis. 110 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 4: Most likely, that's not one that I'm familiar with. But 111 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 4: my mom actually did say that you used to eat 112 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 4: at the restaurant at my dad and my grandpa owned, 113 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 4: and also the restaurant that my mom and my dad 114 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 4: owned when I got and my grandpa owned Harry's Diner, 115 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 4: and my dad owned George's Diner off Washington. 116 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 2: Well, sure, I, oh, George, Yes, George is my cousin 117 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: oh wow, okay, Well that's yeah. You're part of a 118 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: big Greek family. So I know George, I've eaten over 119 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: there many times. Fantastic. One of the nicest guys in 120 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 2: the hospitality industry, and there are some nice guys, but 121 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 2: he is one of the absolute nicest guys. And what 122 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 2: they've done with Cleeburn, it's just amazing. Harry's I used 123 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 2: to live a few blocks from my wife, and I 124 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,119 Speaker 2: used to go over there and eat breakfast back before 125 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 2: I was on the radio where I had to be 126 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: in the office, so early in the morning. I would 127 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: go in there for breakfast every morning. It was fantastic. Wow. Okay, 128 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 2: So you come from a big Greek family, which of 129 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: course means you come from a big restaurant family. Does 130 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: anybody in the family still own a restaurant besides George. 131 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,559 Speaker 4: Nick, I don't think so. My dad sadly passed away 132 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 4: almost four years ago, and I think that if he 133 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 4: could go back, he would have kept his restaurant. 134 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: And what was your dad's. 135 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 4: Name, George, Harry mckellis. 136 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 2: Okay, And your mom's name. 137 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 4: Is Leslie originally Leslie Burd but now she's left in mckellis. 138 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: Okay, hold on. Katherine mckelli's is a sophomore Richard's High 139 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,559 Speaker 2: School in Richards, Texas. She's the head of the TPUSA chapter, 140 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 2: the other Charlie Kirk chapter. I didn't noticed the last 141 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: name Michaelis and put that and process that that's a 142 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: big Greek family, a lot of restaurant tours. So I 143 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 2: had a friend named Kirk Michaelis, who's actually Tillman's cousin. 144 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 2: But I can't remember how he's he maybe maybe Paige, 145 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 2: just because I can't remember how he was related to. 146 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 2: But he owned what is the term that Mexicans call 147 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: white people, not weddos, remember the remember the bakery, Mexican bakery. Yeah, 148 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 2: El Bilio. Yeah, he owned El Bilio. He had cancer. 149 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 2: He uh, he went through a very intense round of chemo. 150 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 2: I mean very intense. He lost almost all of his hearing, 151 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: but he managed to beat it and then a few 152 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 2: years ago it came back and it took him down. 153 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: But he lived a number of years after that. But 154 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: he he had those three beautiful daughters, if you remember, 155 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: they were singers. They could sing their asses off, and 156 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: they went to Nashville to make a go of it 157 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 2: and they rented a house there and they were performing 158 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 2: and trying to get the big but you know, it's 159 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 2: like everything else, it's competitive and they didn't quite make it. 160 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: But their band name, I think was Michaelis. Anyway, So Catherine, 161 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,959 Speaker 2: how did you get involved? And I'm assuming you're probably 162 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: sixteen seventeen. I'm fifteen fifteen, okay, fifteen as a sophomore, 163 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 2: so you'll turn sixteen at some point this year. 164 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 4: I turned sixteen in January. 165 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 2: Okay, So how did you get involved with Turning Point? 166 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: What was your interest? Was it television, your parents, social media? 167 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 2: Why did you want to be a part of the 168 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 2: bigger conversation. 169 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 4: Well, I've always been interested in politics, and growing up 170 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 4: with a dad who was a legal immigrant, I've really 171 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 4: been struck with all of the illegal immigration and it 172 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 4: just doesn't sit right with me. Well, my school it's 173 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 4: really small, A lot of the students share the same viewpoint, 174 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 4: and we were just talking about it one day and 175 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 4: we were like, well, maybe we should start a little organization. 176 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 4: We can just host little discussions where everybody can put 177 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 4: their opinion out there. Well, a couple weeks later, I 178 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 4: was sitting in my eighth period AD class, and our 179 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 4: history teacher gives us an assignment called in the News, 180 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 4: where we have to go and look up a news article, 181 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 4: read it, and summarize it in three sentences. Well, I 182 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 4: was doing that and the news popped up across my 183 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 4: computer that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated. I immediately gasped 184 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 4: and started crying, and I told the rest of my 185 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 4: class and they all started crying. And at a small school, 186 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 4: we have a big Christian base, and we all gathered 187 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 4: in the middle of the classroom and started praying. And 188 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 4: right there at that moment, I knew exactly that we 189 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 4: weren't just going to make a group where we discussed things. 190 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 4: We should just start a Turning Put USA. 191 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 2: So you reached out the organization, and what happened. 192 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 4: So I reached out to the organization, and they were 193 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 4: thrilled at such a small school to start something so big. 194 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 4: And once I got confirmation from the organization itself that 195 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 4: we were a registered Turning Quite USA chapter, then I 196 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 4: brought it up to my principal and at first we 197 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 4: all thought that she would be on the sense about it, 198 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 4: and she was just over the moon. Yes, y'all can 199 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 4: start it. Y'all are more than welcome to anything y'all need. 200 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:22,599 Speaker 2: That's wonderful. 201 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 4: Your sponsor, her name is Delendicator. 202 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 2: What's that delendicatur, delend deicatur, Miss Deicatur. 203 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 4: Yes. 204 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 2: And then so you had to get a teacher sponsor. 205 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: And who who became your teacher sponsor? 206 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 4: Our science teacher, which is mister Brown. And he is 207 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 4: thrilled about it. He's just thrilled to be involved in 208 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 4: such an amazing organization. 209 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 2: So have y'all started meeting? What are you doing? 210 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 4: We have started meetings, but it isn't we've started short 211 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 4: meetings during our break period because we're still so new. 212 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 4: We're trying to plan community activities good for. 213 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 2: You, good for you, and in your school. I got 214 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 2: an email from a fellow named Dan Agan, and he 215 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: started a charity philanthropic group called we Won't Be Silenced 216 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 2: or we Won't be Canceled, and he has donated to 217 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: probably seven people we've had on the air over the 218 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 2: last couple of years who were canceled or in some 219 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: way harmed for speaking out simply their values. It would 220 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 2: be the equivalent of you know, you losing your house 221 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 2: and your job over what you're doing now just ridiculous stuff. 222 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 2: And he has stepped up and helped. And he is 223 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: in somewhere in Grimes County and he knew of your school. 224 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,959 Speaker 2: Are are y'all in Grimes County? 225 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we are right over the Montgomery County line 226 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 4: into Grimes County. 227 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 2: Okay, all right? And yeah, so anyway, so he was 228 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: very interested and wanted me to connectil with your with 229 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 2: your sponsor. Because you're a minor, I wouldn't send your information, 230 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: but I would if you'll send me mister Brown's information, 231 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 2: I will connect that. And he was interested in helping 232 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 2: however he could. That's very exciting, Catherine. It's very exciting, 233 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 2: and obviously it's still in its infancy, but the idea 234 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 2: of involvement, the idea of taking a leadership role, and 235 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 2: that as a young person. You know, my kids are 236 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen and I still call them my kids 237 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 2: and I tell them they'll be my kids when they're fifty. 238 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 2: But for a kid, for a young person to see that, 239 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 2: I don't need to wait on an adult to do this. 240 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 2: I'm going to grab the bull by the horns and 241 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 2: I'm going to do this myself. I'm going to find 242 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: out how to make it happen. That's a great life skill. 243 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 2: Blazing trails and taking initiative is going to help you 244 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 2: in every aspect of your life. 245 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you well. 246 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 2: I appreciate you reaching out. I'm very impressed. I've heard 247 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 2: from a number of other students, but you were the 248 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 2: first when this whole thing started, which is why I 249 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 2: wanted to have you on. And I find it quite 250 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: inspiring and I hope you inspire others to do exactly 251 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 2: what you're doing. Keep up the great work, Catherine. 252 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you so much for all of your time, 253 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 4: and I'll email you all over mister Brown's information sounds great. 254 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: Thank you. I make it a practice if a minor 255 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 2: reaches out to me that I asked that their parent 256 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 2: get on the response email. Maybe that's overly careful, but 257 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: I just I think it's better to be of all 258 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: the things that you can criticize someone for, I think 259 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 2: being overly careful in that way is just probably the 260 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 2: right thing to do, and so we always do that. 261 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 2: But I do love hearing from young people. If you 262 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: are a parent, who's going to send me an email 263 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 2: as with a question for your kid, include the kid, 264 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 2: make them write it and just copy you on the 265 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: email new rights Zar. Having been in youth ministry for 266 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 2: many years, I quickly recognize when other adults have the 267 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 2: gift of seeing a teenager for their full worth. You 268 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 2: demonstrated that with Catherine. Although she was so impressive, she 269 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 2: made it easy for you. As a sixty seven year 270 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 2: old Texan who was raised to say sir and ma'am, 271 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: I find it rare today. So I'm a sucker for 272 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 2: respectable youths like Catherine who were brought up that way. 273 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 2: What an excellent young woman she is becoming. I don't 274 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: have a gift of seeing teenagers for what they are worth. 275 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 2: I think other people do. I have a memory of 276 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 2: myself being that age, and how many people treated me 277 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 2: as if I was going to be the most important 278 00:16:53,880 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: person in the world one day, and giving me the confidence, encouragement, skills, criticism, suggestions, 279 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 2: guidance to get there, and how I noticed that a 280 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 2: lot of people didn't have the time to bother but 281 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,120 Speaker 2: I remembered those people who did, And I sometimes think 282 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 2: to myself, am I as good to the next generation 283 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 2: as people were to me when I was that age, 284 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 2: When I was running for City Council the first time 285 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 2: I was. If you saw my calendar from that year, 286 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 2: I wish I had it. I was every day in 287 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 2: a meeting with I might do five of these in 288 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 2: the day. Jack Blanton d Osborn, Ben love ken Lay 289 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: when he was chairman of in Run. It was just 290 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 2: incredible the number of people who took the time, Gordon 291 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 2: Bethune who took the time to sit with me, Archie Dunham, 292 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 2: when these were the titans of Euston industry, pol Tis, 293 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 2: Rodeo sports clergy. It was really amazing, just amazing to think. 294 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 2: And I look back on that now and so I 295 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 2: am mindful of what a difference that made to me, 296 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 2: and so I try to do a little better. Maybe 297 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 2: I wouldn't otherwise. A friend of mine sent me an 298 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: email said, I saw a tweet about something and it 299 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: made me think of something that you would be thinking about, 300 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: and I knew you would want to hear about it. 301 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 2: It was listed as some things are actually worth the money, 302 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 2: and it was a list of things that cost money 303 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 2: that are actually worth it. And I'll just read it 304 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 2: and you can make a list in your own mind. 305 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 2: A good house cleaner, a good personal trainer. 306 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 4: You know. 307 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 2: Petru signed up three people yesterday, sends me an email 308 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 2: on each one of them. One of them was a 309 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 2: seventy eight year old woman Christmas gift from her husband. 310 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: One of them was a forty two year old man 311 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 2: from Spring and when I was a fifty nine year 312 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 2: old woman from Bunker Hill, which is one of the villages. 313 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 2: I guess the one that I was reading about was 314 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 2: one before it was eighty seven. She wanted to be 315 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 2: able to walk across the She wanted to be able 316 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 2: to walk through m d Anderson for her cancer treatment. 317 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 2: So she's just trying to get a little stronger in 318 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 2: life for the realistic tasks that lay before her. Though. 319 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 2: That was pretty cool and the fact that he's excited 320 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,719 Speaker 2: about it. Premium betting, we're going do you have premium 321 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,719 Speaker 2: betting fret sheets or something like that? A good accountant, 322 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 2: I agree with that. Insane family vacations, gifts for day 323 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: one friends, high quality camera, public speaking, coaching, slash improv, 324 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: all Inclusive, gem Equinox come a Lifetime. This is their list, 325 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 2: not mine. The best headphones money can buy, buying every 326 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: book recommended to you. These are some things actually worth 327 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: the money. This is not my list. This was listened 328 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 2: a social club and that is if you live in 329 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 2: New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, or the Redneck 330 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 2: country Club, which is what the Redneck Country Club was. 331 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 2: Top of the line. Espresso machine Bevel is the band 332 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 2: that is given, which is over one thousand dollars. You know, 333 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 2: if your coffee is important to you. I've always had 334 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 2: the rule the things I'm going to do a lot 335 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 2: of I will spend an absurd amount of money on, 336 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: and things that aren't that important to me, I won't 337 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 2: and so I don't care if those things are important 338 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 2: to other people. I'm going to spend on the things 339 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 2: that I use every day, high quality underwear that's important 340 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 2: to me. And the reason is I'm going to wear 341 00:20:54,840 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 2: underwear all day every day. Good socks again, all day 342 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 2: every day. There are things that people spend money on 343 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 2: that aren't really that important, and the marginal difference in 344 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 2: spending more money doesn't make that much of a difference. 345 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 2: So what was the point of you know, what's the 346 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 2: point in doing that. I don't. I don't understand it. 347 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 2: That's just my own little moan, little standard Mike you're 348 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 2: on the Michael Berry Show. 349 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 3: Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I'll like to talk to you again. 350 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 3: I spent some time doing not. 351 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 2: What you're doing, but. 352 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 3: On television making people happy, hopefully on Friday. That was 353 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 3: kind of one of my little little things that I 354 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 3: like to do. And I thought, let's have a happy 355 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 3: time in the closing moments of your show. And I 356 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 3: was thinking what would to make people happy. And I 357 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 3: know there's a lot of cigar smokers out there, a 358 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 3: lot more than a lot of them will admit because 359 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 3: they have to go home. And I've had that war. 360 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 3: But I'm smoking cigars about twenty years. And I've learned 361 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 3: a few things about him. And I heard something made 362 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 3: me really happy a couple of days ago. 363 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 2: I heard. 364 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 3: Many Little Pez You know who Many is. He's the the. 365 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: Many El Cabano. Yeah, yeah, I just as Many. 366 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 3: Trust me. It's worth the time in the effort to 367 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 3: have some of his cigars. I think you've you've had them. 368 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 2: I think I have. 369 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 3: And he's he's I don't think he's doing very well, 370 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 3: but the company is doing well. And I've been down 371 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 3: there about gott his cigars. I've got some here with 372 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 3: me now, which I'm going to take take on a cruise, 373 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 3: have been on the cruise, and for Sunday from now, 374 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 3: I'm leaving on the cruise, I'm going to celebrate my 375 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 3: seventy eighth birthday on board. 376 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 2: Will let me be the first to wish you a 377 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 2: happy birthday. And you brought up something very interesting, and 378 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 2: I'm gonna speak to the ladies here. Many people, especially 379 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: maybe not more men than women, probably women more than men. 380 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 2: They don't have anything that is their unique joy, a 381 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,959 Speaker 2: simple joy in life that is important to them, and 382 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 2: so they get to a point in their lives where 383 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: they're just on autopilot. There's nothing they look forward to. 384 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 2: So when you say to somebody you shouldn't smoke and cigar, 385 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 2: it's bad for you. It's horrible for you. There's no 386 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 2: positive physical benefit. But you know that's true of a 387 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 2: lot of things you've got to give a man. And 388 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 2: by the way, women I think do the same thing 389 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 2: to themselves. They deny themselves if you can't say one 390 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 2: thing makes you happy, fix that. For a lot of men, 391 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 2: A cigar like this fella right here is going to 392 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: go on. He can't wait to get all set up 393 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 2: and light up his cigar and has something we should 394 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 2: be for that. That's a good thing. 395 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: Laugh learning doing it big on the Michael Berry Show. 396 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 2: Blind Hookers. You gotta hand it to them. Monday, December 397 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 2: eighth is the filing deadline to be on the ballot 398 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 2: for the March primary, to win the Republican nomination for 399 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 2: whatever position you're interested in, to be on the ballot 400 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 2: next November. If you are not on the ballot on Monday, 401 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 2: if you are not filed by Monday, you cannot run 402 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 2: for office. You cannot be on the ballot. So be 403 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: mindful if you're considering, now is the time to do it. 404 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 2: A new Pentagon Inspector General audit has found that the 405 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 2: Biden administration allocated a whopping fourteen point two billion dollars 406 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 2: to resettle more than seventy five thousand largely unvetted Afghan 407 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 2: refugees inside US towns and cities, where many have carried 408 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 2: out or attempted to carry out terrorist attacks. I will 409 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 2: remind you John Cornyn, who is now just can't believe 410 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 2: that happened, voted for it. I will remind you that 411 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 2: Dan Crenshaw signed a letter alongside with Sylvia Garcia, the 412 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 2: two of those urging my Orcus to resettle Afghans here 413 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 2: in Houston. In other news, Jerry McGovern, the architect of 414 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 2: Jaguars twenty twenty four, woke at if you ever saw 415 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 2: that it was creepy that rebrand caused a ninety seven 416 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 2: point five percent sales collapse. They've never seen anything like that. 417 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 2: You could have learned that the wheels came off a 418 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 2: mile after you left the dealership, and I don't think 419 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 2: it would have caused a ninety seven point five percent 420 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 2: sales collapse. Jerry McGovern has now been fired and escorted 421 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 2: from the building, while Jaguar tries to figure out how 422 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 2: to pick up the pieces. These are random stories that 423 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 2: I didn't get to this week that I made a 424 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 2: stack of if you were wondering why. In twenty twenty, 425 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 2: the Scotis the Supreme Court ruled five to four that 426 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 2: the US Census could not include a question on citizenship, 427 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 2: which is insanity. So illegals were counted just like citizens, 428 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 2: which of course meant Democrats got more congressional seats. They 429 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 2: were rewarded for illegal immigration because wherever you push those illegals, 430 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 2: to be Minneapolis, Los Angeles, you got more congressional seats. There, 431 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 2: so you'd have more Democrats in Congress than Republicans, not 432 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 2: because citizens wanted them there, but because illegal aliens did. 433 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 3: Do you know who? 434 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 2: The deciding vote was to keep citizenship from being asked 435 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 2: on the census John Roberts Yes, him again and the 436 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 2: John Roberts protege Jeff Brown, Trump appointee to a federal court. 437 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 2: Jerry Smith wrote a scathing dissent in Jeff Brown's decision, 438 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 2: joining with the Democrat to prevent the new maps in 439 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 2: the state of Texas, the redistricting maps that more closely 440 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 2: align with human beings as human beings and not remandering 441 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: based on race. Jeff Brown and his little behind the 442 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 2: scenes chicken crap move was stopped temporarily by Justice Alito 443 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 2: and has now been stopped completely by the United States 444 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 2: Supreme Court, that decision coming out yesterday. In April twenty 445 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 2: twenty four, the journal Nature released a study finding that 446 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 2: climate change would cause far more economic damage by the 447 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 2: end of the century than previous estimates had suggested. That 448 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 2: was in April of last year, highly regarded magazine journal 449 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 2: actually Nature, a scientific journal that too. On Wednesday, Nature 450 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 2: retracted that prediction that was a political prediction not a 451 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 2: scientific one. Los Angeles Times editorial, under the title must 452 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 2: reads STDs and women are skyrocketing. Officials think racism and 453 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 2: misogyny might be to blame. I'm not even sure how 454 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 2: that would work. Joe Biden's US Postal Service electric vehicle fleet, 455 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 2: three hundred billion dollars was spent for six hundred twelve trucks. 456 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 2: That's four point nine million dollars per truck. That's why 457 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 2: it's called the Green new scam. Teenager had just finished 458 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 2: a treatment, a treatment for something called neurotherapy. So they said, 459 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 2: we'll tell Michael, tell mister Barry what it is. So 460 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 2: he goes into a room and they wire up a 461 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 2: bunch of stuff on his head like Frankenstein frankensteaming, and 462 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 2: he watches a TV show and his brain his issue 463 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 2: is OCD. But they're treating PTSD and and I'm not 464 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 2: telling you I believe the treatment works. I don't know 465 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 2: enough about it. I did do some study on it 466 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 2: last night after our dinner. So as his brain, he 467 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 2: said that what was happening is is his brain wanted 468 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 2: to replay scenes or to fast forward through the movie 469 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 2: because he could already figure out what was going on, 470 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 2: and when your brain does that, apparently it shuts the 471 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,959 Speaker 2: show down, and it is not until your brain slows down. Supposedly, 472 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: this is what they're telling him, is what he says. 473 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 2: I believe him. I know these people very well, like 474 00:30:54,400 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: them a lot. Then it the show will start back 475 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 2: when your brain calms down, forcing your brain supposedly to 476 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 2: rewire away from the desire to go all right, finished, 477 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 2: finish the point, Finish the point. Yeah, I finish everything 478 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 2: that is an outgrowth of OCD. I don't know if 479 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 2: this works or not. I don't know if it's a 480 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: complete scam, no idea, but I am hopeful because I 481 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 2: have seen people, particularly young people, who I think struggle 482 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 2: in life because of whether you want to call it 483 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 2: OCD or spasticity or poor whatever you want. I've seen that. 484 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 2: And if we can make improvements, we can make improvements 485 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 2: for brain trauma PTSD, then I am all for it 486 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: and very hopeful of it. Oh one other things. We 487 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 2: have some friends I have. We have a friend that 488 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 2: we've known for many years. She's a single mom, and 489 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 2: she lives in an apartment. She came to for help 490 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 2: some time ago, and and she's been trying to find 491 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 2: a place that she could afford. She makes about four 492 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 2: grand a year. She works in a hospital system environment. 493 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 2: And I said I would reach out and find somebody 494 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 2: who helps people. I know there are programs to help 495 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 2: people become a first time home buyer. Good person, kind 496 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 2: of people you want to help. So if you are 497 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 2: one of those people, email me because I said I 498 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 2: would help with that. In mind of them, got a 499 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: hand to them.