1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. Hello, babe, we 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes. 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 2: Hit it. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: That's where we go. 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: Riding in the term waffen in a wolven Ever living 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 2: thing moves within an inch of. 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: Its last Sorry, folk marks closed. The moves all factured. 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: Pud O for Jesus. Make mounda berry shoes. 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: Bag. 12 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: For some reason or another, you sign a little tola 13 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: on radio. Sarah writes, I just want to brag on 14 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: my kid for a second, anytime. Earlier this week, she 15 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: started her senior year at Sam Houston State University. Alana 16 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: is twenty years old and absolutely brilliant. She's majoring in biology, 17 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: minoring in forensic science with a concentration in cellular and 18 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: molecular biology. She has managed to scholarship her way through 19 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: her senior year and has even made money with leftover 20 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:45,199 Speaker 1: scholarship funds. My husband and I could not be more proud. 21 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: She is a blessing for gut from God. Thank you 22 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: for letting me brag. You're always welcome folks to email 23 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: me a brag on your kid. Always welcome to do that. 24 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: Go to Richard. Richard, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 25 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Sir. 26 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: Michael. I. Uh, I'm a Gringos supporter. I go to 27 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: Gringos uh once a week. I go every Thursday, and 28 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: my wife and I eat at the Taxis City store 29 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: and uh we go to the same uh waitress and 30 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: everybody in the store knows knows us. They don't know 31 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: us by name, but they know us, and uh they 32 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 2: uh they see. 33 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: This in her in her area. 34 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 2: But the thing that I wanted to talk about is 35 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: Greenos has a chaplain And I didn't know if you 36 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: knew that or not. I do. And his name is 37 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: Sam Hernandez. And Sam goes from all the stores and 38 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 2: uh he uh he ministers to uh you know the 39 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: people there. He helps out. Uh he's a he's a 40 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 2: tremendous uh blessing for Gringos. And I didn't know if 41 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 2: anybody knew that Gringos had a chaplain. I know you 42 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: talk about Gringos all the time, and uh I I 43 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 2: uh have got to know the guy. And he's a 44 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:27,399 Speaker 2: super super fine fellow. Along with Gringos. Uh, I love 45 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: their menus there's three things that I really like. Uh. 46 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: One is a coast of male chicken salad and it's 47 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: a it's a thing of beauty just to look at 48 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: without even eating. His strawberries and grapes and has pecans, 49 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: and of course it has the avocados and the chicken 50 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: and all that is one one super of course, it's 51 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: one of those things that's a seasonal thing that comes 52 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: and goes, but it's it's good. And uh, Gringos has 53 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: really good people working for him. The little the little 54 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 2: waitress that works for us has been there for four 55 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: years and her name is Andrea. She knows her job. 56 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: She's on top of the game. She is really really good. 57 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 2: I listened to talk to people, you know, and in 58 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: other Boosh has maybe three or four tables, and I 59 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: can listen to her talk to other people. But she 60 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 2: has a heart of gold, and uh, she enjoys and 61 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: loves working for Gringos. 62 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: Uh. 63 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: I've tried to talk her into getting into school and 64 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: getting an education and all of but she she she 65 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: says she's going to but she hasn't done it. But 66 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 2: I didn't know if you knew about Sam being the chaplain. 67 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: I do know of Sam. When Russell brought him on on, 68 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: he sent me a message and he was really really excited. 69 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: He had wanted to do that from very long long 70 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 1: time and it has It has been, I think, more 71 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: rewarding than anybody expected. We had a call on the 72 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: show about three months ago from a guy who was 73 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: going through a difficult personal family issue, and I honestly 74 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: don't remember what it was. His kid had been in 75 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: a rack, or his mom had cancer, I don't know, 76 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: and everybody's going through something, and I guess it showed 77 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: on his face. And Sam came around to his table 78 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: and he said, you know, how are y'all doing? I'm 79 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: the chaplain And the guy said, boy, am I glad 80 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: you're here. And he began to kind of unload on him, 81 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: and he said, would you mind if I prayed with you? 82 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: And right there in the middle of the restaurant, he 83 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: prayed with them at their table, took both him and 84 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: his wife by the hand and bowed his head and 85 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: prayed for them. And the guy said, it floored me, 86 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: It comforted me, it centered me, and I just thought, well, 87 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: that's the nicest thing, but to have a chaplain in 88 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: your company for your executives, for your staff, for your customers. 89 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: It's really been I think a bigger blessing than perhaps 90 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: even Russell expected it to be. And he travels just 91 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: like Jonathan Kim, who is the director of Well now 92 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: he's the president, but it was the director of operations 93 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: for years. But he's still the director of operations. He 94 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: just wears a bigger hat and gets a bigger paycheck. 95 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: But that I get a kick. I'll call Jonathan any 96 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: day of the week, including Saturday and Sunday, and he's 97 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: out at a location, he's doing a site visit. Because 98 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: they are buttoned up. When you see somebody who runs 99 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: a business that they are not actively engaged in, chance 100 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: says are the customer service is just not the same 101 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: standard as it would be if if if you were. 102 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: It's just it's just that simple. You said something else 103 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: after that that triggered me to think of something. Oh, 104 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: I know you, I know you mean well, but it's 105 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: a personal peeve of mine and I'm going to say 106 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: it and I don't want you to think that. And 107 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: I'm picking a fight or trying to make you feel 108 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: bad because I'm not. There was a fellow I knew 109 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: very well who told Rico, our director of security, Hey, 110 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: you know you ought to go back to school. And uh, 111 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: this was a friend of mine. Uh, you got to 112 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: go back to school and get you a degree while 113 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: you're here. And Rico said, why, well, you know, go 114 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: to school, get a degree. And Rico made more money 115 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: than this guy, but he didn't. But this guy didn't 116 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: know it. I understand that there was a time, especially 117 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: for older people, where there were two paths. You went 118 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: to school or you went to prison. Maybe you go 119 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: to the military in between, and then you go to school. 120 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: We got to get off this idea that people who 121 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: are gainfully employed and enjoy what they do and are 122 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: able to make money with upside, that these people need 123 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: to go to school. What do y'all think they're going 124 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: to go to school to do? Get a psychology degree 125 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: and then what come out and go right back to gringos. 126 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: Do you know how much you can make if you're 127 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: a good servant, how much you can make as a manager. 128 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 1: It would surprise you. We need to stop telling people 129 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: they need to go to school. I don't know what 130 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: that school. It's not going to help them get a job. 131 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 3: This is. 132 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what's your name, say Michael, Buddy. Disagreement 133 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: is sometimes I guess you know what album this is 134 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: off of. I've told you this ten times in nineteen years. 135 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: The band is called The Outfield, the album is called 136 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: Play Deep. Lead singer died a couple of years ago 137 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: of the cancer, which means I'll never get to see 138 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: them live. I had a girlfriend. I was a freshman, 139 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: she was a senior. She was a cheerleader. I was 140 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: a dork. She had a car I didn't, and she 141 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: bought me this cassette and didn't have a cassette player. 142 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: So I said, how about we put it in your 143 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: car when you come pick me up and take me 144 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: out on a date. I can listen to my song 145 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: another good on there sixty one seconds. That's a good 146 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: that's a good album right there. The Outfield played Deep. 147 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 3: You know. 148 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 1: It's weird thing about that song. It wasn't a you know, 149 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: one of the biggest hits of the eighties. It's not 150 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,199 Speaker 1: free Bird. It's not significant for any particular reason. The 151 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: Outfield never really got outside where they were as a 152 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: you know, just kind of a minor pop band. But 153 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: you will hear that song in sports stadiums and maybe 154 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: just because I'm very attuned to the song, but I'm 155 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: I'm it's interesting to me how often I hear this 156 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: song played. It's what does Tom Rahan call it? It 157 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: is a preference by us. It is something there's a 158 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: there's a term for that phenomenon. When you know, if 159 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: you buy a white Silverado truck, all of a sudden 160 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 1: you notice every white Silverado truck because it's you're you're 161 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: more attuned to it. But I know, don't read too 162 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: much into this, but sometimes if I disagree with someone 163 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: and I want to express that, that doesn't mean I 164 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: think they're an idiot. I don't mean to show them 165 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: a lack of respect. I don't mean to dishonor them. 166 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Richard's quite a bit older than me. 167 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: But this is an important point. So I want to 168 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: go back to it because it's happened to me a 169 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: number of times over the years where someone who worked 170 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: for me, who I strove to compensate, perhaps higher than 171 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: the market would bear, because I wanted to provide as 172 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: much for them as I could, and I wanted to 173 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: show them within my means, how important they are to 174 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: me and the work that they do and then to 175 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: have someone including friends, especially friends, who when you go 176 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: to the bathroom, they're like, man, you know, Michael really 177 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: likes you. He really appreciates the work you're doing. You know, 178 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,599 Speaker 1: how are you going to stay doing this job? I 179 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: don't know, because you I mean you could do anything. 180 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 1: I mean you really And they think they're giving that 181 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: person a compliment. Well, it's it's disruptive to building an organization. 182 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: You know. Not everybody is on a ladder climbing expedition 183 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: where their goal is to be the CEO of a 184 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: fortune five hundred company. For some people, I give a 185 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: great example my buddy the Aggie plumber. I did this myself, 186 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: so let me beat up on myself. Here my buddy, 187 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: the Aggie plumber, Michael Robinson. He is a small plumbing shop. 188 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: He worked for his dad from the time he was 189 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: eight years old, and eventually they began that process which 190 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, you're lucky if you can do this, where 191 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: you start buying out dad. You know, in your thirties, 192 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: you start to take ownership of Dad. Now Dad gets 193 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: a little check for the rest of his life. So 194 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: it's a succession plan and you get to work with 195 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: Dad and you know it's Robinson, Aaron and and plumbing 196 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: plumbing in air. I don't know, it doesn't matter, And 197 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: you know he doesn't want to be Abbocus Plumbing. Abocus 198 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: Plumbing is our show sponsor. They handle, you know, our 199 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: listeners and their plumbing needs. Michael has his set of clients, 200 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: set of customers in college station that his dad had, 201 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: and he takes very good care of him. A lot 202 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: of little old ladies that are by themselves and they 203 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: turn on the faucet and it's not hot and they 204 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 1: just want hot water. But I said to him sometime back, 205 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: I I said, you don't work enough, You're lazy, You're 206 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: you're you know, you're always available when I need you 207 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: to come to town and join us for a party 208 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: or do this, or do this. One day, he said, 209 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: you know, I know this is hard for you to 210 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: understand because you're a very ambitious person, Michael. But I'm 211 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: very happy with the life I have. He's he's got 212 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: a hundred kids. I don't like Robert Ree. He's got 213 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: a bunch of kids and you know they're in their 214 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: teens now, and he's very focused on them. He's a 215 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: very focused dad and husband, and you know, he said, 216 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: you're right. I could work two or three more hours 217 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: per day into the night, the way my dad did 218 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: building the business, but that time is more important to me, 219 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: spent with my family. And this is a marathon on 220 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: a sprint, and I'm comfortable. I have a house that 221 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: I own, I have a truck that I own. I 222 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: can pay my handful of employees, and we don't want 223 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: for anything. We don't need to be rich. We live 224 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: in college station. We're happy here. And it was a 225 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: real wake up call to me because I've always been 226 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: a person who tried to motivate other people as I 227 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: motivate myself. Everybody can work harder, everybody can do more, 228 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: everybody can make more, everybody can accomplish more. And some 229 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: people are very comfortable right where they are, not because 230 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: they've settled, not because they're lazy, not because they're a loser. 231 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: They have found that state of being. And for some people, 232 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: they're means of earning a living. It's not how they 233 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: define themselves, it's not how they. 234 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: Know. 235 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: They don't need to say this or this the way 236 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: many of us do. That's not the primary thing about 237 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: them they want known. Maybe they want to be a wife, 238 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: maybe they want to be a mother, maybe they want 239 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: to be an attentive PTA president for their kids, or 240 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: maybe they want a homeschool. Or maybe they're a guy 241 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: that wants to make enough to pay the bills and 242 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: put food on the table and have plenty of time 243 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: to work on an old car, play golf, hunt fish, 244 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: do projects around the house, do woodworking. And it's taken 245 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: me till much later in my life to understand that. 246 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: And and it is, uh, it is a be still 247 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: and know that I am God moment. Sometimes you've got 248 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: to stop buzzing around. And I've been so guilty of 249 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: it my entire life. And and so I myself I 250 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: give people advice that I myself am often giving to myself. 251 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: And and uh one of those, especially for older people, 252 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: is telling young people who are working hard and doing 253 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: the right things that they need to go to school. 254 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: That you you need to go to school. Uh, you 255 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: can go to college, get you a degree. Why why? Uh, 256 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: well you need to get that degree. You seem a 257 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: very nice person. But no, no, you don't need to 258 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: get that degree. That's just it. Who made that rule. 259 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: There was a time when it was very hard to 260 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: go to school. Now they make it very easy. You 261 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: know what else it's easy to do. Get a visa 262 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: card when you turn eighteen doesn't make it a good idea. 263 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: You can get all the credit you want. They'll put 264 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: you in a new vehicle, they'll put you in a 265 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: new house, they'll put you in a stereo system, they'll 266 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: put you on a cruise, and lord knows, they will 267 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: sign you up for fifteen hours. Not everybody should go 268 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: to college. Many people should not go to college. And 269 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: if you don't have a burning desire, you certainly shouldn't, 270 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: and nobody else on the outside should be telling you 271 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: you should. Please don't take my comment as scolding Richard. 272 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 3: I'm not. 273 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: It's the sweetest thing possibly called up and bragged on it. 274 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm using that as an example of something 275 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: I say a lot. So if you got kids they're 276 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 1: not ready to go to college and they're working, support 277 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: them in that. Activate the Michael Barry Show, that was 278 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: Natricia called about her husband that kept talking over me. 279 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: She's so proud of her husband and so supportive of 280 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: her husband. And if every woman was, then I wouldn't 281 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: need to make that point. Men should honor their wives, 282 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: support their wives. It's funny to me how many people 283 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: view a man's respect for a woman solely on the 284 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: basis of whether or not they go out and corrals 285 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: or not. I've seen men that go home every day 286 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: when they get off work and sit in the living 287 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: room and bitch at their wife the whole time and 288 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: get up the next day. They don't go father children 289 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: by others women, they don't hang out in the bars, 290 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: and they make their wife's life miserable. I don't think 291 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: that guy's a great guy, but a lot of women 292 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: are so jealous and insecure that that's how they've come 293 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: to measure a man. That's not the measure of a man. 294 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: There's so much more to what a man should be 295 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: Honoring his wife, caring for his wife, making his wife 296 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: feel like the princess she was as a little girl, 297 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: making his wife feel appreciated for what she does. My 298 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: wife will sometimes say, it's very odd for me when 299 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: you say thank you. My oldest son, Michael doesn't take 300 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: compliments well either, or appreciation. But she will say, I 301 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: guess he gets that from her, And now I think 302 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: about it, she'll say, it's very I never know how 303 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: to respond when you thank me for something that I 304 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: was going to do. Anyway, I don't thank you, so 305 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: you'll do it again. I thank you because I'm appreciative. 306 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: But that was sort of the manners I was taught, 307 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: and so perhaps it's not for you, it's for me. 308 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: That's what I was raised to do. You say thank you, 309 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: you say sir and ma'am. It's just it's natural to me. 310 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: It would be odd if I didn't do it. And anyway, 311 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: but I think it's important to tell your spouse when 312 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: they do things for you that it matters to you. 313 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 1: It means something to you. And I think ladies in 314 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: many ways, I think that your role in the household 315 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: supporting your husband. That doesn't mean you don't have a career. 316 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,239 Speaker 1: You may make more money, you may be the one 317 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: that works and he stays home with the kids. But 318 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: I will tell you we're built differently than you are, 319 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: and we have a need that only you can provide. 320 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: Our friends can't provide it. A television can't provide it. 321 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: Compensation and at the office cannot provide it. It is 322 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: this sort of approval. It is this sort of I 323 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: think approval. Is it knowing that we are providing emotionally, financially. 324 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 2: It just. 325 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: Troubles me how often I see in marriages two people 326 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: who are not nice to each other. That's the person 327 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: you're going to spend your entire life with you with, 328 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: and even if you don't spend your whole life with 329 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: them because you end up divorced, that's the person you 330 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,719 Speaker 1: spend your down time with. That's the person you're building 331 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: something with. Why wouldn't you honor them and treasure them. 332 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: That's not a ball and chain. That person made a 333 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: commitment to you. That person gave up all efficientcye to 334 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: be with you. So no matter how low down you 335 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: think they are or dumb or whatever else, you're the 336 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: choice they make. So maybe you exhibit a. I just 337 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: wish people would be nicer to their spouse. That's it. 338 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: Just be nicer to your spouse, say nice things, defend 339 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: them in front of others, don't tell their secrets, don't 340 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: make them look bad when you have guests. Don't point 341 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: out their physical flaws because pretty good chance you have 342 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: your own. I don't think you want them pointed out either. 343 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: Did you really want to be married to supermodel? Because 344 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: I've known some people that fit into that category. And 345 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: they're not wife material, I'll tell you that. And the 346 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 1: pretty girls you're seeing in the movies and the magazine covers, 347 00:22:54,640 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: they've been through fifteen hours of makeup and surgeries and 348 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 1: spray tan and everything else in order to capture just 349 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: that right photo. And guess what. She's not cuddling up 350 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: to you every night. She's not bringing you coffee in 351 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: the morning, she's not baking the cake that you love. 352 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: She's not going to dinner with you and splitting a 353 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: dessert because her whole focus is on her and not you. 354 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: So if you both want to be really focused on 355 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: her all the time, I've had friends that do that. 356 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: I've had friends that marry what they think is the 357 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: arm piece, and they find out that the only person 358 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: more into that woman is that woman than them is 359 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: that woman. And that's the old I want to be 360 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: married to a woman that all my friends are jealous 361 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: I'm married to her for No, they're not not if 362 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: they come around very often. Because if you come around 363 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: very often, it turns out that she has no time 364 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: left for you. She's all focused on her because she 365 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: needs the attention not only of you, but of every 366 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,360 Speaker 1: other person in this world. And that generally becomes tiresome. 367 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: I've seen that happen all too often. 368 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 2: I can't. 369 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: Let's go to George. George, you got one minute, sir. 370 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: Sorry I came to you so late in the in 371 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: the segment, I'm sorry. 372 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 3: You've hit your sweet spot. 373 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 2: Brother. 374 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 3: You remind me of all those things I used to 375 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 3: hear on the Interstate thirty five running from the Loop 376 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 3: back down to Laredo and back up. All them boys 377 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 3: out there in the middle of nowhere talking about what's 378 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 3: for sale and who the funerals are for today. I 379 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,959 Speaker 3: think you finally hit your sweet spot. Man, you were 380 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 3: the for sales in the funerals. 381 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: I would do it. I would do. I would do 382 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: the cafeteria menus I would do. I would know your 383 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,719 Speaker 1: GT radio in a minute. I would I would absolutely 384 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: love it whole tight. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna 385 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: give you more time. But Eddie Martini, the guy that 386 00:24:58,600 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 1: got me into radio. 387 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:00,239 Speaker 3: Uh. 388 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: He jokingly tells people that if I had my way, 389 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: I would do swap shop or tradio, whatever you want 390 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: to call it. And he says his worst fear is 391 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: one day he's going to tune in to the evening show, 392 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: which is on across the country, and there I'm going 393 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: to be doing swapshop. Somebody in Oregon is selling, be 394 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: selling a dozen hens, and some guy in Miami wants 395 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: and I'll say, yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of the goal. 396 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: Very two thousand is this pet Shop Boys? 397 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: Oh? 398 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention to Eddie called me during the 399 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: brain I'm trying to do a show. We're here, No, 400 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: we're not. In true I thought this was boys who 401 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: like girls, who like girls, who like boys who like 402 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: boys who like girls. Huh no, no, no, do pet 403 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: shop boys? See what year that is? So it's a 404 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: very different way I consume music like that. It's not 405 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: like Mickey Gilly, where I can tell you the month 406 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: and year it came out because I love it. It's 407 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: more sort of all right, what grade would I have 408 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: been in? Where would I have been going when this 409 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 1: was on Casey's B ninety five out of Oh my Yeah? 410 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: Is that same song? Oh see, I wasn't paying attention 411 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: to that. See that that whole blur and linked one 412 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: eighty two. That's you and Chance. That's dumb music to me. 413 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: It's on in the background. I'm not mad at it, 414 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: But I mean, I can't. I just I think it 415 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: would be tragic that that would be the music of 416 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: your formative years, you know. Then again, the music of 417 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: my formative years is also tragic, and for some reason, 418 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: I think that I was eighteen in nineteen seventy eight 419 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: when I was eight. But that's those are my issues. 420 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: That's what I'm working through. George. Yeah, with an encore presentation, 421 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: what do you do for a living? George? 422 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 3: If we're gonna have theme music for me, it ought 423 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 3: to be George straight. Maybe I'm not here for a 424 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 3: good time. I'm here for a long time. 425 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 2: That stuff. 426 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: No, I'm not here for a long I'm here for 427 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: a good But I know what you meant. 428 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 2: She don't know, she don't know. 429 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 3: She's beautiful. That'll fit into That's what Nobody has to 430 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 3: go to school. You don't go to school if you don't. 431 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 3: If you're just going to go, trust me. I've got 432 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 3: two undergraduate degrees in four years in graduate school at 433 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 3: the medical Center, and I have worked in the hospitals 434 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 3: for twenty years as a medical technologist. I did research. 435 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: My dear little mother. 436 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 3: From Johnson City, Tennessee. I have a son that's your age. 437 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 3: I'm damn near your father's age. There's about six degrees 438 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 3: of separation between you and me, because I am almost 439 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 3: certain I would got two dollars to a donut that 440 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 3: my wife's father worked with your father at DuPont and 441 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 3: ramone's got my phone number. You can send me a 442 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 3: text message and well do you know. 443 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: What unit now? But I'm father and all worked in. 444 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 3: He ran the maintenance department. 445 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy Gallup, how do you spell his last name? 446 00:27:58,520 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 3: I have a son your age? 447 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: How do you spell Jimmy's last name? 448 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 2: Gallup? 449 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 3: Just like the town out there in New Mexico. 450 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: I'm not hearing the end. It's trailing off, so you 451 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: have to spell it for me. 452 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Gallup g A L l Up as in 453 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 3: the town in New Mexico. 454 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know Gallup, Mexico. Do you know Gallup, 455 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: New Mexico? I know the Gallup poll. Yeah, I know 456 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: that's different Gallup hundreds of times. 457 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 3: Anyway, that's that's that's a difference. 458 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,959 Speaker 1: I think you're I think your comments are well placed, 459 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: and you know, unfortunately, there's very little room for nuance 460 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: when you're doing a show. Otherwise you speak in parenthetical 461 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: statements because I do think some people should go to college. 462 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: College was right for me. College was what I wanted. 463 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: But I can tell you I was one of less 464 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: than ten percent. That doesn't make me great, doesn't make 465 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: me extra smart. Some people think that. Some people think 466 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 1: that's what all this means, and it doesn't. You're dealing 467 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: with a lot of preconceived notions, so that when you 468 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: make a statement, a lot of people run with that, 469 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: and you think everybody's a dumb dumb No, I don't. 470 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: I think some of the smartest people I've ever met 471 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: never went to college. I think that some of the 472 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: most financially successful, professionally successful, personally successful, happy people didn't 473 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: go to college. I don't believe that college is the 474 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: panacea for every problem, and I don't think people quite 475 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: understand whether they went there or didn't go there. They 476 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: both tend to share this notion that we have to 477 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: go to college when you don't realize how much money 478 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: it costs. And it's a point in your life where 479 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: you're at an experimental phase. You're thinking very hard about 480 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: the opposite sex. You're looking to potential, if not just 481 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: hook up, you're looking to begin a family or a 482 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: serious relationship, and school is incompatible in most cases with that, 483 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: especially if you're working class growing up. So all of 484 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: these things and then there is the cost. Just look 485 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: it up online. The numbers will astound you. The cost 486 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: of higher education relative to inflation. Higher education has increased 487 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: multiples of inflation. And the reason is when you increase 488 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: the demand without increasing the supply, what does that do 489 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: on the axis? It drives the cost up. You got 490 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: more and more people wanting to do this, so now 491 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: you've got more and more opportunities to make money in 492 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: this business. There's probably no more no place that sees 493 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: more construction going on in Austin, Texas right now than 494 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: the University of Texas campus. It's also true of most 495 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: every other campus in the country. These universities are just 496 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: growing and growing and growing and growing, dorms, you name it. 497 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: We're pouring more. And I'm not opposed to the university. 498 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: People get Michael, how can you say it? I'm going 499 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: to game tomorrow. I'm a root for them lawhorns, and 500 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: like you're not, I'm a root for them lawhorns. 501 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 3: I don't know. 502 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: I thought sending make tea to college you'd be supporting them, lawhorns. 503 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: You ain't supporting them, longhorns. 504 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 3: Tall. 505 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 4: Has nothing to do with that, you goober. It has 506 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 4: everything to do with let's help each child who is 507 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 4: different than my child and your child and Ramon's child. 508 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 4: Let's help each child find their way in this world. 509 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 4: They've got to find their way. But let's give them options. 510 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: And let's stop telling all of them that we're gonna 511 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: squeeze them through this shoot right here, that's going to 512 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: send them out on the other side, because that's going 513 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: to inspire riches and professional success and happiness, because it's not. 514 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: And you got a lot of people waiting tables with 515 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: a psychology degree and some of them have a PhD. 516 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: Oh my, And it doesn't get you a single dollar 517 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: more tip, and it usually makes you a lot less server. 518 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: And by the way, what's wrong with being a server? 519 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: A lot of people who are professional bartenders servers, Especially 520 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: if you're working for a place like Gringoes Federal American 521 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: Grill Caravas. Most people you can make good months a 522 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: career