1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. Hello, babe, we 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes. 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 3: Hit it. 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: Well, that's where we go, riding in the tent, whopping 7 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: and a wolf. 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 4: Ever living thing, it moves within an inch of its land. 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: Sorry, folks, parks closed. 10 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: The moves out front should hold You do for Jesus, 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: make mounta Berry shoes. For some reason or another, you 12 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: signed a little tolla on radio. I got an email 13 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: from a woman named Tracy Vanderford and she said that 14 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: Pat Green had shown up on Wednesday at the at 15 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: Roundtop and he did an impromptu concert. Isn't that amazing? 16 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: And I said, yes, he does that every year. His 17 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: wife has a booth and right outside his wife's booth, 18 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: he'll do a couple of sets. Doesn't charge. And if 19 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: you know he's going to do it, the ladies who 20 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: are there every year know he's going to do it. 21 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: My wife and her friend go and the two of 22 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: them have a Thelma and Louise day. I support it 23 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: because she enjoys it good. She needs to get away 24 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: and have a good day. Anyway, so he saw her 25 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: last year and brought her up, sat her down next 26 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: to where he was playing, and how's Michael, let's take 27 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: a picture and all that. But the ladies absolutely love 28 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: it when he does that, absolutely love it. So anyway, 29 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: as I wont to do, I noticed that the woman's 30 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: name was Tracy Vanderford and that it was round Top 31 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: Flower Mound. And I thought, oh, okay, all right, well 32 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to Austin this weekend to see Michael t 33 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: It's it's a father son weekend in his fraternity. And 34 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: so I said, what what's blooming right now? Because she 35 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: she has see what's like like kind of a free 36 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: range flower farm. I guess you go out there and 37 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: pick them, or maybe she'll do it. I guess as 38 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: you pick them yourself. She doesn't have a website. She 39 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: has a Facebook page, which makes me crazy. But anyway, 40 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: round Top Flower Mountain. So I said to her, what's blooming? 41 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: I'm coming back from Austin on Sunday. I like to 42 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: pick up an arrangement for my wife. She loves, loves, 43 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: loves fresh flowers. Do you think all women love fresh 44 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: flowers or do you think some of them just say 45 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: they do you think it's one hundred percent of them 46 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I wonder about that, you know, because 47 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: I don't think every guy loves fishing like Jim Mud 48 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: loves fishing, right, he'd give up a finger to go fishing. 49 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: I kind of like fishing. But you know what fishing 50 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: is for me. Fishing for me is a memory of 51 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: getting out there and about the time we get still, 52 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: I don't care for catch anything. Hopefully we don't catch anything. 53 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: I just have to clean it. I don't want to 54 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: do that. So hopefully we don't catch anything for a 55 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: little while. And you're with your Paul Paul, and after 56 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: a little while you're like, we eat, it's nine thirds. 57 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: I know, I'm hungry, bopa. And then you get your 58 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: brown bag out. You're making all the noise. You're gonna 59 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: run the fish. We were not even fishing. We just 60 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: out here having a picknick. I know, I'm hungry. And 61 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: you get your sandwich out, you got your bread and 62 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: your baloney and your cheese, and you get your chips out, 63 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: and oh my goodness, you will run all the fish off. 64 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: And truth told, I don't care about the fish. And 65 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: then you got your drink and then you go to 66 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: get your snickers bar. You're gonna eat your dessert. Now 67 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: you're not gonna have anything left. Well, pop off, I 68 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: don't eat it. Now it'll melt, and I don't like 69 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: them melt a snicker bar. All right. Anyway, I got 70 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: some ding dongs in there. Anyway, I'm gonna eat those two. 71 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: Remember ding dongs. Think about it, how much there was 72 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: more effort put into wrapping that ding dong and unwrapping 73 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: that ding dong then there was actually making the ding dong. 74 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: And the problem with that, the thing that I still 75 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: still kind of bothers me because I hadn't had one 76 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: in twenty years, is there was There are very few 77 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: joys in life, very few joys, and I mean lights 78 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: on or lights off, very few joys in life that 79 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: rival when you bite into a properly temperatured ding dong 80 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: and you bite in and you go from the crunch 81 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: of the crust to the cream inside, and you pull 82 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: away and you look at it and you just hold it. 83 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: You go, oh, man, you could eat ten of them. 84 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: You just Oh. I can't believe she only packed me one. Uh. Anyway, 85 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: So I don't know that all women like flowers, but 86 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: my wife loves flowers, so I asked her if if 87 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: she could, if she if I could buy an arrangement 88 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: from her, and she said, let's see if I can 89 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: find this email. But she said they're not all. Just 90 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 1: play me some music or something. I'm trying to find 91 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: it won't it won't let me come down to the 92 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: email as to wear Anyway, she had something called pennias. 93 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of pennias? She told me what 94 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: she has blooming, and one of them was penias. David 95 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: Mitchell writes Czar, I'm just sending some information about the 96 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: Diking Plant and waller. My niece works there. The building 97 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: is four point two million square feet, largest tilt wall 98 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: building in the United States. I was the building inspector 99 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: for the steel and decking. Lots of walking. I did 100 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: three days a week for different inspections for just a 101 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: little over a year. I enjoy the show. I've listened 102 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: since the beginning. I've been here since two thousand and three. 103 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: Motor On brother, that's a nice message. People do the 104 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: most interesting things. You know. That guy at lunch is 105 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: at some burger joint and the bartenders like, get your beard. No, 106 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: I'm stilling the clock. Oh, you got one of them 107 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: kind of jobs. Yep. You've seen that diking plant up there? 108 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: Oh god, yes, that thing is huge, biggest tilt wall 109 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: building in the US four point two millions square feet. Really, yeah, 110 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: how did you read that? I'm the building inspector. Well, 111 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: for the steel in decking. I don't do the roofing 112 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: or mechanical systems, but for the steel in decking, that's 113 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: my building pretty much. Yeah. I walk it three days 114 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: a week, been walking it for ten months. When's that 115 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: gonna be finished? Two more months? I'll probably have to 116 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: walk it a few more times. Like that guy goes 117 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: home having seen some interesting stuff every day? Are we 118 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: going to get a drink between shows? Why do you 119 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: ask that? Oh? Beern Berger sounds very good, very very 120 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: very good. I don't think I should drink today because 121 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: I have to drive to Austin tonight to be with 122 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: my baby boy. So probably not Chris in Beaumont, it 123 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: says Chris Beaumont flowers. That could be my brother Chris. 124 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: Like that. My brother's name is Chris. He lived in Beaumont, 125 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: and he well, then he moved back towards and he 126 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: loved flowers. 127 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, but you got well. 128 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 5: I'm Chris, and I'm Chris En Beaumont and and I'm 129 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 5: a fourth generation florist over here. And I heard you, 130 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 5: heard you talking about needing to know about some flowers 131 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 5: for your wife. But the name you said isn't the 132 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 5: name of a flower I'm selling. 133 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: I'm trying to find this damn email. I can find 134 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: the chain, but I can't hold on. Just as my 135 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: Hawaiian Chad Nakanishi Aloha bro ha the Michael Barry Show. 136 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 6: What's wrong with the baby? I don't understand? 137 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 3: Is it just me? Or do you want another name? 138 00:08:53,920 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 3: My hand? Save to say those seven words, I love him, 139 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 3: my hand. 140 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: It's been long enough since I've told this story. I 141 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,719 Speaker 1: can tell it again now. Travis Thibodeau wrote the song 142 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: when he was twelve years old. He was fronting a 143 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: band with his dad in Santamar, Prowley or somewhere in Louisiana. 144 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: He wrote this song, this beautiful love song, at twelve 145 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: years old. I've got a version of him singing it. 146 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: His stuff hadn't even dropped yet. It sounds like a 147 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: high pitched girl. You remember when you were twelve years 148 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: old and you picked the phone off the ringer. You 149 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: call in? 150 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 3: What time do y'all close today? 151 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: Oh, ma'am, we'll be here till nine o'clock. 152 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 3: It's not ma'am. 153 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: I'm a man. I'm a man. Oh I'm sorry. Yeah, 154 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: my parents is gonna bring me down there for dinner. 155 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, okay, all right, come on down. Yeah, 156 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: he's got that voice. So I connect with him. So Toops, 157 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: of course, made the song famous regionally famous. Paul Ambert 158 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: from Santa Mal, Louisiana tells me the story about Travis Tibbodeaux, 159 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: so I track him down. Travis Travis Thibodeau was playing 160 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: a one man show for tips at a bar in 161 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: the Quarter in New Orleans every night every night to 162 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: pay his bills. But and he would play guitar, and 163 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: he would sing his songs. But apparently, as the story 164 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: will reveal, he's a world class keyboard player. He gets 165 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: a call. I can't think of the guy's name. He 166 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: was the band leader still is a bandleader of Journey, 167 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: and he was the keyboard player, and he asked him 168 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: to come to Nashville. And Travis Thibodeau had tried multiple 169 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: times to make it in Nashville. Never made it well. 170 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: Journey owns the tribute band that that covers all Journey songs. 171 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: So he asked him to come to Nashville because he's 172 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: got a gig for him. And he said, I don't 173 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: want to leave. You know, I've done this thing. I've 174 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: got to build an audience here and you know it 175 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: might be nothing, but I got to I gotta stay 176 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: here where I live. And he said, just come to Nashville. 177 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you. So he goes there. 178 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: They sit down and they start talking and he says, 179 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: you fool. The reason I brought you here isn't wanna 180 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: make you an offer. I want you to join the band. 181 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: And he said, whatever the guy's name. Some people that 182 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: know the band are going to know it because he's famous. 183 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: Bob Bob, I really appreciate It's very kind of you, 184 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: but I just I can't. I can't join a tribute 185 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: band at this age and Trap. I woudn't want to 186 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: be a no no the band. I want you in 187 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: Journey to play the keyboard. Are you serious? Yeah? I'm in. 188 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: This is on a Tuesday Saturday. He sends me a text. 189 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: It's a picture of the stage that they're going to 190 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: be playing on that night in Japan. And I can't 191 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: remember if it was twenty thousand or eighty thousand, It 192 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 1: could have been twenty million, whatever it was. It was 193 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: an insane number of people. It was like a festival 194 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: sized crowd. And this guy five days ago wasn't in 195 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: the band. Okay, so they're sixteen hours ahead whatever it is. Aschat, 196 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: he knows everything about your band. And the next day, 197 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: which would have been Monday his day, or maybe it 198 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 1: was still Saturday because of the timeframe, he says, you're 199 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: not gonna believe what happened at sound check. Arnelle Pinto 200 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: walks over, what's the one? Just a small town? But 201 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: give me that It starts that one up. He says. 202 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 1: They're at soundcheck and he said, let's hear let's heart 203 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: don't stop believing. Yeah, so yeah, got that big keyboard opening, 204 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: bring that up? Yeah all right. He's like, look at 205 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: this man, i'mna be playing for all these people tonight, 206 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: all these Japanese twenty twenty thousand or eighty thousand, as 207 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: I said, I can't remember the number. He's banging away. 208 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: Arnel Pineda walks over, puts the mic in his face. 209 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: So he starts singing at soundcheck, sings for about ten 210 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: seconds and he goes. Arnel Pineta takes it back. He says, 211 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: that'll do What do you mean you're singing it tonight? 212 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: So he thought, ah, you know that. This is yeah, 213 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: they're playing a game on me. This is okay, initiate 214 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: the new guy. I scare him to death. The song starts, 215 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: Arnel Pineda does not come on stage. They start with 216 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: it's opening a song of the set. So he starts 217 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: and they're all looking at him like, you can start 218 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: singing now. So he said that. He said to him, 219 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: but what's the crowd going to say? And Darnell Pineta said, 220 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: they're Japanese, they won't know the difference. That's a god's 221 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: honest truth. I swear to you on my first born, 222 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: I swear to you that is the story. And I 223 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: went through that whole story with him. It's still my favorite, 224 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: Travis Thibodeau's story, and there's a lot of them. Chris 225 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: in Beaumont, the Florist. Are you gay, Chris? 226 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 2: No, not by far. 227 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: What you don't have to do all that, Chris, it's 228 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: not an insult. I'm just there's a lot of florists 229 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: are gay. What percentage of florists male florest would you 230 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: say are gay? 231 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: Probably seventy. 232 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then don't be on the on the on. 233 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 2: The design side. But I'm in the wholesale business and 234 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: it's a lot it's a lot less. 235 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: And what is the name of your. 236 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 2: Business, Johnson's Wholesale Florist. 237 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: You should be straight Johnson's Wholesale florest And then people 238 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: that are that hate homos, we be like, I like flowers, 239 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: my wife likes flowers. I don't want to go deal 240 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: with a bunch of gay people. Oh you can go 241 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: over to straight Johnson's. You think I'm kidding. That's a niche, 242 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: that's marketing. Is kind of my deal. 243 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 2: Straight, Chris, Well, I don't know that we really are 244 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: targeting towards any sexual preference. Really, we just want to 245 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: go after people who want to I know. 246 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: But you're trying to sell flowers, and I'm trying to 247 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: separate you from the crowd. 248 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 2: Well, I like to think that we're but we already 249 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 2: separate ourselves from the crowd. 250 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: What's the number one selling flower for you? 251 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you asked that it's not even a flower. 252 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: The number one selling item in our fresh flower department 253 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 2: is called leather leaf, and we sell more leather leaf 254 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 2: by far than we do any other what. It's a 255 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 2: fern that's grown right here in America, right here from Pearson, Florida, 256 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 2: and it's used in most arrangements that the designers make. 257 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: This guy's got an interesting job, but the artist changed 258 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: the name to straight Johnson's Hold on to Michael. 259 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 4: Barry continues, boom, boom boom. 260 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: Did you just pull the Cadillacs out with some speedo? 261 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: But what's your real name? This is probably my favorite 262 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: song is twelve. 263 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 3: More Battle Fellas, and I'm thinking other boats. 264 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 2: This girl. 265 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: Banadi, y'all procomas feedo call, I don't waste and times. 266 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: You know what he did with them pretty women? Man 267 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: caused him to change their mind to tell. 268 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 3: You clime long for pretty women. And I thought that 269 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 3: would change than. 270 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: My I thought he was one of the three stooges. 271 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 3: But the child's nothing. To call me Joe, something me 272 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 3: call me Mo. 273 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: That's man moustito. He don't never take it slow. 274 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 3: Well, not y'all, but my real naughty y'all, coll but 275 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 3: my Young Davis. 276 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 1: Amy Jacobella's writes, I don't like fresh flowers. I'd rather 277 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: have the cash they die, I waste, they die, wasted money. 278 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: My daughter in law sent me a bouquet. It had 279 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: a dried lotus blossom in it. My husband felt oddly 280 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: uncomfortable and disturbed every time he walked past the bouquet. 281 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: I realized that it was because he has tripophobia, fear 282 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: of holes, especially groups of small holes or booms. It's 283 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: called tripophobia. Bailey writes, you're absolutely right about the wrapping 284 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: of the ding dong, but you can't talk about the 285 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: ding dong without talking about Missus Baird's French pastry. Scraping 286 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: that chocolate off that piece of white thick paper with 287 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: your teeth was part of the joy of eating them. 288 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: The round chocolate covered, cream filled pastry with some kind 289 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: of crushed nuts on top. Oh my goodness. Don't you 290 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: know if you had all don't know if y'all had 291 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: those in Houston, but we had them up here in Dallas. 292 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,959 Speaker 1: You know what doesn't get it to do You remember 293 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: the white powdered doughnuts were six in the thing? Okay, yeah, no, no, 294 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: but that's it's the predicate. It's not the subject. Those 295 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: white powdered doughnuts and chocolate milk was my lunch many days. 296 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: But it wasn't until much later that I learned to 297 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: appreciate what's actually better, which is the it's kind of 298 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,959 Speaker 1: a brown It's the same donuts made by the same people, 299 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: but it has like little clumps of it. It's more 300 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: of a kind of a cinnamony. Somebody's gonna know what 301 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about, and 302 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: it would, it would. I can't describe it, but it 303 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: had more of a more than the cinnamon flavor of 304 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: When as I got older, I started liking that more. 305 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: It was peonees if they were talking about sal Campesi 306 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: says one hundred percent agree on the ding dong thing. 307 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: Camping at Garner State Park with my grandparents, are treat 308 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: was a Shasta grape orange root beer or cream soda. 309 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: But they'd only allow us one a day. Well, wasn't 310 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: that the worst? I can't I have another one? And 311 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: you look back. Now we're all gonna die, We're gonna 312 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: be dead, and you're gonna be laying there dead, going 313 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: You know what I could have had all the red shastas. 314 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: I wanted all the red shastas, and it wouldn't have 315 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: made a damn bit of difference. I'd be right here, 316 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: maybe a day earlier, but I'd be right here. But 317 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: think of all the time you weren't drinking a red shasta, 318 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 1: and you wanted to drink a red shasta, and they 319 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: could have given you that red shasta. But nope, we 320 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: can't have too much fun. Too much fun would be 321 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: just terrible straight Chris and Beaumont. You know, I read 322 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: I read years ago that most of our flowers come 323 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: from Ethiopia, Thailand. They all go through Amsterdam or Rotterdam, 324 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: but they if they come from Ethiopia, Thailand, and where 325 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: was the other country? Maybe Vietnam? Is that right? 326 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 2: Not anymore? Not anymore. That may have been right back 327 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 2: in the fifties and sixties, maybe, But now these days 328 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 2: all our flowers come from South America. Seventy five percent 329 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 2: come from Colombia and Ecuador. Why is that, Well, you know, 330 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 2: the low cost of labor. And then we've had former 331 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 2: presidents who've made deals where there were no tariffs on 332 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 2: products out of Columbia, much like the NAFTA agreement. But 333 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 2: with Colombia, and at one time the Congress would give 334 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: you know, exemptions on the tariffs from Ecuador, and so 335 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 2: you know that it blows down a lot of American 336 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 2: flower growers and they moved to in operations of moved 337 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 2: to South America cheap labor, and it's on the equator, 338 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 2: so the climate stays the same all year. That's where Ethiopia, 339 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 2: that's why they can grow flowers in Ethiopia and in Kenya. 340 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 2: Both of those are really emerging markets, more so in 341 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 2: Kenya than Ethiopia. It's funny. The people don't want to 342 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 2: work in Ethiopia. It's just part of the culture. They 343 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 2: don't They don't care to have a job. 344 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: Chris, have you ever been to. 345 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 2: I have not. I have not. I have talked to 346 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 2: peoples and have but I can imagine. 347 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: I have been many times. And I will tell you 348 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: that in all my travels, when you leave Addis Ababah, 349 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: the big capital city, and you get and you you 350 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: drive hours and hours and hours, and you get off 351 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: the main road and you go up into the mountains, 352 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 1: there are areas where there is no road. You got 353 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: to be those old English uh once they always drive 354 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: them in its range rovers. The old range rovers is 355 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: what they use out there. And you get out there 356 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: far enough and there is no industry. There is nothing. 357 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: It's just people living off the land. That's why the 358 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: famine hurt them so badly. It is because they they 359 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: just farm for themselves. But it is so bucolic, so 360 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: green and lush, and all I could think was, boy, 361 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: if I could put a landing strip and build a hotel, 362 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: it would be because you're out in the middle of nowhere. 363 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: It's so pretty. You're up high in those mountains, and 364 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: it's just so lush. The green verdant is the adjective 365 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: meaning rich green. It is the greenest green. It's like 366 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: the blue on a peacock's bill or belly. It's a 367 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,479 Speaker 1: color that you can't imagine. It's so pretty, so pretty. 368 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 2: And why hasn't anyone done that yet? 369 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: What's that? 370 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: Why hasn't anyone built that yet? 371 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: I think it's a complicated question. They just had a 372 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: civil war. For the last five years, they've had such instability. 373 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: They had a seventeen year it was called the Dirts, 374 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: had a seventeen year communists take over. Everybody was kicked 375 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: out of their property. It's very unstable foreign. 376 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 2: Investment, and that's what they've said about flowers. They've had 377 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 2: that problem with flowers. I know several people who've invested 378 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 2: in farms out there only to have them burned down 379 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 2: by the Yeah, I guess the same. 380 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: And so the problem is that Kenya. 381 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: Yeah good, I was gonna say, Kenya is more stable, 382 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 2: and so there's more flower production, but all that feeds 383 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 2: up into Europe. And really that's what makes South America 384 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 2: so convenient for the United States as far as flowers go. 385 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: Where's your shop. 386 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 2: We're located on Lindbergh Drive in Beaumont, so we're We're 387 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 2: about a mile from the Interstate College of Washington. Anybody 388 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 2: can come in and purchase. We sell to anybody. We 389 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 2: only sell things the way to floorists buy them. I 390 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 2: tell people were like the home Depot of flowers. We 391 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: have everything you need to build arrangements. Like home Depot 392 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 2: has everything you need to build a house. But they 393 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 2: don't build houses, and we don't build arrangements. Oh I see, 394 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 2: but we sell to the We sell to professionals that do. 395 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,719 Speaker 2: But we have stop shop. Oh yes, we have a 396 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 2: full cut flower department. You know, we've got flower from 397 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: like I said, from South America, from California. We do 398 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 2: get flowers from Holland and the Dutch markets in Costa 399 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: Rica and Thailand and and from all over the world. 400 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 2: And and we have probably one of the largest selections. 401 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 2: I would, I would. I've had vendors who said, I, 402 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 2: you know, they don't even have anyone in Houston that 403 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 2: compares to the size of our place. You own where 404 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 2: I'm the I'm the fourth generation, but but technically my 405 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 2: dad and his siblings own it. 406 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: So have you ever been to the flower market in 407 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 1: the Dutch flower market? 408 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 2: I have not. 409 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: It's almost a life changing experience. We go every time. 410 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: My wife loves it. We go and she'll just been 411 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: hours and hours. Well, oh, it's incredible when you need 412 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: to escape from the every day escaped of the Michael 413 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: Arry Show. 414 00:25:48,800 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 3: So come tiptoe to the living. 415 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 2: Me you like. 416 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: My wife U and Ramone. Ramon's is a new thing. 417 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: But my wife loves plants, especially plants more well, I 418 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: guess she loves flowers too. So we all bundled up 419 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: in the middle of the day the other day and 420 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: drove out to look at plants and flowers. And I thought, 421 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: you know, what a good guy I am. I'm putting 422 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: these two together and they can geek out over there 423 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: plants and it'll be great patting myself on the back 424 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: because that give a damn about it, and look at me, 425 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: Look at me. And then we get there and you 426 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: go in there and it's hot and it's steamy, and 427 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: there's all these you can tell they're white liberal women, 428 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: and they're all real intense, and they got their hair 429 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 1: pulled back and they all got there. They're all wearing this. 430 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: They all have their duty and burke or their Louis 431 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: Vuitton bag, and they're very they're very focused and intense, 432 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: and I can tell I don't like them. I can 433 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: just tell I don't like them. And it's hot and 434 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 1: it's dirty, and all I'm thinking was this was the 435 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 1: dumbest thing ever and I would like to eat a hamburger. 436 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: But that was my story. Texas State Rentals is one 437 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: of our show sponsors. And when I started, everything was 438 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: it was just car dealers and electronics. And I said, listen, 439 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: we got people that listen to the show that build 440 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: stuff and do stuff. And what you need to do 441 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 1: is go out, get past the car dealerships. I mean, 442 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: we saw a lot of Chevyes for long Star Chevy. 443 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: But you got to get beyond the basic retail that 444 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: you used to on radio and start talking to the 445 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: people who sell stuff to the people that listen to 446 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: my show. Sales reps didn't understand it, but over a 447 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: period of time they did, and Robert Reese is very 448 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: good at it. So I have a show sponsor called 449 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: Texas State Rentals. Angus Davis owns it, and oddly enough, 450 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: they're headquartered in Tomball, but they're also in San Anton 451 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: and Orange. What are the chances they're in Orange? Right? 452 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: So he's a big fan of the show. But he 453 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: asked me what to do. He has two of his 454 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: employees and he wanted to do something nice for them 455 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: that had been with him for thirty years. Wendel Buddha Budasilovich, 456 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,479 Speaker 1: Buddhas Solovich, Buddhas Solovich b u Da. So you got 457 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: your Buddha s l I Solivich, Budasilovich, Buddhists Solovich Buddha. 458 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: I think it's Buddhas Solovich. How would you say, Wendel, 459 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: he's been there with thirty years. He's director of service. 460 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: And then Eric Lindsay's had a simple name, Eric Lindsay, 461 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: thirty years, VP of Sales. I can't imagine staying somewhere 462 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: for thirty years. You've almost been thirty years. Ramone's butt 463 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: hurt because at twenty years, Eddie always buys the employee 464 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: a really nice watch, and Ramone didn't get a really 465 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: nice watch because his former best friend didn't put him 466 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: down on the list as being twenty years with the company, 467 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: so Eddie didn't know. So a year later, as kind 468 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: of a further dig at him, they because I said something, 469 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: they said, they brought him forward and said Ramone is 470 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: celebrating his twenty years with the company, but it was 471 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: really twenty one. Well, he didn't get the watch, and 472 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: now they got the number of years wrong, so now 473 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: every year, so then they didn't do twenty two, and 474 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: then it went to twenty three. It's not Eddie's fault. 475 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: Eddie's only you know. It's like Trump, You're only as 476 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: good as the information you get. So now it's been 477 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: twenty six years and I'm going to end up having 478 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: to buy him a Rolex because he's so butt hurt 479 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: about it. And it's a running joke in the office 480 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: and we all all make fun of him. And when 481 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: I say make fun of him, I don't want you 482 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: to think that he's laughing along with it, because he 483 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: doesn't think it's funny at all. He's actually genuinely probably 484 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: in therapy. O your blood and send you into the station. 485 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: You gave all you had, little buddy, you gave all 486 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: you had. How about this though? So I did my 487 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: happy birthdays for my Texas State Reynolds guys Wendell, Buddha Solovich, 488 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: and Eric Lindsay. That's a hell of a name right there. 489 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: You should hyphenate that Buddha Solovich. And then people would 490 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, like the black football players, they all have 491 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: hyphenated last names. That just happened out of nowhere. Tony 492 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: Dorset was just Tony dor sat Drew Pearson, Drew Pearson, 493 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: Earl Campbell. Then all of a sudden they got hyphenated 494 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: last names. But listen to this one moment. I'm excited 495 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: about this one too. So Grasshopper brought this one in. 496 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: It's called Enterprise Casting Corporation high quality. Let's see it, 497 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: high quality. I lost the thing pushing them of sand casting. 498 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: Enterprise Casting Corporation ductile and gray iron. Oh, we're gonna 499 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: have some fun with this. We're gonna have some but 500 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna go tour this thing. Our manufacturing capabilities. They 501 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: got fire, they got stuff being cast. It's like when 502 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: you go to the glass blowing in Venice and you 503 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: go out on that little thing and they're still they're 504 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: still blowing the glass and you pay way too much 505 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: for it and it breaks on the way back, or worse, 506 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't and you come back. That's one of those things. 507 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: You come back from vacation and people come in your 508 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: house and they go, oh, you went to Venice and 509 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: you go, yeah, yeah, we did it too. Everybody does it. 510 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: Why did you buy that stupid glass? But boy, you 511 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: had to have it at the time. What you sad 512 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter what they say, You're gonna figure 513 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: out a way to buy it. Well, this one over 514 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: here is two thousand. Man, I wanted some glass, but 515 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: not that bad. Well, let me take you to the 516 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: showroom and then you go from the little setup they've 517 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: done for the little play where they where they do 518 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: the fire like they really do something, and then you 519 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: go into the you go into a separate room and 520 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: it's all made up. Now you're at the department store 521 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: and they got all the glass, and you buy that 522 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: stupid glass that you wouldn't buy here at Roundtop for 523 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: twenty dollars, wouldn't you wouldn't pay. Some of our customers 524 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: include manufacturers of industrial pumps. Anyway, y'all can welcome them 525 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,239 Speaker 1: to the show if you would like. It would be 526 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: a nice favor. Well, this is their operation in Maine. 527 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: I got to find out what the phone number is 528 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: for here. It's Enterprise Casting Corporation, high Quality iron casting. 529 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: Grasshopper didn't send me the phone number for this guy, 530 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: so I don't know. Oh, Jason Schmirtman s C H 531 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: M E R T M A N. But this number 532 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: might be his cell phone number, and I don't think 533 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: I should give out his Do you think I should 534 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: give out a selhal number? Why not? Well, I don't 535 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: know how many people are gonna need high quality foundry casting. See, 536 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: this is kind of stuff we should be doing. These 537 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 1: are the kind of people that should be calling in 538 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: the way this works. Jason schmirt Smirtsman calls in emails me, Hey, 539 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: interested in your show? Everybody I know listens to your show. 540 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: We would like to support your show sponsor your show. Okay, well, 541 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: let me send either Robert Raise or Grasshopper, whoever we 542 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: send out, talk to you and let's find out what 543 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: you do. Let's make sure it's not a conflict with 544 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: one of my show sponsors. Already, you need to understand 545 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: their certain rules. You don't just buy advertising. There's certain 546 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: rules as to how this whole thing works, and then 547 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: if the whole thing works out great, then they become 548 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: a show sponsor. That is so different from advertising, and 549 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: it has worked. It's taken us twenty years to build 550 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: this and it's the model for the industry now. And 551 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: by the way, you don't have to have a bunch 552 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: of money to align with somebody who can help you sell. 553 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: If you've got a customer who comes into your show 554 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: who's a real estate broken, buy her lunch and say, hey, 555 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: would you next time you have a unch and learn 556 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: or open house, would you think about us for your catering? 557 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: Would you just send an email? People like insurance agents 558 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: and real estate brokers and those people are great connectors. 559 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: They're influencers. Use that. You cannot just be good at 560 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: what you do and build your business. You've got to 561 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: connect with people with audiences. You've got to you've got 562 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: to use influencers. You may not even have to spend 563 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,439 Speaker 1: a dime anyway. That's that part was free.