1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: Tony ed Hello. 4 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: You must be legit because I've heard from about thirty 5 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: different cop friends of mine from every different agency, from 6 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: DPS to multiple counties to federal, all up and down 7 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: the road. They all know you, and not one of 8 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: them said you were a bad guy. 9 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, sir. 10 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: So Ramondo tells me that you were seven feet from 11 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: President Trump when he got shot in the head in Butler. 12 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: Exactly, Sir. I have pictures, I have videos, and I 13 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: was seven feet away. I'm a big support from mister Trump. 14 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 3: I'm the founder of the United Republican of Texas and 15 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 3: I for the last fifteen years I'm involved. I will 16 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 3: die for this country. I will die for this flag. 17 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 3: It's a big honor to be living and being in 18 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: the United States. 19 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 2: I will take a bullet. 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 3: Instead, mister trumplety, I will take that bullet. I will 21 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 3: die for this country. I'm a conservative, I'm a Christian. 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 3: I'm Catholic, and I left my country thirty seven years 23 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: ago because I'm a Christian, and I came to the 24 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 3: United States and it's to me, it's a freedom it's heaven. 25 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 3: It's like I want a billion of dollars like a 26 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 3: lottery ticket for me. I raised a beautiful family and 27 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 3: I'm living in the United States. 28 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: This is an honor for me to be here in 29 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: the United States. 30 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: Tony. I have spent a disturbing amount of time studying 31 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: what happened to Lebanon and Iran, particularly those two countries, 32 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: but others, and how far they have fallen, and the 33 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: diaspora that left, what they went on to do. It is. 34 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: It is very, very sad to me to think that 35 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: those were two wonderful countries, great countries. They were countries 36 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: of tourism and cuisine and culture and art and science 37 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: and and and advancement, and they just collapsed, and that 38 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: that people had to leave it is. It is terrible, Tony. 39 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: I'm going to come visit you in Hempstead. You got 40 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: to track there leave. 41 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 3: Uh track. 42 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to test out some of the v 43 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: because just for quality control. 44 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 3: Of course, you can do anything you want. Consider this, 45 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: Spacing viewers, mister Barry. 46 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 1: Tony, you're the best I knew. I liked you. Hold On, 47 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: Ramon's going to get your number, okay from I'm going 48 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: to get a gun turt installed on my friend's vehicle, 49 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: the one that's going to belong to my friend. We 50 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: had asked Jim to set up a conversation, and I 51 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: gotta find my notes on that. Can you play music 52 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: for a second. It's a lot going on on the 53 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: show today. I'm a little little discombobulated here. Let's see here. 54 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: I got so fired up over those cop cars. Let's 55 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: see here. Can I get some music? Ramond? Let me 56 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: just see if I can find this email. Here we 57 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: are time. 58 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 4: You know it's me. 59 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 5: When I got. 60 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: Through your towel, I'm going to ride around. 61 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 5: I'm going to drive everybody while also. 62 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: For any aspiring radio personalities out there. Here's the trick. 63 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell our trick early on in the game. 64 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: Prepare yourself for any eventuality. So if you go in 65 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: trying to put on a perfect show, tight, precise, every 66 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: word in its place, never a moment of dead air. 67 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: Then the first time you make a mistake, they go 68 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: you don't do that. You build in right on. Hey, 69 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: look that we're doing this thing live. We're gonna have 70 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: some fun with it. We're not gonna stress out because 71 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: a lot of people you wouldn't believe this. A lot 72 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: of people doing what we do are tense. They're puckered up, 73 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, and one little thing goes wrong and 74 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: they're end up in a nine line bind and don't 75 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: know what's happened. Whereas we were described within the industry 76 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: as being flossom, which is kind of a cheesy term, 77 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: but I like it, which was that we screw everything 78 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: up all the time, Embrace it, talk about it, and 79 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: everybody likes it and it's accessible. Asher Kasmin is the 80 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: big dog. They didn't give me his title at locksolutions 81 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: dot com. The story behind this is I put the 82 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: word out the Houston Business Journal, which I think does 83 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: a wonderful job. It's a must read for me. They 84 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: do a digital version and a print version. And Emily 85 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: brings the mail in every day at eleven when we finish, 86 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: and she brings the Houston Business Journal, and sometimes I 87 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: will forward articles to her that the digital comes out 88 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: before the print, obviously because the print has to print 89 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: and mail. And she'll hand me the paper and she'll say, 90 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: why do you still read the paper. You've already read 91 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: the digital. I know that because you sent me an 92 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: article and told me to call that guy. Well, I'm 93 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: fifty three. I kind of in that bridge between the 94 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: old and the young. The digital is nice because and 95 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: then it's I can forward it and I like that 96 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: and I can retain it. But the print is nice 97 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: because I like to hold on to it and I 98 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: like to tear things out and send people a note 99 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: with it on there, or at least I intend to anyway. So, 100 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: Houston Business Journal does something called the Fast fifty, and 101 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: it's companies that have had explosive growth over the last 102 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: two years, year over year growth. So I took a 103 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: photo of the Fast fifty list, and we've talked to 104 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: some of those folks and we'll be talking to more. 105 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: And I posted that to Facebook. I said, if anybody 106 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: knows any of these people, have them reach out to 107 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: me Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com or you can 108 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: just go directly to Michael Berryshow dot com. And out 109 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: of fifty, I probably heard from ten. You always hear 110 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: from somebody that knows of those people with them. I'm 111 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: not going to go tracking them down, but there were 112 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: probably seven people all in up to today whoa to 113 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: me within the company of Locke Solutions. I have no 114 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: idea what they do, but I can tell you that 115 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: they understand. Okay, let me just give you this. He 116 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: saimal Tony may not be a retail seller of vehicles, 117 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: but Tony's going to get dozens of calls today and 118 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: he'll probably sell some units out of it. If Tony 119 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: didn't take that call, he doesn't sell those units. So 120 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: what people will do is they sit in meetings all 121 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: day try to figure out how to grow their business. 122 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how to grow your business. If everybody 123 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: in the world knows who you are and what you 124 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: do and how to reach you, the rest will take 125 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: care of himself. Just do what you do well. But 126 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: if you don't tell anybody what you do, businesses die 127 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: because nobody knows what they do, much more so than 128 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: that they're not good at what they do. Restaurants die 129 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: not because the food's not good, the people don't try, 130 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: the chef didn't create because there's so many other places 131 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: to go. It is a constant battle. You see how 132 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: often Mac is in the news. Do you know what 133 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: that costs, not only in time but in energy. If 134 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: you are not doing everything you can to remind people 135 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: you're here, you're dying. Competition is a beautiful thing, but 136 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: it's also vicious. Businesses are dying every single day, other 137 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: businesses are growing at the same time. It's not accidental, 138 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: it's not luck. So asher Kasmin? Is it Kasmin? Is 139 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: that how you pronounce it? 140 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 4: Yeah? That's correct. 141 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: Is that Jewish? 142 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 4: It is? Actually? 143 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: Where are they Ashkenazi Jews? Where are they from? 144 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 4: That is amazing. I did a twenty three and meters 145 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 4: and it is it is Ashcanazi and I think it's 146 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 4: kind of Eastern European. 147 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: Well that's where the ashcan Nazis were, But you don't 148 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 1: know where Russia Poland. 149 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 4: No, I really don't, and I really don't. I don't 150 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 4: go back. I'm a Christian myself, but I don't go 151 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 4: back and know a whole lot on that side of 152 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 4: the family. 153 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: I'll do it for you, don't worry. We'll do that 154 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: when we get off the air. What does Lock Solutions do? 155 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, so we are a pre cast concrete manufacturing company. 156 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 4: And so to kind of put it in a little 157 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 4: bit more plainer terms, when you see manhole covering. 158 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: Ashure hold on, we were so flowsome that we missed 159 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: a break. Wait right there, so you goofball, what were 160 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: you doing. You were looking up as company we were 161 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: supposed to go to break Are you in need of 162 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: any pre cast concrete, doomstones or cop cars or something. 163 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: I don't I still don't know what they do. Michael 164 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: Berry show. 165 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 3: It was born one morning when the sun didn't shine. 166 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: Tell me earlier. She said. Our whole office, her and 167 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: her nurses. Our whole office is laughing about you talking 168 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: about the nurses and what we do every day. She said, 169 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: I guess I feel that way about the guy who 170 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: had to come up and pick come and pick up 171 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: the dead dog in the road on our street. I said, yeah, 172 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: I guess those are kind of the same thing, and 173 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: she said, no, they're not. Nurses and doctors get to 174 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,719 Speaker 1: see the rewards of our efforts. There's nothing better. It's 175 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: highly gratifying. But the dog person, well, I guess he's 176 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: glad that the little old lady's happy that the dead 177 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: dog's not out in the middle of the yard, in 178 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: the middle of the road in the summer, in one 179 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: hundred and six degree heat, where he has swelled up 180 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: and then exploded all over. Yeah. I mean, I guess 181 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: that's gratifying when that's gone. Locke l O c k 182 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: E Solutions dot Com. Asher Kasmin is our guest. Asher, 183 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be honest. You don't look like a guy. 184 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: You don't dress and present yourself like a guy who 185 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: runs a company like that. You seem more kind of 186 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,559 Speaker 1: like a finance company like you obviously have a custom hairdoo. 187 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: You know you're kind of styled. You know what I mean? 188 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: Don't you know who looks like the CEO of your company? 189 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: Michael Luck? He's got more of the look hey, out 190 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: of out of your senior guys, Asher Kasman, Michael Luck, 191 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: David Aspino, he'd be a Spiino would be the guy 192 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: I most want to have a beer with. He looks 193 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: real cheered, a real chilled, but my guess is beer 194 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: is not his thing. He seems kind of more like 195 00:11:54,240 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: a four to two oh guy, Richard Burke Chelsea and chat. 196 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 4: Huh, he's more of a tequila guy. 197 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: Okay, I can see that he'd be the guy, just 198 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: judging by the look I'd most want to have a 199 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: drink with, because he seems like he's got he seems 200 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: like he has some interest, like maybe he's got a 201 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: resto mod you know, truck or a sixty seven Cadillac 202 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: one inch off the ground. He seems like he'd be 203 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: a cool cat. Out of those six, only one of 204 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: y'all has the university from which you graduated in your 205 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: bio on the our team section. Can you guess who 206 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: that is? It's not you? Hmm maybe huh? 207 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 4: Is it Michael Luck? 208 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: Nope? This tells you everything you need to know about 209 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: this university. 210 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 4: It's chat Arp and he's an aggie and so am I. 211 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: Oh, well, you don't tell it. I probably don't want 212 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: him hitting you up because they got to pay that 213 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars they pay Jimbo to leave, and 214 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: they've already cut the baseball field and had There's only 215 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: so many George Straight concerts you can have to make 216 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: up the difference. He's the only one that tells you 217 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: everything you need to know about that university. I don't 218 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: care what happens on that campus. You can argue over 219 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: which university is the best. And this There is no 220 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: place that the graduates will introduce themselves the trademark Howdy 221 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: like they do. There's LSU, Harvard, Yale, Miami Alabama. There 222 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: is no place that people are prouder that they are 223 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: from than Texas. A and M. That's the fact. 224 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 4: Yep, when you when you go there, you realize why 225 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 4: it's hard. It's hard to tell from the outside. That's 226 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 4: what they say. 227 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: So you kind of bragged with the PE after your 228 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: name professional engineer. What is your engineering degree? In what year? 229 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: And why don't you have A and M on your bio? 230 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 4: Well, and I'm not sure which bio you're referring to, 231 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 4: but I'm on your website. 232 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: Oh, would you like to read to you? You probably 233 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: don't know, You'll probably have some With over two decades 234 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: of designing structural precast products and concrete mix designs for 235 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: the electrical, power, communication, water, and industrial sectors, Asher is 236 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: focused on creating solutions in the construction industry. More importantly, 237 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: he is dedicated to helping make a positive impact in 238 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: the lives of his friends and family, including his coworkers, customers, 239 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: and vendor partners. Our focus as a company is to 240 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: create an environment that challenges our people and provides them 241 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: opportunities to grow personally and in their careers. We continue 242 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: to build a team and culture aligned with our values, 243 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: which has in turn created a high functioning organization with 244 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: a focus on responsive customer service. We will be remembered 245 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: as a company making a lasting impact in the lives 246 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: of our people and partners. Nothing really about you. 247 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 4: Asher, Well, it's not about me. I mean, that's that's 248 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 4: the thing. 249 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: I know. But when I went to that page, I 250 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: kind of wanted to know about you. That's kind of 251 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: mission Statele. Also, Asher doesn't sound like the kind of 252 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: name of a guy that's in pre cast concrete. 253 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 4: Well, I'm trying to change that. 254 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: That's kind of that's kind of a New York private 255 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: equity guy. Look him up. See Ramon agrees. So did 256 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: you start this company? 257 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 4: I did? I did it. Yeah, I founded it back 258 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 4: in twenty thirteen. And and actually Michael luck was he 259 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 4: was employee number two and a guy I had worked 260 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 4: with for a while. And yeah, we started from nothing 261 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 4: from scratch. 262 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: Well, y'all have obviously done very well. 263 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 4: It's been good. We've had a good we've had our 264 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 4: growth spurts over the years. I mean, we're about to 265 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 4: be at twelve years at the end of this year, 266 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 4: and we've gone through some really good patches and you know, 267 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 4: but to be honest, there's been a lot of challenges 268 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 4: as well. So it hasn't been all roses the whole time, 269 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 4: but we've definitely, especially over the last several years, have 270 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 4: seen a lot of growth obviously, and you know, but 271 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 4: really it is you go back to that bio, it's 272 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 4: really the team that's gotten us there. That the growth 273 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 4: of our company really started to accelerate when I I think, 274 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 4: what I realized, I need to get out of the 275 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 4: way and stop being such a bottleneck and start you know, 276 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 4: letting our team really you know, grow the business. And 277 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 4: that's when we started seeing this acceleration. So that leadership 278 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 4: team you just talked about huge part of why we've 279 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 4: made this list this year. 280 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: Asher take exactly sixty seconds and explain what pre cast 281 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: concrete is, Ramon, can you count us down sixty seconds. 282 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: Let's hear your elevator. This is to your kids fourth 283 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: grade class. 284 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 4: Go. So there's a lot of precast, prefabricated concrete out there, 285 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 4: but what we do, what we focus on is mainly 286 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 4: structures that are underground that are used for accessing and 287 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 4: protecting a lot of the underground utility. So when you're 288 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 4: running power lines, underground communication fiber, when you have dorm 289 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 4: water drainage going underground, there's a whole system under there, 290 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 4: and so we we design and manufacture the concrete structures 291 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 4: that are all underground. So when you see a manhole 292 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 4: cover or you see a door in the roadway, what's 293 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 4: under there is a concrete room of some size and 294 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 4: that's what we're making. And so our focus is really 295 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:53,959 Speaker 4: on more specially custom engineered structures, and we typically we 296 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 4: find ourselves doing a lot of industrial type projects facility. 297 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: I know you're going to think I'm kidding you, but 298 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: I'm not. I think that's fascinating. All the stuff that 299 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 1: goes on that we never see in the brain power 300 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: it goes by. 301 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 3: Or this country. 302 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 2: I will die for disclass to Michael Berry shows the 303 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 2: big honor to be living in the United States. 304 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: Okay, I'll buy it. What does this have to do 305 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: with Astra Chasmon and lock SAgs? 306 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 2: Oh? 307 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: Hard rock? 308 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I'm always aggravated when I can't figure it. 309 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: Very well done, Okay, yeah, I'll see it. I'll see 310 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: what you did. Then, how did you come up with 311 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: the name Locke? L O C K E. Is that 312 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: for John Locke? Is it trustworthy? 313 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 4: It's a it's a real It felt like it's a 314 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 4: real solid name. But it's actually the name of my 315 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 4: my first my firstborn, my son, Locke, who's thirteen years. 316 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: Old, Locke Sebenhauser. What was his name? I always wonder 317 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 1: when people do that, when you name the company after 318 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: your kid, what are the other kids think? 319 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you're right, My wife would tell me. I 320 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 4: was pretty shortsighted. I've got two girls who are younger, 321 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 4: but at the time when I actually created the name, 322 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 4: I only had one. But the two other girls later 323 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 4: on were not very happy when they kind of started 324 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 4: to realize what happened. 325 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: So I normally like to start a conversation where somebody 326 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: doesn't know where we're going with some kind of off putting, 327 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: awkward questions just to see how they handle them, and 328 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: then we get into the normal stuff. So I'm going 329 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: to move to phase two with your permission. All right, 330 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: was anything I asked sort of awkward or you thought 331 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: to yourself? How did we end up there? 332 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 4: No? No, not at all. 333 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: Uh So so tell me who are your biggest clients? 334 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: Who who buys this stuff? 335 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 4: We are are bigger clients, so we deal. 336 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: With I got they all said you could you could 337 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: tell their name they don't mind. 338 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 4: Uh. Well, I mean generally speaking that we work with 339 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 4: firms that are dealing with industrial and really heavy commercial projects. 340 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 4: So a lot of of EPC engineering procurement, construction firms. 341 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm a big boy, get a contract. 342 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 4: Well, okay, I mean just to give you some examples, 343 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 4: some some people like the Bechdels, the Floors, Zachary's, McCarthy's, 344 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 4: those kind of companies that those they do, they are 345 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 4: and they do complex projects. And uh and that's where 346 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 4: we find ourselves because of the custom nature, you know 347 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 4: of our work. We find ours in those kind of projects. 348 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: I asked my friend Dane Berson. He owns a company 349 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: called Accurate meter in Supply and they do like meter boxes, 350 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: underground pipes and things like that. And I said, do 351 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: you know Locke Solutions. It's a precast concrete concrete product company. 352 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: Is it a competitor or a supplier? And he said, 353 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: we use their competitors And I said who is that? 354 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: And he said rock Solid, del Zato, Oldcastle, South Houston Precast. 355 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: So I said why not Lock and he said, well, 356 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: we were already using the others when they were starting, 357 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: and Lock tends to be more electrical and communication type projects. 358 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: Is that perception true? 359 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 4: That is true. So when we first started, you know, 360 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 4: those were the areas that we focused on. But those 361 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 4: other precasters you just named, those are good companies. We 362 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 4: don't compete directly with most of them, so there's a 363 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 4: lot of pre cast type products you can make. Those 364 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 4: particular companies tend to do more standard, what I consider 365 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 4: commodity type products. 366 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: You see what he's doing, and thathing's like, they're not 367 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: really competitors. They're great guys if you want boring trash. 368 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: What we do is specialized, value added, highly sophisticated. But 369 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: those guys are great. I mean sometimes you need you know, 370 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: your basic run of the mill. I love that aster 371 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 1: keep going. 372 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 4: You couldn't have said it better. But that's the truth. 373 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 4: And that's that's typical of the pre cast industry to 374 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 4: be efficient, make the same product day in, day out. 375 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 4: But we're in a little bit of a niche, so 376 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 4: we focus on areas that other pre cast companies really 377 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,959 Speaker 4: don't don't want to go play in. 378 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: So if one of these bands, like a Bechtel, makes 379 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: a purchase from you and we're talking, you're you not 380 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: sending out a po or invoice for you know, four 381 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. We're talking a million, four million, eight million 382 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: a pop. 383 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 4: Yeah. The projects, Yeah, the projects we get involved in now, 384 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 4: I will tell you we do. We will do projects 385 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 4: that are four thousand dollars, but we'll do projects that 386 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 4: are twenty million dollars, so anywhere in between. But but yeah, 387 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 4: we tend to find ourselves on those larger, more complex 388 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 4: projects that require you know, really custom engineered product. 389 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, not that run of the mill stuff like those 390 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: other companies. All right, I got a minute and a half. 391 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: I want to ask you this twenty thirteen. This, this 392 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: business requires a lot of capital. How did you start? 393 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: Did you have equity behind you? Do you have investors? 394 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: What did you do? 395 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 4: I went out and convinced the bank to give me 396 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 4: a small business loan, which I did have a few 397 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 4: uh wells Fargo is actually the one I started with. Okay, 398 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 4: and a few friends and family that put in some 399 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 4: of the she'll see money with me, and and that's 400 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 4: how we started it. Yeah. Really a lot of capital. Good, 401 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 4: there's a lot of capital involved, You're right, the equipment, 402 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 4: you know, just the nature of manufacturing and bringing in 403 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 4: like I mean I'm. 404 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: Looking at what y'all do. What was your initial raise? 405 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,479 Speaker 4: We started with a million dollars? 406 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: Are you serious to do what y'all do? That's uh, 407 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: that's aggressive. Good for you, and you don't get paid 408 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: till the back end. That business is terrible for that. 409 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: It's worse in restaurants. 410 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 4: The cast cycle is very difficult. 411 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: Yes, what did y'all make even this year? 412 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 4: We did fifty four million? 413 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: And what will you do this year? 414 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 4: We'll do north of sixty Wow. 415 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: How many employees. 416 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 4: We've got about one hundred and eighty five right now? 417 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: Is I saw you had a plant? Do people call 418 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: that instead of Alvarado? Do they call that Alvaredo? Have 419 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: I heard that? Yeah? 420 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:58,719 Speaker 4: We say Alvaredo. 421 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I heard that. I don't know why that is. 422 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: So you have two plants and you have one hundred 423 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: and eighty five employees. How many of those are in operations, 424 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: I mean non sales, non admin. 425 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, so we actually have three operations. We have another 426 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 4: one down by by Victoria, Texas as well. But out 427 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 4: of those one hundred and eighty five, I would say 428 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 4: about one hundred and twenty or you know, producing on 429 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 4: the floor, producing product. 430 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 1: I'm impressed. I love these stories. Asher all kidding asides. 431 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: It's very impressive what you've done. Good for you. 432 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 4: I appreciate it. 433 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: I think we should be friends with me. They're on 434 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: I'll meet a Janoe. You want to go to her 435 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: with me? If I have if they'll probably want to 436 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 1: have a lunch park? What would be something? 437 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 4: Must be right? 438 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: You are listening to Michael Berry. I can see them. 439 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: Don't say I'm Barry, can see him, you can see her. 440 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: It's a him and her Asprian Simpson is it. I 441 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: did not think those contact. It sounds like a soap maker. 442 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: You want to know, you want to hear. You want 443 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: to create a time capsule of black versus white sexual tension. 444 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: In a song, these two are making a baby with 445 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: you know, kind of turning their head into the mic 446 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: ever so often to sing in the middle of it. Right, 447 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: it's hot, it's steamy, it's sweaty. Their bodies are slapping 448 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: right on our side. You've got Kenny and Dolly describing 449 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: her him seeing her laying in the bathtub. It's there's 450 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it, don't get me wrong. That's Allen's 451 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: in the stream. Uh, there's nothing wrong with it. It's 452 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: just very different. Steve Harvey has a bit uh comparing 453 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: white people funerals and black people funerals, and he said, 454 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 1: the first time we went to a white people funeral 455 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: and the people were going, oh, that's so sad. Gertrude 456 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 1: was a good person. And then they go home and 457 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: they have a chicken salad lunch with everybody, and then 458 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: they you know, they leave it. He said, we're diving 459 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: off into the casket. You got to pull us out. Oh, 460 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: Richard Pryor, Yeah, yeah, yes, Prior, you're right up. Good call, 461 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: thank you. 462 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 5: There's a difference in the funerals. Like white people have 463 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 5: funerals they love, they deal the party, but their funerals 464 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 5: be different. 465 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: They don't give it up easy, you know, they hold 466 00:27:49,720 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: it until they get home. Maybe they go they faint. 467 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 5: Black people let it hang out right, and then they 468 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 5: fall on your ass. 469 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: They don't have a faint. They is lean on your ass. 470 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 5: You got to carry them to the car and you say, 471 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 5: you know, you know, you got to kill me. 472 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 1: He goes that mother mad. 473 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 5: My grandmother said, you all like that scared out of 474 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 5: you at a funeral, right, my father, And she said what. 475 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: Wants the Madamma. 476 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 5: I thought maybe he raised up or something. 477 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: You know, you know, talking about these used cop cars 478 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: got me thinking about the Blues Mobile. Remember from the 479 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: Blues Brothers. Guy's got a lot of pickup's. 480 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 3: Got a cop motor of four hundred and forty cubic 481 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 3: inch plant that's got the cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks, 482 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 3: some model named before the catalytic converters. 483 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: So I'll run good on regular. Guess what do you say? 484 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: Is it the new Blues Mobile or white texts a 485 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: cigarette ladder? Man that cigarette lighter? How many times did 486 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: you burn yourself on that cigarette lighter? 487 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 4: That was? 488 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm still to There's two things that blow my mind 489 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: that sometimes just I'll get to thinking on for no 490 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: good reason, and I will I will dedicate a great 491 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: deal of brain power whatever I have. It may not 492 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: be that much, but it's the two things that I 493 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: think about a lot. One of them is how fast 494 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: that cigarette lighter could heat up and how hot it 495 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: got in your in your vehicle back in the day. 496 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: And the other one is how fast when the bank 497 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: or your credit card sends you that number to log in. 498 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: It's so fast that before you can get to your 499 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: phone and in fact, I study it. I will, I will, 500 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: I'll go to it and I'll have my phone and 501 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: by that when I hit send it, by the time 502 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: my eyes can look over to my phone book, there 503 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: it is. That's incredible, those two things. It's so lightning fast. 504 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 1: How can it communicate that fast? Pull the number and 505 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: send it to you. Now there's people who go that's 506 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. It's all of those things. But let me 507 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: explain this to you. So let's say the concord. For 508 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: those of you who what I just said, you want 509 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: those people that now you ciphering on. Oh, I hadn't 510 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: thought about that. For those of you who drive a 511 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: truck or you let your mind wander into things and 512 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,479 Speaker 1: you like to learn various things that for no reason 513 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: of the than the learning in itself, I'm gonna give 514 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: you a little tip right now, and then if this 515 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: tip was useful to you, you send me one. Just 516 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: a tip, just a tip, just real quick, just a tip. 517 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: That's it, I promise, just a tip. You go look 518 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: up the concord and you spend five minutes reading on 519 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: the concord. It's gonna it's gonna blow your mind. How fast, 520 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: how amazing the concord is. And then it's gonna make 521 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: you start thinking, Wait a minute, is life better today 522 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: than it was in nineteen seventy four? In so many 523 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: ways it's not. And I don't just mean political correctness, 524 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: the quality of any product in your house. Oh, sure, 525 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: they're more electric now, we had a Curtis Mathis TV 526 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: for I don't want to exaggerate fifteen years. I don't 527 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: know because I left home and they still had it. 528 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: Now TV's like, I don't know when the last time 529 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: I bought a TV was, but I know because nobody 530 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: buys them. They just steal them from Target. Let me 531 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: see if I can phone Yeah, retired Anglo French. First 532 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: of all, two countries coming together, right. Can you imagine 533 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: Saint Crispin's day speech if he had said, you men 534 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: are fighting to the death West Morland. You will give 535 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: your life and one day these two people will join 536 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: together as they should have been all along, and they 537 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: will make the world's greatest aircraft. 538 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 6: You got sued aviation, which was later Arow Spotsial and 539 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 6: British aircraft coming together starting in nineteen fifty four. 540 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,959 Speaker 1: And creating the concord. Let me see if I can 541 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: find it, it could maintain a super cruise up to 542 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: mock two point oh four. You know how fast that is? 543 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: Remo me neither? Why did you read? You gnawed like? 544 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: Oh I fail? Huh fifteen hundred months twice a speed 545 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: of sound. But huh, that's so fast. This is one 546 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: of those days I wish Eddie just let us keep going. Oh, 547 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: by the way, we just found out they don't tell 548 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: me anything. Addie Martinez just does things. So apparently they're 549 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: playing Michael Berry Rewind, which is the best of our 550 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: morning show at seven o'clock at ninth from seven to nine. 551 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: And if you don't like that they're doing that, I 552 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: don't want to hear about it, because it's not my decision. 553 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: I don't run the stations. We do the award winning 554 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show for five hours a day. We smoke cigars, 555 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: we drink beer, We drive out to Waller and hang 556 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: out with people and yeah and yeah, this is what 557 00:33:59,320 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: we do.