1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: The Michael Very Show is on the air. I want 3 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: you to answer this question at home out loud. Don't 4 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 2: call it out loud. 5 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 3: Before I give you Ramone's answer. So my question to 6 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 3: you Ramonte focused. Ramon shaved his beard, by the way, 7 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 3: and he's he's been on this. 8 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: Weight loss kick. He's he got a. 9 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 3: Continuous glucose monitor c GM to MONITORI his glucose. And 10 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 3: I don't brag on Ramone very often. I really don't, 11 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 3: but I guess I do. I have never seen, including 12 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 3: my own father, the most disciplined human being I've ever 13 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 3: known in my life, by far, by far. He is 14 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 3: the high water mark of self discipline. I have never 15 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: seen anybody control their dietary intake the way Ramona has 16 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 3: since he got a CGM CGM. And this is how 17 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: you know when doctors prescribe a CGM. It's because if 18 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,919 Speaker 3: you see what eating you know what eating and drinking 19 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 3: certain things does to spike your blood sugar, then you go, oh, okay, well, 20 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: orange juice has a lot of sugar in it. I 21 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 3: had no idea. I always thought orange juice was good 22 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 3: for me. So that's the idea, but it never works 23 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 3: that way. People go, oh, man, you mean I can't 24 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 3: drink screwdrivers at lunch because they spike my Well, I'm 25 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 3: good to know, and they still drink screwdrivers at lunch. 26 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: Ramone goes for his check up the other day and 27 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 3: the doctor walks in. She goes, wow, you've lost a 28 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 3: lot of weight. Great, let's look at your numbers and 29 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: it's the number of occasions in which you have gone 30 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: outside from from eighty to one twenty. And I assure 31 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: you there's nobody listening that's between eighty and one and twenty. 32 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 3: It's very low blood sugar. It means you're not you're 33 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 3: not eating anything because our food is laden with sugar. 34 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: There were zero, zero infractions the docs. I've never seen this. 35 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 3: This is amazing. I am so impressed with what you've done. 36 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: And if you know how Ramon snacks and what he 37 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 3: snacks on for him to do this, it's incredible. Now 38 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: he's put the beef jerkey business into you know, their 39 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: out of their stocks are low because he does that 40 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 3: and eggs things that don't spike. 41 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: Your your blood sugar. 42 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 3: But here's my question, mark huh and whiskey whiskey, because 43 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 3: that's yeah, it doesn't blood spike you. If you go 44 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 3: in a hundred times, let's say, Federal American Grill and 45 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 3: you're either having a burger or steak, your call and 46 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 3: you're going to have I know I'm tempting you, but 47 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 3: you're going to have a side of fries. What percentage 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 3: of the time is it going to be sweet potato fries? 49 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 2: Zero? Me too. I don't understand. I don't understand. 50 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 3: Sweet potato fries. I don't understand replacing potatoes with sweet 51 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 3: potatoes and not even the same thing. I don't think 52 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 3: they're even in the potato family. I read this, They're 53 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 3: like something else. They're over sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes 54 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: are the worst of the worst because they're not even 55 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: really a vegetable. They're a dessert, and they're not a 56 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 3: good dessert. So they're not as good as the other vegetables. 57 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: And so you have to you go no, no, no, 58 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 3: sweet potatoes. You go over there into the dessert category. 59 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: I can't compete over there. 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: I can't. 61 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 3: It's no, and that you go over there, sweet potato pie. 62 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 3: I don't understand why anybody would eat sweet poatoes. Okay, 63 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 3: you're extremely poor. You grow sweet potatoes. That's all you got. 64 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 3: You make the most of it. Irish potato famine. 65 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: I got it. 66 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 3: But who would ever choose sweet potatoes when you have anything? 67 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 3: You got blueberries, make blueberry cobbler. What are you doing anyway? 68 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 3: I was reading that just before sweet potatoes are mashed, they. 69 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 2: Become very quiet. It's known as the silence of the yams. 70 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 2: Was an elaborate setup, but I needed to get you 71 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: out of that. 72 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 4: You will. 73 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 2: I didn't want you to catch it. I was gonna teach. 74 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: Could I congratulate Cash Reese on his signing today with 75 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 3: Shiner University. I would like to hear from a couple 76 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: of folks between now and when the show ends, who 77 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 3: do something that is you may not think of. 78 00:04:59,200 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 2: It as interesting. 79 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 3: I don't want to say interesting, because then you have 80 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: to call up here and then, you know, be judged 81 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 3: on whether what you do is interesting. 82 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 2: And I don't want to do that to you because 83 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: most people want. 84 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 3: But if you do a job that when people find 85 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 3: out what you do, they go, huh, I didn't know 86 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: that was. 87 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: A job, Or what's that like? Or how do you 88 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 2: get into that? You know? Like you do Chernobyl cleanup 89 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 2: or you for a long time. 90 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 3: Uncle Jerry's son Chad used to have the job. They 91 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 3: have videos about these people. Now there's like TikTok and 92 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 3: all that. And every time I say TikTok or gets 93 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 3: some mean you ought not be on TikTok. I'm not, 94 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 3: but people send me things and you see it on TV. 95 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 3: I'm aware of the social phenomenon. So and I, by 96 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 3: the way, I can't be on TikTok because I know 97 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 3: my own weaknesses. If I have like Pavlov's dog, if 98 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 3: you were to give me an endless loop of tiny, 99 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: bite sized, hilarious videos of one form or another and 100 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 3: the algorithm figures you out pretty fast, I would not. 101 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: You don't know when to disconnect. 102 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 3: I got the the sports package for NFL games. 103 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: I forget what it's called. 104 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 3: Maybe it's red zone, and anytime a team is in 105 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 3: the red zone, they go to them and they cut 106 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 3: out all the commercials, so you know you're watching a 107 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: team there at the nineteen and you know three plays, 108 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 3: four place, six place, they go in and score, and 109 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 3: when they score, your brain is triggered to Okay, go pee, 110 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 3: get a drink, get some food, Come back, you've got 111 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 3: it paced out, how long it's going to last. You're 112 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 3: just getting ready to get up, and they go, Now 113 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 3: we go to Minnesota versus Detroit, where Detroit's on the 114 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 3: eight year old. Oh well, let me see if Detroit scores. 115 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 3: And it's just that on an endless loop. So for 116 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 3: four hours, I'm sitting there ready to burst. It's it's ridiculous. 117 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 3: What are you doing? Get up and go peep. It's 118 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,040 Speaker 3: psychologically hard to break loose from that, all right? On 119 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 3: one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one three 120 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 3: nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine 121 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 3: nine one thousand. So lots and lots of comments on 122 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 3: tariffs from people who want to take the high road 123 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: that they are in business. Michael, you need to stay 124 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 3: in your corner. I am in business. I know about tariffs, 125 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 3: and you don't know about tariffs. Listen, don't make me 126 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 3: say things that sound arrogant. Okay, don't make me do it. 127 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: Don't make me say things to puff myself to justify 128 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 3: my opinion. If you don't agree with me, that's fine. 129 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: Uh. 130 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 3: It's like the sports fan. If I make some joke 131 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 3: about sports and you just stay in your lane. Why 132 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 3: because you you sit and watch baseball, because you sit 133 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 3: and watch baseball, and you're not very smart, and so 134 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: your opinion is somehow better than my joke. It's just 135 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: so dumb. But anyway, it's a long story on that. 136 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 3: I have become mildly obsessed with the media's portrayal of 137 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: Trump's economic policies and how they are negatively affecting the 138 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 3: public's opinion of his policies when the public has no understanding. 139 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 3: It's not that the public has a statement about his 140 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 3: policies and they're wrong. They don't understan, they don't know, 141 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 3: but they just have a sense that they don't like them. 142 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 2: We've all got our advice, we've all got our weakness. 143 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: That kid likes cake. Wife gets back tomorrow. 144 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 3: So you know, if you don't take food away from 145 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: a dog, they'll. 146 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 2: Eat till they die. They just don't have any sense. Well, 147 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 2: I struggle to go to bed, and so my wife 148 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 2: is very could leave because don't want to be controlled. 149 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 2: Coaxes me to don't you think you should get some sleep? 150 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 3: So when she is not here, which is almost never, 151 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 3: but she's been gone for ten days to end up, 152 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 3: I get everything done for the day, get the show prepped, 153 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 3: get Crockett's homework done, even get Crockett to go to bed. 154 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 3: And he's as bad as I am about going to bed. 155 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 3: Got George. 156 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 2: We have a little cottage out back, and I go 157 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 2: out there, and. 158 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 3: Because I'm the only one that goes in there, I 159 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 3: smoke inside there. So I get out there, you know, 160 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,359 Speaker 3: I watch thirty minutes of TV. I mean, going to decompress, 161 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 3: decompressed from the day, rather than just go straight to bed, 162 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 3: because you know, you gotta clear your mind. Nobody around, 163 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 3: nobody looking cigar, get a little bourbon going. So in 164 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 3: my mind, I need to watch something serious because I'm 165 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 3: a serious person and be improving my knowledge base. 166 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 2: So I will watch the history of World War One 167 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 2: and the. 168 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 3: Serbs and why exactly Archduke Ferdinand, and I'll get to 169 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 3: go in on that for a little while, and somehow 170 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 3: I'll end up on country roads Appalachi falls and you know, 171 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 3: a four hundred pound guy wrapping as they you know, 172 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 3: drive a dirt road in a convoy of four wheelers, 173 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 3: and then the algorithm catches you and I'm hung I'm 174 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 3: hung up. I can't get a loose And that is 175 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 3: my happy place. I got my bourbon, my cigar. Nobody 176 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 3: bothered me, except it's past midnight and I ain't even 177 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 3: starting to slow down. That is a very very happy place. 178 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 3: And people friends of mine will say or just ran 179 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 3: if they we play something that's hic hop, well you 180 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 3: call it whatever you want, guilty pleasure. 181 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 2: I enjoy it. I like it. There's something about it. 182 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 2: I colt Ford, I love colt Ford. That's just stick, Michael, 183 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 2: that's just that's not real. 184 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 3: That isn't No trash in my trailer is beautiful to me. 185 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 3: It's Beethoven. 186 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: I love it. If I like it, why do I 187 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 2: have to not like it? 188 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 3: I like it anyway, Michelle, your interesting job, go ahead, sweetheart. 189 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 5: So I don't have an interesting job, but my dad 190 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 5: had one. He was a funeral director and he embalmed 191 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 5: bodies and all that kind of interesting stuff. In Houston, No, 192 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 5: in Louisiana. I grew up in Louisiana. My family was big. 193 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 5: My mom's family was really big in the funeral directing, 194 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 5: like funeral home business. They were a big family and 195 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 5: my dad just got into it because he married my mom. 196 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 2: Unrelated to your story. 197 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 5: It was an interesting childhood. 198 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:53,079 Speaker 2: Oh, I can imagine. 199 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 3: Unrelated to your story, I got emails recently with a 200 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 3: story about a person in an association of funeral directors 201 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 3: who it's all allegations, not necessarily proven, who was squeezed 202 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 3: out pun intended of the funeral director association. Apparently there 203 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 3: are competing schools of funeral directors for diddling one of 204 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 3: the students in a closet in the back. 205 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: Of the school. 206 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 3: It was found out about, and he was asked to leave, 207 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 3: and it was all hush hush, and as often happens, 208 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 3: we'll just pretend this didn't happen because it it will 209 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 3: besmirch us. And he went on to do the same 210 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 3: job for another funeral directing school. 211 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: That was that. 212 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 3: I heard that, and I did some a little digging 213 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 3: to find out if this was true, because it would 214 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 3: relate to some modern news. But I could not get 215 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 3: confirmation on the record, only off the record. But it 216 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 3: made a certain series of news stories very interesting if 217 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 3: that allegation were true. And I don't know that it is, 218 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 3: so I can't speak further to it, but that's what 219 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 3: I have to offer in response to your funeral director commentary. 220 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 3: Unrelated to your father, Bill Phillips. You're on the Michael 221 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 3: Berry Show. When a guy gives two names, you always wonder. 222 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 6: Go ahead, Bill, Yes, sir, I own an interior plant 223 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 6: service in Houston, Texas, and we provide interior tropical foliage 224 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 6: for commercial and residential spaces. Live growing plants very common. Well, 225 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 6: a lot of people don't know that there's businesses out 226 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 6: there like mine, and so it's very common. I was 227 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 6: listening to your show this morning and had dawned on 228 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 6: me that you know, I should call in and see 229 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 6: if I can. 230 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 3: All right, Bill, I'm going to take I'm thirty seconds. 231 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 3: I'm in fourth grade. Want you to explain to me 232 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 3: what you do. In thirty seconds, I'll tell you when 233 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 3: to start, and it has to be totally self contained, 234 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 3: exactly what you do so that I don't have any 235 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 3: questions afterwards. 236 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 2: I understand exactly what you do. 237 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, go. We provide and maintain supply life plants 238 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 6: or interior homes buildings, maintain them, water and fertilized, prune 239 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,479 Speaker 6: and replace them. 240 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 2: Okay. What's the number one plant that you installed? 241 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 6: Probably a fiddle fig. 242 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 2: A fiddle fig and your sins yoursinas, Yes, sir, does. 243 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 7: That need direct sunlight. 244 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 6: Indirect indirect direct, yes, sir, by a window. Some plants 245 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 6: will survive in a conference room that has no windows 246 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 6: at all with fluorescent lighting, but like a dispitably fig 247 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 6: would need to be placed by a window three or 248 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 6: four foot adjacent to a thanks your window. 249 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 3: When I was a baby lawyer at Jenkins and gil Chris, 250 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 3: we were at eleven hundred Louisiana, and once a week, 251 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 3: this lesbian woman would come in and trim off the 252 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 3: brown in in each of the lawyer's offices. She'd trim 253 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 3: off the waist, take it out. 254 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 2: She had a little bucket on it. 255 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 3: She'd spray down your your plant and checking all that. 256 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 3: And I might be on a phone. 257 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: Call or whatever else. 258 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 3: But I always found it a very calming and soothing thing, 259 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 3: her presence when she would come in and she'd fuss 260 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 3: over the plants. 261 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: I'd watch her do it always made me happy. I 262 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 2: just put that on a Michael Maison Michael Barry show. 263 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 2: Here's in the video to this. 264 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, exactly hilarious. For those of you who've never 265 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 3: seen it, It's exactly what you would imagine. It's some 266 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 3: dudes unironically sitting out on a broken down porch somewhere 267 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 3: in Kentucky or West Virginia. Overalls, no shirt, ball cap 268 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 3: with an awesome patch on it. 269 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 2: Whatever it is, you know, big red or. 270 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 3: Something, drinking sweet iced tea and singing porch honky about 271 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 3: being a white dude sitting out on porch in a 272 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 3: rocking chair. If you don't like it, you change the dial. 273 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 3: But some of you are going to watch it and 274 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 3: go Give me more of this YouTube. Give this a 275 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 3: boost in the algorithm, because I want more of that. 276 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 3: I didn't know this existed, but I need more of it. 277 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 3: I don't know how I got through to this point, 278 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 3: but I need. 279 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 2: More of it. 280 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 3: Seven one thousand, Wade, You're on the Michael Berry Show. 281 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 3: Oh you've got to be Kidney Wade. 282 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 8: Good morning, Michael. 283 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 3: Hey, but hold on a second. Ramon says that we 284 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 3: have we are overdue on a demo profile. I'll make 285 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 3: this quick, okay, height, weight. 286 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 4: Five twenty five, hey, hair color, bald, race, white, national heritage? 287 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 2: What country would you would they? Would they follow you as. 288 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 8: Being found Scotland? 289 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 3: Scotland religious affiliation if any Muslim. 290 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 7: Buddhist, Babtist, Southern Baptist. 291 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 2: Profession music publishing. Estimated earnings twenty through twenty twenty four. 292 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 2: Uh by year, I'll just follow you. 293 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 8: Two and fifty k. 294 00:17:52,960 --> 00:18:03,919 Speaker 7: Marital status, married children, three ages. 295 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 8: Thirty two, twenty and seventeen. 296 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 2: Primary vehicle. 297 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 8: Twenty ten for f one fifty. 298 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 3: Estimated value of home in twenty twenty four three fifty 299 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 3: primary grocery store, primary gasoline provider if not. 300 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 2: Grocery store. 301 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 8: QT quick trip. 302 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 2: Estimated number of home food deliveries in a year zero. 303 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: You don't do that. Nope. If you make If you 304 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 2: make two fifty, thank you. That's good. That's all I'm doing. 305 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 2: There's twenty more questions. 306 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 3: If you make two fifty and your home is valued 307 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 3: at three fifty. I'm not saying you're a day for 308 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 3: mcy acolyte, but you're following fundamental principles. 309 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 8: Millionaire next Door is my favorite book I've ever read. 310 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 3: I would have guessed that the fact that you drive 311 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 3: a fifteen year old truck, the fact that your home 312 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 3: value is one hundred and fifty percent of your annual salary, 313 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 3: I would have guessed, and the fact that you don't 314 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 3: do home delivery, I would have guessed that you probably 315 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 3: have a bigger nest egg than people who make a 316 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 3: million dollars a year and a half for the same 317 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 3: number of years. 318 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, what would you do? What are you doing? Music publishing? 319 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,959 Speaker 8: I inherited a music publishing company about three years ago 320 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 8: from my aunt who had started Is this Clarion the 321 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 8: early Yes New Clarity? 322 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 2: You sent me an email? 323 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 7: I did, Yes, sir, Oh my goodness. 324 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 2: I read that. I printed it out, I made notes. 325 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 3: I looked up the woman that devolved into a mental 326 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 3: health with I don't know how much of this I'm 327 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 3: allowed to say. So there was an individual she went 328 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 3: into a steep mental health decline. I went and read 329 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 3: all about this. I was fascinated by it. I can't 330 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 3: believe this came back. I never thought I would use this. 331 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 2: But yes, sir, that was a very very compelling femail. 332 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 8: That's my that was my aunt. Yes, she started the 333 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 8: company way back then, and you know, was very successful 334 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 8: in the early late eighties early nineties, and had had 335 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 8: an event in the mid nineties where a record was 336 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 8: not she published, she produced it, and then it was 337 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 8: never released because of some inside business politics, and that 338 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 8: was the beginning of her her decline from the business. 339 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, but y'all had some y'all had some some big music. 340 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 3: I mean that that was a going concern for a 341 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 3: while in a tough business as is independent. 342 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 8: Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. So any anything that well, 343 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 8: I'll put it this way. We have we have twenty 344 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 8: five songs that were published and well known. Of those, 345 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 8: seven of them were Tracy Lawrence's biggest hits. Yes, so yeah, 346 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 8: we've got we've got some stuff there. 347 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 3: Tracy Lawrence had had a run there Alibis, sticks and Stones. 348 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 3: He and Tracy Bird were kind of coming up at 349 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,360 Speaker 3: the same time, and he had a real run. 350 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 2: He has very very distinctive voice. I like it. It 351 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 2: cuts through it. 352 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 3: It's not like everybody else. Can I read this on 353 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 3: air or is it too personal? 354 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 8: You can read it. I would just ask that you 355 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 8: use now you can read it. I would say, you 356 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 8: can read it, read it, that's fine. 357 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 3: Zara, thank you for your comments this morning on mental 358 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 3: health and Brian Wilson. 359 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 2: This was when I played the Brian Wilson song by 360 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 2: Bare Necked Ladies. 361 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 3: Some of you will remember in the struggles Brian Wilson's had. 362 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 3: I recently assumed ownership of New Clarion music and your 363 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 3: comments hit home with me. My aunt, Sue Susie K 364 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 3: Patton Jay Francis Ques founded New Clarion in nineteen eighty 365 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 3: four with her writing partner Kai Fleming. Kai wrote several 366 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 3: well known songs that were recorded by Barbara Mandrel, Ronnie 367 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 3: Millsapp and Sylvia. These songs included I Was Country when 368 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 3: Country Wasn't Cool, Smoky Mountain Rain, and Nobody There's some 369 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 3: publishing money there Remone. Susie had lesser known cuts by 370 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 3: Sylvia and Charlie Pride. New Clarion had some success with 371 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 3: Skip Ewing and regional artists in the late eighties. The 372 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 3: nineties was the bright spot for Newclelarion, with hits recorded 373 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 3: by Alan Jackson, Reba McIntyre, Tracy Lawrence, Travis Tritt, and Trace. 374 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 2: Adkins Pretty Good Stable. 375 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 3: By two thousand, Kai had left Nashville and Susie stepped 376 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 3: back from the business to travel and help with my grandmother, 377 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: who was in her late seventies. Sadly, around o seven, 378 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 3: Susie began to exhibit signs of mental illness, her condition 379 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 3: to terror, and we lost contact. 380 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 2: With each other. 381 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 3: By twenty fifteen, she was living in her car and 382 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 3: spending her days fixated on the delusions that were in 383 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 3: her mind. Being a writer, Susie put her thoughts on 384 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 3: paper and filled twenty two totes with her journals between 385 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 3: twenty twelve and twenty twenty two. Susie passed away three 386 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 3: years ago, and I was tasked as the administrator of 387 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 3: her estate, including five publishing companies, a catalog of one 388 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty plus songs, and her personal writings. Unfortunately, 389 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 3: the twenty seven gold and platinum albums and two Grammys 390 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 3: she was awarded had been lost. Reading through the journals 391 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 3: is emotionally draining, but enlightening about the impact of. 392 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 2: Mental illness on a brilliant mind. 393 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 3: I'm sharing this as my day as my way of 394 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 3: saying thanks for all you do in your comments on 395 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 3: music and mental health. 396 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: Hold on just a moment, Michael Berry show, ooh, he's 397 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: got a footed memory. 398 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 2: He's his patient. 399 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 4: Here every night, so it can foolham. 400 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 3: If you ever look at Albert Pooholtz's stats, Poohols is 401 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 3: in the top ten, I believe in Major League history. 402 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: I looked at up once. Well. 403 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 3: Actually, my friend JJ Asbell is very close friends with him, 404 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 3: and he told me this, and I didn't believe it, 405 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 3: so I looked it up. I think Poohles is in 406 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 3: the top ten for home runs, triples, doubles, singles, considering 407 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 3: that each one of them doesn't count toward the other one. 408 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 2: The fact that you could do that. 409 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 3: Is incredible, and his stats sneak up on you. I mean, 410 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 3: Houstonians will never forget Pooholes because what he did to 411 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 3: lights Outledge and what that did to our team. Pooh 412 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 3: Hools is a career that is consistently excellent without raising 413 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 3: you know, without without putting neon signs on it. So 414 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 3: you can't like, how did he do that? How did 415 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 3: he do that? He did that for so many years, 416 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 3: so good, and I almost didn't take notice. Right, He's 417 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 3: one of the all time greatest player. Statistically, he's the 418 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 3: top five greatest player of all time if you look 419 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 3: at his actual stat before you go, oh, trust me, 420 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 3: statistically that is true. That song Fullhearted Memory is for me, 421 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 3: what makes George Strait that for not just country music 422 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 3: but all music, but definitely country music. I woke up 423 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 3: and George Strait had like fifty I woke up at 424 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 3: the point he had probably fifty plus. He was at 425 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 3: fifty five, fifty seven maybe, and he was still churning 426 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 3: him out number one hits, and we kind of take 427 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 3: for granted, Yeah, of course he did. 428 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 2: He's George Strait when you consider. 429 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 3: How many artists that are in the Hall of Fame 430 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 3: that never had a number one, when you consider how 431 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,120 Speaker 3: many it had two or three and that, and they 432 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 3: had a great career, and this guy was just steady, 433 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 3: full hearted memory. If I asked you to start rattling 434 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 3: off George Strait songs, there are songs that will cut 435 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 3: through that you'll remember, you know, the chair Obviously, there's 436 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 3: gonna be some that that you're gonna that are obvious 437 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 3: that you're gonna pull up, that you're gonna start to 438 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 3: bog down at fifteen or twenty, and fool Hearted Memory 439 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 3: is one of those that's just every time you hear it, 440 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 3: you think that is a great song. It's not the greatest. 441 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 3: It ain't he stopped loving her today. It's just George 442 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 3: straight consistently getting up. Even if there's two hours and 443 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 3: we're down by nine in the in the top of 444 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 3: the ninth, he's still gonna get up and stroke a double. 445 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 2: You don't even bother to you know, you're getting ready 446 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 2: to leave. You don't even cheer. 447 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 3: But he's just gonna get up there and consistently hit 448 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 3: a double and we're not gonna win. But that's okay 449 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 3: because that's what's he just consistently delivers that great product. 450 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 3: That's all Wade. Do you still have the music publishing company? 451 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I actively, I'm actively running it every day. 452 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 8: That's my that has become my full time jo. 453 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 2: Okay, what does that look like? 454 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: Uh? 455 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 3: Because I'm assuming you're not putting new new publishing rights 456 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 3: under under the umbrella? Is that simply collecting the checks 457 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 3: and making sure that they're that uh be what does 458 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 3: it be? 459 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 2: B B and all those guys are paying you properly? 460 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 8: Yeah. So I spend a third of my time what 461 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 8: I call chasing royalties, which is making sure that we're 462 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 8: getting paid by BMI, byass Cap, by the other record 463 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 8: labels for the songs that were published and are earning 464 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 8: this royalty. So I spent a third of my time 465 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 8: doing that. I spent a third of my time researching 466 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 8: copyrights and trying to locate demos of the rest of 467 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 8: the songs in the catalog, and then I for uh, 468 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 8: trying to get those public. We're going to publish those 469 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 8: and try to get those in the hands of our 470 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 8: new artists coming up. And then I spent a third 471 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 8: of my time out talking to artists, artists and musicians. 472 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 8: Last week I had the opportunity to visit with Cory 473 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 8: Morrow for a couple of minutes, and we're going to 474 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 8: be sending him a song here pretty soon. But yeah, 475 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 8: it's three things. I chase royalties, I work on copyrights 476 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 8: and demos, and then working with with artists to record 477 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 8: our songs. 478 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 3: Wait, it helped me understand some all right, So let's 479 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 3: take Corey is a friend of mine. Let's talk about 480 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 3: the business today twenty twenty five. So let so somebody 481 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 3: pitches you a song. You you you put that legally? 482 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 3: You Now, how do you file? 483 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 2: We own? 484 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 8: We would so we would so we would file the copy, 485 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 8: We would file the copyright. If we have a new song, 486 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 8: we would file the copyright with the copyright office and 487 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 8: submit a lyric sheet and the music as well as 488 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 8: the demo tape uh to the copyright office and get 489 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 8: that legally in our hands. Once that song is recorded, 490 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 8: it becomes two pieces of work. We still own the 491 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 8: intellectual property. But now the the record company owns the 492 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 8: that that that actual physical recording, uh that you hear, 493 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 8: and then the royalties are paid accordingly to. 494 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 3: That and and how are those royalties typically split. 495 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 8: Of It's a pretty complicate, complicated Uh, it's a very 496 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 8: complicated algorithm. And Algebrath, it's way above my pay grade. 497 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, then how do you know if it's complicated, understand 498 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 2: what you're owed? 499 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 8: Because because because we have their their uh their organizations 500 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 8: like as CAP and be in my and the group 501 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 8: called MLC, which is the Mechanical Licensing Cooperative, it's their 502 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 8: job to make sure those are collected and paid. So 503 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 8: they do that on our behalf. So that so that 504 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 8: I'm not having to do that individually across because we're 505 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 8: talking you're talking multiple platforms. You to Spotify, Apple Music, 506 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 8: Serious exemp. All these different platforms today are paying those royalties. 507 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 8: So we use the performance rights organizations as GAP be 508 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 8: in my m l C to uh to collect those 509 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 8: for us. So it's not a it's not really it's 510 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 8: not a really cut and it's not cut and dried 511 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 8: and black and white. There's a lot of a lot 512 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 8: of gray areas. 513 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 2: A lot of room for lawyers. 514 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 3: Two out of the three functions in your existence, the 515 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 3: person is not happy to hear from you because you're 516 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 3: saying you owe me money. 517 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 2: You know, It's it's interesting way. 518 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 3: When I started the r c C, I reached out 519 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 3: to be am I an Ascap and I didn't. I mean, 520 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 3: I had enough musician friends and I read enough biographies 521 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 3: to know that this is a really really loaded issue 522 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 3: and it gets ugly. But I had no idea how 523 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 3: ugly it gets. And Bemi an ascap would not like 524 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 3: dealing with the irs. They wouldn't answer any of my questions. 525 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 3: It wouldn't help me with anything. And then they show 526 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 3: up eighteen months in and go, you owe US thirty 527 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 3: six thousand and US fifty two thousand, and you're going, well, 528 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 3: I disagree. You don't have a means by which to protest. 529 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 2: And it was I had. 530 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 3: It left me with such a nasty taste in my 531 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 3: mouth toward those organizations. And it shouldn't be that way, 532 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 3: because there should be an equitable way, because we do 533 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 3: want artists and to be compensated, We do want there 534 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 3: to be money there. We do want to encourage that, 535 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 3: like research and developments like patents. You know, that's why 536 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 3: you do all this. But those two organizations, they're thugs. 537 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 3: They run them up, and I despise them. I am 538 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 3: fascinated about what you do. We're going to talk later 539 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 3: on another day.