1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: Very show is on the air. Artie on the Black Line? 3 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: Is that you? Is that you? 4 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 2: Oh? You? 5 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: Brother? I got your number from Fasal Poona Walla. I'm 6 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: gonna call you. We got I think it's ten checks 7 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: it at Fellow American Grill to take to uh Joyce. 8 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: If you don't mind taking. 9 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,319 Speaker 3: Them bother the bother give me a call? 10 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: Will you take another photo for me like you did 11 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: the last one? Another? 12 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 3: Total? 13 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: For sure? 14 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: Absolutely, brother, Jeish is a is a pleasure the sage, 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 3: love her, love her absolutely. 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: Brother. What was your takeaway from that barbershop segment the 17 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: other day. 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 3: Well, it depends on the barber shop Mike right. 19 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: No, the segment we had with the three guys on, 20 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: I had a lot of people who said you you 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: didn't seem fully black, like you were kind of an 22 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: outlier in that conversation. 23 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 3: Oh well, they're shoot right, I'm not fully black, So 24 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 3: they were right. They're very keen that audience that we 25 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: have here. You know what listen it is. It is 26 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 3: one of those things where they're culturally, they're different experiences 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 3: might coachally, the barbershop has different experiences. So there's things 28 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 3: that you're gonna hear and things that you're gonna see. 29 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 3: I don't think you've ever gone to a barber shop, 30 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 3: Mike and waited four hours to get your haircut. So 31 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 3: you know, we're just a little different in those ways, 32 00:01:59,120 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 3: that's all. 33 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: It is so different. It is. So I did take 34 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: my boys to a proper black barber shop as my 35 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: friend Marvin Hamilton college, because I wanted them to have 36 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: that experience on multiple occasions. And I did enjoy from 37 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: a from a cultural observer experience. I was like Marlon Perkins, 38 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: you know, watching the natives and listening. But I also 39 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: noticed that the conversation was clipped once I entered the room. 40 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: There was no doubt about that. 41 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we definitely got to speak in code when uh, 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: when somebody, uh, you know, when some people come to 43 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 3: the barbecue, Mike, you got to make sure that you 44 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: change the language. 45 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 4: Yeah. 46 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: And it was it was just even even the level 47 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: of comfort uh in saying things. And I don't just 48 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: mean white black stuff. I mean in terms of if 49 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: if Leroy uh just got sent back to prison for 50 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: the eighth time, then then it was sort of like, 51 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: let's talk about that when he leaves. We don't know that. 52 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 3: Family business talking about that family business, right, you don't 53 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: talk about that with you know what I'm saying with 54 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 3: outside people. Now, we love you, yea, right, we're gonna 55 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 3: choot you. Right. Yeah, it's certain things we just we 56 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 3: talk about in front of family. 57 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: But I always I was there. 58 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 3: They got the school I. 59 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: Enjoy the kind. I don't know the right word for this, 60 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: but but there's a place that I used to take 61 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: Crockett at Marvin Hamilton's suggestion over off of Scott and 62 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: and this guy's got got a it's not there anymore. 63 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: But he had a guy who worked there who was 64 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: every barbershop should have this who was young, but you 65 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: don't know how young, Like was he twenty or was 66 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: he thirty four? He looked real young, but you then 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: you look at his face and he's a little slow. 68 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: And in his official job, or his supposed job, was 69 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: doing shoes. He shine shoes, but really he had to 70 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: sweep and you know, restock the fridge and do other stuff. 71 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: And nobody talked much to him, and he kind of 72 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: muttered under his breath, but he if you were creating 73 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: a movie, you would have to cast that guy correctly, 74 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: and you'd have to have him in that. I mean 75 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: like you had to have him to round out the 76 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: barbershop vibe. Where do you get your head? Where do 77 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: you go? 78 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 3: I'm bald, Mike, you there it is? And I got 79 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 3: that beautiful beard like ramon, God. 80 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: No, yours actually looks nice. So so we we had 81 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: a little team meeting the other day. We don't do 82 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: this very often, but it's a treat when we do, 83 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: and we all went to Carabas for lunch because he 84 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: had sent some gift cards, and we went to Carabas 85 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: and caught up on our newest challenge is we're trying 86 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: to archive all our old shows in a searchable format. 87 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: And Chance McLean had said he would do it for us, 88 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: but he just never gets around to it, and that's 89 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: just the way it is. And so we were trying 90 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: to figure out, like, do we need a powerful new 91 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: computer because it's a lot of data over a lot 92 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: of years, and we want it to be searchable. And 93 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: we were talking through, you know, who would be who 94 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: would be best suited to do that, and Jim made 95 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: the statement which I don't think he meant. I think 96 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: he was just trying to be nice, and he said, 97 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: you know, Ramon, and I forget how glorious your beard is. 98 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: And I thought that there's nobody who sees Ramone's beard 99 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: and thinks it's glorious, right, They just don't. And Ramones said, well, 100 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: why don't you tell him that, because he's been telling me. 101 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: What's your phrase? Michael? The beard has run its course. 102 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: And my point was, there was a time we all 103 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: had beards, Donnie meism Er, me bird, and that was good. 104 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: It was a time beard oil was coming out. And 105 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: then you move on, right, you don't wear bell bottoms 106 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. And he's basically he's locked in 107 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: and he's he's gonna wear his beard for a while. 108 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: So that's fir never got us. 109 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 3: Uh, they're always fascionable, I guess. 110 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: I guess. It was clear to me that he had 111 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: some sort of emotional attachment to the beard. And that 112 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: was the point where I thought, Okay, that that's weird. 113 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: But let's leave this alone, because now we're not just 114 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: talking about facial hair. Now we're getting into our kind 115 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: of our sense of self. And it's not biblical. It's 116 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: not biblical. It is not Arjie, what are you doing 117 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: right now? Have you made a run today? 118 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 3: I actually no, I haven't. I got back from corpus 119 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 3: Lee last night, so I did not. I shout out 120 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 3: to my boys at Freeport Launch. They love me, I 121 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 3: love them. 122 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: Were you were you making a run for them? No? 123 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 3: No, no, I was over there the other day. I 124 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 3: actually had to call in and they recognized my voice. 125 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 3: He called me back like, hey, are young a black liners? 126 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 3: Like actual who I am? And He's like, man, I 127 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 3: knew it. So shout out to my guys are reporting laws? 128 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 3: Good gods? God? 129 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: Well why did you mention them? 130 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 4: What? 131 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: What Donald do you do? Do you do runs for them? 132 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: Or what I do I do? 133 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 3: But it's just honestly a lot of the guys at 134 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 3: the poorest word of working. Then a lot of the 135 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 3: men at the poor listen to your show, Michael. 136 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I love that. I love that. 137 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,679 Speaker 3: I do happen to recognize they reconize my boys sometime, 138 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 3: and you know, we get to talking about you, talking 139 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 3: about the show or whatever. The opt to get that hand. So, uh, 140 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 3: you know, I'm not here with the drug job. I'm 141 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 3: here with the Poorsman, the Porklive driver is the warehouse 142 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 3: then so, uh, so we haven't heard. 143 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: From in a while. Jeff that delivers to the Walgreens, 144 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: We hadn't heard from him in a while. Hey, RJ, 145 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: do be a favor when you go see Joyce, see 146 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: if you can figure out if her phone is messed 147 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: up or if there's something about when I'm talking down 148 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: the line, because nobody has trouble hearing me, but she 149 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: can't hear me when she and I'm just wondering if 150 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: if that's happening with all her. 151 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 3: Calls or what might be a volume or something. 152 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: I'll check it out. 153 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 3: I'll call it and check it out. I do brother, 154 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: community to community. 155 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: Okay, I will send you Matt Brice's number when we 156 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: hang up, if you will just called him and swing 157 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: by there and uh and then give me a report 158 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: by and a photo if you don't mind. What do 159 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: you here? 160 00:07:58,960 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 3: All right? 161 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: Right? I appreciate we look blood, Yes, sir, I talked 162 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: to a friend of mine, Danny Mullen yesterday. Who is 163 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: how old is Danny? He just had back surgery so 164 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: he's not walking right now. He's using a Sally strap. 165 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of this? It's a strap? That 166 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: he used to get you out of this. He played 167 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: college football and very active. He's used to be president 168 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: mister Gaddi's and he's not happy not being able to 169 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: walk right now. Didn't Hurtigan actually write this song? That's 170 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: what the movie said. I hate Jamie Fox's politics, but man, 171 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: that dude talk about multi talented, learned to play the 172 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: piano for that role. He can legitimately sing, legitimately sing. 173 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you think of Kanye as a musician, or 174 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: at least you did back then, and you think about 175 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: gold Digger, and that's him actually singing. What's crazy is 176 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: I don't think he would have had the confidence at 177 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: that point in his career to just do a song 178 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: and sing seriously. But he did a well I'm just 179 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 1: imitating Ray Charles and you go, okay, well that's pretty 180 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: good imitating Ray Charles. If he had done it as himself. 181 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: I don't know that that we would have been as supportive. 182 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: What was the guy's name, Ertigon? Is that Turkish guy? 183 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: I can't either. He's the reason that led Zeppelin reunited. 184 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm at yeah, anyway, I think he wrote that song 185 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: for Ray Charles. Do you know what Houston Radio station 186 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: was in that movie Bay, that's a good movie. K h, 187 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: I'm at Ertigon. Oh, it's I'm at Ergon, not Ergon, 188 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: I'm at Yeah, Yeah, yea, it'sm at Ergon. That's right. Yeah. 189 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: You ever been to Turkey? Turkey is one of those plays. 190 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: There's several places I always wanted to go as a 191 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: kid because of the history that I thought were fascinating. 192 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: That now I wouldn't It's just not worth the risk anymore. 193 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: Would you like a list of what those places are? 194 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: Turkey would be one of them, Egypt would be one 195 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: of them, Morocco, Lebanon, not Djibouti. I do remember thinking 196 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: it was funny though when I first heard the name. 197 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: Then I grew out of it, which kind of wish 198 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: you would. No, I don't know what the capital of 199 00:10:42,200 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: Jibouti is Djibouti. It's not Ranus. Yeah, I think that's 200 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: probably it. I'm kind of running through it in my mind. 201 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: It's not good radio, but I feel like I need 202 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: to run through it in my mind. Make sure there's 203 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: nowhere else that I wanted to go as a kid. 204 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: Did I that I can't that I wouldn't go now. 205 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: I think that probably do anting on the black line. 206 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: You're up, sir, Yes, sir? 207 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 4: How you doing this morning? 208 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: Good? 209 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 3: Hey? 210 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 4: I was listening to the show, and you know you've 211 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 4: got to get a black day in a Why want 212 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 4: to do it during black kits? A black day because 213 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 4: all these black people that listen to you showed you 214 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 4: be the pride. 215 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: Oh I would not. I'm surprised if somebody's black and 216 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: doesn't listen, to be honest with you. Oh, he got disconnected. Man, 217 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: Come on, Jay, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, 218 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: good morning, Michael. 219 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday. Got hear you talking about Jay Fox? And 220 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: you may not know, uh, probably already do. But he 221 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: did a documentary on Ashmir High School's music program, which 222 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 2: was he was covering the time period when I was 223 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 2: in high school and the music director was a guy 224 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 2: named doctor Conrad. And it's a really good documentary. I 225 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 2: went to Sharpstown, so in a musical end of things, 226 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: stage man and whatnot, Kashmir was our big competitor. Yeah 227 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: we were better, but nobody made a documentary about us. 228 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 2: But it's it's really the coolest thing and it shows 229 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 2: kind of what Jamie Fox has made of that he 230 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 2: would come back and kind of, you know, help something 231 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 2: like this get made. So I thought I'd throw that 232 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 2: into trivia bucket for him. 233 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I met. I met him. It was Conrad Conrad Johnson, 234 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: Conrad Prof. Johnson, Yes, sir, and I had a chief 235 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: of staff. I hired a guy who had been Sheila 236 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: Jackson Lee's chief of staff for many years, named Carl Davis. 237 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: He was jack Yats High School graduate. He's former vice 238 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: chair of the state Democrat Party, first black to hold 239 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: that role. He was very involved in Houston black politics, 240 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: Houston Democrat politics, Houston labor politics. And I met more 241 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: fascinating people through that dude than you could imagine. He 242 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: was the most connected human being I have ever met. 243 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: And if he didn't know somebody, he could get you 244 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: to him. They had We adopted jack Ads High School. 245 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: We adopted two schools. The first year we were on 246 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: city I was on city Council and he was on 247 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: our team, and we adopted jack Ads High School and 248 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: Straight High school and very different backgrounds, very different, but 249 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: so we spent a lot of time at Yates and 250 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 1: I was was at Ray Carruthers. What was the name 251 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: of the guy. They had a photography program there that 252 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: was just world class and these kids growing up in 253 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: third Ward. What he did is he used the cla 254 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: asked to teach them how to make silver gelatine or whatever, 255 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: black and white photos, how to develop them the old 256 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: fashioned cameras and kept that traditional life. And they would 257 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: go out into the community and they would film these 258 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 1: is mostly old black ladies, but there were a few men. 259 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: But these old black ladies sitting out on the stoop 260 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: the front porch of these old shotgun shocks and they 261 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: would do it in a black and white and it 262 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: was so powerful. And in the process he was preserving 263 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: the history because those things get torn down, a lot 264 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: of them. 265 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: Just Kann got demolished. What's that Free Men's Down got 266 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: pretty much demolished. You know, it's the same deal with 267 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 2: the Alan Parkway village. I'm sure you have hers. Guyny 268 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 2: Glynnwood Johnson. 269 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: Of course brilliant. 270 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: He was really an advocate for saving Alan Parkway and 271 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: you know, well, yeah, real estate and seeing what they 272 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 2: are he wanted to see. 273 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: I have a different experience with you with Johnson because 274 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: I was on city council and Lynwood was a was uh. 275 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 2: I would love to hear that story. 276 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: So, uh, lynn Wood would wear you out. He wanted 277 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: a meeting, and he wanted it now, and you needed 278 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: to know you're going to take his meeting right now. 279 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: And I didn't like that, but he would. Uh yeah. 280 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: Lynn Wood was was one of those old fashioned black 281 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: activists that that just for you know, he had grown 282 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: up and and and come up in a different era. 283 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: And his way he walk up and punched in the 284 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: face and then and then say would you like to negotiate? 285 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: And that was kind of his approach, and uh, we 286 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: ended up, we ended up with a working relationship because 287 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: he would learn with each person, stay with me, Chris, Jay, 288 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: he would learn who how far he could push. All right, 289 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: Anthony on the Black Line, Chris and Sealy, hang tight, 290 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: I'll get to you in just a moment. They lake 291 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: lack a Berry's shop, No big deal. But that's lou 292 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: Rawls in the background with the response to the call 293 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: no big deal, just Lou Rawls. Just nineteen fifty six 294 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: or fifty five, there's fifty six, Sam Cook, Lou Rawls 295 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: on the Chiplan circuit playing these little black shacks, driving 296 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: around the country, having a blast, driving around the South. Sorry, 297 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: doing shows. They're getting a terrible accident. Lou Rawls crushes 298 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: his laryns. He's hospitalized for the entirety of the summer. 299 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: He's off the circuit, laid up in the hospital in Mississippi. 300 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: Sam Cook walks away battered and bruised, but he's fine. 301 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: Sam Cook goes on to incredible start, and Lou Rawl's 302 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: never really recovered. In fact, had it not been for 303 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: the United Negro College Fund Annual gala, I wonder how 304 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: many people can I get a little you'll never find. 305 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: We're gonna do a show the best Black Music for 306 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: White People primer one day and just maybe thirty hours 307 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: of here's what you need to know. And I got 308 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: news for you. None of it's in the last thirty years. 309 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: Just soon, none of it. The only significant black music 310 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: of the last thirty years is Paul Wall. By the way, 311 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: funny story. I got it. This is Paul Wall name 312 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: dropping here, but I have to because it's funny. Keep going, Oh, 313 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 1: here we are. He's wearing that green jacket, right. You 314 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: know it. Some of y'all were made to this song. 315 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: You didn't even know it. You never find as long 316 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: as go back and listen to how he says, you live, 317 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: white man can't do that. There is something like hold 318 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: hold on, It's just the way it rolls off. It's 319 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: just there's something to the way he says that it's 320 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: just up up as. 321 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 3: Long as someone who there's so much to that. 322 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: And there's Conway Twitty esque my brother. You could ask 323 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: my brother. You could ask my brother the same question 324 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 1: five times over five years. Hey, Chris, I'm just listening 325 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: to some Conway and he's he's he just saying this, 326 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: this or this, and he said, oh, Conway, you make 327 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: them panties drop. You're talking about our grandmother's age. All right, Jay, 328 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: hang tight right there, Uh, Chris, you're up. Go ahead, Hey, 329 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: brother Michael, how you today? 330 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 3: Bro? 331 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: Good? 332 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 3: Okay, Look, I'm. 333 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 5: Gonna get to the point because I just heard you 334 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 5: saying how you email people and get to the point. 335 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: Okay. My wife is a school teacher. 336 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 5: And ceiling and she has a concealed she doesn't carry 337 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 5: on campus, of course, because of the firearm. But my 338 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 5: thought is, why can't we arm some of these teachers 339 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 5: that are willing to protect. 340 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: Our babies with the burner? I mean, if it. 341 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 5: Can give us forty five minutes to get our babies 342 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 5: out of the school. You could be saving lives, you know, 343 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 5: and then you get your finger print safe where the 344 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 5: gun is always locked up but can be accessed in 345 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 5: you know, a matter of seconds if there's an. 346 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: Alarm or whatever. Yes, how do we go about. 347 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 5: Getting something like that done? Do you think the school 348 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 5: would be open to something like that since it's technically 349 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 5: not a firearm? 350 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 1: It depends on the school and their approach. Well, what 351 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: was this cool? We talked to but they just they 352 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: just armed the teachers. It says you got a gun, 353 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: bring in if you don't get you one. I it 354 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: depends a lot on the approach of that school. That's 355 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: what it comes down to, you know. It's it's a 356 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: real window into the mind of educators today. How many 357 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: of them are whack, but we shouldn't lose sight of 358 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: the fact that a lot of them are wonderful. I 359 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: got an email over the weekend from a woman named 360 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: Amy Hartley. What was her maiden name, Amy rich Amy 361 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: hitch hitch right, and apparently she worked on our show. 362 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: I didn't remember it years and years ago, like late 363 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: two thousand's, early twenty teen, Is that right? Ramon and 364 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: Ramone hired her. She was a she was an intern 365 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,959 Speaker 1: for Chris Baker, and she was an overlap between Baker 366 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: and us, and Ramone hired her full time. And I said, hey, guys, 367 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: you remember her. And Chad said, I remember her. She 368 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: worked with us, you just don't remember. And I said, 369 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: what were you doing? He said, I was answered. I 370 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: got off the board and went to answer cause she 371 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: ran to board, okay, And I asked, Ramona, he wrote this, 372 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 1: just glowing. I wonder. She used to bring a guitar 373 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: and she'd play, Uh, I wish you were here, and 374 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,959 Speaker 1: she did this and she'd I knew she was slated. 375 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: She was faded to go on and do great things 376 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: and she so I forwarded her. I said, Ramona never 377 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: says anything nice about anybody. Everybody was lazy or this 378 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: or this, and he went, you know, into that whole thing. 379 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: And all she focused on was that I didn't remember her. 380 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: She didn't focus on the nice things. Ramone said. But 381 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: she is up for teacher of the year. If you 382 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: don't mind, go to my Facebook page. You'll see a 383 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: link to that. And we're trying to help her be 384 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: named teacher of the Year, which would be pretty cool. 385 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: But she's gone on to greatness as a school teacher, 386 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: which we thought was pretty darn cool. Anthony on the 387 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: Black Line, go. 388 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 4: Ahead, yes, sir, just listen to you and that music 389 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 4: you were playing by Lou Ross. You know he did 390 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 4: make a comeback. First of all, if you look at 391 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 4: that album and look it up. He went with Philadelphia International, 392 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 4: the most successful black team in the writing business. They 393 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 4: were to me, they were bigger than Barry Guarding because 394 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 4: their music had a lot of uplifting music. When you 395 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 4: go and hear some of the old Teddy Pendograd. 396 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: Dore Something Dozer, what's that's to me, that's the greatest 397 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: songwriting black songwriting team in history by far. 398 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 4: You got to listen to Gambling Huff. They're the ones 399 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 4: that created Philadelphia International Records. They were big time writers 400 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 4: for all the groups that came out of Philadelphia. I 401 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 4: play Harold Melton, the Old Jays, Little Ross to make 402 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 4: us comeback. That's what he made his comeback album with 403 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 4: Philadelphia International. Gambling Huff, Kenny Gamble and Leo and Huff 404 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 4: great great team writers. But anyway, I called last week 405 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 4: and didn't get a chance to get any information on 406 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 4: Joyce mister a J. I need to go by and 407 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 4: see you. I need to get the address if I can, 408 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 4: Philly go by and see you since. 409 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:13,719 Speaker 3: You I mean. 410 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: Oh, they wrote for the OJS. 411 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 4: Exactly. Jenny Gallant Leon huffed. I mean some of the 412 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 4: best writers on the planet. They were bigger than Barry 413 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 4: God because a lot of people don't know that Barry 414 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 4: God his first hit song. 415 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 2: He wrote it with Jackie Wilson. 416 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna need you. People don't need you. I'm 417 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: gonna need you to slow your roll on the on 418 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: the better than Barry Gordy thing. I need you to 419 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: hold off on that right now. Oh, they wrote me 420 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: and missus Jones Paul huh. If you don't know anybody now, 421 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,959 Speaker 1: Harold Melvin in the Moonmos absolutely love train, absolutely, Okay, okay, 422 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: it was still my Berry Gordy, but but but hold on. 423 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you with r J and y'all can 424 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: go together. 425 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 3: Hold On, Jewel, the Etherealist, the Butterflies with the Michael Berry. 426 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: They're all Duncans, And you know Duncan means your yo. 427 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with me, but I have 428 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: an unnatural affinity for the black music of the sixties 429 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: and seventies, classic rock of the late sixties into the seventies. 430 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: I actually like disco and classic country of the sixties 431 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: and seventies. But you give me anything ninety to the President, 432 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: I don't have it. Just it doesn't like the music 433 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: I just mentioned. It's it's in my soul. It's it's 434 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: it nurtures me, it makes it salves my wound, it 435 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: comforts me, it's solace, it's it's pleasure. It's what I 436 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: imagine heroin is to heroin addicts it just I hear 437 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: it and it makes me. It makes me feel good, 438 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 1: really good. And then this stuff it doesn't. It doesn't. 439 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: It doesn't affect me, it doesn't connect. I turn on 440 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: the radio now with pop music now, and it just doesn't. 441 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: It leaves me dead, Ramon dead. What happened to uh 442 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: Anthony on the black line? Why oh you let him go? Okay, Well, 443 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: I'll talk to Jay. Then I can't talk to ja 444 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: if you're on that line. Something's happening there we go, Jay, Hey, 445 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: my back, Okay. So what do you do for a living? I, uh. 446 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 2: Well, kind of plug I'm mind saying it though I 447 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 2: own the AMCO transmissions in Humble, Texas. 448 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: Oh, how many of those do you? Well? 449 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 2: Uh, as of right now, just one. But that's getting 450 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 2: ready to change here pretty quick, so you buy another one. Yeah, 451 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: I can't really say after I'm all right, all right, 452 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 2: So do. 453 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: This for me. I'm six years old, I just landed 454 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: here from from Mars and I have a I've been 455 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: in a car. Explain to me, like I'm six years old, 456 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: how a transmission works. 457 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 2: That's pretty easy, okay. If you know how an engine works, 458 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 2: it explodes, explodes fuel, and it turns crank shaft. It 459 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 2: turns around with violent, violent force, so you're one to 460 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 2: turn the wheels of the car. So the transmission transmits 461 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 2: that rotational force or fork it well, of course rotations 462 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 2: as well. It transmits those to the rest of the 463 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: drive train, so it makes the rear wheels turn. And 464 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 2: to maintain efficiency, fuel efficiency and the fuelership efficiency, the 465 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 2: transmission has different gears. As you've read the ten speed 466 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 2: bicivily on Mars there in your six years, then you 467 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 2: know that the taller the gear, the harder it is 468 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 2: to pedal. So you have to start at the lower gears, 469 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 2: work your way up until you can you know, move 470 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 2: at higher speeds and TRANSMISSI until the first auto matics 471 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 2: came around in the thirties on the drawing boards, but 472 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 2: then they really started to hit the scene in the 473 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 2: nineteen fifties. And it's kind of like evolution. Engineering just 474 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 2: keeps getting better and better. 475 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 4: And weirder and weirder. 476 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 2: But when they break, it's probably the most expensive component 477 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 2: in the car. And that's why a guy like me 478 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 2: is here too to make it brand new again. 479 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: Have you stopped using the word training in the last 480 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: ten years? 481 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 6: Yes, sir, So you had an employee his email was 482 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 6: trans man So well, that's probably enough how you want 483 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 6: to put yourself out there in the world. 484 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: But I like to imagine the first time somebody arrived 485 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: in the country right next door to Nigeria and said, lord, 486 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: how do you pronounce this? Oh the fridge production? Okay, 487 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: all right, okay, well yeah, yeah, So if something, if 488 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: if somebody comes to you with a transmission problem, what 489 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: is the most likely problem? What's the thing that happens 490 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 1: most often? 491 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 2: It depends, It depends on the particular model or design 492 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 2: of that transmission. There's you know, six beats in general motors, 493 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 2: six beats and forwards, the eight speed, the unfortunate eight 494 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 2: speed that showed up in a few of the General 495 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 2: Motors vehicles, and then the ten speeds. It just depends, 496 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 2: you know, because they're mad, they're mass produced, right, So 497 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 2: the same problems tend to crop up over and over 498 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 2: and almost about exception. 499 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: Though. 500 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 2: The root causes the problem, this lack of maintenance on 501 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 2: the on the operator's part. No one ever thinks of 502 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 2: the transmission fluid change. And they think it all changes, 503 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 2: I guess, but no one ever wakes up on Saturday 504 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 2: morning says, you know, I think I'm gonna go get 505 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: the transmission fluid chain. They when it starts acting funnier, 506 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 2: it won't go into gear right then they call us 507 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 2: how much is the transmission fluid change. It's like, well, 508 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 2: you know, it depends again on the vehicle because some 509 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 2: of the European stuff the fluids stupid money. I mean, 510 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 2: you could be paying sixty bucks a court for you know, 511 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: for Mercedes fluid us. So I'm sorry, Yeah, you go 512 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 2: to the dealership. You can go to the dealership by 513 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 2: the fluid. No, actually, if you buy the fluid at 514 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 2: the dealership, it's probably thirty five bucks aport or a 515 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 2: leader if you're a European person. But the uh uh, 516 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: the retail, if you have the service, to have the dealership, 517 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna pay about sixty sixty five bucks 518 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 2: per per leader, and you figure about fourteen leaders to 519 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 2: flush the transmission out. But if you just buy the 520 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 2: like the Valvaline or Castrol or you know Excello, you know, 521 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 2: uh Mobil one equivalent, you know you're gonna save a 522 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 2: lot of money. But that any any service is better 523 00:29:59,400 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: than no service. 524 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: How does MCO help you as opposed to just being 525 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: Jay's transmission service. 526 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 2: Well, I'm on my way to tangle with some corporate 527 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 2: guys right now in a new center that's opening in Tonro. 528 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 2: But what you have basically is a nationwide warranty that 529 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 2: covers all the parts, all the labor. You know, there's 530 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 2: no deductible or tricky you know, ways to exclude the 531 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 2: person from their warranty. It's it's a really good, good, 532 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 2: good attact. It's the best warranty in the business. But 533 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 2: we and then we try to stay on top like 534 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 2: everybody does. We try to try to stay on top 535 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 2: of the technical side of things. We have our own 536 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 2: technical department we can call and consult with, and the 537 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 2: the body I guess this makes any sense, the body 538 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 2: of knowledge that we have as a as a company, 539 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 2: a sixty year old company, we bring a lot more 540 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 2: to the table, you know, for the same amount of 541 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 2: money or less amount of money than the dealership. We'd 542 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 2: like to compare ourselves to the dealership. Not to be independent, 543 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 2: but I have thought many times times, you know, gosh, 544 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 2: I should have just you know, I kind of just 545 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 2: put my name on here and been fine, of you 546 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 2: do you pay. 547 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: Them a percentage of revenues or or how does that? 548 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 2: That's correct? That's correct? Yeah, they take they we pay 549 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: a franchise fee like like Burger King or Gary. 550 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: And what what does that look like? What were we talking? 551 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 2: Well, it's you know, it's it's depending on how old 552 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 2: your agreement with franch with the franchise or is it 553 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: might the number might vary. 554 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: But what are we talking? Are we talking two percent 555 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: or eight percent? 556 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 2: You're in the you're in the the correct franchises are 557 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 2: going out to seven and a half? 558 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: Is it more than it used to be? 559 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 2: It's craft up since the nineteen sixties. 560 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: And do they do a separate assessment for marketing or 561 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: that's part of your franchise fees. 562 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 2: No, it's a separate Oh. 563 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 3: We're supposed to be. 564 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 2: Uh, we're one of our representatives is court in seven 565 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 2: forty right now. So maybe that's why you ask. 566 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, I don't. I don't. I 567 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: used to speak for Thunderbolt. I have a long time 568 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: friendship with. 569 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 2: Yes, and that's that's kind of why, kind of why 570 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 2: I've never 571 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: No, I don't actually have a transmission sponsor right now, 572 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: but I'm well hold on